https://digital.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/files/original/e946e7a07b659f94bc0ff991b396970b.pdf e175194af63e4472d9454a8d9cf6a9c2 PDF Text Text S CI E N C E SURVEY THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL O F SCIENCE Vol. LXIII - No. 1 November 22, 1968 School Crisis Teachers' Strike Decentralization In 1967 David Spencer, Cripples Science orf a spokesman I.S. 201, the first public school ot eb run b y an autonomous local board, said, "The Bodar of Education like to will call it decentralization. We carry it further. eW Bron x communyti cal it control." M.r Spencers' statement wasa prophecy of that h a s surrounded eduthe chaotic conflict cational reform in New York City. Officaisl of the school system, who have advocated desince the 1950s', have finally centralization sought t o enact it. Civil rights and m ocm -nu have seen the failure of their ity groups, who "carried earlier efforts for integration, have it further" and called for local control o f lo- during strike. H ,w orev i when, a t hte direction of the cshol system. His plan, set u p 30 comm yutni boards still in effect, around the cyti, each Since the Supreme Court's decision, civil rights facto segregation" had were York were over- New most enrollmen's predominantly of one hte . In 1966, a windowless and segregated I. S leaders D .r maintained v e r Sixty students and 10 and the Striking teachers started temporary schools at Our Lady of Mercy Church and Mount Eden Jewish Center ni the Others held These classes in actions w e r e a p proved by the UFT, teachers agreed with Most, Mark Chapter Chairman M.r reflect teachers' fears, fears for their jobs and fears for their physical safety. They do n o t T e l e e t h e eral students broke into the a n n a l " r a t i o n i n n i School opened October 16 at Charles am with Fourteen teachers and 180 stucrossed line of about and a noisy pieker 250 teachers, students. any t e a c h e r s way e e l e a racial conflict." including Mr. Irwin Dubno and Mr. Stuart Elenko, both of the s o m e t e a c h e r s Studies department, thought that the strikes were to necessary prevent teachers Many re- the turn of a "McCarthy which could without hearing. Caffarella as Acting Principal. parents, in be tired progressed, n 8:30 dents they Social "implica- opened the doors to students. STRIKE: Students who want to enter Science assemble across the street from the closed and attending ings on decentralization, nor a morning incident, in which school. Striking teachers, and sympathetic students form picket line in the background. As the strike continued, students entered the school daily in a more orderly fashion. 28. 563 students were are S u d e r i n t e n d e n a nonstriking teacher and sev- Reinteld increased. D i s t r i c Dr. Shapp's order followed After the entrance of the Ford Foundation, bitterness and division developed among the faculty. Many pro-union people called those who crossed the picket line "scabs" and "trai- tors." On one occasion, two teachers blows. — as experiment al projects. Released in November 1967, the Bundy Report called for the creation of from 30 to 60 Community School Districts whose schools would be directed by 11-member boards with six members selected by the district residents and five chosen by the mayor. This plan was the basis for a proposal that Mayor Lindsay submitted in January 1968 to the legislature. After the Board of Regents submitted a strong bill, Albert Shanker and 500 UFT teachers went up to Albany to lobby against it. Gov. Rockefeller signed a compromise plan, June 12. had set up an experiment in community control a year before. The local May "transferred" 19 The City University has changed its admissions policy ot markedly increase the percentage of blacks and Puerto Ricans in its student body. As a consequence of the change. from these two ethnic groups will compose 26 per cent of the freshman class in the fall of 1969. This enrollment will corres- pond to the percentage of black and Puerto Rican students among governing board in teachers who allegedly had "obstructed decentralization". To insure "the right to teach," the UFT voted three times to strike the city schools in a response to what it feels was a violation of due process on the part of the Ocean Hill the city's high school graduates. The state legislature has yet to draw up a will final plan for decentralization, one which will have guaranteed admission to a board. resolve how much power local boards in hiring and firing teachers and in determining school curricula. The crisis over decentral- ization - or community control - promises to - D . Kusnet 'Survey' Announces Editorial Board New CUNY Admissions Policy Seeks Balanced Ethnic Make-up students Explosive Situation Brownsville, Conditions in Ocean Hill triggered the controversy that exists today. continue. o school By A s the strike continued, a-t tober 15. After n a order from fo Cuba" the issues of decentralization and community D O w e r converged. In March 1967, the state T h a t district o l o w i n k tions of biological warfare." for neighborhood-run schools. Hill-Brownsville onti chagred students entered the tendance rooms, teachers conducted classes in 201 became the first school in whose operation supplied $135,000 for three independent school districts - I.S. 201, Two Bridges, and Ocean had school htorugh department. man of the Maht appointed Acting Principal. Fifteen teachers and 175 their homes or in available a predo- g r o u p of a b o u t Charles Shapp, the school was had been established of black groups calling Bundy to head a panel of educators to draw The Ford Foundation also t h e opened. the community had a voice, and the precedent up such a plan. they Taffel did not report to s c h o o l that if black children were placed in all-black schools, then these schools should be responsive to the needs of the black community. .I S. legislature had rejected Mayor Lindsay's request for the city's schools unless decentralization was adopted, The mayor apPresident McGeorge Foundation Ford pointed teachers but tee policemen asked then to leave, they went outside. 201 opened ni central Harlem, As a "neighborhood school," ti would be segregated; it could be integrated only by programs that had been Community black 2 5 students discontinued, abandoned. classes, eO n hour before, Open Enrollfailed and were all school with minantly To insure integration, the Board of EducaThey the conduct ot a n d other teachers. tion a d o p t e d policies of p a i r i n g . and busing. previously had never done os. striking teachers reM tso mained no t h e b i c k e t Tine however, entered the Some, discussio n dna exchanged anwith students groups charged that "de that, since most neighborhoods of public schools race. to 1954 desegregation whelmingly black or white, ats down in a and, together threatened enter than administrators prevailed ni That night, the Board of Regents approved an interim decentralization bill, to they cussed the walkout. Students appointed by the school day before resumed their etforts. D a n . corridor decentralization was more fo principal, chsol ot" insure the students." learning. They policy. school Taef,l ents w oh had asked city ficials ot open the school hte into effect immediately. Under maoyjtir of students the special high thefirst strike, but supported Science, are some aeltr reversed their opi- undsecrhoosl,theincluding supervision of hte eh thethird strike nions. nW central board. began October ,41 a group of Deputy Superintendent Selig entered 5 0 students ilegaly Lester ordered Science ot be the school at01 am, expressopened, October 18. Mrs. Heni n g their opposition to the UFT rietta Mazen, Acting Chaira n d t h e i r desire to r e s u m e Board of Education and each given na advi- sory role in By 1966 just the . A great Board Superintendent D.r B -er reorganized the e the safety of Three Years Later Unheeded in 1962, hsti proposal sw a enacted of Education, School n closed the decentralization. nard Donovan The following day, about students reported but D.r Shapp dered the school closed. Par- Science, N o erm o naht six teachers Ina faculty fo 180 chose to school eachyad du-r enter the ing the tsfi r two srkties. D.r A "management sutdy" conducted i n 1962 released findings similar to those that h a d .lnepa years earlier b y anohter been made 10 Like its predeceso,r this ustdy recommended in 1965, of the picketing teachers came from other schools ni the dis- ust- teachers' most etach- ers, students, and supervisors did not cross hte UFT picket schoosl. cal Scienwas ce hte first predominantly white t o b e opened ot school Last fall, blacks and Puerto Ric- University's freshman class. T w o new plans imolement the schools who achieve a minimum average In of some 70 schools, students with general diplomas and with averages as low as 68 will b e able t h academic high e senior college in t h e City Univer sity. In addition, the university year hones to operate fi v e city high schools with a predom- inantly black and Puerto Rican enrollment, a n d t o u n r a n t e e a d mission to all graduates of these outs. Dunow writes headlines and to n e w s the City University. schools in graduates where many students have Jow averages, will be most s t o r i e s Discussing the changes he plans for the newspaper this year, Lu- bow said, "Survey will be bolder aftect- ed yb this change. At Science, the and experimental. more employ new i n v o u t s . We will new head- a v e r a g e s of t h e top 100 g r a d u a t e s line type styles, and new appro- The new policies, which the university's Chancellor Albert Bowsocial necessity," will make 800 additional students changes are sufficient for admission to the City University eligible for admission this fall t o high schools wilt h e included D r e These capture Infante, 4-8, managers: Ralph Kahn, 4-25, circulation manager, and Janet Rob- the program. In schools with over 500 graduates, the top 100 will be erts, 4-8, exchange editor. Mrs. Linda Feingold is serving a l l e university. schools with fewer than 500 sen- C a d m i t t i n c e to and Richard in lors, the top 20 per cent will be s t o r e s , designed Survey's editorial board also insports cludes Howard Shaw, 4-5, editor; David Kusnet, 4 . 2 5 a n d Deborah Hwang, 4-4, feature editors; Suzanne Wilkens, 4-29, news to guaranteed admission to a senior i n s u r e d are the interest of our readers." a senior college. Dr. dicted that 250 would attend. Next year, non-public academic R o w k e r o A r t h u r Lubow. 4.25, a n d Ken neth Lieberman, 4-29, are the new editors-in-chief of Survey. Henry Dunow, 4-1, is the associate editor. Lubow edits the articles, while Lieberman designs h te page lay. Lieberman, Dunow, and Lubow, the 'Survey' Editors. in her second year as faculty ad- �Public Schools Unable to Function As UFT and Local Board Quarrel the of Albert Shanker, President United Federation of Teach- ers, warned August 16 that teach- it decentraliza- would ers tion did not provide them adequate safeguards. One month later, his union r u l e d i s p r o n ise by striking ot protest the ac- h u - b r o w n O c e a n ville governing board. Ocean HIll-Brownsville is one of three experimental demonstrasponsored tion Ford Foundation ot test decentral- 43 Reach Merit Semifinals History Department Accepts Scholarship semifinalists are Plans to Initiate Black History of 350 who chose not ot accept Forty-three Science seniors are semifinalists ni this year's Natior la Merit Scholarship competition. transfer out of the district. The number ers had dwindled ot 110, with eht September brought 53,000 of eht teachers tried ot return to hte Ocean schools permitted ot Benjamin Benali Jeff Busch, Ina Cholst, Cohen, Marjory David, J a m e s Judith Freedman, Linda Gerstein, Mich no the Qual- taxeh in r e b r u a r y had HIl- wer 150,00 elle not beer sdentits s c h o o l i neht state, Godlsetni, Samuel They All s emifi nali ts r ompete for a p Lindsay andDr. When Mayor Quinn, ciE r Rosen, Victor 3,000 Donovan promised to Mchiael Sartisky, David teachers to their class valued a t more than eight mition S a u l ,Rubin, disputed Barton d,Shcleonf Howard their The T e r r e d l o c a l t h e b o u r d r e a c h e r s , stayed out of the eight district schools. No charges were filed against the they when teachers were trans- The union therefore pro- ferred. as viola- tions of due process. governing board later brought charges or unsatis factory performance against 01 fo r e t u r n e g o l l a r s returned schools. September to their 30 h fought the return educators at that .hocls central The a The a two weeks,viDuring the next 271, erupted which became the focuso f the W scholar Droximatel w a r e s o n o .rt S h a w, Brian Smith, Gerson neS National MeritCorporation m oiN a Vilko,Jerry W stein, -nie n e t h o u s a n d non-reneu able scholarships Paul worth one thous wilta, B r i a n Zack. a n d d o l l a r s e a c h These award way to "The purpose of the committee include for instruction tory was one in black make recommendations to of five major stupresented to D.r the teaching of black history," Mr Studie Arthur Merovick, At that time last year, Dr. Tafschool had be gun planning instruction in black black history and urban problems m i s t o r y b "demands" Mr. fel noted that hte b e t o r e pre students sented their "demands." a n t Civil 19 c C o the local Dir h e r b e r t by receiving out September .9 The 4,000-mem- s c h w a r t . Gordon .M r Don- to 2,128 to 1o sympathy was reached returning the teach. The UFT o n e o e r allegedly harassed blocked early settlement of Thsi After appellate the strike. court ruled November 15 that the orisinal agreement called for the return of the original 10 teachers and the reinstatement of any in the group the or a p p o i n t m e n t puted principals dis illegal, W a i s compromise was quickly reached. More details in the next issue. sudnetts Last year submit autobiographies. Scienceites Achievement Scholarships. The forty-three National Merit By JANET ROBERTS Seven teachers have permanentyl left Science's faculty, while others temporary are leave. They are replaced by 19 new teachers and eight faculty members returni ng from leave. In the Biology department, D.r H e si S m i t h h a s reured, George eth Bobrow. replaced by Mr. r eKenn turned from an sky, who h a s expedition ot the jungles of PanMr. Philip Saltz, Mr. Richard Sodikow, and Mrs. Sarita Cordell have joined the English depart. ment. Mrs. Charlotte turned from leave. Mrs. Levy nas t has taken ment, M.r Herbert Falkenstein is Karlin, Merovick, chairman, has returned (Editor's Note: This article was r i t t en a t t h eb e g i n n i n g o next issue.) The students who crossed the teachers' picket line to go to school during the third UFT strike had varied motives and sympathies. In the auditorium, before class. es began, the names of teachers and courses went up on the black› board, and the cheering students made their selections. possessed different cause of strike their Mrs. Helen Hodes. Mrs. Hodes is of the English department, told but because, in the words of one boy, "We want to l e a r n . " They received written homework, which they had ready the next day. Mr. Ernest Strom, of the Social Studies department, discussed the Transcendentalists, especially Henr y David Thoreau, signed homework H e also a s the reading to the relation between c o n t e n t a n d f o r m in art, spending. m u c h of the period debating the merit of Jimi Hendrix, a rock m u Not all students came chiefly for instruction. onen the school " t o express sym" pathy a n d a g r e e m e n t Ocean HIll-Brownsville governing protest b o a r d , to a n illegal s e l fi s h s t r i k e . " O t h e r s , a s m a l l m i nority, hoped to provoke a failed. t h e U F T position — here class w h a t you w a n t to learn." H i s tween indeed, many supported "T'm outside themselves, and the school the union n o l i c e b e s u p They Classes ended at the bells and, as the sounds of jeers hurled b s some of the picketing teachers and outside from through the open windows, stuA t e m usual t o their next class. But there was a dif- ferent atmosphere - one of voluntary, rather than compulsory, edu"This is my third year at Science," o n e s e n i o r n o t e d "and for the first time I feel 1 am The subjects of discussion were getting a real education." of the essay, "Civil Disobedience." Page Three .A r t n u a one t e r m sabbatical leave. M.r William Stark and Mrs. BarAdvocate hara are new returned Moss leave. members Arnold from s t e In the Mathematics department, Mr. Alan Bell is on study leave, and Mrs. Florence Blau si on ma- r, other classes. Mr. Robert Rossne his students, a ir ternity leave. Replacing them are more unorth feelings the an d of the department. Mazen's calculus o n le av e. school. The new members of the department are Miss Marion Fa tell, Mrs. Judith Candullo, and Miss Sylvia Maizell, has left the frontation" class, students attended not on from Courses Students Attend Modified odox in some of the school's operation. Later, the program became more structured. See a way who teaches Russian, has returned and her replacement, from Classes Continue Despite Strike; u In the Social Studies depart- a French a t e mp o r a t Evelyn Tropp, t e n c h e r . Hodes, chairman of the Foreign Language department from 1938 M.r Peter Holtzman, M.r Emanuel Mr. Lance Geshwind, Miss Carol Greenwald, and M.r Jeremiah Goodwin have left the Physical Scionce department. They are re M.r Peter Melzer and M.r Frederick Weisholz. Mr. Bert placed by Kleinsinger and Mrs. Augusta So- b e have returned from leave. Five teachers have joined and two have left the minor subject departments. Added to the staff as an above quota teacher is Mrs. Jean Boyd. 5° e i t senior curriculum. Merovick report, "Every high school has been said, asked bysome interested group ot re-evaluate its course of study to s u r e m a k e t h a t t h e r e is Thir t r e a t ment fo the American Negro ni eT h cocomindation olse pes recommendations vsions ni al Social Studies classes. A tuni no Africa has already been introduced ni the freshman classes. For sophomore Social Studies the committee recom mended a study of the African slave trade and a discussion of racism n i the 19th century. The nature of slavery and the the movement anti-slavery United States are suggested topic. of study for American history the tors-in-chief of Observatory, senioryearbook, in the comnig "This year," Auberbach said, ton eb mainly want ot please our readers." The other members of Observatory's editorial board are Robert Bata, 41-, and Jane Leifer, 4-5, JOE'S FORDHAM N IC Army & Navy Store GIRLS BOYS CPO SHIRTS - LEES PEA COATS SCIENCE JACKETS literary editors; Sandra Weisband, 4-20, and Charles Lee, 416 .ar t editors; Vi c t o r Kubin, s p o r t The proposed senior Social Studies course contains the traditional unit on Reconstruction, but it sI now expanded ot include studies present of racial unrest in America. editor; David Reinfeld, 4-26, photography P i l a. 《 4-12, business manager; nifer Mussig, 4 7 . a n d G a i l Jen Z i m mermann, 4-8, senior section editors; and Rita Goldwasseg, managing editor. CANGER IS CONVERSE SO . . DISCOUNT FREE TRIAL SESSION! COLLEGE ENTRANCE BOARDS Courses Throughout the Year for Juniors and Seniors REGENTS COACHING COURSES Licensed Teachers Only QUEENS LOCATION HELANE STUDIO 40-42 Main 047 Mai Seatiching BRONX LOCATION HUNTER SECRETARIAL SCHOOL Feit, Mr. Sidney Honig, and M.r David Kaplan. s e v e n t h o r H e added that most of the changes e cerned with winning medals. W the wife of the late M.r Charles t h e now being discussed will be grad. ual. w lli 1 Teachers Leave, 27 Join Faculty n the teaching of American history." and Rolfe Auberbach, 4-13, and Dena Kleiman, 4-11, wil eb the edi- Students also Boards. i commitee scholarships ot black Dena Kleiman and Rolfe Auerbach are the new 'Observatory' editors. no the t in the while on het Qualifying Test scores the College u tuted a similar structural change 1 3 Scienceites w e r e c o m m i t t i s t N onialt Achievement Shis D r O Scholarship Program. gram awards a English department recently insti- ano Strom. Merit Corporaoitn, Natota e and comparative government. The w o n sponsored scholarships. for I five by another contest sponsoerd n ot voet The union demanded removal who fo the Ocean Hill principals, t with the teachers. After two days an agreement ers to school, September 11, and sponded, voting 460,2 strike, O c t o b e r ber Council fo Supervisory Asodecided close schools "for the safety of the chil. ciations dren" asked union membser another n such subjects as civi Stuart Elenko, M .r M.r Emanuel Harrison, ew i n n e r e Three Schoalrshpis National M e r i t het and scheduled principals .. .S 271, fo JH opening i l e a c h e r s y tions from their president, executive board, and delegate assembly, teachers voted 12,021 to 1,716 ni favor of a strike, and they went t liberties, socioloky, black history. year board h t Irwin Dubno, last history, a r e a l l o c a t e d s t a t e b y state. T h e o t b e r 2,000 s c h o l a r l e d u c a t o r sW i l ls e i c e st o submited its report at a department meeting, October formed black who h a d dbora Ooctber c alternate plan, some suggested program which would divide the year into three or four distinct A committee on 6 for 30 as b y t h eNational Merit Corpora tho reassian tion itself.A winner o f a four r e f u s i n g ot for days Court Judge Francis Rivers, hte controversial teachers, whonow trial examiner, cleared the teach- numbered 5 3 1,500 sraldol a year fos To d a y s laonly.38 w ers. The other nine educators had e,tr hte wears. Four-year sches central board suspended agreed to accept transfers out fo seven of h a r e awarded o n a national te eight district princi the district. one erquesdt ratnsfer pal s During the summer District AdA b o u tJ ip e r tnec o f eht s e m i an d M r It a l s o closed McCoy. hired ministrator Rhody inalist s cventuall y become fius i J.H.S. 271 October 10 and Octo- fists. replacements for the 350 ber 1, in an aetmpt Alter considering the qualitio "cool t of cations o f t i e finalists, a lenap teachers who had walked out ni off" the situation. May. M.r McCoy informed 200 of M .r Shanker claimed However, the 350 teachers who had not reIt will announce the names of the htat teachers were stil being-ha w i n n e r s May 1 quested transfers that they h het rassed. On October 13, new were longer had jobs in Ocean Hill. Sceinectsi 52 central board reinstated the seven the Dubno. proposed that instruction ni ofthe 16dis are four year awards sponsoerd by 'Observatory' Announces taught corporations, founds tions, colleges, untons, trusts, and Editors for Coming Year associations,a s well suspended t inadequacies present COTTOCH his Alexander Taffel last June. ta Ocean Hill-Brownsville transnI support of ization. Last May, under quest dent Hoch- o,lai David Kusnet, Arthur Gail K A n d r e w Lubow, s e i s t e r. Jeft Mischinsky, Katherin Mulvihell, N ie D dvia Oberlander, m ,nse Lewsi M a r y O'Sheal R a n d y Pollack t h e Qualifying Test. are Social Studies curriculum. The er- Gutmann roth, Doron Hozler James The 1,200 New York Satet semirepresent esl than graduanitg high p e r c e n to ft h e who finalists their class made a minimum score fo 741 o n enter Plans the topic of black history n i the t o W a r d s o s n a n k e n t e n c h e r Brownsville desy escor nO t h e junior y e a r. 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All parties involved share ni the blame for By arrogantly disregarding all United I t h e s e Donald Pleasence's Sensitive Performance Highlights Shaw's 'Man in the Glass Booth' By ARTHUR LUBOW A magnificent performance by Donald Pleasence The Man ni hte Gals procedures, Administrator Rhody McCoy and the governing board direct- If they had been more ly challenged the UFT. interested in experimental education hnat setting precedents, t w o months they and quietly docul have transferred in waited the 19 teachers at the end of eht astl school year. which never -ed The Board of Education, fined the powers of eht olcal board, is a l s o guilty. So si Mayor Lindsay, w h o c o n f u s e d dsies. the issues and antagonized boht Nonetheless, het UFT weakened sti own alarming i n itself, butwhne Booth, niot theatrical event, The plot of the play, which at the koyale incater, sI na impressive opened September 62 simple. Three Israeli agent. kidnap Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessman who, they claim, They w a l e is really Adolt bring hm i inside a Dorft, an S S back t o Israel rof glass booth, he colonell I've trial where, that eh contesses The Mrs. Lehmann. that Col. Dorff i s dead man intheglass booht is Very Beilliant... and frightening Mares, whispers, paosin, he dance,s simple come be Mr. Rifkin leads pickets to acceptable, Cryptic references sense building and dying no Perhaps, "to p u t giggles. to Dy h i s o w n ture. W chi a n secret eir smirks, in the docks no German has the o f guilt, is d o i n g penance d u r i n t o n e b judge says, Goldman wants a German ever said". who would say Shaw reopens third strike what the old questions of guilt and expiation, but he fails ot pro- a neap o to Adolt Heltir, trenzica f Harold Pinter's direction is admirable. cuirinat S i e u Hets. Thal The sup- Presman as Goldman's assistant and Tresa Hughes or this f i s stunning. nI hsi powerful portrayal guments by calling three illegal strikes t o o p etdifficult hvie boceme w h o c o u l d easily as Msr. Lehmann. But they ear eclipsed yb M.r Pleascharacter activites o f the localboard. pose the ilegal just a caricature, In this play, the play's Plessence i s int u r n vulgar. not the thing; ti si Apparently, the union beivles thatthe only lent Pleasence's performance which spellbinds the au, tender,and terrifying,but h e never way to e n t o r c e This philosophy is it is supported by a union o f comes unthinkable. When these kierst be believable. The teachers, i t be- a r e placed in the p e r - playItzelf, however, is ton M.r Mark Rifkin, the new UFT chapter chairman, shrugs his shoulders, blinks his blue eyes, and says memorable event. totally convni the universe has gone mad. Quoting Yeats he comments, "Things fall apart; Metropolitan Atr Museum Displays Frescoes the center cannot hold." Mr. Rifkin si troubled, for believes hte ancenter us traditi opends gully eh"maintaining spective of ptas UFT poliey, they become even UF'T sah a record of more indefensible. The decentralization. By BARBARA ZAHLER opposition to menaguifl decentralizabecaues which si not surprising, W neh hte flooding Arno River system would force the detion of the school eratsuers art damaged Florence's striking,t h e A m e r i c a n s r e s p o n d e d o y contrib centralization fo hte union. yB dollars through UFT alienated the black community and frag- uting2.2 million decision of t h e The mented its own body. money was t e d to restore Council of Supervisory Associations to support The damaged .w ksor the strikes by closing the chsosl yonl reinforced the beliefs of those who seethe skrites ernment, het Pontifical Commisas a conflict between the white establishment on Sacred Art. and the Olision and the black community. vetti Company Metelnt hte ille Hill-Brownsv Ocean the of result a As abancontroversy, the State Legislature may frescoes. traordinary collection of Age of F r e s c o : Giotto «The G r e a t don plans to decentralize the city school y-s to Pontormo" included 64 ersfcoes tem. T h i s would be the greatest disaster of been before all. The overgrown, bureaucratic, inefficien' sen outside Italy. Although the Board of Education must be decentralized t o works portray religious sub all provide the flexibility needed to improve the meaningful jects, they illustrate various styles in city school system. By abandoning decentralization, the Legislature would deprive New York City of a necessary reform. Black History n o o r c i n Traditionally, American education has dis- part of many teachers and textbook writers, alistic a combination of ignorance and patern racism has deprived the black student of his his self-respect, heritage and denied him years, this unfortunate past few situation has begun to change. Responding to and "black the phenomena of "black power" pride," many high schools now offer courses in African history and language. In modern textbooks, the familiar stereotype of the con- has been tent, banjo- playin g plantat ion slave replaced by a more accurate image. Social the In accordance with this trend, the change." As Chairman of the Bronx Science Chapter of the United Federation of Teachers, Mr. Rifkin hopes "to unity a faculty divided ni politics, in age, in outlook. Native Son Born ni the Bronx, Mr. Rifkin was educated ni the New York City public schools. He attended the High School of Music and Art and graduated magna cum a l a m o v stylized laude from City College. Although he was active in his college dramatics Rifkin never considered a career in that field because, eh explains, "As early as I can remember, & have .T h e sinopia, on a plaster f ir s t wall. 1 h i t was covered with a thin coat of wet plaster. abolied o n which tempera paint. the artist During the early Renaissance, before the Van Eyck brothers popularized oil colors, the fresco was the most durable and widespread type of painting. Italian masters decorated churches with hundreds w e n t t o English The Metropolitan Museum of Art T h e sinonia (left) and fresco of "The canvas is pulled off with the fres co attached ot it. Water dissolves and frees the the which is then mounted on mason. or ite fi b e r g l a s s removed The sinopia similarly In addition to the 46 frescoes, the exhibit contained 24 sinopias, which have been revealed for the first time. The fresco painteri n adirdy m e x p e c t t h a t t h e s e preli a sketches would ever be seen. Howo r e ever, t h e y a r e in s o m e w a y s m of removing only in the last decade, Basically, canvas is glued to t h e work. The C r u c i fi x i o n interesting than the frescoes themselves. with 8 . Bernard, Fresco painting was painstaking work with n o margin the plaster quickly to allow b e c a u s e for d r i e d teacher. v o c a t i o n a b o d y e department at h o o . W h e r e Science and fl u i d than e n s a tres coes. The opportunity to compare probably the most exciting aspect of the show. The Metropolitan published a catalog describing each work ni remarkable through d t h a t t e n c h e r W e r e T o r walkout, c h o o d n "The forces of chaos tried to make the strike seem a strike against blacks." Mr. Ritkin continued. "11 was not. It was against chaos." According to Mr. Rifkin, "decentralization can be w o n d e r f u l the frescoes with were displayed November 19. K onstrate that due process must be maintained." 1 0 0 • The sinopias are, in general, more modern fresco from a wall was perfected technique a Commenting on the recent leachers M r . not T h e be Favors Due Process sketched his preliminary drawing. or to Ritkin realized his d r e a m taught English for five years before joining the Gothic or t is t Mr. He taught French at Yeshiva High School and then Sarto. The creation of a fresco was an p r oc ess wanted After receiving a Master's Degree in English at C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y. figures of Giotto ot hte muscular i n u o l v od the torted or ignored black contributionsOnto the history of America and the world. ton. o r the opening days a cross of his own manufac snricks. nda m or,f eh devilers Godlnian. a A Chsrit suggest that Goldman si a man who, over. hurA tr Gold- But Frightening ainblitr a s possibilities. Goldman a masochist, but this explanation si too w ed Pleasence is ar- cals relukee ohw reveais Germany, and that hte man. by Got Shaw never tells us, v a r t o u s en joyed committing countless heinous crimes. eT h trial interrupted Mr. Rifkin ing. The mistake of the Israeli agents si too stupid to be credible. The Man ni the Glass Booth is constructed around a sensational and flimsy The basic question, of course, is G o l d m a n ' s m o tive, Why did h e a l l o w h i m s e l f t o be t a k e n to In rael? Why did he confess ot the crimes? Why did he burn a hole in his armpit, to simulate an oblitcrated SS insignia? Robert Shaw's unexceptional melodrama, transforms s a k e s . usual Faculty Corner tool for the imorovement of tesching and learning." However, he opposes granting local boards the power to allot funds and to hire and fire teachers. The local boards, he believes, should help draw up curricula and should take an active role in planning and scheduling school activities in operation with the professional staff. Mr. Rifkin si a bachelor who enjoys traveling. However, he spent last summer in Brooklyn, vating his pre-Civil War house. At Science he is serving his fourth year as the faculty adviser of Observatory, the senior yearbook. Studies department recently announced plans Students Learn to Program detailed report, riculum. In committee o f the Social Studies department School's Computer System will help to balance the historical black history The request for instruction in in the five "dewas the most important point mands" which students presented to Dr. Tafaware fel l a s t June. The studen ts were not tment was althat the Social Studies depar a select mathAlthough school rules forbid gambling, students intheir lunch perematics course have evaded this restriction. During and "divide" marked buttons hit ely iods they consecutiv lock" on the Friden 132 desk calculator in Room 109. A number from Othrough 9 flashes on the calculator screen, and, in the words of one to its curto add the study of black history a n appointed history explained how the addition of black picture. By ALLEN FRIEDMAN w a t e r i o Junior uce these working on plans to introd Hopefully, the departc u r r i c u l u m r e t o r m s . to the 3 S C I E T R VE Y students of published &times a year by the OOL THE BRONX HIGH SCH OF SCIENCE e t e n c e S t h e Nationn! D November 22, 1968 Yol, LXIII - No. 1 Arthur Lubow Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Lieberman Edi tor- in-C hiet Henry Dunow pieting t h e course, H o w a r d S h a w News Editor P e a t u r e Editors Facul ty Adviser i n d a Fe .... Mrs. L they to devise uter facilities are not used ers occasionContrary to rumors, the comp classified information. Teach e r n a r dHorowitz B . students' schedules or tor tstore r M s a , t u b , k r o heir o w n w fo ." ally use the system things are done by the kids said, "Most of the fantastic vanced projects ens Suzanne Wilk id Kusnet Deborah Hwang, Dav i n g o l d a u c a t i Select Students Operate Computer imately 150 students, Pupils selectMath The computer is used by approx ement in sophomore math take ed on the basis of their achiev their junior or senior year.T h e y use either n i 11 f o r two semesters comafter and, ments, assign their class o na d the facilities of the systema rfor periods t ow o r k e allowed special or Associate Edit Sports Editor "We've got the largest floating computer crap over $350,000, They These students are using equipment that costs 11) class. are members of the Numerical Analysis (Math Clutter, Clutter, Clutter owned an IBM 1620 digital Since 1962, the Math department hasaugmented by such machines computer. The system has since been I B M keypunches, Olivetti Underwood programmers, four n is an IBM 1443 additio recent most The and one accounting machine. last term. rnational printer, which was acquired w a s r e n t e d f r o m Inte Originally, the c o m p u t e r c o n s o l e er, it was bought outrig ht Business Machines. Two years later, howev ew York City Board of Education and with funds provided by the o N n A c t efficiently ment will now move rapidly and room. class to bring these refo rms mathematician, game in New York!" ready Computer's Child P a g e Two �Cage Coach Feels Booters Play Ball Despite Walkouts Science soccer players, for the to prepare for their season while union teachers were out on strike. T h e booters worked out o n Harris Field every of day the airst " W e c a n h a v e the best team that we ever had fi hte players work hard so they can fulfill their ing the ball away from the second year in a row, have had a n d S C O T L I a n e goals but both shots were voided two D y t h e e t e r d e Despite a third strike, teacher walkouts. Sciences' October 15, and booters played members came ot practices on a voluntary basis, and again, as last Danny Neuman scored vear, most of the squad every d a y Althoush the came out strike k e p t coach Herbert Abend away workouts, D.r Joseph Golomb was t able supervise a former s o u n d r a m player the Science helped regular h a s coach Abend run the team since the beginning of last season. The w a l k o t second time for the squad ot begin its s e n s o n The s c h e d u l e t e a m opened with a 4-2 loss ot Morris, October 10 at Van Cortlandt Field. Inconsistent play by the ScienceD e s m a r k e d t h e goal for bro followed b r o k e d o w n e d and got by the Morris defenders for 408) quickly retaliated and tied the the Science defense held off the but attack. Turk booters also failed ot score. Morris Makes Its Move Morris dominated the second q u a r t e r. scoring one goal a n d com• ing close on another. Again the defense held the Turks in check. Science looked stronger as the second half began. Goalie Peter Orphanos made several good saves on Morris shots. The Science offense gave an excellent display of passing and dribbling, but could not mount a scoring attack, Science foul, A deep own territory, allowed Morris to so ahead 2-1 on a direct corner kick. Morris scored again later in period o n a sweep through Science's backfield. Dorian Turgis scored the final Turk goal, wasted the clock for Zio- with another t e d late The in gm ae the second half. Then, ni the last two mins c o r e d up the win. t w i c e first victory came October 17. Playing a strong around game, the Scienceites r e n t e d t h e early lead o l o r e r s as -lla -ed took Ronnie the Zuckerman put one past the opposing goalie. Columbus' only goal then knotted game at 1-1. The score on a penalty shot after m o n c a l l e d a g n i n s t game-winner ate in the s e c o n d Zuckerman capped the scoring with a strong shot from hte 18- yard line. umbus attack. The unable of. Explorers' to mount serious scoring threats. team of t h e B o a r d or this the regular season and fi n i s h e d division, behind encie TheS team lost ot Tilden i n het playoffs. Two of hat squad's starters wli t h e i this year. guard Bruce season no ot encha One Lipshutz began the bench public Just last year, the PSAL had re- riflery divisions, thereby doubl schedule. Entering Science in 1966, we found a team Janszky and co-captain John Okasaki will provide power in the 50-yard sprints. A com- ing. consisting of remnant s of the strong '65 squad. There were several good swimmers, including Ira Brawer, holder of three school records but the team lacked a winning combination., Coach Arthur Backman therefore decided to build a nucleus of freshmen and sophomores, give them experience and style, and aim for this year. The team boasts no spectacular swimmers; but it has depth, h te most important factor ni dual meets, since points are awarded the first three finishers in each race. Last year's Brawer and Richie Meyer, have captains, graduated, but 24 other members of the squad are back. Despite the loss of varsity swimmer Dan last got He He seeman. standout. immediate King ayp,l dog an abundance of freestylers on the '68 squad. start when Zweig was and later stood ni for for. injured, litle them of was The forward, a sity and junior varsity members, including b e o r z e Simian and David Sherman, will be used in the 100-yard event and t h e 400-yard freestyle relay. Sander Rikleen, powerful and versatile swimmer, will specialize in the 100-yard backstroke. He will swim ni other events at the discretion of coach Backman. Competing for the three breast stroke po co-captain sitions are six swimmers, headed by Joel Eli. zur, Randy Forsythe, and Jerry Weiner. The competition between these boys is expected to sharpen them for the crucial meets ahead In the butterfly stroke, Science has Ethan Horowitz, Howie Wynn, DiSanto. make them winners this year. DiSanto, a jun- ior, will mature this year and keep pressure on the other two. Swimming team tryouts were held early in October. A l t h o u g h t h e t u r n o u t was disappointing, several of the candidates showed promise. Among the top prospects are freeScott Gibbs, N e i l Norwood, Dave ar only other man with a set is veSt Levine -ca who, Lefkowitz COTAINS wards petent all-around swimmer, Okasaki will also fill in weak spots during the year. Both var- u n d e r . c s o c c a y was an invaluable David Thomas. Tony Hill, and man. outstanding Fabrikant; and breaststroker Steve Putter- In the final standings, coach Backman pre- dicts, Science will be second only to Monroe. The Eagles have dominated the league for pros several years. According to Backman, Clinton "definitely can" n o b o a t e n . The only other Sargent and ter than former stars Tillman and The 19b? 68 squad, under the direction of M.r M a r t i n G r e e n e . h a l Those players who do not make make the this year, junior varsity team. for the fi r s t time, junior varsity will have a fullregularly scheduled games. What kind of game can Science basketball fans expect o t see this v e n t Wolfin; backstrokers Lewis Fox, James. Blackman, Lew Lewis Jasson, Steve Jones, Larry Kusko, and Harry Wolin; flymen Dave Collins and Steve Sartisky, Mike Satnely Dennsi and Schneider, outstanding center." bena "should the 200- and 400-yard events, while Andrew received setto the t e a m ehT Captain Lloyd Mayer is a serious threat in publicity, but hsi consistent backboards, position Rahimi, sidelined by appendicitis, there is H ardW orkbyHorowi tzandWyanShoul an other y e a r. country, in city teams science's squad was 16-2 ni By JERRY WEINER The 1968 swimming season es success for a Science team two yearspromis in the mak- competition in the league will come from Seward, but again Backman feels Science will P a t S C H O O l N ing years' Rest on Dept h a n d Expe rienc e McLean. Lefkowitz feels that with cided, because of "the gun situarifle championship, Last Kenny cation, Science will have no rifleTy avision the cy ti any B o a r d Bans G u n s o r d e r the and Throughout the game, Ry ence basketball team. Despite the all-division center Greg Tillman and star guard Ma-t yt Zwgei, hte dauqs hopes to atke crown and possibly S e i c n e o i on a breakquarter. Coming n s h o t the ball past the b o u l e , just inside t h e was man Lefkowitz sums up the po timistic attitude of the 1968 Sel came a foul dah Turgis Kicks Winner Dorian Turgis kicked in the fense brought su the best young kids we ever had". That statement yb coach No-r be back - Science the Our second Turks' The The Turks got off ot a fast start. h o b r o l Wa l t and yl, but Taft kept pace. remained w a m e Early in the first period, captain Wa l t e r Scienco t a r t to Golomb, official ot m a n a g e d two attempts " u r k s Swimmers' Hopes for Season This Year's Squad May Be Best Ever W i n n i n o n e coach Lefkowitz. Swimmers work out at an October practice. c o m e out a h e a d . Scienceites Compete for Baseball Roster Spots Several hundred Scienceites demonstrated their hitting, pitching, and fielding prowess at Harris Field October 4, as the base- ball team held its The boys were annual tryouts, competing for about 40 spots on the varsity and J u n i o r V i t t i t y T o s t e r Perhaps because of the cold and w e n d y was little there w e a t h e r good hitting. Few balls were hit out of the infield in fact, were hit at all. Varsity coach Her- bert Abend was not discouraged, "We're not looking for Sportsviews the hits," he said. "We're looking for the way you stand up there at the plate. It's hard to get loose up at the plate. I just look for certain moves. I can usually guess right about 98 per cent of the time. Some of these guys have never While Abend looked at the hit ters. Junior Hodrinsky varsity c o s c h T a m e s scouted the pitching prospects. S o m e h a d good control, but few had the speed needed by a good pitcher. today." A False Start He added, "I can usually tell a good hitter by the way he stands Runners Must Overcome Hurdles To Achieve Success in '68 Season Howard Shaw For the second time in as many years, a teachers' strike has forced the closing of New York City public schools. The effects on s t u d e n t s ' academic life have been widely publicized - lost classroom time, w o r k h a v i n g to be m a d e up, postpone- ment of the Regents Scholarship Examination. Somewhat less attention has been paid to the disruption the walkout caused in the public schools' athletic program. The effects there were just as widespread as in the academic area, if not as obviously harmful. The most publicized incident in school sports during the strike did not involve Science, because this school does not have a football team, Although schools were closed, the Unit- ed Federation of Teachers allowed PSAL football coaches to hold practices with their teams As the season's scheduled opening d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 8 approached, the labor dispute remained unsettled. The coaches announced their intention to play, but the UFT had dif- for the opening meet. "If there had been school before the strike," H e i t n e r said, "I could have organized a team and met the boys in Van Cortlandt Park. But we were in two days and out again. There was no time to prepare." not practice at their home base, the Walton swimming pool. Most of the boys were able to get in some work on their own at YMCA's or municipal pools, but, according to captain Lloyd Mayer, "We can't get into good shape that way." Mayer feels that there must be a coach pushing and putting pressure on the swimmers if they are really to get into top form. At least four swimming meets had to be rescheduled as a result of the walkout. Captain Mayer says that, in a way, it their postponement may work against Science. Although will give our swimmers more time to work out, the Science- ites' individual practice might have given them an advantage over their opponents had the meets been held on schedule. President George Altomare commented, In fact, claims captain Walter Ziobro, "It helped us. It gave Many schools cancelled their games, but the Clinton and Smith coaches refused to give in. Their teams played as scheduled, with Clinton winning, 46-0. At Science, the effects of the walkout were most strongly felt by the track, swimming, and soccer teams, since their seasons s t a r t earlier in the year than those of other squads. Among the coaches and captains I spoke to, track coach Louis Heitner was most vehement in his criticism of the strike. "It was definitely bad for athletics," Heitner said. The walkout hit the track team especially hard, partly because of PSAL regulations. Those rules state that runners should have at least 15 workouts before competing in the two-and-a-half mile cross-country meets. T h e season was scheduled to begin in mid-October. Because of the strike and the holidays, track tryouts were not completed until October 7. To date, the team as a whole has had just five workouts, far short of the required 15. The first work stoppage alone did not hurt the team's plans, but the second one, called two days after the first had ended, ruined any chance t h e squad had for being fully ready PageFour year's 0-3 record, Heitner has only one open runner on the team as the tryouts were held October 3, 4, and 7. Coach Heitner feels The swimming team also suffered because of the strike. year begins. (An open runner that the loss of practice time Obviously, with schools shut down the squad members could is one who has won a medal due to the strikes hurt his ferent ideas. "We permitted them to practice, but they must have been naive to think we would let them play," UFT Vice- Hoping for better things this year, the Science track team is preparing for the 1968 cross-country season, Coach Louis Heitner feels certain his squad w i l l t improve on last In the case of soccer, the strike was far from harmful. us more free time to practice." the The team made good use of the time. Every day ofpracof Dr. Joseph Golomb, they strike, under the guidance hours on Harris Field. Last year's squad, ticed for about three which followed much the same procedure during the 1967 strike, was the best Science soccer team ever. High Dr. Golomb, a former soccer player for Morris of the Science squad. He has School, is an unofficial coach Abend since team the manage helped regular coach Herbert t h e middle of last year. Soon after the above opinions were expressed, the third acUFT strike began. During that walkout, all varsity sports Now the tivity at Science, including soccer, came to a halt.have been strike is over. The swimming and soccer seasons extended, so those teams will not suffer. However, the state of the cross-country season is in'"doubt. You can't please everyone." T h e r e is a cliché which says, Another cliché says, "Back t o the drawing board." Which is just where the PSAL planners will have to go. in competition and therefore race against t h e best runners in the city.) Still, he hopes to build a strong team with the returning trackmen and his crop of rookies. During the first two teachmay ers' strikes, the upperclass- men worked out in Van Cort- landt P a r k . 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1933–1969 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper collection Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NW-BXSCHOOLS Type The nature or genre of the resource Archival collection Periodical Text Any textual data included in the document SCIENCE THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE School Crisis SURVEY Vol. LXIII - No. 1 November 2, 1968 Decentralization Teachers' Strike In 1967 David Spencer, a spokesman orf I.S. 201, the first public school ot eb run b y an autonomous local board, said, "The Bodar Cripples Science of Education will cal it decentralization. We B r o n x like to cary it further. eW cal it communyti predomwhiitenantly of the picketing teachers came S c i e nwcaes hte first control." schtooble openedot ust- from other schools ni the dis- M.r Spencers' statement wasa prophecy of during teachers' the chaotic conflict thhata s surrounded edu- strike. H,woreve moetachs-t The following d ay, about cational reform in New York City. Officaisl ers, students, and supervisors students reported of thschoeol system, who havaedvocated de- didnotcross hte UFT picket Science, but D.r Shapp centralization sinctehe 1950s', have finally ine. Par- dered the school closed. sought t o enact it. Civil rights and mocm-nu No ermo naht six teachers ents woh had asked city ity groups, who hasevene the failure of their I n a facfoulty18c0hoseto ficials ot open the school hte earlier eforts for integration, have "carried enter thsechool eachyad du-r forts. day before resumed their et- it further" and caflolerdlocalcontrol oflo- ing the tsfirtwosrkties. D.r That night, the Board of cal schosl. Taef,l principal, closed the chsol ot" insure Regents approved an interim A"management sutdy" conducted i n 1962 thesafetyof the students." decentralization bill, to released findings similar to those that h a d Agreat maoyjtirof students into efect immediately. Under Dan. been made 10 yeaerasrlier b y anohter .lnepa supthpeofirstted strike, but the special high Like its predeceso,r this ustdy recommended some aeltr reversed their opi- schosl, including Science, are decentralization. nions. nWeh thethird strike central board. under the supervision of hte Three Years Later began Octobe,41ra group of Deputy Superintendent 5 0 students ilegaly entered Selig Unheeded in 1962, hsti proposal swa enacted theschool at01 am, express- Lester ordered Science ot be in 1965, when, a t hte direction of the Board ingtheir opposition to the UFT opened, October 18. Mrs. Hen- of Education, School Superintendent D.r B-er a n dtheir desire to resume rietta Mazen, Acting Chair- learning.They atsdown ina man of the Maht department. n a r d D o n o v a n r e o r g a n i z e d t h e csho ol s y s t e m . His plan, stil in effect, set u p 30 comyutni coridor and, together appointed Acting Prin- boards around the cyti, each appointed by the they cipal. Fifteen teachers and 175 cutshsedwalkout. Students students entered the school Board of Education and each given na advi- had threatened previously ot As the strik e continued, a-t sory role in schol policy. enter the school with t e a c h e r s tendance increased. By By 1966 decentralization was more than to conduct classes, b u t t h e y 563 28. and just the fo school administrators had never done os. students were attending Since the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation Mtso striking teachers re- decision, civil rights groups charged that "de mained no t h e b i c k e t Tine Striking teachers started temporary schools at Our Lady facto segregation" prevailed ni New York Some, however, entered the of Mercy Church and Mount t h a t , s i n c e m o s t n e i g h b o r h o o d s w e r e over- discussion dna exchanged an- Eden Jewish Center ni the whelmingly black or white, most enrollmen's with students Others held classes in of public schools were predominantly of one a n d other teachers. their homes or in available race. eOn hour before, a predo- minantly black group of about rooms, These actions were a p To insure integration, the Board of Educa- proved by the UFT, tion adopted policies of pairing. Open Enroll- 2 5 students had chagred onti Most, teachers agreed with hte schtorugohol and busing. They all failed and were Chapter Chairman M.r Mark discontinued, tee policemen asked then reflect teachers' fears, fears In 1966, a windowless and segregated I. S. to leave, they went outside. for their jobs and fears for 201 opened ni central Harlem, As a "neighbor- D.r Taffel did not report to their physical safety. They do hood school," ti would be segregated; it could schooltheolowinko v e r notTeleetheteacherseele be integrated only by programs that had been tober 15. After na order from ings on decentralization, nor Distric Suderintenden abandoned. Community leaders maintained are they in any way a racial Charles Shapp, the school was conflict." that if black children were placed in all-black opened. Sixty students and 10 s o m e teachers including schools, then these schools should be respon- teachers conducted classes in Mr. Irwin Dubno and Mr. sive to the needs of the black community. .I S. Stuart Elenko, both of the 201 became the first school in whose operation fo Cuba" and the "implica- Social S t u d i e s department, the community had a voice, and the precedent tions of biological warfare." thought that the strikes were had been established of black groups calling Dr. Shapp's order followed necessary to prevent the re- for neighborhood-run schools. a morning incident, in which turn of a "McCarthy which teachers could be tired After the entrance of the Ford Foundation, anonstriking teacher and sev- the issues of decentralization and community eral students broke into the without hearing. annal"ration i n n i n progressed, D O w e r converged. In March 1967, the state opened the doors to students. bitterness and division devel- legislature had rejected Mayor Lindsay's re- School opened October 16 at oped among the faculty. Many q u e s t f o r the city's schools unless 8 : 3 0 am w i t h Charles pro-union people called those decentralization was adopted, The mayor ap- Caffarella as Acting Principal. who crossed the pointed Ford Foundation President McGeorge Reinteld Fourteen teachers and 180 stu- picket line "scabs" and "trai- Bundy to head a panel of educators to draw STRIKE: Students who want to enter Science assemble across the street from the closed d e n t s crossed a noisy pieker tors." On one occasion, two up such a plan. The Ford Foundation also school. Striking teachers, and sympathetic students form picket line in the background. line of about 250 teachers, teachers supplied $135,000 for three independent school As the strike continued, students entered the school daily in a more orderly fashion. p a r e n t s , a n d s t u d e n t s . M a n y blows. districts - I.S. 201, Two Bridges, and Ocean Hill-Brownsville — as experimental projects. Released in November 1967, the Bundy Re- port called for the creation of from 30 to 60 Community School Districts whose schools New CUNY Admissions Policy 'Survey' Announces Editorial Board would be directed by 11-member boards with Arthur Lubow. 4.25, and Ken six members selected by the district residents Seeks Balanced Ethnic Make-up neth Lieberman, 4-29, are the new and five chosen by the mayor. This plan was editors-in-chief of Survey. Henry the basis for a proposal that Mayor Lindsay The City University has changed schools who achieve a minimum its admissions policy ot markedly In some schools, students with average of 70 Dunow, 4-1, is the associate editor. submitted in January 1968 to the legislature. Lubow edits the articles, while After the Board of Regents submitted a strong increase the percentage of blacks general diplomas and with aver- Lieberman designs hte page lay. bill, Albert Shanker and 500 UFT teachers and Puerto Ricans in its student ages as low as 68 will be able to outs. Dunow writes headlines and went up to Albany to lobby against it. Gov. body. t h e City University. news stories Rockefeller signed a compromise plan, June 12. As a consequence of the change. graduates s c h o o l s i n Discussing the changes he plans students from these two ethnic where many students have for the newspaper this year, Lu- Explosive Situation groups will compose 26 per cent of Jow averages, will be most aftect- bow said, "Survey will be bolder Conditions in Ocean Hill Brownsville, the freshman class in the fall of ed yb this change. At Science, the and more experimental. We will triggered the controversy that exists today. employ new invouts. new head- That district had set up an experiment in 1969. This enrollment will corres- averages of the top 100 graduates pond to the percentage of black are sufficient for admission to the line type styles, and new appro- community control a year before. The local to stores, and Puerto Rican students among City University These governing board in May "transferred" 19 ch anges are designed to capture the city's high school graduates. The new policies, which the uni- teachers who allegedly had "obstructed decen- the interest of our readers." Last fall, blacks and Puerto Ric- versity's Chancellor Albert Bow- tralization". social necessity," Survey's editorial board also in- To insure "the right to teach," the UFT University's freshman class. wil make 800 additional students cludes Howard Shaw, 4-5, sports editor; David Kusnet, 4.25 and voted three times to strike the city schools in T w o new plans imolement the eligible for admission this fall to a senior college. Dr. Rowker Dre Deborah Hwang,4-4, featureedi- a response to what it feels was a violation of tors; Suzanne Wilkens, 4-29, news due process on the part of the Ocean Hill othe academic high dicted that 250 would attend. and board. Next year, non-public academic Richard Infante, 4-8, The state legislature has yet to draw up a guaranteed admission to a high schools w i l t h e i n c l u d e d i n managers: Ralph Kahn, 4-25, cir- senior college in the City Univer final plan for decentralization, one which will the program. In schools with over sity. In addition, the university 500 graduates, the top 100 will be culation manager, and Janet Rob- resolve how much power local boards will have guaranteed admission to a senior erts, 4-8, exchange editor. in hiring and firing teachers and in determin- y e a r h o n e s t o o p e r a t e fi v e city high schools with a predom- C a l l e university. Mrs. Linda Feingold is serving ing s chool curricula. T he crisis over decentral- inantly black and Puerto Rican schools with fewer than 500 sen- in her sec ond year as faculty ad- ization- orcommunitycontrol- promisesto enrollment, a n d t o u n r a n t e e a d lors, the top 20 per cent wil be continue. -D. Kusnet mission to al graduates of these i n s u r e d a d m i t t i n c e Lieberman, Dunow, and Lubow, the 'Survey' Editors. Public Schools Unable to Function 43 Reach Merit Semifinals History Department Accepts As UFT and Local Board Quarrel Forty-three Science seniors are Scholarship semifinalists are semifinalists ni this year's Natior Roger Plans to Initiate Black History Albert Shanker, President of of 350 who chose not ot accept la Merit Scholarship competition. Benjamin Benali Plans are under way to include "The purpose of the committee the United Federation of Teach- transfer out of the district. Semfiinstail arcehosen no the Jay Jef Busch, Ina the topic of black history ni the make recommendations to ers, warned August 16 that teach- The number basis oftheir escosr no the Qual- Cholst, ers would it decentraliza- ers had dwindledot 10, with eht 1yib desy taxeh in rebruary o David, James Cohen, Marjory Social Studies curriculum. The er- C O T T O C H present inadequacies t o W a r d s Judith quest for instruction in black his tion did not provide them nO thejunioryear. There wer 150,0 Freedman, Linda Gerstein, Mich tory was one adequate safeguards. One month September M.r s n a n k e n national semifinahtsilists year elle Godlsetni, Samuel Gutmann of five major stu- the teaching of black history," Mr dent "demands" presented to D.r Arthur Merovick, S t u d i e later, his union r u l e d i s pron brought 53,000 ofeht city's570,0 1,200 from NewYork eS.at roth, Doron Hozler James Hoch- Alexander Taffel last June. ise by striking ot protest the ac- t e n c h e r The1,200New YorkSatet semi- Mr. Dubno. c o t t i n O c e a n h u - b r o w n claiming that the teachers whofinalists repre eslsenthtan GailKo,lai David Kusnet, Arthur school had be At that time last year, Dr. Taf- ville governing board. tried ot return to hte Ocean HIl- p e r c e n to ft h e graduanitg high Lubow, Andrew seister. fel noted that hte proposed that instruction ni Mischinsky, Katherin Mulvihel, Jeft gun planning instruction in black black history and urban problems Ocean HIll-Brownsville is one B r o w n s v i l l e schools h a d n o t beer s c h o o l sdentits i neht state, T h e y Ddvia Nie m,nse mistory betore studen pre ts b e a u t i n the seventh or e i t of three experimental demonstra- permitted ot enter their class madeaminimumscore fo741 on Lewsi Oberlander, theQualifyingTest. Mary O'Sheal sented their "demands." tion sponsored A committee on black history, alternate plan, some Ford Foundationot test decentral- When Mayor Lindsay andDr. Allsemifinalitsrompeteforap RandyPollack formed last year by Dir herber t l e a c h e r s suggested program ization. Last May, t h e l o c a l b o u r d Donovan promised to r e t u r n e 3,000 scholar n o Quinn, ciEr Rosen, Victor submited its report which would divide the ta Ocean Hill-Brownsville trans- disputed teachteorstheir class valued a t more than eight mition David Droximatel RubiMnchia,el Sartisky, at a department meeting, October year into three or four distinct Terred reachers, nI support of gollars S a u l , Barton d,Shcleonef Howard such subjects as civi their The returned to their Shaw, Brian Smith, Gerson neS.rt Irwin Dubno, M.r Stuart Elenko, liberties, socioloky, black history. stayed out of the eight district schools. September 30 The NationalMeriCtorporation a w a r e s o n et h o u s a n d non-reneu stein, moiNa VilkoJ,erry W-nie M.r Emanuel Harrison, .Mr Don- and comparative government. The schools. wilta, Gordon s c h w a r t . ano During the next two weeksv,i- ablescholarships wornthe thous Paul English department recently insti- No charges were filed against the 271, a n ddollarseach These award Brian Zack. erupted Strom. tuted a similar structural change teachers when they were trans- which became thefocusofthe areallocatedstateb y state. in the senior curriculum. ferred. The union therefore pro- as viola- W h a t a n t Theotber2,000 scholarl fought the return ofthe 16dis arefouryearawards sponsoerd by 'Observatory' Announces commitee report, Merovick tions of due process. educators who h a d taught corporations, founds said, "Every high school has been governing board asked bysome interested group ot later brought charges or unsatis at that .hocols tions, colleges, untons, trusts, and The central b o a r d suspended associations,a swell Editors for Coming Year re-evaluate its course of study to factory performance against 01 fo make sure that there is Thir treat the 19 Civil the local dbora Ooctber 6for30 asb yt h eNationalMeritCorpora days for refusing ot reassian tho tion itselfA. winnerofa four ment fothe American Negro ni the teaching of American history." Court Judge Francis Rivers, hte controversial teachers, whonow trial examiner, cleared the teach- numbered He added that most of the changes only.38 wTo daysla- 531,500 sraldol a yearfos ers. The other nine now being discussed will be grad. educators had e,tr hte central board suspended wears. Four-year sches areawardedonanational ual. agreedtoaccepttransfersoutfo sevenofhteeightdistrictprinci the district. During the summer District Ad- pals one erquesdt ratnsfer eThcocomindationolsepes r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s an d M r McCoy. It a l s oclosed A b o u tJ ip e r tnec o feht s e m i ministrator Rhody c C o y h i r e d vsioins ni al Social Studies class- f inalist s cventuall y become fius i replacements for the 350 J.H.S. 271 October 1a0nd Octo- es. A ists.Alterconsideringthequaliti- tuni no Africa has already who had walked out ni ber 1, in an aetmpt t o"cool been introduced ni the freshman teachers cationso ft i efinalists,a lenap o f May. M.r McCoy informed 20 of off" the situation. e d u c a t o r sW i l ls e i c e st h ew i n n e r e classes. the 350 teachers who had not re- However, M.r Shanker claimed For sophomore Social Studies htat teachers werstilel being-ha Itwill announce the names of the the committee recom quested transfers that they rassed. On October 13, newh het w i n n e r s May 1 longer had jobs in Ocean Hil. mended a study of the African central board reinstated the seven 5 2 Sceinectsi w e r e slave trade and a discussion of receiving principals a nd scheduled het T h r e e racism tions from their president, execu- ni the 19th century. o p e n i n g f o J H. S. . 2 7 1 , NationalMerit Schoalrshpis while The nature of slavery and the tive board, and delegate assembly, asked union membser ot voet for fivweonsponsored scholarships. teachers voted 12,021 to 1,716 ni anti-slavery movement the I n another conspontsoerdest by United States are suggested topic. favor of a strike, and they went another and out September .9 The 4,000-mem- sponded, voting 460,2 to 2,128 to Natota Merit Corporaoitn, of study for American history 1 3Scienceiteswere committist ber Council foSupervisory Aso- strike, O c t o b e r 1o c i a t i o n s decided close The union demanded removal Nonialat Achievement The proposed senior Social Stu- who Scholarship Program. Shis DrO dies course contains the tradition- schools "for the safety of the chil. fo the Ocean Hill principals, toneoer gram awards scohtoblalarcskhipsDena Kleiman and Rolfe Auerbach are the new 'Observatory' editors. dren" sympathy allegedly harassed UFT al unit on Reconstruction,butit with the teachers. the Thsi blocked early settlement of sudnets no the strike. After appellate scoornes het Qualifying Test and Rolfe Auberbach, 4-13, and De- literary editors; Sandra Weisband, sI now expanded ot include stu- d i e s o f p r e s e n t r a c i a l u n r e s t in was reached returning the teach. After two days an agreement court ruled November 15 that the the Colege Boards. Students also na Kleiman, 4-1, wil eb the edi- 4-20, and Charles Le, 416 .ar t America. ers to school, September 1, The orisinal appointmen torthedis editors; Victor Kubin, s p o r t submit autobiographies. Last year tors-in-chief of Observatory, the editor; David Reinfeld, 4-26, pho- illegal, Scienceites agreement called for the returnof puted principals W a i s Achievement Scholarships. senioryearbook, in the comnig tography the original 10 teachers and the compromise was quickly reached. The forty-three National Merit P il a. 《4-12, business manager; Jen FREE TRIAL reinstatement of any in the group More details in the next issue. "This year," Auberbach said, nifer Mussig, 4 7 . a n d G a i l Z i m wli ton eb mermann, 4-8, senior section edi- SESSION! cerned with winning medals. We tors; and Rita Goldwasseg, COLLEGE 1 Teachers Leave, 27 Join Faculty mainly want ot please our read- managing editor. By JANET ROBERTS Sodikow, and Mrs. Sarita Cordell the wife of the late M.r Charles ers." The other members of Observa- ENTRANCE Seven teachers have permanent- have joined the English depart. Hodes, chairman of the Foreign tory's editorial board are Robert Language department from 1938 yl left Science's faculty, while ment. Mrs. Charlotte Levy nas t Bata, 41-, and Jane Leifer, 4-5, CANGER BOARDS turned from leave. others a r e temporary Mrs. Evelyn Tropp, a French In the Social Studies depart- leave.Theyarereplacedby19 tencher. has taken a temporat ment, M.r Herbert Falkenstein is away on leave. and air .Artnu Courses Throughout the Year new teachers and eight faculty JOE'S K a r l i n , Merovick, chairman, has returned for Juniors and Seniors members In the Biology department, D.r who teaches Russian, has returned from a one term sabbatical leave. returning from leave. FORDHAM NIC REGENTS COACHIN G George Smith has reured, He si from and her replacement, M.r William Stark and Mrs. Bar- Army &Navy Store COURSES r. Kenneth Bobrow. MisSylviaMaizel,hasleftthe hara Advocate are new members BOYS sky, who hasreturned from an ret replaced by M school. The new members of the of the department. A r n o l d GIRLS Licensed Teachers Only department are Miss Ma rion Fa- Moss urned from s t e CPO SHIRTS - LEES expedition ot the jungles of Pan- tell, Mrs. Judith Candullo, and leave. QUEENS LOCATION PEA COATS IS Mrs. Helen Hodes. Mrs. Hodes is In the Mathematics department, HELANE STUDIO Mr. Philip Saltz, Mr. Richard Mr. Alan Bell is on study leave, SCIENCE JACKETS 40-42 Main CONVERSE 047 Mai Seatiching ternity leave. Replacing them are Classes Continue Despite Strike; and Mrs. Florence Blau si on ma- SO.. DISCOUNT BRONX LOCATION M.r Peter Holtzman, M.r Emanuel HUNTER SECRETARIAL SCHOOL dified Courses Feit, Mr. Sidney Honig, and M.r 215 E. Fordham Road Students Attend Mo David Kaplan. GET ROBED NOT ROBBED AT Building unorthodox in some of the Mr. Lance Geshwind, Miss Car- (Near Grand Concourse) (Editor's Note: This article was m ore Jeremiah ol Greenwald, and M.r u ritten a t t h eb eginning o other classes. Mr. Robert Rossner, to ran MANHATTAN LOCATION school's operation. Later, the pro- of the English department, told Goodwin have left the Physical "T'm here to Scionce department. They are re Just minutes fromwhereyouare 505 5th Avenue gram became more structured. Se his students, placed by M.r Peter Melzer and U60 pWEST wKINnGSBRBIDGE ROAcDh (At 42nd Street) next issue.) what you want to learn." His class M.r Frederick Weisholz. Mr. Bert Opposite the Armory the relation between TUTORING IN The students who crossed the content a n d form in art, spending. Kleinsinger and Mrs. Augusta S o- JA NUA RY SALE STARTS NOW ALL SUBJECTS teachers' picket line to go to much of the period debating the b e have returned from leave. Nehru,CastanandContackShirtsby Five teachers have joined and Designer Sportswear, Rajah, Michael The Folow Booklets Wil Be school during the third UFT strike m e r i t o f J i m i H e n d r i x , a r o c k m u two have left the minor subject Sent free bon Webb, Viceroy. had varied motives and sympa- Regularly to $12.95 - Now $2.88 "GOOD STUDY HABITS" thies. Not all students came chiefly departments. e staff as an above Added to th t o $ 5 . 8 8 • NONE HIGHER!! ENTRANCE In the auditorium, before class. for instruction. quota teacher is Mrs. Jean Boyd. CALENDAR es began, the names of teachers onen the school "to express sym" FOR FULDETAILS CONTACT pathy a n d agreement and courses went up on the black› Ocean HIll-Brownsville governing THE COPY SH OP AS 8 E. Kingsbridge Rd. LOW 2° 5° American Cancer Society BORO TUTORNIG NIC. board, and the cheering students board, to protest a n illegal made their selections. selfish strike." Others, a small m i Bronx, N. Y. 10468 AS EUGENE WEXLER, Director possessed different nority, hoped to provoke a Phone 549-4110 frontation" outside the school b e Mazen's calculus tween themselves, the union s u p class, students attended not and nolice They XEROX COPIES cause of their feelings on the failed. LUdlow 4-7245 Since 1897 strike indeed, many supported Classes ended at the bells and, FREE COLLATING t h e U F T position — but because, as the sounds of jeers hurled b s in the words of one boy, "We want some of the picketing teachers and Tel. t o l e a r n . " They received written f r o m outside 212-584-8110 J alus homework, which they had ready through the open windows, stu- thenextday. A t e m usual t o their OLD FASHIONED ICE CREAM PARLOR Mr. Ernest Strom, of the Social next class. But there was a dif- AND COFFEE SHOP Studies department, discussed the ferent atmosphere - one of volun- Transcendentalists, especially Hen- tary, rather than compulsory, edu- Come Back Charlie Private Room Available for Parties r y David Thoreau, H e also a s "This is my third year at signedhomework thereading Science,"o n e senior n o t e d "and All Is Forgiven 294 EAST KINGSBRIDGE ROAD BRONX,N.Y. of the essay, "Civil Disobedience." for the first time I feel 1 am The subjects of discussion were getting a real education." Page Three A Costly Strike DonhaldhPleaSshenc the G s e's Sensitive Performance Faculty Corner In a singular series of three walkouts, the U n i t e d I Federation of Teachers defied the Taylor Law and closed down the city's 900 Hig ig ts aw's 'Man in las Booth' schools at the expense of 1.1 million students. Mr. Rifkin The strikes were unusual on two counts. First, By ARTHUR LUBOW ing. The mistake of the Israe li agents si too stupid they united labor and management - teachers A magnificent performance by Donald Pleasence to be credible. The Man ni the Glass Booth is con- and supe rvisors. S econd, they were, ni actual- transforms Robert Shaw's unexceptional melodrama, structed around a sensational and fl im sy ity, directed not against the Board of Educa- The Man ni hte Gals Booth, niot na impressive The basic question, of course, is G o l d m a n ' s m o tion, but against the governing board and hte theatrical event, tive, Why did he allow himself to be taken to In administrator of the small, black, Ocean Hil- The plot of the play, which opened September 62 rael? Why did he confess ot the crimes? Why did Brownsville community. at the koyale incater, sI simple. T he burn a hole in his armpit, to simulate an oblit- kidnap Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessman who, hree Israeli agent. crated S insignia? Al parties involved share ni the blame for they claim, is really Adolt Dorft, a n S S colonell I've Got a secret t h e s e s a k e s . By arrogantly disregarding al They bring hmi back t o Israel rof trial where, Shaw never tels us, usual procedures, Administrator w a l e inside a glass booth, he contesses that eh en v a r t o u s possibilities. A Mr. Rifkin Rhody McCoy and the governing board direct- joyed committing countless heinous crimes. eTh trial cals Goldman a masochist, but this explanation si leads pickets lychallenged the UFT. If they had been more interrupted by Mrs. Lehmann. relukee too simple to be acceptable, Cryptic references to interested in experimental education hnat in Germany, ohw reveais thCatol. Dorff i s dead Chsrit suggest that Goldman si a man who, over. durint setting precedents, they docul have waited and that hte mainntheglassboht is hurAtrGold- come Dy his own sense of guilt, is doing penance b o n e o r twomonthsandquietlytransferredthe19 man. The wed buildinganddyingnoacrossofhisownmanufactheopeningdays teachers at the end of eht astl school year. Very Beilliant... But Frightening ture. Perhaps, the judge says, Goldman wants The Board of Education, which never -ed "toput in the docks a G e r m a n who would say what third strike fined the powers of eht olcal board, isalso Pleasence is ainblitr as Godlnian. Wchi an eir no German has ever said". Shaw reopens the old guilty. So si Mayor Lindsay, w h o c o n f u s e d and frightening paosin, he dance,s giggles. smirks, questions of guilt and expiation, but he fails ot pro- Mares, whispers, nda snricks. the issues and antagonized boht dsies. mor,f eh devilers a neap toAdolt Heltir, cuirinat Harold Pinter's direction is admirable. The sup- Nonetheless, het UFT weakened sti own ar- o f trenzica S i e u Hets. Thal guments by calling three illegal strikteoso p etf i s stunning. nI hsi powerful portrayal or this Presman as Goldman's assistant and Tresa Hughes pose the ilegal activities o f the locabloard. difficult chawrachtero c o u l d e a s i l y hvie boceme as Msr. Lehmann. But they ear eclipsed yb M.r Pleas- Apparently, the union beivles thathe only just a caricature, Plessence i s int u r n vulgar. In this play, the play's not the thing; ti si way to e n tor c e lent, tender,and terrifyingb,uthe nev er P l easence's perform anc e which spellbinds the au- This philosophy is alarmiinng itself, butwhne be believable. M.r Mark Rifkin, the new UFT chapter chairma n, it is supported by a union o f The playItzelf, however, teachiertsb,e- is ton totalcolnvyni memorable event. shrugs his shoulders, blinks his blue eyes, and says comes unthinkable. the universe has gone mad. When these kierst a r e placed in the p e r - Quoting Yeats he comments, "Things fal apart; spective of ptas UFT poliey, they become even Metropolitan Atr Museum the center cannot hold." Mr. Rifkin si troubled, for Displays Frescoes more indefensible. The Usa Fh'T a record of eh belie center us tra opends guly "maintaining an ves hte diti opposition to menanguifl decentralization. By BARBARA ZAHLER change." which si not surprising, becaues decentraliza- Wneh ht e flooding ArnoRiver As Chairm tion of the schol system would fotrhcede- an of the Bronx Science Chapter of the damaged Florence's a r t eratsuers r e s p o n d e d o y contrib United Federation of Teachers, Mr. Rifkin hopes "to centralization fo hte union. yB strikingt,he A m e r i c a n s unity a faculty divided ni politics, in age, in outlook. UFT alienated the black community and frag- uting2.2 milldionllarsthrough mented its own body. Thdeecision of t h e Council of Supervisory Associations to support The monewyast e d torestore Native Son the strikes by closing the chsosol yonl rein- damaged .wksor Born ni the Bronx, Mr. Rifkin was educated ni the forced the beliefs of those who seethe skrites in n o o r c i n ton. the a l a m o v New YorkCity public schools. He attended the High as a conflict between the white establishment ernment, het Pontifical Commis- School of Music and Art and graduated magna cum and the black community. sion o n S a c r e d Art. a n d the Oli- laude from City College. vetti Company elnt hte As a result of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Met- Although he was active in his college dramatics controversy, the State Legislature may aban- that field b Rifkin never considered a career in traordinary collection of frescoes. ecause, eh explains, "As early as I can don plans to decentralize the city school y-s «The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto remember, & have wanted to be a teacher. tem. T h i s would be the greatest disaster of to Pontormo" included 64 ersfcoes After receiving a Master's Degree in English at all. The overgrown, bureaucratic, inefficien' before been Columbia University. Mr. Ritkin realized his dream Board of Education must be decentralized t o sen outside Italy. Although the He taught French at Yeshiva High School and then provide the flexibility needed to improve the works all portray religious sub went to bodye vocationa h o o . W h e r e jects, they illustrate various styles taught English for five years before joining the city school system. By abandoning meaningful stylized Gothic English department at Science decentralization, the Legislature would deprive figures of Giotto ot hte muscular New York City of a necessary reform. Favors Due Process Sarto. Commenting on the recent leachers w a l k o u t , The creation of a fresco was an M r . K e n s a d t h a t t e n c h e r W e r e T o r c h o o d n Black History i n u o l v o d p r o c e s s . T h e o r t i s t f i r s t The Metropolitan Museum of Art The sinonia (left) and fresco of "The Crucifixion with 8 . Bernard, onstrate that due process must be maintained." sketched his preliminary drawing. "The forces of chaos tried to make the strike seem Traditionally, American education has dis- or sinopia, on a plaster wall. 1hit canvas is pulled offwith the fres Fresco painting was painstaking a strike against blacks." Mr. Ritkin continued. "11 tortedor ignored blackcontributionsto the was covered with athin coat of co attached ot it. Water dissolves work with no margin for wasnot. Itwasagainstchaos." history of America and the world. On the wet plaster. on which the artist the and frees the b e c a u s e d r i e d the plaster 100 According to Mr. Rifkin, "decentralization can be part of many teachers an d textb ook writers, abolied tempera paint. which is then mounted on mason. quickly to al low w o n d e r f u l tool for the imorovement of tesching a combination of ignorance and p a te rna li stic before enaissance, During the early R ite or fiberglass The sinopia •Thesinopias are in , general, more and earning. l " How ever, he oppos es granting local racism has deprived the black student of his the Van Eyck bro thers pop- r e m o v e d s i m i l a r l y m o d e r n a n d fl u i d t h a n t h e t r e s boards the power to allot funds and to hire and fire eritage and denied him his self-respect, arized oil colors, the fresco was ul In h addition to the 46 frescoes, coes. The opportunity to compare teachers. The local boards, he believes, should help past few years, this unfortunate the most durable and wid espread the exhibit contained 24 sinopias, frescoes with draw up curricula and should take an active role situation has begun to change. Responding to type of painting. Italian masters which have been revealed for the probably the most exciting aspect in planning and scheduling school activities in decorated churches with hundreds first time. The fresco painter did of the show. operation w ith the professional staff. th e phenomena of "black power" and "black not el expe ct that these pr i m inary The Metropolitan published a Mr. Rifkin si a b ac helor who enjoys traveling. pride," many high schools nowoffer courses T h e t e c h n i q u e o f r e m o v i n g a sketch es would ever be seen. How- catalog describing each work ni However, he spent last summer in Brooklyn, in African h istory and language. In modern fresco from a wal was perfected ever, they are in some wa ys more remarkable vating his pre-Civil War house. At Scie nce he is textbooks, the familiar stere otype of the con- only in the last decade, Basically, interesting than the frescoes them- were d isplayed through serving his fourth year as the faculty adviser of tent, ban jo-playing plantation slave has been canvas is glued to the work. The selves. November 19. Observatory, the senior yearbook. replaced by a more accurate image. In accordance with this trend, the Social Studies department recently announced plans to add the study of black history to its cur- Students Learn to Program riculum. In detailed report, a n appointed committeeofthe SocialStudiesdepartment explained how the addition of black history School's Computer System will help to balance the historical picture. By ALLEN FRIEDMAN The request for instruction in black history Although school rules forbid gambling, students in a select math- was the most important point in the five "de- ematics course have evaded this restriction. During their lunch per- man ds" which studen ts presented to Dr. Taf- iods th ey co nsecutively hit buttons marked "divide" and waterio fel last June. The students were not aware lock" on the Friden 132 desk calculator in Room 109. A number from that the Social Studies department was al- O through 9 flashes on the calculator screen, and, in the words of one ready on plans to introduce these Junior mathematician, "We've got the largest floating computer crap working curriculum retorms. Hopefully, the depart- ga me i n New York!" ment will now move rapi dly and efficiently These students are using equipment that costs over $350,000, They are members of the Numerical Analysis (Math 11) class. to bring these reforms to the classroom. Clutter, Clutter, Clutter Since 1962, the Math department has owned an IBM 1620 digital The system has since been augmented by such machines S C I E T R VEY computer. four I B M keypunches, Olivetti Underwood programmers, published &times a year by the students of and one accounting machine. The most recent addition is an IBM 1443 printer, which was acquired last term. f r o m International THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL Originally, the computer console w a s rented Business Machines. Two years later, however, it was bought outright OF SCIENCE with funds provided by the New York City Board of Education and Yol, LXIII - No. 1 November 22, 1968 theNationn!DetenceSaucationAct Select Students Operate Computer Kenneth Lieberman sed by approximately 150 students, Pupils select- Arthur Lubow Editor-in-Chief E dito r-in -C hi et The computer is u in sophomore mathtakeMath ed on the basis of th eir ach ievement two semesters in either their junior or senior year. m- T h e y use Henry Dunow 11 f o r nts, and, after co Associate Edi t o r the facilities of the system for their class assignme n a d lowed special periods t ow o r ko Howard Shaw pieting the course, they are al Sports Editor Suzanne Wilkens v a n c e d projects News Editor Contrary to rumors , thecomputerfacilitiesarenotusedtodevise P e a t u r e Editors Deborah Hwa ng, Da vi d K usn et students' Horowitz sche d ules or to store classified information. Teachers occasion- ....M rs. Linda F neby ein gold ids." Computer'sChild all yu se the s ystem for their own work,but,a sMr.Bernard Faculty Adviser said, "Most of the fantastic thing s a redo thek PageTwo 3 Cage Coach Feels Booters Play Ball This Year's Squad Swimmers' Hopes for Season May Be Best Ever Despite Walkouts Rest on Depth and Experience " W e c a n h a v e the best team By JERRY WEINER Science soccer players, for the that we ever had fi hte players work hard so they can fulfill their The 1968 swimming season prom Rahimi, sidelined by appendicitis, there is an second year in a row, have had ing the ball away from the ises suc- abundance of freestylers on the '68 squad. topreparefortheirseasonwhile a n d SCOTLI ane Our ing. cess for a Science team two years in the mak- Captain Lloyd Mayer brought su the best young kids the200- isaseriousthreatin union teachers were out on strike. " u r k s managed two attempts ot T h e booters w o r k e d o u t o n Harris goals but both shots were voided we ever had". Entering Scie nce and 400-yard events, while Andrew in 1966, we found a team Janszky and co-captain John Okasaki will Field every day of the airst two D y t h e e t e r d e That statement yb coach No-r consisting of remnants of the strong '65 squad. provide power in the 50-yard sprints. A com- teacher walkouts. Despite a third strike, Sciences' man Lefkowitz sums u p the po wimmer, Okasaki will also There were several good swimmers, including petent all-around s booters played October 15, and timistic attitude of the 1968 Sel but the ar. Both var- Ira Brawer, holder of three school records, fill in weak spots during the ye members came ot practices on a ence basketball team. Despite the team lacked a winning comb ination. sity and junior varsity members, voluntary basis, and again, as last Danny Neuman scored all-division center Coach Arthur Backm an therefore decided to including vear, most of the squad came out goal for Scienco and Walt Zio- Greg Tillman and star guard Ma-t bu ild a nucleus of freshmen and co-captain b e o r z e Simianand David Sher- e v e r y d a y bro followed with another yt Zwgei, hte dauqs hopes to atke sophomores, man, will be used in the 100-yard event and Althoush the strike kept coach give them experience and style, and aim for yl, but Taft kept pace. The gmae the avision crown and possibly this year. the 400-yardfreestyle relay. Herbert Abend away t r a m remained t e d late in the second the cyti championship, Sander Rikleen, powerful and versatile workouts, D.r Joseph Golomb was half. Then, ni the last twomin- Last years' squad was 16-2 ni The team boasts no spectacular swimmers; swimmer, wil specialize in the 100-yard back- able to supervise tart scored twice the regular season a n d finished but it has depth, hte most important factor stroke. He will swim ni other events at the Golomb, a former player up the win. second t h e i division, behind ni dual meets, since points are awarded the discretion of coach Backman. The Turks' first victory came TheSencice team lost ot first three finishers in each race. Last yea r's Competing for the three breast stroke po official the Science October 17. Playing a strong -lla Tilden i n het playoffs. c a p t a i n s , Brawer and Richie Meyer, have sitions are six swimmers, headed by Joel Eli. s o u n d h a s helped regular around game, the Scienceites -ed Two of hat squad's starters wli graduated, but 24 other members of the squad zur, Randy Forsythe, and Jerry Weiner. The coach Abend run the team since r e n t e d t h e o l o r e r s - be back this year. One of them are back. competition between these boys is expected the beginning of last season. Science took the guard Bruce Lipshutz began last Despite the loss of varsity swimmer Dan to sharpen them for the crucial meets ahead The second w a l k o t early lead as Ronnie Zuckerman season no the bench He got In the butterfly stroke, Science has Ethan time for the squad ot begin its put one past the opposing goalie. enchac ot start when Zweig was Horowitz, Howie Wynn, senson schedule The team Columbus' only goal then knoted injured, andlater stood ni for for. DiSanto. H ardWorkbyHorowi tzandWyanShoul opened with a4-2lossot Morris, the game at 1-1. The score came seeman. He was an October 10 at Van Cortlandt Field. on apenalty shot after afoul dah immediate standout. T h e other make them winners this year. DiSanto, a jun- Inconsistent play by the Science- m o n c a l l e d a g n i n s t S e i c n e o K i n g a f o r w a r d , r e c e i v e d ior, will mature this year and keep pressure Des marked the wame Turgis Kicks Winner litle publicbiutty,hsi consistent on the other two. The Turks got off ot a fast start. Dorian Turgis kicked in the dog ayp,l csoccay under. Swimming team tryouts were held early in Early in the first period, captain g a m e - w i n n e r a t e in the s e c o n d backboards, was an invaluable ar Octobe r. Although the turnout was disap- Walter h o b r o l b r o k e d o w n e d quarter. Coming ni on a break- seto theteam pointing, several of the candidates showed and got by the Morris defenders s h o t t h e ball past ehT only o t h e r man with a set promise. Among the top prospects are free- f o r 4 0 8 ) t h e b o u l e , j u s t i n s i d e t h e p o s i t i o n i s ve e St L e v i n e w h o , - c a S c o t t G i b b s , N e i l N o r w o o d , D a v e quickly retaliated and tied the C O T A I N S Lefkowitz Schneider, and Lew Wolfin; backstrokers Zuckerman capped the scoring "should bena outstanding center." Lewis Jasson, Steve Jones, Larry Kusko, and the Science defense held off the with a strong shot from hte 18- a t t a c k . b u t T u r k yard line. wards Mike Sartisky, Tony Hil, Harry Wolin; flymen Dave Collins and Steve booters also failed ot score. Throughout the game, a n d Satnely James. Fabrikant; and breaststroker Steve Putter- Morris Makes Its Move Densi Blackman, Lewis Fox, and man. Morris dominated the second umbus attack. The Explorers' of. D a v i d Thomas. In the final standings, coach Backman pre- quarter. scoring one goal and com• fense was unable to mount any outstanding pros dicts, Science will be second only to Monroe. ing close on another. Again the serious scoring threats. The Eagles have dominated the league for defense held the Turks in check. Kenny Sargent and several years. According to Backman, Clinton Science looked stronger as the Board Bans Guns "definitely can" n o boaten. The other only second half began. Goalie Peter McLean. Lefkowitz feels that with Orphanos made several good saves Ry o r d e r o f t h e B o a r d or P a t competition in the league will come from Sew- ard, but again Backman feels Science will on Morris shots. The Scie nce of- cation, Science will have no rifle- ter than former stars Tillman and Swimmers work out at an October practice. come out ahead. fense gave an excellent display of Ty t e a m this year. passing and dribbling, but could cided, because of "the gun situa- Those players who do not make not mount a scoring attack, country, A Science foul, deep rifle teams in city public make the junior varsity team. ownterritory, allowed Morris to SCHOOlN this year, for the first time, Scienceites Compete for Basebal Roster Spots s o a h e a d 2 - 1 o n a d i r e c t c o r n e r Just last year, the PSAL had re- junior varsity wil have a ful- Several hundred Scienceites about 40 spots on the varsity and He added, "I can usually tell a kick. Morris scored again later in demonstrated their hitting, pitch- J u n i o r V i t t i t y T o s t e r good hitter by the way he stands p e r i o d o n a s w e e p t h r o u g h riflery divisions, thereby doubl regularly scheduled games. ing, and fielding prowess at Har- Perhaps because of the cold and up at the plate. I just look for Science's backfield. Dorian Turgis ing science's schedule. T h e 19b? What kind of game can Science w e n d y w e a t h e r there was little certain moves. Ican usuallyguess scored the final Turk goal, 68 squad, under the direction of basketball fans expect ot see this ris Field October 4, as the base- good hitting. Few balls were hit right about98 per centofthetime. M.r Martin Greene. hal vent Winnin one ball team held its annual tryouts, out of the infield in fact, Some of these guys havenever wasted the clock for coach Lefkowitz. The boys were competing for were hit at all. Varsity coach Her- bert Abend was not discouraged, While Abend looked at the hit "We're not looking for ters. Junior varsity cosch Tames Sportsviews the hits," he said. "We're looking Hodrinsky scouted the pitching for the way you stand up there at prospects. Some had good control, the plate. It's hard to get loose but few had the speed needed by today." a good pitcher. A False Start Runners Must Overcome Hurdles To Achieve Success in '68 Season Howard Shaw Hoping for better things this year, the Science track team is preparing for the 1968 cross-country season, Coach For the second time in as many years, a teachers' strike for the opening meet. "If there had been school before the Louis Heitner feels certain his squad w i l l t improve on last has forced the closing of New York City public schools. The strike," Heitner said, "I could have organized a team and met year's 0-3 record, effects on students' academic life have been widely publicized the boys in Van Cortlandt Park. But we were in two days Heitner has only one open tryouts were held October 3, - lost classroom time, work having to be made up, postpone- and out again. There was no time to prepare." runner on the team as the 4, and 7. Coach Heitner feels ment of the Regents Scholarship Examination. The swimming team also suffered because of the strike. year begins. (An open runner that the loss of practice time Somewhat less attention has been paid to the disruption Obviously, with schools shut down the squad members could is one who has won a medal due to the strikes hurt his the walkout caused in the public schools' athletic program. not practice at their home base, the Walton swimming pool. in competition and therefore squad a great deal. The effects there were just as widespread as in the academic Most of the boys were able to get in some work on their own may race against thebest Regardless of the strike, area, if not as obviously harmful. at YMCA's or municipal pools, but, according to captain Lloyd runners in the city.) Still, he though, Science has good The most publicized incident in school sports during the Mayer, "We can't get into good shape that way." Mayer feels hopes to build a strong team chances for medals t h e strike did not involve Science, because this school does not that there must be a coach pushing and putting pressure on with the returning trackmen 880-yard and 2-mile relays. have a football team, Although schools were closed, the Unit- the swimmers if they are really to get into top form. and his crop of rookies. The relay teams, anchored by ed Federation of Teachers allowed PSAL football coaches to At least four swimming meets had to be rescheduled as a result of the walkout. Captain Mayer says that, in a way, ers' strikes, the upperclass- are at top strength. Other re- During the first two teach- co-captain Danny Krakow, hold practices with their teams As the season's scheduled opening day, September 2 8 their postponement may work ag ainst S cience. Although it turning members of the squad approached, the labor dispute remained unsettled. The coach- will give our swimmers more ti me to work out, the Science- men worked out inVan Cort- Jeffrey Carter, Pattl ites' individual practice might have given them an advantage landt Park. But there were Chin, Kevin Constant, Mark es announced their intention to play, but the UFT had dif- over their opponents had the meets been held on schedule. no new team members to join Lerner, L u n a r s h c a n s . and f e r e n t ideas. "We permitted them to practice, but they must them until the long-delayed David Tashman. have been naive to think we would let them play," UFT Vice- In the case of soccer, the strike was far from harmful. President George Altomare commented, In fact, claims captain Walter Ziobro, "It helped us. It gave Many schools cancelled their games, but the Clinton and us more free time to practice." Smith coaches refused to give in. Their teams played as sched- The team made good use of the time. Every day of the P E N R O D ' S PHOENIX LABS uled, with Clinton winning, 46-0. s trike, under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Golomb, they prac- CARDS - TOYS - PARTY FAVORS At Science, the effects of the walkout were most strongly ticed for about three hours on Harris Field. Last year's squad, STATIONERY-REVIEW BOOKS 35th St. and 28th Ave. Astoria, L. I. C. 11103 felt by the track, swimming, and soccer teams, since their sea- which folowed much the same procedure during the 1967 706 Lydig Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. sons start earlier in the year than those of other squads. strike, was the best Science soccer team ever. 726-5468 Among the coaches and captains I spoke to, track coach Dr. Golomb, a former soccer player for Morris High Louis Heitner was most vehement in his criticism of the School, is an unofficial coach of the Science squad. He has • LIVE & PRESERVED strike. "It was definitely bad for athletics," Heitner said. helped regular coach Herbert Abend manage the team since BEDFORD ANIMALS The walkout hit the track team especially hard, partly the middle of last year. BOOK STORE because of PSAL regulations. Those rules state that runners • LAB GLASSWARE should have at least 15 workouts beforecompeting in the Soon after the above o pinionswere expressed, the third All Review Books t w o - a n d - a - h a l f m i l e c r o s s - c o u n t r y m e e t s . T h e U F T s t r i k e b e g a n . D u r i n g t h a t w a l k o u t , a l l v a r s i t y s pN o o r wt s a c - • S c h o o l S u p p l i e s • CHEMICALS season was scheduled to begin in mid-October. Because of the tivity at Science, including soccer, came to a halt. the • PROTOZOANS strike and the holidays, track tryouts were not completed strike is over. The swimming and soccer seasons have been : Squirback Bo oks until October 7. To date, the team as a whole has had just extended, so those te ams will not suffer. However, the state Greeting Cards Opent oPublicSat. five workouts, far short of the required 15. of the cross-cou There is a cliché which says, '"You can't please everyone." ntry season is in doubt. 10-4:30 a n d b y Thefirst workstoppage alone did nothurt the team's Another cliché says, "Back t o the drawing board." Which is 584.3663 (Bedford Bivd.) Appointment plans, but the second one, called two days after the first had ended, ruined any chance t h e squad had for being fully ready just where the PSAL planners wil have to go. PageFour Volume/Issue Volume and Issue of a periodical. Vol. 63, No. 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Science Survey, Vol. 63, No. 1 Subject The topic of the resource Science Survey The Bronx High School of Science Description An account of the resource Science Survey, Vol. 63, No. 1. Containing the following articles: School Crisis: Decentralization; Teachers' Strike Cripples Science; New CUNY Admissions Policy Seeks Balanced Ethnic Make-up; 'Survey' Announces Editorial Board; Public Schools Unable to Function as UFT and Local Board Quarrel; 43 Reach Merit Semifinals; History Department Accepts Plans to Initiate Black history; 'Observatory' Announces Editors for Coming Year; 11 Teachers Leave, 27 Join Faculty; Classes Continue Despite Strike, Students Attend Modified Courses; A Costly Strike; Donald Pleasence's Sensitive Performance Highlights Shaw's 'Man in the Glass Booth'; Faculty Corner: Mr. Rifken; Metropolitan Art Museum Displays Fresoes; Black History; Students Learn to Program School's Computer System; Booters Play Ball Despite Walkouts; Cage Coach Feels This Year's Square May Be Best Ever; Swimmers' Hopes for Season Rest on Depth and Experience; A False Start; Scienceites Compete for Baseball Roster Spots; Runners Must Overcome Hurdles To Achieve Success in '68 Season Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Science Survey Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Bronx High School of Science Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 22, 1968 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. 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