The_Rambler_1963-11-15a

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STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N.Y.
Volume XXXIV - No. 3 November 15, 1963
Tickets for Winter Carnival i
I are still being sold in Knapp Hall
; Dining Room between the hours ii
;:0f 11 AM and 1 PM by the mem- i
i bers of the committee, Diane i|
Sabia and Marie Neilsen. The ;|
whole program is being planned 1;
by Prof. Irving Levine in co- i
operation with the Concord Hotel, i
Partial payments are being ac- i
c^ted now until Christmas. The i
total cost for the three days is i
only $37.00. Get your ticket now. |
You'll miss a lot of fun if you i
don't. i|
Judges Chosen As
Contest Progresses
Takes Two to Tango
An unidentified Aggie battles a Rockland Community player
for control of the ball. The game resulted in a victory for the
Aggies.
Dean Puts Students To Test
At an assembly held last Friday in the Allard Field
House, Dean Willenbrock placed the question of cheat-ing
before the senior class. In a simple, one-man as-sembly,
the Dean made it clear that it would be up to
the students to decide what is to be done, if anything,
to combat the unmerited doings of some students.
In presenting his short address,
the Dean immediately emphasized
the seriousness of the situation by
informing the students of actions
being taken toward a custodial staff
member discovered tobeobtainine
information previous to tests and
relaying it to certain students. As
a result, the Dean said, four final
exams were changed and two with-held
until further investigations
were made.
The Dean spoke in a positive tone
of the effects cheating would have
upon the university and upon the
students of Farmingdale in gen-eral.
He stressed the value of the
student's degree by stating that a
"counterfeit degree...will make
the college diploma counterfeit."
He then went on to present the
possibility of an Honor System
similar to the one employed at
Columbia University. Although he
considered such a suggestion plau-sible,
he also made it clear tiiat
the Honor System was not a goal in
itself. "I believe," stated the Dean,
"everyone should work at being
honest throughout his life...You
can't respect yourself until you
grow up...you can't grow up until
you stop cheating."
Questionnaires were then dis-tributed
about the possibility of an
effective Honor System, the degree
of cheating carried on throu^out
the campus, and opinions and sug-gestions
on what might be done to
remove this problem. The ques-tionnaires,
of a non-objective na-ture,
will be studied by the Student
Council in an attempt to learn what
the over-all attitude of the students
is concerning cheating.
Steatliiy
Students Attend
Union Conference
On November 1st and 2nd, the
fifteenth annual conference of Re-gion
2, association of College
LJnionSy was held at the State
University College, Oswego, New
York. Three representatives of the
college accompanied Miss Morton,
Coordinator of Student Activities,
to the Conference. There were:
Jim Perry, representing the class
of '64, Dick Gorman and Art Sam-martino,
representing the class of
'65.
The purpose of the trip was to
father information relative to the
uture construction and program-ming
of the proposed Student
Union Building, which will be situ-ated
in front of Lupton Hall. This
new Building will house all student
activity and club offices, lounges,
snack bar and cafeteria, meeting
rooms and facilities for dances.
It will be the hub of student ac-tivities
here at S.U.A.T.I.
Representatives returned to
the campus with many ideas on
the layout of rooms and the pro-gramming
of the executive struc-ture,
all gathered from informa-tion
given by students from other
colleges. Also the problems that
exist at other colleges will hope-fully
be avoided here at SUATI
through the workshops attended at
the conference.
The committee will attend the
Student Council meeting of Novem-ber
18 to present to trie students
the purposes, ideals, and structure
of a Student Union and a plan for
the programming of our own here
at SUATI. All representatives are
urged to attend this meeting since
this will probably be the most im-portant
meeting of the Student
Council for the school year.
SHOWCASE
Through November 4 to 15,
a Peace Corps Exhibit in Lupton
Hall featuring a showcase was first
evidence of the various activities
performed by a union college. The
DREW PEARSON TO
SPEAK AT ASSEMBLY
The famous Drew Pearson will be the guest speak-er
this morning at an assembly scheduled for 11:00
a.m. in the Allard Field House. Mr. Pearson has
been recognized as Washington's top reporter. His
policies of advocating a good government in the pub-lic
interest are widely known throughout the nation.
One of his most controversial ^ j / r> . n. i
Warned of Russian Might
showcase, which was to coincide
with the visit of a Peace Corps
representative on Nov, 13, was
set up by Richard Gorman and Ar-thur
Sammartino, under the super-vision
of Miss Morton, Coordin-ator
of Student Activities.
Mr. John Hopkins, director of the
Huntington Township Art League,
has offered his services in thepro-duction
of the RAMBLER contest.
Mr. Hopkins, an art instructor at
Hofstra College, has agreed to pro-vide
three Board members to act
as jurors.
Mr. Charles Raynor, teaching
art for the League Workshop, has
accepted a RAMBLER invitation to
participate as a juror. Miss Bon-ner,
Mr. Greenley, Mr. Roberts,
Mr. Tuthill, Mr, Lowell, Mr. Hall
and other members of the art de-partment
will act as jurors for the
section of the contest devoted to
non-AAD students.
Several art students and a few
non-art students have submitted
their entries during the first week
of the Contest, which is to end the
early part of December.
The Contest rules are listed be-low.
Entry blanks are available at
the secretary's office in all campus
buildings except the General Edu-cation
Building. They are also
available in the Evening Session
Office and in the Bookstore,
Rules
1. Original freehand drawings or
paintings in any conventional me-dium
are acceptable for entry, pro-vided
the subject matter is in good
taste.
2. The artist must be a currently
registered day or evening student,
3. All works must be submitted
on or before December 6,
4. A student may submit more
than one work, but each work must
receive a separate number, and
each work must be signed or ini-tialed
on the face or the back of the
drawing, painting or sketch.
5. Each work must be on a mat or
backed with cardboard. Oil paint-ings
should be framed,
6. Each work must carry on the
back of the painting, sketch or
drawing a price set by the student
(or NOS--Not for Sale; or POR—
Price on Request) to facilitate
hanging should it be possible to
exhibit entries off campus.
7. Each entry blank must be com-leted
in ink and should contain the
student's name, address, phone
number and curriculum. Evening
session students should indicate
the course which they take.
8. AAD students must be sure to
get numbers which begin with A
only. Evening session students who
are registered for an art course
other than Art Appreciation must
also take an A number.
and best-known works was "Wash-ington
Merry-Go-Round," which
exposed many inside stories of
politicians and members of so-ciety
heretofore considered "first
class citizens," This book, first
published anonymously (co-au-thored
by Robert S. Allen), cre-ated
quite a stir in the nation's
capital. It was controversial to
such a degree that it won the 1942
Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Ser-vice
Award in Journalism, despite
the fact that Mr. Pearson was
fired by the Baltimore Sun, the
paper which carried his work at
the time,
Mr, Pearson has national recog-nition
as being in strong opposi-tion
to the Ku Klux Klan, to ju-venile
delinquency, and corrupt
politics. Perhaps one of his best
remembered battles was when he
voiced his opposition to the late
Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wiscon-sin,
After a period of years, the
"conflict in print" was ended when
McCarthy was brought before a
Senate hearing and stripped of his
power,
"GRANbMA"
ENTERS
CONTEST
A colorful Currier-and-Ives (or
Grandma Moses) type painting was
submitted by a freshman during
the first week of the contest. Not
long after, aRAMBLER staff mem-,
ber remembered seeing the same
paintir^ hanging on the living room
wall of^a frieno. The staff member
also recalled that the painting
was dated 1941, making it rather
difficult for the officials to be-lieve
the painting was done by the
freshman. Investigation revealed
that the work had actually been
painted by the student's grand-mother.
It must be emphasized that the
work of relatives or friends not
directly associated with the Un-iversity
is not acceptable.
FOURTH IN NATION
Once again our outstanding
cross-country shows their great
performance as a team. Last Sat-urday
our team entered in the Na-tional
Meets held in New York,
There were twelve teams which
entered ^ d about one hundred run-ners.
Our team placed fourth in the
nation to bring to our school much
hbhor and prestige.
Gene Cote came in sixth out of
all these runners. An outstanding
job was also done by Dick Gardner
O.H.FR; Michigan won the overall
team meet having men place first
and second.
Once again our hats go off for a
great team effort by our cross-country
representatives and Coach
Hartman.
More than once, Mr. Pearson
had warned of the great progress
Russia had made over America
in the development of new war
weapons. While most Americans
were hailing Fidel Castro as a
hero, Mr. Pearson wrote often of
the Communist threats to Cuba
and all those surrounding the
island.
"The Friendship Train," which
was an American donation to
France and Italy of $40 million
worth of food, was the product
of Drew Pearson. The "Freedom
Balloon" campaign, an attempt to
reach people behind the Iron Cur-tain
with air-borne messages of
liberty and encouragement, was
greatly supported by Mr. Pearson,
He also organized the "Democracy
Letters to Italy," credited with de-feating
communism in Italy in the
election of 1948.
A Quiet Mjn
Though a relatively quiet man,
Mr. Pearson likes nothing better
than working under high pressure.
He does most of his work in his
office in Georgetown—in a house
200 years old.
As a boy, he-earned his first '
money in a patch of woods called
Whiskey Run, in Illinois. His job.,,
trapping skunks!!!
His education included phillips
Exeter Academy, where he
"worked his way throi^h" by baby-sitting,
He attended four years at
Swathmore College. While a stu-dent
there, he made Phi Beta
Kappa, edited the college news-paper,
and, later, found himself
in an Officers' Training Corps,
He has traveled around the
world. Some of hs work carried
him to Australia, Japan, China,
Europe, the Gobi Desert, theTi-.
betan border, and Cuba. He has
covered such historical events as
the Geneva Naval Conference and
the London Naval Conference. In
1928, he accompanied Secretary
of State Kellogg to Paris and Dub-lin,
as well as President Coolidge
to Havana.
The assembly today is expected
to provide a highly valuable ex-perience.
Junior Colleges are sel-dom
this fortunate in naving such
a distinguished guest.
Queensborough Announces
O p e n i n i Of
Evening Sessions
The President of Queens bo rough
Community College, Dumont F.
Kenny, recently made public the
opening of an Evening Division on
February 3, 1964. President Kenny
also announced Dr. George Altman,
former chairman of the Science
Department at Queensborough, as
the Division's first director.
The initial enrollment of 600
students is expected to reach 1200
by the fall of 1964,