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MOCK SENATE:
An Act:
The establishment of a commission to investigate the feasibility of the con-struction
of a floating aerodrome to be situated near Long Island on the Long Island
Sound.
The people of the State of New York, represented in Mock Senate, do enact as
follows:
Section 1, The commission shall consist of nine members; two specialists in
each of the following fields: politics, finance, environment and aeronautics.
These eight members shall appoint a ninth member who shall act as an ex-officio
chairman of the commission.
SecticMi 2. The purpose of the commission established in Section 1. shall be to:
a. engage the necessary personnel through legal contracts to formulate a master plan
for presentation before the commission, b. to review the master plan presented
before itself and to give a final recommendation.
Section 3. The commission shall be funded from joint grants received from the
New York State federal governments. The amount needed will be the financial level
to cover the expenditures incurred by the commission and shall include the follow-ing:
annual allotments to the commission members, legal contracts awarded to firms
by the commission, and all other substantial debts of the commission.
Section 4. The annual allotments for the commission members shall be determined
by the New York State legislature, and shall be proportional to the time that the
commission is functional.
Section 5. The commission shall reserve the right to establish all procedures that
will aid the effectiveness of the commissitrn's ability to further Section 2.
Section 6. This bill shall be effective July 1, 1971 and must be terminated by June
30, 1976.
Study
Overseas
Would you like to study in Rus-sia
this summer? The College
at New Paltz offers four weeks
of study at Sochi and Dyuny plus
one week of travel to four other
historic cities. Anyone willing
to learn Russian in intensive
study this summer Is eligible to
join the foreign study group, ac-cording
to Dr. Pierre Francois,
Director of International Studies
at the State University College.
The Russian language require-ment
can be satisfied by enroll-ing
in the eight "week intensive
study course at New Paltz June
15-August 10. This course gives
the equivalent of the required
one year study of college Rus-sian.
The College language
laboratories, special conversa-tion
classes, picnics, films and
group discussion will all be used
to help the student gain a basic
competence in the Russian lang-uage.
Satisfactory completion
of this course earns nine to ten
credits and permits the student
to continue study In the USSR
from August 11-September 13.
The five weeks In Russia in-clude
a language seminar at Dy-uny,
on the Gulf of Finland, and
a seminar at Sochi, a resort on
the Black Sea. The last week
in Russia will be spent traveling
to Kiev, the capital of the U-kraine,
to Leningrad and Mos-cow;
a tour of Vladimir, a city
retaining its ancient 12th and
13th century beauty; and a visit
to Suzdal, a small museum city
near Moscow. Six college credits
are given for satisfactory com-pletion
of this five week pro-gram.
Continued on page i
New Blood in Legislation AN A C T ^
The establishment of an Experimental Restorative Disciplinary Center, for the
explicit purpose to rehabilitate, both through mental and physical therapy, convicted
offenders, of the Penal Law of N.Y.S.
The people of the State of New York, represented in Mock Senate do enact as
follows:
SECTION 1. The State of New York shall have the power to construct a penal in-stitution,
whose function shall be the mental restoration of convicted offenders,
and shall be known as the Experimental Restorative Disciplinary Center, hereafter
referred to as E.R.D.C. The authority of the experimental project shall br under the
Board of Mental Health, who shall retain the final decision in all matters relating
to the establishment of the project.
SECTION 2. A. The center shall become financially self-supporting after a pre-determined
time period and therefore all monies needed for maintenance and further
development shall be the resultant of the circular producti(»ial system, that de-velops
as an interaction between the inmate and the center and must be recycled
for that purpose.
B. This productional system shall employ salaried inmates of the E.R.D.C. and
shall be regarded as therapy for the inmate,
C. Until the pre-determined time period i s completed, monies shall be appropriated
through the N.Y.S. budget in amounts to cover the following:
1. Purchase of real estate for the E.R,D.C,
2. Construction and facilities for the E.R.D.C.
3. Salaries for appointed personnel at the E.R.D.C.
4. Functional costs and supfdies
5. Monies needed to initiate circular productional system
SECTION 3. A. The E . R . D . C . shall be staffed by personnel appointed by the N . Y . S.
Board of Mental Health.
B. The N.Y.S. Board of Mental Health shall choose from the appoinlpd personnel
(Section 3A) a panel whose purpose i s stated in Section 5, and shall be a^ountable
to the appointor. The panel's salaries shall be determined by the N.Y.S, Board of
Mental Health and paid annually through the N.Y.S. Budget.
Uo€k Senate 1971
Six delegates from the State University at Farmingdale arrived
at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in Albany to attend the 21st Annual
Convention of the N.Y.S. Intercollegiate Mock Senate. After four
long days and nights of near continuous debate^ Farmingdale, for
the first time in M*^attendance at Mock Senate, was recognized for an
award.
The delegation sent to Albany was chosen from the Mock Senate
Committee of the S.G.A., and is financed through student activities
fees.
Mock Senatewascreatedinl950by students, to allow N.Y.S. college
students to learn the intricate processes of the legislative system
of this state. The processes are learned because Mock Senate is
operated on tiie same principals as the N.Y.S. Senate.
Jii order to participate, each school's delegation must submit
at least one bill proposing an idea which the school's delegation
believes should be chained in our present law system. Farming-dale's
delegation submitted two bills, one on a floating airport and
the other on the establishment of an e3a)erimental rehabilitation center
for the prisoners of New Yoiic State.
Amongst tiie many ideas suggested, the delegation chose these two
ideas for their necessity and originality.
All bills must first pass out of a committee whose purpose is to
screen bills to make sure they are worthy of consideration before the
entire session of the Mock Senate. Both of Farmingdale's bills p^sed
committees with ratings of unanimously favorable for consideration.
On the floor of the session both bills were passed by the session;
the airport bill by a vote of 45 - 19 and the ERDC Center by a
29 -
Hie last item on the agenda of the session is the choosingof what
the delegates think was the most outstanding bill presented before the
session. Farmingdale's bill on the ERDC was recognized for this
award.
Some of the other schools and the ideas were lona College on a
fixed population per rural area. . . .
If you care to see any other session, bills and information on next
year's session come to the SGA office, Kli£^>p 15.
Nader's Action Group C onsar wftr.ot>
An Ear& Action Group made up of high school students across the
nation is being organized by Ralph Nader. TTie Earth Action Group
will raise funds to finance teams of lawyers and scientists who wiU
battle environmental crime in urban and rural areas.
Raising funds to support local citizen advocate groups will be the
Group's central focus during EARTH ACTION WEEK, April 19-25.
"Earth Day 1970," Nader said, "was an important event. It
played a key role in raising the level of environmental consciousness.
In 1971, however, it is necessary to switch the focus from educational
activities to action strategies calculated to effect change. It is also
necessary to more comprehensively define environmental hazards to
include impoverished city slums and occupational hazards along with
&e contamination of the natural habitat of our land, air and water.
(Continued on page* 2)
C. The personnel applnted in
Sectio 3A shall not be considered
a part of the circular produc-tional
system and have their
salary set by the Board of Mental
Health.
SECTION 4. A. Any first-time
offender convicted under the
N.Y.S. penal law and sentenced
to the E,R.D.C of law, must en-ter
and remain there until a de-cision
is made by the panel e s -
tablished in Section 38 and
stated in Section 5A 1 -3.
B. Any first time
B. Any first-time offender
presently in a' penal institution
making a written request for
transfer to the E.R.D.C thru the
correaional administrator of
that Institution, may at the option
of the panel (Section 3B) with their
approval be transferred to the
E.R.D.C.
C. Any offender convicted for
any crime for the second time
and having served time in the
E.R.D.C. must not be sentenced
to the E.R,D.C. again.
D. Any other offender presently
in a penal Institution can not re-quest
transfer to the E.R.D,C.
SECTION 5. A. The panel es-tablished
in Section 3B shall re-tain
the sole right to decide an
inmate's correctional destiny
from the following:
1. Commit or recommit an In-mate
of the E.R.D.C. into the
present N.Y.S, penal institution.
2. Let an inmate remain in
the E.R.D,C, for further therapy,
3. Release an inmate from the
E.R.D.C. to the N.Y.S. Parole
Board for a probationary period
in society.
B. A report of each inmate's
progress must be reviewed by the
panel at a maximum of every
eighteen (18) months.
C. This panel shall have the
final decisions concerning all
matters of operation within
the E.R,D.C.
SECTION 6. A. The inmate
shall spend a minimum time
period of eighteen (18) months Ui
the E.R.D.C. (Con't. on page 2)
Nat'l Campus
Security
WASHINGTON, D,C,
(CPS) — At least one
line in the budgets of
many colleges and uni-versities
appear safe
from austerity meas-ures.
Throughout the nation
colleges are putting
more effort and more
"money into campus s e -
curity—at a time when
other expenses, from
athletics to academics,
are being trimmed.
Some of the effort to
provide added security
is in response to a grow-ing
rate of crime on
many campuses,partic-ularly
those in cities.
A second reason for
the increase in campus
security is that admin-istrators
hope tobebet-ter-
prepared than they
were a year ago if stu-dent
unrest should dis-rupt
their institutions
again.
One of the most common means
of tightening security has been
to expand the campus police
force.
At the University of Illinois,
for example; about $350,000 has
been budgeted this year for ad-ditional
security manpower and
equipment.. Stanford has budg-eted
an additional $200,000 for
the purpose.
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