The_Rambler_1958-05-20

              STATE
UNIVERSITY
AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L.L, N.Y.
VOL. XXVIII, No. 11 MAY 20, 1958
STUDENT COUNCIL
1958-1959
Only four weeks have elapsed
and our Student Council Mem-bers
have seen the first few
links in a chain that is intended
to raise the prestige of Council,
and the many organizations af-filiated
with it. Council is mak-ing
every effort to improve its
own mechanics and to tie to-gether
a few of its loose ends.
A few examples are: the order
in which business is now being
conducted; the introduction of
a new seating arrangement; and
the attack on the delinquency
problems of a few of its mem-bers.
It is Council's intention to in-troduce
a spark to campus that
will inspire new programs and
activities which will result in
a much more spirited Student
Body. A good example of this
is the program of the Orienta-tion
Committee. It has met only
twice but has already considered
the necessity of a continued
Oriention Program that would
plan events for the full year.
This calendar would consider
such activities as the normal
orientation which would now be
called Freshman Acquaintance
to Campus, and be only a part of
the new yearly-planned orien-tation.
There are plans for con-tinued
Square Dances, Record
Hops , Off-campus dances and
other social affairs so as to in-sure
a well-rounded year of so-cial
activities. The committee
has also given full support to
a formal ball to be held off
campus which will be sponsored
by the Student Council. As you
can see, your Student Council
is making e v e r y effort to
strengthen each link of the
chain and to add new ones if
necessary.
Next year's Council is looking
forward to the Annual Conven-tion
of CISGA, which is to be
held at our campus. The con-vention
will include people rep-resenting
the seventeen techni-cal
and community colleges in
the State University system. The
convention will certainly be a
great experience for all those
who take part in it. And it will
enable our fellow students in
other State colleges to become
familiar with our c a m p u s.
CISGA is designed to further
unite the students of our col-leges
and to bring together and
solve the problems and to bring
forth the new ideas of all.
If you, as a student, feel you
aren't being represented in the
way you should, bring it to the
attention of your Student Coun-cil.
Be sure your representa-tive
is doing the job you expect
of him. See to it that he makes
weekly reports on Student Coun-cil
meetings and we strongly
urge faculty support on this
matter.
FACULTY: As a faculty mem-ber
we would appreciate it if
you would take a few minutes
on Tuesday mornings to allow
the Student Council representa-tives
to make their reports to
the classes. Also, if they are
lax, please encourage them.
We can make next year a good
one; let's start the job now.
SENIOR PROM There's only four weeks left
before the arrival of the Senior
Prom, and if some of you seniors
haven't already made dates
you'd better step on it! From
the way tickets are selling now
there is no guarantee that there
will be any sold at the door.
There is no curfew for the
girls if they bring a note from
their parents, and all dorms
will remain open.
No one is permitted to bring
his own "refreshments" to the
prom, but set-ups can be reason-ably
purchased. A professional
photographer will be on the
premises.
The Senior Board of Gover-nors
is tentatively planning a
beach party for the day follow-ing
the prom. If such plans
materialize you will be notified
in plenty of time to get your
bathing suits out of moth balls.
About those money making
suggestions we mentioned in the
last issue, here are just a few:
Catch bugs and sell them to the
Freshman Hort. students for
their collections. Run a taxi
service between the girls dorm
and the dining hall on rainy
days, and a taxi between school
and town over the weekend
might be worth a try. Then for
the more desperate ones there
is always deposits on soda bot-tles
and car washing. But no
matter how you do it, be sure
to be at the prom, for it will be
a night worth remembering.
The Senior Board of Gover-nors
wishes to express its ap-preciation
to all those seniors
who paid their dues and thereby
helped finance the prom.
State Passes Law
To Aid Students
The New York Higher Educa-tion
Assistance Corporation has
recently b e e n authorized to
guarantee loans students obtain-ed
from private sources. For
those who are not familiar with
this organization, it is a non-profit
corporation created for
the purpose of lending funds to
students who are residents of
New York State, to assist them
in meeting their expenses of
higher education. This applies
to colleges in New York State
and elsewhere.
Under this new law, the stu-dent
may apply for an education
loan to a bank, and if approved,
the repayment of the loan will
be guaranteed by the New York
Higher Educational Assistance
Corporation. It is expected that
with such a guarantee, loans will
be more readily available to stu-dents
of the state.
Two important facts concern-ing
this law are: A loan may
not be guaranteed for an
amount in excess of $1,000 for
any school year, and students
under twenty one years of age
are eligible for such loans.
For further information please
contact the Rambler.
FLOOD OF PEOPLE
Averill Harriman, Governor of New York State, has aptly
described Open House as a "spirit of neighborliness." Every
department in the S.U.A.T.I. Program opened their doors to the
public, parents, relatives, friends, and to anyone who was in-terested
in the work and prog-ress
of the students.
Modern Dance Club
Forms on Campus
The Modern Dance Club, one
of the newest clubs on the Long
Island Agricultural and Tech-nical
Institute campus, was or-ganized
last month. Babette
Merlin and Judy Perkins are
the leaders of this newly or-ganized
club. In fact, full credit
goes to these girls for the or-ganization
of the Modern Dance
Club. Both Babette and Judy
are certainly well-qualified lead-ers.
They have been active in
Modern Dance Clubs in High
School. Besides having per-formed
in various exhibitions at
high school assemblies and the
like, they showed the student
body their talents at the Jazz
Concert, which was held on
campus March 29th.
They have invited all interest-ed
girls to join the Modern
Dance Club. To continue the
club, at least eight girls must
attend a meeting for it to be
worthwhile. The members have
high hopes of putting on a per-formance,
probably in the early
Spring of 1959.
Previously, meetings had been
held in the Commuter's Lounge
in the Student Union Building,
where the girls were introduced
to modern dancing. They were
given demonstrations by their
leaders and by those who had
had modern dance.
The meetings of the Modern
Dance Club are held every Mon-day
evening from 6:30 to 7:30
in the third fioor lounge of the
girls' dormitory, Suffolk Hall.
SENIORCLASSGIFT
It has been a tradition of the
Senior Class, upon graduation,
to present the Institution with
a gift. The Class of 1958, in
order to show its appreciation
and gratitude to the Institute,
is presenting the Student Body
with a Kodak movie projector
and a cash gift which is to go
to the Faculty-Student Union
Building Fund. This proposed
building will contain meeting
rooms, bowling alleys, a swim-ming
pool, and possibly hotel
facilities.
The gift will be presented to
Dr. Medesy by Bob Jorgensen,
President of the Senior Board
of Governors, at the graduation
ceremony.
Sing, Aggies, Sing
The Institute Glee Club, under
the direction of Mr. Walter
Witherspoon, sang at a concert
given in the auditorium of
Farmingdale High School on
Friday, May 16.
The chorus sang at an as-sembly
of the High School Stu-dent
Body, after having been
invited to do so by the high
school's principal. The club sang
various selections from many of
the different periods in the his-tory
of music.
The school's Octette and solo-ists
also performed in addition
to the Glee Club as a whole.
Everyone present thoroughly en-joyed
the concert, and ap-preciated
the work put in by
Mr. Witherspoon and the Insti-tute
Chorus in preparation of
this event.
Every student helped in some
way to make this year's Open
House the success it was. In
spite of the fact that the
weather was showing its mean
side, a great number of people
came out to the Institute.
Each curriculum presented
themselves in a fine, prominent
manner. The Agricultural De-partment
put on one of the
many highlights of the two days.
A11 Agricultural Engineering
equipment was on display, in-cluding
Tractors, such as the
International 350, John Deere,
Fergerson, Ford, and Masey
Harris, and various modern at-tachments
to these tractors.
New farm equipment by New
Holland was also on display.
One of the special events of
Open House included an exhi-bition
by the Animal Husbandry
Department under the direction
of Mr. Ingum, Mr. Smith, and
Mr. Walker, which was The
Dairy Cattle Fitting and Show-manship
Contest. 'This contest
produced a Grand Champion
which was led by Steve Ma-cinio,
second went to George
McConvile, and third place was
was taken by Dean Washburn.
Mr. Franke, head of Animal
Husbandry, had all the livestock
on display, including cows,
sheep, and hogs.
Dairy Industry sold Ice Cream
in Dorm I. The Dairy Testing
Labs were open to all visitors
for inspection.
Poultry Science had eggs on
display which were hatching, in
an incubator, in the Poultry
Building. Lambs, baby chicks,
and turkeys were also on dis-play
in this exhibition.
Aircrafts Operation ran an
airplane engine in their lab.
They also had a setup whereby
a pilot flies the plane by in-struments.
Again the Art Department of
the Institute staged a gala
spectacular of creativity. Under
the direction of Mr. Roberts, Art
Department head, both freshmen
and seniors displayed art work
that they had industriously la-bored
over for many hours as
homework assignments.
The Art Departments always
presented their art work in the
Gym because they had their
building in town on Conklin
Street. For the first time, the
Art Department had a building
on Campus, and could exhibit
much more work than previous-ly.
There were four rooms sole-ly
dedicated to the primary
showing of photo retouch, car-toons,
advertising illustration,
watercolor, fashion, design, air-b
r u s h , lettering, geometries,
technical illustration and oil
painting. All rooms had art
students displaying their tal-ents
which they had perfected
through the efforts of the highly
learned and trained teachers in
the Art Department. The Art
Department wishes to thank all
who participated and came to
view the wonderful and success-ful
show.
The Dental Hygiene Clinics
were open to the public. Dis-plays
were placed around the
clinic and the girls explained
the operation and performance
of the dental units and instru-ments
used by hygieniest. The
girls explained many factors of
patient education and their per-formances
as hygieniests. In an
adjoining room, there was a dis-play
concerning pathology, bac-teriology,
human anatomy, phy-siology,
dental anatomy and
manikin practice. There also
was a display of literature con-cerning
oral hygiene and pros-thetic
appliances.
Electrical Technology, which
included Communications Elec-tronics,
Industrial Electronics
and Industrial Instrumentation.
The exhibits included displays
of various instruments, motor
generator control circuits, and
industrial control devices. The
display also included Thyratron
Circuity, Photoelectric Timing
Devices, Magnetic Amplifiers,
Amplydine Generators and Ser-vo-
Mechanisms. Transistor dis-plays,
light-control devices, Tele-vision
allignment procedures,
and many other Video lab ex-periments
were also shown. The
highlight of the Electronics dis-play
was a binary computor de-
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Poultry Science Exhibit in Poultry Building.