_LONG ISLAND PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1968,

York Students

"By TWEN HSIAO

The Student Council at York College now supports
Jamaica as a permanent site for the new four-year
institution.

The. surprising switch of position was disclosed yes-
terday as students were preparing for a march today on
Hall to demand adequate facilities for the, college.
The, college's student leaders earlier had supported
Fort Totten in Bayside as a permanent site, But in a
yote late last week, the 30-member Student Council
endorsed Jamaica as the site. Prior to that, the student
government’s nine-member,executive board unanimous-
ty approved Jamaica, dt was leafed.
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cussed, Powers refused to comment, saying Pi was |
irrelevant.

Powers stressed that rather naa the permanent site, |
the students are more concerned with having adequate |
facilities in the immediate future. “We'd support any
site, even it’s in Osh-Kosh,” he said, “if the needs of
the students canpbe met.”

‘That concern is. ‘shared by the college’s 50 faculty

; members. In a resolution ‘unanimously adopted yester-
day, the faculty demanded:

‘@ Immediate designation and preparation of an ade-
quate temporary facility for the full interim period before
permanent facilities are™ available.

@ Immediate augmentation of present facilities to
provide adequate space for’the academic year 1968-69.

© Immediate designation, acquisition and preparation |

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of a permanent si
planning can begin. —

A faculty spokesman ea although: gi

o that academic and conpenity

laica was men-

tioned as a permanent site, no..vote ‘was. pakeg as toa

preference.

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The faculties warned that “unless “the coinendal
tions dre met, York College will not be able to enroll
a freshman class this fall and that its program for upper
classmen will’ become pigniffeantity. below the standards

of other colleges..

At present, York College is» using the “facilities of
Queensborough Community College in Bayside. The
Board of*Higher Education, while favoring Jamaica as
a permanent site, leans ‘toward the Glen Oaks Country

Club as a ‘temporary Be

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POWERS, who is co- Gan ot the Student Site
Selection Committee, said both students and faculties
were to participate -in today’s march, scheduled to begin
at noon on the Brooklyn’ side ‘of the Brooklyn Bridge

and proceed across the bridge onto City Hall Plaza. §
While students demonstrate outside City Hall, a Stu-

dent-faculty delegation will seek a meeting with Mayor)

Lindsay, to pd reat, er. laboratories, |
auditorium, lil feteria, parking and recreational |
facilities,

Powers said that | ichepugh City Council President Frank
D./O’Connor, who addressed the student body last Octo-
ber, Lindsay had pledged his support of a “higher qual-
ity education” for the eae me want him to fulfill

that commitment,” he said.’

Locating York College, in Praica is micey supported
by many public officials#including ‘Mayor Lindsay and
O'Connor, and community organizations.