The_Rambler_1967-12-01

              MARINES CONFRONTED STATE UNIVtHbi i ^
DOCLEGE OF TECHKO!'
FARMINGDALE, NY
A FIRST AT FARMINGDALE
5tuDEMT 5
FACULTY
Members of the Student and Faculty Committee For Peace presented their l i t -
erature and discussed Vietnam with students.
PTK Continues
Tutorial Program
Farmingdale*s Mu A mega Chapter of the Phi
Theta Kappa National Junior college Honor Society
have announced that they were continuing their pro-gram
of tutoring in Wyandanch Junior High Schools.
This program, which began last year involves about
15 of our students who give their time -and effort to
assist seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students who
are underachievers.
Professor Robert- Blank and
Peter O'Neill. Advisers to Phi
Theta Kappa, originated this pro-grann
as a way of involving our
students in surrounding com-munity
affairs. It is not limited
to honor society members, others
are invited to participate. Jim
Nabach, President of Mu Omega,
when contacted said, "We feel
that the tutorial program gives
us a chance to show that we
care about our fellow "men. We
want to help, and this lets us
do it."
Each Thursday at 10:00 A.M.
.the students leave our campus on
the school bus. They arrive at
Wyandanch. Junior High School,
and get right to the business of
tutoring in all subjects from
Math to Social Sciences with
special emphasis on English.
Most of the students have special
problems with reading.
Most of the students involved
in the program find that the
" tutees " are responsive, in-terested
and grateful for the
attention" which they receive.
The program is certainly a worth
while one and deserving of sup-port.
Judo Tourney
Film Contest THE RAMBLER is. sponsorir^
a film and slide contest open for
all students wishing to partici-pate.
The film or series of slides
may be of any theme but should
be an original creation. (No por-nography
or plagiarism, please.)
The winners will receive a $30
1st prize and a $20 2nd prize.
All those interested should
leave their names and a way in
which we can cwrtact them in the
Rambler mailbox in Roosevelt
Hall or in the Rambler office in
Hooper Hall.
Contestants' and judges'names
will be printed in the near future.
Drama Club Prepares
For "kiss Me Kate"
The drama club, is working hard preparing this
year's first production, KISS ME KATE, to be pre-sented
in Roosevelt Hall Theater on Friday and
Saturday evenings, December 8 and 9, and again
the following" week-end, December 15 and 16. As
in the past, every SUATC student will be entitled
to one FREE ticket, with additional seats available
for one dollar.
KISS ME KATE was a long- they'll all be backed by the
running Broadway musical and singing of the College Chorale,
promises to be one of the biggest conducted by Mr. Al Schiffrin,
successes in long list of Drama and including Angela Calamus,
Glub hits. With an hilarious
book by Sam and Bella Spewack,
and a lilting Cole Porter score,
KISS ME KATE presents a
modern-day musical take-off on
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
We may not have Elizabeth
Taylor and Richard Burton, but
we do have a talented, hand-picked
cast led by lovely Fran
Smith and handsome Bob Vemola,
and featuring Jim O'Connell,
Celeste Falcone, Ted Attles,
Ralph Evans, and Gary Cudak,
Elaine Devlin. Lorraine Faliks,
Cathy Hiller. Ellen Ravis, Jill
Sander, Willard Taylor, Loyal
Thomas, Warren Stavens, Donna
Varney, Merry Wexler, and Carol
Zerillo.
Everyone involved in the play
has to rehearse at least two
nights a week. They are trained
under a competent Drama Coach,
Mrs. Bernice Sherman or
"Mom" (a nickname given her
by all the participants). She
helps them in expressing them-
Ostrov. Also watch for kick
Taylor, Darlene Bolton, Bill
Boyd, Joe Brodbeck, and ppecial
guest star. Prof. Manny Rolnick.
Don't miss Denise Arrrington,
Eileen Beminger, Peggy Heard,
Klane Klahn, Alan Derby, and
7""p.i\l ii^^thrRTOseveS"'^; Grodidci in their spec-tacular
dance numbers. And
The Long Island Judo club will
hold its annual Judo tournament
at Farmingdale on Sat. , De-cember
2, 1967. Over 200 en-trees
from the Long Island Judo
clubs will be entered in the tourn-ament.
Competition begins at
as well as those peerless comics . selves, and directs them very
Frank Ambrosini and Jack well.
Mrs. Sherman says, "We had
to turn people away from our
last musical comedy. I'd rec-ommend
that you get your tickets
early for this one I" Tickets
will be available during lunch
hours in Roosevelt and Whitmpn
Hall lobbies, right after thanks-giving.
Close to a dozen students, members of the
Ad Hoc Committee of students and Faculty for
Peace, set up a Peace Table to counter the
presence of a Marine recruiter on campus. The
confrontation which occured in the Lupton Hall
Lobby last Wednesday, was orderly for the most
part and saw only the exchange of literature and
ideas.
The Marine Recruiter, Lt.
Craig Simms, who was parked
twenty feet a cross from the Peace
Table did a brisk business dur-ing
the day exhausting all his
literature and at one point hav-ing
to call for new supplies,
Lt. -Sim a Veteran of Vietnam,
said that "he had within a few
hours signed up three students
to take the marine qualifying
tests.'* Commenting on the Peace
Table he said 'this demonstra-tion
was no different from those
staged at other colleges through-out
the country." "We gave out
over two hundred pieces of lit-erature,"
said Jack Friedman at
the Peace Table.
At one point, an irate student
walked up to the Peace Table -
hurled insults at the students
manning the table and threaten-ing
to dump it over. Quidi
action by Mr. Benedict, the stu-dent
activity representative on
duty, prevented any trouble.
FVed Cook, President of the
Student Senate, congradulated the
Committee on thoughful handling
of the Protest, "which other-wise
could have led to serious
trouble."
A spokesman for the group,
Alan Q-uber, told THE RAM-BLER
that, "we are here to
present alternatives to the Mar-ines
and ultimately the Draft,
.which most students are not a-ware
of, and to protest the bar-baric,
senseless war in Viet-nam,
that is being waged in our
names." He said that over forty
students and three feculty mem-bers
had signed up for the com-mittee,
during the four hours
they were there.
The Ad Hoc Committee is
planning a rally after the Thanks
giving vacation with such speak-ers
as EHr. Benjamin Smock, and
a debate later In the year.
At Adelphi College in Garden
City thirty students sat down in
front of Marine Recruiter, to
protest his presents there. They
were members of a newly or-ganized
group Known as the A-delphi
Community for Social Ac-tion,
which staged the sit-dw^^
because the universify had re-neged
on an agreement to notify
the group when military recruit-ers
were to appear on campus.
Dr. Malcolm Arth, chairman of
the Anthropology department and
an advisor to the group, said
he would propose that all re-cruiters
be banned untill the un-iversity
workers out a policy
on wliether on-campus recruit-ing
should be allowed.
Lt. Simms briefs students on the AAarine Corps oppor-tunities
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