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By Mark I.cvinc
For the Albany State men's basketball
team, Maxcy Hall in Potsdam has been the
setting for some of the team's most glorious
moments. It has also been the sight for
some of its most bitter defeats. The Danes
hope to add to their collection of fond
memories this weekend as they travel up lo
Potsdam for Ihe 1983 SUNYAC Championships. The winner of the four team
tournament receives an automatic berth in
the NCAA Eastern Regionals.
Two years ago Maxcy Hall was also the
scene of the SUNYACs, as Albany stunned
Ihe Bears in Ihe finals by Ihe score of 60-59,
giving Albany ihe conference championship. One week later, ihe Danes again
travelled lo Polsdam for the NCAAs.
After a thrilling one polnl win over St.
Lawrence in the opening round, Ihe Danes
inei Polsdam for ihe fourth lime that year.
The Danes suffered a heartbreaking overlime defeat, and they remained at home
while Ihe Hears went on lo win ihe national
championship.
Albany, which finished second in Ihe
SUN YAC-East Division, opens up the tournament tonight at 7:(K) against Wesi Division winner Buffalo Slate. Potsdam, which
gained the right to host the SUNYACs by
winning the East, faces West Division runnerup Buffalo University at 9:00. The consolation game is set for tomorrow at 1:00,
with the championship contest following at
3:00.
Nationally ranked Buffalo Slate will provide Albany with some very rugged competition in the opening round. The Bengals
boast an impressive 16-4 record, including
an 8-2 mark in ihe conference. The Bengals
were ranked first in Ihe nation in Division
III at one point this year and are currently
ranked 15lh in the country and tied for
third with Ithaca in Ihe New York Stale
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Danny Croutler and the rest of the Great Danes will open up the SUNYAC Tournament against the Buffalo State Benaals
tonight In Potsdam.
poll.
Despite their overall success, Buffalo
Slate has suffered somewhat as of late, due
in part to their loss of starting point guard
Jackie Barnes, who was declared
academically ineligible for ihe second
semester.
The Albany-Buffalo Stale matchup
features two teams with contrasting styles.
The Bengals feature a fast break-oriented
offense, while the Danes intend lo slow
down the tempo. "We've got to play a
halfcourt game," commented Albany I lead
Coach Dick Sauers. "We can't play llieir
game; we've got lo make them play our
game. It looks like whichever team is able
lo dictate the tempo will find itself on top al
the end.
The Danes closed out their regular season
with a 16-8 record that included a 7-3 mark
in the conference. In their final game,
Albany topped Ithaca at University Gym on
Saturday night by the score of 60-52.
Albany is led by senior center and coeaptain John Dieckelman, who was the
MVP of the SUNYAC Tournament two
years ago. Dieckelman enters the tournament averaging 16.3 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. Senior forward and CO17»*
Albany out to avenge '82 tournament disaster
By Marc llusprl
SI'OHTS EQITOH
It has been one year since the SUNYAC tragedy in Buffalo. One year ago, a young and promising Great Dime
basketball team in the midst of a surprisingly successful
season with an impressive 17-7 record suddenly dropped
two games in the annual two-day conference tournament
and lost a chance for an NCAA bid. As they open the
1982-3 SUNYACs in'Potsdam tonight against Buffalo
Slate, there are many Danes who still remember.
"1 hope that they have a long memory," said Albany
State basketball head coach Dick Sauers. "I hope Ihcy
remember the disaster that happened last year. II really
wasn't losing in the SUNYACs; one win was all they needed. With that in mind, I feel that they'll have reserved intensity for this tournament."
"The guys who were there last year want lo make a better showing," explained senior co-caplain John
Dieckelman, a member of Ihe SUNYAC all-tournamenl
team for the last two years. "They want lo win two
games. We wani lo prove that we can play basketball and
win this."
Last season's poor performance in Ihe post-season
tournament might have been a reflection of the young
team's immaturity. The team, featuring nn entirely
freshman backeouri and other first-year players up front
may have folded under the pressure of playing in a
playoff situation for the first lime.
"We thought we were confident," described guard
Dave Adam of last year's unpleasant experience. "We
were overconfident. We thought it would be easy,"
Sophomore guard Jan Zadoorian echoed those
thoughts. "Last year we didn't know what it was all
about. We didn't realize the talent that we had and we let
it slip away."
The stakes are quite different for the Danes this lime.
With a 16-8 record, the chances for an al-largc bid to the
NCAA tournament which begins next weekend does not
seem likely. Having not participated in the national
tourney lost season, the Danes do not have that reputation which could carry them into the playoffs this season.
Instead, If the Danes wish lo partake in this year's tournament, they will have lo win the SUNYAC championship
Ibis weekend.
"I can imagine that things will be a little more intense
Ibis week in practice," said Adam last Monday. "We probably will go into it this lime with more determination. I
think that this is our only shot at the NCAAs. This year
we're going in knowing that we have lo win it. It was a
more relaxed attitude last year—not this year because we
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know we have lo sweep."
The tournament is being held this year in the not-sofriendly confines of Maxcy Hall. The home of the Division III runncrsup, the Polsdam Bears, has never been a
favorite place of the Danes, particularly during the
reRular season. However, two years ago the Danes treked
up to Maxcy in pursuit of their first outright SUNYAC
championship and downed Ihe eventual national champion Bears on a pair of clutch frcethrows by then
sophomore Mike Gaiio. In addition, the Danes have
never lost a neutral game on that court in cither SUNYAC
or NCAA competition,
"They certainly know Maxcy Hall," Sauers emphasized. Most SUNYAC coaches agree that just hosting Ihe
tournament gives Jerry Welsh's Polsdam team a decided
advantage.
But before the Danes can even begin to think about the
Bears they will have lo contend with the Bengals of Buffalo Slate in the opening round tonight. The Bengals tore
out of the starling gale early this season by dumping
several western New York Stale Division I teams, propelling them to the number one slot in the Division III polls
for most of ihe recent basketball campaign. Currently,
ihe Bengals have fallen to a fifteenth place national ranking,
"I think thai there will be no problem getting menially
prepared for Buff Stale; they were number one in the nation for a long lime," said Dieckelman.
"I'll prepare for it the same way I do for any other
game," said Sauers. "I'll try lo sel a game plan, a sound
game plan, and gel them lo do It."
The winner of ihe Dane-Bengal game will play the victor of the Polsdam-University of Buffalo game thai will
follow,
"Everyone is looking forward to playing Potsdam,"
said Zadoorian, "but our first round will be lough."
"I told my team that it is a Iwo-gnmc world
serlcs-every team is beatable and it's all up for grabs,"
concluded Sauers.
"We have knocked off a lot of good teams already,"
added Dlcckclmun. "We feel we want to add to the
list."
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Students move Into the Empire State Plaza Convention Center
"Fight Ihe hike! Cuomo says cut hack, we say fight back. "
Students, faculty lobby Legislature
By Bob Gurdinier
and Heidi Grallu
In what was the single largest lobby day in the history of
the Legislature, according to SASU President Jim Tierney,
over 3000 students from across the slate skipped classes
Monday lo pour into Albany's Legislative Office Building,
lobbying to show their support of SUN Y and opposition to
Ihe proposed culs that the system faces.
Over I500 SUNYA students attended the conference,
said SA President Mike Corso. He said that he was not surprised by the turnout. " It is obviously very successful and
there is lalk around the Legislature thai thev arc overwhelmed by the number of sludcnls,"
Al about 9 a.m. a group of about 750 sludcnls at Alumni
Quad left for the Slate Legislative downtown, said Central
Council Student Action Committee Chair Rick Sehaffer.
The sludcnls started their march by walking around
Alumni Quad shouting "Fight The Hike,"and "Cuomo
Says Cut Back, We Say Fight Back." Students from uptown and off-campus mcl the Alumni residents, and joined
their march downtown.
Most students had arrived al ihe Legislative Office
Building by ll a.m. They were then led through a mandatory oricntalion session, split up Into groups of five lo
seven, and directed towards the legislators' offices.
Cuomo's budget is "Penny wise lull pound
foolish,"asscrtbd Tierney during ihe orientation session.
We rnusl still lobby for lax increases and ihe surcharge."
The opinions of most sludcnls arriving back downstairs
from Ihe Legislator's offices was thai most Senators and
Assemblymen were unavailable and that access to them or
I heir aides was poor.
"Not many Assemblymen were available, ii was frustrating and we felt that we weren't accomplishing anything."
said one SUNYA student, She added, "We don't know ihe
issues loo well so they could gel away with being vague."
Legislative Aide to Assemblyman Nicholas A. Spano
(R-Wesichcslcr), who wanted to be Identified only as
Bill,said,"This lobbying does help; If students didn't come
down ihe budget would just go through without any questions."
Assemblyman Glenn Warren (R-Albany) said that he'd
met wilb abput 50-60 students, He agreed with sludcnls
that Cuomo's budget called for "loo many culs especially
over so short a period of lime." He recommended a few
layoffs per year, basically through attrition.
An increase in broad based taxes to close up the budget
delict was recently ruled out by the leaders of both houses,
according to a Feb. 28 issue of Ihe Legislative Gazette
SUNY students are concerned thai Ihe proposed $300
tuition increase, a $150 dorm rent increase, a loss of 1,300
faculty positions and culs lo and eliminations of programs
will " erode their quality of education,"said SASU Vice
President Scon Wexler.
The proposed culs by Cuomo are necessary lo help close
Ihe potential budget gap of $1.8 billion for the coming
fiscal year, according to the Governor's office.
" The reception was not thai great...they all knew we •
were coming, most of them were gone somewhere," said
Gordon Diffenderfer, a Brockport sludenl
" They are Interested in our situation but no one is making any convictions,"said a Buffalo Anthropology professor who wlthcld his name. "Some of them tell Ihe
truth... it will be a tough problem, Ihcy say,"said the professor.
The day culminated in a rally held in ihe Convention Hall
of the Empire Slate Plaza at 2 p.m. Energetic students carrying various signs of protest such as " SOS...Save Our
School" and "Mario We Love SUNY...Do You'.'" Hooded
into ihe hall when Ihe doors were opened,
Contingents from various campuses organized
themselves in different places on Ihe floor of the hall. A
brass blind on the speakers podium played march music
while sludcnls stomped and chained their protests,
Assemblyman Mark A. Siegel (D-Manhailan) Chair of
ihe Assembly Committee on Higher Education, spoke at
Ihe rally. SASU endorsed Cuomo in ihe primary, Siegel
said, "He ( Cuomo) owes you heller thanks than this," he
said.
Wexler announced that Ibis one day of sludcnls voicing
their opinions will not be enough. "Sludcnls must return
lo ihe Legislature continuously lo lobby," he said.
Lobby day was organized by SASU and SA Iwo months
ago, said Wexler. "We knew thai this years budgci would
be a bailie so we starled lo prepare early," be said.
"Governor Cuomo is in Washington," said Mary
Prendergasl, SASU Communications Director, " but he is
nun toward Albany loday and is seeing angry sijdenls who
will not lake ibis lying down."
Afler ihe earlier legislative lobby session students had
some tilings to say about their schools and their reactions to
lobbying.
' According to Diffenderfer, "The music department, •
geography department, economics and botany have been
cut back at the school."
Seventy to eighty faculty positions are in danger of being
eliminated al Brockport, said Diffenderfer, There were
about 200 students from the school at the lobby, he said.
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By Tony Sillier
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SASU members across the state mcl in Albany for the
12th annual Legislative Conference held ibis weekend amid
ihe ongoing budget battle.
The agenda of Ihe conference, designed in bring sludenl
activists and leaders together lo train them in ihe I dilative
process, was dominated by ihe proposed budget ol I lovernor Mario M. Cuomo.
According lo SASU Legislative Director Steve l ox, ilic
issues al stake were ihe continued accessibility ol public
education lo middle and lower class students, and Ihe maintnlnanco of SUNY as a source of high quality education,
In a series of panel discussions and smaller group
seminars, sludcnls were educated on NYS politics, ihe
SUNY budget, nuclear disarmament, women's issues and
student's rights.
In addition to SASU officials, Including Cox, President
Jim Tierney, and Executive Vice-President Scolt Wexler,
representatives of ihe NYS Assembly, ihe Governor's office, Ihe Division of Ihe Budget, NYI'IRG, and United
University Professions, were among Ihe panelists.
In a lively seminar entitled "Polities in New York,"
panelists including Assemblyniun Muuriee Hinchley
(D-Kingslon) and Assistant Secretary to Ihe Governor for
Arts and Education Neil Foley fielded questions from
sludcnls.
One sludenl asked why Bundy Aid, the slate subsidy to
private colleges in New York wus being increased while
SUNY was being drastically cut. "isn't it true," Ihe sludenl asked, "thai SUNY students will pay for tuition Increases from their own pockets, while Bundy Aid helps ensure Hint students in private schools won't have lo pay?."
Another student asked Foley if the Governor's budget
did not in fuel "cut ihe children of ihe factory worker, the
warehouseman and those who work hours a week, off from
an education,"
Foley responded that the budgci was ihe resull of many
pressures and SUNY was only one of them. He added that
Bundy has been in existence since 1967, and has been supported by the Legislature every year since. The Bundy increase, Foley said, is statutory, and therefore mandatory.
He added thai il is for Ihe "relatively small sum of one
million dollars,"
Hinchley said, "The slate," is not doing the job ii should
be doing for Ihe working class people of New Vol .'
Laier, commenting on the enthusiasm and commiiuwi of
Ihe sludcnls, Hinchley said he was "very Impivs. -d. I've
never seen'anything like this."
In addition lo the discussions, the conferei .0 included a
Sunday night banquet concluding with a fooiball-style pep
rally in the Campus Center Ballroom.
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SASU Executive Vice President Scott Wexler
Students are concerned cuts will erode education quality.
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Licenses renewed by birth
Albany, N. Y.
(AP)—Beginning on April I, all New York motorists will
have to renew their driver's licenses by their birth date, not
the last day of the month their birthday falls In.
The state Department of Motor Vehicles announced
Monday that It will finally complete a four-year process of
switching the renewal dates starting next month.
State Motor Vehicles Commissioner Leslie Foschio said
the change will give "motorists a personal reminder of
when his or her license is due for renewal."
The state began the change-over in April 1979. Foschio
said motorists will continue to receive notices in the mail
three to four weeks before they must renew their licenses.
Conferring women
Directing women's theater, playwritlng, and story
building through mime, are just some of the workshops
you can attend free at the Women in Theater Conference
being held March 18-20 on'the SUNYA downtown campus. Film and video presentations, as well as playreadings
will continue throughout the conference. For more Information or a conference schedule, call Susan Chast at
457-8428.
Reagan seeks added aid
Washington, D.C.
(AP)—President Reagan, seeking approval from a Congress skeptical about a greater military aid for El Salvador,
said Monday the government there will have trouble surviving if U.S. support is not increased, the Senate Republican
leader said.
Reagan, said to be seeking $60 million in additional
military aid for El Salvador, made his pitch this morning at
a hastily assembled meeting of House and Senate leaders
from both parties. His plea was expected to receive a mixed
reaction in Congress, said Sen. Daniel lnouye, D-Hawali.
"The president made it clear there is a serious problem in
•.the region, that the national interests of this country,are
deeply involved in the outcome of that struggle," said Sen.
Howard Baker, the Senate Republican leader.
Baker said the "immediate problem" is "whether or not
the government of El Salvador can sustain itself" based on
the current level of U.S. support. The president's view,
Baker said, is that "it would have been a difficult time doing that."
Libya withdraws troops
Cairo, Egypt
(AP)—The government said Monday that Libya has
withdrawn the (roops it massed along (he borders with
Egypt and Sudan, defusing a crisis which triggered U.S.
military deployment to deter a possible Libyan attack.
Mohammed Rashwan, minister of state for parliamentary affairs, reported the Libyan pullback following a
meeting of the political bureau of the ruling National
Democratic Party chaired by President Hosni Mubarek.
"The political bureau reviewed recent Libyan attempts at
military intervention across the Sundancse borders,"
Rashwan said. "The bureau commended EgyptianSudanese cooperation in this respect—cooperation which
led to a speedy withdrawl of Libyan forces from the border
area of Kufra."
Kufra is in southwestern Libya near the borders of
Sudan, Egypt, and Chad.
Pentagon sources in Washington said Feb. 16 the United
States had sent radar surveillance planes to Egypt and moved an aircraft carrier battle group close to Libya following a
Libyan buildup apparently aimed at Sudan.
Shuttle launching delayed
Cape Canaveral, Florida
(AP)—Space shuttle Challenger's third engine has the
same defect that was found over the weekend in No. 2, and
a further delay in its maiden launch is certain since both
engines must be removed and repaired, NASA said today.
The same type of hydrogen-line crack which had earlier
been detected on the spaccplanc's No. 2 engine was
discovered on the No. 3 engine over the weekend.
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said they would try to repair both motors at
Kennedy Space Center, but they said there was little hope
of meeting the latest launch date of March 19 and 20. That
date was already two months later than originally scheduled.
By Murk Hummond
Dazzling Debbie
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Don't miss Debbie Friedman in concert on Saturday
March 12, In the Campus.Ccnter Ballroom. The concert
begins at 8:30 p.m. and is sponsored by JSC-Hillcl. Friedman is a concert performer, composer, liturgical soloist,
• and song leader. Many of her songs arc known and sung
throughout the Jewish community today. Tickets are $4
for Hillcl members and $5 for non-members.
Chinese learning
Prc-law and law students, you can study mule,
business, and law with legal scholars and attorneys in
China. The Foundation for American-Chinese Cultural
Exchanges is offering intensive study programs this summer at East China Normal University in Shanghai. In addition lo the law program- there Is also a program in
Chinese language and culture, at all levels. Enrollment is
limited and the deadline for application is March 15,
1983. For complete information, write: Mrs. C.P.
Sobelman, The Foundation for American-Chinese
Cultural Exchanges, Bos 227, 525 West 120th St., New
York, N.Y., 10027.
Layoffs to be released
Albany, N. Y.
(AP)—Legislative leaders fired ofr a letter Monday lo the
State Budget Division, asking It not lo send out any layofr
notices to state workers until the Legislature Is finished
reviewing Gov, Mario Cuomo's proposed slate budget.
"1 don't think we ought to be bcsclged by employees who
have received layoff notices," said Assemblyman Ways and
Means Committee Chairman, Arthur Krcmer, D-Nassau.
However, Cuomo administration officials said layoff
notices would begin going out to thousands of state
workers within two weeks.
The State Legislature's fiscal committee has been holding
a series of hearings on Cuomo's spending plans for various
slate agencies as spelled out in his proposed $31.52 billion
state budget.
In that budget proposal, Cuomo has said thai he needs to
cut about 14,000 jobs from the slate work force. That plan
would include aboul 8,400 actual layoffs, according to
Cuomo, to help close a projected $1.8 billion budget gap in
the coming fiscal year.
Fees paid to NYPIRG labeled unconstitutional
Fun in the sun
If you "always wanted to be a lifeguard, here's your
chance to learn how. Sign up for courses in Advanced
Llfcsaving and Water Safely Instruction at the Albany
Jewish Community Center. Classes will be held Sunday
evenings, March 27, through May 22. Courses are open to
the general public.However, there arc some age and skill
requirements. For registration and fees information call
Jcanette Goltlicb al 438-6651.
The Canadian way
Spend a semester studying in Canada at SUNYA tuition
rates. Programs are being offered in Montreal, Quebec
City, and Ottowa. Students are given the opportunity lo
learn aboul Canadian culture and lifestyle, while attending .prestigious Canadian Universities. The total cost including fees, tuition, room and board is approximately
$I800-$2000 per semester. The application deadline for
summer 1983 is April 1; The deadline for fall 1983 is April
15. All inquiries and applications should be directed to:
Study ip-Canada Programs, Center for the Study of
Canada, 133 Court St., State University of New York,
Plattsburgh, N.Y., 12901.
Pay or protest
Find out more about war tax resistance. Attend a clinic
on Saturday March 5, from 1:30 p.m. lo 4 p.m. at the
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. For more information
call Louise McNeilly at 434-4037.
Saikai seeks relief
New Delhi, India
(AP)—The newly sworn-in chief minister of Assam says
he will seek relief for victims of election-related violence
that has claimed at least 1,300 lives and left 100,000
homeless.
Hilcswur Saikai, a member of Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi's Congress Parly, took the oath of office as chief
minister Sunday along with a 12-member Cabinet, ending
nearly a year of federal rule in the northeastern stale.
Saikai, 44, told reporters in Gauhali, Assam's main city,
that he would iry lo end the bloodshed that began Feb. 2 as
militanl Hindus tried to block Ihe elections ordered by Mrs.
Gandhi.
In the three-stage election, the Congress Parly took 90
seats in the 126-seat slate assembly. Violence prevented
voting in 18 districts, and election officials said those seals
would remain vacant "indefinitely". The major opposition
parties boycotted the election.
Cuomo promotes judge
Albany, N, Y.
(AP)—Gov. Mario Cuomo has elevated state Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Green of Buffalo to the Appellate
Division of the State Supreme Court.
In his announcement Monday, Cuomo said Green would
become an additional justice on the courl replacing Justice
M. Dolores Penman, also of Buffalo, who was recently
elevated by Cuomo from status as an additional justice to
an associate justice on the Appellate Division.
The judge's job for Green pays $69,657 annually.
OPEC threatened by members
A political operation ,
The New York State Senate Legislative Fellows Program provides students with an intimate knowledge of
New York Slate Govcrncmenl. The 1983-84 program
begins Sept. 1983 and ends Aug. 8 1984. The program is
open lo matriculated N.Y. stale graduate students,
Fellows receive a taxable salary of $15,800. If you're interested contact Professor Joseph Zimmerman in the
Graduate School of Public Affairs al 455-6186.
Lucky Leprechauns
Come lo a pre-Saint Patrick's Day party with Donnybrook Fair in concert. The party begins al 9 p.m. in Ihe
Campus Center Ballroom on Friday March 4. The Irish
Club is sponsoring the event as part of World Week. Admission is $2 with a lax card and $3 without a tax card.
pill it to the- rim
Start this weekend early with telclhon afternoon at the
bars. From 3 p.m.-6 p.m., all you can drink for jusl $4.00
at the Lampost, W.T.'s, O'Heancy's, and the Long
Branch. Pay only once and you can go to all four bars.
Afternoon at the Bars, sponsored by Telclhon, SA, and
Ihe classes of 83, 84, and 85, is being jield lo raise money
for telclhon.
Aziz Hussein said after a Cabinet meeting.
. The statement came one day after another high Kuwail
official predicted oil prices could drop to $20 a barrel unless
Ihe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries acts to
reduce its $3.
In Paris, officials of the Kuwail, Algerian and
Venezuelan embassies declined comment on whether oil
ministers from their countries would meet in the French
capital to discuss how to avert a price war.
Court upholds AT&T decision
Washington, D.C.
(AP)—The settlement that broke up the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. did not unlawfully infringe on
state regulatory powers, Ihe Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The court, without waiting to conduct oral arguments,
upheld the huge settlement. The vote was 6-3.
Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices William Rehnquist and Byron While voted to study the controversy more
closely.
Monday's action came in an appeal by 13 stales thai
claimed the settlement unlawfully infinged on their
regulatory powers and may leave phone users with Inadequate service.
The Justice Department and AT&T also asked the
Supreme Courl to step into the dispute immediately to put
lo rest any doubts about the settlement's validity.
CONTKIHUIING F.DITOR
NYPIRG is doing
something for everyone!
reasons," and said that "the broad sweep
of this suit would be to eliminate any student activity which takes a political stand,"
such as a student government, gay
organizations, feminist groups, and SASU.
Collins denied that the suit is politically
motivated, saying that it originated (in
1979) from "young men and women calling
for a change in an unconstitutional system.
Any other consideration of that (political
motivation) is irrelevant."
"Clearly, what Ihcy would like to sec is
all mandatory fees made voluntary,"
Greenberg said. "The whole notion concerns a student's right to vole on how their
money is spent," she said, referring lo the
referendum vote.
Grecnberg defended the method of
NYPIRG's student funding, refuting the
accusation ihul money is used for political
coercion. "Students are given all the informaiion and Ihcy decide how they wanl their
money spent. Isn't thai how people vote?"
Carroll charged that "financing
NYPIRG through a numdulory fee violated
.the constitutionally-protected rights of
students to support or oppose a political
issue." Carroll stressed ihul the plaintiffs
are not challenging NYPIRG's right lo exist; rather, it is "an attack against forced
political contributions."
The plaintiffs believe NYPIRG should be
financed exclusively through public and.
:private contributions! "If ll truly represents
the 'public interest' it should noi have trouble relying on voluntary public support,"
explained Carroll.
Carroll said the attack was levied against
NYPIRG because 1 be organization is the
"foremost beneficiary of this misguided
university policy" which permits Ihe funding of ideologically-based groups like student government and SASU. He noted that
SUNY policy prohibits the funding of
party-bused organizations like the College
Republicans and Ihe Young Democrats, but
emphasized that no "ideologicallyoriented" group should be funded, cither.
A similar suit against a New Jersey PIRG
is now pending in that state's courl.
Oilier plaintiffs include Craig Rucker,
Robert Carroll, Edwin Jimenez, and
Emanuel Jimenez of Albany; Edward
Ptiola and Robert Christian of New Pallz;
and Belli Turkovic of Binghamlon.
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Patroon Room reserves tables for faculty only
"There is a limited
number of reserved tables
. . . We don't want to
over-reserve . . . "
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NYPIRG also supports nuclear disarmament, recycling and access lo the courts.
Both Grecnberg and Ondrasik noted Ihe
Foundation is funded In part by these corporations, which was confirmed by Collins.
Ondrasik implied that the Foundation
had singled out NYPIRG for "political
Eight students from three SUNY campuses are suing NYPIRG, among others, on
the grounds that the mandatory collections
of student Tecs lo fund NYPIRG is a violation of constitutional rights.
The students, represented by Ihe MidAtlanlic Legal Foundation, charge that the
$486,000 NYPIRG receives annually
through student fees is being used for
"political and ideological purposes," in
what they see as an "unconscionable situation." The plaintiffs arc calling for a halt to
the collections plus $1 million—an estimate
of the total fees NYPIRG received since
1972—to be refunded individually 10 all
students who paid.
"No one should be required lo finance
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anyone else's politics," said Attorney John
CLEANUP
O. Collins of Mid 'Atlantic, representing
the students. "This suit is designed lo protect everyone, regardless of their views."
Ai S U N Y A , $2 of ihe mandatory $45 student fee specifically goes to help fund Ihe
17-chuplcr NYPIRG. The remaining $1.8
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million of NYPIRG's $2.3 million annual
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budget comes from contributions, grams
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and program income, according 10 Albany
NYPIRG Project Coordinator spokesperson Jane Grecnberg. In addition she explained that the funding method is approved every two or three years by a student
vote referendum.
"This group (NYPIRG) uses these funds
to support its efforts lo Influence public
policy through research and lobbying on
select political issues," said plaintiff
Thomul W. Carroll of Albany. Carroll called Ihe crux of the suit "an attack against
forced political contributions."
Also numed as defendants are the SUNY
NEW YORK
Board or Trustees, Chancellor Clifton B.
Wharton, and seven university presidents,
PUBLIC
including President Vincent O'Leary, for
INTEREST
permitting NYPIRG to be "unjustly
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enriched." The suit was filed Feb. 17 in a
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Federal District court in Manhattan before
Judge Lloyd MacMahon.
. NYPIRG Executive Director Marilyn A.
Ondrasik, termed the suit an attack by "a
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right-wing, corporate-funded legal foundation"—a charge Carroll called "childish NYPIRG Project Coordinator spokesperson Jane Greenberg
and irrelevant."
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"The whole notion concerns a student's right to vote on how their money is spent.
Kuwait
(AP)—A top government official warned Monday that
Arab Persian Gulf states will preserve their own interests if
OPEC fails to agree on price and production levels.
"The gulf oil exporters will have to act in such a fashion
that enables them to retain a reasonable production level
and revenues because we mainly depend on oil as a source
of income," Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul
Ondrasik noted that the Foundation has
in the past represented such interests as Exxon, Arco, Bcndix, and the New York Slate
Business Council—entities
often
ideologically opposed lo many of
NYPIRG's pro-environmental views, such
as the rccenily-enactcd "bottle bill,"
UAS General Manager Norbert Zahm
"We're not excluding students front Ihe place.
The rationale behind ihal was ihe same as the Palroon
Room's reservation system, "they would use the room
primarily lor entertaining guests from other schools."
Binghamlon SASU delegate Sharon Donnelly explained,
"ihe situation has taken care of itself. A monih ago, PresiBy Li/. Reich
dent
Clark agreed 10 meet lo discuss developing a policy
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that would not exclude students.
Faculty members and administrators, but not students,
Kalish added that, "Student Association President Pam
now have the right 10 make luncheon reservations at the Goldman goi students allowed during certain hours but
Putroon Room and possibilities for transforming the ihcy are discouraged to go during peak hours." Donnelly
Mousetrap next year arc now being considered, according said, "I respect the faculty's right 10 eat there but I don't
to UAS General Manager Norbert Zahm.
like an exclusionary policy on the books, one lhat says
The reservation system stemmed from the recommenda- students aren't allowed in room X. I would object if faculty
tions of the Committee on Campus Life, a group of six ad- were excluded from Susquehana (another dining hall)."
ministrators. The Committee "received complaints from
In addition, UAS is studying the feasibility of making the
faculty and administrators that there was a difficulty In Mousetrap, the Patroon Room's weekend wine and cheese
scheduling business luncheons," due lo the popularity of restaurant, more appealing 10 students, While the Patroon
the Patroon Room, according 10 Campus Life Committee Room's appeal 10 students has increased over Ihe pasl few
Chair Lewis Welch.
years, the Mousetrap's popularity has diminished. AccorZahm suid, "ThePatroon Room has been a popular place ding 10 Zahm, "Wine and cheese places are fading away."
for students since February of last year. As the week builds,
UAS first thought of the Mousetrap approximately four
Ihe crowd gets larger. The faculty and administrators need years ago when a group of students from Ihe New York Cia place for their meetings." Zahm stressed,"We're not ex- ty and Lung Island area suggested a wine and cheese dining
cluding students from Ihe place. There is a limited number facility on campus. Although these kinds of facilities were
of reserved tables. We don't want lo over-reserve the place very popular and successful in New York City, they were
because of the problems which could arise—people who are virtually non exlslant in the Albany urea. However, UAS
not on time and customers who are kepi wailing." Zahm decided lo lake a chance and created Ihe Mousetrap. The
said if student groups, such as the Student Association, success of the Mousetrap never skyrockcled, but Albany
need 10 hold business luncheons they can speak 10 Ihe students seemed to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere that they
Board of Directors at UAS.
fell in Ihe facility.
SA President Mike Corso believes Ihe new policy is unfair. "It's wrong ihai faculty and administrators be treated
Now, according to Zahm, sales have been steadily declindifferently, because the Patroon Room Is all of ours." Cor- ing as well as customer counis. "The Mousetrap has never
so pointed oul that If he had an SA business meeting, he really met Ihe expectations of UAS, but we were satisfied
would hold it in the Patroon Room's buck room, behind with lis progress," Zahm remarked. "For some reason or
Ihe bar. Now thai Lobby Day is over, Corso said he's going anoiher the Interest of the students has dropped drastically
to be "looking into it further."
and we.would like to know why."
A similar controversial situation occurred Ibis semester ut
UAS is pulling together a survey, Zahm said, lo be
SUNY Binghamlon. One of Binghamlon's dining rooms, distributed on dinner lines, in order 10 get a profile on what
known as the Chenango Room, opened in January ex- students do when they go oul. "Some people just want to
clusively lo faculty and administrators, according to get away from the campus," Zahm said, "and that is one
Binghamton's Pipe Dream Editor-in-Chief, David Kalish. of the questions."
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MARCH
I, 1983 D ALBANY
Violinist sues symphony after dismissal
Symphony refused to d o . "
chestra into her battle.
According to Gilman this all came about
Saetta explained, "They can't undersbecause "someone had the guts to point out tand what grounds I have to sue," adding
The case brought against Albany Sym- to the local union and the manager that that if she had not been fired "there would
phony Orchestra and Local 14 of the they were going against a binding legal con- be no problem at all."
American Federation of Musicians, by tract ratified by management and
Gilman said Saetta's life was devoted to
Mary Lou Saetta, wife of SUNYA music members."
music. She had a full scholarship at
profesor lrvin Gilman, will be heard in
Saetta added that the three-year contract, Eastman (School of Music) and got her
federal court this Friday at 9:30 a.m. accor- now in its second year, "was a very difficult Masters there. She is a fine teacher, he
ding to Gilman.
negotiation that members had won," but maintained adding that "she had founded
The suit lodged against the Symphony, that "the contract was nothing to write the most important chamber group in the
its president Peter Kcrmani, and manager home about."
area, the Capitol Chamber Artists."
Susan Bush, charges "breach of a collective
"It was a great victory when you're starSaetta has rcportably been playing violin
bargaining agreement, unjust discharge, ling from square one. We won far more professionally since age twelve, and has
libel, slander, intentional infliction of emo- than we thought we would," said Saetta. been with the Albany Symphony for seventional distress, loss of companionship and However, she maintained, "It seems (hat it teen years, where she was leader of the orconspiracy," according to a Feb 17. Albany is not being adhered t o . "
chestra's second violinist section.
Times Union article. Saetta additionally
In a prepared statement for the press,
Saetta hopes the suit will be settled before
charges Local 14 and its president Vincent Bush said the suit represents a dispute bet- the present contract runs out. She appeared
P. Calalano with "breach of duty and fair ween Saetta and Local 14 of the American confident in winning the suit, and said of
representation," said the 7Ymes Union. The Federation of Musicians. She added, "there ASO's defense, "I don't think there's a
case will be heard by the U.S. Northern are no possible grounds upon which Mrs.
District Court of New York.
Sactla-Gilman can succeed in alledging any
The suit stems from the firing of Saetta cause of action against the Albany Sym"If the management gets away with this,
by the symphony on Oct. 19, 1982. A letter phony Orchestra, the president of the everyone is in jeopardy," stressed Gilman.
from Bush on that date charged Saetta with board, or its manager." However, Bush "We arc fighting for the professional lives
"egregious and disruptive behavior," regretted that Saetta had drawn the or- of every member of the orchestra."
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staling that Saetta was in violation of a contract agreement requiring that orchestra
members be seated ten minutes before the
beginning of a performance.
Saetta denies the charge, saying, "I did
not violate that rule. I was in my scat long
prior to concert time." Saetta also said that
the rule had not been enforced in the past,
and that no action was taken against the
other two members she was alledgedly
speaking to during the time in question.
Gilman, also a member of the symphony,
said, "The American Federation of Musicians sent down a fact-finder. On learning
the facts, they (the highest authority) ruled
that ASO had no just cause and that Mary
Lou should be returned immediately."
However, Gilman added, Local 14 did not
enforce this ruling.
Saetta believes she was dismissed for her
outspokennesss against the symphony's
plans to start a chamber orchestra. While
symphony members were no opposed to the
chamber group in theory, they were opposed to management's refusal to respect the
orchestra's standing agreement concerning
the newer group.
"Local I4's attorney said they didn't
know whether they would oppose or support me. We were supposed to go into arbitration on Feb. 22. I was told that
management could pick two arbitrators, the
local would pick one, and I'd pick one,"
Saetta said. She maintained this was unfair
since she did not know whether or not
Local 14 would support her.
"It's literally a David and Goliath story,
when you consider the power behind the
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Albany Symphony Orchestra and its
manager," Gilman said. We followed the Professor lrvin Gilman
'We followed the contract to the letter, which the Albany Symphony refused to do.
contract to the letter, which the Albany
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Ideals of King
correspond to
Malcolm X in
freedom fight
By Anicy Adams
AN EVENING WITH
STUDENT
By Jane Anderson
The black leader of peaceful protest
Martin Luther King and radical activist
Malcolm X were "complimenting parts of
the black struggle Tor freedom," explained professor James Cone in an afternoon
lecture in the Campus Center Ballroom
Friday.
In his lecture, "Martin Luther King:
Racism Reconsidered" Cone critically examined King's strengths and weaknesses
before a predominantly black audience of
approximately 250 people, many of whom
were members of the Albany Community.
A Ph.D. in Black Theology, Cone
believes that no choice is needed between
the ideas of prominent black leaders Martin Luther King and Malcom X. "They do
not represent two radically different ways
of looking at black freedom," he said, lrfitcad, they compliment each other, "and
'.hey can not be simply mythological
heroes for the black masses-praise for
them is cheap when it costs us nothing.'
Cone added that "Martin Luther King
and Malcolm X tell us who we are-what
our struggle for freedom means." He
went on to say that they "provide a central theme in black theology-lhey give us
the insights needed in our struggle, in the
U.S. and abroad."
In examining the "social and political
origins" of King's philosophy, Cone explained that because King was brought up
in a black, middle class family, he Incorporated "middle class values" into his
thoughts about black freedom. King
stated that there was "a spirit of cooperation" between some blacks and whites,
and he kept his faith in while people, according to Cone. "He believed thai whites
were capable lo become sensitized to the
suffering of blacks."
At the same lime King provided no
critique of capitalism, said Cone.
"Because King was raised as middle class,
any racism he cncounlered was social, nol
economical or political," Cone added thai
King "defined the problem of racism as
separation of the races," and did not
strive for the overthrow of society because
"one docs nol destroy that which one
wants lo share in."
According lo Cone, King's greatness
"can be defined in his ability to inspire
poor blacks" lo become dedicated to the
gaining of knowledge and the development of their intelligence. Cone said
dedication means the commitment to
work hard" and that Martin Luther King
cprcsents "a courageous example" for
those striving toward tills goal.
President Vincent O'Leary also attended thclunchcon, and in a short welcome
iddress noied that "Martin Luther King
belongs to all of us—he stood and died for
the dignity of human beings, whatever
race," and he received a round of applause when he said that "we will coninue the struggle—and we will succeed."
ECC providing services but not courses
By Amy Kilgus
STAFF wmren
Tucked away in the basement under the
Lecture Center lies the Educational Communications Center, chock full of communications equipment, including one
audio and three audio-visual production
studios.
Once students do find out what's "down
under," they often wonder what all the
equipment is used for, since no production
courses are offered at Albany.
According to ECC Director Grant Van
Patten, "the studios arc used to support the
faculty, and arc seldom used for
undergraduate production classes. The
studios' main purposes are for taping
presentations by professors for their
courses, covering athletic events, and filming productions at the Performing Arts
Center.
Because the ECC staff is not part of
SUNYA's teaching faculty, the center can
not offer courses in production, said Finch.
However, Finch added that if the Rhetoric
and Communications department wanted
to offer production courses, the use of the
studios and equipment would be permitted
for such programs.
Presently the RCO department docs not
offer production courses for various
reasons, explained Acting Chair Kathleen
Kendall.
The first and most important reason,
Kendall said, is that "the RCO department
emphasizes content courses with substance
and theory" and the department considers
"production courses as trade courses for
specific vocations." Since SUNYA isn't a
trade school, she said, it shouldn't emphasize the production courses.
According to Kendall, the department
encourages students to learn production
skills on the job or through internships.
Currently thirty-five students have internships in various communication fields, Kendall said.
Another reason, explained Kendall, is
that production courses arc not offered
because they cost too much, listing the cost
of film and the cost of repairing equipment
as the principle expenses.
In addition, Kendall maintained that her
staff is too small to offer additional
courses. With merely seven professors in
the department, she explained there is only
enough personnel to teach the required content courses.
However, the presence of the ECC is felt
in some undergraduate classrooms. Finch
estimated that in one semester, 197 faculty
members in 60 departments have been served by the ECC in one way or another, many
members being impressed with the ECC's
facilities. In that time, the ECC has made
300 productions and played back 2,500
videos, all of which were made at Albany's
studios.
Additionally, the ECC tapes public service announcements for state agencies such
as the Department of Motor Vehicles and
the Department of Social Services.
"There is a first come, first serve policy
for use of the studios for actual taping,"
said Finch, although there is an "academic
priority over state agencies." The state
agencies, he added, usually use the studios
during school vacations.
Because SUNYA and the state agencies
arc both supported by stale tax dollars, this
allows the agencies to use the studio
facilities. Another reason, explained the
Director of ECC Grant Van Patten, is that
"it is part of SUNYA's effort to offer its
services and expcrticc to the community
and state agencies."
There is no charge for the use of the
studio facilities itself, said Finch, however
the faculty and state agencies must pay for
the film and other expensive items.
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The luncheon was part of the 1982-83
President's Lectureship Series, which is
based Ibis year on the theme "Racism,
Sexism, Anti-Semitism and Discrimina
lion against the Disabled." There was no
admission fee lor the well-attended,
elaborate affair, which was sponsored in
part by the Office of the President and by
Affirmative Action. Additional funds
were donated by UAS, which, according
to Professor of African and AfroAmerican Studies Frank Pogue, coniribuled "a larger sum this year than in
previous years, so the lecture committee
didn't have to request as much from the
President."
Pogue mentioned that this was the
fourth annual Martin Luther King,
Jr./Black History Month Luncheon. One
student, who had attended the event in a
previous year, was quoted as saying that
the event was "much more well organized
this year-it's much more formal."
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MARCH 1, 1983 a ALBANY STUDENT PRESS J
Dorm residents face possible damage deposit
By Steve Ferllg
A common area damage deposit with a
possible maximum of $50 may be required
Tor all students living in campus dormitories
next semester, according to former SUNY
Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Ronald Brislow.
The proposed deposit Is currently being
considered by SUNY Central. If the proposal is accepted, each SUNY School would
decide whether or not the policy would be
put into effect on its campus, Bristow said
The amount of the deposit, to be determined by each SUNY branch, would reflect the
severity of the vandalism or the campus.
Under Ihe common area damage deposit
proposal If vandalism were to occur, an attempt to find the perpetrator would be
made first said Brislow. If the guilty party is
found, he/she alone would be held responsible for payment. If, however, no
perpclrntor is found, Ihosc responsible for
the area would share the cost. Bristow
pointed out that, by implementation of Ihe
deposit, a simple shift of responsibility
would be taking place. As it works now,
said Bristow, when no guilty parly is found,
the damage is payedforoui of Ihe university's general operations budget, which Is
composed of rental monies. The deposit
would place Ihe burden of payment for
damage on Ihosc responsible for the area,
inslcnd of on all students living on campus.
SASU opposes Implementation of the
deposit. SASU President Jim Tlciney said,
"This is something they (the Central Administration) have been trying lo stop for
years and years." According to SASU position paper on the damage deposit, Implementation of Ihe deposit is "without sufiTcfcnt Justification." At this time SASU
holds (his position for the following
reasons, as stated in the paper:
• the current university bookkeeping
system does not distinguish repairs due to
normal "wear and tear" from repairs due
to vandalism.
• if enacted, the policy would cause campus students and administrators to lose incentive to Identify comnton area damage
perpetrators since damage could more easily be assessed against the fee.
• the proposal places the financial
responsibility for damage done in a par-
ed the Idea at the time they showed no objection to other campuses implementing a
deposit. However, no action was taken by
the SUNY Board of Trustees, and discussion of the fee was abandoned. In January
of this year, discussion of the deposit began
again.
"It has long been the contention of
SUNY that many NYS legislators desire a
damage fee in response to reports of widespread vandalism" according to SASU
literature. SASU has discovered that SUC
Morrisvillc and Canton have already
established common area damage fees
without approval from SUNY Central.
These fees, according to SASU, were
established in violation of SUNY.
SUNYA Director of Residential Life,
John Martone said that he had no opinion
on the common area damage deposit at this
time, since he is.at present unaware of important details regarding the proposal. Until he knows Ihe "pluses and minuses,"
— Former SUNY Associate Vice Chancellor of Martone said that he was "concerned
Student Affairs Ronald Bristow enough not to make a comment." He did,
however, say that Albany had a good reporting system for vandalism, and that "we
don't have that extensive a problem." At
ticulur dormitory on Ihe residents of that ists. In response to one of the comments in present, said Martone, only a small percendorinilory whether or not they are responsi- the SASU paper, Hosteller agreed that, at tage of students arc involved in appropriate
bleforthe damage committed.
times, it is difficult to determine normal behavior. The director stressed that there
• as demonstrated on several campuses, wear and tear from vandalism, but In has been good cooperation between
Ihe cost of administering such u fee could general, Ibis is not u problem. As far as in- students, the campus judicial system and
very well be more than the actual cost of centive lo identify perpetrators, he feels residence staff. Before deciding upon an
common area damage.
that it is up to the students to determine the opinion of the proposition, Martone wants
SASU also feels that Ihe proposal effectiveness of identification. Hostetter to sec its guidelines and discuss the deposit
represents a "bund-aid" that will only was unaware of any charges that the cost of with students, including the Quad Board.
create more bureaucratic red tape and gel in implementing the deposit may be greater
According lo Martone, there Is no way of
the way of a real solution lo Ihe problem of than Ihe damage itself.
knowing, al this time, who would make the
unreasonable damage.
In the fall of 1981, a similar deposit was decision for this campus if such a proposal
SUNY Associate Vice Chancellor for proposed within SUNY Central according was
passed
by the Central
Student Affairs Norman Hosteller, who to SASU. Although many campuses oppos- Administration.
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"The deposit would place the burden of
payment on those responsible for the area,
instead of all students living on campus. "
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rcccntly replaced Bristow, feels that in the
absence of another plan, this proposal is "a
beginning." Hostetter agrees that there
may be other solutions to the problem of
vandalism, but none have yet been put forward. He also feels that " there is nothing
like the collection of money" to inspire
students to fight against the vandalism of
their areas. In his opinion, it Is unfair to
assess deposits to campuses without a vandalism problem, so that is why there will be
an option, the deposit will enable campuses
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Vienna, with more synthesized Instruments
and vocals. Unfortunately, II lacked the
lighter touches that made Vienna so
palatable. The press seemed to like It belter
than their newly acquired An College
classmates, and the boys were nicknamed
the "New Europeans" (the title of one ol
their songs).
omewhere In England, not loo
far from Liverpool, stands the
Rock-n-Roll High School founded In 1972. Popular classes Include
eleclrlc-rock music, egotism, synth-pop
music, profound lyrics and drugs, alcohol
and tobacco. Past students Include
Ultravox! who just released Quartet, and
the ever popular David Bowie, who was
B.M.O.C. (Big Musician On Campus) for a
number of years.
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From the Art School, the boys were learning all about using classical Influent es and
harmonic structures to create ,i doomed
dark feeling. They were able to pass all of
their courses that year because they steered
clear of their past tendency to induce In
robotic sound. But they missed yelling /Vs
because of their melancholy moods and
eerie scores.
Gail Merrell
At High School, Ultravox! were the kids
who were always on the fringe of the
popular group. They wanted to be just like
Bowie because everyone liked him, press
and students alike, and he got all the girls
(and boys). Also, David went to all the parties, as he was friends with everyone.
Even though Ultravox! didn't have many
friends, they were held In high regard by
their peers. The graders (the press),
however, weren't too fond of them.
The boys studied very hard and released
their first assignment, Ultrauox!, In 7 7 .
With the help of Brian Eno's production,
the group recorded an expanded version
of Bowie's "Zlggy Stardust" sound. The Illfated assignment was late and the boys
were accused of cheating. They were
caught copying from Roxy Music, Bowie
and the Velvet Underground. Even their
classmates didn't like the sound. They were
They were caught cheating once again, this
more Interested In hearing Johnnny Rottime from Gary Numan and The Human
ten, the lead In the school play that year.
League. Even though the other bands adThe group tried to gain back their
mitted copying from Ultravox, nobody
reputation by quickly releasing Ha! Ha! Ha!
believed them and In December 1978,
and Retro, a live EP. Although both have
their label, Island Records suspended
strong elements of punk, there wasn't
them.
enough there to make their friends gush
The group became part of the A.F.S.
over them as they did over Johnny R.
(American Field Service) and they loured
To bolster their Image, Ultravox had
Europe during January and February of
plastic surgery done over the summer bet1979. The clique split up upon their relurn
ween sophmore and junior year. They
to England, with leader John Foxx doing
dropped the " I " from their name and
solo work while Robin Simon got friendly
replaced guitarist Steve Shears with Robin
with the boys In Magazine. Billy Currle
Simon, the class cut-up. To improve their
joined a new gang, Visage, run by Midge
grades, they asked Conny Plank (KraftUre, and Billy also toured with classmate
werk) to tutor them. Systems o/ Romance
Gary Numan. Midge became a fast friend
was released In September 1978. It mixed
with the remaining Ultravoxers Billy Currie,
modern rock and electronic Inventiveness.
Chris Cross and Warren Cann, and decid-
The groups latest project, Quurk't takes
a turn back to their romantic days. The hit
single "Reap the Wild Wind" is lush and
paints swirling, serene Images. It's a love
song In the same vein as Bowie's "Wild Is
the W i n d " , but this lime Ultravox was
careful not to plagurlze. The resl ol the
album, however, sounds like the paper
from an all-nighter — beautiful Images thai
go on and on and can't seem to slop
themselves, hoping to make up in quanllty
what they lack In quality.
ed to join them as his group Visage studied
alol but never toured the streets.
And so by April of '79, Ultravox was '
back In the classroom and Chrysalis had
given them their first assignment. They
again asked the help of tutor Conny Plank
and recorded Vienna In three and a half
weeks. Because of their suspension and
bad grades, the group was punished and
the album wasn't released until senior year,
after the prom. It didn't begin to do well
until the beginning of ' 8 1 , when finally the
press and their classmates adored them.
They were moody romantics who made
their serious points with cold technology.
Out of school, and now distinguished
graduates, the boys released Rage In Eden
in the fall of 1981. It was the second album
with their winning line-up. Artistically, the
Perhaps Art School is getting to
Ultravox, I hear that the competition is
quite fierce. Transfer students like Thomas
Dolby, or newcomers like A Flock of
Seagulls, who both whip out brilliant
melodies, are strong competitors. An Rock
Is a tough major, especially when you're
still trying to hang onto your guitar, bass
and drums. Although Ultravox Is receiving
lots of credit for doing what they've wauled
to, fashionable or not, their new album only deserves a 2.75 G.P.A., the major pot
Hon of the grade coming from "Reap the
Wild Wind".
They shouldn't be written off howevei
Midge Ure Is a superb vocallsl and Hilly
Currle is a a top-rate violinist and keyboardist. They could easily turn out .i hit allium
If only they'd write shorter songs Si > fat the
press Is w i t h h o l d i n g any lasting
judgements, after all, they're only college
kids.
perspectives on tuesday
Getting Out -Debate Or Talk?
D
iscussion or debate? That Is the
question. This past Thursday
evening, after a most engaging
performance of the play Getting Out at the
Performing Arts Center, a "discussion" was
held In the theatre conducted by Professor
Barlow of the English Department.
Michael Greenfield
After such an Inspiring performance,
one cannot but expect emotions to be
charged, and they obviously were. Discussion In my opinion, is respectful, courteous
conversation of a topic, not rude,
argumentative rhetoric. After thoroughly
giving the director (Professor Hanley) a
harsh going over about the actual theme,
those discussing the performance, or may I
say debators, proceeded to focus In on one
aspect — that of rape.
Let me clarify the point. Rape Is a major
concern, obviously deserving consideration by any discussion group. The rights of
women and the hardships of growing up as
a female in a male dominated society both
are key elements of the story. Gelling Out
Is about women, but by no means are these
the only significant Issues depicted. There
are others and for that matter equally important ones.
For example, the plight of the modern
day ex-con seems to be an important issue.
Arlene will always be a prisoner. Whether
the prison be Pine Hills or the
claustrophobic, "two bit" room that she
returns to, free, Arlene never really Is out
of prison. The bars on the window of her
apartment serve as the most obvious symbol that she hadn't and probably never will
"get out" of her confinement. She has been
set loose into a world that she was unprepared to handle. Alone and vulnerable,
all that Arlene could see for her future were
dishpan hands for $75 per week and pickle
loaf on Wonder Bread. Once again society
has attempted rehabilitation In its most
usual Ignorant manner.
This makes Arlene (well, Arlle-girl) a victim of society. She has been given no real
chance - but, in a sense, neither has Bennle. Bennie (the prison guard) Is a victim of
age because of her lack of education and
socialization. Prostitution was a way for her
to "earn" lots of money, and violence was
her answer to all conflicts she encountered.
This is an oversimplification, but the fact
remains thai we can be sympathetic
towards Arlene because of her childhood
and not to Bennie, even though he does
show obvious ignorance, as well as some
This is not intended to defend Bennie. It is supposed
to open up minds, minds so tunneled in on their
goals that they dont hear discussion, only debate
They think in terms of rhetoric, not understanding.
When people get together to discuss, listening to
each other is just as important as speaking one's
mind. The sharing of thoughts Is the key to
understanding. Nothing really gets accomplished
when a group of concerned intellectuals organize a
talk about a performance and end up arguing.
his socialization. He could not be excused
for trying to rape Arlene, his apology of
curse being a joke. If a person is not
educated In manners, and doesn't really
know better, how can he be expected to
realize, without being told, that forcing sex
on a woman Is not a way to show affection.
A n d what about poor Arlene. She killed
a cab driver (her abusing father being one)
and became a prostitute at such a young
sense of morals when he slates, "I'm not a
rapist!"
This Is not intended to defend Bennie. it
tunneled In on their goals that they don't
term, of rhetoric, not understanding.
When people gel together to discuss
listening to each other I, Jus. a , Importam
as speaking one's mind! The sharing ol
thoughts Is the key lo understanding
Nothing really gets accomplished when a
group of concerned Intellectuals organize
to talk about a performance and end up
arguing. Using one's power of persuasion
lo overcome or sujjpress another person's
point of view Is a form of rape. It's the rape
of someone's rights by a dominant, overpowering force. Is Ihls considered discussion?
During a discussion, a person should be
able lo speak one's mind without beiny on
his/her guard, and without the fear of embarrassment and a harsh, matter-of-facl
reprisal—especially from the leader of the
discussion group. A leader has the responsibility to keep some semblance of order. It
Is the leader's responsibility to be as objective as possible and to make a sincere attempt lo be fair. Giving the floor first lo the
women, then back to the men, then back
to the women, etc. seems to be a way ol
creating heated debate not an orderly communication of Ideas.
This leads directly to the point. Was ihls
discussion or debate? The feminist prospective of this play Is a valid one and it
Isn't my Intention to undermine it. But, taking this position to an extreme In the
analysis of Gelling Out, counts out all other
Issues as unimportant. 1 thought Feminism
has as its goal education, that is opening
minds, teaching people to escape their lunnel vision, look at an alternative point of
view. Only monistic views were displayed
at this discussion. " F e m i n i s m vs.
Machomanla"—when confronted face to
Lee, each doesn't give an Inch of leeway.
Can anything be accomplished, given
these circumstances? Isn't Ihls how wars get
started? Do we all want to end up like
squished frog,?
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Shadows of Modern Dance
F
riday night at the Egg was the
scene of a truly unique dance
p e r f o r m a n c e by the Paul
Sanasardo Dance Company, Sanasardo
has studied'with Martha Graham. Anne
Sokolow and Pearl Lang (in fact he was
Miss Lang's partner In her company (or
twelve years). The Influence of these cornerstones of modern dance are very evident
Megan Gray Taylor
Sansardo said In an interview he crcdlls
Graham wllh being "a tremendous Influence on my development as a dancer,"
although he attributes even greater Influence to Anthony Tudor and Sokolow
who he (eels gave him a temperament.
Sanasardo, after an abscence of several
years (during which he headed the Batshevn Dance Company In Israel), has
returned lo the dance scene with force, reestablishing himself as a major factor in
modern dance today.
O n , Friday evening, the' company
presented Sanasardo's newest piece
Premonitions. The performance opened
with this work and my reaction was wholeheartedly negative. There is a difference
between discordant choreography and
dancers out of lime. Sanasardo's dancers
don't always seem sure of the difference.
The piece In three movements was set to
the music of Charles Ives, Darius Mllhaud
and Nlkos Skalkottas, none of which was
well suited for the Idea or movement.
There was no spark In the choreography,
rather it was a mediocre rehash of
Graham/Alley Innovations. Never did I get
a sense of 'premonition' rather I felt like I
was watching the "Rite of Spring" with the
rites. The only positive part of Ihls piece
was the dancing of Megan Axeman which
was excellent.
Following this priemere, I viewed the second piece with some trepidation.
Shadows, which was choreographed In
1973, is a soft, somewhat Marcel Marceau
piece with Sanasardo himself dancing the
second movement. There was a bil too
much mime here for me, and my first Impressions of Sanasardo were less than fan-
tastic. This piece did feature a fine perfor- •
mance by Diane Germalne In the first
movement called "Her Palms Are Flowers
For Anna". Germalne showed technical
skill and a genuine enjoyment In the movement she was performing. The two
dancers, Evangeline Qulroz and Anne
Marie Zanchettl, still suffered from a lack of
timing that they had exhibited In the first
piece, however, Qulroz seemed technically
more In command of both roles.
In t h e t h i r d piece
Metallic),
choreographed In 1963, my fading opinion
of this company was completely turned
around. Here was the genius I had read
about. The movement, reminiscent of the
contraction/release movements of Martha
Graham at her best were there but different, more dramatic—taken to some
ultimate plain of movement. The set conception was brilliant with a set of metallic
bars hanging from a swing like apparatus
which formed a refuge and a tool for
dancer Lynn Barr, whose drama and skill
were showcased here (unlike the premier
piece of which she was also the anchor).
Set to the music of Henry Cowell's
Ostlnato Pianissimo (1934) and Henk
Badlngs' Evolutions (2nd movement), this
piece had an eerie urgency. The performance of Megan Axeman, whose obvious
classical training showed in all her
movements was superb. She took every
movement to its fullest extension, unfortunately pointing out a weakness In her
partner J o h n Passaflume's ability
(Passafiume Is a 1978 graduate of
Gullderland High).
The final piece of the evening was the
1976 Abandoned
Prayer danced by
Sanasardo and Pascal Rloult. This Is a
dance between Jesus of Nazareth and
Jjudas Iscarlot set lo the dramatically
'religious organ music of Thomas Alblnonl's
Adagio. If the point was to send the audience home with a lasting Impression of
this companies potential this was the piece
to do it.
Rloult, a relatively recent addition to the
company, comes from France where he
was a physical education teacher, He has
an extremely developed body for a dancer
and yet there Is no lack of grace, flexibility
or drama in his work. I think giving a
dancer a specific characterization can help
tremendously. Rloult, also forgettable In
the first piece, truly shown here as Jesus.
Sanasardo. In his most demanding role
of Ihe evening as Judas, follows Rloult
around the singe wllh a street lamp serving
as halo, as If It were up lo Judas to Illuminate this figure, to draw attention to It;
Then there Is a recognition of Jesus's
greatness and a beautifully moving pas de
deux between the men. Here again was the
genlous Sanasardo at work. The movement was unique In that often I felt I was
looking at a DeVlncI drawing of anatomy,
as many movement, or positions were held
by Rloult that fraction of a second that can
make so much difference.
Sanasardo
Is k n o w n
for his
choreography and his dramatic persona as
a dancer. Both these elements were present In the last two pieces. I cannot help
feel, that Premonitions Is not a step forward
choreographer or company. It Is good to
break ground, lo expand, but only If that
represents true growth. Overall, Ihls Is a
company of line, talented dancers. If they
return to our area be sure lo see them.
The EGG and The Empire State Institute
(or the Performing Arts (ESIPA) Is
establishing their reputation as a source of
really outstanding entertainment in Ihe
Capital District. This presentation of the
Sanasardo Dance Company is just one
more example ol this. ESlPA's resident
company will present the Brecht/Wclll
Three Penny Opera March 24-Aprll 14
and will conllnue their dance contributions
with Jacob's Pillow On Tour on April 1st.
Check Spectrum on Fridays for full details
of events at the Egg and enjoy!
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Foley's Fair Folly
- "Johnny and Mary", originally done by
Robert Palmer. It's a much fresher, uncluttered version, with none of the blubbery
singing that characterized the original.
Foley, as usual overdoes it a bit while the
band struggles on. The band, a pretty
strong group actually, stages a mutiny of
sorts on several songs, when they attempt
to wrest control from Foley. This is strikingly evident on "Read My Lips". It's an
upbeat little ditty that features an enjoyable
guitar solo by Phil Grande. Although the
band may win this battle, unfortunately
they lose the war.
oo much of a good thing Is bad.
an axiom that is proven once
again with Ellen Foley's new
album Another Breath. Even when the
good thing Is a nice voice, you can find
yourself wishing for earplugs or an axe.
The singing of Ellen Foley probably won't
affect you that strongly, but It definitely has
the potential to aggravate.
T
Robert
Schneider
Another Breath is the third solo outing
for Foley. She has previously worked with
some extremely divergent acts, all of which
have done well both critically and commercially. You may recall her whlny, pouty
duet with Ian Hunter1 on "We Gotta Get
Outa Here". Hunter, by the by. along wllh
Mick Ronson, did Ihe production of Foley's
first solo effort, Nlghlout.
Remember
"Paradise By the Dashboard Light"? Foley
played the role of a sex-wary seventeenyear-old facing the Moment of Truth In
Meatloaf's car. She's worked with
boyfriend Mick Jones' band. The Clash, on
Sandanista, where she sang "Hitsville
U.K." Jones and his buddies returned the
favor by playing along on her second
album, The Spirit oj St. Louts. Jones and
Joe Slrummer also penned some songs for
that one.
have been. It opens with a gospelinfluenced chorus, with Foley sounding
something like Rlckle Lee Jones. It then
procedes to race ahead Into a catchy,
snappy little tune, What makes it stand out
is the fact that Foley doesn't drown out all
the Instruments with a 100-declbel virtuoso
performance.
The same can't be said for "Run For My
"Nlghtllne", leading off the second side,
is an example of what this record could I Life". It's got shades of Tolo's "Hold The
It's easy to see why Ellen Foley has
worked with some real biggies. She's admired for her strong, clear voice, and that
admlralion is well-deserved. On Another
Breath, however, her voice demands too
much of the spotlight. In fact, her voice is
the weakest spot in Ihls otherwise strong
album.
j. •'/1 \v
ill
Line" running through it, notably during
the chorus. (Speaking of Toto, Just who in
the hell Is running things over at Grammyland?) In addition to the pesty music,
there's a very Irritating set of backing vocals
on this song.
Foley has always utilized the skills of
other writers and composers on her solo
works. This Is true, to a lesser degree, on
Another Breath. She does a remake of
In spite of Foley's seemingly maniacal
need to overshadow the band, at times she
can actually charm the hell out of you. This
is what happens on the title track, "Another
Breath". It's not as musically raw as the rest
of the album (a welcome change). It's
mellow, bluesy, and thoroughly delightful.
She manages to sound like a mix of
Chrissie Hynde and Linda Ronstadt,
without ever becoming obsessed with the
impersonations.
Unlike The Spirit of St. Louis, Another
Breath Is not an Imaginative work. Perhaps
having The Clash around helped Foley to
loosen up and experiment. It's surprising
that the producer, Vinl Poncla wasn't more
creative here considering he has produced
the likes of Kiss, Rlngo, Melissa Manchester
and Scandal. In fact the production is flat.
Tony Bridges could have been In a coma
and still done his job on this record.
Ellen Foley deserves to be taken seriously. Anyone can look at her past alliances
and see that. That's why Another Breath Is
so disappointing, It Just doesn't live up to
expectation. Perhaps Foley's calling Is to
share the singing duties with huge stars on
wildly successful records. That doesn't
seem to be such a horrible fate, does It? D
L
That old-fashioned organizing spirit
Y
esterday's Lobby Day downtown was the best
example of student organizing in years.
Thousands of students, from all over the state
— half of them from this campus — stumped the
halls of the Capitol in an effort to build support lor
SUNY in the state Legislature.
The turnout — 3000 students in all — was unprecedented in years of lobbying for the State
University. More people from Albany lobbied than
in any other year.
The spirit of the crowd was an indication of the optimism students feel about the chances of turning
back the budget cuts and fee hikes. The 750 students
who marched from Alumni Quad sang, chanted, ran
and danced their way to the LOB. The warm-up pep
rally Sunday night in the Ballroom showed the real
school spirit we have at this school — not an artificial
one based on men in funny uniforms beating on each
other, but a real one based on people really caring
about their education and fighting to save it.
The way all these people got mobilized to lake lliis
action was through old-fashioned organizing, It
wasn't by people passing meaningless resolutions in
Central Council — it was by these people who represent us in Council talking to their eonsiliunnis and
motivating them to lake action by going to t h e
Legislature. Most of the quad coordinators of this
latest action also sit on Council, and they've
demonstrated how effective students can he when
they work together. This kind of organizing prowess
hasn't been seen since the days of the Student Union,
and it's about lime that it's back. Everyone in Student Association has been doing an excellent j o b of
organizing, and it's a welcome change. It might even
end up with a newly-reorganized Student Union,
which would benefit all students.
All this work needs to be put into perspective,
however. The budget battle has only begun. The
Legislature has a whole month to play with the
budget, and the students of SUNY arc only one of
the pressure groups vieing for a piece of the state
budget. The only way public higher education will get
its share is if this kind of intense lobbying and
pressure continues. If it doesn't, yesterday will only
seem like a bad joke. The organizing and lobbying
has only begun.
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Corporate reactionism
N
Yl'IRCi's in court again. Thai's not too unusual —
NYl'IRCi spends a lot of lime in court these days on
eases such as student voting rights and environmental quality — but there's a (wisl. NYPIRG's the one being
sued.
A group of right-wing students are the front for a ease
filed a few weeks in Manhattan by_a legal foundation funded by the large corporations that are often the target of
NYPlRO-sponsorcd legislation such as the bottle bill.
I'hcy'rc suing tin! SUNY Hoard of Trustees, NYl'IRCi and
some other involved parlies for the return of money collected by student activities fees.
NYl'IRCi is partially funded through the mandatory student lax in the colleges where it has active chapters. In
Albany, iwo bucks out of the $45 activity fee go to lite student tun group, 'flic suit contends thai this funding is unconstitutional because students are forced lo finance an
ideological group whether they wanl to or not.
Well, they're wrong. Every couple of years students vote
on a referendum whether they wanl lo give NYl'IRCi this
money, and at Albany it's always passed strongly. Also,
NYPIRG is not ideological in the sense of parly-based
organizations, which cannot be funded by student money.
The "ideology" these conservatives object lo is NYl'IRCi's
opposition lo unsound environmental practices and other
nasty things big corporations have a habit of doing. My attacking NYl'IRCi's funding, they hope to yield an easier
time defeating worthy ideas such as the bottle bill.
file premise litis suit is based on attacks the right
students have in SUNY lo decide whether they wanl lo tux
themselves lo finance organizations like NYl'IRCi. SASU,
or even Student Association. The courts are unlikely lo
take this right away, however, but this kind ol legal action
is frightening. Corporate America isn't conical with the
record profits the large companies ate reporting — now
they're attacking one of the few organizations that protects
consumers and students from their power, h would he a
shame lo lose such a strong voice, especially on such a poor
premise.
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Down under
To the Editor:
y,
"I come from the land down under:" I have always
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believed (as do Men Al Work) that the reference is to
cc
Australia. Obviously there are those in-SA who disagree
m
and feel anything outside of New York Stale is "down
under."
!
What do I mean? I'll tell you. Every piece of publicity
hung on campus referring to the proposed increases in the
,d
cost of a SUNYA education blatantly ignores the proposed
Ijj
$1,400 tuition hike for out-of-staters. This increase coupled
^
with all the others, will raise the total cost of a SUNYA
rc
education for an out-of-stater by over $2,000 — or more
r.
than 50 percent. There are between 500-600 students afj
fected, thereby bringing the total affect lo over $1,000,000.
So tell me: I) Why Is it that SA-funded posters have evenfj
gone so far as to attack Ihc $25 computer fee without evenn
mentioning the fact (hat 500 students will see their total,
costs of education go up by 50 percent in one year? 2) Why
is it that the banners proclaiming, the rally on Monday, and^
Mike Corso's personal visit to each quad fail lo make men-|m
iC
lion of the effect on oul-of-staters while clearly slating the
effect on in-slalcrs?
We pay the same activity fee as everyone else and I'd like
lo see SA recognize our plight on the posters out money is
funding.
Personally, after seeing the rather unconvincing support•I
of similar "calls for action" in the past, I think thai the
logical thing to do would be to inspire those hurl lo most to
speak out, but then again nobody cvci accused SA of being
logical. Instead the) have alienated inc and othei oui-ofstalers.
Please tlon'i respond by saying "gel Involved." I will do
all I can, but you sec I am already up to my neck Hying lo'
improve upon whai lasi year's SA Administration called
"budgeting,"
—Irn 1). I'mmec
Draft registration leaves us no legal options. Unlike draft
registration and the subsequent draft during the Vietnam
War, we cannot yet register as conscientious objectors
(hereafter denoted as CO).
We can write on the side of the registration card thai we
are a CO, bul the Federal Government does not recognize
that as legal CO registration.
If draft registration evolves into its logical conclusion,
the draft, and if the government docs actually allow us to
register as CO's, we must present a request for CO status to
our local draft board. Below is my presentation to and what
I would defend in front of the draft board.
Robert Martiniano
"I do not believe in taking another life. I do not own a
gun', I do not hunt or fish; I am a vegelarian as much as
possible.
"My opposition to killing and violence in general,
however, is not based on contemporary religious tenets or
dogma, such as being a Quaker.
"I do not believe practiced Christianity opposes the use
of violence. Throughout world history I have seen example
upon example of killing justified by one's religion.
"From Charlemagne offering the Moors the choice of
Christianity or death (some choice), through the Crusades,
to the current conflicts in the support a war effort, the
reasons notwithstanding, and these people were willing to
kill and die in this war.
"My first response to you is that lite circumstances were
different than they are today. War, with the advent of tactical and non-tactical nuclear weapons, now has immense
destructive possibilities.
"More importantly, however, than the circumstances or
the expansiveness of the destruction and death is thai that
war fought for the freedom of this country does not detract
from the belief in human progress our founding fathers and
mothers had.
"And as much as I oppose any war or any violence, this
war was the culmination of a war of words, a war of beliefs.
These people fought for self-determination and freedoms,
not global conquest for monetary gain.
"Again, I wish to stress lite beliefs behind and beyond
that war and actions in general. The beliefs which the"
founders of this country had have transcended Iheir war
and every war since.
"In testimony tp thai fact, one hundred years later John
Stuart Mill echoed similar beliefs in England. He wrote of
equal rights for women before it became fashionable. He
wrote of the optimism of human progression.
"With circumstances different, Mill didn't need lo
discuss human progression in the same breath of war as did
Jefferson and Washington. Yet, Mil] believed in people,
their rights, and their futures as much as Jefferson and
Washington did.
"Karl Marx had the same optimism for humankind.
Marx believed humankind was progressing toward the
ultimate slate of human cooperatlvencss — socialism. Marx
believed people would work together, each individual contributing to society what he/she could, creating the perfect
society.
"Will we reach that perfect society? Only time and
history will tell, nevertheless . . .
"Why talk to you about individuals long since dead?
They possess oae quality which I possess — the belief in
human progression.
"And that belief Involves owning no gun, never picking
up a knife as a weapon, and believing wars arc the epitomy
of human regression.
"Humankind cannot progress if it is killing itself. Optimism states thai Ihc one life saved could be the life which
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finds a cure for cancer. Optimism stales that the one life
saved could be the life which finds a solution lo world
hunger.
"My opposition to war is most definitely based on
maybes. Optimism is based on maybes. If there exists even
the slightest chance, I want that chance animated.
"Combining these maybes with the belief that a god-like
entity exists in everything in the universe, I cannot consciously kill another Human being.
"One final point. I have been a registered conscientious
objector with the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors since the summer of 1979. Though I realize this
means nothing legally, it does demonstrate I felt this way
even
before
draft
registration
was
law,
"For the above reasons I hereby lender my request for
status as conscientious objector."
GollOBO Prosj Sorvico
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The Vice President has never regularly received the signed
bills — and no problems have occurred in the past — so this
could not be at the heart of the problem now. Additiqnally,
President Corso signs all bills before they can go into' cffeci, leaving the executive branch yet another opportunity
to determine Ihc content of the legislation.
There is a pattern that one can discern from the ASP's
coverage. The executive branch, which the ASP calls
"S.A.," is deemed flawless, while Ihc blame for any and all
problems lies upon Central Coucil and/or myself. S.A. as a
whole must be considered responsible, for the success of its
operations. It is nice of the ASP, from President Corso's
perspective! to divide Ihc organization in their coverage,
and lay blame on one to protect the other. It is understood
that the executive's political beliefs arc more closely aligned
with those or the ASP. Dm this fact should not affect the
articles written and edited by unbiased journalists.
Those of us who make the press, are helpless aguinsi
those who really make the press. I am referring lo the lndiviiluar personalities who research, write, edit, und
headline the stories.
In ihc future, please gram council Ihc right lo make
mistakes, to have successes; to work toward a common
goal, bul not be restricted by that goal; lo be held aecoun. table for its political beliefs, but respected in its right lo
hold them; and most of all, to improve student life on this
campus.
— J e f f I riiiiini
Central Council Chair
l Armed and dangerous
Illustrated neglect
Conscientious objections
T
lo tlie Editor:
Revlcwing-my lime spent us Central Council chair, II
recall some of the problems that have developed. For one,i,
ihc Albany Student Press, through iis neglect in seeking ull11
the facts, weighing all of the fuels equally, and providingg
the student body with unbiased reporting, has effectivelyy
hindered the smooth functioning of the Student Associa-ition.
The ASP has offered the students headlines and articless
that illustrate (his neglect. Two examples occurred in jusiI
the last two issues. On Tuesday, February 15, 1983, a front1
page article was headed, "Council's lack of leadership, andJ
goals is a reason many resign." While this reason played a1
role in some of the member's resignations, the headline:
noticeably avoided, and the article minimized, all of the;
other reasons cited by those who resigned: a domineering
!
executive branch; a bureaucratic process inherent in the
very structure of S.A., not just Central Council; and a lack;
of commitment of the part of some members, A page three;
article on Friday, Febuary 18, 1983, was headed "S.A. bielcctions postponed due lo confusion in Central Council."
Nothing could be further from Ihc truth. Central Council
has the job, as the legislative branch, to legislate action.I
The executive branch is responsible for executing legislation. To think otherwise ignores the constitutional structure1
of S.A.
Vice President LaPorta receives a packet of bill proposals in advance of the Ceniral Council meetings. She isi
present at the meeting and often participates in the discussion of these bills, as she had on the bill relating lo the bicleetion. Then she has Ihc opportunity lo check the
resource files, my Council office file, or to ask me directly
lo determine the precise content of the legislative action.
Tn the Editor:
Recently, I was witness lo an Incident thai shocked and
disttirbcd me more than anything I have seen dining my 4
years al SUNYA.
I saw a University Police officer use unnecessary, unprovoked force against 2 students,
On Friday night, February 25, I attended a large party in
Indian Quad's U-I.oungc. It was pretty boisterous, and Ihc
beer ran out before midnight. Because of ihc rowdincss of
people leaving ihc party through (lie quad, members of the
Siiidenl Patrol and the University Police were called in.
Because of ihc absence of alcohol, ihc parly ran out of
steam by itself, and by about 12:30 am,Ihc only people left
were the people who threw the parly and a few assorted
friends (about 50 in all). The officers were not needed, so
they left,
Well after cleanup had begun, the University Pplice
returned. With the presence of a Student Patrol person, a
dorm director, and several R.A.'s, I don't know why 3
policemen were needed.
Two of the officers were easy-going and displayed a
reasonable, relaxed attitude. The third officer, a Lictilenanl, seemed lo be on edge and conveyed an altitude of
disgust toward the students present. Several students were
harshly ordered out of the near-empty U-Lottngc by the
Lieutenant with a wave of his billy-club. One student, on
his way out, raised his hand behind the Lieutenant in a
"horn-type" gesture. The officer whirled around and threw
the student against Ihc wall, his forearm firmly across the
student's Ihroat. He met no resistance.
Another student approached and tried lo get between the
two, saying clearly, "There's no need for thai," obviously
concerned, as I was, that the officer was about to harm the
student. At this point, the Lieutenant threw the first man
aside and jumped at the second in the same manner as he
had attacked the first. Again he met no resistance, but by
this time Ihc olher officers had converged and separated the
Lieutenant from the students. It's scary to imagine what
might have transpired bad the other two officers not been
present, or if they were more than just a few yards away.
These men are employed by our University for "Public
Safely." They are on our campus to prolcel us and lo serve
us, not lo provoke violent situations. They walked into thai
S
party with billy clubs, large, heavy flashlights, and as if
that's not enough, service revolvers al their sides. I realize it
was unnecessary for the student lo act disrespectfully
toward the Lieutenant, but these men (especially a Lieutenant), arc supposed to be highly trained and should have
realized they were dealing with drunk college students. No
one acted antagonistically toward the officers and the
Lieutenant's violent over-reaction was definitely way out of
line.
I guess the real purpose of (his Idler is to serve as a warning to the students of SUNYA: Be scared of these men.
They are armed and dangerous. It's frightening to know
that some of our Public Safety officers are ready and willing lo use violent force against Ihc students they are paid to
protect. It seems to mc the rule for these officers should be
to avoid a confrontation at all costs, not to escalate the
slightest provocation into u violent attack on a defenseless
student.
—Fred M. Plcvln
Worth its salt
To lite Editor:
This Is in reply to an article in last week's ASP. The article discussed the decision by the Dean of the College of
Social and Behavioral Sciences, John Webb, surrounding
Ihc reason why professor Japliel M, Xwana has been denied
Iciitirc. II is Webb's intention to lead us lo believe thai Dr.
/wana's lack ol journalistic publications is the main reason
why he will inn be retained. Ii is also Webb's furlhci Intention lo try lo deny racist accusations that it is the design of
the University to slowly phase mil ihc African and Afro.
American Sindics department that professot /wauii is an
essential faculty member of.
I am writing this letter to bring to the attention of the student body here al SUNYA various past events that al least
substantiate ihc claim previously staled. First, Dr, Pearl
Primus, :i reknown choreographer ami dancer, served a
onc-ycai term here at Albany Stale. Upon completion ol'
thai term she requested 10 be retained and was denied,
reason being that hei speciality was in theatre not AfroAntcrlcan Studies. Having siudied under Dr. Primus I by
no means fouhd.hcr lacking in any capacity. To repudiate a
request by an already established individual such as she Into
a department that was at the lime severely understaffed is
highly questionable lo say the very least. Second, Ihc
depart mem aqulrcd the services of Cicorge l.cvesque, a man
who arrived here at SUNYA with tenure. It is my
understanding thai it is not typical pratice for any faculty
- member in any department of the school to be granted any
form of pernianncy without first serving some length of
term. Controversy resulted of this decision to such extent
that Professor I.evcsquc was disallowed undergraduate
courses and only taught graduate level. I would ulso like to
mention Ihc fact that only one olher person in Ihc African
Afro-American Studies department has tenure and that is
its current chair.
In summary I would also like lo point out that Dean
Snow staled accusations such as Ihc ones I have commented
on arc "stupid and irresponsible." He claims as well that
"no university worth iis salt would go through a program
elimination like that," referring lo the slow phasing out
process I mentioned previously. I guess the question remains lo he answered in lite near future, How much salt
docs SUNYA really have? I also think that if Mr. Snow
looked further into these matters he would find more
responsibility than Irresponsibility. I hope he is allowed the
opportunity to read my statements since he warrants personal confrontation as his own address suggested. Yes Mr.
Snow, some of us do have Ihc nerve.
—Murcus (Jriffith
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I wish in bring to light sonic disgraceful behavior that I
had ihc misfortune ol' hearing over ihc airwaves of WCDB
91 l:M on Saturday evening February 19.
As an avid Albany State Great Dane basketball fan, I
tuned into the station to hear the broadcast ol' the DaneIthaca ball game. I am a senior and it v*as a scnlimental
game since il was ihc lasl one al home. Unfortunately, I
was not able to attend myself.
Much to my dismay, there were technical problems with
the transmission forcing the broadcast lo he interrupted for
most of the game. I was quite disturbed by the attitude
displayed over the air by the deejay in the studio at the
lime, ;i Mr. Craig Marks, lie began by commenting that the
game itself was meaningless and was joined in cackling
laughter by a second inane individual. Mr. Marks continued by making liglu of ihc fact thai it was senior broadcasters Phil Pivnick and Howard Sirudlei's final home
game as a team and then went even further to make a
rediculously crude and uncalled for remark about the pair
That kind oi ii responsible behavioi should not be
tolerated, It is demeaning and degrading to the station in
general. If WC'DU chooses lo be a respectable 100-watt
radio station in the Albany broadcast community, then it
must act accordingly. I feel that in the interest of the station, Mr. Marks who had such distasteful words on the air
about iwo fellow broadcasters who have devoted tour years
of dedicated coverage to the University's sports scene
should be booted off the station immediately.
—Mure Huspcl
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Classified ads will be sold In CC I
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Dear MP,
I'm sorry about paying off the bus
driver and getting the dispatcher
drunk. I told you to expect surprises. Hope you enjoyed our
semanversary.
Novena to St. Jude:
O Holy St. Jude, Apostle & Martyr,
great In virtue & rich In miracles.
New kinsman of Jesus Christ,
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Happy Anniversary.
It's been the best
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Love, Rob
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LaurenThanks for a great year. Happy An- pJvU^
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the year ahead.
Incurable
Love always,
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• Jefi
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Dear Rob,
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Lorl
you at Cahoots Nlghl on Sunday
3/6.
Sam H.—
Had a good- time talking at party
Afternoon at the Barsl
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but the thought's the same. I hope it
was an amazing 21st. Desplt the
"distance", the feeling Is the same.
I love you I
Laurl
Hats, T-shirts, door prize tickets lor
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Riders Wanted
tr-
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Deadline for Telethon Auditions Is
March 81 Show us your talent and
have a blastl
Karen (Ryckman 306),
Thanx for a terrific week. I love you.
Rick from Oneonta
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plus other local comedians
Ml Thu, Frl, Sal
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Greetings. You're truly a gem. Have
a good weekend.
Sparky
Hey Dormsl
Sell those Telethon door prize
tickets and win a free kegl
Jlu\
Surprlsel You're In the ASP on this
"Tuesday Afternoon"... "Understand rubber-band". Soon... Tho
Bahamasl They say It's better there
(but do they Jacuzzi?) "Anyways",
pack the Halston... "Memories can't
wait". "Put everything on VISA"
Love.
Sue
Little Bro,
Congrats on your recent Induction
to pledglsm. Keep practicing the
"saying" and you'll have no problems)
Big Bro
P.S. Beware of Mr. Smog.
It's better In the Bahamas! Buy
Telethon Door prize tickets and win
a trip to the Bahamas!
Karen,
HI roomie.
Have a good day.
Me
Everyone's going to Cahoots on
Sun. March 6. Are you?
Third World Caucus reveals 'burning issues'
llv David Michuelson
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STAFF HKlim
At ihc opening unity session of
the sixth annual conference of the
Third World Caucus last week,
SASU President Jim Ticrney asked
the delegates to tell him what "burning issues" concerned Third
World Students on SUNY campuses. Carry Gale, representing
Onconta, Immediately seized the
opportunity. Referring to the pro-
going for you is knowledge of the arc single parents. "What happens pus to campus, closing "cultural
lo Johnny?" she asked emphatical- gaps." He added that the money
issues and organizing power."
Caucus Chair Franklin Jackson, ly. This conflict Is deepening, she saved through blockbooking would
added, "We have a responsibility continued, with the elimination of be substantial.
Corctta Scott King was scheduled
to align ourselves lo make a max- ihe Federal Title 20 Funds which
imum Impact." Il was this theme support child care. "They (parents lo speak before the caucus al ihc
llcllman
Theatre, but she did not
lhal characterized the weekend's in school) can't belter themselves
unless the government understands show up.
workshops and lectures.
Michael White, in a workshop,
Ticrney and SASU Executive what's going on wilh their kids."
Smytc proposed the establish- described the three year struggle the
Vice-President Scott Wexler offered
their support. "We have a respon- ment of child care centers on SUNY caucus went through to become
sibility to have a dialogue," Wexler campuses, arguing that the space established and recognized. SASU,
said, "Third World students are go- exists and the costs would be low. lie said, originally wanted no pari
ing lo be taking it Ihe worst. We all She urged the caucus to "rise and of a minority caucus. The caucus
have to figure out a way lo gel out let your voice be heard." They gave then joined the SUNY funded Student Assembly, created to offset
of It," he added, referring again lo her a standing ovation.
Ihc proposed SUNY budget cuts.
Smylc filled in for Georgclta Dix, and parallel SASU. Now, wilh the
Ihc founder of the Eugene Dix new SASU leadership or Tierncy
and Wexler, White said, the caucus
Also discussed in the session were Memorial Daycare Center and I he Is receiving badly needed adthe struggle of minority students to Human Rights Commissioner of minislralivc and organizational supThose applicants nominated for slay in college, the unfair Ireatmcnl Schenectady, who was ill.
port. "But we're still in Ihc strugRudy Scon, (he presideni of gle," he added. At one point during
Peace Corps service "receive three of minority groups by student
Rainbow Productions, a former Ihc conference, Jackson said he
months training in their cross- governments and the problem of
SASU affiliated promoter of per- "sensed an undercurrent and feelcountry family," and receive im- racism within student bodies.
Head instructor at the Eugene formers, spoke on blockbooking ing thai has no place In our
munization and health training
Dlx Memorial Daycare Center and cultural networks among cam- caucus." But wilh the election of a
before leaving the U.S.
"Every volunteer gets a living Daisy Smylc spoke thai Saturday to puses. He asked for support for his new Execulivc Board, Jackson later
network, which bargains with said he is optimistic that "we're goallowance according lo Ills or her Ihe Caucus on the importance of acagents on behalf of coalitions of ing to be a better organization,"
site," Johnson said, enough lo cessible child care for SUNY
SUNY schools for popular acls.
"cover housing, food and a little students with children. "Black and " O u r culture Is dying on
"The word should go out,"
spending m o n e y . " When a Hispanic youngsters in college are campuses," he said. Wilh his
Jackson told the delegates lowurd
minimum of two years of service is preparing themselves for the blockbooking program, he explain- the conclusion of the conference,
completed, the volunteers receive a challenges of tomorrow. Higher ed, choirs, poets, singers, and "that Ihc caucus is a united caucus;
readjustment allowance of about education is a must in order to sur- dancers, especially those of the that wc arc a strong caucus, charged
vive in today's society," she said.
$175 for every month they served.
"But manv of our college students Third World, can travel from cam- up lo do things wc have lo do." I i
posed SUNY budget cuts, Oaksaid, "I feci like we're going to get
hit the most. We're going lo lose
many of Ihc programs we've
already built up," Gale cited Black
and Hispanic Studies departments
and minority faculty as vulnerable
lo the cuts. He added, "It's a
monster."
"The system Is working against
you," Conference Coordinator
Michael While told Ihc audience in
LC 23, "The only thing you've not
Volunteers of Peace Corps
! providing help worldwide
By Suzanne Abels
STAFF iiHirm
Since 1961 more than 100,000
Americans have served as Peace
Corps Volunteers in over 60
developing nations.
Last year, "about 15 SUNYA
students were applicants for these
programs," according to recruiter
and past volunteer Don Johnson.
He staled, "1 hope we can gel more
people interested this year."
For over 21 years this U.S. Agency has sent volunteers to foreign
communities to live and work with
those they aim to help. The communities themselves determine what
projects arc undertaken. Food production, water supply, nutrition,
and health education are sonic of
the areas which Peace Corps
Volunteers work on. Johnson commented that "in many cases a community asks for a volunteer lo come
and help I hem."
Any healthy U.S. citizen over 18
years old is eligible lo apply to the
Corps, although Johnson claims the
average age for volunteers is 27,
"but there is a broad range of age
groups involved," he said.
Johnson explained, "mosl of our
programs don't require background
in a foreign language but it can be
helpful lo know French or
Spanish." All volunteers undergo
intensive language training,
sometimes up to 300 hours or more.
According lo Johnson, Ihe goal of
this training is "lo make ihe
volunteer able to function at his siie
(host country)."
Noreen Wickwirc, also at yesterday's meeting, worked with Ihc
Peace Corps from 1079 to 1981 In
Oman (cast of Saudi Arabia).
Wickwirc was an English teacher in
an all-girls secondary school.
Wickwirc further explained that
"being an independent American
woman is hard in a developing
country," hut also said she received
beller treatment than the native
women. In Oman, she said, "men
and women don't Interact except
for their individual families."
Wickwirc and Johnson agreed
that the Peace Corps is a rewarding
experience, Johnson explained lhal
anyone Interested in applying
should give in their application six
lo nine months before they are
prepared to leave the country.
According to Johnson, "The
Peace Corps needs volunteers experienced or with degrees in
technical, science, health, and environmental related fields."
Students meet the legislators
said.
Assemblyman Glenn Warren (RAlhany) said that he'd mel about 50
lo 60 sludenls through Ihe day. He
said that he agreed with students
thai Cuomos budget called for " To
many cuts especially over so short a
period of lime." He recommended
a few layoffs per year," basically
through attrition,"he said.
Corso said that the day was a "
great sucess "but thai he plans lo
organise continuing student visits to
Ihc legislature in the near future.
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Many students were pleased with Corso felt lhal the reaction that he
got from the legislators was
the outcome of Ihe conference.
Barbara Buck, from Upstate positive.
Rich Shaffer,CC Chair, said that
Medical College said, "it is good
for students to get together. The now Central Council will be concentrating
on approaching Ihe
conference helped foster unity
among SUNY sludenls." Ticrney governor now that the legislative
said "the conference educated day has been a sucess.
According to United University
students on SUNY and built up a
good core group of active students. Professions presideni, Nuala
It will go a long way in developing Dresdher, " They (legislature) are
asking us lo take less for more."
an intelligent and effective student
She assured students that they were
voice in the Legislature."
exercising their constitutional rights
When asked how he felt about wilh the day of petitioning their
the Governor, after helping to legislature.
organize massive student support
for him in the 1982 election,
"UUP is with us all the way, they
Ticrney said, " I feel wronged by
Cuomo. Lehrman would have been also support the lax surcharge to
a catastrophe, but this is still bad. It narrow the defict and save proshows that we need to organize to grams and p o s i t i o n s , " said
D
!
Tierncy.
cut our losses."
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SUNYA President Vincent
O'Leary has given no Information
lo dale regarding cuts in programs
or staff al Albany. " A budget
panel has been working on the
situation but we will give oul no information uniil the budget returns
.from the Legislature March 31," he
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Danes bow out of SUNYACs
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been," said a disappointed SHIRTS
as he perused the statistics sheet
after the game. "Defensively, we
didn't do a good job. There were
too many uncontested shots. We
didn't bother their shooters."
Unlike last year, that opening
round loss negated the Danes'
chances of gaining an NCAA bid.
The consolation game was played as
a matter of pride as the Danes were
looking to avoid the same
disastcrous fate which they had suffered in the 1982 tourney. The
Danes handily defeated the University of Buffalo Bulls by II points.
The Bulls were 90-66 losers In their
first round game to the hosting
Potsdam Bears. The Bears went on
to win the tournament and will host
the East regional of the NCAA this
weekend (sec side bar).
Croutier lead the Danes with 27
points followed by Dicckclman's 17
points. Thomas had 13 points and
Galto rounded out the doublefigure scorers with 12.
The Danes seemed to have some
difficulty handling the ball in the
first half, turning it over several
times. Albany fell behind midway
through the first half and struggled
to keep pace.
With Albany trailing by a point,
38-37, very late in the half, reserve
guard John Frcl checked in and immediately threw up a shot from inside the paint. The shot went
through the net and gave the Danes
a lead that they would never relinquish.
"I raised my point-pcr-gamc
average to 1 a game," Frel joked
after the game. "Personally it was a
big point, but the team comes
first."
In the championship game, the
Bears destroyed the Bengals 94-60
to win their fifth SUNYAC title.
Three Potsdam players and one
Bengal joined Dicckclman on the
A l l - T o u r n a m e n t t e a m . Bill
Pcrkowski, Gary Sparks, who made
some awesome moves to the hoop
and Tournament Most-ValuablcPlaycr Lcroy Whithcrspoon
represented Potsdam, while Lcroy
Gcttys was the sole Bengal selected.
Failing to gain the NCAA bid,
the Dunes will attend the ECAC
tournament this weekend in
Hamilton. Friday evening, Albany
will be matched in the first round
against the University of Rochester,
while the Hamilton Continentals
will face Ihc Oswego Lakers. The
winners of the first round will meet
in a champonship game the next
day.
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in Oklahoma City later this month.
The winners in each of the 10
weight classes and four wrestlers
chosen by the coaches from the second and third place finishers compete with the elite from Division I
schools.
For Scras, this will be his first
chance at attaining Ail-American
status in Division I. He was selected
to travel to the Division I championships in his freshman year
following a second place finish at
the Division 111 nationals, but did
not compete due to illness
Scras defeated Steve Ikada of
MIT, 11-4 in the opening round. He
then defeated John Carroll
College's Marty Joseph, 8-7 to advance to the semi-final round. He
met Darryl Leslie, the eventual
champion and was winning 5-4
when Leslie was awarded a point
for stalling by Scras. The match
went into overtime and Leslie eked
out a narrow victory, 3-2. Scras
came back in the wrestle-backs to
capture third place by defeating
Perry Graehling of Hiram College
by a pin and with a 9-7 victory over
Olassboro's Kevin Brockway.
Seras was named on almost every
ballot of the coaches, making him a
wild card. "The vote was overwhelming for Andy. He had such
an impressive showing that the
coaches picked him to represent
Division III at the NCAAs. I think
he's capable of being a Division I
All-American," DcMco said.
"I was pretty excited that the
coaches had the respect for me to
select mc as a wild card," seras said.
"Of course I was disappointed 1
didn't win the national championship. I think I was in a little bit of a
rut for this tournament and
hopefully I'll break out of it for the
Division I's."
Spagnoli captured fifth place at
126-pounds and the senior earned
All-Amcrican honors for Ihc first
time. "Rob's plnclng fifth Is fantastic. How much better can you
gel. He had a chance to finish third
if he didn't get hurt," DcMco said.
Spagnoli lost his opening match
to the number two seed Orlando
Ccceres of Trenton, 10-2. He won
his nexl three matches, defeating
Widencr's Joe Giovcntti, 21-10,
Dean Asp of Hiram, 11-9 and AllAmcrican Gary Rcisor of Lebanon
Valley College, 9-4. While wrestling
Buena Visla's Kurt Cawley,
Spagnoli was injured and was forced to default the match. After
working with the trainers for the
nexl hour on his iniijurcd shoulder,
he defeated John Pccora of the
University of Western Washington,
13-6 to capture fifth place. Besides
Seras, no other Albany wrestler has
ever placed that high in Ihc nationals.
"I reached my goal. I happened
to peak at the right lime," Spagnoli
said. "I trained a lot harder Ihc end
of the year. I took wrestling a lot
more seriously. 1 did extra training,
I really wanted to do well and il was
worth it."
Despilc the painful injury to his
shoulder, Spagnoli came back and
Bears maul Bengals 94-60
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200-yard free-style relay. Gottlieb
look the 100-yard butterfly in
record breaking lime while Bass
look the 100-yard breast stroke, selling anolher record.
"It was a big win, in the meet we
,wcre waiting for all season," Shore
said. "It was a very impressive victory," he added.
"It was a good season," the
coach concluded. "The girls did
what they had the potential to do,
and that is why we did so well." II
J.V. Basketball
ALAN CALEM UPS
captured fifth. "It was my last Reserve center Pete Qosule has come a long way In his developmutch and I was going to lake the ment since the beginning of the season.
pain," he said.
Senior captain Herman was the
final Ail-American. The four time
NCAA qualifier final achieved Ihc
goal of placing In the top eight in
the nationals. "It's something thai I
always wanted. Il was almost the
best way lo end il (his career). It's
The Potsdam Bears rolled to victory over the Buffalo Sure Bengals,
something that had eluded mc," he
94-60 lo capture the SUNYAC Tournament, Saturday afternoon in
said.
Maxcy Hall. The win guaranteed the Bears a spot In the NCAA Tour"Vic capped off the most sucnament and knocked the Bengals out of Post-season competition.
cessful career in Albany Slate
Potsdam will host the Eastern Regional of the NCAAs this
history by being an All-Amcrican,"
weekend, facing either Ithaca or the Rochester Institute of Technology
DcMco said. "He just had a
in the first round. The Union Dutchmen and the Hartwlck Warriors
tremendous career."
are Ihc other two teams competing in Ihc regional.
The Bears raced oul to a quick 5-0 lead over Buffalo Stale and never
Herman, seeded fifth In the tourlooked buck en route to their second SUNYAC crown in the past four
nament defeated John Dale of
years. Potsdam was led by Tournament MVP Lcroy Withcrspoon,
Wabash, 11-4 before losing to
and All-Tournament team members Gary Sparks and Bill Pcrkowski
Warthurg's Scott Becker, 6-3. In
who combined for half of the Bears' 45 first half points.
the wrestle-backs, he shut oul Paul
"We played very well. We played as well as we can and the besl
Readongcr of John Carroll College,
learn has in a SUNYAC Tournament," Potsdam head coach Jerry
8-0. He then lost lo Brockport's
Welsh said.
Scott Nichols 7-2. Herman had
The Bears had defeated Ihc University of Buffalo Bulls, 90-66 on
defeated Nichols earlier lasl month
Friday nighl to advance lo the finals in Hie tournament. Potsdam was
lo win Ihc SUNYAC title. He
once again led by the irio of Wiiherspoon, Sparks and Pcrkowski.
defeated Mount Union's Steve
Sparks had three thunderous first hall' dunks lo move I lie Beurs out to
Hurler by a pin to ciiplure seventh
an insurmountable lead.
place."
Sparks play ignited the crowd and his learn. Since his return from
"I'm really excited about how
academic suspension, Sparks has led the Bears in their late season
everyone else did. Il means a lol lo
surge, thai has seen ilicm capture the SUNYAC-Easl and now the
me lo be an All-Anierican, but II
SUNYAC Championships. Potsdam will be looking lo return lo the
means as much that everyone else
Final Four and the national title game. The Bears lost to Wabash in
did as well. Especially Rob
the championship game last year and have been in the title: game three
Spagnoli. He's a senior and he just
of the past four years.
wrestled great," he said.
The winner of this weekend's East region will travel lo the court of
Seras will compete in Ihc Division
Ihc winner of the Mid-Atlantic winner to decide who will go lo Ihc
I national championships beginning
Final Four lo be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 11 and 12.
on March II.
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The Albany Stale junior varsily basketball learn extended its string of victories to 10 games Saturday
night with a I0I-79 victory over Ihc jayvec squad from
New Paltz.
The win gave the Danes a 13-5 record, which marks
the best record for a J.V. Icam from Albany since the
1978-79 season, when thai Icam went I6-4. II is also
Ihc ihird best record ever for a junior varsily Icam here
ai Albany.
Saturday's game was Ihc second lime during the
slrcak thai Ihc Danes have scored more than I00 points
(they scored 106 vs. Schenectady Community College).
"We don't have the explosive scorers, but everybody
has been executing well on offense," said Albany Slalc
head coach Barry Cavanaugh.
The defense has also executed very well over litis
span. Albany has turned many close games into
blowouts with their pressure-style defense. "We've
taken teams right out of their offenses," remarked
Cavanaugh.
The Danes did not look like a Icam riding a winning
slrcak in Ihc game's first half. They got off lo a sluggish siari and found themselves trailing at hall'timc
39-35.
"We were overconfident coining into Ihc game,"
said Cavanaugh. "We saw they (New Paltz) only had
seven guys on their leant and wc ihouglu we could run
right over them."
"Our defense wasn't good and we weren't patienl
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The women's swim team closed out their season
with a 10-5 record.
"It was a good way lo say goodbye lo our seniors,"
Shore said.
On Saturday, February 16, the Bancs defeated Hanwick College 78-58 in, as Shore put it," one of the best
swimming meets in Albany's history."
"The last time wc met Hartwick was in Ihc Great
Dane Relays earlier this season and they finished third
while wc finished eighth, so you can see how much we
improved over the course of Ihc season," Shore staled.
Albany set four school records in the meet. Bass,
Kcilty, Gottlieb, and Woodhcad set a school record in
Ihc 200-yard medley relay while Sheila Filzpatrick
joined the trio in selling a school record In the
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on offense" remarked the Albany coach, describing
the team's first half play.
Cavanaugh dldn'l have much to say to his players at
halflime except go oul there und play the way you arc
capable of playing.
Albany did just thai as they scored 15 consecutive
points, 20 of the first 22, to begin the second half.
After opening up the 55-41 lead, Albany coasted Ihc
rest of the way on route to their 22 point victory,
The Danes second half surge was led by reserve forward Jeff Gcier. Oder connected for 18 points, many
of then from the outside. "Jeff is starting lo regain his
outside touch thai he had earlier in ihc season" said
Cavanaugh,
The Danes also received strong efforts from Ihc
oiher members of their bench. Robert Cwirko did a
good job rebounding and sophmorc Sieve Adam hit
for II) points. Guard Vic Genrhcad came off ihc bench
lo sink ihc basket thai pill ihc Danes over ihc century
mark.
Albany poured in 66 points in lite second half, mainly because Ihcy got their running game in motion. "Wc
stance! pulling down Ihc rebounds and Ihai got our
fast break moving" said Cavanaugh.
Brian Kauppila led Ihc Danes in scoring wilh 19
poinls. Gcier had [8, and J.J. Jones and Mike Ollall
both scored in double figures wilh 14 and 13 respectfully.
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The Albany Slalc women's swimming and diving
learn closed out (heir season with two viclpries and an
impressive showing in Ihc New York Slalc A1AW
Championships lo finish Ihc year wilh a I0-5 record.
"We filled our potential this year and we did it
together, as a team, with the girls helping each other
out," Coach Joe Shore said. "I'm very happy wilh
what we accomplished this year and I'm looking forward to next season."
This past weekend, Albany competed in the New
York State AIAW Championship at Stony Drook and
placed 13 in a 28 team field. The team's showing in the
meet was in Shores' own words "very satisfying." Sue
Bass led the way wilh a victory in the consolation
round of Ihc 200-yard free style, in which she set a
school record with a time of 2:43.4, Claire Bladthorn
had her best ever time in the 50-yard backstroke (33.6)
and Ellen Gottlieb set a school record in the 100-yard
butterfly with a time of 1:06.8. Claire Woodhcad set a
school record in the 200-yard free style with a time of
2:05.
Freshman Jane Klotz showed a lot of potential in the
diving events by getting the only " 8 " score of Ihc day.
Albany also set a school record in ihc 400-yard medley
relay as Bladthorn, Bass, Gottlieb, and Woodhcad
combined for a time of 4:35.5.
In their regular season finale, the Danes defeated
Middlcbury College by the score of 79-57 on February
19. The meet was the last one for the senior swimmers
in regular season competition. Sue Kielty closed out
her Albany career with victories in the 200-yard free
style and medley relays, the 50-yard backstroke and
Ihc 100-yard backstroke. Barb Whitey, in her last
regular season meet as a Dane, set three personal bests
in the 100-yard free style, the 100-yard butterfly and
the 200-yard free style while Carol Lynn had a good
showing in the 200-yard individual medley, 50-yard
freestyle and the 50-yard butterfly. Ann Wilson swam
well in the 50 and 100-yard backstroke.
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weekend lo see their son John and
the res! of Ihc Great Danes compete
in ihc SUNYAC Tournament,
"This is quite an honor, it's ihc
best Ihing dial's happened since
we've been here," the pair said during hall'timc of Albany's victory
over the University of Buffalo.
J.D. gave his parent's a special
present at the final home game
againsi Ithaca when he gave them
the ball thai was presented lo him
for becoming the twelfth player in
Dane history to score over 1000
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STUDENT PRESS D MARCH 1, 1983
MARCH 1. 1983 n ALBANY STUDENT PRESS SpOrtS 1 9
Women gymnasts take fifth place in the States
By M a r k W l l g a r d
STAFF WKITHK
" I t was one o f the most exciting
State Championships ever. The
level o f competition was exlremcly
h i g h , " said coach Pal DuvnlSpillane as her women's gynianaslic
team closed out their 1982-1983
regular season with a fifth place
finish in the New York State Gymnastics Championship at Cortland.
Albany hit Ihcir seasonal average
score with a tally o f 153.05 points.
The Danes were beat out by
Brockport and Cortland (who tied
' for third), Ithaca, and Cornell, who
won the meet with a score of 168.6.
Finishing in the three slots below
Albany were Queens college, SUNY
New Paltz and Kings College I
Senior Elaine Glynn led the
Danes during the two-day meet. In
the all-around competition, she tied
for fifth place with a score o f 32.3.
Glynn just missed being among the
lop six finishers in the floor exercises, missing fifth place by just
1/10 o f a point. Her two day score
o f 16.85 was good enough for
seventh place.
Myrna Beth King's sixth-place
finish on the balance beam (two day
score o f 16.50) enabled her to
become the first Albany freshman
to place in the lop six In this event.
King had one fall, which caused her
to lose a hulf a point. Duval-
Splllonc said that " a n 8.35, even
with that fall, was an excellent
score, and she still managed to keep
sixth place. She also had to compete
against four Cornell girls, and
that's a difficult block to beat."
Albany failed to place on the
uneven bars. The Danes did not
have the services o f Alicia Steinberg
in this event. "She is one o f our
starters who usually competes on
the beam and floor exercises, and
we definitely missed her," DuvalSplllanc said. " I t was good to get
the score we did without A l i c i a . "
The NCAAs arc on March 11-12
in Cortland, and Albany, which will
not qualify as a team, has hopes o f
sending two or three gymnasts there
to participate on the team o f " a l l aroundcrs." Duval-Spillanc said
that Elaine Glynn has the best
chance o f going. " T h e y (the
N C A A ) take the seasonal average
score, and Elaine's 32.3 will help
her chances."
Other Dane gymnasts with outside shots o f making the team arc
Ginny Lockman and Myrna Beth
King. " I t all depends on how the
other people from the other schools
fare in their meets," Duval-Splllane
added. " W e will know for sure on
March 8 when our Athletic Director
gets the official results."
Albany also has a chance o f being
selected to compete in the E A I A W
at Ursinius Gcllcgc in Pennsylvania
on March 11. Since the selections go
by seeding scores, the Great Danes
urc in the running. The teams for
the E A I A W competition will be
selected this week.
•
Upsets mark intramural hoops
By B a r r y ( i e f f n e r
SM/I
IIHIIt.lt
It was a week o f upsets as five o f
the lop teams lost in A M I A men's
basketball.
In League 3, Too Hoi lo Handle
upset number
I ranked and
previous undefeated Super C's
48-47. The loss allows number 2
ranked and undefeated Disaslcr to
lake over the premier ranking. The
win will also place Too Hot lo Handle in the lop rankings. Chappy's is
the only other undefeated team in
league 3.
AMY COHEN UPS
The w o m e n gymnasts closed out their 1982-83 regular season with
a fifth place finish In the New York State Championships.
In league 4 there was a battle o f
the undefeated un ihc l o p ranked
Big Monsters wcnl against the third
ranked Bishops, The Bishops upset
the Big Monsters 30-27. The
In other intramural news, ihere
Ba-Va's upsei undefeated second will be a captains meeting for soccer
rank Jefferson Cleaners 42-32. The and ultimate frisbee March 8.
Jefferson Cleaner's loss and the
March 15 will be the captains
Bishop's win allow the Bishops l o meeting for Softball. " A l l though
lake over the top spot in league 4.
each year we hope for a big turnout,
In other upsets in league 4, the we really don'l wan! a big turnout
S h o o t i n g Seamen upset the for soflbull. That's why we arc callpreviously undefeated fourth rank- ing for rosters t w o weeks curlier
ed Penetration 49-42. The seventh than usual," said A M I A president
ranked New 69ers lost l o Pl-I on Ihc Mike Brusco. Brusco referred lo
Soap 44-36. The only other last
year
as 2 1 0 e n t e r e d
undefeated team left, eighth ranked rosters for sofiball. This in turn
Minn Shall We Dance should move reduced each team's playing
up l o the number two spot.
schedule from five games to Ihrcc.
In league 2, the Untouchables reInvitations have been sent out to
mained in first place by defeating different schools lo participate in
Nicc-N-Easy 68-55.
the A M I A / M o l s o n Challenge Cup
In the W I R A league, Iggy's in hockey. The Challenge Cup is
All-Stars are running away with it. scheduled to be played Ihc weekend
Playoffs begin March 16.
of A p r i l 8.
I.)
By M a r k Levine
EDI TON IA I. A SSISTA N T
After a 9-13 record one year ago and a
team consisting o f only two seniors and one
junior this year, the Albany State women's
basketball team and head coach Mari
Warner set a realistic goal o f finishing .500
or above this year. After finishing the
season with a record o f 14-6 and narrowly
missing a berth in the stale playoffs, the
team can look back on a successful 1982-3
campaign.
" I was very tentative at the beginning o f
the year because o f the inexperience,"
Warner said. " 1 had hoped to be a .500 or
better. Naturally, I'm thrilled to death l o
finish at .700."
After a season-openinR loss lo St. Rose,
the Danes ran o f f an eight game winning
streak, capped o f f by a 75-73 thriller against
Fredonia. The sjreak came t o an abrupt
halt as Albany was drubbed by Oswego,
74-59. The Danes then bounced buck and
proceeded to win three more in a row, lipping their record lo 11-2. This early season
success was a big boost to her young team,
according to Warner.
" l l definitely helped us lo win early o n , "
she said. " A f l e r that first loss the girls were
really up at practice Ihc next day. 1 think
that loss may have helped them, because
they realized how much work they had
ahead o f them. The winning streak helped
our confidence, and it was important lo be
11-2 with a tough schedule ahead."
Thai lough schedule turned out lo be
more than the Danes could handle, as they
went on to lose four o f the next five games,
with the only win coming al the expense o f
Vassar, 59-47. In this stretch, Albany wcnl
on Ihc road to face its Ihrcc toughest opponents, Hamilton, Pace, and Hart wick.
After losing three games, that being the
Capital District Tournament at St. Rose on
February 18 and 19. II was a tournament
the Danes had their sights set on all year
long, and they went on .to take home first
place honors, their first championship in
the four year history o f the tournament.
In the first game Albany avenged the ear-
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ly season loss to St. Rose by defeating the
host school, 57-49. Trailing 40-29 with
12:27 lo play, Albany outscorcd CSR 28-9
to win going away. Their momentum carried them into the finals the next night
against R I ' I , and the Danes easily disposed
of the Engineers, 58-53. Senior Robin Gibson was named Tournament M V P , and
freshman Rainey Lcsane was named to the
All-Tournament team.
Despite finishing with an impressive 14-6
record, the Danes failed to qualify for the
state playoffs. The top eight teams are
chosen based on points earned for each
win, with the quality o f opposition being
the basis for the amount o f points each win
is worth. The Danes finished in Ihc top 10,
barely missing a spot in the post-season
tournament.
Still, there were many standouts on
Warner's young and talented team.
Sophomore forward Nancy Wunderlich led
the Danes in scoring and rebounding,
averaging 13 points and 6.2 rebounds per
game. Gibson, who sat out much ot the
year with an injury, averaged 11.3 points
per game and 4.4 rebounu, per game.
Lcsane, a freshman point guard, came o f f
Ihc bench most o f the year and was the
other Dane who scored in double figures,
averaging 10.5 ppg. Sophomore guard Ronnie
l'alterson(7.5ppg,
4.8rpg),
sophomore center Nancy Grasso (4,9 ppg,
3.8 rpg), and freshman forward Diane Fernandes (5.5 ppg, 2.9 rpg) also slurred for
Albany, as well as senior forward Rhea l i d wards, whose outstanding defense and
quickness were a big plus all year long.
Warner was very salisfied with her team's
performance this year, and feels next year
will no doubt be better.
" I t was a very satisfyng year for us, and
since we're so young we feel next year we
can improve a lot. We saw how close we
came to going to ihc slates this year, and we
feci that our goal for next year will be to
make the slates. We're looking lo recruit
some height. I f we can gel some tnller
players lo go wilh our quickness, I think the
slates will be there for us next year."
D
DAVE ASHER UPS
The Albany State women's basketball team completed a very successful season
with a record of 14-6 and narrowly missed a berth In the state playoffs.
Dane indoor track teams face top competition
ranked first in the SUNY Conference.
" I ' m very pleased wilh the way we're
order lo score," said Head Coach Ron
" H e ' s no big deal," said Nason,"I'll gel coming a l o n g , " said head coach Bob
While.
him."
Munsey. " W e did without some o f our
Albany's 3,200-meter relay team set a
Juniors Reg Jamerson and Paul Mancc scorers and that made ihc difference bet- school record en roule lo their fifth place
both had big second place finishes. Jamer- ween second and t h i r d . "
A l b a n y ' s overall finish. Anita Heath and co-captain
son pole vaulted 4.00 meters in an im- dominance o f the sprint events was excep- Julie Smyth ran personal besl split limes,
By T o m Kacandes
pressive display o f regained form afler a
tional. Said Newton,"The boys have just combining wilh consistent performers DonSTAFF
WHITER
knee injury. Mancc triple jumped 13.69
begun lo pop; we are on our way u p . " Next na Buriiham and Jen Jones for the record
meters
for
his
best
mark
this
season.
week
the'Dancs navel to Cortland I'oi the breaking 10:00.7 effort. Jones later came
The Albany Slate men's indoor Irack
back lo smash her own school record in the
Freshman Ian Clements won Ihc coach's
SUNYACs,
team was edged out o f second place by
500-meter run. He lime o f 1:2.1.1) is more
"Red Feather" award for an outstanding
Division I I Ithaca College al the RPI Invitathan a second fasicr than her previous
double run. Clements ran the 1200-meter
tional last Saturday, The top five final
record,
_ _ _ _ _ _ ^ _ _ _ ^ _ _
leg o f the sixth place distance medley relay
scorers were Cortland with I42 points,
in a blistering 3:11 and later came back to
Ithaca with 106, Albany wilh 103, RPI with
place fifth in the 3000-meter run. His lime
60, and Union with 56. Ten teams comThe Albany Stale women's indoor Irack
of 8:56 is liis best by five seconds.
II' Albany's strong third place finish is
learn finished fifteenth mil o f twenty two
Oilier Albany scoring: fifth place; Don
any indication o f their ability, the Danes
schools in the women's stale championship
should continue l o score well in the big Bleasdalc - high jump, Paul Mancc - long
( N Y S A I A W ) meet held at Union College
j u m p . Sixth place; Nick Sullivan post-season meets. In most events the comlasi Saturday. The Danes wcnl up againsi
1500-meler
run,
and
Winslon
Johnson
petition at RPI was the toughest the
Ihc best of New York's Division I, II and I I I
800-mctcr
dash.
irackslers have faced Ibis year. " W e don't
indoor teams scoring in two events and
Mike
Riggins
and
Darren
Prall
took
worry about the c o m p c l i l i o n , " said caplain
Ron White
placing sixth among Division I I I schools.
fourth
and
sixth
place
respectively
in
the
Eric Newton,"we arc the c o m p c l i l i o n . "
Leading the team's many superior per400-mctcr
dash.
Riggins,
Pratt,
Rizzo,
and
True to his word, Newton blew away a fast
formances was I.inelle Skerritt who won
Newlon teamed up for a second in the
field in the 500-meter dash. His time o f
fifth place honors in the 50-mctcr dash with
1:07.7 is one tenth o f a second o f f the 1600-meter relay running a season best o f
Freshman Karen Kurlhy broke the school
a time o f 6.8 seconds. " W e had to beat out
3:32.4.
school record. Tony Rizzo look third at
scholarship runners from Ihc big schools in record she set last week in the 1,500-meler
run by a full five seconds running 5:04.8 lo
1:09.3, and Thad Wynter look sixth for
set the new mark and cop eighth place in the
Albany.
overall competition.
Sprinter Mitchell Harvard won the
45-mclcr dash in 5.4 seconds lying assistant
Bene Dzamba placed seventh overall in
the 5,000-meler run. Her lime o f 19:34.8 is
coach Howard Williams' school record. " I
tier best ever.
taught h i m everything he k n o w s , " said
Williams.
Albany runners Erma George, Pain
Anderson, co-ca.ptain Sarah Cawley, and
Extending his winning streak to three
Ronnie
Dann combined in the distance
straight, Freshman Bruce Van Tassel
medley relay to run 14:06, their besl lime
dominated his opponents in the 50-mclcr
this season.
high hurdles which he won in a season best
" T h i s team is rather young and
lime o f 7.0 seconds.
somewhat inexperienced, but the enThe Albany weightmen had a great day
thusiasm is there," said White. " I ' m very
as Marc Mcrcurio continued his undefeated
happy with both our relays, all around we
ways in the 35-lb. weight throw. His
ran well against some very tough competi14.79-meter toss broke his o w n school
t i o n . " This Saturday the Danes travel t o
record. Bill Nason threw 13.51 meters for
• TOM KACANDES ASP
Cortland
for the Division I I I Eastern
third and a personal'best. In the shot put,
The Albany State Men's Indoor track team was edged out by Division II Ithaca col- Championship.
_ T o m Kacll„d(;s
Nason took second place behind high
school rival Jim Monaco o f Cortland who is lege at the RPI Invite last Saturday.
Men place third
Women fifteenth
"We had to beat
runners from the big
schools."
PUBLISHED
ALBANY
STUDENT
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Sports
AT THE STATE
OF NEW YORK ATI ALBANY
MARCH
By Marc Schwarz
ASSOCIA n: WORTS EDITOR
PRESS
CORPORATION
. NUMBER
LXX
10
Culture, politics clash
at World Week display
By Ben Gordon
ALAN CALEM UPS
Rob Spagnoll was one of lour Albany wrestlers lo receive Ail-American honors at the Dlvlson III National Championships In
Wheaton, Illinois. Albany finished seventh In the nation as a team.
tionals.
Avcrill 6-2, but he was able to gain All- to work that much harder next year."
Seras finished in third place to become an
Averill, a sophomore, has been named
Amcrican recognition by defeating
Binghamton's John Leo, 13-0 lo capture All-American both years he has wrestled at All-Amcrican for the third time in as many
seventh place.
Albany and captured his first SUNYAC years. The junior was also selected as one of
"It was really nice to get All-Amcrican Championship two weeks ago. "I won't get four wild cards to participate in the Diviagain, though I thought I'd get better," seventh again," he said about finishing in sion 1 National Championships to be held
Avcrill commented. "It just means I have the same position both years at the na15«*
A confrontation between two student groups at the World Week Ethnic Block Party in the
lecture center hallways Thursday opened debate as lo whether politically opinionated material
mny be presented as part of cultural displays.
Members of the Revisionist Zionist Alternative, a campus Jewish group, protested in front
of a cultural display sponsored by Ihe Arab Student Association, objecting to what they termed "antl-scmitic, anti-Jewish" material alongside literature on Arab culture.
RZA was especially angered by a poster depicting Israeli Prime Minister Mcnaehem Begin
next lo a "bloody Jewish star" and what RZA Executive Secretary Glenn Moncs described as
pictures of the Sabrn and Shalllla refugee camps, where over a thousand Palestinian refugees
were killed by Christian Phalanglst forces laic Inst year.
According to ASA member Mohammed Kaycd, RZA members demanded that the poster
be removed, chanting "Take it down! Take it down!" in front of the display. Then, said
Kaycd, a young man from the crowd of. protesters tore down Ihe poster and disappeared
amidst the commotion.
World Week Coordinators Dr. Frank Pogue and Dr. Paul Ward, arrived on the scene after
being notified by Sami Massoud of Ihe ASA, and attempted to mediate the dispute.
Ward said he spoke to RZA president Steve Hilsenrath and explained the basic tcnels and
underlying objectives of World Week. He defended the right of the Arab students lo display
political symbols, saying "Any political synjbol, whether good or bad, Is part of a nation's
culture. The nature of World Week is to accentuate the posilivc, the parts of your nation of
which you are proud."
Moncs said RZA rejects the "notion thai one can't draw the line between culture and
politics. One need not indict another people's culture." He feels that the Jewish people arc
being scapegoated by Ihe poster for Ihe events at the refugee camps, and feels thai the Jews arc
being criticized at an event where cultural information, not propoganda should be displayed.
Members of Ihe ASA identified the RZA member who they claim removed the poster, and
while the RZA acknowledged removing the poster, they said that Ihcy were unable lo locale it
amidst the commotion. When ASA demanded that Ihe poster be returned, Moncs replied,
"When you rip down swastikas, you don't give them back lo the Nazis lo put them u p . "
RZA members refuse to disclose Ihe name of the person who removed the poster.
Ward responded to the idea of regulating displays by saying, "I don't see how you can
regulate political symbols, What might be culture to you might be political lo someone else."
"I tried to explain to Steve (Hilsenrath, President of SUNY RZA) thai although his opinion
was that it was not culture, to the people displaying it, il was."
Kaycd says that in an area "as politically complicated as the Middle East, this is very much
cultural."
Moncs claims he will take offense wherever and whenever the poster is displayed. He said,
"This is, to us, what we call 'Chillul Hashem,' a desecration. We don't tolerate a poster like
that any more than we would a swastika or a Ku Klux Klan poster. We equate this with Nazi
and Ku Klux Klan displays."
Pogue refused to comment on Ihe situation until the dispute between RZA and ASA has
been fully resolved. He said a meeting scheduled for Friday morning wilh representatives of
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Danes lose SUNYAC opener and an NCAA bid
SPORTS EDITOR
STUDENT
March 4, 1983
1, 1983
Four grapplers are Ail-Americans
By Marc Haspel
BY THE ALBANY
Friday
VOLUME
The Albany Slate wrestling team continued on their record setting pace by
finishing seventh in the country and having
four wrestlers earn All-American honors.
The Danes competed in the NCAA Division 111 National Championships in
Whcaion, Illinois last Friday and Saturday
and came back to Albany sporting their
finest performance ever in the nationals.
Andy Seras was named an All-Amcrican
for the third lime, Dave Avcrill received the
honor for a second lime and Vic Herman
and Rob Spagnoll were Ail-Americans for
the first lime in their four year careers.
"This was by Tar the best showing by any
Albany team. To put it into perspective,
we've had seven All-Americans in the
33-year history of wrestling in this school.
Now we have 11, with the four we had this
weekend," head couch Joe DcMeo said.
The seventh place finish was the highest
ever by an Albany team. In the past four
years the Danes have moved from 29 lo 17
to 12 and now to number seven in the country. "Our goal was the top 10 in the country. Seven is a strong, solid position in that
top 10," DeMco said.
"I was Impressed with the whole team effort. You have to be proud of a team that
accomplishes what this one has," he added.
Avcrill was the first of the four AilAmericans, capturing seventh place at
118-pounds. Avcrill defeated Rick Testa of
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 10-6 in the
first round. He then pinned Salsbury's Ray
Scanlon before getting pinned by John Barna of Trenton. Averjll was injured in the
match with Barna but was able to come
back and defeat Clayton Hathway of
Widener, 15-2.^Ryan Hines of Iowa beat
UNIVERSITY
with the running Bengals. Dieckclman was
the only scorer for Albany through the first
nine minutes of the game. He used a combination of outside bankers, hooks and
layups to help the Danes stay close. Albany
was only down five points at the 11:11 mark
Potsdam, N. Y.
For the second consecutive season, the
Albany State Great Danes will not be taking
part in the NCAA Division III tournament.
The Danes lost all chances for obtaining a
bid by bowing out in the opening round of
the SUNYAC tournament to the Buffalo
State Bengals 78-67 Friday evening here in
Maxcy Hall, Potsdam. Albany did salvage
the consolation game against the University
of Buffalo Bulls, the following afternoon
88-77.
Senior co-captain John Dieckclman enjoyed one of the finest games of his threeyear Albany career in that opening game
against Bufr State. The 6'5" lefthanded
center scored the Danes' first thirteen
points of the game and went on to pour in
28 points in the losing effort. In the consolation game, Dieckclman sealed his third
consecutive SUNYAC all-tournament
honor with 17 points.
"I thought," Dieckclman said after the
second game, "that I played all right. It
doesn't do you any good unless you win it.
We came up here to win and we didn't."
Sophomore point guard Dan Croutier
also had an excellent game in the Saturday
afternoon contest. He scored 27 points.
"We played a lot better today," Croutier
said after the victory. "I think if we would
have done it yesterday, we would have won.
We opened up a lot of scoring. We should
have played that ball yesterday; we were
one game late."
The second-seeded, team from the
Eastern division, Albany, drew their first
round game against the top-seeded Bengals
from the Western division. The Bengals
entered the tournament with a 16-4 record
ALAN CALEM UPS
and a national ranking of thirteenth in DiviSenior John Diockolmnn earned
sion HI.
SUNYAC
All-Tournament
honors.
A tentative Albany team barely kept pace
of the half.
Guard Dave Adam was the first Dane
other than Dieckelman to break the ice with
a bucket at the 10:45 mark to shrink the
early Bengal lead to 18-15. The two teams
traded baskets to make the score 20-17.
Bengal forward David Hart then caught
fire. He hit a jumper from the top of the
key, and after two consecutive Dane fouls
resulted in twq more Bengal points, he
grabbed the rebound of Buff State's Peter
Mack's second free throw and converted it
for two more points. Albany State head
basketball coack Dick Sailers called a
timeout as the Danes found themselves
trailing by nine points, 26-17.
After the pause, Albany roared back into
the game. Jan Zadoorian drove the lane,
Wilson Thomas hit a short jumper and
Mike Gatto threw in a 19 footer. The Danes
finally caught the Bengals with 4:04 left to
play in the half. Gatto was fouled by Mack
and went to the line hitting his first charity
toss lo knot the scoring at 28.The Danes
then flirted with their only lead of the
game. Dieckclman was the beneficiary of a
Croutier steal in .the backcourt. The 5'7"
guard passed the ball off to the awaiting big
man who easily put the ball in ihe hoop.
The Danes took a 32-28 lead.
With 2:22 remaining in the half, and
Albany up 34-32, Gatto fouled Hart
underneath Ihe rim. Hart went lo lite line
and calmly tied the score again with two
successful free throws. He then hit a 17
fooler to give his Bangals Ihe lead with 1:23
left.
Sauers instructed his learn to hold for the
final shot but his troops turned the ball
over. Albany escaped the first half only
trailing by two points, 36-34.
"JD ((Dieckclman) did too much. The
others relied on him loo heavily," said
Sauers. "He was Ihe only one that was
relaxed out there. He had a great offensive
game."
In the second half the Danes came back
onto the court looking to reclaim the lead.
But Ihe Bengals immediately spread their
lead to six points on buckets by Tim Tully
and Paul Hafnacki. Albany erased the difference quickly with two buckets by Gatlo
making the score 40-38.
Bengal John Groover, who had fallen into early foul trouble with three personals in
the first half, put his team in front by four
with a 12-root jumpshol, 42-38. After Hafnacki hit the second of two free throws, the
teams virtually exchanged baskets over the
next twelve minutes. Each lime the Danes
would cut the lead to tHrec or four points,
the Bengals would respond with another
bucket. During the half Albany shot 50 percent from Ihe field while the Bengals hit 56
percent.
"We had chances to close in on them and
they were ready for us lo do it," said
Sauers. "They were ready lo crack but we
just couldn't do it to them."
The Danes had their best opportunity of
the half to pull within two points when
Zadoorian stole Ihe ball in the backcourt
and passed it over to Dieckclman. Bui, he
just couldn't put the ball in the basket
despile several shots.
"I shot it a little too hard and il didn't
fall. That's how the whole second half
went," said Dieckclman!
"That was one big play," added Sauers.
Buffalo Slate began to pull away with
three and a half minutes left uxplay. Hart
scored a break away layup to widen the lead
to 66-60 and while the Danes, spurred on by
some dazzling desperation drives by
Croutier, kepi battling, Ihe Bengals' lead
became Insurmountable in the little time remaining. With 11 second left, Andre Devers
. completed the scoring at 78-67 with a fast
break bucket.
" T h e ! r ( B u f f a l o S t a l e ' s ) scoring
averages were about what they should have
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"We equate
this with Nazi
and Ku Klux
Klan
displays."
—Glen Mones
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Abovexontroverslal poster torn down by RZA member.
Below: Arab Student Association table at Ethnic Block
Party in Lecture Center hallway yesterday.
"(In ah area)
as politically
complicated as
the Middle
East, this is
very much
cultural."
—Mohammed Kayed
Wharton predicts budget effects to Legislature
By Lisa Perlman
At a joint budget hearing of the NYS
Legislature's Fiscal Committees Tuesday,
SUNY Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton Jr.,
presented testimony outlining the SUNY
financial plan for the 1983-84 fiscal year.
Chancellor Wharton's testimony emphasized his concern for the budget's proposed elimination of about 2500 SUNY
faculty and staff positions with an additional loss of 1000 positions under the
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headings of "voluntary furloughs" and
"voluntary retirements." The proposed
personnel reduction represents about ten lo
twelve percent of SUNY's work force.
Wharton stressed that the budgets for the
past eight years have forced staff reductions
resulting in the total loss of about 3000
positions since 1974, while enrollment has
increased by over 4000. The budget is now,
"in just one year, asking SUNY to make
reductions in personnel equal to those thai
have taken place over the past eight years
combined," Wharton said.
According to Wharton's testimony, personnel reductions would have the following
impact upon the SUNY system:
• limitation of accessibility to sectors of
higher education for many students;
• weakening of SUNY's ability to
strengthen the state's economic development;
» threatening of program accreditation
due to an increased faculty-student ratio;
• permanent loss of talented faculty;
»- deterioration of the quality of campus
life;
• restriction in the diversity of curriculum.
According to the testimony, each SUNY
campus was asked to assess the impact of
the position losses upon its individual campus and present its plans to the chancellor
und the board of trustees. The impact
statements call position cuts that would
result in the following actions:
• University centers (Albany, Buffalo,
Binghamton and Stony Brook) eliminating
14 departments or schools wilh another 21
reduced;
• Arts and science colleges eliminating 17
undergraduate degree programs and five
graduate degree programs wilh a reduction
of 97 departments;
• Two health-science
campuses
eliminating eight degree programs with
reductions in 36 departments.
As a result of the position losses student
support services and campus life would suffer, said Wharton.There would be reduced
library services, less academic and job
counseling and a decrease in health services.
The chancellor's financial plan, approved by Ihe board of trustees and now being
considered by the legislature in amending
Ihe proposed budget, would attempt to
"buy back" as many positions targeted for
elimination as possible. According to
Wharton, "the estimated dollar value of
the positions (which are being lost) is approximately $91.7 million annually." he
added that his prime objective wa: to identify resources lo reduce this monetary problem.
The budget's proposal to increase the
undergraduate tuition $250 a year would
generate $49 million plus $3.9 million from
the $25 computer fee. Wharton adjusted
the increase in his plan to $300 at the
undergraduate level, with proportionate increases for higher levels. Although he
agreed that the tuition increase (his plan
would bring undergraduate tuition from
$1075 to $1375 per year) along with the
$150 dormitory rent hike would "represent
a substantial new burden for present and
potential SUNY students and their
families," he added thai "we must be
realistic and recognize tuition as a significant revenue source."
Wharton said one of his fundamental
concerns is not Ihe actual proposal for the
tuition increase in the Executive Budget,
but the "very disturbing rationalization"
behind the hike. The budget proposes that
SUNY tuition be raised in order to cover
more of the actual education costs (averaged at $6200, of which the student's tuition
now represents approximately 17 percent),
move closer to the average tuition for other
northeastern public institutions, and be
linked in some fashion with tuition in the
independent sector. Wharton said that the
comparisons made between SUNY tuition
and private or other public state universities, "represents a significant change in
the philosophy and practice of funding
public higher education in New York
State."
Bclsy Beuchner, a spokesperson for Ihe
governor's press office, had no comment
in regard to this suspected shift In public
policy toward SUNY, but did say that the
percentage of Ihe education paid for by
students' tuition Is way under Ihe average in
comparison to other state university
systems and the private institutions. She added that now, SUNY students pay a lower
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