The_Rambler_1965-03-23

              STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N. Y.
VOLUME XXXV No. 8 March 23, 1965
Hans Conreid to Come to SUATC
Hans Conried's only*'method"
of acting is "to get a job and
then try to please the people
who hired me" and he has used
it to d e l i s t audiences from Cal-ifornia
to Kentucky.
Those spending "An Evening
With Hans Conried" on Thurs-day,
March 25, 11 A.M. at Allard
Field House wUl receive an am-ple
sample of his multi-faceted
talent which has been attracting
" standing room only" crowds,
Conried has enjoyed a varied
career since his firstprof ession-al
job as a $15 a week radio
actor, who sold basketballs and
demonstrated punching bags on
the side. And he draws on all
his 28 years of theatrical ex-perience
for his one man show.
Using his rich, chameleon-like
voice, has earned him roles of
every descriotion on major TV
show, (the most recent being the
lead in a DuPont Show of the
Week), Mr. Conried opens his
show with readings from poetry
and Shakespeare.
He switches easily from the
dramatic excitement of Hamlet
or Lincoln's views on slavery
to .the unusual, light role of the
cat in "archy and mehitabel."
Although his present attitude
toward Broadway is "to cross
with the lights, " Conried has
chalked up a number of credits
on the legitimate stage. And he
sprinkles his performance lib-erally
with his stock of thea-trical
anecdotes.
However, it is in the brisk re-partee
between Conried and his
audience that he really shines.
He has developed his lightning-quick
reaction to questions in
years of ejqperience as a tele-vision
guest when he learned "to
.prod the brain quickly and come
iQ} with an answer.
On such shows as Jack Paar's
"Tonight," where he contributed
"to the insomnia of the nation,"
Conried the actor emerged as a
"personality."
"The first time you are in-troduced
by your own name and
there is no mask to hide be-hind,
no one else's words to say,
the inclination is to run fast,"
Conried admits with character-istic
frankness.
However, he sippressed the
urge and has since scored his
greatest success.
Readings, dialogue, a question
and answer pedod — that's what
his show will contain. But as
his fans who watch him as host
of "Fractured Flickers" real-ize,
one is never sure what Con-ried
will do next.
However, one thing the audi-ence
can depend upon from this
master of the quip, the comic
innuendo and the zany reply is
an exciting evening of entertain-ment
• they won't soon forget.
RAMBLER Cited in Contest
The RAMBLER has done it
againl Once again, this year,
the RAMBLER staff, under the
supervision of advisor Margaret
Davis, attended the 41st Annual
Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation
(CSPA) conference at
Columbia University on March
11, 12, and 13. Awarded second
prize, the RAMBLER was the only
college offset publication from
New York State to receive any
recognition. Judged on content,
make-up, design, typogrj^hy, and
all other aspects of journalism,
the RAMBLER scored high on all
counts.
The sixteen staff members who
took part in the conference, at-tended
several of the more than
150 newspaper clinics that the
CSPA made available throughout
the three day period.
Besides workshops headed by
professional newspapermen and
teachers of journalism, there
were also round-table discus-sions,
question-and-answer ses-sions,
and special critiques, dur-ing
which all entries were close-ly
examined.
On Friday, the staff attended
a luncheon in the Butler Hall
Penthouse, at which time they
were treated to a most stimulat-ing
address by William Randolph
Hearst Jr., Editor-in-Chief of the
Hearst Newspapers. The conven-tion
came to a close on Saturday,
with a dinner at the Hotel Amer-icana
and an address by Bob
Considine.
The CSPA was established in
1925. In that year, 179 news-papers
and magazines were en-tered
in the first contest and 308
persons attended the first con-vention.
Since that time 42,950 publica-tions
have been entered in the
annual contests and rated by the
association. From 1925 throu^
1964, 116,601 delgates have attend-ed
these annual events. The
RAMBLER is proud to be on its
roster of winners.
What's Going On in Ward Hall
Seniors' Views
by Betty Hawkins on
On Monday, March 2nd, two
of the three teachers in the sen-ior
nursing program resigned.
After interviewing some of the
seniors, I received these com-ments
on their feelings toward
the whole situation .....
"I feel very bad and I think it
is unfair that Administration does
not take a greater interest in the
students. If we had a least been
told why the teachers were leav-ing,
maybe we would not have
sent telegrams to the News-papers,
Congress and Robert
Kennedy, and the whole thing
could have been kept quiet."
"I, and I know most of the
other girls too, came to love
our teachers very much. They
were looking forward to seeing
us graduate and pass the State
Boards. I don't understand how
they could just up and resign
four mouths before our exams.
We need all the help we could
get now."
"I think this whole situation
is a mess and is nothing but a
personality conflia between the
Faculty and Administration."
"Graduating and receiving my
R.N. was something I was look-ing
forward to from my first day
in this school, now all I want to
do is get out of Farmlngdale and
forget It,"
"I know our teachers loved us
as much as we came to love them
over the past year. They wanted
very much for us to become
nurses like themselves, and I
don't think they would have re-signed
and left us hanging in
mid air unless they had a good
reason. I don't hold it against
the teachers who left, and I
don't think any of the other girls
do either."
"We'll just have to try our
best between now and June, but
it is going to be much harder
without the help of our teachers."
"I don't think Administration
has an interest in us. They showed
no concern at all when half the
class was holding "D's" and
F's in this course."
'To me there is no meaning
left to graduation now, I hold no
resentment toward the teachers
who left, but I do wish they
could be here and be proud of us
when we graduate."
"The way I feel now I could
walk into a closet and receive
my R.N„ There's nothing left
for me."
"It's all Administration's
fault."
"We were told to sign out of
class for the day because we had
no teachers ...That's allll What
a school I "
NOTICE!!
The Mifc/ie// Trio Concert
S will be held at StonyBrook
I on March 27J 965. Tickets
I still available.
Admiuistration's
Views
by James Trent
To help clarify the controversy
concerning the recent and sudden
resignations of two nursing de-partment
profess'^rs, and to give
the Administration a fairer op-portunity
to present its position
in the matter than was afforded
by the daily newspapers, we are
publishing this account as re-lated
by Charles W. Laffin Jr.,
President of the College.
Last December, Dr. Laffin in-formed
Mrs. Agnes Clark, then
chairman of the Nursing Depart-ment
that she was not going to
be reappointed to her post for
"fully justifiable reasons." Mrs.
Clark was not being removed
from the faculty, but only as
department direaor. "Because
of her non-continuance as chair-man,
Mrs. Clark abruptly left
the college of her own volition."
The Administration began an im-mediate
search for a new in-struaor
and department head.
Persons both within and outside
of the present faculty were con-sidered.
Finally, Mrs. Dolores
Wozniak was appointed the new
chairman. As soon as the deci-sion
was made, near the end of
February, members of the faculty
were notified.
On the night of Friday, Feb-ruary
26, iq)on return from Al-bany,
Dr. Laffin received a letter'
from Miss Ruth Horluchl, an as-sistant
professor for three years,
that she was resigning, reason
given was the she could not
work with the new chairman. On
Monday, a similar note was
turned in byMrs, J acquline John-son,
an assistant professor for
two years. The reason was the
same, and this notice likewise
was effective Immediately.
Conferences with the two pro-fessors
on Monday, March 1, in-dicated
that they did not believe
they could work with Miss Woz-niak
and felt compelled to leave
at once. They were asked to
stay until the end of the term, but
both declined to accept the
request.
Neither Mrs. Clark, Mrs.
Johnson, or Miss Horluchl
availed themselves of the privi-lege
of a review of the President's
decision. They simply resigned.
A number of charges were
leveled against the Administra-tion
by the two former professors
The first charge was that faculty
members are invited to resign
when they have a grievance.
President Laffin retored: "I
categorically deny that any fac-ulty
member who has expressed
a grievance was asked to re-sign".
Only Dr. Laffin has the
power to ask faculty members to
resign. Dr. Laffin went on
to explain that many people
on the faculty and staff, including
close friends of his, may at
times hold grievances, but that
problems and misunderstandings
are always peacefully settled
without such agitation.
As to the allegation that the
quality of the program has de-clined
since the resignation of
Mrs. Clark, President Laffin re-plied
that the program may have
been "disrupted by the abr^t
resignation but that no evaluation
of Its quality has been taken by
any responsible agency to deter-mine
if it has declined". Dr.
Laffin emphasized that their
charge was based purely on
personal opinion.
Another charge to the effect
that a dentist was acting chair-man
of the nursing department
for three months though the
newly appointed chairman was on
the staff throughout this period
caused the President to reply:
'This reference to Dr. Thomas,
chairman of the Division of Health
Services, who I assigned as co-ordinator,
as a dentist Is ex-tremely
unfortunate. The faculty
of a technical college is made
of many professional people In-cluding
lawyers, teachers, coim-selors,
engineers, nurses, etc.,
who become professors, deans,
division chairmen and in other
words, college educators," Dr.
Laffin explained that Dr.Thomas
Is not now and has not been a
practicing dentist for a number
of years, but rather he should
be referred to as a division chair-man.
In the case of the nursing
department, the Instructors are
not acting In the capacity as
nurses, though they hold R.N.
degrees, but act In the capacity
of nursing educators.
The last attack made against
the administration was that no
real concern was shown when 23
our of 46 students received D's
or F's. To this charge Dr.
Laffin defended that all grade
patterns are analyzed, and where
irregularities are discovered.
Investigations are made.
Dr. Laffin e;q)ressed displea-