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Students will remember his sincerity and concern By Danny Lazaroff The Statesman Friday October 3, 1969 The untimely death of Dr. Schiff on October 1 is both shocking and tragic, but at the same time, typical of the trend which snatches the few people who care, the few who really try, from us. In a community which places little emphasis on the needs of students, Dr. Schiff worked hard and effectively with the undergraduate student body to provide informative and entertaining experiences both inside and out of the classroom. This writer never had the pleasure of taking one of Dr. Schiff’s courses or the experience of living in Cardozo College to benefit from the college program. My sole connection with Dr. Schiff was in my dealings with the Political Science Department, and for the most part, we didn’t see eye to eye on much of anything. Yet, rather than have these dealings detract from my respect for Dr. Schiff, they served to perpetuate my faith in him as a human being. Though our politics did not coincide, the sincerity with which Dr. Schiff spoke, his desire to sit down and talk things through, his very real and human need to work with students and to talk with them rather than at them, served to make Ashley Schiff a person to whom students turned. In an environment that is filthy with dishonest faculty members and administrators, Dr. Schiff’s candid and open approach was a welcome change. To make a martyr of Dr. Schiff is not my intention, because above all, I’m sure he would oppose that sort of recognition. However, to do justice for the services which he has rendered to the student body, we should dedicate one of the Kelly-Gruzen colleges to him. There were few like Ashley Schiff and to name a residential college for him is most appropriate. Certainly those who knew him won’t soon forget him; to make him again a part of the University can at least serve to ease the pain of his death.
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