June 1970 Cornell Alumni News **'':': 1 SPECIAL REDUCED RATES FOR CORNELL ALUMNI SIXTH ANNUAL TOUR PROGRAM-1970 This unique program of tours is offered MUM; the marble city of EPHESUS; the to alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, ruins of SAUDIS in Lydia, where the royal M.I.T., Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, mint of the wealthy Croesus has recently and the Univ. of Pennsylvania and their been unearthed; as well as CORINTH, EPIDAUROS, IZMIR (Smyrna) the BOS- families. The tours are based on special re- PORUS and DARDENELLES. The cruise duced air fares which offer savings of hun- through the beautiful waters of the Ae- dreds of dollars on air travel. The tour to gean will visit such famous islands as India, for example, is based on a special CRETE with the Palace of Knossos; fare, available only to groups and only in RHODES, noted for its great Crusader conjunction with a tour, which is almost castles; the windmills of picturesque MY- THE ORIENT $400 less than the regular air fare. Special KONOS; the sacred island of DELOS; rates have also been obtained from hotels 30 DAYS $1649 and the charming islands of PATMOS and HYDRA. Total cost is $1299 from and sightseeing companies. Air travel is on regularly scheduled jet flights of major air- 1970 will mark the sixth consecutive New York. Departures in April, May, lines. yoeffaerr s otfh oep terruaeti ohnig fholrig thhtiss ofifn eth teo uOr,r iewnhti caht J1u9l7y0,. August, September and October, The tour program covers four areas a sensible and realistic pace. As a special where those who might otherwise prefer attraction, spring and summer departures to travel independently will find it advan- will include a visit to the "EXPO 70" tageous to travel with a group. The itiner- World's Fair in Osaka. Twelve days EAST AFRICA aries have been carefully constructed to will be spent in JAPAN, divided be- combine the freedom of individual travel tween TOKYO, the FUJI-HAKONE NA- 21 DAYS $1649 with the convenience and saving of group TIONAL PARK, and the ancient "classi- cal" city of KYOTO, with excursions to A luxury "safari" to the great national travel. There is an avoidance of regimen- NARA and NIKKO. A further highlight parks and game reserves of Uganda, tation and an emphasis on leisure time, will be a comprehensive visit to the fa- Kenya and Tanzania. These offer a unique while a comprehensive program of sight- mous ruins of ANGKOR WAT in Cam- combination of magnificent wildlife and seeing ensures a visit to all major points bodia, together with visits of 4 to 5 days breathtaking natural scenery: a launch trip cf interest. Hotel reservations are made as in BANGKOK and HONG KONG and a on the White Nile through hippo and croc- much as a year and a half in advance to shorter visit to SINGAPORE. Optional odile to the base of the thundering Mur- ensure the finest in accommodations. pre and post tour stops may be made in chison Falls and great herds of elephant in HONOLULU and the WEST COAST at MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL no additional air fare. A complete pro- PARK; multitudes of lion and other plains gram of sightseeing will include all major game in the famous SERENGETI points of interest. Features range from a PLAINS and the MASAI-MARA RE- INDIA-NEPAL tour of the canals and floating markets of SERVE; the spectacular concentration of Bangkok and an authentic Javanese animal life in the NGORONGORO CRA- 28 DAYS $1699 "RijsttafeΓ dinner in Singapore to a TER; tree-climbing lions around the launch tour of Hong Kong Harbor at shores of LAKE MANYARA; and the AM- An unusual opportunity to see the di- sunset and a trip on the ultra-modern BOSELI RESERVE, where all types of verse and fascinating subcontinent of 125 mph express trains of Japan. Most big game can be photographed against the India, together with the once-forbidden tour dates include outstanding seasonal towering backdrop of snow-clad Mt. Kili- mountain kingdom of Nepal. Here is India attractions in Japan, such as the spring manjaro. Air travel is used where possible, from the mighty Himalayas to the palm- cherry blossoms and beautiful autumn enabling longer stays within the parks. fringed Bay of Bengal: the great seaport leaves and some of the greatest annual Also seen are the fascinating capital of BOMBAY; the magnificent cave tem- festivals in the Far East. Total cost is cities of NAIROBI and KAMPALA, the ples of AJANTA and ELLORA, whose $1649 from California, $1828 from Chi- exotic "spice island" of ZANZIBAR, and cago, $1899 from New York. Special rates the historic MOMBASA, a beach resort on thousand year old frescoes are among the from other cities. Departures in March, the Indian Ocean, with its colorful Arab outstanding achievements of Indian art; April, June, July, September and October, quarter and great 16th century Portuguese the unique "lake city" of UDAIPUR; the 1970. fort. Tour dates have been chosen for dry walled "pink city" of JAIPUR, with an seasons, when game viewing is at its best. elephant ride at Amber Fort; AGRA, with The altitude of most areas provides an un- the Taj Mahal and other celebrated monu- usually stimulating climate, with bright ments of the Moghul period such as the AEGEAN ADVENTURE days and crisp evenings (frequently Agra Fort and the fabulous deserted city around a campfire). Accommodations of Fatehpur Sikri; the famed carved tem- 21 DAYS $1299 range from luxury hotels in modern cities ples of KHAJURAHO; the holy city of to surprisingly comfortable lodges in the BANARAS on the sacred river Ganges; the This original itinerary explores in depth national parks (some equipped even with industrial city of CALCUTTA; a thrilling the magnificent scenic, cultural and his- swimming pools). Total cost from New flight into the Himalayas to KATH- toric attractions of Greece, the Aegean, York is $1649. Departures in July, August, MANDU, capital of NEPAL, where an- and Asia Minor—not only the major cities September and December, 1970. cient palaces and temples abound in a land but also the less accessible sites of ancient still relatively untouched by western civili- cities which have figured so prominently in the history of western civilization, com- zation; an exciting two day game viewing Rates include Jet Air, Deluxe Hotels, plemented by a luxurious cruise to the excursion to world-famous TIGER TOPS beautiful islands of the Aegean Sea. Meals, Sightseeing, Transfers, Tips in the Himalayan jungle of Nepal; the Rarely has such an exciting collection of and Taxes. Individual brochures on great Indian capital of NEW DELHI; names and places been assembled in a each tour are available. and the fabled beauty of the VALE OF single itinerary—the classical city of KASHMIR amid the snow-clad Hima- ATHENS; the Byzantine and Ottoman layas. Accommodations of unusual interest splendor of ISTANBUL; the site of the include hotels that once were palaces of oracle at DELPHI; the sanctuary and sta- For Full ALUMNI FLIGHTS ABROAD Maharajas and luxurious houseboats on dium at OLYMPIA, where the Olympic Dal Lake in Kashmir. Total cost is $1699 Games were first begun; the palace of Details 145 East 49th Street, Dept. A from New York. Departures in February, Agamemnon at MYCENAE; the ruins of Contact: New York, N.Y. 10017 August and October, 1970. ancient TROY; the citadel of PERGA- TheMαrkofαMαn. GENTLEMAN'S C O L O GN A Gentleman's Cologne 4 oz. 5.00, 8 oz. 8.00, Spray Cologne 5.00, After Shave Lotion 4 oz. 3.50, 8 oz. 6.00. © 1969 Chanel, Inc., 1 West 57th Street, New York "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust" —Oliver Wendell Holmes Excellent advice. 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Second-class postage • Racism replaced war a year or two Black Liberation Front leaders, and paid at Ithaca, N.Y., and at additional ago as the most undebated subject on the others associated with the Africana cen- mailing offices. Printed by Hildreth Press, campus. ter. Negro students were under great Inc., Bristol, Conn. All publication rights reserved. ©1970, Cornell Alumni Assn. There's nothing very healthy about pressure to be black. BLF tried to get a Postal Form 3579 should be sent to Cornell this. If not debated, the merit of an idea Negro assistant dean fired who was not Alumni News, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, is never fully tested. Its support tends to sympathetic to their approach, and to get N.Y. 14850. come from the gut rather than the head. control over all black admissions. They Member, American Alumni Council. Ad- vertising representative, Ivy League And opponents, to the extent there are also sought the right to approve Negroes Alumni Magazines, 50 E. 42nd St., New any, get frustrated. joining the faculty. York, N.Y.; (212) 986-6210. The one-sidedness began to go out of The next evidence of resistance to the Publications Committee: John E. Slater '43, chairman; Clifford S. Bailey Ί8, Ar- the blackness question this spring. Ex- predominant position came in a petition thur H. Kesten '44, and Richard T. Clig- cept for an occasional student's letter to presented to President Corson on April gott '53. Officers of the Cornell Alumni the Cornell Daily Sun, the last several 17 that asked for some action against Assn.: Bruce W. Hackstaff '31, Hunting- ton, N.Y., president; Frank R. Clifford years had seen little public criticism of vandalism. At that point the major recent '50, Ithaca, N.Y., secretary-treasurer. the emerging black studies program at vandalism had been by black students. Editor: John Marcham '50. Associate edi- Cornell or of the rapid rise in admission Some 335 university employes signed tor: Mrs. Barbara Parker. of black students. the petition, from four of Agriculture's General Manager: Charles S. Williams '44. The change in attitude began after the academic buildings and from Day Hall. Editorial and business offices at Alumni House, 626 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N.Y. university granted a number of demands The petition read: 14850. (607) 256-4121. in the wake of the Africana center fire, We want to know when some positive and more particularly in the wake of action will be taken against the individuals looting and damage to the campus store and groups responsible for the lawlessness June 1970 and a rampage of window breaking on and destruction now going on at Cornell University. Volume 72, Number 11 campus one night by blacks. Black staff As employes working under the pressures and faculty defended and explained black and tensions now on campus, we have action in a statement (reproduced in this begun to feel unsafe in pursuing our daily Features issue on page 28). jobs. We not only see nothing being done Alumni trustees report 12 All through the year, the university's to stem the flow of lawlessness that is rampant on campus but we are also wit- Problems and the med dean 15 newly and heavily funded campus com- ness in a large degree to preposterous de- 'America Is Hard to Find' 19 munications program had been publish- mands being met by the administration. Confrontation now! 27 ing long reports and explanations of the We take issue with the extravagant pro- black studies and black admissions pro- tection afforded by the university to one Blacks explain incidents 28 small group on campus, thereby leaving the grams as viewed by the blacks who are majority of us vulnerable. This, in our in charge of them. Cornell also reported judgment, is not only discriminatory but Departments a blistering attack on the white com- demoralizing. Editorial 3 Bob Kane 32 munity by Prof. James Turner, director When there is a bomb threat to a build- Letters 8 The Teams 33 of the Africana Center, after the center ing we insist upon evacuating immediately Footnotes 13 At deadline 35 was destroyed by fire April 1. upon knowledge of such a threat. Undergrad 26 Class notes 36 The first statement that began to even The third indication of a turning of US campuses 29 Alumni up the one-sided nature of the propa- the tide came in a response to the letter University 30 deaths 71 ganda barrage on behalf of black studies from black faculty and staff that ap- and admissions was an almost inadvert- peared to seek to justify black vandalism Cover ent one. In a careful report on the Cor- on campus. Grotesque figure is carried in Barton nell programs, a Life reporter suggested Writing in the Cornell Chronicle April Hall tableau during "America Is Hard President Corson may favor two paths in 24, Prof. Peter Hilton, mathematics, to Find" weekend honoring Father the education of black students: "One said, " . .. The circumstances do not, I Dan Berrigan. Figure was part of a performance by the Bread and Pup- for black students who want to go into submit, warrant the dismissal of these pet Theater. Story begins on page 19. the traditional curriculum, as many still acts of vandalism as essentially trivial in —Richard Shulman '71, do, and 'another stream' for those who nature, however great our sympathy for Cornell Daily Sun. want to concentrate on black studies." black members of the Cornell commu- Until that report in the April 17 issue nity in their grievous loss." of Life, there had been little indication Professor Hilton also wrote, "... 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Others say there President, Rockford College are only a handful of people who do not If only one side of a public issue is presented, and if it is hammered go along with what the black separatist home daily by committed partisans, eventually the public will accept leaders demand. Others cite fear of be- that view, even if it runs counter to lifelong assumptions and contra- ing branded a "racist." dicts deeply-held commitments. I want to register with you a concern I know unanimity is not the reason. that the private enterprise system, and the conditions which sustain Separatist black leaders say they are it, have been the subject of the same kind of persistent, pervasive shocked to hear there are whites who be- attack. They have been interpreted with an almost unrelieved hostility, lieve blacks might have burned the Afri- sometimes veiled and sometimes candid, by the opinion-making forces cana center. The number is greater than in this country. And this is particularly true of that section of the blacks realize. Immediately after the opinion-making body which is American education. For years and Africana fire I was with a fairly large years, much of the academic and intellectual community has been and diverse group of campus faculty and condescending about, suspicious of, or even directly hostile to the private enterprise system. staff and found they all thought the fire had been arson, as Professor Turner in- There has been a widespread assumption among college personnel dicated to a radio reporter almost im- that whoever makes his living by the profit motive is inherently self- mediately after the fire. But three of ish and unconcerned about the well-being of other people. There every four I questioned were convinced has been the supposition that the employer and the stockholder are the arsonist was black; they saw it as the enemies of the people because it is in their interest to keep wages part of a scheme to get sympathy or of as low as possible. There has been the corollary supposition that the a grudge that might have grown out of only way to deal with the capitalist is to force him to act in an en- lightened fashion, the force taking the form of strikes, or more often, infighting similar to that which is credited government intervention, and regulation. The thought is that capi- with playing a part in the events leading talism has produced certain good things, but the capitalist, driven up to black occupation of Willard only by the profit motive, will not be an adequate citizen unless he Straight Hall a year ago. is forced to be. These are ugly thoughts, just as the thought of a white arsonist is an ugly Before I go any further, let me observe that the businessman and one. But they are all present in a com- the academician are fundamentally and devastatingly isolated from each other. The businessman has only limited contacts with the aca- munity that has found it difficult to talk demic community. . . . frankly in public about what's on its mind regarding black-white relations. It is usually the people in the liberal arts who make the big de- cisions inside the institutions of higher education. That is true of • One real casualty in the tensions the big universities as well as the small colleges. It is the people in surrounding the black programs at Cor- philosophy and history and political science and speech and educa- nell has been the spirit and loyalty of tion and sociology and the languages who generally determine the attitudinal atmosphere of the campus. Furthermore, it is the graduates some admissions workers. A frequently of these departments who become the next generation of opinion- heard statement is that blacks are taking makers—the poets, the people who write articles for Look, Life, the the place of better qualified whites. Atlantic and Time, the people who become the newspaper columnists Cornell's drive to admit more black and the radio and television news analysts. And it is in the liberal students began with the entering class of arts that the antagonism to private enterprise runs the deepest. the fall of 1964. Before that, black en- # •* # # rollment was negligible. Last fall, 1969, black undergraduate enrollment was put Readers wishing additional information regarding this Committee at 300. and its objectives should write us. Going back to the last pre-1964 fig- Executive Committee ures, one finds Cornell enrolled 8,983 Caesar A. Grasselli, II Mario Lazo undergraduates in the fall of 1963. In Seth W. Heartfield J. D. Tuller the fall of 1969, the figure had risen to William H. Hill J. Carlton Ward, Jr. 10,042. In the time when Cornell was admitting 300 added black undergrad- c —\ uates, it was admitting 1,059 added un- dergraduates of all colors. So, en masse, COMMITTEE Λ blacks were not displacing whites. There L. _l_ *-"*-•• \ were more blacks and more whites. , rγ\ The one college in which there is a for chance black might be displacing white BALANCED EDUCATION is Arts & Sciences. In Arts, total under- graduate enrollment has risen by about 10 EAST 49 STREET, NEW YORK NEW YOB* 10017 .X I 180 students in six years (3,028 to June 1970 3,207). More than half the new black • This is a good month to catch up Tanqueray Gin students at the university are in Arts & on a number of random inquiries and Sciences, so the best guess of university points raised by readers, good because Conversation administrators is that in Arts the number the university seemed to be momentarily of whites has neither increased nor de- between crises and big issues. Item 1 is creased. The change in enrollment has a letter from good friend John H. Det- Pitcher: been entirely in black students, an in- mold '43 who came across some writing crease of 180. about Cornell that reminded him Cornell $3.95 Why are alumni complaining? For one had its origin in the Morrill Act (land reason, an alumnus recruiter works in grant) and that the land grant's purpose only a few secondary schools. It is en- was to provide a college that taught tirely possible in a given year that the "agriculture and the mechanic arts" "and number of white students admitted to including military tactics." "I had never the Arts college may go down at the realized," he wrote, "that military tactics same time black students are admitted (ROTC) are specifically included in the with College Boards or class ranks that Morrill Act. Surely this has some legal are inferior. The university says, frankly, bearing on the present widespread trend that it has accepted a commitment to among universities to throw ROTC out educate blacks whose records may be the window. Can we, legally?" poorer than the whites it admits. It feels The answer, as to so many questions, this is a commitment on top of its regu- is: Nobody really knows. Apparently, lar one to nonblack students. legally, a university can drop ROTC. There are other arguments, many of Schools have, but they are not land- them, about how well test scores are in- granted institutions, so there is no clear dicators of the "college worth" of blacks indication of what would happen if and whites, whether students with cul- Cornell did. tural handicaps adversely affect the edu- The only way anyone will know the cation of those without, etcetera, etcetera. consequences for Cornell will be if the We dealt with quite a number of those university decides to do away with questions in these pages earlier this ROTC completely. Then we can all stand school year. For now, the above statistics back and see what happens. The Cornell are intended solely to deal with the nu- Chronicle carried a longish speculation This pitcher, previously un- merical question of whether blacks are by two administrators about "what it available to the general public, has displacing whites. The evidence at hand means to be the land-grant college of been known to start conversations. through this year suggests they are not. the state and what would the university And breaking the conversa- lose if it gave up or lost its land-grant tional ice at any home gathering is often all that's needed to assure its • One of the best expressions of the status. The funds the university receives success. new style of campus anti-reason is an as a land-grant institution are substantial Now you may own a Tanqueray article we reproduce on page 27 of this but it is impossible to state how many of Gin Conversation Pitcher. For issue. It is written by an undergraduate these funds would be taken away from only $3.95. woman and argues that confrontation, not the university if it were no longer the Of course, you can use it to compromise, is the only honest way to land-grant institution, or if it were re- pour water. We urge that you use "settle" differences. She speaks for many quired to share this designation with it to mix, and pour, Tanqueray students. We do find a certain message in some other university in the state." Martinis. (Fashioned of fired clay, her decision not to allow her name to be They then went on to explain how the Tanqueray Gin Conversation used with the article (originally she had). some funds come because of the status, Pitcher keeps its cool. And the chill of your Tanqueray Martinis.) She fears reaction from her parents. Uni- some colleges are already located at Cor- versity campuses are nice places to prac- nell because of the status; certain other To order, use the coupon below. tice confrontation politics because they functions (Extension and agricultural Γ~ " " i are so pleasantly immune from the nor- experiment stations) are Cornell's as a Tanqueray Pitchers, Box 302 Palisades Park, New Jersey 07650 mal reprisals of life. result. If funds were withdrawn, so too Please send me_ Tanqueray would the functions, and the university (quantity) • Photo credits for the seven-page would theoretically not be out of pocket. Conversation Pitchers, $3.95 each, for which I have enclosed a check made out section on the political events of the But the configuration of programs, staff, to 'Tanqueray Pitchers." I understand early spring—credits read from top left buildings, students, and everything else that you will pay the postage. New Jersey residents: please add 5% sales tax. to right, followed by bottom left to right: at a public-private school of Cornell's Page 19: Richard Shulman '71, Cor- unique nature are so interrelated no one My name- nell Daily Sun; Sol Goldberg '46, Cornell could tell in advance. 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Arts & letters fac- of the anti-war demonstration headline ulty had the longest week, 63.2 hours, business for years, Cornell students and agricultural sciences the shortest, seemed played out when the Cambodian 55.7. No such study had been made at invasion took place. The campus didn't GLASSWARE Cornell, but the figures are thought to be strike, instead tussling over grades and representative enough to apply. academic credits to close out the year. Property damage resulting from cam- pus disorders in the first two-thirds of • The editor's wife finally put her foot Cornel! Emblem 1969 amounted to $8.9 million, accord- down. Our sons listen to student station ing to a national insurance association. WVBR and I cover a lot of meetings on Red & White Cornell is twelfth among universities the Hill. Between us we pick up and in the country in the number of post- mock a lot of the campus rhetoric. White Permanently fired doctoral scholars with 210. Harvard and radicals have recently made a fetish of (dishwasher proof) Yale lead the pack with 624 and 326. using black slang, "Right on!" "Get it to- Others have fewer than 300: Caltech, gether!" and the like. After a particularly Cal at Berkeley, Chicago, Illinois, Johns trying couple of days, she said she had Hopkins, MIT, Minnesota, Stanford, and had it with the meaningless phrase "Right Π Brandy Sniffers $1.75 each Wisconsin. on!" whether uttered with or without an Two Cornell coaches were among the accompanying "brother" as in "Right on, winningest in US football history, as brother!" Any more of that, and we Pilsner 14.50 doz. measured by their records over at least sensed we could get right on out. —JM ten years of coaching and including their records at more than one school: Percy Weighted bottom Hi Ball Haughton (fourth behind Rockne, Leahy, 10 oz. 7.75 doz. and Penn's George Woodruff), coach Letters here in 1899 and 1900 and later at Har- 12 oz. 8.50 doz. vard and Columbia; and Gil Dobie, twelfth, at Cornell 1920-35 and with Double Old Fashioned thirty-three years the winningest coach to CACBE with the longest tenure. 15 oz. 9.00 doz. Cornell presidential terms appear to • EDITOR: Bouquets to Dr. Seidenstein! be getting shorter (the same wouldn't [April NEWS] Though a member of the younger generation, I strongly second every- surprise us if found at other institutions). Old Fashioned thing he said, and add "Amen." It is high In order, the presidents have served as time that those in charge of preserving the 7 oz. 7.75 doz. follows: White, 1866-85, 19 years; academic university and academic freedom Adams, '85-92, 7 years; Schurman, '92- stand up and say, "We call the shots." 1920, 28 years; Farrand, '21-37, 16 I am sure that there is a sufficiency of All prices postpaid moneyed people on the Far Left, and that years; Day, '37-49, 12 years; Malott, '51- they would be happy to help establish 63, 12 years; and Perkins, '63-69, 6 "Free" or "Radical" or "Activist" universi- years. ties. Recent newspaper reports have indi- cated that extremist students at Cornell are now not content to undermine academic • Spring is a time for happiness and freedom; they have destroyed property, and Cornell Campus Store for sloth in Ithaca, both of which tend could destroy life and limb. to blunt political effort. Lay it to that Withholding contributions to Cornell can Ithaca or to maturity or to cynicism, but fervor only exacerbate the problems. Those who realize that Cornell's academic excellence New York 14850 seemed to be going out of campus politi- must be preserved and strengthened are cal life just when it was rising at other obliged to give now as never before. But institutions. they have the option of directing their For enclosed payment of $ For one thing, it was hard for any money, as I do, to the department or depart- please ship items checked above to faction to feel it had a clear monopoly ments of their choice. In closing, I would like to say that I am on virtue. Just when black students were (please PRINT): not a member of CACBE. I am afraid that rampaging at Cornell and their critics this organization may be promoting an were seizing on the lack of law and order attempt by the Far Right to stifle academic in Ithaca, Governor Kirk of Florida freedom, under the guise of a "Balanced Name Education." successfully defied the entire US govern- BETHESDA, MD. AMY S. MANN '63 ment in its effort to force desegregation Street & No. of some of his state's schools. There went EDITOR: I keep reading the ads put in the the law and order issue. ALUMNI NEWS by the Committee for Bal- Next came the fear Ithaca would be anced Education. Each month I am sure I Post Office State Zip have seen the last of them for I've hoped turned into a mini-Woodstock for the that at least one supporter would realize the N.y.S. Residents Please Add 3% Sales Tax Berrigan weekend. The university fixed untenable implications of what he says. that by all but cosponsoring the event. I agree with the theoretical position that Cornell Alumni News