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Page Fourteen, PHOENIXHit New BillsA new cooperative scholarship program which hopes to send at least five Tanzanian graduate students to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn next year was the reason for Josiah M. Muganda%u2019s (center) recent visit to the school. Part of a new international cooperative endeavor called \11 African nations. Otiendo Ooro (left) of Kenya, SEND%u2019S founder and coordinator, looks on as Richard Kaczmarek, an honors student at Poly, explains the computer's operation.Jay 'Singf Gets OvationsAfter four months of planning,coping, writing, singing anddancing, John Jay%u2019s annual%u201cSING%u201d was greeted by overwhelming ovations on Friday andSaturday nights, January 12 and13. Carrying on a John Jaytradition which has seengenerations of teenage kidsproducing their own m usicalshows, %u201cSING%u201d was once again ahit.The youngest group, theSophomores, under the direction ofstudent commissioners, NathashaBrooks and Rita Torquati,presented a series of hilarious skitsabout the incongruities of dailylife. Faculty advisor for thisfledgling group of troopers wasteacher Pat Holman.The Junior class was fortunate tohave as its faculty advisor SusanFreeman who has directed%u201cSING%u201d production for four years.Junior class leaders Detra Maysand Mary Ann Graff, spun theirmusical entertainment around aPuerto Rican-Italian romance.They called their show %u201cLoveConquers All.%u201dThe Seniors, who are by nowveterans at m usical entertainment, produced a series ofskits through which the devil runstrying to tempt people. Studentleaders Edna Alejandro andJosenette De Oliveria workedclosely with faculty advisor MikeNemson in producing the skits.All of the students agreed todedicate %u201c SING %u201973%u201d to thememory of Kevin Foley, a belovedJune %u201972 graduate who drownedlast July. Their dedication said inpart: %u201cThose of us who knew andloved Kevin miss him dearly, butthe memory of what Kevin was andhow he lived and enjoyed life willremain with us forever. It is to thismemory that we lift our hearts andvoices in song tonight.%u201dTwo bills currently before theNew York State Legislature havpbeen singled out by representatives from many of Brooklyn%u2019sdrug, church and alcoholismprograms as a %u201creturn to barbarism.%u201d Calling themselves the%u201cCitywide Committee to OpposeBiondo-Rockefeller AddictionBills,%u201d the group met January 15 atthe Park Slope Youth Center withrepresentatives fromrehabilitation programsthroughout the city and chargedthat the bills were a %u201cflimsy excuseto de-fund drug programs becausethey are unenforceable.%u201dA bill sponsored by Sen. PeterBiondo, %u201costensibly to preventpsychology,%u201d would prohibit, thegroup said, counseling geared tobehavioral and attitudinal changeunless under the supervision of apsychologist or other professional.This bill, the group charged,%u201c would close down addiction,alcoholism, church m arriagecounseling and a whole range ofprivate or paraprofessionalcounseling programs.%u201dGov. Rockefeller%u2019s proposedpushers law, which would sendyouthful offenders to jail for sellingdrugs, was also criticized by thegroup: %u201cThe sentence would be 15years. Any user-seller over 21would go to jail for life. Althoughaimed at the large dealer,protected by organized crime, thelaw would actually send to jailhundreds of thousands of personswho could be reached by effectiveaddiction programming. Children%u2022 n n < i l Jl L p n t < n J X*%u00ab%u00ab o t n nW 1 1 U L U U i U l / C o a v t u u u i u U U U I V W W Uby timely intervention would bejailed and emerge 15 years later ashardened criminals.%u201dRockefeller was also attackedfor stating that after spending $2billion he sees that drug programsdon%u2019t work.Kretchmer SimpleEnvironmental P ro tectio nAgency Administrator Jerom eKretchmer, also a m ayorialhopeful, told a Ft. Greene neighborhood group last week thatpoverty is the city%u2019s basic problem.The Ft. Greene meeting, first ina series involving candidates formajor city offices, was held at thehome of Robert and Rita Wittich,Kings View Apartments, onJanuary 16.%u201cHis analysis was a bit simp listic,%u201d his cures for urbanproblems vague,%u201d one observer onthe scene remarked. %u201cKretchmerimplied that everybody in the citywas socially disoriented because ofthe poverty problem and that if youcure poverty then things likeheroin addiction, muggings andinadequate schools would vanish.%u201dMethodist Gives PlanContinued (rom Pag e 2vices and swing space that willtemporarily house functions now inthe Nurse%u2019s Residence and theSixth St. brownstones.Among the audience were CityCouncilman Kenneth Haber (LBrooklyn) and City CouncilwomanRuth Lerner (D-Brooklyn) whoinvited constituents to write theirviews to them.Professor Ronald Schiffman ofPratt Institute and other community people posed questions andoutlined their views at the function.Spokesmen for The Methodist1 /3 OFF ONWINTER MERCHANDISEses s la c k s blazers c o ^ . b l o u sAND M AN Y MORE ITEMSCasual Hutch Ltd*140 M ontague Street| Phone 396-4333M on.-Sat. 10AM to 6:15 6:15PM<%u00a3T igHospital invited these communityleaders to continue dialogues sothat the facts may be made knownto all of the public rather thanexcerpts which tend to %u201clead todistortions.%u201dThe Relocation Policy Committee at The Methodist Hospitalhas recently recommended thatthe facility pay up to $4,000 as arelocation stipend, plus movingexpenses and realty fees to eachtenant involved in the Seventh Ave.site. The basic relocation awardwould be doubled if the tenantmoved out within 90 days afterpublication of the final relocationplans. Copies of this draft proposalwere sent to all of the tenants involved and a large number ofcommunity and civic groups.The plan also provides for a $100-a-month rent subsidy on a newapartment be allotted a tenantinvolved who m eets certaincriteria as a %u201chardship case%u201d dueto illness, unemployment orlimited income.This proposal also received someattention during the lengthymeeting held by the PlanningBoard, Thursday, January 18,1973.Concluding its %u201c replacem entprogram,%u201d spokesmen at the institution said %u201cthey recognized thecommunity%u2019s fears of losing scarcehousing and advised thatMethodist Hospital would workclosely with local groups towards aproper housing replacement plan.%u201dm m mDon't Miss aQ i n n l a I c c i i aV I M ^ I V I t f W W VfIaiIiasii%u25a0VReturn This C o u p o n ! 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