A News Publication of Hostos Community College
of the City University of New York

Comprising three city blocks and twelve acres, most of the Hostos permanent

campus site at the Hub has been cleared. (View is looking East) It is bounded on

the right(South) by 149th Street; Westchester Avenue is on the left. The college

community hopes that the campus will figure in the federal government’s
: 7 revitalization plan for the South Bronx.

After President Carter’s Visit, —
The Hostos Case is Being Made

_ President Carter’s visit to the South
Bronx has raised a multitude of
questions—even anxieties—in all
quarters of the community. Now that
the flurry of excitement surrounding
the visit has subsided, is there a ‘‘plan’’
to deal with problems which Carter so
-ceremoniously acknowledged? If there
is a plan, what tack will it take? Will its
centerpiece be housing? Or economic
development and jobs? More social
and health services? Improved
educational opportunities?

Initially, the impression of many in
the college community was that the
emphasis of whatever plan was to be
developed would be housing: one of
the President’t tour guides was the
Secretary for Housing and Urban
Development, Patricia Harris. And,
perhaps most unsettling, was the fact
that nowhere was anything being said
about education, postsecondary
education in particular.

Apparently, however, the Carter
Administration is indeed interested in a
comprehensive plan, and has asked
City Hall, Borough Hall and groups in
the community to help develop the
approach. Fortunately, the case is
being made for Hostos.

Shaping the city’s proposal for a
South Bronx strategy are City Planning
Commissioner Victor Marrero and
Bronx Borough President Robert
Abrams. Both know Hostos, its needs
and its mission well. As director of the
South Bronx Model Cities Ad-
ministration back in 1972, Mr.
Marrero was one of the leading figures
in the effort to obtain Hostos’ per-
manent site in the Hub area of the
South Bronx. :

At that time, he showed a sound
understanding of the role which
Hostos must play in the community.
Said he: “‘l am delighted that the
Board of Higher Education has ap-
proved the Bronxchester site for

Hostos Community College’s new
campus. Locating’ the college in
Bronxchester (the Hub area) will be a
significant step in spurring a total
rebirth in the development of the Hub
area.’”

Since the Carter visit, Acting
President Anthony Santiago has
spoken with Commissioner Marrero to
brief him on the college’s present status
and to reiterate the necessity of the
Hub campus.

At Borough Hall, the college’s case
as in the past, has received careful
attention. According to Deputy
Borough President Robert Esnard,
Borough Presdient Abrams’ plan will
contain two proposals for the Hostos
campus: The construction of a campus
exclusively for Hostos on the Hub site
or the development of the shopping
center/campus complex, the plans for
which were developed last year by the
college and the South Bronx Overall
Economic Development Corporation.

President Carter has, in the
meantime, named several of his aides
to work with the city and borough on
the South Bronx question. Among
them are:

Jack H. Watson, Jr., the president’s
assistant for intergovernmental affairs.

William White, the Carter ad-
ministration’s federal programs
coordinator.

Bruce Kirschenbaum, Mr. Watson’s
assistant and, as a former member of
the Lindsay Administration, one of
President Carter’s key aides on New
York City affairs.

Hostos’ Vice-President for Program
Development, Pepe Barron, has met
with aides to Watson and White, und
Watson’ has written to him that tne
Carter Administration is ‘‘very much
aware of the unique identity of Hostos

Community College.”’
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Volume 8, Number 3
December, 1977

Bank Says It Will Buy Bonds
To Fund Facility Renovation

Issue Must be Approved by
Albany Control Board

Occupation of the Security Mutual
Building moved one step closer to
reality in November when it became
known that the Bankers Trust
Company has agreed to purchase a
special issue of bonds totalling $4
million from the State Dormitory
Authority thus enabling Hostos to
renovate the vacant facility on the
Grand Concourse.

Although no official statement has
been issued by Bankers Trust, the
Dormitory Authority has
acknowledged the receipt of a written
commitment from the bank to pur-
chase the bonds.

Some hurdles must be crossed,
however, before the bonds are issued.
The issue must first receive the ap-
proval of the Public Authorities
Control Board, a control mechanism

set up during the height of the city’s —
-andéstate’s fiscal crisis. to oversee the

issuing of bonds by public authorities
such as the Dormitory Authority.
Serving on the Control Board are State

‘Senator John Marchi (Rep., Staten

chairman of the Senate’s
Committee,

Island),
Appropriations

Assemblyman Arthur Kremer (Dem.,
Long Island), chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, and Governor
Hugh Carey’s budget director, Phillip
Toia.

The next meeting of the Control
Board is scheduled for early December.

Mr. -Toia and Governor Carey,
however, have imposed a freeze on all
City University construction projects
until the University issues a capital
construction plan for the entire
University system through 1990.

The City University’s head facilities
officer, Donal Farley, has, in the
meantime, attempted to convince the
budget director and his staff that
approval of the Hostos bond issue
should not await the publication of
the CUNY master plan. :

“Waiting for the plan,’’ said Mr.
Farley, ‘‘really presupposes many.
decisions on the part of CUNY. We’ve
taken the position that the Hostos
project is of an immediate, interim
nature—not long-range, but tem-
porary. It should be independent of the
development of any long-range plans.”

Tribute Paid to Nobel Laureate

Hostos students and faculty
gathered at the college on November 10
to pay tribute to Vicente Aleixandre,
the latest member of the Hispanic
family to be honored with the Nobel
Prize.

Aleixandre answered the college
community in kind by personally
dictating a letter by telephone to
students and faculty from his home in
Spain. The letter begins: ‘‘You are
gathered there and I find myself among
you.”’ And it concludes: ‘‘It is from the
depth of my soul that I listen to you
and tell you: Thank you, many thanks,
my dear friends.”’

Joining in the tribute, which was
sponsored by the Modern Languages
Department and the Modern
Languages Club, were a number of
Hostos’ own scholars and _ friends.
They came to talk of Aleixandre’s
roots and his place in the Spanish-
speaking world, and they came to
recite his own poems as well as poems
they had written in his honor.

Coordinating the event was Prof.
Orlando José Hernandez, a new
member of the modern languages
faculty, who spoke of Aleixandre’s
background and
colleagues. They were: Prof. Gladys de
Jesus, who recited various Aleixandre
poems; Puerto Rican poet Evan Silén
who read several of his own poems
written for the occasion; Prof. Alfredo
Villanueva who read his own trans-
lations of various Aleixandre works;

introduced his.

Prof. Carmen Marin, who spoke of the
“*Generation of 27,”’ the literary family
to which Aleixandre belongs; and
Prof. Rafael Catala, both of whom
recited additional poems by
Aleixandre. Rounding out the program
was Dionisio Cafias, a Spanish poet
living in New York, who conducted a
discussion on the life and contributions
of the Spanish Laureate.

Following is the text of Vicente
Aleixandre’s letter to the Hostos
college community (the English
translation is by Prof. Orlando
Hernandez):

(Continued on page 2)

PSC Circulates
Petitions Urging
Building Renewal

The Hostos chapter of the
Professional Staff Congress has begun
a petition campaign to secure the
Security Mutual Building at 500 Grand
Concourse.

Drafted at the November 30th
meeting. of the chapter, the petition
reads in part: “‘Hostos Community
College has the least amount of square
footage per student of any college in
the State of New York. Hostos has no
gymnasium, auditorium or cafeteria.”’

The petition goes on to demand that
the 500 Grand Concourse building ‘‘be

(Continued on page 2)



EL COQUi

December, 1977

De Lectoribus

El Coqui resumes the de Lectoribus
column with the following poem from
student Nashid Al-Amin. Readers
(students faculty, staff or members of
the local community) wishing to make
contributions should contact the Office
of College Relations and Development
at Hostos (tel. 960-1008).

Early December

There was calm for a short while; a
brief respite from the increasingly cold
weather.

On a fairly beautiful day a weary-
seeming sun cast off golden light.

The city was as usual—strollers,
noises, curses and motor vehicles.

Everything seemed unconcerned
with everything else.

I watched from a bench in a very
small park as pidgeons flew around a
building’s spire across the river.

Nearby some young boys played

. touch football. — 3
I ‘spied two lovers kissing.

passionately against a small leafless —

tree.

I again wished that I had a girl.

A group of people looking like
tourists passed by—smiling up at the
city’s varied architecture as if ap-
praising museum portraits.

I thought again of invisible. air
pollution whittling away at everyones’
health.

A sudden gust of wind blew chilling
air through my garment adding
another degree to the grief that comes
to me in early December.

Again I longed for spring and a new
warm sun.

On Being Proud
of Hostos Grads

Former President Candido de
Leon received a letter recently from
Virgina L. Radley, acting president
of the State University branch at
Oswego notifying him of the fact
that two Hostos graduates were
member of Oswego’s class of 1977.

Acting President Radley wrote:
“We both are aware that the
reputations of our schools depend,
to a considerable extent, on the
success of our graduates. You and
your colleagues provided the
academic and professional foun-
dation which these young people
used to achieve the baccalaureate
degree. Their work, and yours,
should be a source of considerable
pride for you.””

The two Hostos graduates are
Eversley Junior Andrews and Doris
Blaise who are indeed a source of
pride for the college.

X-Ray Department
Honors Program
Advisory Chairman

The radiologic technology depart-
ment honored the chairman of its ad-
visory committee, Dr. Harry L. Miller
of Bronx Lebanon Hospital during a

‘luncheon held on November 17 at the

executive dining room of The Bankers
Trust Co. in mid-Manhattan.

Hosted by acting president Anthony
Santiago and Prof. Leroy Sparks,
chairman of the radiologic technology
department, the luncheon also served
as an occasion for the college to ex-
press its gratitude for the professional
support of the radiologic technology
clinical affiliates.

The luncheon was provided com-
pliments of Bankers Trust.

Tribute...

(Continued from page 1)

Queridos amigos:

Estan ustedes aqui reunidos y yo me
encuentro entre ustedes. Esta es la
virtud de la poesia. La poesia es una
sucesion de preguntas que el poeta va
haciendo. Cada poema, cada libro es
una demanda, una solicitacion, una

interrogacién y la respuesta es tacita.

pero. también sucesiva; y se la da al
lector con su lectura a través de los
tiempos: Hermoso didlogo en que el
poeta interroga y el lector calladamente
da su plena respuesta.

Hoy estan ustedes aqui y yo me
siento en cuerpo y alma entre ustedes.
Este acto es como una milagrosa
respuesta conjunta. Mi poesia toda se
agolpa aqui por la bondad de ustedes,
y la presencia de ustedes es como un
simbolo de las respuestas sucesivas.
Pero magicamente, simbolicamente,

esa respuesta no es sucesiva sino

simultanea, y el poeta oye repentina y
completa la respuesta de todos que en
ustedes se pronuncia para el poeta en
una sola, aunque como todas las
respuestas del mundo. Con los sentidos
del alma les escucho y les digo:
Gracias, muchas gracias, mis queridos
amigos.

Dear friends:

You aré gathered there and I find
myself among you. That is the virtue of
poetry. Poetry is a succession of
questions which the poet goes about
asking. Each poem, each book is a
request, a question, an inquiry, and the
reply is tacit, but also successive: it is
granted to the reader, through his or
her reading, with the passing of time.
A beautiful dialogue, in which the poet
questions and the reader silently offers
his full reply.

Today you are there and I am among
you in body and soul. This is like a
miraculous joint reply. All of my
poetry gathers there through your
kindness, and your presence there is

like a symbol of the successive replies.’

But symbolically, as if by magic, that
reply is no longer successive but
simultaneous, and the poet hears the
sudden and full reply from everyone,
which you articulate in unison, yet like
all the replies of the world. It is from
the depth of my soul that I listen to you
and tell you: Thank you, many thanks,
my dear friends.’’

Petitions...

(Continued from page 1)
made immediately available in order to
ease the severe overcrowding at
Hostos.”’

Anyone interested in circulating
petitions should contact the social
sciences department (room 209, 151st
St., ext. 1062) or the physical
education department (room 424,
Concourse, ext. 1027).

Vistazos de Hostos

HEY, MAN! IT'S_NOT
JUST HOUSING. IT'S JOBS»

|| HEALTH CARE...EDUCATIO
DAY CAR :

The Carter - Harris visit raised
concerns .... and questions.

Hostos Case...

(Continued from page 1)

In a letter to Mr. Kirschenbaum,
Acting. President Santiago best
outlined the impact that Hostos could
have on the South Bronx. He wrote:
‘The rationale for constructing a
permanent campus for Hostos in the
heart of the South Bronx remains the

~ same as it was in 1972: For one thing,
the construction itself would im-
-mediately create jobs for this im-
poverished community.

York. . .Of equal importance is the
fact that the permanent presence of an
institution of higher education in the
South Bronx would stand as an in-
tellectual and cultural beacon—a vital
center—of a community of poor
people which for far too long has been
regarded as a total wasteland.”’

So now that the press and the nation
have turned their attention away from
the South Bronx, the college and other
sectors of the community are engaged

in a campaign to educate those who
can bring about change. Can the
lessons be learned? Even if they do
learn the lessons, will government
officials be able to pass them on to the
rest of the nation and to muster the
country’s resources to turn the South
Bronx around?

Following a recent and relatively
unpublicized visit to the South Bronx,
Deputy House Majority Leader Jim
Wright was quoted by The Daily-News
as saying: ‘‘It is worse, far worse than I
had thought.’’ And, conceding that he
“‘had never really seen New York’’
until he saw the South Bronx, Wright,
who is a Texas Dixiecrat with a long
record of criticizing New York City,
concluded that ignoring the South
Bronx ‘‘would be a major disservice to
the nation. Perhaps an_ irreversible
one.”’

Unfortunately, Congressman
Wright’s experience has been wholely
uncommon; few have had the op-
portunity to have such revelations.

Hostos Chapter

of PSC Fails

In Bid to Reverse Bakke Stand

A move by the Hostos chapter of the
Professional Staff Congress to have
the PSC condemn the supporting brief
which the American Federation of
Teachers has filed on behalf of the
‘complainant in the landmark Bakke
case failed in November during a
meeting of the PSC’s_ delegate
assembly.

The Hostos chapter of the PSC had
passed a resolution in October urging
that the CUNY faculty union rebuff
the AFT amicus curiae or supporting
brief for Alan Bakke, an applicant to
the medical school at the University of
California at Davis, who has claimed
that he was the victim of an admissions
policy which favored some minority
students who were less qualified.

The vote on the Hostos resolution at
the PSC delegate assembly was 39 op-
posed, 14 in favor and 5 abstentions.

“Even though we lost,’’ said Prof.
Gerald Meyer, chairman of the Hostos
chapter of the PSC; ‘‘we effectively

presented our case, and were able to air
the controversy at the delegate
assembly.”’

In addition to Prof. Meyer,
arguments in favor of the resolution
were presented by Prof. Selena James,
vice-chairman of the Hostos chapter of
the PSC, Prof. Peter Roman, chair-
man of the social sciences department,
and Prof. Edward Maynard, chairman
of the Africana studies department.
The Hostos resolution was also of-
ficially supported by the PSC chapter
at Borough of Manhattan Community
College.

The Hostos College Senate passed a
similar resolution at its first meeting in
September.

“It’s inconceivable,’ said Prof.
Meyer, ‘‘that a teachers’ union should
find itself in league with some of the
most reactionary groups in_ the
country.”

“If Bakke wins,’’ concluded Prof.
Meyer, ‘‘affirmative action dies.”’



December, 1977

EL COQUi

Carter’s Visit Elicits Reactions From Local Leaders;
Consensus Seems to Emerge on Approach to Problems

President Carter’s visit to the South
Bronx has elicited widespread reaction
from the community. It has alternately
been the source of hope, doubt,
skepticism . . . expectation. Following
is a sampling of that reaction, in this
case from a number of community
leaders.

José E. Serrano, New York State
Assemblyman, South Bronx:

It was shocking to me that the
President never met with the elceted
officials from the area. . .Had he been
accompanied by Puerto Rican leaders,
especially the elected officials, he
would today have a better idea of the
problems and necessities of this
devastated area. —

There are a lot more problems than
housing. It’s education, welfare, the
drug addicts and more. . .It is clear to
.me that postsecondary educational
opportunities and jobs are inextricably
linked together—and the eventual
transformation of the South Bronx and
other inner city communities. My
belief that Hostos Community Col-
lege will play a historic role in the

- transformation of the South Bronx is
absolute... . ©

John Patterson, Jr., President of the
South Bronx Overall Economic
Development Corporation:

President Carter’s visit to the South
_ Bronx...can be. marked as the
_ beginning date of our area’s rebirth.
His reaction to what he saw was sin-
‘cere. He made a public commitment to
do something to revitalize the South
Bronx. I don’t think he can afford not
to honor that commitment. . .

I can only hope now that positive
things are beginning to happen here,
and that they will be done in a com-
prehensive way rather than piecemeal.
The number one priority has to be
creating jobs for the residents of the
South Bronx. Just building housing or
parks as the President initially
suggested will not be enough. An
overall economic development plan
designed to develop all aspects of our
community and create jobs for the
community is a must. Projects like the
Hub Hostos campus and shopping
mall for Third Avenue and 149th Street
are important in this regard because
they create jobs, provide for the
educational needs of the community,
and stimulate other positive things to
happen in the area.

Robert Abrams, Borough President of
the Bronx:

The president's visit was a step in the
right direction.

What is needed is a combination of
jobs and housing. Housing without
jobs is not going to do the trick. We’ve
seen that housing by itself will
deteriorate in a matter of months.
Similarly, if you just plunk a number
of factories down you’re still going to
have a very unhappy community.

Aureo Cardona, Chairman of Plan-
ning District 1 (South Bronx):
President Carter’s visit was really
more for consciousness raising than
anything else. The Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development
(Patricia Harris) wanted to introduce
him to the urban scene. A lot of people
don’t realize that the President is a
Southerner . . . with little or no roots

in urban America. The important thing .

is that the dude now knows that we
exist.

The neighborhood near the Hostos permanent site (in the vicinity of St. Ann’s
Park) is like much of the South Bronx. Above right a tool and die works, the kind
of small to medium scale industry which helped sustain the community in the
past, is now closed. Below, Ralph Vega of the Hostos college relations staff
stands in an empty lot near St. Ann’s Avenue. A resident of the community for 21
years, Mr. Vega says: ‘“‘This was once a bustling, healthy neighborhood . . . It

was once full of life and activity . .

.”? The pattern nowiis: empty lots, crumbling

buildings, a few with a handful of tenants bravely holding out.

We see growth and redevelopment
done incrementally, a long-term kind
of thing. And we’re still interested in
high-qualilty, low-density housing
designed for people of mixed incomes.
We have to keep professionals in the
community, and that includes your
graduates from Hostos. It’s the only
way to do away. with the ghetto.

The other thing is jobs, white collar
as well as blue collar jobs. I’m saying
“basta ya!’’—we have enough of the
menial jebs. In other words, our
housing and economic base should be
very integrated to include all kinds of
people.

Robert Garcia, New York State
Senator from the South Bronx:
President Carter’s visit to the South
Bronx signals a commitment to all the
people of New York. The recon-
struction of the South Bronx will serve
as the national model for the recon-_
struction of the central cities
throughout the United State. This
undertaking must be multi-faceted and
include employment, health,
educational and housing components.

Norma Noriega, Acting Executive’
Director of Lincoln Hospital

The visit by President Jimmy Carter
to the South Bronx was indeed a
momentous occasion. Through his
own eyes he was able to see, for
himself, the deprivation, the decay, the
destruction of a community. The an-
cient adage of ‘‘one picture is worth a
thousand words’’ became a reality for
President Carter.

Health statistics have validated the
positive relationship between a per-
son’s social and economic status and
his/her level of health.

We at Lincoln interface with one end
of this spectrum. The results of this
diversity are evident every day in our
emergency rooms and clinics. Our
community’s inadequate housing, high
unemployment, family instability, and
high mortality. . ., are areas of great
concern which we hope and pray will

_be addressed by the federal govern-

ment as well as our city and state.

I believe that we are embarking on
an era of hope and, most important,
the immediate steps towards raising the
level of the quality of life for all our
community.

Serrano Backs Hostos at BHE Budget Hearings

Assemblyman José E. Serrano of the
South Bronx testified on behalf of
Hostos at the recent City University
budget hearings saying that the college
“will play an historic role in the
transformation of the South Bronx.”’

Serrano, one of the leading figues in
the rescue of Hostos on the floor of the
State Legislature during the fiscal crisis
of 1976, outlined the provisions which
he said the Chancellor’s budget request
should include to safeguard the Hostos
mission. They are:

e Budgetary provisions to enable the
college to hire more faculty and
purchase additional materials for its
bilingual program.

® Additional support for curriculum
revision and development of remedial
instruction. —

the Board of Higher

© The “‘speedy completion’? of the
renovation of. the 500 Grand Con-
course building (which Serrano
referred to.as an ‘‘interim facility’).

e The resumption of plans for the
Hostos permanent campus in the
‘“Hub”’ section of the South Bronx.

In his message to the Chancellor and
Education,
Serrano was quick to draw the con-
nection between Hostos and hopes for
revitalization of the South Bronx
which have been rekindled in the wake
of President Jimmy Carter’s visit to the
community.

= Said Serrano, ““My —-con-
stituents. . looked upon President
Carter’s visit to their community with
interest, hope, and understandably, a
bit of skepticism. No doubt, many of

my people wondered: After the
reporters and cameras leave, after the
public’s memory of the devastating
photographs of places like Fox Street
begin to fade, and more importantly,
after President Carter and his en-
tourage return to Washington will
our lives and the lives of our families
really be changed for the better?

“The question remains an open one.
However, I can say with some
satisfaction that there are many
hopeful signs that suggest to me that
things can and will change for the
better for the poor people who live in
the South Bronx. For one thing,
Hostos Community College
continues to serve this community with
distinction. I am told that the college’s
student enrollment has reached
2,774—the highest in the college’s

history. I have also learned that more
than 86 percent of Hostos student body
is Hispanic and that 47 percent of the
students are presently enrolled in the
college’s bilingual program. These are

significant facts which illustrate
dramatically that the South Bronx is
perceived by many as a place that
offers valuable higher educational
resources.””

Assemblyman Serrano pointed out
that his concern for the South Bronx
and the vitality of Hostos was shared
by Mr. Jack Watson, President
Carter’s assistant for inter-governmen-
tal affairs, with whom Serrano has met
since the President’s visit.

“It is clear to me,’’ Serrano said,
“that postsecondary educational op-
portunities: are inextricably linked
together—and the eventual trans--
formation of the South Bronx and

(Continued on page 4)



EL COQUi

December, 1977

A THANKSGIVING DINNER AND A PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE DAY
PARADE: At left, members of the Urban Health Core Club gave a Thanksgiving
dinner for Hostos students. From left are: Veronica Mayes of the registrar’s
office and students Levon Cooper, Altagrace Gedeus, Marianne Edwina Parker,
Michelle Tobin and Ramona Colon. At center, a proud young man bears the

News Briefs

Associate Dean of Students Peter
Martin, Prof. Adrian Benitez, director
of the Hostos College Discovery
Program, and Prof. Carlos Gonzalez
of the counseling staff gave a
presentation on the Hostos peer
counseling program at the annual
convention of the New York State
Personnel and Guidance Assocaiton
which was held in October in Liberty,
New York.

Prof. Benitez: also presented a paper
entitled ‘“‘The Experience of Culture
Shock as’ Confronted by Foreign
Students Learning English as a Second
Language” at the recent ‘annual
meeting of the
Institute. The Institute is a voluntary
organization of instructors who tutor
ESL students. !

Ms. Erisbelia Garriga of the modern
languages department has written a
business mathematics manual which is
being used in business machine courses
in the University of Puerto Rico.

Prof. Orlando Hernandez of the
modern languages department has
published an article on the ‘‘magic
stories’? of José Lezama Lima, one of
Cuba’s best poets. Lezama Lima’s
magic stories were one of the poet’s
few ventures in prose; they are noted
for their baroque, surrealistic style.
Prof. Hernandez has also translated
some of Lezama Lima’s work for
Review Magazine which is published in
New York by the Center for Inter-
American Relations. Prof. Hernandez
has published some of his own poetry
in Inti, a literary magazine published
by the University of Connecticut.

Hamilton Lionel Maloney, one of
Hostos’ senior citizen students,
recently published a sonnet, ‘‘Which
Way Went Love?,’’ in the latest edition
of Somber Gardens, an anthology of
stud. .t/facutly poetry from colleges
across the country and Canada. Mr.
Maloney is back at Hostos this fall
after a semester leave due to illness.
Vital as ever, Mr. Maloney is, as he
says, ‘“back at Hostos to keep busy.”

English- -in-Action.

Prof. Bette Kerr, director of coun-
seling services, has been invited by
Barnard College to serve on the
Barnard Advisory Vocational Com-
mittee. As a member of this com-
mittee, Prof. Kerr, who is a Barnard
graduate, will coordinate career
workshops and seminars for Barnard
students and alumnae as well as meet
with the president. of the college to
make input regarding college curricula
and implications for students’. career
choices relative to the current job
market.

Prof. Kerr has also been selected to
serve on the workshop committee of
the Méetropolitan College Mental
Health Association during 1977. In
addition to planning seminars related
to counseling of college students, Prof.
Kerr-served as moderator of a panel on
“Unplanned Pregnancy: The College
Student’’ at the annual workshop held
by the Association in November at the
Fashion Institute gs declaiolesy in
Manhattan.

Prof. Peter Roman, chairman of the
social sciences department, presented a
paper entitled ‘‘Allende, the Ultra-Left
and the Coup in Chile’’ at the Third
City University Political Science
Conference which was held in early
December at the CUNY Graduate
Center.

Prof. Judith Nowinski of the modern
languages department has received a
professional development incentive
award at Columbia University’s
Teachers College to pursue a second
Master’s degree in the Teaching of
Spanish. ‘

Prof. Sondra Perl of the English
department presented a paper entitled
“Research on the Composing Process:
How Unskilled Writers Write’’ at the
annual meeting of the National
Counsel of Teachers of English which
was held in November. Prof. Perl has
joined forces with two of her
colleagues from Lehman College and
Queensboro Community College to
attempt to construct a model that will
characterize the development — of
writing skills among non-traditional
college students. Their work is being
supported by a $140,000 grant from
the Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education.

costume of the Puerto Rican jibaro during a parade marking the anniversary of
the discovery of Puerto Rico. Sponsored by School District 9, the parade was
held in November along the Grand Concourse. Above right, Virginia Paris,

director of admissions, sits in the revie
community school superintendent.

Prof. Harcourt A. Carrington of the
counseling staff was a panelist during a
conference on ‘‘Growth and
Development of Women and the
World of Work’’ which was held in
November at Medgar Evers College.
The conference was sponsored by the
National Assoiciation of University
Women.

Prof. Manuel Ramos, chairman of the
modern languages department, taught

courses for candidates for the master’s

degree in education at the College of
Education of Inter-American
University over the summer.

Prof. Beatrice Kreppel of the ESL
program gave a paper on the adult ESL
learner at the National Convention of
Teachers of English which was held in
New York in late November. Prof.
Kreppel’s approach to teaching ESL
includes instruction on community
serives available to the newly arrived,
nonEnglish-speaking student. The idea
is to not only provide skills in the new
language but also to help the student
maneuver through the somewhat alien
environment of a new society. Prof.
Kreppel’s students have accordingly
taken forays to such places as the local
post office and libraries.

Prof. Clara Vel4zquez, director of the
Hostos English-as-a-second-language
program, has been invitied by
Chancellor Robert J. Kibbee to serve
as a member of the Polciy Advisory
Board of the CUNY Skills Assessment
Program. The program will be im-
plemented this spring under the
direction of Dr. Morton Rosenstock of
the CUNY Office of Adacemic Af-
fairs.

Hostos Community College
475 Grand Concourse
Bronx, N.Y. 10451

wing stand with Dr. Milton J. Stier,

Aponte to Lead,
Self-Study Effort

Prof. Angelo Aponte of the physical
education department has been named
by Acting President Anthony Santiago
to head the institutional self-study ef-
fort for the college’s re-accreditation.

Prof. Aponte’s appointment signals
the beginning of a process which will
culuminate in the spring of 1979 with
the visitation of and accreditation team
from the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools Com-
mission on Higher Education.

Hostos was unconditionally ac-
credited in the summer of 1974 follow-
ing a highly favorable Teport by a team
from Middle States.

- Prof. Aponte will serve as the chair-
man of the steering committee of the
institutional self-study, a process in
which all segments of the Hostos com-
munity will review the college’s per-
formance in conducting its mission.

The other members of the steering
committee are: Profs. Linda Hirsch
(Englich), Virginia Paris (admissions),
Leroy Sparks (radiologic technology),
Clara Velazquez (English), Selena
James (dental hygiene), John Randall
(mathematics), Edward Maynard
(Africana studies), Carmen Marin
(Puerto Rican. studies), Fred Soussa
(business and accounting), A.J. Ben-
tancourt (library), Carmen Vazquez
(financial aid), and Msses. Veronica
Mayes (registrar’s office) and Cecilia
Linzie (business office).

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other inner city communities. My
belief that Hostos Community College
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formation of the South Bronx is ab-
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