Living Cultures Mix CORNELL CHRONICLE The official weekly of record for Cornell University Vol. 2 No. 12 Thursday, November 19, 1 9 7 0 Trustees Vote to Seek Changes In Charter at State Legislature The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees has voted to seek amendments to the University Charter concerning expansion of Board membership, in response to the recommendations of the Cornell Constituent Assembly from which the present University Senate evolved. In action taken at its November meeting here Tuesday, the recommendations of the Constituent Assembly, as stated in its proposal for a University Senate passed in final form on December 15, 1969. The authority to change the University Charter rests in the final instance with the New York State Legislature The method of selection for each category of Board members, and, in some cases, the specification of term, are matters of revision of University Bylaws and are actions which can be taken by the Board of Trustees without involvement of outside agencies. Robert W Purcell. chairman of the Board of Trustees, said following the Executive Committee meeting that, "In proceeding to make these bylaw revision decisions, the Board of Continued on Page 7 Executive Committee approved Senate Considersthe recommendations of its ad h"oc Board membership INTERNATIONAL LIVING — Students in North Campus Dorm 8. Cornell'scommittee chaired by Trustee new International Living Center, gather in head resident Tony Smith's Jansen Noyes, Jr. The executive ROTC Proposalsapartment. Committee further voted that a This past September some 400 members of Cornell's international population went to a wine and cheese party at North Campus Dorm 8, the home of the University's new International Living Center. Among them were more than 50 Americans who had signed up to live at the Center. Since then, there have been any number of impromptu parties in Dorm 8's four small lounges, which offer a pleasant conversational setting for us both privacy and a feeling of community." Like its neighbors in the north campus complex. Dorm 8 is divided into four sections, each with 36 residents who share a lounge and an adjacent kitchenette. Each section contains six living suites with two double and two single rooms per suite. Cooking facilities are inadequate, and residents Continued on Page 7 legislative bill be drafted implementing the Noyes Committee recommendations and that the bill be submitted to the New York State Legislature for printing pending final approval of the University Charter amendments by the full Board of Trustees at its January 23-24 meeting in New York City. The actions taken by the Trustee Executive Committee Tuesday were those for which a Charter change is required in order to implement the Four alternative proposals concerning the future of ROTC at Cornell University will be presented to the University Senate at its meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 24) in Kaufmann Auditorium. Goldwin Smith Hall. One resolution proposes that the required one-years notice terminating all contracts between Cornell and ROTC be served immediately and that financial aid be provided to students who rely on aid from ROTC to finance their undergraduate studies A second resolution suggests the establishment of academic courses in military studies in place of ROTC. This proposal affirms the desirability of maintaining the land-grant status of the University The third resolution, which favors having a voluntary commissiongranting military training program on campus, supports the continuation of ROTC. The resolution suggests, however, that ROTC be revised to develop more desirable programs. anywhere from two to 20 people. Three or four "organized" affairs have also taken place in the building's main lounge, to which the Center's 136 residents were invited. French residents and members of Cornells newly formed International Activities Group gave a crepes party. Some Americans cooked a New England boiled dinner featuring corned beef and cabbage No Time for Turkey The fourth resolution, recognizing that ROTC is the largest source of officers for the armed forces, affirms the rights of students to have military training programs available on the campus and opposes the termination of ROTC at Cornell. In other Senate-related actions this week, the Senate Committee on Campus Life named four senators to the President's "I feel we've achieved real interaction among foreign students and Americans," said Tony Smith, the Center's head resident and a third-year law student. "That's something that hasn't happened much at Cornell search committee which will recommend candidates for the new position of vice president for campus affairs. Senate members of the committee are Joan B. Bodnef. 7 1 ; J Thomas Continued on Page 7 before, but it's just the first step." ' Credit for establishing the Center must go to the staff of the Chronicle International Student Office who, with the help of Mark Barlow, Jr.. vice president for student affairs, obtained the use of Dorm 8 in the new north campus residential complex when it became available last spring Program manager of the Center is Tahir AH, a Pakistani majoring in government. "Just having these lounges gives us something we couldn't get in an ordinary dormitory," he commented "I think the building is fantastit," added a French student living in the Center. "We are mostly graduate students here, and the room layout gives FEATHERS IN FLIGHT — A fugitive from the College of Agriculture campusattempts an Arts Quadrangle landing on his way to a discussion of the morality of premature death with members of the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences In pursuit, with meat cleavers at ready, are three white-coated harbingers of Tom Turkey's fate Closing in on the Thanksgiving-table-bound fowl are Robert C Baker, director of the Institute of Food Sciences and Marketing and a professor of poultry science (center) and two poultry food science graduate students. Arthur J Maurer (left) and Robert B. Gravani (right) Capsule PE*ACE Studies Program instituted. Page 2 GOOD SHIP J G Needham sails Lake Cayuga. Page 3 FACES — Chronicle • photo feature. Page 6 AWARDS clearinghouse set up. Page 2 The Chronicle will not be published next Thursday. November 26, which is Thanksgiving Day Regular publication will resume the following Thursday. 2 CORNELLCHRONICLE Peace Studies Program UHB HearsHardHats Thursday, Nov. 19, 1970 Initiated at University An interdisciplinary Peace Studies Program that will involve research and teaching on the avoidance of war has been initiated on the Cornell campus this semester, and was explained Tuesday to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. The new program is supported initially by funds from the Center for International Studies and the Program on Science. Technology and Society In addition to the study of the moderation or avoidance of war. the program will also include investigation into the political, economic, technological and social Bishop Named Fiske Collection Library Curator Morns G. Bishop. Kappa Alpha Professor of Romance Languages, emeritus, has been appointed curator of the Fiske Collection of Dante and Petrarch of the University Libraries The Cornell collection of the works of the two Italian poets includes some 17.000 titles and is the largest outside of Florence. Italy The collection, housed in the Rare Books Department in Olin Library, was given to the University by Willard D. Fiske. the first librarian of the University and a professor of north Germanic languages. Fiske. who died in 1904, also left the University a $500,000 endowment, the income from which still is used to purchase works for the library. Bishop replaces John Freccero. professor of Italian who left in June. 1969. to go to Yale University Bishop, who also was the University historian at Cornell, served on the Cornell faculty from 1921 until his retirement in 1960 He was a faculty trustee from 1957 to 1960. A native of Willard. he earned a bachelor or arts degree in 191 3. a master of arts degree in 1914 and a doctor of philosophy degree in 1926. all from Cornell CORNELL CHRONICLE Published weekly by the Office of Public Information of Cornell University and dis'ributed free of charge to faculty, students. staff and employes. Mail subscription $10 per year Editorial office. 110 Day Hall. Ithaca. NY 14850 Telephone 256-4666. Editor. Arthur W Brodeur. Editorial Assistant. Michael S Rosenbaum. Photo Editor Rw ell C implications of progress towards peace. Two students were found Director of the Program is George H Quester, associate professor of government. Quester. a specialist in national security and international politics, joined the Cornell faculty guilty by the University Hearing Board Tuesday of violating the Regulations for the Maintenance of Public Order It was the first time the board has met this semester to hear cases this fall. Before coming to One student was placed on Cornell, he taught at Harvard disciplinary probation for the rest University, where he received his of the academic year because of doctor of philosophy and master a previous violation. The other of arts degrees. was given a reprimand Neither As part of the program, a faculty peace studies seminar will be established as an effort to expand and provide coherent interaction for Cornells efforts in the field of peace studies Initially, funds will not be solicited from government sources. Substantial financial support will be sought from alumni, foundations and others interested in research and teaching in this area of study The research in the new program is planned to be significantly independent of the governments of the United States and other countries The program hopes to stimulate research and graduate study, particularly in the following areas: The changing meaning of basic concepts such as "national security." "the cold war" and "deterrence;" the implications of evolving and changing weapons technologies for the maintenance of peace, and the analysis of national security policy in the United States and other countries through alternative decision-making models. of the names was released by the board, in line with established policy. The students were convicted for violating a section which forbids the obstruction of access to or egress from a University building or unlawfully entering or remaining in one They also were convicted of violating a rule which prohibits the noncompliance with a lawful order from a University or public official in performance of his duties. When a student is placed on disciplinary probation. his violation and penalty is recorded in the University files and recorded on his transcript. If convicted again, he will be suspended for at least a full term. When a reprimand is issued, the student's dean is notified but the penalty is not recorded on the students permanent record. Both charges arose from an incident at last Junes graduation ceremony during which they prevented a police car from leaving the campus The students may. if they wish, appeal the UHB decision to the University Review Board A LONGSHOREMAN'S VIEW — Undergraduate students in Cornells New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations are seen aboard the "Montana Maru" out of Kobe, Japan, docked at New York Port Authority pier 9a, during a recent tour with officials of Local 1814, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO Internship and Award Info Center Set Up A special program has been set up to help Cornell's "best students, graduates and faculty obtain awards and internships" by the Office of the Vice President for Social and Environmental Studies and the Career Center. "Project Promote ' has been established to serve as a clearinghouse for information on various awards and programs which are available, and as a means for gathering and sharing the experiences these programs provide The project is a two-year experiment to "explore and test ways and means suitable to the University community .for identifying, encouraging and supporting Cornell contestants" for awards and interships, according to Mrs Carol Husbands. administrative assistant to Lisle C. Carter, vice president for social and environment studies. Among the programs Project Promote will be concerned with are: White House Fellowships. New York City Urban Fellowships. Robert F. Kennedy Fellowships. Rhodes Scholarships and the like. The New York City Urban Fellowship Program is the first such internship the project is concerned with. The program offers fulltime internships to twenty students. for the academic year beginning September. 1971. at high levels of New York City government. Applications come from over Law Students Gain Moot Success 400 universities and colleges across the country. Competition is open to all Two Cornell University Law School students have students who have completed by won regional rounds of the 1970 National Moot Court Competition and will compete for the ' % ' ' . * ' »•• v « i . » , September their junior year, including graduate students. The national title Dec. 15 to 17 in New York City. program encourages applicants The students. J. William Ernstrom of Afton. NY.. in all academic disciplines, as and Peter J Spinelli of East Quogue. Long Island, opportunities are open in fields won the regional competition last Friday (Nov. 13) ranging from anthropology to by defeating a team from Syracuse University. law and engineering. Spinelli. a third year law student, was awarded Urban Fellows will work with the American College of Trial Lawyer's Silver Cup heads of City government for presenting the best oral argument of any of the agencies in such areas as city 18 regional competitors A brief presented by the planning. housing. cultural Cornell team placed second and was graded one affairs. health and social point below the winning statement. services, police science, Faust F. Rossi, professor of law. said it is the first time in recent years that Cornell students have won budgeting and many otrfers Weekly seminars with officials four successive Moot Court arguments in a are also part of the program national competition. Rossi, who is the students' faculty advisor, said the victory was particularly satisfying because the Cornell students were initially required to engage in one extra preliminary round and also had to switch sides after the quarterfinal round and had only one hour to prepare for the change.' The National Moot Court Competition involves more than 100 law schools Along with the regional winning Cornell team, about 15 other A meeting for Cornellians interested in the New York City program will be held Monday, November 23. at 4:30 p.m. in Ives 2 1 3, Mrs Husbands said. She also said that Project Promote will seek to develop an informational network within and without the University. teams remain in competition. Representatives of the If the Cornell team wins just four more arguments. Rossi said. Ernstrom and Spinelli will become the outstanding student advocates in the nation The region in which Cornell competes includes MOOT POINTERS — Two Cornell law students discuss competition for the national title in the National Moot Court Competition after winning regional rounds'against other law students The students are (from left) J. William Ernstrom. and Peter J Spinelli At right is Faust F. Rossi, colleges. administration and alumni will participate in the project, with activities coordinated by the Career Center and the Office of the Vice 11 schools from Upstate New York and New law professor who is the students' advisor. President for Social and England, including Harvard and Yale Law Schools. Environmental Studies. Thursday, Nov. 19,1970 Ship Ahoy CORNELLCHRONICLE 3 Engineering College J. G. Needham Serves as Floating Lab Gets Female Fund The J. G. Needham is Cayuga Lake's only floating classroom. It has equipment that can spot schools of fish in the water, and underwater kites have been flown from it It is also' a 40-foot carpeud houseboat with twin 225 horsepower engines. The J. G. Needham is a research and teaching vessel recently purchased by the College of Agriculture "The boat is equipped with a recording fathometer and a photof luorometer which measures fluorescence." explained Ray Oglesby, associate professor of aquatic science. "It also has equipment to measure oxygen. temperature, transparency and light in the water, an underwater television camera and a hydraulic davit and winch." One of the research projects launched from the Needham deals with the "flying" of underwater kites, or drogues, large plastic rectangles which move, sail-like, with underwater currents at various levels of the lake. Floats are attached to the top of the drogues, and by observing the movement of the floats, it is possible to determine the movement of water currents at various depths Paul Godfrey, research assistant ' in conservation, is using drogues to study pollution in Cayuga Lake. Water-polluting nutrients, including agricultural and chemical wastes, are entering Cayuga Lake from its tributaries, but no one knows which creeks are responsible for most of the pollutants. Godfrey plans to sink the drogues at the mouths of the creeks and follow the incoming water into the lake He will then take water samples which should tell the fate of nutrients brought into the lake by each yibutary — what amount settles to the bottom of the lake; how much contributes to the growth of algae. Using land-use maps of the areas around Cayuga Lake's creeks, he will determine the extent to which the lake is being polluted by agriculture, towns, schools, and cottages. Fiddler Here Country music lovers will be treated to a live performance by Clark Kessinger — Americas oldest and greatest country fiddler on tomorrow evening, November 20th. at 8 p m. at the Risley College theater. Admission for non-college members is $1.00 Clark has been fiddling since the age of five and has appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, the "Grand Ole Opry" and has won the World and National Senior Champion Fiddler titles. He is considered one of the most precise and well-timed country fiddlers by devotees of country music ,, Fish play an important part in another of the experiments done from the Needham All lake trout in Cayuga Lake are marked by different kinds of fin clippings, so their age and sex can "be immediately determined, according to William D. Youngs, research associate. Each fall, groups of these fish are netted and studied to ecology, limnology, oceanography, and has served as a portable laboratory for graduate students' research. It has also played host to a class from Wells College studying invertebrate zoology. Oglesby indicated the Needham is winterized and the researchers plan to use it the year round. Increasing engineering by prompted the Engineering to interest women College establish in has of the Burrell Women's Engineering Scholarships to be awarded to outstanding female candidates for admission to the college. The number of women enrolled in the college's freshman class has almost before Jan. 15. 1971 Dickason said, however, that persons interested in a Burrell scholarship may file application in his office at 223 Carpenter Hall until Feb. 15. 1971. Funds for the scholarships will be derived from income from an endowment given to the University in 1946 by Mrs Katherine W. Burrell in memory doubled in each of the past two of her husband Edward P. years. Seventeen freshman Burrell. Mrs. Burrell stipulated women were enrolled this fall. that funds from the endowment Donald G. Dickason, director of be used either for men or women engineering admissions and and the college has decided to student personnel, who is earmark the money for women chairman of the Engineering students. College Scholarship Committee, said the scholarships have been Turner Voices Commitmentestablished "in recognition of the large, but essentially untapped, NET GAIN — A net is dropped from the J G Needham, a floating laboratory, by Sandor P. Schuman to David Child, who is preparing to do some watery research. Paul J. Godfrey looks on as studies of pollution in Cayuga Lake get under way by the conservation department at the New York State College of Agriculture. contributions that young women can make to the engineering profession." "The scholarships also recognize," he said, "that never before have there been so many opportunities in so many areas of engineering practice for young women." At least two Burrell scholarships will be awarded each year to freshman engineering women. The value of each award will be based on calculated need and may range as high as $3,000 per year, and each award is renewable for the four years necessary to gain the baccalaureate degree. Dickason said. Candidates who demonstrate no financial need will receive an honorary award of $500 in the first year and $100 per year thereafter, he said Applications for financial aid at Cornell normally must be made Fund Thanks A message of thanks to all members of the Cornell University and Tompkins County communities who contributed to the Africana Commitment Fund was issued today by James E Turner, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center. "I know that official acknowledgements for gifts to the Africana Commitment Fund have already gone out." Turner said, "but now that the new term as started and we are getting settled in our permanent quarters, I want to express my thanks and that of the staff here at the Center." Turner said the spontaneous birth and growth of the fund established following the April fire which totally destroyed the Africana Center building at 320 Wait Avenue was "a significant event in a time of great trouble." "The fact that so many people, determine their growth and survival rate. The scars on the netted fish are examined to determine the number and severity of attacks by lampreys, a predatory fish. This information is used in lamprey-control programs The J. G. Needham even contributed to the success of a research program in Africa. Oglesby explained that Dr. Daniel Livingston from Duke University had designed devices for taking corings of the bottom from 300-foot depths, in preparation for taking samples from the floor of the Rift Valley Lakes in Africa. Rather than try out his plastic tubular devices in Africa, he decided first to test them on the Finger Lakes, which closely correspond in depth and water condition to the Rift Lakes. Print Sale Continues at White Both beginning art collectors and connoisseurs have the opportunity to expand their collections at reasonable prices during the annual "Prints for Purchase" exhibition now underway at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art. The sale will continue through December 13 More than 150 prints representing diverse styles and a wide range of media are on sale. A special feature is four Roualt etchings from the artist's "Miserere Suite." These prints, like several others in the sale, are duplicates from the Museum's own extensive collection of graphics Works by old masters such as Callot, Durer, Goya, Hogarth. Piranesi and Van Ostade are being offered. Contemporary artists represented include Anuszkiewicz. Colescott. Frasconi, Munakata, Tobey and D'Arcangelo. The works were chosen for their indivdual quality and value by Ruth Schlesinger, assistant curator of prints at the Museum. The sale is designed to encourage Museum visitors, particularly students, to build their collections, Thomas W. Leavitt. director of the Museum, said. The prints may be seen during regular Museum hours: daily except Monday from 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. both from the Cornell campus and from Tompkins County, took part was deeply appreciated." Turner said Straight Scoop Father Dan Berrigan — The Holy Outlaw' film Thursday. November 19, Memorial Room 8:30 p.m.. free admission. Alice in RalleyIand II — Cornell Sports Club rally, begins in "B" Lot, Friday. November 20. Registration. $2.50 per car. at 7 p.m. first car off at 8 p.m. Cornell Jazz Society presents The Doug Beardsley Trio, Friday. "We took him out on the Colleges Form ROTC GroupNeedham," Oglesby explained, November 20 in the Memorial Room from 8 to "and it's a good thing we did. He Cornell President Dale R. Washington. DC. last week. 11 p.m. free admission. discovered he couldn't use Corson has announced that the It is expected that the Table Tennis plastic pipes. If it weren't for the National Association of State NASULGC sub-committee on Tournament, Noyes Center Needham. he might have been Universities and Land Grant ROTC ' w i l l work w i t h third floor lounge. far into the African jungle before Colleges (NASULGC) has r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of the Saturday, November 2 1 , realizing the pipes wouldn't appointed a sub-committee of its Association of American 1:30 p.m. Fee — $ 1 . work " The J. G. Needham is also used as a classroom. With its 20student capacity, the Needham has housed classes in aquatic National Defense Manpower Committee to study ROTC. Corson said the committee had been appointed at the annual NASULGC meeting in Universities (AAU) which, at its meeting in late October, passed a resolution on ROTC. (A copy of the AAU resolution appeared in Cornell Chronicle for Nov. 5.) Art exhibit Images from the Past, Art Room, beginning Monday. November 23. 4 CORNELLCHRONICLE Thursday, The Senate Page The Senate Page is the official bulletin of the Cornell University Senate. Publication is supervised by Kay R. Hanna. Senate administrator. 211 Stimson Hall. 256-3715. Senate Agenda November 24 Meeting 1. Agenda approval. 2. Minutes. 3. Status of previous Senate recommendations. 4. Reports of standing committees: a. Executive Committee on a general time for adjournment. b. Committee on Committees with regard to freshman membership on committees. c. Military Training Committee reports with regard to retention of ROTC. d Minority and Disadvantaged Interests Committee, with regard to a change in the charge for the committee. e Nominations and Elections Committee with regard to February elections f. Bylaws Committee with regard to amendments to the bylaws. g. other < 5. Reports of Special Committee, a. Special I n v e s t i g a t o r y Committee report. 6. Old Business. 7 New Business. Senate Calendar Thursday, November 19th 4:30—Calendar Committee Meeting. NG5 Martha Van. 7:00 —Campus Life Committee Meeting. 4569 Dickson V- 7:30—Campus Planning Committee Meeting—Long Range Subcommittee in 248 Goldwin Smith; Watch Dog Subcommittee in 250 Goldwin Smith Friday. November 20th 4 0 0 to 6:00—Grad Senators and GCC Representatives. Open Meeting. Sage Coffee House. Tuesday. November 24th 3:30—Special Investigatory Committee on Employes, 211 Stimson. 4 30—Executive Committee Meeting. 211 Stimson. 7:00 — Committee on Committees Meeting. Malott. 7:30—Senate Meeting, Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall Trustee Search Subcommittee The Senate Constitution provides seats on the Board of Trustees for "persons from outside the University, to be elected for four year terms." Searching for candidates is a delicate diplomatic task that representatives from as many groups as possible should participate in. Provisions in the by-laws have limited the number of seats to be filled by nonsenators to four. Any member of the Cornell Community interested in serving as a voting member of the Trustee Search Subcommittee should apply at the Senate Office. 211 Stimson Hall by November 24. Senate Resolutions The following resolutions were passed by the University Senate at its meeting of November 10. 1970: / PUBLIC ORDER The Senate requests that the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees not make any changes in the Rules for the Maintenance of Public Order until the Senate has had an opportunity to consider such changes II. F.B.I. The Cornell Senate hereby condemns and urges all members of the Cornell Community, especially President Corson and the Board of Trustees, also to condemn the placing of F B I agents or informers on the Cornell campus for the purposes of investigating campus unrest in the absence of bombing, or otherwise to investigate the political views and activities of students, faculty or employes without the consent of the President of Cornell University and the Cornell University Senate /// ROTC Whereas, the University Senate Constitution provides in Article I. Sections 1, 4, and 7, that the University Senate shall "Have general responsibility for non-academic matters of campus life . .; "Have the right to obtain written and/or oral reports on matters within its area of concern from appropriate academic or administrative officers: "Examine current policies on any activities of the University which have important social or political implications and recommend those changes it deems necessary Such matters shall include military training and Whereas. the proposed introduction of Women's Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps to the campus is obviously a matter of general concern xo the University community, with important social and political implications, and thus a proper matter of concern to the Senate, be it. therefore RESOLVED. that the appropriate "academic or administrative officers be. and hereby are, required to submit to the Senate Military Training Committee complete written repoM : his proposal as expeditiously as possible: and be it further RESOLVED, that the appropriate academic or administrative officers be. and hereby are, required to report to the Senate Military Training Committee in a timely manner the details of any proposed substantive change in the status of military affairs on this campus: and be it further RESOLVED, that any decision as to the introduction of WAFROTC or any other major change in the status of military affairs on this campus, be postponed until such time as the University Senate, after having been properly informed by the appropriate academic or administrative officers, has the opportunity intelligently to consider and advise as to the action to be taken on any such proposed change. Senate ROTC Proposals The University Senate Military Training Committee declares itself unanimously opposed to Senate Sense-of-the-Body Resolution A-23 which calls for a termination of Cornell ROTC programs by June 1, 1971 We hold this position in that such a termination would require Cornell to break the terms of its ROTC contracts with the Federal Government which require a one academjc years notice of termination In the place'of A-23. we offer Resolutions I. II. Ill & IV (printed below) which we certify as being legally viable and clearly distinguishable alternative positions which the University Senate could take on ROTC. Regardless of our varying individual preferences, we urge the Senate to endorse one of these resolutions in order that the Senate may be on record with an affirmative statement regarding the future of ROTC at Cornell We endorse the Senate as being the appropriate body to recommend final University policy regarding ROTC and stand opposed to the use of a referendum or plebiscite for resolution of this issue in that the Senate is the duly elected representative body on this campus Texts of our reports on ROTC will be available at the Senate meeting of November 24th and will be published in the next issue of the Chronicle Jon Palewicz. Chairman University Senate Military Training Committee Recommendatory Resolution I (1) The Cornell University Senate recommends that the President of Cornell University immediately give the one academic year's notice required to terminate the contracts between Cornell University and AROTC. NROTC and AFROTC. (2) The Senate further recommends that present ROTC Cadets dependent for financial aid on the ROTC program be extended sufficient support by Cornell University to enable them to complete their undergraduate studies Recommendatory Resolution II Be It Resolved That The Cornell University Senate: Chronicle 1. Affirms its belief that maintenance of the land grant Chronicle Comment is a forum of opinion for stt status of the University is an to Arthur W. Brodeur. editor, Cornell Chronicle. 1 essential interest of the Editor: Senate would'a Community; On October 22 by a vote of 50 r e q u i r e d to' 2. Affirms that implementation to 42 the University Senate or acceptance of this resolution r e c o m m e n d e d t h a t t h e recess, had shall not be construed as an Administration permit a non- offered one. attempt to impair the right of the student to enter the campus after There is mu<7 Armed Services to organize, he had been forbidden to do so Senate to do in iS operate and administer as a result of his repeated extracurricular programs which violations of the rights of may involve Cornell students members of the Cornell of campus life. Ithat job insteadc about rejec'1 seeking commissions on or after Community Administration graduation; Whatever one's views may be recommendation 3. Recognizes the right of the as to the merits of this the legislative New York State Board of administrative judgment, it is Senate. important these views do not Regents, as delegated by the distort the role assigned in such P New York State Legislature, to be the sole judge of the means to be matters to the Senate by its Editor: employed and the amount of Constitution Article I. Sections 6 The frustrate training necessary to meet the and 7 of the Constitution broadly (Robert C.) Got' requirements of the Morrill Act. authorize the Senate to make Fei. (expressed * trie right of the State to make, ". . . recommendations on President (Dale P such judgment having been a matters it deems appropriate were published subject of a cited U.S. ' as well as to "Examine Cornell C h r o n i c Attorney General's ruling of current policies . . . and 1970. seems t o 1930 and the subsequent U S recommend changes . ." to the a conflict Supreme Court Opinion in Administration. Article VII of the knowledge that ie Hamilton vs. Regents. 293 U.S. Constitution, on the other hand, the President ^ 245 (1934); and- that it places the Division of Campus and their opinio^ therefore. Life " . under tho policy-making should have ri3( jurisdiction. ." of the Senate. 4. Recommends that the The resolution passed by the 50 existing and new courses and t o 4 2 v o t e w a s a programs in military studies and Recommendatory Resolution education within the University's under Title II, Section Three of its regular academic departments, Bylaws, namely " . action of including the Cornell Program in the Senate expressing the Peace Studies, be supported and recommendation of the Senate strengthened to provide a broad in policy areas over which the extra-legal waV* was really oblig3 Senate's advice then the Presid have authority have to do wh3'u have no author''1 I do not share1 base for such studies suitable to Senate through its Constitution grief, and desf an academic institution; has recommendatory power but Senators say P 5. Requests the President of not formal. Cornell University to inform the power." policy-making action plunged ' not impair the* • the Senate or|tU New York State Board of The Administration was no believe the Sen* Regents immediately of the more required to accept this to Cornell (that if> proposed plan to substitute an recommendation than the | Q n g a s |{ advis6sb academic program in military instruction for the current ROTC Programs, effective no later than the beginning of the 1972-73 academic year; and .of his intention on June 1, 1 9 7 1 , unless he has been informed by the New York State Board of Regents that such a change in programs would no longer meet the University's Morrill Act requirement to offer instruction in military tactics, to give the required one year notice needed to terminate Cornell University's present contracts with the three Armed Services; Recommendatory Resolution III Be It Resolved That: The Cornell University Senate affirms the desirability of a voluntary, commission-granting military training program on campus; and that 1) The Senate recognizes that the Reserve Officers Training Corps is the only available program which fulfills these requirements at the present time; and further that 2) The Senate encourages President Corson in his negotiations to develop more 6. Requests the President of Cornell University, in the absence of any ruling by the New York State Board of Regents to the effect that the proposed new academic program in military instruction would in any way jeopardize the University's landgrant status, to give on June 1. 1971. the required one academic year notice necessary to terminate Cornell University's present ROTC contracts with the three Armed Services, and further desirable programs along the lines of the AAU Resolution of November 1970 and urges the University Administration and Trustees to adopt such desirable programs expenditiously as they are developed Recommendatory Resolution IV Whereas the ROTC has been the largest single source of officers for the armed service, and has provided an effective mechanism for avoiding the development of an all-powerful military elite corps; and December •# 7 Requests the President of Cornell University in any acts taken to terminate or phase out the present ROTC programs, to do so in a manner that would not unduly prejudice the financial and academic rights and interests of the students enrolled in the Cornell ROTC programs as of May 3 1 . 197 1 Whereas the University Senate affirms the rights of students to take part in military training programs on this campus, as on many others throughout the United States; therefore Be It Resolved that the Cornell University Senate is opposed to the termination of ROTC Programs at Cornell January 4 *Open for I Cornell I.P 1970 CORNELL CHRONICLE 5 Barton Blotter omment Weekend Robberiesriaff. and employes. Comment may be addressed 'The Camp' Opens In Studio Series '.Ithaca. NY. 14850 In spite of Safety Division warnings, a large number of thefts and 'ave been matters where it cannot act. and acts of petty vandalism occurred while students, visitors and alumni A fascinating new play by a young Argentine playwright — The 'ccept a <"nst the late acts as best it can in matters were participating in the events of the Homecoming-Fall Weekend. .Camp by Griselda Gambaro — will be the Cornell University Theatre's where it has authority to act. I do In addition, two male non-students were apprehended and charged second Studio Series production of the season. Opening in ^inistration not agree with the notion that if with loitering on the campus during the last week the Senate cannot have all the —Three people, including two Drummond Studio in Lindoln Hall on Friday. November 27. performances will continue through Sunday. November 29. and for the power it won't realty have any — female visitors to the campus, —An engineering freshman !5signed area just as I do not think the office of had their wallets and some cash just discovered last Thursday Thursday through Saturday. December 3-5. of the following week. Curtain time is 8:1 5 p.m. L 9et on with the President is useless because stolen during fraternity parties that his 10-speed bicycle had dc°rnplaining the power of the Presiident is over the weekend. About $ 5 0 in been stolen from the entrance to Tickets for th\e play will go on public sale Thursday. November 19. following a three-day Season Ticket scrip exchange, in the University by the limited cash was stolen. Mary Donalon Hall sometime Theatre Box Office, lower floor of Willard Straight Hall. The box office a Senate ^ outside of the er Dean PssorofLaw