t .he s p E C T A r· 0 R VOLUME THREE
HAMIL TON, AND KIRKLAND COLLEGES, CLINTON, NEW YORK
McGovern Support Strong on Campus
At the committee's meeting on Tu e s d a y , ·S e p t . 1 2, t h e Hamilton-Kirkland Students for McGovern recommenced its drive to raise sorely-needed funds for the New York campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee. Jeff Grabell '74, co-ordjnator of the c a m p u s group and nationally-appointed director of t�e Utica office of the "McGovern fo r Pr e sident" C o m m itt ee, proposed several possibilities for m oney-raising, including dances, concerts, sale of bumper stickers and butt�ns·, and door-to-door soliciting on campus and in the surrounding area. Estimating that at least 1000 students on both campuses are McGo vern supporters, Grabell ho pes to enli,st many of these people to volunteer aid not only in the campus community, but, more crucially, in Clinton, Utica, and other area towns. The Utica "McGo v e r n f o r P r esident Co mmi t t e e" a n d i t s Hamilton-Kirkland branch will be co-ordinating action with such local pro-Mc Govern groups as Labor for McGovern. Canvassing and petitioning of the local area by Kirkland, and Hamilton McGovern supporters in the spring of 1972 helped secure the placement of six McGovern delegates on the June 20 primary ballot in Oneida County. Five out of those six delegates were elected to represent the county at the Democratic Convention in July. Ho w e v e r m o n e y , n o t sign a t ures , i s w hat G eo r g e Mc G o v ern n e e d s now. The Republican party, recognizing the
i m p o rt ance of garner i ng the crucial New York state popular, and thus electoral votes, plans to spend 1 0 · m illion dollars on campaign activities in this state alone. On the other hand the D em ocratic p arty in Oneida C o u nt y i s m u c h less well-endowed. G ra bell i s co nfident, t hat M cG o v ern will carry Oneida County if all of those residents and students who purport to favor t h e De m o crat i c presiqte nti a l n o m i n e e will a s su m e:· their r e s p o n s ibility t o vofe. All Hamilton and Kirkland students are urged to register to vote in their ho m e districts by t he stat e--determined deadlinqs. The deadline for registration for New Y<?rk residents is September 23. Registered student, if u�able to vote i n Oneida C o u nty , are encouraged to write to the¥" home boards .of elections for absentee b a l l o t a p pl i ca t i o n s . T h e H a m i lton-Kirkland Students for M cG overn will also try to aid coll eg e residents in obtaining· absentee ballots. The possibility of bringing an official register to teh campuses to provide for the registration of students eligible to vote in Oneida County was also mentioned. Graben is interested in joining t h e s e e f f o rt s with ,f a cu lty m embers of both <"olleges whQ s u pport McGo vern • .<\.n yone w i shing furt her info r m ation c o n cerning the c.ampus group's activities or anyone interested in volunteering his or her aid, may contact Jeff Grabell at 8 59-7547 or at Room 201 Kirkland Hall.
Ham ilton and Kirkland colleges u n i t e d i n t heir first joint convocation l ast Sunday, and dedicated the Daniel S. Burke Library. Burke, a lawyer, was a long-time benefactor of Hamilton a n d f o r s e v e n years-- u ntil 194 5--chairman of the Hamilton board of Trustees. H i s s on, Cll!em� . Burke, is the current chairman. Sir John Wolfenden and Keyes D. M etcal f received honorary degrees at the convocation. Sir John is Director and Librarian of the British Museum; Dr. Metcalf is Librarian Em eritus of the Harvard
Stu dent s are r e quest ed to return ballots not collected on Wednesda y evening to Mrs. T r o s s e t , t he Steering Committee Secretary by 1 p.m. on Thursday or Friday, in the Kirner-Johnson Building. These ballots will be tabulated with the results posted in the dorms by Monday, September 25. This same election process will be repeated during the week of the 2!ith for at large candidates. The frist Assembly meeting will be on a Monday at 3:15, or soon thereafter. Students are encouraged to return the recently distributed sign-up sheet for membership o n Asse m bly c o m m ittees; please make sure that one's n a m e i s i ncluded on · t h e returned form. Any students w h o h a v e m i s p l a·c ed o r negl ected to inc lude their names on the questionnaire are r e q uested to co nt.act the Steering Committee. This year's Steering Committee members
are: students: Sara Gordon, Becca Marin, and Connie Miner; F a c u l t y: Wi llia m Hof f a , Cha irman, S a n d r a DeMyer, Steve Liebm an, David Locke, and Gene Putala. The S t eer i ng Committee d e c i d e d tha t d o rm i tory representatives and the Union representative should be elected_ prior to the at large elections, so that students will have the most chanc;es �o be elected. The election schedule is as follows: S e p t e m b e r 1 9 a n d 2 0, self-nominations will be made on sign-up sheets in each dormitory. At 6 p.m. on .the 20t h , nominations will close and student members of · the St�ering Committee will collect these lists. Ballots made from these lists will be distributed to s t u d e n t m a i lbox e s o n September 21. The students on the Steering Committee will collect completed ballots from s t udent s in the dorms that ev ening beginning at 8 p.m.
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First Joint Convocation Daniel Burke Library Opens;
Kirkland Students To Elect Assembly Representatives
by Sara Gordon There will be a program of Asse m b ly orientation on Mo nday, Septe m ber 18, in r o o m 1 Z-8 o f t h e Kir n er-Johnson building; the time will be posted in McEwen and t h e K -J building on Mo nday. Steering Committee me mbers w il l discuss the function of the Assembly at this meeting. It is hoped that a video tape film of an actual Ass embly m eet i ng will be viewed at this introduction to the Assembly. · This year five students will be elected at large, one of whom will be the choice of the Black and Puerto Rican Union. Only the members of a specific dorm will vote for that particular d o rm i t o r y ' s representative. All dormitories will have sign•up sheets for st ude n t s t o n o m i n a t e themselves; the method will be one of self-nomination, without the necessity of a second. A d etailed explanation of this system will be distributed to all st udent s by t he Steen11g Comf_ittee.
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L i b r a r y and w a s t he chief consultant in the planning of the Ha m ilton -Kirkland Library. Sir John delivered the p_!i ncipal convocation address. The new building. can house some 5 00,000 volu m es; the curr ent collection stands at 300,000 volumes, but is growing at 10,000 ti tles yearly. The building was design ed by architect Hugh Stubbins of Boston, and built by Daniel O'Connell's sons, contractors, of Holyoke, Mass. It was finished on time and within the $5,500,000 budget allotted. A m ong the Bur ke Library' feature·s is the third-floor rare book room, which guards special c o l l ect i o n s , s u c h a s t h e well-known Ezra Pound collection and the Beinecke ·Lesser Antilles C o l l e c t i o n . T h e B einecke collection is of special interest to h i s t qrians, s o c i o l o g i s t s and anthro pologist s interested in C a ribbean life i n the early nineteenth century, before the abolition of slavery in the English colonies. There is a collection of i n c u n a b ula , a m o n g them a numb er o f m issals printed on parchment, and Samuel Kirkland's journals make up an important part of a collection of 19th century documents dealing with local history. T w o d e partment s o f the Library will remain outside the n ew building: natural sciences books will remain in the Science Library, and the Kirkland Core collectio n, w hi c h em phasizes Women's Studies, will remain in the Kirner-]ohnson building. There are no immediate plans for utilizing the cavernous Library ba s em ent, except for a Social S i ences "lab" and a smoking roo m for use until· the "no smoking" problem is straightened out. The Library's controversial "no smoking" policy is the result of a
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m ist a ke i n planning. Librarian Walter Pilkington confessed, "I think I goofed." He had planned, he said, to allow a "free and easy" policy o n s moking--he himself smo kes-but problems with the f l a m ma b l e r u g , t h e n ew , co m p l i cated air-condit io ning system, and the smoke-detectors in the ·ire alarm system required t h a t a b a n b e effected temporarily. 1 • The building also contain� the ducts, wires and cables necessary for advanced Library equipment, such a s computer terminals or m i c r o fil m , which could b e installed if the need arose ancl the ·money could be obtained. -·There are other bugs to be w o r k e d o u t . Un t i l t h e a i r - c o n ditioning m a c hinery 'matures,' which will tak,e about a year, the Library will often be ,too hot or too cold, as the parts of 1the unusually complex machine ,are balanced. The gate to the all-ni night reading room broke down on Tuesday morning, jamming about half-way open, and closing the study area to late-night users. The Library administration will soon publ i sh a "guide to the Library" which it will supplement w i t h a pro gram o f student assistants answering questions and giving advice ori the use Qf the Library. ; There will be no new security me<\sures. Although the Libtary is no longer covered by the Honor system, Pilkington said the cost of i n c r e a s e d s e c u r ity , eit her electronic or human, exceeded that of the lost books. He added that very few books are actually stolen from the Library; rather, they are "borrowed" by stqdents who do not sign them out ;when p a p cr s c o m e d u e , b ut /1 who eventqally return them. Pilk�gton commented that the only , really effect ive security systen;i is a "j o i nt venture" of a'1 t he L i b r a r y's us ers. /
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