The_Rambler_1981-04-24

              FREE THE RAMBLER FUNDED BY YOUR MANDATORY STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE Friday, April 24, 1981
Campus Elections
The students on our campus
will be requested to vote in a
campus-wide election in
conjunction with our student
association election on the
funding of the Student
Association of the State
University of New York at a fee
of $1.50 per student per
semester within the next few
weeks. As you know, SASU is
the statewide advocacy and
organizing voice of SUNY
students to the Governor, in the
Legislature and SUNY
Central, and on the campuses.
Founded ten years ago by a
coalition of several SUNY
student governments, SASU
has been at the forefront of
students rights in the fight for
more participation in
university decision-making,
low tuition and student fees,
and adequate funding for a
strong, quality state university.
Up until this, year, SASU has
been funded through the
student activity fee collected by
each student government on
each campus. Each year
SASU has been debated and
voted on, as it is one of the
largest single expenditures for
most student government
budgets. Depending on the
fmancial situation of the
student government and it's
views about SASU's activites,
either it would be funded, at a
S.A.S.U.
/c.lwc rinc, the vice-president
of SASU, states, "Statewide
Student Associations are the
building blocks of a strong
student voice, in this state and
in this country. Voting 'YES'
on SASU referendum insures
students' rights. Action occurs
in the state legislature in SUNY
Central, in the governor's
office, and on every SUNY
campus."
Tom Croce, president of our
student government as-sociation,
feels that Farm-ingdale
should join SASU
because "our leadership
changes every two years and an
organization like SASU would
provide a continuity of
leadership which is crucial for
the optimal representation of
students. SASU also facilitates
communication between and
among all its member
campuses. This provides us
with the opportunity to learn
and share with other
campuses." So Vote yes on
the SASU Referendum to be
held on April 30 to May 2nd at
the Hartneford Circus.
Thank you
SOMETHING FOR
(ALMOST) NOTHING
rhnto Tor Perri
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rate of .85e per FTE(full time
equivalent) or, as was less likely
to be the case, the school would
choose not to be a member of
SASU. There have been several
problems over the past few
years with this funding system:
First, the instability of the
funding base makes it very
difficult to plan ahead, and so
risks the total effectiveness of
the organization. Second, not
every school belonged to
SASU usually due to
insufficient funds in the student
activity fee to cover such an
expense; as SASU is the
recognized state student voice
we feel schools lose out on their
rightful participation in
statewide student affairs when
they are prevented from being
members. Third, under the
present system each student is
not given the opportunity to
decide whether or not to join
SASU- the decision is made for
them by their student
government. Under the new
system, as with the student
activity fee on each campus,
each student would choose to
belong to SASU and pay a
statewide student activity fee,
or not to belong to SASU. We
believe that this would make
the entire process more
democratic, and SASU would
be stronger for it.
In addition, every four years
SASU will be requred to run
referenda just like this first one,
as to whether or not this pay
system should continue.
We believe that you should
vote in favor of this
referendum. SASU has
consistently been the strongest
advocate for SUNY students in
New York state. It is an
organization that is demo-cratically
run, and controlled
entirely by students. In this
year of federal and state budget
cut-backs in financial aid to
students and to the entire
institution of public higher
education, enormous student
fee increases, and innumerable
attacks on student rights, it is
imperative that we have a
strong, unified student voice.
Help Save Lives
Help save lives by donating
blood! The student blood drive
will be held on May 25th in
Roosevelt Hall Gym. the Red
Cross will be in the gym from
10 to 3 p.m. hoping for a large
turnout of blo(^ donors. You
can sign up for a blood
donating appointment, or get
more information by con-tacting
Ricky Gonzalez in
the S.G.A. Office.
Donating blood is not as
terrifying as many people may
think. A slight pinch is initially
felt when the needle is put in,
but after that, you're not even
aware it's there. It doesn't take
much time either. It usually
takes about 10-15 minutes for a
person to donate one pint of
blood. A person must weigh at
least 100 lbs., and be between
the ages of 18 and 65. the blood
he/she donates will replace
itself in a matter of weeks.
Three months is required
between blood donations.
The amount of blood in a
person's body depends on the
size of the individual. An adult
Do you know where your
Activity Fee is going? On April
8-10 part of it was used to give
students a free ice cream cone,
providing they had a valid I.D.
and the coupon from the
Rambler. Each of the students
in this picture have had six ice
cream cones apiece, and if you
couldn't find a Rambler now
you know why.
who weighs 160 lbs. has about 5
quarts of blood. An 80 lb. child
has half this amount and a 9 lb.
infant ' has only about 10
ounces.
After the donated blood is
collected, it is typed and stored
in refrigerated plastic bags in a
blood bank where it is readily
available for use by doctors and
hospitals. The first blood bank
was established in 1935 at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Minn. The blood bank can
provide whole blood or any
desired component. The main
components of blood are:
plasma, which makes up about
55-65% of the total volume of
blood; Red blood cells, which
are the most numerous of the
definite shaped elements.
White blood cells, of which
there are several types, and
platelets which are the smallest
of the formed elements. Today,
preserving solutions permit
blood to be stored for as long as
35 days. Many blood
components can be frozen and
Rising tuition
Camput Digest Newt Service
Tuition guidelines recently
adopted by the lUinoi? Board of
Higher Education reconunended
that present tuition levels at
public state universities be
considered the standard for
future years, except for
adjustments to meet cost
increases due to inflation.
The board sets guidelines and
makes budget proposals to
governing coUege boards which
stored for as long as several
years. Whole blood rhay be
used in a trasfussion if the
recipient has lost a large
amount of blood, such as in a
serious accident or during
surgery. However,most
patients need only a certain
component of the blood. This
enables one person's blood
donation to help a numer of
patients. Transfusion of
individual components helps
treat such blood diseaes as
anemia hemopheiia, and
leukemia. Blood banks in the
nations collect more than 9
million pints of blood a year.
This number will have to be
increased greatly due to the
increasing numl^rs of people
who need blood each year, and
to continue the Research being
done with blood.
Lets all support the student
blood drive, on May 25th, give
a little bit of your time to save
life!
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Announcements p. 5
Dear Aggie p. 9
Editorial p.4
Movies/Theatre p.8
Music Review p.8
News p. 1 & 2
Sports p. 12