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Voluma Number 13 SUNY College of Technology at Farmlngdale April 1,1992
A Change of Pace
For Sex and Race
Shirley Chlsholm, the first black Congress-woman,
speaks at SUNY Farmlngdale
Injured
Administrator
Returns
by Chuck Watson
Pamtiior Disifitjulion Manqet
The State University of New York at
Farmingdale recently named February as
Women's History Month. On the 24th of that
month, the Little Theatre proudly presented for-mer
New York Congresswoman Shirley Chish-olm,
the first black woman elected as a represen-tative
of Congress and the first black woman to
attain the candidacy for president, running in the
1972 presidential race. Shirley Chisholm has
been lecturing nationwide for some time.
From the start of the speech at 11:00 AM to
about 12:10 PM, the Sylvester-voiced feminist
progressive expressed and explained her attitudes,
as well as the attitudes of the once fully male
dominated America that lacked the sensitivity and
consciousness of all other individuals. The
Brooklyn-bom author, Columbia college gradu-
' ate cum laude, and Mt. Holyoke College professor
with a degree in Bachelor Arts told an audience of
approximately 30 people, which she called **the
smallest audience she*s had**, that she stressed
women's contributions to America and the
women's movement that was the prime mecha-nism
of the struggle for equality in the 1970*s.
Recollecting about the discriminations of the past,
Chisholm mentioned that she has received more
discrimination as a woman than as a black, not
only from white men but black men and all other
men. This bias led her to a personal campaign to
eliminate sexism and racism, their teachings within
the education system, and the **passive armchair
recipients " spouting their rhetoric or "policies of
appeasement." This seeker of evolutionary change
instead of revolutionary change continues her
conquest to induce an national state of mind. To
Shirley Chisholm, the future seems as if it will be
less human controlled and more automated.
She presented statistics that certified the fact
that women have and still are excluded from
mainstream work on America, stating that 34% of
faculty members and 11 % of top administrators in
4 y?ar institutions are women. All such acts lead
to the concept of affirmative action, the executive
process of the exclusion of certain people due to
supposed qualification deficits. Chisholm stipu-lated
that the conceivers of affirmative action had
no conscience. She questions the people of
America on why, in a democracy, there is such a
thing as affirmative action. Quoting Susan B.
Anthony, she said to "look to God and not man."
Chisholm's Statements also included that there is
no proof of superiority among the genders.
After having spent thirty years in the poUtical
arena, and coming out a whole person, Shirley
Chisholm's other credits include being elected
head of the two thousand member National Con-gress
of Black Women founded after the summer
of 1984. The Congress held its first national as-sembly
in AUanta, founding the Women's Caucus
of the House of Representatives in 1979. The
Women's Caucus was responsible for allowing
women equality in admissions to areas such as the
military and other mainly male dominated areas.
Chishohn has also authored two books: Unbought
and Unbossed and Good Fight.
by Chuck Watson
Pomhiot Uismriuiion Manager
Upon delivering the belated March
16th edition of the Rambler on March
25th, I happened to see an ambulance in
front of Laffm Hall. After placing a small
stack of Rambler newspapers inside the
hall at the base of the steps leading out to
the front, I looked up the stairs from the
bottomto see whatwas happening. Seeing
no one being brought down in a stretcher,
I went to the ambulance and asked one of
the medics what happened. The medic
replied that they were to pick up a Mr.
Pugliese who suffered injuries from a
fall. As an editorialist and Distribution
Manager, I needed a news story. This was
it.
Administration at Laffm Hall wel-comed
the return of Domenick Pugliese.
Mr. Pugliese returned to the College
Studies I>epartment after spending five
days at Mid Island Hospital undergoing
X-rays and examinations for injuries he
sustained from an accident he had in
Laffm Hall in the late afternoon of
Wednesday, March 25th. From the infor-mation
obtained from Professor Frank A.
Cipriani's office, Mr. Pugliese fell on his
back and hurt his leg after he fell down
the stairs at Laffm Hall. He sustained
some bruises but no fractures. Mr Pug-liese
was banged up but has recovered
well.