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m editorial ondaymondaymondaymondaymon I Rocking the boat From a senator’s point of view We find it mounding that a faculty which appears to be largely dissatisfied with the Administration of this University has accepted - without a whisper of discontent - timid, unimaginative and blatantly irresponsible leadership in its own Senate. The Faculty Senate Executive Committee has so far refused to constitute a standing committee on Administrative Evaluation for no reason other than an unwillingness to challenge the powers that be. The standing committee - which was approved 21 months ago to monitor the administrative process and place a faculty check on Cepen Hail - might have been instrumental in protecting the faculty's interests in recent crises such as the DUE Dean's role and the on-again, off-aoain Springer report. To the Editor: are ninety percent of the time victorious in the elections. Understand that presently an overwhelming minority of Executive Board of SA have previously worked for or have been associates to The Spectrum 1 believe that this is essentially the reason why the SA Executive Board and the editorial board of The Spectrum have been in accordance concerning the functioning of the Student Senate. In recent editions of The Spectrum, articles have been printed concerning the fuctioning of the Student Senate. Most of these articles have been of the editorial form while others have been written by persons on the Executive Board of the Student Association. I am addressing this article to the students in reference to The Spectrum and such Student Association Executive Board members who have acknowledged The Spectrum's position concerning the Senate. Being a Senator, I have analyzed the functioning of the meeting and have sorted out the root of the problem-plagued Senate, it is my belief that the Executive Board of SA disbelieves in Article II, Section 2 of the SA Constitution which reads “The Student Senate shall have the power to finalize all legislation initiated in the task forces and the Executive Committee. It shall have the ultimate authority over all the affairs of Student Association with the exception of the finalizing of the annual Student Association Budget.’ The Executive Board feels threatened by this section of the Constitution and they frequently work Collectively against the Senate and this creates most of the disharmony. What are checks and balances in student government for? As for students, we must take an active concern and participate in our student government. Viewing the functioning of the Student Senate is the only way to efficiently judge the functioning of your government. Senate Chairman Newton Carver's reluctance to constitute the committee has absolutely no legal basis. The committee has existed since the spring of 1977 and by now could have been a potent source of influence for the faculty in the key decisions made this year. Perhaps Executive Committee members feel that task it best left to themselves; but they have no legal standing to enforce that judgement and their performance this year has been overly cautious at a time when critical decisions are being made — and mismade — by a very few men. The Spectrum has been terribly unjust in trying to compare the Student Senate to a circus. A circus as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary of the English language means: a public entertainment consisting typically of a variety of performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals, while the Student Senate is a group of concerned students who are giving up their precious study time in order to try and alleviate the problems we students face at this university. It is very ironic that The Spectrum claims to be a “student newspaper” while it consistently slanderizes its readers by biased inadequate reporting. It is important for students to understand the relationship between The Spectrum and the majority of the members of the Executive Board of the Student Association. During the history of SA elections, there has been a coherent trend which stipulates that persons receiving endorsements from The Spectrum Now, there is something to be said for tact and delicacy in any infiltration of the power structure. But not everyone plays by the rules here. Carter Pannill has been neither tactful nor delicate as he pushes the Faculty Senate around on the DUE Dean dispute. We would think that pride alone would spur the formation of the Aoministrative Evaluation Committee. (Pride. There we go speaking the wrong language again.) Guy Git tens Black Student Union We are tired of hearing - and often printing - the cries of people who perpetually wait for someone else to lead them from misery. While everyone sits around, claiming to be \sensitive\ to each other’s needs, the University is spiraling into something close to chaos. In many ways, this University gets the leadership it deserves. The faculty is no exception. Those that will accept a \don't rock the boat” philosophy when the ship is already reeling deserve to drown in their discontent. • A dream deferred? To the Editor. It’s a shame; an issue like this should be settled naturally by the consensus of an aware university body. But it hasn’t and it probably won’t. And yet the detectors of trends wonder why this country has balkanized itself into states of special interest. It’s simply because where the general consciousness is feeble it is up to those who care about things like justice to get out and see that it is done. Last Monday, while this University rushed headlong into a new semester, the rest of this country paused a day to give recognition to Martin Luther King. Not that so much had to be done Monday; most of us spent it on lines and in 10 minute classes with our new professors. However by not participating in the nation-wide recognition of Dr. King this University’s action constituted a sign of disrespect to a giant of our times and a slight to what he stood for. A thorough look The calendar for next year is in the making. There will be a chance to rectify what should have been from the beginning: the proper recognition of Dr. King, ft is an opportunity not be missed by anyone committing himslef to Dr. King’s dream not remaining a dream deferred. Recognizing reality has become a popular theme these days. Division of Undergraduate Education Dean John Peradotto and Assistant Dean Walter Kunz have recognized the real problems students saw long ago in implementing the Springer report, and have conceeded that a (all 1979 target date is unreachable. ,, While we agree with that judgement and commend Peradotto and Kunz for reversing their plans, the fact remains that the Springer report has never been proven feasible for the fall of any yGir. Until it is (without students being used as logistical guinea pigs), the report should remain where Peradotto and Kunz are attempting to place it — on the shelf. .<, -j • The University claims that it only recognizes those holidays recognized by the state. But please don’t tell me that if the university community demanded that this token of respect be paid that it would not be granted. Ralph Allen exll&on We urge President Ketter to take the advice he it being offered and delay implementation indefinitely. Perhaps then an intelligent, thorough look at the credit/contact issue - up to now, neglected - can begin in earnest. The Spectrum by Jay Rosen same airport to leave the place. TheqQps a common uncommonality, and everyone sharSit. In the middle of a restaurant lobby, the manager tells a customer to drop dead. A street poet invents a verse on the spot and shoves an oily, ungloved hand out for money. A smartly uniformed chauffeur stands at attention beside a silver Mercedes-Benz like some personal palace guard. And, in the corner by the frosted window of a tiny cafe, the same soothing Steely Dan floats in the air while outside a soft, neoned chill hums in the narrow alleyways. What hits someone like me the hardest about ew York City is that no one thing hits me the hardest. Trng to typify the New York experience is an inviting, strangely seductive task, but one that is doomed - like the station wagon looking to park in midtown to circle the streets for hours on end running out of fuel.,So I am not foolish enough to tell anyone what 1 think New York is about; because it is not about anything - except itself. It is the city that thinks it’s a world and the visitor cannot know exactly why. 1 am usually a failure in my attempts to blend in. I will choose warmth over style when dressing for Broadway and slither a parka through shoulders of leather and fur. I will walk quickly and confidently down Sixth Avenue even cursing the man-hunting cab drivers sometimes, yet still find my neck creening up to gape at the shimmering towers of window and steel, like any little boy in the big city. One thing I can’t master is the wordless exchange between clerk and customer. I am always throwing in an unwanted Please or Thank-You and getting a stare in return. 1 have yet to offer my first expletive to an unfriendly employee. The Subway Stare is easy to fake, even if you do have to cheat every stop to make sure you don’t drift into Brooklyn or something. But I am too new to love New York, although 1 am certainly not as terrified of the place as 1 was watching Johnny Carson seven years ago. The city leaves me off guard too much to ever declare war on it, which is what New Yorkers are always prepared to do, if the trains are delayed or a psychopath is on the loose. Vol. 29, No. 50 Monday, 22 January 1979 Editor in Chief Jay Rosen Managing Editor Oenite Slumpo Business Manager Bill Pinkelstein Advertising Manager Jim Sarles Office Manager Hope Exmer Production Manager Andy Koenig Art Director Rebecca Bernstein News Editor Daniel S. Parker Backpage Campus . . . . Larry Motyka w. . . Elena Cacavas . Kathy McDonough Mark Meltzer Joel Dimarco . . . Marie Carrubba . . .Curtiss Cooper Kay Fiegl . . . Tom Buchanan . . Diane LaVallee . . . Harvey Shapiro Bob Basil , . . . John Glionna Layout National Photo Rob Roijnno . Rob Cohen Vacant City Composition Prodigal Sun Arts Musk . . „ Contributing Spacial feature Asst. Special Protects Sports Asst . Lester Zipns Joyce Howe . Tim Switala .Ross Chapman . ...Susan Gray Brad Bermudez ...... Vacant David Davidson . Paddy Guthrie Vacant But he can try. I look at the city as a slave to its streets. Everything else rises from tunnels beneath, circles around or otherwise owes its life to the streets This, of course, was not invented by New York but somehow the real sense of the city is taken from the crowded sidewalks and shoulder to shoulder comers of Manhattan. Because whatever K W 7.° rk “ ,s ,ess of indoors - There are crystal chandeliers and paint-chipped walls in all cities limes Square has no cousins. Contributing Which is why New Yorkers cannot comprehend people who hate their city. Although they themselves will curse, kick and spit at all the maddening and sickening sides of New York, to despise the whole is, for them, nonsensical. It is not the same mentality as The Bad Outweighs The Good argument all other city-defenders give you. For the seamy, sometimes frightening scenes in the New York city drama give New Yorkers’ arrogance its razor edge. That these people could folerate, and in the shadows of their minds somehow relish living among the horrors of New York city, is the beguiling glaze on New York pride that sets it apart from Other civic affections arid makes Manhattan’s magnificence that much more entrancing. Or so it seems to me, from Buffalo. Feature Asst. The Spectrum is served by College Press Service. Field Newspaper. Syndicate, Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Collegiate Headlines Service and* Pacific News Service. The Spectrum is represented for national advertising by Communkations and Advertising Services to Students, Inc Circulation average: 15,000 x What goes on in the streets becomes a curious metaphor, for New Yorkers themselves: rude frazzted, in a hurry, each with a different source and different destination and everyone waiting f or someone to get out of the way. The people just move a little slower than the cars and buses. Since New York is about itself. New Yorkers New Yorkers existe \« « New Yorkers. They don t even root for the same sports teams, eat the same junk food, or use the The Spectrum offices are located in 355 Squire Hall. State University of New York at Buffalo. 3435 Mam Street. Buffalo. New York 14214. Telephone (716) 831-5455, editorial. (7161 831-5410, business Copyright 1979 Buffalo, N.Y. The Spectrum Student Periodical, Inc. Editorial policy is determined by the Editor in Chrel. 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