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VOL. 6 NO. 38
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Thursday, July 27, 1972 10c par copy
Burke Seeks Help
For
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke announced this
week that he has requested the
technical assistance of the
Nassau County Planning Com­mission
to develop and create a
•site plan for 65 acres of Plainview
property that will be developed in
a landfill-park program.
Burke said he made the request
of W. Kenneth Chave, Executive
Director of the Nassau County
Planning Commission, following
preliminary talks between
members of Burke's staff and
John W. Pollis, Deputy Director
of the planning commission.
"It is OUr Hi inking that all
landfills must be planned for
eventual conversion to park and
open space," Burke said. "The
time to do that is before-not
acter."
Two weeks ago Burke an­nounced
the: Town' Board's ; in­tention
to conduci
Supervisor said that "the old
version of a garbage dump would
not be the eventual disposition of
this choice property. "The most
modern and scientific techniques
will be utilized to turn this
property into valuable
recreational land," Burke said.
"I promised a textbook approach
to landfilling with inert material
into a planned park design and
we will use every technical
means available to us." ...
The Plainview landfill-park
site is a triangular-shaped parcel
located northwest of the in­tersection,
of Round Swamp
Road, and the Long Island Ex­pressway
. The site is bordered on
the south by the Expressway, on
the west by the former Shattuck
Estate property now. owned by
the County of Nassau for park
and on the east by the
in Plainview that will be
developed in a landfill-park
program.
At that time the Oyster Bay
officials,
set up a
toe
including David
Mafrici, Director of the Town's
Division of Environmental
Control.
GOP Heads For Miami
More than 100 Nassau
Republicans will leave Kennedy
Airport Sunday, August 20 at 10
a.m. aboard a United Airlines
Charter Flight headed for the
Republican National Convention
in Miami Beach, Fla.
With the Exception of
Assemblyman Joseph M.
Margiotta, who will leave for the
Convention one day earlier, all of'
Nassau's delegates and alter­nates
will be aboard the char­tered
plane. Of the 12 Nassau
delegates and alternates only,
four have ever served in either
capacity at .prior Republican
National Conventions. Six are
men, and of the six women one,
Mrs. Sinita Walker, is a Black.
The entire group will be staying
at the Key Biscayne Hotel in Key
Biscayne, Fla., just a 40-minute
ride from the Convention Hall.
Specially chartered buses will
transport the delegation to and
from the Convention.
Delegates representing local
districts include
3rd CD.
DELEGATE: Hon. Angelo D.
Roncallo of Massapequa, Nassau
County Comptroller, Republican
candidate for Congress in the 3rd
C J)., Chairman of the Oyster Bay
Town Republican Committee,'
State Republican Committeeman
from the nth Assembly District,
and first-time delegate to the
Republican National Con­vention:
He served as an
alternate in 1968.
ALTERNATE: Hon. Isabel
Dodd of Sea Cliff, first female
Oyster Bay Town Clerk,
Republican Executive Leader of
Sea Cliff, Secretary of the Nassau
County Republican Committee,
State Republican Com-uiittee.
woman from the 14th
Assembly District. She never
previously served as a delegate
or alternate to a Republican
National Convention.
4th CD.
DELEGATE: Hon. Norman F.
Lent of East Rockaway,
Congressman in the new 4th
District and Republican can­didate
for reelection, author of an
amendment to the U.S. Con­stitution
to ban the forced busing»
of students, and never previously
served as a delegate or alternate
to,a Republican National Con­vention.
DELEGATE: Penny D'Amatd
of Island Park, a college
graduate, member of the Island
Park Republican Club; wife of
Hempstead Town Supervisor
Alfonse D'Amato, the Republican
Executive Leader of Island Park,
and never previously served as a
delegate or alternate to a
Republican National Convention. •
ALTERNATE: Joan
O'Shaughnessy of Seaford,
treasurer of the Nassau County
Federation of Republican
Women; member of the Seaford
Republican Club; member of the
American Cancer Society; wife
of the Republican Executive
Leader of Seaford, John
O'Shaughnessy, and never
previously served as a delegate
or alternate to a Republican
National Convention.
ALTERNATE: Francine Mintz
of Freeport, a member of the
Freeport Republican Club,
former secretary and treasurer
of the Sisterhood of B'nai Israel,
Freeport, wife of the Republican
Executive Leader of Freeport,
Julie Mintz, and never previously
served as a delegate or alternate
to a Republican National Con­vention.
Hofstra Holds Tuition Line;
To Recruit 400 New Students
In an unusual approach toward
eliminating recurring annual
operating deficits, Hofstra
University's Board of Trustees
has voted to freeze un­dergraduate
tuition for the
coming semester at the 1971-72
level -$70 a credit hour.
The action was taken in
response to a plan developed by a
faculty-student-alumni group
which proposed that the
University realize necessary
additional income through the
recruitment of additional
qualified students rather than
raising tuition and facing a
probable loss of students.
- ^Fhe undergraduate tufttoir
freeze will be reviewed in the fall
after enrollment has been
completed. and stringent
operating economies developed
through a cost effectiveness,
program are in effect. Graduate
tuition, however, has been in­creased
effective September 1 by
$5 a credit hour, raising"it to $77.
"We feel it is important to
private universities to break the
tuition spiral," Dr. Robert
Davison, Professor of History
-aneVGhairmon of the University
Senate Executive Committee,
who is a member of the group,
stated. "We are pleased that
Hofstra's trustees share our
view, and that they have the
courage to take this risk."
Senior Thomas O'Grady,
Chairman of the University
Senate Planning Committee,
said, "We students would prefer
to see. the full capacity of Hof-'
stra's faculty and physical plant
used for the benefit of the
greatest number of qualified
students, rather than see it
become an exclusive institution."
Speaking for the Board of
Trustees, chairman Raymond
French explained, "Our budget
includes competitive salary
increments and a cost-of-living
adjustment for faculty and staff.
1972-73 expenditures will be
substantially the same whether
enrollment is as low as 6,000 full-time
undergraduates or as high
as 6,500 to 7,000. Since this is the
case, we prefer to try to balance
our budget by making an effort to
increase enrollment rather than
by increasing tuition.
"We are fully cognizant of the
risk we face of a greater deficit'
than the currently projected one
million dollars if the enrollment
increase is not achieved," he
continued.
_„!'Qiiviously^Jf.jMu:„jecriiitJng-campaign
fails, we may be forced
to raise tuition at a latter date.
However, we have great con­fidence
that with the combined
efforts and' enthusiasm of-"the.
faculty, staff, students ; and
alumni who have pledged an all-out
effort, Hbfstrifi Vnu. reach 'Ms.
- goal. They are confident that a
large pool of qualified students
exists in the metropolitan and
Long Island areas who will be
attracted to Hofstra by the
student's choice should be
available to him at a price he can
afford he concluded.
Board Vice Chairman James
Marshall, who will become
president of the University when T?
Dr. Lord assumes the office of
chancellor in September,
strongly supports the tuition
freeze as a constructive approach
to the increasingly difficult
.financial problems being ex­perienced
by practically all
educational institutions.
"American colleges have
responded to the challenge of
expanding both physical plant
arid teaching staff to meet jhe .'.
greatly increased heed of the past
two decades," Marshall said. "A
sharp decrease in the number of
college students obviously will . - . • . ''
reduce the need for experienced
faculty; inevitably, our nation
will suffer from this waste of
skilled teachers and extensive . »»:
physical riimui'nt'atflII^!WhqiJiy'*7_ZZ
should be educating everyone to
his highest potential."
Private colleges have found
quality of its programs and this |t£h ahta mr diedsdt .l eb-yi nicnocmreea sfeadm ciolisetss aarse
i f f l n f m S n j t to^oldtmtion at "'"' *mm taimaikul fui
the current level."
"Tuition increases are
reaching the point of being self-defeating,"
Hofstra President
Clifford Lord added. "Unless the
inflationary spiral is broken, the
future of American private
education is in danger, since well-to-
do families may soon be the
only ones able to afford a private
college. Thousands of potential
students , will then have been
deprived of a college education
simply because their families are
unable to "meet the rising cost.
Yet our American educational
college are often inadequate in
this period of inflation. With
incomes too small to supplement
savings, yet too large to qualify
their children for financial
assistance, they face a family
budgetary. crisis. Borrowing to
finance college saddles them with
long-term obligations, which they
understandably are reluctant to
'assume in a time of decreased job
opportunities and a soft economy.
Tuition is the major
educational expense for the
majority of Hofstra students,
since two-thirds of the full-time
students and all part-time
system has. long heenhased-on students awliving at home,
the principle that a quality eliminating travel costs and on-education
at a school of the campus living expenses.
Ornstein Article Assails
Local Government Mess
"Local Government is a Cem
Farce", written for the Saturday
Evening Post in 1967 by Franklin
H. Ornstein w*v, * he was Clerk of
Nassau County, has just been re­printed
in a new book, "America
in Crisis".
Published this summer, it is an
articulate symposium of the na­tion's
contemporary political
dilemnas set forth by a number of
prominent political anil intellec­tual
leaders. Evaluating
American institutions, the
problems of our cities, the en­vironment,
poverty, crime,
education, and other critical
subjects are articles by Nixon
and McGovern, John Kenneth
Galbraith, Thomas J. Watson,
Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Ramsey Clark, Max Lerner,
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and many
other public figures.
A lifetime resident of Long
Beach and vice president of
tral Federal Savings, Orn-stein's
article indicts local
government for the overlap of
geographic jurisdictions, legal
powers and revenue sources. "If
there is one underlying principle
in the labyrinth of American local
government," he says, "it is
confusion."
As a cure Ornstein proposes a
"Local Government Im­provement
Corporation
(LOGIC), perhaps financed by a
foundation and not beholden to
government or industry. LOGIC
would train people for careers in
local government and help
community leaders who seek to
modernize their government. We
must act now, with LOGIC,"
Mr. Ornstein concludes, "before
town hall becomes just another
Federal, agency."
A 455-page paperback,
"America in Crisis was com­piled
by Haymow! L. Lee and
Franklin H. Ornstein
Dorothy A. Palmer and published
by Winthrop Publishers, Inc.,
• Cambridge, Mass. This definitive
anthology on the many chal­lenges
confronting America
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