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PHOENIX, Page ThreeEffort To Bring Baruch HereA renewed campaign to ijij bring Baruch College to the Atlantic Terminal Si Urban Renewal area was & launched by Borough ijij President Sebastian Leone ijij and city and state officials at & a meeting on the weekend. $, Leone, Assembly Minority | i Leader Steingut, Coun8 cilman Thomas J. Cuite and & other legislative and k business leaders met with ijjij Vice Chancellor Seymour & Hyman of City University and Vice President Ben | Mintz of Baruch College ijij representing CUNY concerning the future of Baruch | College.jiji The Board of Higher & Education and City ijij University had originally j%u00a3 agreed to the construction g of Baruch on the air rights of i| the Long Island Railroad jiji yards on the south side ofAtlantic Avenue, east of Flatbush Avenue. They refused to go ahead with the project when it was found that the underpinning for the new college would add $27-million to the cost of construction.At the meeting, held in the Brooklyn Club, Leone, Steingut and Cuite called on City University to reaffirm its commitment to build Baruch in the Atlantic Terminal area. They noted that the Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal had been a tripartite undertaking with the City University and the M e tr o p o lita n T r a n %u00adsportation Authority under which the University would build Baruch and the MTA would reconstruct its rail station at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.%u201c Any reneging on the part of the City University with regard to this arrangement would be a breach of faith,%u201d said Leone. %u201c The City has gone ahead with its part of the bargain. It is constructing a new Fort Greene meat market in Sunset Park and expects to raze the present facilities of the wholesale butchers in Fort Greene w ithin eighteen months. %u201c W ithin a few weeks the City will break ground for moderate income housing. The City is living up to its part of the bargain and expects the City University to do the same.%u201dRick Rosan, representing the Brooklyn Planning Office, outlined to Chancellor Hyman a site directly across Atlantic Avenue from the original site which would accommodate the needs ofBaruch in a campus-style setting.City Planning Commissioner John Zucotti, a Carroll Gardens resident, said his Commission stands firmly with Leone on the seriousness of the agreement between the Board of Higher Education and the City of New York. Assemblyman Steingut assured CUNY representatives that he would undertake to obtain the cooperation of the Governor and the State Budget Director to provide the necessary State funds. Leone and Cuite said they would work to obtain delivery of title to the city land needed for the project within ninety days after a request from City University.All agreed that a meeting ijijshould be arranged bet- ijijween Mr. Luis Quero- jijiChiesa, Chairman of the S Board of Higher Education, and Lfeone within ten days 8 so Leone can present the jijiCity's demand for reaf- ji;ifirmation of the Board of ijijHigher Education%u2019s com- 8 mitment to the Atlantic jjjjTerminal location for Brooklyn. *%u2022Also at the meeting were |ijiAssemblyman Leonard ijijSilverman and Councilmen i;!; Monroe Cohen, Rudolph jijiDiBlasi, Kenneth Haber, 8 Angelo Arculeo and Leon ijijKatz. L oca l City Coun- | cilman Fred Richmond jijilast month vowed to ijijhalt all City University 8 business in the City Countil g until the move of Baruch to ijijBrooklyn was affirmed. 88.Ban Succeeds;Prices DropBY JOHNBLACKMORE%u201cTremendous, We did it!%u201d exclaimed a Park Slope housewife ondiscovering chuck steak at 99 centsa lb. The beleaguered consumerindeed had reason to feel smugabout the clout delivered last weekto the.nation's meat industry. Theweek-long meat boycott had beensuccessful beyond anyone%u2019s expectations, particularly in thecommunity-active neighborhoodsinjSouth Brooklyn, Park Slope, andBrooklyn Heights.On Monday, the first shoppingday after the end of the boycott,area supermarkets were doing abrisk business. At Bohack%u2019s ParkSlope branch on Seventh Ave.,customers waited up to 15 minutesat checkout lines. When asked if hethought the decrease in meat saleswould continue, the branchmanager said, %u201cDon%u2019t ask me, askthe regular customer. Now she%u2019swatching the price of ground beef.She%u2019ll buy with the prices down.%u201dTom Kearney, manager ofA&P%u2019s Seventh Ave. branch,responded that meat sales were off3040 per cent during the week, butfelt it would have been more if notfor A&P%u2019s WEO promotion campaign.Although all meat retailers noteddramatic decreases in sales, somearea butchers anticipated theboycott response and closed theirdoors for the week of the boycott.William Kellner, owner of PublicMarkets at 146 Seventh Ave., sidedwith the consumers and supportedthe boycott. %u201cPeople came in andasked me if I was going to be openduring the week. I wanted to gettogether with the other meatretailers and close, but thesupermarkets wouldn%u2019t go for it,and the newer butchers couldn%u2019ttake the loss.%u201dContinued on Page 13i-rancois Dumaine PhotoA first grade class at St. Charles Borromeo SchoolLocal Parochial SchoolsThe fish scene boomed at A nthony%u2019s Fish M arketon Smith Street.Launch Early RegistrationBY CORRINE COLEMANDespite recent changes inCatholic school organization %u2014 theentrance of the open classroom,the increasing use of lay teachers,the ecumenical frame of referencesurrounding religious instruction,and of course the spiraling tuitionfees %u2014 parochial educationremains sufficiently desirable inthese parts to have broughtnumerous applicants in response toan early registration drive by threelocal Catholic elementary schools.St. Charles Borromeo School onSidney Place in Brooklyn Heights,and St. Paul%u2019s and St. Peter%u2019sSchools, at opposite ends of WarrenSt. in Cobble Hill, joined in theearly enrollment effort as part ofthe cluster arrangement initiatedthis year within the BrooklynArchdiocese, and came out of itw i u j their Sepl. 1575 classes nearlyset.St. Peter%u2019s, a Spanish missionschool (accepting Spanishspeaking children from outside theparish) with a first grade capacityof 35, has already registered 32children for that class. A %u201cdecent%u201dnumber of pupils are already set tofill the various vacancies in theother grades, Father Pico, theparish leader said. A kindergartenarrangement contemplated for fall1973 but not yet decided uponbrought 23 applicants during theadvance drive.Sister Jean Domanico of St.Paul%u2019s School, which goes upto eighth grade, was pleasedabout the 16 registrants who willfill the openings in grades twothrough eight. Though more thanthe 17 pupils who have signed upfor next year%u2019s first grade will benecessary to fill that class, she issure that the remainder will applybefore the current term ends.With waiting lists for placementin their first, second and fourthgrades, St. Charles School looksforward to a busy year, Sister JohnAndre says.The school, which receivedpupils from its own parish pluschildren from the nearbyAssumption and Bonitaceparishes, has always had a stableenrollment with the present noexception. Only a few vacantspaces exist in the other classes.One of the few local Catholicschools with a kindergarten, St.Charles has already enrolled 20children for that beginning class.The cluster arrangement set upwithin Vicarates in Brooklyn andQueens has been structured so thatschools in adjacent parishes canget together and share stafffacilities and materials, Rev.Msgr. Chas. Diviney of St. Charlespoints out. Though South Brooklynschools seem to have been exemptso far, many Catholic institutionsin the diocese have been beset bydifficulties during recent years.Higher salaries for lay facultieshave necessitated increasedtuition, leading to removal ofstudents. It has thus become imperative to band together formutual assistance, the Catholiceducators all agree.Whereas each parish school hadbeen independently run with theaddition of aid from the diocese,the new system will be governed bynewly created boards within eachcluster, to include the pastors,principals, members of the parishcouncils and members of ine HomeSchool Association (similar to thePublic Schools%u2019 P.T.A%u2019s). Thediocese will continue its subsidies,but in a reduced way, Rev. Divineysays.The local schools are includedunder Vicarate A which covers 45parishes from Assumption inBrooklyn Heights to church areasContinued on Page 13