The_Rambler_1963-01-02

              PARMINGDALK, LONG BLAND
NEW YORK
STATi: UNiVciioh V
COLLESE OR
RARMIMQDALC, NY 117:
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Vol. 1 No. 1 S I A I E I H R V B S I I Y AGMCULHIRAL A N D TECHNICAL INSIITUTE AT FARIMINGDAIE JANUARY 2, 1963
STUDENT GOV'T REORGANIZED
YAF Forming W.A.T.l. DJ
The formation of a chapter of
the Young A mericans for Freedom.
(YAF), on the campus of SUATI is
being undertaken by two energetic
E.T. frosh. G.J. Gerard and Jos-eph
C. Zamitz.
An organization which presents
the conservative viewpoint, the
YAF is a national body, with camt-pus
chapters on nearly aU uni-versities
and colleges in the 50
states.
The principles of Young Ameri-cans
for Freedom state that "...
...if one agrees that world peace
can not be won by cowardice, but
by strength.Mif one is alert to
the Communist meance, within and
without.....if one is aware diat
Keynesian economics and a
government welfare state can de-stroy
all Incentive and, with it,
oiq;)ortunity.....if one is willing to
work and fight and build for his
country, his liberty, his fiiture.....
then he belongs in Young
Americans for Freedonu"
Individual chapters of the YAF
have ^ n s o r e d on tbeir local cam-puses,
lectures, where such
eminent personalities such as
Barry Goldwater, United States
Senator from Ari2»qa, William F.
Buckley Jr., editor of National Re-view
magazine, and iMr. Kohler,.
noted industrialist have spoken,
giving their views on current i s -
sues effecting the general populace
of the United States.
Breaks Record
Joe Fiigon, E.T, frosh, currently
on the announc^ staff of campus
radio station W.A.TJ., has broken
a record once held by JoeD'Agos-tino;
that of staying (m tiie air
(and awake) for a continuous 48
hours, ifi^reas die old record was
one of 40 hours duratikm.
Interviewed during the 40dihour
of his maradioo, Mr. Fligmistated
that up to that dme he had coo-sumed
5 cokes, 3 canons of milk,
2 egg salad sandwiches, i / 2 roast
beef sandwidi, i bag potato chips,
2 bowls of cereal, i hard roll and
2 caufy bars.
The objective behind Mr. Fii-gon's
feat was to raise mcwey in
sivport of dieClrcle iCs drive to
a d ^ a famiiy for C3iristmas. A
total of eight dollars wascollecced
for diis worthwhile cause thru
the eEfoits of Joe FUgon and the
staff at W.A.TJ.bi addition. Circle
K realized a total collection of
approximately eighty dollars,
gotten from contributions by
students, faculty and admini-stratlmi
of SUATI, for sifiport
of their adopted family.
Assemblies
Or Classes ?
An issue presently before the
Assembly Committed (a minor
committee of Student Council,
composed of 4 faculty and 4 student
members), is that of non-compul-sory
assemblies: whether or not
these assemblies should be elimin-ated
from the student programs.
The primary factor behind this
move would be the consistenlly
poor attendance at these non-com-pulsory
assemblies.
If these assemblies are elimin-ated,
the Assembly Committee will
move to have these time periods
utilized for curriculum classes,
laboratory periods or lectures.
BBC Approves
Posters
The Bulletfai Board Committee
(BBC) of die institute CoincU of
Clubs (iCC) has hadltsregulatians
regarding posters approved by bodi
the administratian and ICC. The
BBC now has audunrity to approve
posting by all student orga^a-tions.
The members the BBC
will apiMTOve and post ra die main
bulletin boards, posters left in die
poster box located on die second
floor of die Recreation building.
Ray Tompkins
a senior study-ing
Mechanical
Power Technol-ogy
has assumed
the duties (tf Ed-itor
in Chief of
die RAMBLER.
FROSH OFFICERS ELECTED
Friday 21 December 1962, at the Field House, elections for the
1964 Class Officers took place..
After a brief introductory speech by a Senior Class Officer, who
listed the various activities each nominee has engaged in. each
Freshman nominee rose and gave a two-minute speech stating his
views and future policies. After the fourteen nominees had spoken
the Freshman present were asked to elect eight of the nominees to
represent their class. The results of the secret ballot were
determined by the simple plurality rule. The tabulation of the re-turns
showed it was a close election.
The 1964 Class Officers are:
GERRY BARRY, CA
BOB BROWN, ET
SHERRY GASSNER.SA
JIM FARRELL, AG
BOB MARK, AG
JACK OSBORNE, MT
JEAN ROMBACK, OH
BOB MC DOWELL. OH
IDC Made Student Council Committee
ICC Rights Guaranteed
Minor Committees Consolidated
At 8:50 p.nu, 17 December 1962, at the weekly meeting of Student Council, Mr. Burns, Parliamentarian,
and Chairman of die Constitution Committee gave his report which became the most interesting topic -
of the meeting.
ICC RIGHTS
The report consisted of three parts: the first regarding the status of Institute Council of Clubs, (ICC).
A vote was taken which approved a motion to make ICC a major standing committee of the Student Council,
widi provisions made that KC would elect its own officers and would conduct its business as stated in
die KX constitution.
Part two of Mr. Burns report regarded the status of Mhior Standing Committees of Student Council.
Again a vote was taken and was passed to approve action which wUl merge some of these smaller com-mittees
into larger more efficient ones, and also to delete odiers, thereby reducing the number of minor
comminees from 17 to 11.
IDC IS INCORPORATED INTO S.C
The diird part of die Cppstitutkm Committee's report and that v^ich caused considerable feeling
to develop among members of die floor Consisted of a motion to establish Inter-Dormitory Council (IDC),
as a major standing committee of Studoit Council with equal rights as dwse given to KC.
ID opening discussion on this motion, Mr. Burns explained that IDC should become^a part of the wholtb
student bo<ty and diis move would benefit student government at SUATI. Mr. Burns dien yielded the floor
to Mr. Mears, President of KC, who stated that this liwve would help bring the governi^ organizations
on campus into one-so as to make one efficient student government. The floor was then yielded by Mr.
Mears to Mr. Gaciala, ex-President of Student Council. Mr. Gaciala brought out the point that last year,:
IDC had passed a motion requesting diat it receive the same position on campus diat ICC then had. Mr.
Gaciala also expressed tl» fear that the IDC was becoming an administration run organization where
students had little to say hi its affairs. Mr. Gaciala yielded the floor to Mr. D^Agostino, Vice President
of Student CounciL
Mr. D^Agostino immediately moved die previous question, which if passed would stop further discussion
of die primary motion. At this point in the meeting, many audible moans were heard from die floor.
• Mr. Ridcenback objected to die way parliamentary procedure was being followed. The chair ruled him
out of order due to no grounds for objection, whereupon Mr. Rickenbadc again objected . .on moral
grounds if no other grounds are available. . .'*. Mr. Rickenback was still ruled out of order. Mr. Kisla
and Mr. Gilray also objected to the chair but they too were ruled out of order and the vote proceeded.
A voice vote was attempted but was declared as a of the house", whence a hand vote was
initiated but was stopped by Mr. Mears who requestied't^'dit a rpU caU vote be Instituted. The mot^^^
to move the previous question was defeated and discussion resumed.
Mr. Rickenback was granted the floor, whereupon after many personal objections against his attempts
to slander various members of the Student CouncU he yielded the floor to Mr. Kisla. Mr. Kisla took the
floor and presented his views against the motion, afterwards yielding the floor to Mr. Gilray, President
of DDC. Mr. Gilray had hardly spoken for a minute, when Mr. Kogok, holder of the chair took the floor
away from Mr. Gilray by invoking a parliamentary procedure of limiting speakers to lO minutes of dis-cussion,
and since Mr. Rickenback, Mr. Kisla and Mr. Gilray were considered as one speaker their ten
minutes had elapsed. Because of the very strong feelings over this act and of the motion at hand, many
challenges and counter-challenges were made by both sides.
Mr. Kogok, had to admonish the whole floor for uncalled for out of order remarks. Mr. Griffiths, a
faculty advisor to the Student Council also took the floor to comment that there appeared to be too much
humor at the expense of one group by another and he wished that the meeting would proceed in a more
orderly fashion. He also stated that he would like to confer with the executive board after the meeting
about the way the meeting was being run.
Mr. Kisla was then recognized and given the floor, where he continued his arguments, and he countered.
Mr. Gaciala's statement about 11X3 wanting the san^ status as the ICC by pointing out that the status of
die ICC had xhanged- and that it could not logically be assumed that IDC still wanted the same stams.
Mr. Gilray was also re-recognized, and he expressed his general disapproval of the motion by pointing
out diat dorm students pay eight dollars a year into a fund which is administered by the IDC for their
use. Mr. Gilray posed the question, "What and how can this money be handled if ODC is a committee
under Student Council?" Upon Mr. Gilray's closing remarks, Mr. Rabin was recognized and commented
that «> compare IDC with ICC was very stupid.
Mr. Jones rose and asked a point of information, asking if IIX] is to be considered equivalent to Com-muter's
Council, a standing committee of Student Council. In answer to Mr. Jones question, Mr. Kogok
replied that it was not.
Mr. Gaciala took to the floor again to point out that the Student Council will not destroy the IDC but
that a stronger centralized student goveroment will be set up to handle the complex problems of the new
Tri-Semester Systenu To support his contention that the IDC was behig run by the administration and
not by the students, Mr. Gaciala referred to the latest issue of the HUE & CRY which ran an article about
the Dining Hall Committee, (part of IDC), supposedly signed by an administratkin official and not by a
student. It was also pointed out that business of the IDC will not have to come before die Student Council
for a vote.
Dia«nission soon ended after Mr. Gaciala's final remarks, and the motkin was pUt to a vote. The result,
to make IE)C a major standing committee of the Student Council was passed by a small margin, after
nearly an hour of heated discussion.
REPRESENTATION COMMITTEE TRIES TO TAKE ACTION
Other business of the Student Council conducted at this meeting, and which had transpired earlier
was a report by the Representation Committee which reported on the absences of certain representatives
(ComHmned om page 2)