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Friday
December 2, 1983
PRESS
VOLUME
NUMBER
LXX
44
Cobleskill students
describe abuse
during dorm raid
Above: Dorms on Ihc Cobleskill campus. Stale
troopers and public safely raided dorms and confiscated false ID'S. Students complained thai Ihey
were harassed.
Troopers raid Cobleskill dorms
By Lisa Mirabella
STAFF, WRITS*
Eleven forged student identification cards were confiscated at SUNY Cobleskill by New York State troopers
after an unannounced raid on dormitories there earlier this
month. Presently there is an investigation by the
Superintendent of the State Police in Albany, to determine
the legality of the trooper's late-nighl search for forged or
altered ID cards.
Although no arrests were made during the raid, Senior
Investigator Joseph Karas of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation said the eleven falsified ID cards that were
found are evidence of eleven felonies. As such, "there is a
distinct possibility that a prosecution will follow," he said
during a phone interview yesterday.
Cobleskill President Walton A. Brown, who was out of
town during the November 15 State Police operation, said
he was "very angry" that the Slate troopers came on campus without his prior knowledge, lie delivered a detailed
report to the office of the Chancellor November 21.
The SUNY Vice-Chancellor for Legal Affairs was in contact with the office of the Governor with reference to major
legal and jurisdictional issues, according to Brown. Assistant Council at the SUNY Legal Affairs office, Ccriannc
Dias, said her office will wait until the Slate Police
superintendent has completed his investigation before
SUNY conducts its own.
Stale Police First Deputy Superintendent, Raymond
Rasmusscn said yesterday that "that investigation is still
underway" and declined to discuss the details at this point.
Taking Brown's place as senior administrator that night
was Vice President for Academic Affairs Lawrence Poole.
He told the Cobleskill Times journal; "We were notified
when troopers set fool on campus, not before."
However, according to the Stale Press Service, Brown
said that "at 8:00 that night Dean of Student Affairs John
Dietrich authorized one state trooper and two SUNY
Public Safely officers to do a spot check of ID cards in one
of the ten dormitories."
SUNY Public Safely officers were present during Ihe cnB»
By Tim Shell
and Gina Abend
vM/7: PRtssssmirt:
At 7 p.m., on the evening of the raid on Cobleskill dormitories by State Police, Larry Trachtenbroit, a freshman
living in Ten Eyck Hall, SUNY at Cobleskill, was told by a
resident assistant thai he was wanted at the Public Safety
office. Trachtenbroit said he was told he was suspected of
stealing a ear.
According io Trachlcnbroit, however, (he stolen car
charge was a ruse lo question him on his alleged involvement in the ID card case.
I Trachienbrolt and other Cobleskill residents described a
[pattern of harassment and deceit by stale troopers and
Public Safety officers in ihe dormitory raid.
Trachtenbroil said he told ihc police officers his ID had
been faked al the beginning of Hie semester. They persisted
in asking him who did it for him, he said, and which he
could not answer. "I didn't know the guy," he asserted, "I
haven't seen him since."
According to Trachtenbroit, he was detained for several
hours, had his rights read lo him by both Public Safely officers and troopers, was denied a phone call, and was
threatened by Dean of Student Affairs John Dietrich with
academic failure if he refused .to cooperate. "Dietrich kept
calling me a liar, and said 'you're going to pay dearly for
this.' " Trachtenbroil said.
Dietrich has been unavailable for comment since
November 18. SUNY Cobleskill President Walton A.
Brown said Dietrich was called "because SUNY police
assumed an arrest was. going to be made," and that
Dietrich's presence was "helping the student."
Trachtenbroit also said thai when he asked for a phone
call, lie was informed by a slate trooper that if he persisted,
"we're going to go tougher on you." He said he was asked
if he would change his slory several times, he was read excerpls from Ihe stales penal code pertaining to forged instruments, and was told such a crime was a felony. He also
claimed that police officials made snide remarks about his
ethnic qrigin and name.
Attempts to verify Trachienbroir's claims have been unsuccessful due lo ihc nature of ihc current investigation.
Trachtenbroit's roommate, David Audycki, said he was
paged while in Ihe library shortly alter 7:30 p.m., and told
al the desk that Public Safely wauled lo speak to him. "I
thought lliere'd been a death in I lie family," he said. He
said he was brought to the Public Safely office, was asked
who changes IDs on campus, and responded that he did not
know. He presented his ID, which was valid.
Audycki said he was told to sludy there in the office,
"while my roommate was silling there being questioned by
all these guys." After a while, he said he asked an officer if
he could leave and was [old he could. Upon returning to his
dorm room, lie received a phone call requesting he return to
Public Safely, which he said he did. "They (old me Ihere
were going to be raids on the dorms and Ihey didn't want
me to go back and tell anyone," Audycki said.
While in Ihc office, bolh Trachtenbroit and Audycki said
they were lold by a senior investigator that "he didn't want
to be jerked around by sonic stupid ass story."
Trachtenbroil said he lold Dietrich he was going to
transfer to another college in January and Dietrich
responded, "If you make it thai far."
Bolh students said Ihey had tests the next day and did
poorly because of ihe Incident,
Administrative and police reports of Ihe incident are also
unavailable at this lime.
Cherrie Stevens, Resident Director of Cobleskill's Pearson Hall, said she was Informed at 12:45 a.m. by troopers
thai resident assistants had io wake up and get students out
of bed. After the RAs were awakened though, the police
lold Stevens thai the search was not going to take place,
"and I was left to explain lo the RAs why they were woken
up for no reason," Stevens said.
Euromissile policies attacked
By Jane Anderson
HHICMIM.ASSKIASI
Inaccuracies in the Pershing and Cruise missiles currently
being deployed in Europe could cause a limited nuclear war
to escalate into a full scale war, according to Fred Kaplan,
defense correspbndant for Ihe Boston Globe.
Kaplan, who delivered his speech Thursday in a filled
Lecture Center 19, spoke on "Euromissiles: Their Hidden
History and Real Purpose."
The missiles are "the worst of both worlds," stressed
Kaplan. "They probably won't do what ihe government
says they will. The president believes Ihey will work. The
missiles don't work," he continued.
The Cruise and Pershing II missiles "were designed to be
very, very accurate," said Kaplan. "They were created to
destroy military facilities without destroying cities," he
continued. '
This accuracy would be very difficult to obtain with Ihe
missiles, he contended, because of technical problems in
their guidance systems, Kaplan said thai "if there's snow
on (he ground then you might as well fire some other type
of weapon," because the accuracy of the missiles is affected
by seasonal change.
"The Soviets could guess where the missiles are aimed,"
said Kaplan, and take measures to create "electronic deception" to misdirect ihe missile's guidance systems.
t h e chances are good, according to Kaplan, thai a launched missile would not be exactly on largel. It could then
hit a nearby city, he said.
The Soviets, if faced with this, could think that a massive
nuclear atlack had been launched by the U.S., and would
retaliate accordingly, said ihc Boston Globe journalist,
"The Soviets lend to believe the most optimistic
estimates of U.S. weapons," said Kaplan. "They lend lo
believe in the superiority of American technology and thai
anything can be done with it," he continued.
"When looking at the Euromissiles, you can't just look
at Ihe (Soviet) European-based missiles versus Ihe (U.S.)
European based missiles. We have to take into account
nuclear weapons elsewhere as well," Kaplan asserted.
11*-
"The troopers' last words were 'don't tell them what it's
about,' " Stevens said. She said she had been lold of the
troopers impending visit by Ihc director of a hall previously
raided. "The whole thing smacked of being in Russia,"
Stevens said.
Brown says he was in Philadelphia at Ihe lime of ihe Incident. He also says he had, since the incident, met with
"high level stale officials," (Ihe State Police Commissioner), and went to his superiors (SUNY Central), because
"I consider this a very serious action."
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DECEMBER 2,1983 O ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3
WORLDWIDE
Nuke talks continue
Geneva, Switzerland
(AP) U.S. and Soviet negotiators met Thursday at the Soviet compound to continue their
17-month effort to reduce long-range nuclear
weapons — the only remaining forum for
superpower talks on nuclear arms.
The meeting between Soviet Ambassador
Viktor P. Karpov and chief U.S. negotiator
Edward L. Rowny was the second since Ihe
Soviet Union walked out of parallel mediumrange missiles'talks Nov. 23.
Speculation has diminished that the
Soviets might also break off the Strategic
Arms Reduction Talks, known as START.
After a three-hour session Tuesday, Karpov
said the talks will go on.
French soldier shot
Beirut, Lebanon
(AP) A French soldier was killed by sniper
fire Thursday, and Beirut's airport remained
closed after anti-government Druse
militiamen threatened to resume an artillery
barrage unless a series of demands was met.
The threat came as Lebanese President
Amin Gemayel arrived in Washington for
meetings Thursday with President Reagan
and other U.S. officials to discuss ways of
removing foreign troops from his country.
The French soldier was killed when his
patrol was fired on Thursday morning by an
unidentified gunman along the "green line"
that divides Beirut into predominantly Christian and Moslem sectors.
• Lt. Col. Phillips de Longeaux, a
spokesman for the French peacekeeping
force, said the patrol came under small arms
fire as it drove through the Tayyouneh
neighborhood on the southern edge of
Beirut.
Andropov to appear
Moscow
(AP) The Soviet Parliament will meet Dec.
28, the Soviet news agency Tass announced
Thursday. It was expected that President
Yuri V. Andropov, out of public view for
more than 100 days, will appear at the
meeting.
Andropov's long absence had fueled
speculation that the 69-year-old leader was
too ill to attend a meeting of the Supreme
Soviet, the nation's nominal Parliament, or a
plenum of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party that normally precedes it.
Andropov made his last public appearance
Aug. 18 when he met with a group of U.S.
senators. The official Kremlin explanation
for his absence from public view has been
that he has been suffering from a cold.
NATIONWIDE
Squeal law repealed
Washington, D.C.
(AP) Advocates of teen-age birth control are
glad the Reagan administration has quit trying to require that parents be told if their
minor daughters arc receiving contraceptives,
but they fear some members of Congresswill
now push for such a rule.
The Planned Parenthood Federation and
the National Family and Reproductive
Hearth Association declared victory on
Wednesday when Solicitor General Rex Lee
decided against appealing a dispute over the
administration's parental notification requirement.
The administration had proposed parents
be told within 10 days if girls 17 or younger
received birth control pills, intrauterine
devices or diaphragms from clinics receiving
federal money.
But two appellate courts, in Washington
and New York, as well as lower courts, say
the regulation went beyond Congress' intent
when it said parents should be encouraged to
participate in adolescents' contraceptive decisions. Lee decided not to take the matter
before the Supreme Court.
Horse kills woman
New York City
(AP) A 71-year-old woman died three days
after being struck by a runaway horse while
she rode a bicycle in Central Park, "the first
such death in modern memory," said Parks
Commissioner Henry Stern.
Officials learned of the death Wednesday,
after the woman's family announced burial
arrangements, and Stern banned the horse
from the park pending and investigation of
last week's incident.
Ann Spiers Jessup, of Manhattan, a retired
director of the Women's City Club, was
struck by the horse during a Sunday morning
bicycle ride near the park resevoir Nov. 20.
She suffered a fractured skull and died
three days later in St. Luke's Hospital, said
Sgt. John Burns of the Central Park
Precinct.
Reagan eyes research
Washington, D.C.
(AP) President Reagan, settling a dispute
among his key advisers, had decided to
authorize long-term research and development of weapons to repel nuclear attacksi
rather,than a hurry-up approach administration officials said Thursday.
The decision was described as the more,
cautious of two choices presented to Reagan
at a meeting Wednesday with his national
security advisers.
Niagara declared safe
Buffalo
(AP) The Niagara River, once described as
"Thc.Ravished Rivei" by a citizens group, Is
a safe source for drinking water, according to
the Environmental Protection Agency.
In a report on the Niagara three years ago,
the New York Public Interest Research
Group described it as "The Ravished River"
and said it contained cancer-causing
chemicals dumped by plants that line its
shores.
NYPIRG urged communities to install ca bon filtration systems to screen dangerous
chemicals from drinking water and also
recommended that individuals put filtration
systems on their drinking water taps.
The Niagara is the drinking water source
for 10 municipalities, including Buffalo,
Niagara Falls, and Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Power plant debated
Pomona
(AP) The chairman of the Rockland County
Legislature said Thursday he would recommend that the county rejoin the task force
devising emergency plans for the Indian
Point nuclear power plants.
Rockland withdrew from the task force,
which also includes representatives of
Westchester, Orange and Putnam counties,
in May 1982, saying it was impossible to
come up with a workable plan to evacuate the
110,000 people who live within in 10 miles of
the reactors.
Rockland's refusal
emergency planning
Regulatory Commission
the plants down, but the
won approval for the
operating.
to participate in
led the Nuclear
to threaten to shut
state stepped in and
plants to continue
Doll shortage cited
Buffalo
(AP) Consumers are not alone in their anger
at the scarcity of this Christmas' most
publicized gift, the Cabbage Patch doll.
The Erie County Legislature wants to
know why the widely-advertised product of
Coleco Industries, Inc. was issued in such
short supply.
' T h u r s d a y , the legislature voted
unanimously to ask state Attorney General
Robert Abrams and local U.S. Attorney
Salvatore Martoch to investigate possible unfair advertising and marketing practices
regarding the doll and other toys.
Jury indicts senator
New York City
(AP) A federal grand jury has indicted slate
Senator Joseph R. Pisani on fraus and lax
evasion charges, alleging that he embezzled
thousands of dollars from his campaign
funds, his law business and the state government.
The New Rochellc Republican denied ihe
30-count indictment filed in Manhattan on
Thursday, calling it "a novel application of
the mail fraud statute" and part of a vendetta against hjm.
The indictment, announced by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, accused Pisani of
diverting at least $45,000 since 1978 from his
campaign funds to his pcrsoanl use by making payments appear to be reimbursement for
political expenses.
The alternative, said the official, was to
launch a program to deploy defensive
weapons quickly.
Reagan first announced last March the
United States would begin work on a
futuristic defense system designed to.destroy
Soviet missiles in flight and render "these
nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
Opponents of the so-called "star wars"
speech said going ahead would open a new
arras race.
Red Cross Bloodmoblle will be on
Alumni Quad In Waterbury Hall on
Monday, Deo. S, from 12 p.m. to 6
p.m.
Class ol 86 will hold a class
meeting on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m.
In the Fireside Lounge. All members
of the sophomore class are invited
to attend. For more Information call
Karen at 457-7503.
'
By Ian Clements
STAFF WHITER
escort, agreed, "Supposedly there is
an overload of escorts,", he said.
Abramowitz maintained that there
are enough escorts to continue the
program with shorter shifts.
"I have a lot of work," said
escort John Curry. He said that he
supported the decision to end the
program on December I.
A student who was being escorted
who wished to remain unidentified
said, "I'm disappointed that the
program is ending before finals,
since that's the time when most people use the library and need the
escort service."
Debbie Kcstin, an escorted student, said of the program, "I applaud it and I give a lot of credit to
the escorts."
Auer said that the Board of
Directors of Don't Walk Alone has
been reporting the program's
results to the President's Task
Force on Women's Safely, but in
order lo receive Administration
funding ihe proposals must be
made to the Campus Life Committee chaired by Vice President of
Student Affairs Frank Rogue.
Auer said that the proposal will
explain what Ihe program's goals
were and how they were attained. It
will also include figures on the
amount of people who were
escorted, she slated. According lo
Pogue, the Campus Life Committee
is one of the sources he will consult
before making his funding recommendations to President Vincent
O'Leary. O'Lcary will make the
final decision on funding the Don't
Walk Alone program, said Pogue.
He and the Campus Life Committee will review the results of the program and act immediately upon
receiving them to make recommendations to O'Lcary, Pogue slated.
The Don't Walk Alone Escort'
Service, considered a success by its
creators, finished its pilot run on
Thursdr
">ec. 1.
The
II be no more escorts for
the remainder of the semester, Dan
Altman, one of the program's
directors, announced during
Wednesday's Central Council
meeting.
Supporters of the service are currently seeking permanent financial
backing from the SUNYA administration to resume operation of
the service next semester. SA funded the pilot program.
Maggie Auer, another escort service director, explained that "many
of the escorts are nervous about
finals" so they do not want to participate during the rest of the
semester. Altman noted however
that the program is in a pilot stage
and that it was only supposed lo last
tor approximately one month.
According to Auer, one of the
reasons that the new escort program
is ending before finals week is that
some escorts have not been showing
up lo work. "I think it's kind of
stupid to stop it now, but a lot of
volunteers haven't been doing their
job," Auer said. "We can't work
with just twenty people who are
willing lo come out," she added.
Some escorts later said that they
were disappointed that trie program
was ending before the semester's
completion.
John Harrison, an escort said,
"ihe program should go through
finals week. During finals most
people study alone. When I cram 1
get away from everybody."
According to Harrison, escorts
currently work in two hour shifts.
Altman said that 107 students
He suggested that the shifts be cut volunteered to be escorts. He said
to one hour during finals week to that in the program in the first
allow each escort more study time. month 407 students were escorted.
Howard Abramowilz, another
Auer pointed out that the escort
By Betsy Eckel
STAFF. WRITER
It is unlikely that ten exchange
students froin Russia who were
scheduled lo study this semester at
SUNYA will be able to come to the
school at all, said Alex Shane, Ihe
director of SUNYA's Office or International Programs.
"1 don't think they'll come
because there is less than two weeks
left in the fall semester and the
Soviet Union isn't issuing any exit
visas. I believe that this is a general
Ewing Township, N.J.
(AP) Water supplies have increased in Ihe
' Catskills reservoirs that provide half of New
York City's daily water needs, but supplies
are still so low that a drought warning remains in effect, Robert Goodcll, chief
engineer of the Delaware River Basin Commission, said Thursday.
. Goodell said the level has risen daily, but
considerable additional rainfall was needed
before the DRBC could cancel Its drought
warning. The warning was ordered when the
supply dipped below 110 billion gallons.
Because of the drought warning, New
York City may draw only 680 million gallons
of water daily from the resevoirs instead of
the normal 800 million gallon allotment.
The reservoirs, located in the western Catskills region in New York's Delaware and
Sullivan counties, normally provide half of
New York City's dally water needs.
Escort service ends; pilot program a success
service, until recently operated by
the Public Safety Department of the
University, only escorted approximately 35 students each semester.
Altman said that he may propose
that escorts be given women's
studies or community service credit.
He said that this will give escorts
greater incentive to participate
through finals week.
According lo Maura Kugler, one
of ten escort service coordinators,
the program's popularity increased
after its commencement on
November 5.
"So many people wanted to be
escorts, that we ran out of applications," she said.
Kugler said that 25 students were
escorted on Ihe program's first
night, and that recently the program had averaged 35 escorts each
evening.
Also during the council meeting;
Student Association Vice President
Jeff Schneider informed council
I hat no formal bids had been made
for the purchase of SA's audiovisual equip men I.Off-campus
representative Dave Silk voiced a
complaint on behalf of a constituent concerning SA's decision,
without council's approval, lo
discontinue the on-campus sale of
Greyhound Bus tickets, due to the
union strike.
In other business, Schneider said
that though no ''numerical bids"
have been made for the purchase of
SA's audio-visual equipment, that
"there is a possibility of getting rid
of it this semester."
He said that he will be taking bids
until Wednesday, December 7.
The complaint voiced by Silk on
his constituent's behalf was that
SA's executive branch failed to consult with council on a "major
policy" issue.
The issue concerned SA President Rich Schaffer's announccmenl
that Greyhound Bus tickets would
not be sold by the Contact Office
SCOTT AREMAN UPS
University President Vincent O'Leary
O'Leary will make the final decision on funding Don't Walk Alone
until the regular Greyhound bus
drivers returned to their jobs.
The announcement was made on
November 22 as "a show of
solidarity with the striking
Greyhound bus drivers," said
Schaffer.
Council chair Bob Helboek
responded lo the complaint. He
said that immediate action was required and that SA could not afford
to wait until the next council
meeting to present Ihe plan to that
body. Council did not meet last
week.
Student Action Committee chair
Steve Gnwley djscj«.s.edju's.cpmmillee's plan lo combat the 21 year old
drinking age proposal.
He said that the commmitlec is
working on the quads lo ask
lit?
USSR/Albany exchange goes one way this term
Water supply low
PREVIEW OF EVENTS
The Anthropology Club will hold a
general Interest meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 6 In the Humanities
building, room 290, at 4 p.m. A film
on archeology will also be shown.
AIDS will be the subject of a
workshop and panel discussion on
Saturday, Deo. 3, at 1 p.m. In Lecture Center 7. The Qay and Lesbian
Alliance Is sponsoring the event.
STATEWIDE
soviet government decision tied to
the Pershing and Cruise missiles
and not an institutional decision,"
said Shane.
He also noted that Ihe lifting of
Ihe Canadian ban on Aeroflot
operations, which was implemented
as a response to the Soviet downing
of a Korean airliner with 267 people
aboard, had little lo do with the
Soviet decision not lo send Ihe
students lo SUNYA.
According to the New York
Times, university officials said that
" the students from the Maurice
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E l ! 1 ? : 1 ; '" 9V9f V " W '«* «* 9 ht niflbts, comnwnwatlng the rededication of the Temple by the Macabees after their vlctory«ver the Syrians.
Black Women Under Apartheid will
be the subject of a lecture Tuesday
Dec. 6, at 2:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. Phyllis
Ntantala Jordan of the United Natlons Center Against Apartheid will
speak.
A Ratters Trip will be held Friday,
Dec. 2, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Buses
leave the circle at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
will cost $5, and will be sold on Ihe
uptown dinner lines. The trip Is
sponsored by PI Omega PI.
b!LBl,,!.,,l,e R " P P < " t l ° n m e n t ,
Ethnicity and New York Politics will
be the topic of a lecture Monday
Dec. 5, at 4:40 p.m., In Draper Hall
room 21 Roman Hedges, from the
Rockefeller College and Legislative
Commission on Reapportionment
and Demography will apeak.
A Third World Caucus Conlarance
will be held Friday, Dec. 2, and
Saturday, Dec. 3. The keynote
speaker will be Assemblyman
Angelo Del Toro, chair of the Black
ind Puerto Rlcan Legislative
Caucus. For more Information
regarding registration and events,
call the SA office at 457-8087.
An International Tea will be held
Sunday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m., In Ihe
Biology building, room 248. SUNYA
Professor Wan Lin will speak on
Higher Education In China. The lea
Is sponsored by SUNYA Women International Committee.
Rsnalssance Christmas Madrigal
'Concerts will be held Saturday, Dec.
3, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 4,
at 7 p.m. In the Campus Center
B a l l r o o m . T i c k e t s will cost
$3/general
admission,
and
$2/students. For reservations, call
457-8608. There will be a cash bar
before Ihe concert.
CIN0V OAI.WAV UP5
J . Paul Ward, advisor ot International students
Foreign student enrollment has doubled in Ihe last few years
Thorez Institute of Foreign
Languages were the only
undergraduate students from the
Soviet Union scheduled to study in
the U.S. in a direct exchange this
fall." In an article in the September
23 issue of Lhe Albany Student
Press, Shane said thai the Russian
students and their advisor were
scheduled to arrive September 8.
They were scheduled to land in
Montreal because Ihe United States
imposed a ban on the Sovici national airline Aeroflot, afler the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ill
1981. As part of the exchange, nine
SUNY students and Natasha Wolniansky, their advisor, left for
Moscow on September 12 and arrived safely on the 14th.
Laura Petrochko, an official at
SUNY-Ccntral said that Wolniansky sends reports to her through the
American Embassy in Moscow. According to Petrochko, the SUNY
students are enjoying their semester
in the Soviet Union.
"It seems from what we've heard
from Ihe advisor (Wolniansky) the
students are having a normal stay.
The situation (with the Soviet
students) hasn't affected them.
They are going to classes and trips
to Leningrad, Vladimir, and Suzdal. The group will be reluming
between January 7 and January
13," said Petrochko.
According to Shane the Soviet
students will not be able lo come to
SUNYA. this spring because their
schedule requires them to be at the
Thorez Institute for that semester.
Shane did not know if a group of
graduate students from Moscow
State University who arc scheduled
to attend SUNYA this spring, will
be able to come either.
Shane nolcd that this is the firsl
lime that the political relationship
between the United Slates and
another country has affected any of
SUNY's 17 exchange programs with
13 countries including China,
Japan, Germany, Israel, Denmark,
and England.
"We continue to expand our programs. Just this year we added two
universities (one each) in Brazil and
Singapore. Two years ago we tried
lo set up a program in Zimbabwe
but we encountered trasportation
problems," said Shane.
Foreign sludent enrollment at
SUNYA in general has doubled in
Ihe last several years, from 216
students in 1975 10 542 in' 1982,
even (hough no overt recruiting
takes place, said J. Paul Ward, advisor of international students. He
attributes the increase lo the high
quality yet relatively inexpensive
education that SUNYA offers.
"Many students who used to attend universities in England, before
excessive tuition costs were instituted, arc attracted lo SUNYA
because it's cheaper. Foreign
students have filled the gap caused
by a down lurn in graduate enrollment of U.S. students," said Ward.
Foreign students pay the same
tuition that out-of-state students
pay at SUNYA which is $2,650 for
undergraduate and $3,185 for
graduates, said Ward.
According to Shane, American
exchange students pay the tuition of
the college they are attending in
(heir native country. In addition
they ..pay airfare and room and
board at the foreign university they
are attending.
At SUNYA, the foreign students
in general come from 70 different
countries." Most come from Asia,
including 58 from Taiwan, 53 from
Korea, 32 from India, and 28 from
lhe People's Republic of China.
The majority complele their education in the U.S. and obtain a
degree, said Ward.
One Chinese sludent said he is
studying International Economics,
and this major is not available in
China. "The Chinese education
system is too structured and limited
lo allow this type of study'," he
said.
According to Ward, 75 percent of
the foreign students are graduate
students while only 25 percent attend as undergraduates. The most
popular majors among foreign
students include the social sciences,
the physical sciences, public affairs
and education.
Proficiency in English is expected
for foreign students at SUNYA.
Remedial courses are provided for
those who need further work on
their English skills, said Ward.
The Chinese.sludent also said he
feels that the "quality of faculty
here is far superior to faculty from
my native home."
A student from Germany said he
believes that the quality of an
education in his country is equal to
:hat of the United States. "I just
wanted to sec what'this country was
like. I'm more here for the cultural
experience. I'll return to Germany
:o complete my education but my
final career choice may bring me
oack to the United Statcs. Jl
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Lawyer charges that toxic victims
should have more time to file suit
By Ailecn Brown
STMT WRITIR
Asbestos, Ihe drug DES and
hazardous waste dumps were the
topics or a Toxic Victims Forum
sponsored by the New York Public
Interest Research Group Wednesday night. The forum included a
personal injury lawyer, an internal
medidne specialist, and an asbestos
victim. The forum also included a
film entitled "DES-The Timebomb
Drug."
The forum addressed Ihe issue o r
the rights of toxic victims in New
York State. Currently, the law
allows these victims only three years
from the date of their exposure to
the chemicals to sue. "However,
the injuries sustained from these
toxic substances often do not appear until 10, 20 or more years after
sent, in which a breach of duty by
the manufacturer led to the
damages incurred by the toxic victim. In these cases the victims were
denied their right to sue due to the
statute of limitations. She par
ticularly emphasized one case it
which she was involved with:
Steinhardt vs. Johns Manville. In
this case, the plaintiff brought suit
on behalf of her father, an asbestos
worker who had contracted cancer
and died as a result of his exposure
to ihe substance.
"The manufacturers of asbestos
knew as early as the 1930s that
asbestos was dangerous, but they
did not tell the distributors," stated
Toomey. Warnings about its harmfulness were not made known until
Ihe 1960s, she added. -."The
manufacturers had a duty to produce a safe product. Yet when they
t t
We must provide some
legal recourse for these
victims"
—Richard Tyner
exposure," said Marybeth Toomey, breached this duty, the viclims had
a personal injuries lawyer with ex- no recourse in the courts because
perience with asbestos viclims. the disease did not appear until
"The problem is, what happens if more than three years after their exyou ingest a product that has a posure," she noted.
latency period before the damages
Following Toomey, a film entitlappear? These victims have con- ed "DES-The Timebomb Drug"
sistently been denied their-day in was shown. This graphic film,'
court."
which depicted several women who
Toomey illustrated several court had been given DES while pregcases, dating from 1936 to the pre- nant, and their children, was
shown. The film showed several of
these "DES daughters" who had
contracted such illnesses as vaginal
cancer, conception problems and an
increased propensity for miscarriages due to the drug. The film
staled that DES,a symnelic estrogen
(dicthylstildcslrol)- given to many
pregnant
women
between
1941-1971 lo prevent miscarriages,
not only had been shown lo cause
cancer in laboratory animals but
had also been shown lo be ineffective in preventing miscarriages. Yel
doctors continued to prescribe this
"wonder drug" to their patients.
The second speaker was Dr.
Richard Tyner, an internal
medicine specialist. Tyner illustrated the effects of asbestos on
workers, and also some of the
damages which can result from extended exposure to asbestos.
"Asbestos is not a totally bad product," stated Tyner. "It is cheap,
plentiful and a good insulator of
heat, chemicals, electricity and
sound. The potential problem arises
when a ceiling gets wet or damaged,
and Ihe asbestos fibers in the ceiling
arc liberated. This is when the
asbestos which was serving a very
good purpose becomes dangerous,"
he noted.
Tyner ihen described some of the
effects asbestos has on the body.
"The asbestos you ingest now
doesn't show up easily for 10, 20 or
30 years, People who have worked
with asbestos have a five times
greater chance of having an abnormal chest X-ray than the average
person. A non-smoking asbestos
worker has ten limes the chance or
contracting lung cancer, while a
smoking asbestos worker has over a
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Marybeth Toomey, personal Injuries lawyer
Manufacturers have a responsibility to produce a safe product
hundred limes greater chance of even know that I was sick until
contracting this disease. And 95 1978. I was constantly Tailing
percent of all patienis with cancer asleep, coughing and I had trouble
of the lungs die within Iwo years of breathing. It wasn't until I went lo
the diagnosis," he said. "In addi- my third doctor thai ii was even
tion, asbestos workers also have a diagnosed as asbeslosis."
chance of contracting cancer of the
Hamilton, an asbestos worker for
bowel, stomach and larynx. The
36 years, was also presidenl of the
fact is that asbestos docs produce
union at one time, "During llicllmi
diseases, and thai there is a certain
lime lag before the disease appears. in which I was presidenl, we buried
40
men. The average age ol' these
We must provide for some legal
men was 45. The average age an
recourse for these viclims."
asbestos worker lives lo nationally
The forum concluded with Bill is 52-54. I've been lucky. I'm 59
Hamilton, a former asbestos already."
worker who is now a victim of
asbestosis. "I joined the asbestos
Following the speakers, NYPIRG
union in 1945," said Hamilton. project coordinator Paul Merrick
"According to the New York commented on NYPIRG's involvestatute, I would have had to file suit ment in trying to change the siaiuie
for damages in 1948. But I didn't
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plained that the movie presented a dichotomy
of cultures that people in the United States
are unaware of. For most people, Jacobs
The Albany Student Press Corporation, maintained, "there Is no understanding of
the independent publisher of the Albany Stu- , culture besides our own. This type of comdent Press, in an unprecedented move is ex- munication is important."
panding its operators and will start
The magazine will be concerned with interpublishing a new magazine entitled
national affairs, such as human rights, Betz
Worldview within the next two weeks.
noted. "The editors hope to present politics,
culture, and art in ah International perspecThe new publication was the brainstorm of
tive,"
he explained.
the president of Amnesty International,
Brian Jacobs. He said that he wants the
Jacobs emphasized that he wants the
magazine to raise people's consciousness magazine to make people aware of internaabout international events and situations.
tional situations concerning them.
Peereboom, though, said that the magazine
The magazine is going to be run by an
editorial collective, Jacobs added, which con- is "not for everybody." He added that people who are interested in the world situation
sists of himself, former ASP editor-in-chief
Dean Belz, past ASP managing editor Wayne are going to read the magazine. "Hopefully,
Peereboom, former ASP news editor Sue though, people are going to relate to the
Milligan, and former NADIR editor Mike magazine," Peereboom said.
Benson.
Betz noted that the magazine will be good
Jacobs said he was inspired to slarl a for the SUNYA campus, that it will help
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diversify
interests. "This is not an intellecBrian Jacobs, an editor ol the new publication
magazine with an international perspective
after he saw the Turkish film Yol. He ex- tually diversified campus," he explained,
Hopes magazine will raise people's consciousness.
"students don't look outside the campus to
the country, the world, or even the city,"
Betz stressed. He said that he hoped the
magazine will make students realize that,
"there is a world out there."
"Wc have a direct responsibility for what
happens around the world," Jacobs pointed
Chair of the Department of Business Educagested, University President Vincent O'Lcary
out in emphasizing the need to make people
By Jon Willmutt
tion at the University of Georgia.
objected to it. Fcig said it appeared that the
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aware of situations on an international scope.
Dorf objected to Ihe report because he and
President was trying to pressure Ihe council
"People don't understand how interrelated
By an 11-8-1 vote, the Council on Educa- other council members never saw the
members into voting with him. "People are
wc (United States) are with other countries."
tional Policy (EPC) voted to endorse the research. "The only information I have is afraid to go against him (President
Jacobs noted that human rights violatio.
University Administration's proposal to what she (Ramaley) gave me." Feig said thai O'Lcary)" he added.
phase out the undergraduate Business Educa- Dr. Bertha Wakin of the teacher education
The proposed phase out of the around the world eventually result in resentment of the United States. "We have to take
tion program at SUNYA. Under the plan, department, also objected to the report and
undergraduate program will not affect Ihc
responsibility as the superpower we are, in
those currently enrolled and those students thought they could get by without the new
graduate program according to Frank.
human terms," he added.
who have 24 or more credits as of September, equipment and with the present staff.
The business education program is among
Betz, who chairs the ASP Corporation's
1983 would be allowed to complete the proFcig also raised objections to Ihc voting
the oldest at SUNYA dating back 10 when the
Board of Directors, said that Worldview is
gram, which is part of SUNYA's teacher process. He said it was originally an open
University was known 'as the A|bany Teach
now part of the corporation and that the
education department.
ballot but when a closed ballol was suger's College.
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magazine has the right to the ASP's equip"While we arc never happy to see
ment, area, and reputation. He added that
something phased out, something has to go"
the corporation is loaning' Worldview $350 to
said John Hammond, chairperson of the
get off the ground.
Long Range Planning Committee. He stated
Jacobs explained that he approached the
that it was a relatively straightforward deciCorporation's Board of Directors at the sugsion to endorse the phase-out.
gestion of ASP editor-in-chief Mark Gesner.
The reasons for the proposed phase out
Gesncr opposed the idea of the magazine be-'
were budgetary according to Francine Frank
ing Student Association funded because, he
who chaired Ihe EPC.
said, "if funded by SA, they would have
Robert Koff, Dean of the School of
By Jim O'Sulllvan
final say on editorial content and would be
Education said that "Faculty members inand Lisa Queenan
the publisher." Gesner said it is safe to say
volved with the program have been lost over
that the Corporation Board would never try
As the Marines in Lebanon face a holiday season away from home, students are
the years, especially in 1976 when the Univerto censor or prohibit editorial decisions.
showing their support by sending cards and letters to Beirut through the Adopt A
sity was in a time of retrenchment." He cited
Jacobs said he finally decided to go with
Marine program being sponsored by College Republicans and the Republican National
this as part of the budgetary woes that have
the ASP Corporation because he did not
Committee.
brought the program to its end.
want the overhead and censorship that would
"I feci for them, Christmas is a time for family, what they're giving up is a lot," said
Mitch Fcig and Eric Dorf, two of the five
accompany being SA funded. He added that
a student as she filled out a Christmas card for one of the Marines in Beirut.
student members on the EPC both voted
he was surprised and happy at the eagerness
CR President Dave Cohen said the program is designed to show the Marines in
against the endorsement. Dorf said that while
of the corporation to get involved. He praisBerirut, all members of the 22nd and 24th Amphibious Units, the moral and spiritual
Ihe reason was budgetary, he thought the
ed the knowledge and dedication of the
support the American people have for them.
reason was that business education was the
editorial collective, saying, "their knowledge
The Marines were sent 10 Lebanon by
most convenient thing to cut. Fcig slated "I
and
know-how pulled it together and made it
President Reagan originally to oversee the
don't think lliey looked for alternatives.
possible."
evacuation of Ihc Palestine Liberation
They needed a scapegoat quickly."
Gesner praised the introduction of a new
Organization forces in September 1982.
' publication on campus, saying, "it is a difFcig also mentioned thai there were
They, along with troops from France and
ferent kind of publication that will fill a gap.
reasons other than financial difficulties. "It
Italy, are now trying to keep peace among
that present publications arc unable to fill."
didn'l lit in with the university's plans for the
the various factions that are fighting for
He
added that the people putting out the
future," he said.
control of the country.
tublication arc of very high caliber, "and on
Dorf and Feig both elaborated further sayThe organization is being very careful to
hat basis you can be sure it (Worldview) will
ing thai "We (SUNYA) supply 85 percent of
keep the project non-partisan, "we're not
oe of high quality." Gesner said that he was
business education teachers in New York."
taking the Republican stand" on whether
optimistic about the magazine's prospects.
There is an undersupply of business educaor not the soldiers should be in Beirut, said
tion teachers in New York right now and the
Will Kamishlian, vice president of the
Jacobs explained the 20-page pilot issue is
dropping of SUNYA's program will make
organization.
iirimarily for Ihe SUNYA campus but that it
the situation worse according to Dorf and
will
be distributed downlown as well. Jacobs,
Both Cohen and Kamishlian stressed the
Fcig. Koff agreed saying "There is clearly a
and everyone involved, mentioned the
idea that the Adopt A Marine project was
Dave Cohen
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need for this program. It has a long rich
possibility of distributing statewide next
not created to show support for Reagan's foreign policy but for those who had to impletradition and is very significant."
semester, but, Jacobs noted, "there are limits
ment the policies.
as to what to do at this point."
Defending Ihc decision for the phase out,
CR is picking up the cost of the cards, explained Cohen, sitting at a table in the CamFrank said "we decided it is least of—
The magazine, Jacobs said, will not be
pus Center lobby with an assortment of over 25 different cards displayed in front of
priorities."
solely, straight foreign affairs, but will be
him.
balanced with lighter articles on an internaThe decision was based on a report by Vice
Many people were not aware Ihe cards were free and were just passing by the table,
tional scope. "You can be funny and raise
President for Academic Affairs, Judith
Cohen said. "People don't know we're here and that we're doing this."
consciousness,"
he added.
Ramaley. In Ihc report she staled that while
Items will also be collected to be put into care packages for the Marines. Anything
the program is presently outstanding, heavy
The pilot issue will contain writings from
from cigarettes to personal letters or small gifts would be appropriate, Cohen said.
expenditures of funds for new equipment in
several SUNYA professors and students, inThe cards and contributions will be sent to the 22nd and 24th Amphibious Units
the area of word processing and data processcluding political science professor Carl
headquarters' in the United States. The Marines will then ship everything to the soldiers
ing would be required to keep the program
Larkowski and Worldview editor Mike Benn Beirut.
viable. It also stated that the number of
son. Jacobs said that the purpose of the first
An interest meeting was held Wednesday night for the program, and Cohen said over
faculty engaged in Ihe program should be
issue is lo build a base. "It is hard to ap20 people volunteered to sit at Ihe table in the Campus Center lobby December I and 2,
kept constant or enlarged.
proach authors around the world, we have to
or canvass the dinner lines at each quad December 5,
establish
ourselves on an international scope,
Over 75 cards were signed in the first few hours of tabling, Kamishlian said. The goal
Ramalcy's report was based on a review of
we can then approach authors after we are
is to have several hundred cards sent from SUNYA to the Marines.
Ihe Business Education program conducted
established," Jacobs explained.
by Professor James.H. Jackson, Chair of the
"Because I'm a political science student and I'm concerned and thinking about
Department of Business Education at
them," is why sophomore Kai Elkcn decided to send a card. She said she feels sorry for
Gesner supported the magazine and
Virginia Commonwealth University, and
the Marines because they're not going to see their families over the holidays.
O
declared that, "it is clearly the first step in the
Calfrey C. Calhoun, Profesor and former
expansion of the/lSPCorporation."
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S.A. Funded
Senate eyes program elimination
Students send holiday cards
to marines stationed in Beirut
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Berger praises union support of African women For Kim, teaching American history is a calling
By Jane Anderson
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Labor unions have provided support networks for
women workers "in the hostile political and economic environment" of South Africa in recent history, according to
Iris Berger, director of Women's Studies.
Berger spoke for an hour at a lecture Wednesday after- noon entitled "Women' in South Africa: A Historical
Perspective," in the Humanities coffee lounge. She focused
on the labor unions from the industrial revolution to the
present.
Those who attended heard statements obtained from the
women themselves, as well as background South African
information and historical perspectives on the topic, which
included South African women of all races.
"The union and the workplace began to provide a support network" and friendship for the women involved, said
Berger. The unions sponsored such activities as May Day
picnics, celebrations, dances and outings, she explained.
Berger began the lecture with some background statistics
on South Africa and its people. She reported that the
population of the South African countries is made up of
"70 percent black, 20 percent white, and 10 percent colored
people, and the black population owns only 13 percent of
the land."
She asserted that the government was sponsoring a
"deliberate effort to push black peasants off the land,"
and that this was "forced proletarianization" on the part
of the government.
The dominating principle of the South African industries, according to Berger, is obtaining the cheapest
labor.
The labor force in South Africa becomes segmented,
noted Berger, in "every way it can be divided."
Women began to be involved in industry and trade during World War I, said Berger. "There were reports of
women toiling in conditions reminiscent of American
sweatshops" including things like long hours and low pay,
she added.
By the late 1920s, there were few women Involved in industry, she noted. "Women came to the cities to work during the late 1920s" when they were no longer needed on
the farms, and their numbers then began to grow, she explained.
"There was a paternalistic flavor in trade unions during
this time," said Berger. She recounted stories of trade
union leaders approaching the fathers of female workers to
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encourage them to tell their daughters to join the unions.
"Life was generally very difficult for these girls, stressed Berger. "A slogan In a factory told them to 'Work like
hell and still be merry'. It doesn't sound like they were particularly merry," she observed.
According to Berger, the South African government set
up a wages commission which stated that it was "perfectly
alright for women to be earning lower wages than men.
"A slogan in a factory
told them to 'work like
hell and still be merry' "
—Iris Berger
She added that the commission had said, " 'if women
were paid more they wouldn't want to get married.' They
were very interested in keeping women underpaid."
From the late 1930s onwards, there were "several processes of change occuring," she said. "The government
began to separate the races, and the occupation of factory
workers was no longer very appealing" to white women,
elaborated Berger.
The male heads of the unions "spearheaded a movement
to introduce women to trade unions," she said. These
unions did appeal to women workers, according to Berger.
Women in South Africa at this time had great difficulty
in dealing with the conflicting pressures that dealt with
racism, stated Berger. She said that while the union leaders
were calling for non-raeism, their families were calling for
apartheid. "They sometimes behaved in ways which contradicted," she added.
In the 1940s and through the 1950s, there was "huge
passive resistance to apartheid legislation" among factory
workers, said Berger.
The careers of the union leaders ended in the early
1960s continued Berger, due to the South African government's ban on political activity.
Women workers in South Africa today have "little time
off for child bearing and child raising. Their-children are
taken care of by someone else," usually an older female
family member, noted Berger.
"They are very involved in strike activity," she said.
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Women's Studies Director Iris Berger
Conflicting pressures troubled the women.
There are "constant wildcat strikes. The women arc very
rudely treated by supervisors," she added.
Berger declared, "the women of South Africa have a
strong sense of their strength and their Involvement in the
double burden of work and family life. All of (lie women
there said that the women hold the families together."
Berger visited South Africa last summer to conduct an informal study and survey of the women in South Africa.
The hour-long lecture was the last in this semester's
Research on Womcns Colloquium, which is sponsored
jointly by the Women's Studies Program and Ihe University
Seminar Program. The Research on Women Colloquium is
currently in its third year.
Thirteen people attended the talk. This amouni of people
was "a little low," according to Judy Hudson, an
organizer of the program and a worker at the Library. This
could be due to "the busy time in the semester," she
said.
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Kim obtained his master's from the
University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. from
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STAFF WHITER
A total reorganization of the social order
in America is the main goal of the political
left in 1984, according to Jeremy Karpatkin,
the Democratic Socialists of America's
(DSA) National Youth Organizer.
Karpatkin spoke at SUNYA Tuesday, Qn
the topic "The Left and the 1984 Elections"
to a small crowd of students.
In addition to reorganization, the Socialist
party's goals include a wide ranging attempt
to bring new voters into the spectrum, since
too many Americans don't vote, noted Kar-
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patkin. The Socialists then must start campaigning in the Democratic party in a broad
sense, because, "it is impossible to start a
third party seriously," said Karpatkin.
"Americans vote for a thrid party candidate
as a joke, a luxury," he added.
A massive reform movement is needed in
the American economy, stated Karpatkin.
The new socialists are concerned with the
'minorities — feminists, blacks, hispanics —
and are working toward equality of opportunity in America, according to Karpatkin.
Once the public is educated, he added,
people will realize that the Democratic Left
would fight for the people. Re-
industrialization is vital, stated Karpatkin,
since corporate decision makers are now
maximizing their private profits and subsequently destroying individual jobs and communities. These are the unworkable politics
of Reagan, stated Karpatkin, who added that
"the best concept of social justice now is to
do away with Ronald Reagan."
Instead, there must be a candidate who will
take the rich Americans off of welfare,
restore the social programs that have been
cut, and aid minorities who are now directly
threatened by the economic cutbacks imposed by Reagan, he added.
Presently there are not any candidates
News Updates
Student Association is appealing a
lawsuit in which they charged the City of
Albany with gerrymandering and with
changing a voting district's boundaries after
Ihe legal date to do so. SA lost the suit on
October 21,
Rich Schaffer, SA President, said that
SA attorney Mark Mishler filed a "notice
of appeal" on Monday, Nov. 28 in New
York State Court of Appeals. The case '
should be heard sometime after January I,
1984, he said.
The appeal names the Albany County
Board or Elections, the City of Albany
Common Council, and Albany City Mayor
Thomas Whalen III as defendants.
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History Department Chairperson Sung Bok Kim
"By and large I enjoy teaching and take this as. ..a serious responsibility."
cidcnls in history — only reasons," he said.
and large I enjoy teaching and take this as a
Kim's patriotism is quite evident. He says
serious responsibility. I'm not there because I
that the U.S. is the most free country in the
have to be but because 1 want to be," Kim
history of the Western World. "We must resaid.
mind ourselves it is wonderful despite all its
In 1960, he translated the Federalist Papers
problems because there is no place like this in
from English to Korean. His second book,
the world," he commented. As a historian
Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York,
Kim said he realizes that nothing is permawas published in 1978 and has won several
nent.
However, he feels it is important to
prizes. In 1979, it won an award from the
keep the American Constitution vital and not
Society of Colonial Wars.
take our civil liberties for granted.
Kim looks upon teaching as a calling. ProKim is married and has a daughter and
fessors, he said, transmit their learning to a
twin sons. His passing interests have been
new generation of students who will hopefulfishing, classical music and baseball. Him
ly improve upon it and pass it to the next
main hobby at present is antique collecting.
generation. "History is not inconsequential
"Everyone needs hobbies because they proor immaterial as many people think. It is imvide distractions from the everyday pressures
possible to understand the present without
of life," he said.
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knowing about the past. There are no ac-
Karpatkin outlines Socialist Party goals for '84
By Christine Reffelt
"University Cinemas"
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Sung Bok Kim might have led an affluent
life commanding his family's business, but he
opted, instead, to turn his future to history.
Kim, chairman of the history department
at SUNYA, is an accomplished author and
teacher. He is a singular case because he is the
only Korean to ever have gotten a Ph.D. in
American history. His charismatic lectures
earned him both the
presidential award and r N d d V
chancellor's award for excellence in teaching in 1983. rTOf JIG
Kim was the eldest son of
a wealthy Korean, family. "My childhood
was pampered and I was blessed with all the
goodies and amenities of a well-to-do
family," recalls Kim. Kim came from an
atypical Korean farnily. All the children were
college educated and Kim himself went to
Seoul National University to study history.
Because of his interest in history Kim gave
up the family business, which was legally his
under Korean law. Kim's father claimed that
this would doom him to poverty. But Kim
said, "1 have always been intellectually inclined and committed to a life of gentlemanly
scholarship. To me my fortune was immaterial as compared to my desire to pursue
my learning in history."
In I960, Kim emmigrated to the United
States to study American history. "I was not
Ihe typical immigrant who comes to the U.S.
because he is hungry or wants a belter life,"
said Kim. At this time Korea was trying to
build its foundations as a unjfied nation.
When Kim first came to this country he had
no intention of staying in the U.S. permanently. Kim commented, " I was a
politically-minded youth who came to study
early American history as a model and inspiration for my own country." He planned
to return to Korea as a politician, helping to
rebuild his country by utilizing the information he had gained from early American
history.
Michigan State. As time went on, Kim
became less political because he said he
realized that a Korean individual could do little to actually organize Korea with the superpowers externally influencing the country.
Another reason Kim remained in the U.S.
was because it was most beneficial to pursuing his interest in American history. In addition, Kim said, "After 16 years in this country I began to identify more with this country
than with Korea. My marriage to an
American woman also influenced my decision to stay in the U.S."
His crazy passion for American history
served as a vehicle for Kim's Americanization. Kim applied for citizenship in 1976,
after spending 16 years in the U.S. "This
conversion is an emotional process in which
you almost form a new identity. Citizenship
is not applied for merely because you like the
country, it's a big adjustment," remarked
Kim.
The first 16 years were filled with tensions,
anxieties and frustrations for Kim. "Every
inch of the way was a struggle. I had to work
very hard and nothing came easy," Kim said.
However, Kim remarked that this country
has been very kind and hospitable. "I doubt
that the Korean people would be so openminded to a minority member within their
society," he said.
Kim first taught at American International, a liberal arts college in Springfield,
Massachusetts, for four years. He then
taught for three years at William and Mary
and for two years at the University of Illinois.
He came to SUNYA in 1973 and said he has
seen a great deal of change in SUNYA in the
past (en years. "Although there has begn
great budgetary reductions, the professors,
administrators and students have all improved. Scarcity has forced the quality of
SUNYA's education to go up," said Kim.
Kim teaches American colonial history,
Americtn revolution and American history
survey
to
both
graduates
and
undergraduates. He has won numerous
teaching awards, perhaps because he is getting paid for something he loves to do. "By
The Alcohol Policy Task Force has not
met the Dec. 1 deadline the committee set
for itself in creating a new alcohol policy
for the SUNYA campuses.
Dean of Student Affairs Neil Brown,
who serves as chair of the task force explained that the committee was not actually
late because Student Affairs Vice President
Frank Pogue had charged the committee
only with having the policy finished by the
end of the fall 1983 semester.
Student Association Vice President Jeff
Schneider, a member of the task force, said
several details had required more time than
anticipated to work through, but that the
policy would be ready within a few weeks.
There is no word as to what issues
specifically are being addressed by the task
force. At the first meeting at the beginning
of the semester all members of Ihe committee decided to close the meetings to the
public, and not issue any public statements.
Grad union possible
A union for graduate student employees
of SUNY has not yet been officially
recognized by New York State because a
review must still be made by the state Public
Employees Relations Board (PERB) and
then the entire graduate student population
must vote on the issue.
According to Bill Biaso, Statewide
Secretary for the Graduate Student
Employees Union, almost 40 percent of the
graduate students at SUNYA signed "cards
of intent" saying they would join a union.
In order for PERB to consider a union request at least 30 percent must show interest.
Biaso said the organization would represent graduate students at SUNY's four
University centers: Albany, Binghamton,
Buffalo, and Stony Brook. He also said affiliation talks with larger public employee
unions were under way.
Directory still absent
The 1983-84 University Directory has not
been distributed yet, despite an expected
Nov. 22 delivery date.
The Nov. 22 date was still two and a half
weeks behind schedule, which Vice President for University Affairs Sorrell Chesin,
the chair of the Student Directory Committee, attributed to a variety of factors.
When reached at his house early Thurs-,
day evening Chesin would not comment on
the further delay nor speculate when the
directory would be ready.
entered in the 1984 elections who have taken
a strong enough stand on these liberal issues,
said Karpatkin. Jesse Jackson is "the only
exciting contender in the 1984 elections,"
said Karpatkin, "because he will be leading
new voters like blacks and hispanics into the
spectrum."
Mondale, on the the other hand, while professing to implement programs to deal with
the poor, "has not taken a strong enough
stand on the issue due to corporate backing,"
Karpatkin asserted. With Reagan, "the corporations and the rich win, and everyone else
loses, he added.
The DSA then, has not backed any
political candidate. Instead, said Karpatkin,
"we will continue to change the thought of
the majority of Americans. It is possible to
eventually make people more aware through
political activities. More Americans will join
the party once they realize that victories can
be won and things can be done to change the
injustice in politics today," he added.
However, such a change would take a long
time Karpatkin acknowledged. "But," he
added, "we arc committed to tell Americans
that we are right, and will fight for however
long it takes to convince people. Decisions in
the economy must be public, not private in
order for justice to occur," he maintained.
"We must then expand democracy and do
away with capitalism in order to achieve
this," he added.
Student members are needed in Albany,
said Karpatkin. However, only 15 students
were present at the DSA meeting, a figure
that seems to show apathy, according to
senior John Baum. "There is a lot to be
.aid," he explained, "but it was not well
publicized. The poor turn-out stems fiom
Undents who are afraid to be labeled
socialists," he added.
Bruce Miroff, a professor in the Political
Science Department, said that it is hard to
organize a party due to the apathy on campus. "The meeting is a good beginning"
Miroff SPM, "and with more awareness more
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Tierney pointed out that Dietrich
also serves as a city council membet
in Cobleskill, and that the city has
recently been having some
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They didn't explain anything to
us." He also said that although slot
of students don't think it's very
/'fair, the incident did not bother him
•' very much.
Student Government President
Krislen Peck said, "The students
were quite upset," but would "sit
tight" until the investigation of the
incident by SUNY central was completed. She added, "the students
are defini-tly concerned, but it's a
pretty mellow school, and everyone
keeps their cool."
Brown praised students and slaff
in his memo, staling, "Wc can all
be proud of the Cobleskill students,
R.A.'s and residence hall directors
who maintained calm under
sometimes very stressful and
threatening situations in dormitories that nighl. The fact thai
students and staff 'kept their cool'
probably prevented stronger actions
by the State Police."
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By Susan Bloodworth
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Fifty-percent student representation on the governing boards of
SUNY faculty-student associations,
or auxiliary services, is a growing
concern at many campuses — some
have it, some don't, and all seem to
want it.
Bylaw changes at SUC Pittsburgh were recently approved, increasing student representation to
fifty percent on the board of directors of the College Auxiliary Service (CAS).
The Plattsburgh CAS board,
formerly with 14 seats, eight
faculty/administration and six
students, now has 16 seats — eight
students and eight staff. At the
same September 29 meeting, the
board's executive committee was increased by one student seat, enlarging the membership to four students
and four non-students.
SUNY Central must approve the
changes, and Pittsburgh's vice
president for student affairs,
Eldridge Roark, does not anticipate
any problems. Of the increased
seating, Roark said that "student
interests must be served, and equal
This action makes Plattsburgh representation is the way to do it."
the seventh SUNY campus to have
A bill which would mandate fifty
fifty percent student representation, percent student representation on
on such a board through bylaw auxiliary boards is now pending in
changes, joining SUNY at Albany, the state Senate Committee on
Stony Brook and Buffalo; and Col- Higher Education. It has already
leges at Fredonia, New Paltz and passed the state Assembly.
Oswego.
At SUNY Binghamton, Auxiliary
Auxiliary corporations such as
CAS provide food and vending ser- Campus Enterprises (ACE) is dealing
with "the biggest issue that
vices, operate book stores and other
ACE has ever confronted in terms
services.
of student rights," according to
SUNY board of trustee guidelines Student Association President John
provide for student constituencies Cahill.
to have no less than one-third
The current ACE structure has
representation and no more than two levels, a board of directors and
fifty percent. Students at various membership. Membership is
campuses have been pushing for the responsible for setting bylaws and
50 percent mark, arguing that they policies and for reviewing financial
make up the vast majority of the operations. The board is responsimembership of these corporations ble for implementing policy and
and should therefore have more in- supervising ACE management.
put on food prices, other operaPresently, after being tabled
tional costs and overall corporate twice, two student sponsored bylaw
policy.
amendments are pending considera-
tion. One would eliminate the executive director's seat from the
board and add a student and alumnus seat. This would Increase board
seats from nine to ten and give
students fifty percent representation on the board.
Another proposed bylaw will increase student membership seats
from. 10-15, eliminate the executive student monies," Cahill said, "we
director's seat and add one alumnus feel that students have a right to fifseat. The current membership con- ty percent control on ACE."
sists of 10 students and nine faculty
According to SASU President for
and administrative seats. The bylaw Campus Affairs Eric Wilson,
change would give students IS seats Potsdam student government ofand non-students 10. >x
. ficials are planning to seek fifty per"Because 80 to 90 percent of cent representation on their auxACE's revenues are derived from iliary services in the near future. Q
Rape victim sues for $500,000
(CPS) Lawyers for a woman raped
in a college dorm in 1976 went back
to court last week to try to make the
college itself pay her damages for
the incident.
Madelyn Miller allegedly was
raped in a dorm at the State University of New York-Stony Brook in
1976, an incident she claims would
not have happened if the university
had kept her dorm's doors locked,
according to Martin Rubinstein, her
lawyer.
Rubinstein filed an appeal of the
case in a New York State court last
week. In September, a lower court
ruled the university hadn't been
negligent in leaving the doors
unlocked. Still earlier, another
court had held the school liable,
and awarded Miller $25,000 in
damages.
The case could help make all colleges responsible for certain violent
crimes that occur on their campuses, suggests Leonard Territo, a
criminologist at the University of
South Florida.
Territo said colleges themselves
have been held liable in such cases
"more and more in the last six or
seven years."
Courts have blamed rapes on colleges recently because the schools
didn't accurately train their security
officers, because they scheduled
night classes in isolated areas that
"leave females in a highlyvulnerable position," because they
failed to redeploy police to highcrime campus areas, or because
they left employees working alone
at night in unlocked buildings, Territo said.
When the courts do blame the
schools, they usually make the colleges pay damages to the students.
For example, the Hastings Law
Center in San Francisco paid
damages of $215,000 in 1980 to a
student raped in a women's
restroom. Catholic University in
Washington, D.C. paid damages of
$20,000 in 1976 to a student raped
on its campus.
In New York, Miller originally
asked for damages of $500,000.
When the Court of Claims gave her
only $25,000, lawyer Rubinstein appealed. But an appellate court in
September cancelled the award, and
ruled the university wasn't responsible for the unsafe conditions.
But the dorm, Rubinstein says,
"has quite a number of entrances
and exits, and they were never kept
locked. It was a kind of dimly-Ut
place, and was an easy place to
enter and exit."
In all, it was "something of a
magnet for criminal intrusion," he
maintains.
Knowing that, Stony Brook
should have kept its dorm doors
locked, he concludes. Landlords,
whether private or public, should be
"expected to have (the building)
properly secured."
New York Assistant Attorney
General Jeremiah Jochnowitz, who
represented the university, argued
instead that Miller could not sue the
state because of the legal doctrine
of "sovereign immunity."
The concept, according to
Rubenstein, effectively prohibits
people from suing governments
over certain governmental actions.
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"From the beginning they (the
missiles) were political weapons"
rather than military weapons,"
asserted Kaplan. "Their deployment was a purely political decision. From the beginning it was
clear that there might be trouble
ahead" if the missiles were
deployed, he continued.
"Even a limited nuclear war
would be a total nuclear war to
Europe," said Kaplan, because
"the war would be fought on their
territory." Since the Pershing II
and Cruise missiles were planned,
"there has been a large peace movement in Europe," noted Kaplan.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union
have strategic parity, according to
Kaplan. "If (either the U.S. or the
Soviets) develop superiority in the
European theatre they would have
political leverage," said Kaplan.
The reason the missiles were
planned in the first place, according
to Kaplan, was to unify NATO and
"to form a common front in the
eyes of the Soviets." Instead, he
contended, the missiles being
deployed in Europe " are wreaking
havoc with the NATO alliance."
In the summer of 1977, said
Kaplan, just after Carter had
assumed the presidency, the SALT
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Missiles were politically based.
"These nuclear weapons are an
irrational show," said Clayton
Powers, a- political science major
who attended the lecture. "They
arc militarily useless — governments use them to show how tough
they (governments) are."
Peter Cocks, SUNY Political
Science professor, agreed with
Kaplan's views on the missiles.
"He covered the topic very well,"
said Cocks. "Americans think of
the technical aspects. He linked the
political issues with the technical.
The political issues are less talked
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students to write letters to state
politicians, opposing an increase in
the drinking age.
According to Gawlcy, a student
who writes a letter will be given a
coupon which can be used at bars to
purchase drinks.
He cited a successful program of
bar owner-student government
cooperation at Stony Brook in explaining his proposal.
Neil Shapiro, Internal Affairs
chair, said that his committee was
considering some proposed con- I
stitutional changes.
"The constitution hasn't been
amended in three or four years. It's
very out of date," he explained.
One of the ideas under consideration, he said, is to change the
number of votes Council needs in
order to override a veto by the SA
President. A majority is needed/in.
the present constitution, but the
committee may suggest a threefifths vote, he said. An amendment
calling for two-thirds of council to
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" W i l l the U . S . use t h e
Euromissiles in response to a European invasion knowing' that the
Soviets would strike back at the
U.S.?" he asked.
II talks were being held. Chancellor
"For one year Reagan said
Schmidt of West Germany was con- nothing about arms control," said
"If a nuclear war started it is a
cerned that Carter might "bargain Kaplan. " H e then offered a patent- very high likelihood that it would
away" the possible Germany-based ly ridiculous Idea. No one expected get out of control," asserted
missiles, according to Kaplan.
the Soviets to accept it, it was Kaplan. "The question 'how would
"Schmidt was sending signals to designed to be rejected," he con- this war end?' has not been
' answered, and not for lack of askCarter not to ignore Europe," said tended.
Kaplan. There was a growing fear in
"The Soviets said over and over ing. To limit a nuclear war is almost
Europe due to the latest Soviet that they would walk out" of pie impossible, and the consequences
deployments of nuclear weapons.
medium-range missile talk!, in would be far beyond those shown in
The Day After". Kaplan maintainKaplan said that Carter finally let Geneva if the deployment of Cruise
• the Germans know that "if they and Pershing missiles went through, ed.
wanted the missiles they would have said Kaplan, "ft would look'bad if
The problem of arms control, acto ask for them." "We had to send they hadn't," he contended.
cording to Kaplan, lies in the
a signal to the Soviets that NATO
perceptions
that the Soviets and the
"The Soviets don't feel Incentive
could take a united stand on nuclear to negotiate seriously because they
U.S. have of each others weapon
weapons."
don't feel all missiles will be capabilities. Each of the two countries then builds up arsenals to
deployed," contended Kaplan.
"The people in the Pentagon
match what they perceive the
knew it was a bad idea" to plan the "Only about 12 of the missiles have
others' arsenal to be, he explained.
deployment of the missiles in the' teen deployed so far," he noted,
first place, asserted Kaplan. If. ml of the 108 Pershing missiles and
"Perceptions have hardened in
Reagan really had wanted to stop .he 464 Cruise missiles planned.
past years," stressed Kaplan. "The
the plans, he could have done so,
Soviets have given up on Reagan. If
"The Soviet Union can afford to
Kaplan said.
a new administration comes in it
stay out of the negotiations for a
might be possible to do something"
Assistant Secretary of Defense while," contended Kaplan.
pertaining to arms control, Kaplan
Richard Perle said that "the deci"It's a political trap that we
explained.
sion had been a terrible mistake," made and stepped in," said Kaplan.
according to Kaplan.
He maintained that the U.S. knew
"These perceptions must be
Kaplan added that negotiations "When it came time for deployment
changed," said Kaplan. "The
for arms control will only resume tnere would be problems."
military can be adjusted downward
seriously when a new presidential
The Reagan administration has
if this occurs."
administration begins. Reagan, he made suggestions that a "limited
"The world doesn't necessarily
contends, did not work on arms nuclear war" is possible, acording
begin a new era just because the
control with any serious intention to Kaplan. He said he believes that
first Pershing II missiles are in
of making agreements.
place," said Kaplan.
f this would be impossible.
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SA President Rich Schaffcr announced that a Graduate and Parttime Activity Fee Task Force, had
been established. He said it will
begin work next semester. Student
representation on the committee
consists of four undergraduates,
three part-time students and one
student from | each of SUNYA's
graduate schools, Schaffcr said. V
Maureen Ryan, chair of t h e .
Graduate and Part-time Fee Committee said that the committee was
considering proposals to represent
those students on council should
they be charged an activity fee in
the future.
Presently council consists only of
undergraduates.
Schaffer introduced the members
of the newly formed Budget Committee. He said that the committee
was formed at an especially early
date, so that its members could
have more time to study SA's financial situation.
The only resolution passed was
one that wished a " h a p p y
birthday" to Vice President of
Finance and Business John Harigan.lt passed 25-1-2.
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Solomon law causes few students to lose aid
(CPS) "Very few" students actually
have lost federal financial aid
because of the new law requiring
men to register for the draft in
order to get college money, aid officials around the country report.
The new law, usually called the
Solomon Amendment after law
author Rep. Gerald Solomon
(R-NY), went into effect October 1
i after months of delay.
Most students apparently already
registered before the law went into
effect, the officials said. The
number of students now left
without federal aid apparently is
very small.
Two Iowa State students, for example, refused to sign their compliance forms; the papers swearing
to the aid office that they've
registered; and lost aid, says aid
Director Jerry Sullivan.
Other srhools report "a few"
students v>!.o purposefully have
refused to sign the form have disqualified themselves from receiving
aid.
But even those students may be
getting aid from their schools.
Because of the numerous delays
and false starts in getting the law into effect, "it's no wonder we still
have a few students who haven't
signed," says Jack Shechan, Boston
University's financial assistance
director.
Boston was one of the few
schools to support the draft/aid law
initially. BU President John Silber
even announced he'd deny BU's
own aid funds to students who
didn't register.
"But at this point, due to the
lateness of getting Ihe thing into effect, we are not denying our institutional funds (to non-registrants),"
Shechan says.
However, "very few" students
didn't sign the compliance forms.
"There have been some" who
haven't signed at Yale, either, adds
Jackueline
Foster,
Yale's
undergraduate aid director.
But, "we are making Yale funds
available to them to meet their
financial needs," she adds.
There may not be many students
left to register nationwide anyway
points out Selective Service
spokeswoman Betty Alexander.
"Let's face it," Alexander suggests, "we do have a registration
rate of 98.6' percent, and the
number of those (who haven't yet
registered) who are in college, and
then who need financial aid, is very
small."
If the amendment was designed
to stampede the few last-minute
registrants into the fold, it hasn't
worked.
She says there has been no increase in the number of registrants
nationwide since the Solomon
Amendment went into effect.
So far, the government has indicted 16 people across the country
for failing to register. There'd be
more, Alexander said, "bu< many
people who haven't signed up are
veterans and students who are also
in the National Guard and don't
realize that, unless they're on active
military duty, everyone over 18
years of age (beginning with
students born from 1964 on) must
register."
Aid directors take much of the
credit for getting the vast majority
of students signed up before the
deadline, which had been pushed
back repeatedly.
After being signed into law in
September, 1982, the Solomon
Amendment originally was to go into effect July 1. Federal Judge
Donald Alsop, however, declared
the law unconstitutional last spring.
The government appealed
Alsop's decision, and convinced the
U.S. Supreme Court to lift Alsop's
injunction against enforcing the
law, at least until the Supreme
Court could hear arguments in the
case later this year.
The U.S. Department of Education, which is responsible for enforcing all financial aid laws, reacted
by making the new effective date of
the law August 1. But campus aid
officials' complaints convinced the
department to move the law
deadline back to September 1. The
department, then concerned that
students away over the summer
might not have heard about the new
deadline, extended it once again to
October 1.
"Most of our students were first
alerted last spring about the Solomn
A m e n d m e n t , " said Boston's
Shcehan. "But then we had to drop
it. Then we had to gear it up again.
Then we waited to see what was
next."
"We started telling all our
students to fill out the forms right
after the Supreme Court lifted the
injunction," recalls Yale's Foster.
There was little left to do by October 1. "It really has become kind
of a non-issue," observes Dennis
Martin of the National Association
of Student Financial Aid -Administrators in Washington, D.C.
"There was so much fuss over it
and so many changes and so many
delays that all the trouble just kind
of went away since It was implemented," adds Education Dept.
spokesman Ducan Helmrich.
"We haven't encountered any
major problems or uprisings since
the Supreme Court lifted the injunction," he says.
Indeed, except for'some minor
protests' on a few campuses;/
Oregon, Lane County Community,
College (also in Oregon), West
Virginia, Columbia, and Hamilton
among them; the compliance date
equipped to bear.''
Avoiding the charge of verifying
registration, Martin said, "is the
. next step we'll be working on."
Gail Suchman, the attorney in the
Supreme Court case claiming the
law is unconstitutional, is confident
it won't come to that. "We're
hopeful the court will find it unconstitutional."
She said the court will hear
In 1985, schools themselves will arguments "sometime in February,
be responsible for policing students, which means we'll probably get a
a burden they protest they aren't decision sometime in May."
passed almost without notice.
But resentment still smolders,
especially among aid directors.
'What we're doing is enforcing a.
law against those people who have
to have financial aid," said Iowa
State's Sullivan.
"Congress," adds Yale President
A. Bartlett Giamatti, "has linked
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EDITORIAL
The Bog Bites
T
wo days ago, Greyhound announced it was going to
attempt to resume full service in spite of the fact
that its drivers are still on strike.
Greyhound drivers rejected a paycut that the company
tried to force down their throats. As Christmas approaches,
these striking workers face the threat the air controllers faced two and a half years ago — having their jobs obliterated
and their cause discredited and forgotten.
At SUNYA, the teacher's union and the Student
Association are working to make sure that doesn't happen.
At a press conference just before Thanksgiving, SA
President Rich Schaffer announced that SA would discontinue selling Greyhound tickets until workers return to
work with a fair contract. Schaffer is absolutely right when he says that the struggle
of Greyhound workers is the struggle of students. Students
are in fact the emerging workers and it is in their interest to
fight arbitrary corporate power.
Greyhound is not in financial trouble. On the contrary, it'
has sizeable profit margins. But other, more specialized bus
companies have been selling tickets for less.
Faced with the options of reducing Us huge profits or cut-
ting the wages of its workers In order to bring its rates in
line -with industry rates, Greyhound did the expected: It
tried to force wage cuts on its workers.
The much heralded economic recovery is now rolling
along. Ronald Reagan and his laissez faire henchmen promised a larger share of the economic pie for everyone. Apparently, the recovery is-not being shared by Greyhound
workers and other workers like those at Chrysler, who also
recently struck.
Still, the sentiment abounds, encouraged and affirmed
bv the spokesmen for corporate power who run our country, that workers and unions are obstructionist, dragging
honest businessmen down with greedy demands.
Ironically, this view exists in the working class itself,
which has been duped into believing Reagan represents
their interests.
Greyhound workers negotiated their wages fairly, and in
a time of supposed economic expansion they certainly
deserve to reap whatever reward they can get.
The myth of greedy workers harming the economy and
consumer interests must be broken. Any rational examination would reveal that corporate power — and salaries —
COLUMN
are predeominant.
SA, with its* enlightened stand in solidarity with the
Greyhound drivers, has taken an important step against
further domination of our society by the forces which now
control it.
As the holidays approach, we urge SUNYA students to
remember the plight of the Greyhound workers and their
families.
Students should boycott Greyhound until it achieves a
fair settlement with its workers.
Gobble, Gobble
B
oo. One boo to Residential Life and one boo to the
rest of our fearless administration leaders for their
planning this past Thanksgiving vacation.
You see, the good ol' guys and gals over at residence
locked the dorms at 3:00 p.m., while the last classes ended
at 3:35 p.m.
Most students were long gone by 5:00. But those few intrepid stalwarts that stayed were faced with a proposition
that was nothing to be thankful for. With locked dorms,
they had to carry their belongings on their backs, like
pilgrims, as they affirmed the right to attend all their
classes.
We surmise that in this p.'-'icular case, the birds people
went home to weren't the only turkeys around.
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Reform is a political fraud
Election Day, Nov. 2, 1983, in South Africa ended with
an all-white electorate representing 2.7 million eligible
voters giving Prime Minister P.W. Botha a mandate to
create a three chamber legislature changing the all-white
Parliament into a three-tier one which will include the
representatives of the two and one-half million so-called
Coloureds (people of mixed race descent) and those of the
one-half million Indians (people of Asian descent).
Bojana Jordan
As in the past, no provision was made for the 26 million
Black African majority population. Both the Coloureds
and Indian were not "there" in the voting booths to say
whether or not they wanted to be in the three-chamber
legislature. This very "limited sharing of power" with their
white bosses was decided for them without their having the
right to vote. However, it is a well-known fact that over 80
percent of the Coloureds and Indians on whom this "shar. ing" is being forced have gathered in large numbers at
meetings to express opposition to it. The few leaders of the
Coloured such as Allan Hendrickse who favoured the plan
have been totally isolated by their people. Before the elections, Hedrickse, who favored the plan
could not hold any meetings anywhere in the country for
fear of being pelted with stones wielded by Coloured people
who opposed the plan for the new Parliament. Most of this
opposition was due to the exclusion of the black majority
population from participation in the new tri-cameral
Parliament. Also, many could see that this is no change
from the compartmentalized pattern of society called apartheid in South Africa.
What are these constitutional proposals and what do they
set out to accomplish? The Constitutional proposals, officially called the "Republic of South Africa Constitution
Bill" provide.for a "tri-racial", three-chamber Parliament
consisting of a 178 member House of Representatives for
Whites; an 83 member House of Representatives for socalled Coloureds and a 45 member House of Representatives for people of Indian origin. Voting on separate
voters' roll, Whites, so-called Coloureds and people of Indian origin will elect members of Parliament to serve in
three separate houses of Parliament. Each house will make
laws in regard to its "own affairs" within that population
group. Together the Whites, Coloureds, and Indians currently account for 7.8 million or 27 percent of South
Africa's total population. Looking carefully at the,4:2:1
ratio (White, Coloured, Indian) worked out by the racist
rules of South Africa, it becomes quite evident that all effective power will lie in :he hands of the current white \
minority. Let us note here that the most significant and
often not cited edge to this plan is the exclusion altogether
of the majority black Africans in this new racist game. The
totally old "divide and rule" policy of the South African
racists here again comes into play. The underdogs must be
made to fight over the crumbs by having the Coloureds bettet represented than Indians, and the Indians better
represented than Africans who are not even in the Parliament at all. It is expected by the white controllers that these
underlings will be so busy fighting each other over the
crumbs of who has "better representation" that the racists
will be able to get an with their busincss-as-usual of implementing repression through apartheid more vehemently
than ever before.
The whole concept of apartheid, which has been universally condemned as a crime against humanity is based on
conscious balkanization of. South Africa. The
"homelands" were set up to enhance tribalism amongst
Africans, to further accentuate differences among Zulu,
Xhosa, and Sotho. Now it will become even more
disastrous in the revival of ethnicity and tribalism by pitting
Coloured and Indians and Blacks, each against the other,
with the white "master" on top.
In return for their place in Parliament, the Bill specifies
that the Coloureds and Indians will henceforth be obliged
to join the army through the draft or conscription. Prior to'
this the South African army has been an all-white affair.
This has placed too much of a strain on the small population of white youth whom the rulers would like to relieve
and send to college. So we do know the enrollment of nonwhites into the army is another motivation for "sharing
power."
The term "sharing power" is another false, sadistic
designation similar to "homeland." Prime Minister
Botha's aid, when questioned recently about the new proposals, admitted this when he flatly stated, "It is necessary
for the balance of power to remain in the hands of the.
Whites. Let us get away from the myth that we are dealing
with power sharing here." Actually the proposals bestow
almost dictatorial powers on the President who will be a
white person from the ruling Afrikaaner Nationalist Party.
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Hi will be elected by an electoral college comprising 88
members: 50 Whites, 25 so-called Coloureds, and 13
Asians. The Whites in the electoral college thus outnumber
the "Browns" by 30 percent thus ensuring the Stae President will always be White and from the majority white party. His powers and authority include the right:
a. to appoint any number of Cabinet Ministers and Deputy
Ministers and to preside over the Cabinet.
b. to dissolve parliament or any House of Parliament.
c. to proclaim or terminate martial law.
d. to declare war and make peace.
e. to decide what "own affairs" of a particular population
group are. '
f. to dictate to the Houses of Parliament what legislation
they may or may not discuss.
g. to remove or transfer people in the service of the state.
h. to control the administration of any or all Black affairs.
In addition to these and other far-reaching powers, the
State President will be in control of all revenues of the
Republic.
When the results of the November 2 elections were announced, showing acceptance by white voters of the tripartite plan, Prime Minister Botha who will undoubtedly be
the first President of the new order said when questioned
about the position of Blacks, "The government now feels
strengthened to go ahead with proper and evolutionary
reform for South Africa...There is no hidden agenda."
"Hidden agenda" referred to the inclusion in the country's
government of the 26 million Blacks living within South
Africa's traditional borders.
Many Americans have been deceived by reports that the
tripartite Parliament was a step toward equality for all in
South Africa. The Reagan Administaton praised these constitutional proposals as "contributing to a better
understanding" for its "constructive engagement" policy
towards South Africa.
Black leaders at home and abroad were in unison in
describing this as "just another political fraud." Dr.
Nthato Motlana of Sowelo, a people's leader said, "The
long-term view is not change, absolutely no change." He
emphasized that this new constitution would cause further
bitterness and resentment among millions of Blacks who
feel "denationalized" by the whole manuveur. Black
groups themselves united to protest the Parliament. Two
newly formed groups, both multi-racial, the United
Democratic Front and the National Forum, attracted
thousands if not millions of people who categorically rejected the tri-racial Parliament. Even leaders of the
government-created Bantustans or homelands like Chiel
Kaizer Matanzama, president of the Transkei, condemned
jthe tripartite Parliament. Gatsha Buthclezi, chief minister
of KwaZulu Homeland, said the new Parliament was "a
dangerous and lethal trap" with the Coloureds serving as
"the bait."
As a South African exile, keenly interested in
developments at home, I interviewed here in the Northeast
scores of Africans, so-called Coloureds, and Indians from
South Africa during the last three weeks. These, too, were
in unison in their adamant condemnation of ths latest
political fraud. The question in many minds is: Will this
"power-sharing" lead more quickly to revolution than lt>
reform?
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DECEMBER 2, 19fc3«
•DECEMBER 2, 198J
Mm ASPECTS!
— Opening Act"
Hardcore Tendencies
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A
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is the debut album by Suicidal
Tendencies. This hardcore group
consists of Mike Muir on vocals, Grant Estes
on guitar, Amery Smith on drums, and
Louiche Mayorga on bass. Their current
single, "Institutionalized", has been receiving
heavy airplay on W C O B .
Gail's Guide to Christmas Shopping:
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And in keeping with their controversial image, they've incensed
adoption agencies who are concerned that because of the Cabbage
Patch Dolls, kids will learn to equate adopted children with
vegetables. While obtaining this gift requires great skill and agility,
I'm sure that it will be the shining star of everyone's holiday.
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4) Guy Lombardo may no longer be with us to ring in the holiday
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first indications anyone ever had that Guy. was beginning to slip.
Mr. New Years Eve and you — "The Sweetest Music This Side of
Heaven."
Vinyl Views The inimitable Johnny Mel enjoys his experiences with
Suicidal Tendencies and their new album. Ben Gordon follows
Bob Dylan's religious history and finds that his latest persuasion has
left a new mark on his music. ,
.centerfold.
John Verdon
Cable and the College Student Steve Marks reminisces about his
sordid experiences In front of the TV set, and explains how he has
developed a lifestyle based upon television viewing.
Let me start out by saying that this album
will not be liked by all, simply because it is
hardcore. Like any other type of unfamiliar
music, hardcore seems unorganized and
even repulsive* Yet as a person listens to It
objectively and for a fair period of time,
he/she may find it just as enriching as any
other type of music. And since this new
album by Suicidal Tendencies is a great
hardcore record, it serves as a good Initiation
to this genre.
The album opens up with a devilish laugh
from Muir. This establishes, right away, how
Suicidal Tendencies feels It is seen by the
establishment, as devils that need to be
socialized. However, the group is sick of
what society offers. As they try to desperately fight this socialization, suicide becomes the
only means of doing so. Hence, we have the
meaning behind the name of the group. In
"Suicide's An Alternative" Muir sings "Sick
of school-total brainwash/Sick of music-top
40 sucks/Suicide's an alternative."
The fight against socialization is developed
superbly In the band's fast music, But unlike
some hardcore groups that give you nothing
but a fast, distorted guitar sound, Suicidal
Tendencies breaks things up beautifully with
classic distorted blues licks, reminiscent of
the Hendrix era.
The best example of this alternating between distorted blues and more typical hardcore riffs is the song "Subliminal, "one of Ihe
best cuts on the album. The song opens with
slow guitar strumming by Grant Estes, who
turns In great work throughout the album.
During this introduction. Mike Muir describes
the process of subliminal advertising and persuasion. His discovery of this type of persuasion leads him to an angry, fast chorus consisting of his attempts to fight It.
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man Brother Innocent recalls the
free-wheeling frisbee-flinging
days of two young men bopping
around in war-torn Nairobi. Rina
Young searches for meaning in
relationships.
JASPECTS Sm
Vinyl Viewr
Performances Ian Spelling takes
in Barbra Streisand's Yentl and
finds that there's more to this
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anectdotes. Megan Gray Taylor
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musical, but leaves at an unHappy End.
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COVER AND CENTERFOLD PHOTOS BY ED MARUSSICH.
In "Institutionalized," Muir talks about his
frustration in dealing with his parents, who
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are convinced he is either on drugs or crazy.
"Mom says 'what are you doing?'/! say 'I'm
thinklng'/She says 'no you're not,'you're on
drugs'." This leads to his commitment to an
insane asylum.
Some of the more conventional hardcore
tunes on the album are "Memories of
Tomorrow," "Possessed,"and " I Shot
Reagan." In each of these songs, the band
members angrily report their tainted images
of the world, set against a hardcore style of
humor. For example, in "Memories of
Tomorrow." Muir speaks of the dismal prospects of a post-nuclear world. "Radio active
people/search for food/pray for shelter/Kill
for food."
Some of the songs, however, such as "I
Saw Your Mommy," can be offensive to
some lastes. This song graphically tells of
Mulr's fanatical viewing of his girlfriend's
mother lying dead by some rats. "I saw your
mommy and your mommy's dead/I watched her as she bled/chewed off toes on her
chopped off feet/I took a picture cause I
thought It.was neat."
The album closes with two musically different songs. Though they follow basically
the same pattern of blues chords and hardcore riffs, they are more accessible to the
average listener. In "I Want More," Muir tells
of how a poorly-educated, working class
youth views life. "Don't wanna be a garbage
man, I want more/slaving in a factory a different kind of insanity/feels like I'm In a
cage."
This despair Is intensified in the last song
on the album, "Suicidal Failure." Over a
background of sixties psychedelia and Hendrix style blues, Muir describes his own
suicide attempts. "I beat myself with a
bat/put a noose around my h e a d / I overdosed on heroin/but I'm still not dead;" This
seems to be the only answer to his hopeless
struggle against socialization. "Death may
not be the answer, it can't be all that
great/but I'm not into living, with life I can't
relate."
What makes this album so good, besides
the guitar work of Grant Estes and the vocals
of Mike Muir, is the fact that the album has a
theme. Sadly,' this is something that is almost
non-existent in the music world today. This
makes it not only a great hardcore record but
a great record overall.
Though this album may not be for
averyone, it does offer an interesting view of
ife, superbly accented by the music. This
makes It a good choice if one wishes to explore the music of hardcore.
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ne album as a sort of personal catharsis.
Thankfully, the resulting music Is not guiltridden and apologetic. Unlike Rod Stewart,
Dylan feels no need to beg his offended audience to return. Instead, he attempts to
earn the audience back.
There are no anthems In Infidels, and
everthing is rather mellow and introspective
(the Del Leppard crowd will write it off a j
simply wimpy). In fact, the MTV audience
and the average radio listener probably won't
even get much exposure to this album. So
who Is It for? As a fan of "Subterranean
Homesick Blues" era Bob Dylan, I find the
offering here a little tame. Still, we all have
the occasional melancholy moods for which
this kind of music makes the perfect
backdrop,
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found themselves slipping into
middle age during the last five
years, and they don't hesitate to use their
music as a forum for dealing with Ihe
phenomenon. Pete Townshend is perhaps
Ihe most visible example, but David Bowie.
Lou Reed, Nell Young ("Thrasher," from
Rust Neuer Sleeps), Roger Waters, Robert
Plant. Phil Collins and Paul Simon have all
shown the symptoms: increased insecurity,
Increased Independence, and songs about
aging and domestic life. Even Mick Jagger Is
talking about releasing a solo album. Had he
lived, John Lennon might have been able to
resolve this crisis for almost everyone; instead, each is left to work out his own solution. And way out on the fringes of this
movement to reconcile the "Hope-I-dlebefore-l-get-old" ideal with the facts of life Is
Bob Dylan.
I
To me, Bob Dylan's fundamental Christian awakening of the late seventies was
originally so absurd as to be unbelievable; I
really thought that it was a joke. But even if it
was a joke philosophically, the fact that the
albums refecting his new-found passion lacked musical pizzaz suggested to me that the
man might be in trouble. It began to make
sense: after about a dozen years of working
to solve the moral and social problems of
others, Dylan was drained and burnt to an
emotional crisp. He'd seen a generation turn
to him for guidance, and then he was shelved as those same people matured and leached their own resolutions. Somewhere aiong
the way, he missed a step and fell out of
stride with the social mood. Feeling sudden-
ly alone, he turned inward and found that
the old answers no longer worked for him
either. All I can say about his decision to embrace Christianity to fill the vacuum is that
I'm glad he didn't turn Into a guru or profess
Scientology, the selection of which would
have left Dylan as a sixties casualty, ustially a
fatal end, and not a seventies casualty, most
of whom are capable of comebacks.
With his new album, Infidels, Dylan has
stopped preaching at us, and the religious
Only "Neighborhood. B u l l y , " a
sophisticated tale of twisted meanings. Is
•eally perky. Everything else Just sort of bubDles along with no sudden shocks or surprises. Many of Dylan's more recent albums
have been particularly marred by limp
backup support. On Infidels, he is backed by
ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, Mark
Knopfler and Alan Clarke of Dire Straits, and
the reggae-rooted Sly Dunbar/Robble
Shakespeare rhythm axis. Incidentally, Infidels is the third major LP release this month
that features Shakespeare and Dunbar, the
others being the new Stones and Carly
Simon records.
If you're a mellow type, sentimental, or
simply curious, then you can't go wrong with
Infidels. It Is consistently a work of quality
and sophistication It just seems strangely out
of place as a rock-and-roll album
My life In The T.V. Age
by Steve Marks
Jack and I learned thai too much TV can be
"more dangerous than too much brew.
There are many adverse physiological effects
of excessive television viewing — vomiting, internal bleeding, loss of hair, facial warts and hormonal Imbalances. Also, il has been shown that
some TV shows permanently erase most mental
"processes. Despite all this, however, the emotional and spiritual highs achieved In front of the
set override the menial and physical abuses suffered while "tubing."
Officer nights are especially enjoyable because
they tend to attract women friends, bearing bottles of wine and light hors d'oevres. The twoweek-old, half-empty pitchers of beer- are
cleared away taking the hovering fruit flies with
them. The sour milk Is washed out of the glasses,
and the green, rotting pork chop bones are
thrown away. It has been said that our living
room farts, but on Officer nights It Is given a
refreshing enema.
Previously, we have refused to physically participate in sports, In favor of passive spectatlng.
But, with the proper funding, we could purchase
video game systems.
We could actually work joysticks with our
wrists, pull triggers with our fingers,.purse our
lip, use some body engllsh, and possibly do a little Involuntary trembling from the excitement.
Thus, we couple a healthy, physical workout
without sacrificing audio/visual stimulation.
Another piece of equipment designed with the
high-budget viewer In mind was the back-up
electrical generator, which automatically provides juice In case of a power outtage.
This particular item would be a blessing In our
household, where the circuit board has practically burst into flames from electrical overloads;
Ironically, there is no mad scramble to the basement to flip the circuit breakers back on —
The nirvanah of TV viewing is reached when
one assumes control ol "the helm" — luxuriating
in the La-Z-Boy recliner with "the box" nestled in
one's lap. The box is 30 channels of pure
audio/visual stimuli, lis umbilical cord is 20 feet
long, so that one can go lo Ihe refrigerator, talk
on the phone, or sit on the bowl and change
channels at the same lime.
While wallowing in Ihe lielm and becoming
one with the boob lube. Ihe high priest prays that
he doesn't get a phone call, or experience any
other diversions. It's a Hug eol dog world in front
of the set, and a vacated recliner is fair game.
If the man In charge needs a beer, or if the
phone rings, he may try to persuade a viewer in
one of the tattered armchairs in the back row to
get it: "Can you get me a brew while you're up?"
or "Wanna grab me the bedpan off the kitchen
table?"
Minutes before 1:00 p.m. klckoff Sunday
afternoon, my body sloughs off of my warm
mattress, and 1 wrap it in my fluffy white terrycloth robe. My tongue sucks the vile paste off
the roof of my mouth.
Stepping into the hallway, I join my
housemates in a silent pllgrammage downstairs
to the living room. With Jonas In his tattered Arnold Palmer shave coat, and Steve in his brown
bathrobe stained with living bacteria, we prepare
for Sunday worship.
Mike and Chris come down wearing the same
garb that they passed out in the njght before.
With no showers planned for the day, we all'
wear hats to keep our frightening locks undercover.
The five of us settle in, with reeking breath and
unspeakable body odor, before our enshrined
' 19-inch Magnavox color TV. Mark, having tapped into the main cable system on his own,
prefers to decay in front of his SONY Trinitron in
the comfort of his own bed.
On Sundays, each of us sports a mentality not
dissimilar to a bowl of Wheatina.
Crisis; the phone rings. Gail says that she and
Dave will be at-the ASP by two o'clock. She
wants to know when Jonas and I can be there.
Thinking football schedule, "Urn, probably
around four."
"OK, well, the sooner the better."
Hopefully, the 1:00 game won't go into overtime, for Gall's sake.
On Sundays, and during all daytime viewing
hours, the curtains In the living room are closed.
This prevents any annoying glare from tran-'
sgressing the television screen, and it provides a
more intimate viewing ambiance. This lack of
healthy sunlight, however, also results in pale,
sallow flesh and unsightly skin blemishes.
With the curtains closed, living In perpetual
darkness, one often loses a sense of time. One
day Mike posed a rather puzzling question:
"What season is this?"
Because of the incalculable amount of time
spent prostrate before the tube, television watching becomes incompatible with attending
classes and studying. After a careful consideration of future careers, and what would look best
on resumes, we derived "Rule #1" for college
living: College = Cable.
Still, exams are often an inevitable part of the
university experience. When I hear through the
grapevine that one of my classes is expecting an
exam, I plan an excursion uptown.
College-level viewing requires complete relaxation of all practical mental activity. Let TV think
for you. In our house, we don't need to think
about shopping lists — we find out what we need
through advertising. For example, we've
dlcovered that life has gotten tougher, and that
pain relievers have gotten stronger. Therefore,
we make sure we have plenty of Anacln-3 on
hand to maintain our rigorous lifestyles as collegiate over-achievers.
Other products that we've learned to need Include: wholesome Hostess pies and cakes, People magazine, Budwelser, Miller, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Old Milwaukee and Genesee beers,
Nestle's Strawberry Qulk, Cheez Whiz, Pamprin.
Also, we've Joined Cicely Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Ken Anderson — the Coffee
Achievers. Now we drink plenty of hot, steaming
Folger's In the wee hours of morning to capitalize
on viewing time that used to slip through our
fingers because of that silly habit of sleeping.
Wasted hours spent dozing in front of the set
have been practically eliminated.
One recent Saturday night, my next-door
neighbor, Jack, and I decided to watch TV
.rather than go out and exercise our social skills.
We rapidly developed glassy stares, frozen
retarded expressions, with rivers of bile flowing
down our chins.
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Around 3 a.m., halfway through Conquest of
the Planet of the Apes, Jack threw up all over
himself. He got up, apologized for the mess, and
went home.
Since I had more TV stamina, I lasted until
about 5:00 a.m., when I broke into a lifethreatening nose bleed. Unfortunately, I didn't
realize that I had a bleeder until five minutes after
it had started. I tried to clean myself up as best as
I could in my half human, half cabbage state.
Then I went upstairs and blacked out.
Prepare a meal? Go out for food? No chancel
Why leave the warmth and comfort of a glowing
electron tube with Albany Campus Pizza's free
home delivery? We're even thinking about getting one of those TV remote controls through
which we can receive and make phone calls.
We'll be able to order food, call ihe folks apd
carry on our personal lives without ever taking
one step away from the temple.
Cable has strengthened personal relationships
for each of us, brought us closer to our loved
ones. Although we live far from the busline,
cable has attracted friends lo our house who we
would otherwise lose louch with.
One friend who I hadn't seen since Mayfest
came by one evening a couple of weeks ago.
"Hey, Steve! What's up. dude? What's on
HBO?"
HBO and Clnemax have been Instrumental In
maintaining, even creating friendships. The
single most influential cable feature in our social
lives has been the romantic classic, An Officer
and a Gentleman,
Respectfully, everyone is generally silent
throughout the movie. Any sarcastic remarks
during the sex scenes are answered with a
Triscuit to the back of the head. Steve and his
girlfriend Dee are guaranteed to be wiping their
eyes at the end of the film.
The sports channels are also sure to Increase
our popularity, especially toward the end of the
hockey season. The Stanley Cup playoffs are
not broadcast on network TV, so people living
on-campus can't watch the games in the dorms.
"Hey, All How come you haven't come down
to check out our place yet?"
"I dunno, man, I want to . . . I'll definitely be
down once the Islanders make the playoffs!"
Why squeeze yourself into the crowd at the
Rat to watch the game when you can BYOB and
watch cable in comfort with your buddy who
lives off-campus?
In addition to satisfying our emotional needs
for social contact, TV also provides all of the
recreation we require.
On a sunny, brisk Saturday afternoon in early
spring, there's nothing like throwing on a pair of
Ponies, some shorts, an old sweatshirt and settling down to watch the Knicks game on TV.
Why go out on Ihe court with a nasty
hangover and risk serious, painful injury? You
can die quietly in front of the set as you consume
greasy home fries and fatty, dripping burgers,
your arteries closing up quickly, painlessly.
The men in our house smell foul enough
without going outside to play hard and sweat like
pigs. Intense physical exertion would reduce Ihe
lofty levels of spiritual development we have
achieved through immense doses of television. Il
would be like outfitting Gandhi in cleats, pads
and helmet, and sending him In to play for
Lawrence Taylor.
However, the future may bring activity to our
viewing hours. Our recreation needs may soon
be filled by Atari, Coleco or Intelllvlslon.
Officer nights are especially enjoyable
because they tend to attract women friends,
bearin&bottles of wine and light hors d'oevres
Other additions to our television which we can
only mumble about in our sleep include a SONY
Betamax, for preserving the most significant TV
events, and of course the ultimate viewer
dream, (often causing nocturnal emissions) the
six-foot screen, as seen in the Rat, ihe Lamp
Post, and other distinguished taverns.
The other day Mike was reading up on some
other accessories advertised in one of our TV
periodicals that we could use for the Magnayox.
Included among the offerings were decorative
racks for alphabetical or chronological shelving
of TV publications for future reference. Handy
bulletin boards, useful in posting important TV
dates and seating schedules were also advertised.
Day-to-day maintenance items Included Tee
Vee Screen Spra-Cleener, and dial oil to Insure
smooth channel changing and to avoid
overheating.
Accessories for the frivolous "toober" range
from large fuzzy dice to hang from the antennae,
lo leather-bound Issues of TV Guide with gildededged pages.
Components available to the serious
videophlle included extra monitors for watching
two or more shows at once to maximize viewing
pleasure,
everyone wants lo be present the moment that
our source of life has been re-ignited.
TV publications themselves are a must for efficient viewing as well as for up-to-date, wellinformed discussions about TV. When the
November Cable Guide was last coming in the
mail this month, the tension in our house was so
intense It hurt. After biting my head off for no apparent reason one day. Steve said "Sorry man
. . . it's just that the Cable Guide hasn't come
yet." It was all we could do to sit and watch and
hope that something good would come on.
1 came home from classes one.day to find my
housemates kneeling on Ihe floor, heads bowed,
holding hands in a circle around the living room
table. It was. of course, the new Cable Guide.
Although we may be bald within the next couple of years, and though we will probably father
abnormal children, the feeling of TV radiation is
just too good to pass off.
The spiritual fulfillment which is achieved
through the control of 30 channels of visual
ecstasy was perhaps best expressed by our nextdoor neighbor Chris, as he lay on his couch watching TV, his box resting comfortably on his
chest. He said, "I have Cable. I am warm.
•
— Written in cooperation with my housemates, •
TV Guide, Grenada TV Rental, and Capital
Cableulslon.
DECEMBER 2, 19831
Summer Of My Kenyan Frisbee
A
vi sauntered out of the hut. crooning, "We're havin' some fun, here at
Lake Nalvasha." Gazing esoterically
put at Mount Longenot, a dull, .dark shape
looming In the distance over the grassy
plains, David replied, "yup, yup, yup, yup."
a dirt path that led from the main road right
up to the peak, to guide them, Avi and
David packed themselves Into the first
Matatu which did not necessitate their standing on the bumper and hanging on to the
roof in order to get a ride. Another agonizing
ride In one of these small vans brought them
to a small dirt path off the main road which
headed off towards the volcano. A mile or so
later, standing amidst a network of corn and
barbed wire. It became apparent (to their
chagrin) that this particular path did not quite
lead to the peak. Or to the base, for that matter.
Brother Innocent
It was only David's third day In Kenya. A
week earlier, he had been sitting at home,
drinking beer, watching the Mets ruin yet
another season, and thinking about how
pleasant It would be to spend the entire summer doing nothing else. But one phone call
from Uganda ended all that:
"Dave, wanna meet me in Nairobi?"
"Uh, okay.. What do I need to bring?"
"t don't know ... .T-shirts and pens:
you can trade them for souvenirs.".
"No, I, mean passports, shots,
money . . .1"
"Yeah, whatever. I gotta go. Ill be at
the Nairobi youth hostel on Thursday.
Bye."
v
'Two days In London, where he spent
most of his money, one night at the New
Florida club In Nairobi, where he spent the
rest, and there he was, on the threshhold of
ascending his first volcano.
"The Leaper."
They chuckled. Never failed.
"How 'bout some bee?" Avi offered.
"Don't we have to go soon?" came the nervous reply.
He saw David staring. "Nah, it's not that
far away." A vicious giggle wafted back as he
disappeared Into the hut.
It had really been a stroke of genius for
him to remember the frisbee moments before
leaving for the airport. When that disc sliced
through the air — be it In a few Innings of
"frls-hock" on Long Island or "Jetty-bee" on
the windy shores of the Indian Ocean — it
opened up a world which only Its secret
sharers could grasp. It certainly wouldn't
make much sense to anyone else:
"Kid Catch."
"Zooming like Godzilla."
"Ned Notoofunny."
"Dr. Tosso."
"Oh yeah, you wanna bet!"
"A hundred aykahs 'o
potatahas."
mashed
There's nothing like a little bee and a few
Chemistry Classics to bring a touch of home
wherever you might be. north or south of the
equator. But with the dull green ring of
peaks topping Mount Longenot threatening
the corner of his eye. David could not quell
his apprehension. An excursion with Avi
always signalled an invitation to misadven-
ture. Between the two lifelong friends there
was barely enough responsibility and common sense to flush the toilet after It had been
used. For a night In the Village or a road trip
to Ithaca it could be a lot of fun, but to be
meandering about a country in which every
glass of unboiled water could be your last,
which would be in the throes of a coup d'etat
in a mere three weeks, where Woody Allen
and Rod Serling were not household wordsl
After living on stale bread, canneo
margarine, tomatoes and rainwater for two
days, one could not be unsympathetic to
David's concerns.
With the sight of the volcano, and some
barely Intelligible advice from a native about
"Uh o h . " David broke the Ice.
"Fehl" Avi replied. He began picking his
way between field and fence, heading In the
general direction of the mountain.
"Wait a minute — where 'ya going?"
"Come o n . "
"What are you, crazy (god, look who I'm
asking!)? How about we go back and find the
right path, huh? Buddy? Chum? Pal 'o
mine?"
Don't be an idiot. The mountain is right in
front of us — we can't miss It. Come on!"
"It's not the mountain I'm worried about.
What about the guy who put up the barbed
wire. Wh probably has us In the sights of his
gun this very second." This would have been
nearly Impossible, since the two were
already walking through the corn, which
easily masked their presence. "He's probably
got packs of lions, rhinos, hyenas and
vultures combing his land, trained to kill as
painfully as possible any . . . " he broke off,
joining in his companion's laughter. Like the
ritual of the frisbee, the laughter they shared
gave the two friends something beyond the
here and now which they could rely on.
Even if they eluded the gunslghts of the crazed landowner and his packs of guard rhinos
and vultures, they could not for long escape
the mlschlevious clutches of fate, which had
already dragged them off their chosen path,
and into the cornfield of the unknown.
But it just didn't matter.
Love Etc*
M
en 4nd women. Love. Friendship.
One night stands. Marriage.
Holding hands, holding feelings.
Divorce
C o m p r o m i s e . L u s t . Sex
Touching. Making love.
Rina Young
With how many of these random thoughts
can we identify? Already I have gotten the
reader's attention. It Is our private and public
affair with the mysteries of Ihe heart. It seems
like destiny, if we In fact believe in destiny,
for two people to fall in love, share their lives
together, and live happily ever after. At least
our parents were told so. It seems, though,
that getting there is half Ihe battle.
Blind dates, double dates, parties, college.
How do we meet the one person in our lives
to which we will devote so much energy and
passion that
it will surpass every other
thought or action. Sometimes It seems like
such a random effort, yet other times the
amount of planning that goes Into the first
kiss Is enough to make the nuclear defense
system seem like a mere pittance of strategic
effort.
I've talked to both men and women about
this and have recleved many similar
responses on the subject. The planting and
nurturing of a relationship is such an intricate
process that sometimes it makes one wonder
' how things ever get off the ground. Yet they
inevitably do. One friend of mine had been
involved in a relationship for over a year.
The commitment lasted across the distance,
for she was here, and he was there, 200
miles away. It began one summer and continued Into Ihe next year. The following summer they were not together, and as time
passed them by", so did the relationship. He
stopped calling her. She kept trying to reach
him, wondering what had happened. He
never called back.
One might wonder why he never called
back, and why she kept putting In Ihe effort
for so much frustration that was thrown back
In her face. Logically, she should have realiz-
ed that he did not want her any longer, and
leave It at that. Logic is one of the few things
that rarely falls within the matrix of a relationship. And so emotions freely fly. sometimes
without any rational explanation. The pieces
are never so shattered that they can't be put
back Into place, only this time with a little
more glue to hold together the pain, anger,
experience, and learning.
Life goes on, and once again my friend
was immersed in the dating scene. An awful
place to be if your heart isn't with you. But
for the present, it was a place for my
friend to build back up her ego. She didn't
feel the need to replace what she once had,
but wanted instead to experience a wide
variety of people. There is always the
•tendency to practice the art of self defense
during this process. Yet slowly, the guard
that was up so high was lowered, but never
quite dropped. In the beginning you meet
new people, date, compare, and discover.
It's not easy. Almost everyone you meet
reminds you of what you once had. And
then the. fog clears out, and you can see that
person for who he Is.
These days, finding that special "someone" has become a commercial business.
In this modern world of fast romance and
faster sex, it's easy to lose your balance.
Keeping one step ahead of someone to
whom you've developed an Interest In Is part
of the fun of the game. Surprise them, for
people love surprises. However, there are
still some old rules which are hard to break.
My friend decided that It wasilme to lake
things In her own hands, namely, the
phone. She wasn't going to sit at home twiddling her thumbs until Mr. Right decided to
sweep her off her feet. At first, It was hard.
She found that men's egos are fragile, and
it's not so easy for a woman pull a switch on
them by making the first move. It's a bit like
first licking the envelope, and then putting
tlie stamp down. It works, but It takes a bit of
getting used to.
Once . y o u ' do meet someone, and
something clicks, you wonder how to keep It
•IASPECTS 7 «
Performances-
Streisand's One Man Show
Y
entl Is the fruition of a seed that
had been Implanted in 1968 when
Barbra Streisand read Isaac
Beshevls Singer's twenty-page short story
"Yentl, the Yeshlva Boy" while promoting
her motion'picture debut In Funny Girl. She
recalls, "I was absolutely captivated and
charmed by It. It called my agent and told
him I lust found my next film."
Ian Spelling
In any event, II took fifteen years before
Streisand would be given the opportunity to
realize her fantasy of making Yentl into a
major motion picture. During the years after
Funny Girl, she became Barbara Streisand,
Superstar. As a singer, her albums sold in
the millions; as an actress, she succeeded in
such films as Hello Dolly, The Way We
Were, A Star Is Born, and The Main Event..
Realizing that they had a bankable star,
United Artists finally decided to finance Yentl
for Streisand. In order to do Justice to the
project, Streisand felt that she had to take full
control. To this end, United Artists agreed to
allow her to write, produce, direct and star In
Yentl. Thus, Streisand became the first
woman In film history to perform all four of
these tasks.
In a time when a woman was considered a
demon if she studied the Talmud, there lived
a young girl called Yentl. This girl questioned everything, and turned to her loving
father for the answers. A wizened and
respected Jewish scholar, the father always
had an answer which would lead to another
question from his Inquisitive daughter.
Following the death of her beloved
"Papa," Yentl concluded that she must continue her studies at a yeshlva (a Jewish
parochial school). Blocking her path,
however, was the fact that yeshivas were exclusively for boys'. Therefore, she cut her
lengthy locks of hair, bound her breasts, put
on a pair of spectacles, and passed herself off
as "Anshel," a humble student.
During her travels she meets "up with a
handsome and friendly young man named
Avlgdor, who convinces her (thinking she is
a he) to join him at a respected boys yeshlva.
Before being allowed to become a student at
the yeshlva, Yentl must endure a question
and answer session with the Rabbi. After
passing with flying colors, Yentl and Avlgdor
quickly become the best of friends.
As Yentl slowly falls In love with Avlgdor,
he prepares to marry the beautiful Hadass,
who fulfills his every need (as a good Jewish
girl was expected to in 1904). Unfortunately,
Hadass' father discovers a disgraceful secret
concerning Avigdor's family and forbids his
daughter to marry the man she loves.
While sitting In a corner sulking, Avigdor's
face suddently brightens and his eyes
sparkle. He has figured out a way to be close
to both his friend and former fiancee: Anshel, he declares, must marry Hadass.
Following the wedding, Anshel and Hadass
are locked Into a room with the blessing that
a child be born to them In nine months.
Giving away any more details would be
unfair and confusing, for Streisand does not
produce the pat and predictable ending one
might expect.
Viewing Yentl reminds one of several
other movie extravaganzas. It has the beauty
of Lawrence of Arabia, the grandeur of Dr.
Zhivago, the ability to elicit emotions with
music such as The Sound of Music, and
even some of the humor seen in Tootsie.
With this effort, Streisand has proven
herself to be, a director's director. Every
scene is a showcase of color, lighting, cutling, angle and shadow.
There is one particular sequence early on
which sets Ihe stage for Ihe beauty and emotional honesty that are to follow. Shortly
after her father dies, Yentl sits alone In the
woods with a single candle as Ihe only
source of light. She begins lo sing a song lo
her father — Does he still love her? Is she doing the right thing? As the song starts, Streisand softly focuses on Yentl's tears, then
moves the camera in an upward, circular
path around Yentl until only the stars In the
sky are visible. The camera then slowly pulls
away from the shadowy, lone figure and
fades to black while the song comes lo its
conclusion. Add to this vision the wonderful
music and It becomes a stunningly effective
scene.
Streisand does not dominate the screen,
despite being In nearly every scene. She
allows, In her capacity a writer and director,
Ihe other two members of the love-triangle lo
have their moments of glory, too. As
Avlgdor, Mandy Pantlkln creates a warn and
honest man who is devoted to both his
religion and his fiancee. He has that rare
ability to make one smile when he does and
feel for him when he cries. Amy Irving portrays the confused, but nonetheless loyal,
Hadass with a knowledgable silence; her
eyes communicate all thai need be said. Not
to be forgotten of course, is the performance
of Streisand herself In the title role. She embodies the heroine/hero with a tenacity
which Is contagious. Yentl becomes a flesh
and bones character worthy of the
nudlence's sympathy.
Despite these engrossing performances,
the one that remains etched in the mind is
lhat of Nehemlah Persoff, as Yentl's father.
He is the father we all wish we had: loving,
3pen and compassionate. During his few
moments on the screen onacan actually feel
the enjoyment and richness he receives from
and adds to life.
Yentl Is a very good motion picture which
.s enhanced.by marvelous performances and
gorgeous photography. Regardless, It Is not
without Its flaws. The music Is beautiful to
listen to. but It becomes very confusing for
the audience when Streisand "mouths one
part of a song but not the other. Had she
mouthed Ihe songs entirely or used them only as thoughts It would have been satisfactory;-unfortunately, the odd transitions are
not acceptable to either the eyes or the ears.
Also, because there are thirteen songs (one
of which is sung three times) the film often
goes off-track and Is slowed down.
The sellings in Ihe film are like a small present placed in a large gift wrapped box
covered with all of the most expensive trimmings available. Even the poorest family
owns the finest furniture, clothing and dinner
sets. Although this may sound like overindulgence on Streisand's part, It is not, simply
because it adds to the beauty of the film.
Despite the dependence on Jewish tradition, Yentl, like Fiddler on the Roof,
transcends the problems of bias and prejudice usually encountered in religious films.
Streisand accomplishes this by focusing on
Yentl's desire to learn religion rather than on
the religion itself.
Yentl surpasses any expectations you
could have set for it. one may not feel immediately affected, but after a period of
reflection the theme that Streisand was hoping to share with us finally sinks in: Nothing Is
Impossible! And Barbra Streisand should
know.
Cap Rep's Musical Debut
C
apital Repertory Company, Albany's
resident Equity theatre company. Is
currently presenting their firsl
musical al iheir home, the Market Theatre.
The play they have chosen is Happy End, a
collaboration of Bertolt Brechl and Kurt Weill
(they also did Three Penny Opera), and there
In lies Iheir mistake. First, let me say lhat
Capital Rep has given this area some of its
finest theatre-over the pasl few years, including such classics as Table Manners, new
plays like The Homesteade
and Fealhers
and brilliant adaptations like last
ason s
^rankehslein. Bui in taking on Happy End.
'm afraid they bit off more than they could
:hew.
Megan Gray Taylor
flowing. If I hold his hand, will he run away?
A m I talking too much, too little, laughing at"
the right times? Is there something caught In
my teeth? Many similar questions poured out
of my friend's mouth.
Bars and discos are fun places lo go with
friends to have a good time. Maybe even
meet an interesting person with whom you
can share a few bits of information. It has
been found for the most part by many people, that the "pick-up," although effective, is
very rarely long term. One begins to wonder
where In fact we can meet someone, and
when will It happen to me? So we wait and
hope, lose hope, give up hope, go to sleep.
Or we roll with the punches, take the good
with the not so good, and keep plucking
away. The eternal optimist continued to live
within my friend.
It seems that these types of stories are
destined to leave us more alone than before,
depending upon what state of coupledness
that we are In, or would like lo be In.
However, this story is to have a happy en-
ding. For after meeting many new people, at
parties, around the dorm, and in her classes,
she met someone one night while out dancing. At first glance, he didn't look to be her
type. But then she remembered that the last
man who looked to be her type, wasn't,
Besides what is a type anyhow? She asked
him to dance right at the moment he was
about to ask her. By Ihe look oh his face, she
had. taken him by surprise. It was a small
start. The first song that was played was a
slow dance, so they decided to talk and get
to know each other better. Then they danced, and talked some more. They exchanged
numbers. She called him, and he called her.
The following week they arranged to meet
again, and he said lhat he had a surprise for
her. On their first dale ever, she wondered
what II could be. After great anticipation,
and much to her delight, she found what it
was; banana, blueberry, coconut bread.
Homebaked by him, for her.
,
The story doesn't end here, the plot line Is
still being written.
Set In Chicago in 1919, Happy End is the
toy of Salvation Army slar "Halleluja Lll"
* o loses her heart to Chicago's toughesl
langsler, Bill Cracker. Lll attempts to turn Ihe
lang away from the wages of sin by preaching
i sermon to Ihem In the beer hall, but In her
nthuslasm winds up alone with Cracker sing19 a vernacular song to make her point. She
Hum winds up In disfavor with the Army,
no Is dismissed. The story Is not unique and
l«i often black humor characteristic of Brechl
IW Weill Is lost In this mostly slap-stick proucllon.
the play was an a see-saw between well and
poorly done scenes.
The second major problem is that the vocal
range necessary for the songs is just nol there.
Kale Kelly, who returns lo CRC after a year
and a half off (In which time she gave birth to a
icautiful baby girl), is "Hallelujah L l l , " and
although al times she really captured the
devout Salvation Army lass who is falling for
Ihis fallen man. more often 1 felt she was just
speaking lines that had very little meaning for
ler. Unfortunately (and I'm told this was most,y because of technical difficulties thai led lo
excessive last minute rehearsal) her voice was
not of the calibre to deliver one of Ihe most
famous and moving songs of Ihe play
"Durabay Johnny," and during her rendition
of "The Sailor's Tango" she seemed more
concerned with keeping her hat on than keeping her heart in the song.
The handsome gangster, Bill Cracker, is admirably played by Richard Council, whom
many of you will remember from his outstanding performance In last year's Frankenstein.
Council, who has appeared In the Broadway
productions of The Philadelphia Story, The
Royal Family and Sherlock Holmes, brings a
wonderful old movie quality to this gangster
gone soft over a Salvation Army dame. His
performance is one of the redeeming factors of
the production.
One of Ihe major problems with the produca technical one, the stage is jusl loo
mail for a twenty member cast lo fit comforably, staging around poles, so the slapstick
m doesn't work. Director Peter Clough, one
J the producing director's of the company,
eemed unsure whether to make this a broad
lapstlck comedy, or to play up Ihe almosl sureallslic qualities of some of the dialogue,
/hal we are given Is a hodge-podge of Baby
'•ce shadow boxing and often being hit, and a
erleB
of rather striking llghts-oul, llghls-on
Wses of ihe cast to mark a time passage. I
The finest performance in Happy End was
turned in by Michael Hume who plays a
member of the gang. Dr. Nakamura. Hume's
makeup was superb, but more than that he
managed lo acquire Ihe mannerism's of an
oriental, as well as a speech pattern lhat would
pass In the best Hollywood version. Hume,
who appeared in Ihe company's season
opener, The Glass Menagerie (In great critical
acclaim) also appeared In Frankenstein as the
tormented doctor, in Tartuffe and In A Street
Car Named Desire. His voice, although nol
that strong, was optimized by a character
sense thai carried Ihe music, an ability thai was
missing elsewhere in Ihe cast. •
™ II one or Ihe other approach had been
onsislently applied I would not have fell thai
The weakest links in Ihe performance wore
Adam LeFevre as Baby Face and James
i o n ls
Goodwin Rice as The Reverend. Le Fevre will
be a familiar face to all those who have seen
John Sayle's The Return of the Secaucus
Seven (he was the musician who scored with
his best friend's ex). LeFevre seemed
awkward on stage and his movements as the
puglHstlcally obsessed Baby Face were a continual distraction to the rest of the performances. Rice, who Is a familiar face to CRC
fans, seemed unsure of Just what kind of accent he was trying to render; in fact, it was well
into the first act before I finally realized it was
supposed to be a southern drawl.
The only voice really up to the Weill score
was lhat of Gloria Hodes, who plays the
femme-fatale leader of the gang, The Fly.
Hodes has appeared at The Metropolitan
Opera Company, as well as having won an
Obic and a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Bertie in Ihe hit musical The Club.
Given Ihe small stage of CRC, set designer
Ray Recht did an Ingenious job of creating a
rotating set thai allowed a rapid switch from
Bill's Beer Hall to the Salvation Army Mission.
Recht was an Associate Designer of the
Broadway hit Woman of the Year as well as
the art director on films such as Amityville-ll.
Although somewhat less than imaginative, the
costuming was adequately designed by Lloyd
Walwalole.
As I said at the start of this review I think the
major problem with this produciton Is Ihe play
itself. Brecht and Weill will either thrill you
with their subtle puns, overt sexual Inuendo,
pointed social commentary (It Is less of a crime
lo rob a bank than to own one), or they will
bore you to tears with a droll monotone
musical score and dialogue that at times Is
down right silly. If you have seen Three Pennj
Opera and like It, you might just find all of thi
redeeming qualities of this performance, f
however, you found "Mac Ihe Knife" Ihe onl^
good song In that play, you had best stay
home and listen lo Belte Midler's version of
"Surabaya Johnny," a version with more
emotion than most of this play.
It is not easy to be hard on a theatre company this good, so I can only hope that Iheir
next production, Brian Friel's Translations, a
story set in the tumolt of 19th century Ireland,
will show this superb group in the light that we
have become so used to seeing them, hlappjj
End will run through December 18 and
Translations will open New Year's Eve and
run through January 22.
ETTERS
Spectrum
[onor Wallenberg
Rathbone Gallery (JCA)
Sam Walker and Craig Schaffer Junior College of Albany until Dec, 21 (270-2240 or
270-2344)
MUSIC
Nmr York CHy C a h II (459-9580)
Posters Plus Galleries (434-4280)
Judith Johnson Sherwln
UA Center 1 * 2 (459-2170)
1. The Deal of the Century 7:20, 9:20 2. A
Christmas Story-7:30. 9:30
Union College (370-6201
Cathy's Waffle Store, 292 Lark Street
Nov. 28-December 25—Eileen Daley,
photo collages.
/
BogU's (482-9797)
Gaaalnl J a n C a f a (462-0044)
S t . Peter's Hospital (674-5759)
Dec. 1-31—Randi Bently
Bros
f7 Step Coffee House (434-1703)
every Tues nite—Open stage for anyone for
15 minutes; Dec. 2 Court Dorsey Dec. 3
Patty Larkln
The Chateau Lounge (465-9086)
Skinflints (436-8301)
Dec. 2-3-Ariel
Palace Theatre (465-3333)
Dec, 5—Eddie Money
2 8 8 Lark (462-9148)
DJ on weekends
4 0 5 Washington Ave (463-7135)
Dec. 4-Jan. 20—Arlene Gilbert
Opening Reception Dec. 4.
Halfmoon Cafe
Dec. 1-Jan. 1 —Drawings. Pointings and
".'orks in Clay by Peter G. Delong
Opening Reception Dec 3, 8:00 p.m.
Albany Academy (462-0318)
Larry Kagan through Nov. 11
In Our Hands
Film about June 12 Antl-nuke rally In NY^
h.
1 Richard Pryor—Here and Now 1:30, 3:30, Dec. 10, 8:00 p.m. at Capital District
5:30, 7:30, 9:40, 11:30 2. The Big Chill 1:50. Center
4 1 0 , 6:45, 9:10, 11:25; 3. Educating 434-4037 $5 ($3 low Income)
Rita-1:55, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50, 11:55 4. Terms
of Endearment-1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:35 5. Dashing Through the S n o w
Amityvllle 3 - D - l : 4 5 , 4:00, 7:10, 9:00 6. The Ultimate Progressive Partyl
Pay one Price and go to any or all of the Quad
Dead Zone 2:10, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45, 12 mid.
Parties.
Sat. Dec. 3, $3w/tax card, $4w/o
RKO Fo« Colonie'l * 2 (459-1020)
1 A Night in Heaven—Mon-Thus 7:30, 9:30;
Frl-Sun 2:20, 4:20. 6:20, 8:20. 10:20. 2. Bot- Rock Music: An Inside Look
Sponsored by Albany State Internationa]
tom Llne-7:20, 9:20
Assembly
Tues. Dec. 6. 7:00 p.m. LC 18
Weds. Dec. 7. 7:00 p.m. LC 1
UA Hellman 1 * 2 (459-5322)
1. Never Say Never Again —7:15, 9:40; 2. The
Right
S t u f f — 8 p . m . Stars of the 8 0 s Party
Presented by Floors 2-5 Eastman Tower
Dec. 2, 9:00-2:00
Third Street Theatre (436-4428)
Dec. 2-3-4-Caddle 7 and .9:30: Dec.
6-7-8—They Don't Wear Black Tie—7:00 and C a r i b b e a n D i n n e r D a n c e
Pan Caribbean Association Presents a Dinner
9:25
Madison Theatre (489-5431)
All the Right Moves-7:10 and 9:00
THEATRE
Halfmoon Cale (436-0329)
' Skyway(Scolia:399-4922)
Christopher's Pub (459-7757)
Every Wednesday night Downtime
Dec. 2-3—Pretty Boy
Proctor's (Schenectady)
SUNYA P A C (457-8606)
C o h o e s M u s i c Hall (235-7969)
Dec. 2-4 and 7-11: Once Upon a Mattress
Dec. 2-4, 7-11 and 14-17: She Loves
Me
C o l i s e u m T h e a t r e (785-3393)
P r o c t o r ' s T h e a t r e (382-1083)
Dec. 1-4 8 p.m. Pippin, 12/4 2 p.m.
ART
Albany Institute of History and Art
(463-4478)
Currier & Ives 86 Lithogralhs Dec. 7-Jan. 8
17th Century Dutch Majolica, Hudson River
School Landscape Palnllngs, People of the
Great' Peace
P l c o t t e G a l l e r y (College of St. Rose. 324
State St., Albany, 454-5185)
Susan Eder thru Dec. 16
Stories Your Mother Never Told You '
H i s t o r i c a l S o c i e t y f o r Early
American Decoration, Inc. (462-1676)
Until June '84—The Ornamental Painter,
The Flowering of Tin '
New York State Museum (474-5842)
Oct. 15 to Jan 4 — Community Industries of
the Shakers . . . A New Look; Grandma
Moses until Jan 15; The Humantities Experience; Adirondack Wilderness.' Birds of
New York, New York Metropolis, World of
Gems, Fireflghting Exhibit
C a p i t a l R e p (462-4534)
Dec. 1-4, 6-11—Happy End
'...
Dance
Dec. 2 in Brubacher Ballroom at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets on Sale in Campus Center Lobby.
University Cinemas (457-8390)
Dec. 2-3 1. Wargames LC 7
Dec. 2-3 2. 81/2
Dec. 8 1. Not a Love Story LC 18 7:30 and Dec. 2
$5 Reg. Fee 457-8087
10:00
International FUm Group (457-8390)
Dec. 2—Overcoat LC 1, 7:30 and 10; Dec
3 - T h e Graduate LC 1, 7:30 and 10
Fireside Theatre (457-8390)
Dec. 7 Brian's Song LC 1
Spectrum Theatre (449-8995)
Fanny and Alexander—7:30
RPI P l a y e r s
MISCELLANEOUS
Reggae D a n c e
with "Black Sheep"
Sun. Dec. 4
EBA Chapter House
For tix and Info call 434-4037
Feminist Forum Lesbian Experiences
with Alcoholism and Recovery
with Sharon Stonekey • > •
8:00 p.m. Channing Hall 405 Wash. Ave. •'">
Korean Dinner
Committee for a New Korea Policy
St. Andrews Church. .6:30 p.m.
...
$5 434-4037 or 438-5105
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| the Editor:
This letter is to inform all students, and people in the
npus community, that December 2 has been declared
loul Wallenberg Day by SUNYA President Vincent
iLcary. Who was Raoul Wallenberg, and why should
Topic acknowledge this day? Raoul Wallenberg was a hero
J the holocaust. He was both directly and indirectly
Iponsiblc for saving the lives of approximately 120,000
Ls. This day, set aside in his honor, is to remind people
fwhat he did and of the countless number of lives that
|uId have been lost without his brave efforts.
iVs an agent of the Swedish government, Wallenberg was
III to Budapest, Hungary on July 9,1944. His goal was to
Lc the lives of Jews destined to be sent to the Nazi conjuration camps. He distributed Swedish protective
fcsports to the Hungarian Jews and rented apartments for
I housing of Jews, which he raised the Swedish flag over
r protection. Above all, he entered the actual cattle cars
til were transporting the Jews to the concentration camps
I rescued them right in front of the Nazi officers.
Jin January, 1945, he was captured by the Soviets and put
In exile. There is reason to believe thai Wallenberg is still
me today. There arc many that share in his drive for the
lrercignty of Jews, and some that arc brave enough, as he
is, to take action in obtaining! his goal. J.S.C.-Hillcl
Les all of you to acknowledge Raoul Wallenberg Day, in
fior of the man and of his followers.
— Ina Pollack
— World Jewry Committee,
J.S.C.-Hillel
Enrollment policy
i the Editor:
Third World Caucus Conference
Dcjc. 2 and 3
Registration in SA office from 4-6:30 p.m. Frl.
RPI McNeil Room
Dec. 10—The Roches, live!
SUNYA Art Gallery (457-3375)
Art Faculty Exhibit, Oct 18 - Dec 16
Photos by Charles Traub
Recognition: Faces and Places
Wed. Dec. 7, 12:00 p.m. In HU 354
C i n e 1-6 (459-8300)
Vratmrday's (489-8066)
Dec. 2-3—Interstate
Lark Tavam (463-9779)
Dec.
2-3—The Rosmenko
FILMS
Jawbone
|f1
Sienna College
I In your November 4, 1983 issue, you ran an article about
lerce Hall Day Care Center. We appreciated the opporInity the article gave the University to know more about
Jir day care center. However, I would like to clear up any
Infusion about our enrollment policy that may have
suited from the article.
.The article did mention that we have two waiting lists and
•at preference is always given to University related people.
Lt it also implied that the director has the power to choose
ho shall get a spot. This is not true. Both waiting lists are
Ipt in strict chronological order, so that we contact
arents in the order in which they got on the lists. Other
Ian the preference given to University students and staff
le only factors involved in enrollment are the age of the
aild and what sort of schedule the parents need.
II hope that this explanation takes care of any misconccppns arising from the article.
— Wendy Goodale Rolnick
— Director, Pierce Hall Day Care Center
'hanks from Telethon
f the Editor:
Colonic Acting Troupe
S k i d m o r e C o l l e g e (584-5000, ext.
344)
Dec. 1-3, 7-10—Gemeni
AIDS Panel Discussion
Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. LC 7. Representatives of Gay
Men's Health Crisis, including AIDS patient. For
more info, call GALA at 457-4078.
Korean Student Association Christmas
Party
Dec. 9:00 p.m Adirondack Hall (Indian)
Semi-formal 4fc 7-8984
Poetry Reading
A l b a n y Civic T h e a t e r (462-1297)
Dec. 7-18—Awake and Sing
8:00 p . m . , Sundays at 12:30 p.m.
Christmas Feast
Italian American Student Alliance
154 Madison Ave. 489-4549
Dec. 2, 8:00 p.m. HUM Lounge 354
New Opportunities for Peace in the Home cooked food! $2 w/tax card
$3 w
Mideast? '
Lecture by Dr. Zeer Sternhell
Renaissance Christmas Madrigal DinWed. Dec. 7, 12:15 p.m.
Main Albany Public Library
ner
161 Washington Ave 482-4575
Dec. 3-4 in CC Ballroom.
457-8606
R u s s e l l S a g e College Theater
(465-9916)
Dec. 2-3-4—EBA-A Decade of Dance
Theater at 8:00p.m.
Rembering Jim Morrison
Thur. Dec. 8 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Main Albany Public Library
161 Washington Ave 449-3380
ES1PA (473-3750)
Dec. 8-12, 14-20—Raggedy and Andy
RPI F i e l d H o u s e
Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. Halfmoon Cafe
University Percussion Ensemble
PAC Main Theater
Dec. 7, 8:00 p.m. Free.
Once again, we would like to thank everyone who has
Iped us during the course of Telethon 84's Dance
brathon. A special thank you to all the dancers who par[ipated and gathered pledges of over $6,000.
Ve would like to take this opportunity to urge everyone
lo has sponsered a dancer to get their money in as soon as
Issible. Typically past Dance Marathons may have had a
bstantial amount pledged but only about thirty percent of
t total pledged was ever received. We would like lo im-
Aspects
prove on that figure this year, so if you have sponsored a
dancer, again please get your money in as soon as possible.
All dancers will have an envelope for each sponsor with the
amount pledged written on it.
The proceeds collected will benefit two organizations:
Capital Area Speech Center, which provides speech and
language therapy to speech and-or hearing impaired
children, and Wildwood School which serves developmental^ and emotiorially handicapped children.
— Erie Dorf
Meryl Leibowitz
— Dance Marathon-Operations Chairs, Telethon '84
New publication
To The Editor:
I would like to take this opportunity to commend the
ASP for recognizing OCA's new newsletter in the article
entitled "OCA Distributes New Publication", in the
November 22nd issue. I'm glad to sec that the campus is
beginning to realize the tremendous potential of OCA.
There was a discrepancy in the article which I would like to
mention. The position of "OCA coordinator" no longer
exists. Presently there is a 15 member Board or Directors
which run the group OCA. These 15 people are doing a fantastic job. I'm thrilled to work with a group of such inventive and imaginative people. They are the ones that brought
you the OCA Night at W.T.'s and will continue to
enlighten the campus with "Downtown" (the newsletter).
The Board of Directors are working on many new and exciting projects for off-campus students and the Albany
community at large. There is, however, a new position in
the Student Association Executive Branch that is the OffCampus Coordinator, this is the position that I hold. As
Off-Campus Coordinator I deal with all "ofr-campus affairs", represent off-campus student views on different
committees and Task Forces, work on women's safety
issues, initiate off-campus projects, and 1 work
cooperatively with the Board of Directors as an ex officio
member. At this point I can say mat tnc on-campus student
population couldn't be served by a more dedicated and caring groups of people.
— Suzy Auletta
— Student Association Off-Campus Coordinator
Tenure policy
To the Editor:
I read with considerable interest the lengthy article in the
November 22 ASP concerning teaching and tenure.
Perhaps Professor Taylor's "dramatic condemnation" will
generate some serious discussion of the nature and function
of classroom teaching in a university setting.
For my contribution to that discussion I would like to
turn to an ancient academic tradition and announce my
willingness to defend in public debate the following
"theses" about university teaching. I only ask that some
person other than myself make the arrangements for such
a debate and that we be guaranteed an audience of at least
five people. Here are my theses.
1. In any large randomly selected group of faculty there
is a small group readily recognized as superior teachers and
another small group easily identified as teaching disasters;
most faculty fall in between.
2. It's easy to reward the small group of superior
teachers.
3. We should (and probably do) get rid of the disasters
before they are awarded tenure.
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4. Hopelessly incompetent teachers with tenure pose a
problem, but it can be (and has been) dealt with without
destroying the tenure system.
5. We spend too much time trying to make distinctions
among the great middle group of teachers.
6. We spend too much time assessing teaching and too little time improving it.
7. The best hope for improved university teaching is professorial self-improvement in the middle group, and peer
discussion offers the best prospects for professorial selfimprovement.
8. Since a university is committed to expanding
knowledge as well as transmitting it, tenured professors at
SUNY Albany should and do meet minimum standards of
competence in both teaching and research.
9. In promotion and salary adjustments at a university, ,
scholarly productivity should be somewhat more importair
than teaching.
10. It is somewhat easier to assess the quality to scholat
ship than that of teaching, but not much.
11. We spend too much time assessing teaching and to
little time understanding the learning process; the teacher i
only one and probably not the most important part of th.
learning process.
12. Despite their 55-hour work weeks, most university
professors pay too little attention to teaching. But mosl
also pay too little attention to scholarship.
13. Class size is only one factor, and a minor one, in the
learning process.
There they arc! Obviously if I were a true reformer I
would have at least 95 theses and would be attaching them
to the door of the Lecture Center!
—Kendall Birr
Professor of History
Generic society
To the Editor:
Jim Capozzola's article tilled "A No Frills Look at a
Plain Labelled World" suggests that a generic society
would be simpler and better than a choice-oriented one,
and I strongly disagree. While capitalism may have some
serious Daws inherent in its practice, one of Its best features
is the diversity of commodities, entertainment, and even
universities that it tends to generate. Anybody with at least
a minimum of imagination realizes how much more interesting it is to be able to choose among many different
products than among generic brands.
)
Can you seriously imagine walking into the store and I
having to "choose" one generic product over another to'
satisfy your particular need or fancy instead of choosing
from several products that have some fancied difference,
and are offered for that same need or desire? Suppose you'
don't like a product in a generic-based society, what do you
do then? If it doesn't do the trick, or only partially does,
there is no where else to turn. Can you imagine taking your
girlfriend out for dinner on your anniversary to the
"Special Generic Hot Food Restaurant"? (I can't either.)
Or perhaps to the generic movie theatre?
What about institutions of higher learning? The articles
cites Albany State as being the ideal generic-type university
because of its simplicity, relative cheapness and quality of
education. While the latter are true, what about the
simplicity of buildings? They all have the same exact structure and color patterns, making locating particular
buildings at first an ordeal and more difficult than at most
other universities. And the dorms, forget about the dorms!
What if somebody does not like generic Albany State,
because he or she is looking for something different? Well,
thankfully there are thousands of universities across the nation to choose from, many of which specialize in a particular area of education, Albany is a very fine university
for you, only if it caters to your particular academic needs
and interests.
Copazzola makes one very valid point in saying that even,
generic brands arc becoming labelled. This is where one'
capitalistic drawback comes to play. Even if we were
somehow able to reach a generic society, competition
would eventually evolve among generic companies that
would cause some to go out of business. Soon there would
be monopolistic generic brands causing higher prices. The
end result will make a generic society self-defeating and its
purposes unattaincd. Many people will still find the cost of
generic brands tough to meet, while those people with more
money will be able to buy the higher quality generic brands.
Morevcr, at the same time the overall quality of products
will probably be lower and cause more dissatisfaction, since
the prices of generic products will tend lo be more stable,
even at higher prices, increasing the quality of the product
will not be in harmony with the firm's goal of maximization
of profits.
Call me conservative if you wish, but I tend to think that
' expensive" or diversified brands tend to coexist very well
on the market with the new arising generic or department
store brands that can now be found in most industries. For
the cost and simplicity conscious consumer, there is the
generic brand(s), and for the quality conscious consumer,
there are the diversified brands.
It is apparent that a generic society would create more
problems than it would solve. Sure choices present more
complexity, maybe even more cost, but it is well worth the
pricel
— Steven Bashker
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GOP gains new members on Berkeley campus
Berkeley, CA
/ CP S) _ By all rights, Mike Weintraub should be suffering a special
kind of hell.
For Weintraub has the unlikely
job of heading the University of
California-Berkeley chapter of the
College Republicans, and finding
some way tq organize a meaningful
student vote for the Republicans
' even as the Democrats hold their
national convention in nearby San
Francisco.
But Weintraub is happy. His
group has money in the bank, about
• 100 members signed up, a visible
on-campus campaign, and
reasonable hopes of doubling his
membership as he gears up for
1984.
The Young Democrats chapter,
meanwhile, can muster 20 students
on a good day is a little short of
money, and worries about "constricting" people if it tightens its
organization's structure.
So il is going around the country
as Ihc two mainstream student
political groups prepare for the
1984 presidential campaign in this
season of lining up volunteers and
registering voters.
"Our people are very excited and
raring to go," says Jack Abramoff,
president of t h e College
Republicans National Committee in
• Washington, D.C.
"The Democrats," he adds, "arc
constantly killing each other with
internal strife,"
While "strife" may be too strong
a word, the Young Democrats
group does have to balance Ihc feelings of students who may like different Democratic candidates.
." George McGoverh and Gary
/.Hart are making more of a play for
(students,".points out Haiti Grogan
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uprising to start attracting tear gas
in the near future, either.
Abramoff discounts the effects
of last week's massacre of some 200
Americans in Beirut and' the
American invasion of Granada.
"Just about everyone supports
what we're doing in Lebanon," he
says. "The Granada thing. . . well,
clearly the left will activate itself
and whoop and holler. But I don't
think you'll find any Vietnam War
hysteria."
Grogan is more circumspect.
"Right now (those events) are so far
removed. No one really knows what
to think about them yet. I don't
know how they might affect the
campaign."
•
Convict causes concern at UNC
(CPS) Starting in January, a convicted killer may be starting classes
at the University of Northern Colorado, and UNC President Robert
Dickcson doesn't like it.
Many other college presidents
and campus security officials probably wouldn't like it either, but
there arc probably "thousands" of
convicted criminals out on workrelease programs on the nation's
campuses, suggests Dan Keller,
head of the University of
Louisville's police and the nationwide Campus Crime Prevention
Programs.
Dickeson protests that having
Thomas Courtney, convicted last
year of negligent homicide in (he
killing of two people, on campus
without being consulted before he
arrives raises "serious questions"
about being able to maintain campus security.
Dickeson wants the Colorado
legislature to review all its prison
work-release rules, a process some
corrections officials fear could
defeat the whole purpose of the
.vork-release program.
UNC
found out about
Courtney's enrollment "through
the media and the campus radio station," said university spokesman
Tom Barber.
"Once a person has paid his debt
to society, I'm not sure it's appropriate" to inform a school of a
student's criminal record, Keller
said. "But when they're on workrelease, I think campus law enforcement should be informed, and I
think the responsibility (for informing) should be in the corrections
facilities."
Keller adds prison officials don't
always want to tell schools about
work-release students because it
might hurt the prisoner's reintegration into society.
"Convicted felons don't have
many rights," agreed Darrel
Semler, an attorney with the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, "but they do
have rights of privacy. If you did
tell (administrators) about these
prisoners, you'd violate their
privacy rights."
But Keller also points out that "a
lot of students, including these people, are often employed by colleges
in sometimes rather sensitive areas"
where valuables are stored, drugs
may be kept, or even in dorms,
where people arc often vulnerable.
Most campus police forces, he
said, don't have the facilities to
screen the criminal records of all the
students their colleges may be
employing at any one time.
Nominations will be open
from Dec. 5-9
Applications will be available in
the Contact Office and in the
Student Association Office CC116
"This is our chance to make
the decisions "
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groups from which to choose.
"Democrats," Cogan observes,
"aren't usually that politically enthusiastic anyway."
But students have always been
the volunteer backbone of political
campaigns, and Grogan believes the
level of student interest in the campaigns is still high.
"Students are always more
(politically) active than youths in
general," she says. "Student activism in the sense of volunteerism
is higher than it probably has been
since the sixties, but people don't
notice as much when we're not getting tear gas thrown at us."
Neither Abramoff nor Grogan
expects any sort of major student
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The College Republicans at
Berkeley charge their members
$3.50 a year in dues, of which 75
cents goes to the state organization,
They also have run small-scale
direct mail fundraisingcampaigns,
have gotten donations from "promincnl local Republicans," and arc
selling knit shirts that sport the
Republican elephant at ihc breast,
Weintraub says.
The Young Democrats charge
their members 50 cents a meeting.
and get 75 cents from the national
Democratic organization for each
person they get to register as a
Democrat, Cogan says.
The Republican tactics clearly
have been more successful in signing up and keeping members.
Grogan claims the Young Dems
have about 250 campus units nationwide, to which some 1,500
students belong. Abramoff says\
there are now 1,000 College
Republican chapters, with some
125,000 members.
"We're the only conservative
political group on campus," Weintraub explains, adding that
students, especially at Berkeley,
have a wide assortment of liberal
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the Young Dems' national president. "None of the candidates is
really monopolizing the student
vote, though. I'd have thought one
of them would have by now. But
there is no student candidate, no
one who has really touched the
hearts and minds of students across
the nation."
At Berkeley, for example, Young
Democrats Vice President Ram
Cogan. is for Hart, but carefully
avoids driving Mondale, Glenn and
other candidate supporters away by
calling his group "non-partisan."
"If you make it less formal,"
Cogan explains of his group, "people will be less intimidated. You can
still have a good time doing it."
The Republicans, by contrast, are
"sometimes too organized," Weintraub says. While adding that
members can work for any candidate during the primaries, Weintraub doesn't seem to doubt that
Ronald Reagan will be the
Republican nominee.
" W e clearly have unity,"
Abramoff adds.
The Republicans arc spending
their time until the nominee is picked registering voters — Abramoff
hopes to sign up a million
Republican students voters by next
November — and raising money.
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DECEMBER 2,1983 D ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
States protest $6.7 billion telephone rate hikes
Washington
(AP) Telephone companies nationwide are
asking for a record $6.7 billion worth of proposed rate increases, but state regulators have
been turning down many more requests than
they're approving.
A survey by the Associated Press, conducted over the past three weeks, revealed the
huge number of requests filed by either Bell
System companies or independent phone
companies, such as affiliates of the GTE
Corp.
But the survey also found that some
telephone companies are having a hard time
winning their cases. Figures compiled by the
Federal Communications Commission and
the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
show that as of Oct. 13, state commission.'
had rejected 62 percent of the Bell System
rate boost proposals they had reviewed.
If that pattern of authorizing only 38 per-
f
cent of what is requested holds up, consumers would face roughly $2.55 billion in
• local telephone rate increases in addition to
the $1.5 billion already cleared this year.
The $6.7 billion figure tabulated through
the survey is solely for local rate increases
and does not Include proposed "access
charges" or other fees tied to the provision of
long-distance service, either interstate or in-'
trastate.
The rate increases are defended by
telephone executives as essential to reflect
faster depreciation of equipment; to earn
larger profits to attract investors, and to shift
to more "efficient pricing— charging
customers on the basis of use, just as is the
case with natural gas or electricity.
"With the removal of subsidies from our
industry, it's really important that our prices
be based, on our costs— that the individual
services pay their own way," says Tom
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Leweck, a spokesman for General Telephone
of California, which has a $221.1 million rate
boost pending.
Following orders of the Federal Communications Commission, every local phone
company in the country has proposed to
begin levying a $2-a-month access fee on consumers next year. That fee would be paid by
all consumers to help replace subsidies for
local service that are now collected through
interstate long-distance rates.
The interstate access fees will cost consumers an estimated $2 billion in 1984.
Legislation is pending in Congress to block
the access fees.
The legislation, however, would not prevent local telephone companies from pursuing their local rate increases or "intrastate access fees—" monthly fees that are levied to
replace subsidies contained in long-distance
rates for calls that don't cross the boundaries
of a state.
The AP survey and data obtained from the
Bell System show there arc at least 18 states
where local phone companies arc proposing
to duplicate the FCC-mandated access fee
with an intrastate fee.
Those requests total some $934 million.
When those proposed fees are added to the
pending rate increases for local service, excluding the FCC-mandated fee, state
regulators arc actually grappling with more
than $7.6 billion in rate boost requests.
Most of the rate increase proposals for
local service, in dollar terms, have been filed
by Bell System companies and approximately
$5.8 billion is still pending. The GTE Corp.,
the nation's second largest telephone company, reports its affiliates have roughly
$461.3 million in local rate increase requests
pending. The U.S. Telephone Association,
which represents independent telephone companies, says its members had $469.67 million
pending as of July 31, excluding GTE.
The local service proposals, excluding all
access charges, are not spread evenly. They
range from highs of $1.18 billion in California, $775 million in New York and $524
million in Texas, to $279 million in Ten-
nessee, $257 million in Pennsylvania and
$217.4 million in Alabama.
When intrastate access charges are added,
some of those numbers rise much higher. The
pending rate hike request in Texas, for example, jumps from $524 million to $691 million;
Pennsylvania, from $257 million to $279
million, and Alabama, $217.4 million to $307
million.
In 16 states; Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Vermont and Washington; plus the
District of Columbia, there are no pending
rate boosts for local service. In most, that's
simply because local regulators granted increases earlier this year.
In some of those states, however, notably
Oregon, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan
and Washington, rate increases tied to intrastate access are still before state
regulators.
The effects of the proposed rate boosts, if
granted, would also vary widely depending
upon what type of local service a consumer
takes. The sharpest increases, in some cases a
proposed doubling of rates, will be faced by
consumers who want the right to dial an
unlimited number of local calls each
month— the most common option.
For ex mplc, the Pacific Telephone &
Tclcgrapi
'i.'s request in California, if
granted in lull, would boost basic rales for
unlimited dialing from $7 a month to $14.50
a month.
In New Mexico, Mountain Bell's basic
unlimited rates in some towns could jump as
much as $17.64— from $8.25 a month lo
$25.89. In Kansas, Southwestern Bell's basic
rates would jump from $9.65 a month to
$22.60 a month.
In other states, the proposed increases are
much smaller. In Montana, Mountain Bell's
rates for basic service would rise from $13.45
a month to $17.05 a month. In Utah, the rate
would rise from $10 to $12.10 a month, and
in Idaho, from $10.63 a month to $12.68 per
month.
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landmark i case in gay student
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as official organizations on private
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Enforcing the act "in this case
places a burden on Georgetown's
free exercise of religion as set forth
In the First Amendment," Bacon
said.
Georgetown gays say they'll appeal the ruling to a higher court.
"There are great grounds for
overturning the decision," asserts i f £ * M ¥ ' f * + J » j | i * > j > » . * ^
Ronald Bogard, the students'
lawyer. Bacon "offered a rather
bizarre reason (for overriding D.C.
law)."
If the decision docs stand, he said
it "suggests that city ordinances
around the nation are powerless
against religious institutions. They
can discriminate, and say that the
law doesn't apply to them."
The gay groups at Georgetown
sued in 1980 after their year-long
battle to gain official recognition
through normal channels failed.
Getting official recognition
would guarantee them on-campus
office space, mailing services, and
the chance to apply for student activities funding.
Georgetown's lawyers had
argued that Catholic doctrine views
homosexuality as "gravely evil"
and "morally wrong," and that
recognizing the group would be an
act of apostacy.
"Official subsidy and support of
a gay student group would be interpreted by many as an endorsement
of the gay movement," explains
William Schuerman, GU's associate
dean of students.
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24 Sports
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS n DECEMBER 2,1983
Sports 25
Men swimmers split; travel to McGill tomorrow
By Adam Goodman
STAFF
WRITER
This weekend, the Albany State
men's swim team, coming o f f o f
two impressive outings, will travel
across the border to Canada, t o
take part in the McGill Invitational.
The Danes opened their dual
meet season with a strong 73-37 victory over Harlwick. However, the
Danes got off to somewhat o f an i n auspicious start, dropping two out
of the first three meet events, sandwiching a victory In the 100-yard
freestyle, led by Frank Cawley's
season best time of 11:24.56, between Hartwick's two victories.
Those two victories for Harlwick,
whose swimming program does not
e»en come close to the school's'
pcrcnially strong soccer program,
were lo.be their last, as Albany won
Ihe final 10 events.
The Danes began the onslaught
with perhaps their strongest race of
Ihc day, Ihe 50-yard freestyle, as
Fred Greenbaum and co-caplain
Bill Meier took first and second,
with impressive times of :23.0 and
:23.3 respectively. It was a great
day for Greenbaum, only a
freshman, as he came back later in
Ihe meet lo win Ihc 100-yard
freestyle, again with an impressive
lime of :50.9. Jeff Kennedy was
mm
another two time victor, as he walked away with first place finishes in
the 200-yard individual medley
(2:11.26) and the 200-yard butterfly
(2:17.16). Albany took the lead in
the meet by sweeping the diving
competition, led by freshman sensation Mike Vardy and Mike Cano.
Freshman Ted Ober became
Albany's third two-time winner on
the day by winning the 200-yard
breaslrokc, after winning the
200-yard backstroke. The Danes
capped off the meet by winning the
400-yard free-relay, with a team of
Kennedy, Greenbaum, Andres
Morola, and Mike Wright.
Albany's next opponent was New
Paltz, a strong team that finished
far ahead of the Danes at the Great
Dane Relays. Albany knew Dial
they were in for a much tougher
battle than their previous victory.
" G o i n g into Ihc meet, I ivas really
looking just for some good races
and good times," conceded Head
Coach Joe Shore. The Danes did
drop this meet, bul through I I of
the first 13 events, they were right In
there.
Things started o f f very well for
Ihc Danes, as they opened the mccl
with a victory In Ihe 400-yard
medley relay, with an amazing time
o f 3:53.93, bolter Mian Albany's
best time last year. In that race
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Greenbaum swam the backstroke,
breast stroke, b u t t e r f l y , and
freestyle, respectively. There were
many oilier bright spots for the
Danes.
" W a l l y " Meier swam his personal best in Ihc 100-yard freestyle,
with a time of :50.9. Albany swept
the 200 individual medley, with the
winning combination of Kennedy
and Ober. Kennedy also recorded a
great time o f 2:12.10 in the 200-yard
backstroke, but was just nosed out.
Wright and Meier teamed with Rich
Geiles and Tom Handy to finish
with a good time o f :50.4 in the
400-yard free-relay. Coach Shore
also pointed out the improved time
of Scon Geschwer in the 200-yard
freestyle. New Paltz, known for
their good I'rccslylers, swept all five
of the freestyle events, ouiscoring
the Danes 40-5 in those races combined.
" I am very pleased with our performance against New Paltz," said
Shore. He also noted'that minus the
freestyle events, ihc Danes would
have won easily.
Tomorrow, the Danes will be in
Quebec, for Ihe 10-leam McGill Invitational, Canadian schools are
ndl as c o n s c i e n t i o u s
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size, so Albany may be lacing learns
outside of the Division III level.
" W e will gel lots of championship
experience, and some real good
c o m p e t i t i o n , ' ' S h o r e said . I I
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we add another one. W e s h o u l d not
remain s t a g n a n t , but
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and Jewish life.
C h a n u k a h marks the J e w i s h
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STUDENT PRESS a DECEMBER 2,1983
DECEMBER 2,1983 • ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
JV Danes rout Hartwick to remain undefeated
By Dean Chang
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Win and loss records don't mean
that much to a junior varsity team,
or so they say. Try to tell that to the
4-0 Albany State men's jv basketball team,
The Danes defeated Hartwick
86-50 Monday night in a game
where the final score was indicative
of the difference in the quality of
the two teams. Surprisingly, Hartwick was only down 30-21 at
halftimc,
"I don't think we were rheritally
prepared in the first half," said
point guard Duane Corlcy. According to Head Coach Jim Boland,
that would.be taking it loo lightly.
"We probably played our worst
defense of the year in that half,"
said Boland. "II was hard to get
them motivated. I'm sure that the
half was as boring for the players to
play as it was Tor me to watch."
In the second half, though, the
Danes quit fooling around. A more
aggressive, overplaying Danes
defense greeted Hartwick in a rude
fashion. "We were obviously much
quicker," said Boland. "We used
that to our advantage in the second
half, getting Quite a few steals. Our
defense as a whole was also very
good. The only reason they scored
29 second -half points was because
we got sloppy in the latter stages of
the game."
Charles Storey came off the
bench and pressured the Hartwick
guards effectively, showing that cocaptain Corley isn't the only guard
who can cause turnovers. Storey
was also effective offensively; he
connected on five of his six field
goal attempts for 10 points. Corley
was 8 for 11 from the field for 18
points while co-captain Chris Jones
hit 8 of 12 for a game-high 19
points.
The Danes played a strong inside
game thanks to. Scott Neumann.
Making his second start of the
season, Neumann pulled down II
rebounds in his finest performance
to date. '-Scott was just knocking
people around," said Boland. "He
' did a great job clearing the defensive boards. It's good to know that
we have someone other than Chris
• Jones who can play inside."
Albany got its third win of the
year against Hudson Valley Communis College last Tuesday night,
67-62. The outcome of the game
was still in doubt with less than two
minutes left. Once again, Neumann
played a pivotal role. With Albany
nursing a three-point lead,
Neumann drove the baseline, got
fouled and made the three-point
play.
Grapplers host Cortland, Bingham ton tomorrow
their playing time limited because
of early fouls they picked up. In
came reserves Neumann and John
Gore. "Those two did a great job
replacing Chris and Curtis," said
Boland. "We didn't lose that much
when we put them in."
Still, if Jones and Oliver hadn't
got into foul trouble, the game
might not have been so close. The
Danes were effective in getting the
ball inside to the two big men; both
players were scoring seemingly at
will. "The only reason Chris only
scored 16 was because he got into
foul trouble," said Boland. "Curtis
also could have done better."
Oliver shot five for six for 10
points.
By Marc Herman
ASSOClA TE SPOR TS EDITOR
The Albany State wrestling team will try to
overcome their youthful inexperience when
they go up against highly-ranked Cortland
and Binghamton in a triangular meet, tomorrow afternoon at the University Gym.
The Dane wrestlers will first face Cortland
at 2:00 p.m. and immediately following the
conclusion, will meet Binghamton. The triple
dual meet will start off at 1 p.m. with Cortland taking on Binghamton.
The young Dane wrestlers are coming off a
solid performance in their first dual meet last
week versus the pefenially weak RPI squad.
In the process of routing the Engineers 48-4,
the Danes only dropped one of the matches.
The Danes featured a balanced
scoring attack; six players scored
seven or more points. Shootingwise, Albany was a little off the
mark, hitting 47 percent of their
field goal attempts. Corlcy scored
In the first half, the Danes had 13 points, but didn't have a good
some trouble with HVCC's ofr shooting night. "Despite haying an
guard, Ricky Link. No matter what off night defensively, Duane really
defense the Danes threw at Hudson showed his leadership in the late
Valley, Link was able to score. stages of the game," said Boland.
Against the zone, Link got off easy "As a team, we proved that we can
shots; man-to-man was equally in- beat a good opponent even if we're
not shooting well."
effective.
In what has become the Danes'
"He's a good player," commented Corlcy. "It was tough guar- trademark this year, the team sleepding him when he come to my side walked through another first half
(of the zone)." Link finished the against Hudson Valley. The incon- '
sislency baffles Coach Boland.
half with 16 points.
The Danes had to overcome two "We come out looking horrible and The JV Danes will try to extend their unbeaten streak against
problems when they came out in the them we look like world-beaters," Williams College on the road Saturday afternoon.
second half: Link and foul trouble. he said. "We arc one of the
Boland switched his defense to a 3-2 streakiest teams around." Luckily scored; . . Corley leads the team Hudson Valley, Neumann may
zone with one man guarding Link at for the Danes, the hot streaks seem with an average of 18.3 have played his way on to the starall times. One problem down, one to come just at the right time. .
ppg. . . Last night the Danes travel- ting five for good. . . On Saturday,
to go. Jones and Curtis Oliver, the
ed to West Point to play their the Danes will once again go on the
two men that the Danes rely on to RIM SHOTS: Against Hartwick, toughest opponent so far. . . After road to face Williams College in
provide inside scoring punch, had every
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But Head Coach Joe DeMco realizes this
year's team is not in the same class as his
previous powerhouse top-10 ranked squads.
With only two returning starters from last
year back, DcMeo is dealing with a young
team that will be going through a rebuilding
program this season.
"I was happy by the performance against
RPI but we still have an inexperienced team
and we still have a long way to come along,"
said DeMco.
DeMco just last week returned from
Europe with Dane wrestlers Andy Seras and
freshman Sean Sheldon, who are both trying
out for the 1984 Olympic team along with the
rest of the Adirondack wrestling club, a unit
DeMco also coaches.
Scras is redshirting this season for the
Danes to concentrate all his efforts to making
the Olympic squad. In this recent International tournament held in Italy, Seras finish-
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the way he pinned a former world champion
from Poland and also eked out a 3-1 decision
over a European champion from Hungary.
"His chances of making the Olympics are
excellent," said Demco, who starts in his
fifth year as head coach at Albany State after
12 years coaching Stanford. "Naturally, It
hurts the team because he's been one of the
top wrestlers I've coached. His goal has
always been winning a gold (medal).'.'
Meanwhile, Sheldon is making an attempt
to do both, trying out for the Olympics while
also wrestling for Albany.
The Dane wrestlers will be facing Cortland at 2 p.m. tomorrow and Binghamton at
3:30 p.m. in the triangular meet at University Gym.
According to DcMeo, Sheldon feels he
could handle the two different styles of
wrestling: Grecoroman — used in international competition — and freestyle — used
only in the U.S.A.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Danes will not
be necessarily looking for a sweep of their
two meets but DeMeo would like to see some
improvement in the younger wrestlers, If
there is a chance of a victory, it will be
against Cortland.
For the Danes to beat them, they will need
three pins from their three lighter weight class
wrestlers, junior Dave Ayerill — the Danes'
leadinu wrestler—John Balog, and also
Sheldon. If not, Albany will have to come up
with some upsets from his more inexperienc• ed heavier weight classes.
"I'm used to the pressure because I'm a
junior" said Avcrill, referring to the team
relying on him for a pin." I guarantee a pin
against Cortland."
Another key match will involve Albany's
only senior, Doug Slater. If he could pull off
a victory at the 167 pound weight class, along
with the three needed pins from Avcrill,
Balug, and Sheldon, the Danes have a shot at
defeating Cortland, according to Dcmeo.
"If all that happens and the other guys
hang in tough and keep their matches close,
we could win," said DeMeo.
Binghamton will come into tomorrow's
meet noliceably stronger than last year's
ISth-rankcd learn.
"They're going to be ranked higher Ihis
year," noted DeMeo. "I'd say they'll be
about fifth at the end of the season."
Said Avcrill: "They're a powerhouse. We
whipped their pants off lasl year and they're
sure looking for revenge."
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Women swimmers trounce NewPaltz to go 5-0
By Michael Skolnick
STAFF WRITER
The women's swimming learn raised its
record to an undefeated 5-0 with an impressive victory in a meet at New Paltz lasl
Wednesday. The performance of Ihe relay
teams along with outstanding individual efforts have been the key to their winning
record.
The score against New Paltz was 79-56, a
blowout in which some seasonal best times
were recorded. The 200-yard medley team of
Kris Monahan, Linda Ccrky, Carole Elie and
Sheila Filzpatrick set a season best time of
2.04:95. "It is unusual to see such good times
Ihis early in the season," remarked Coach
Joe Shore. "This can only mean lhat our
limes will improve as the season progresses."
Carol Pearl has been a consistent performer for the squad all year. She continued
to rack up points for the leant, winning the
200- and 100-yard freestyle in limes of
2:10.03 and 1:00.09. Mary Ann Schmidt has
also been lurning in good limes lately; against
New Pallz she won the 200-yard individual
medley in a personal best time of 2:31.01 and
the 50-yard breastslrokc in a lime of 35:94.
Improving her time this year as well is
veteran swimmer Ellen Gottlieb. In the
100-yard butterfly, she finished second in a
time of 1:07.31, which was 4 tenths of a sc-
SPORTS BRIEFS
Union in finals
JSC Hillel Presents.
Sports 27
The Union College football team will be
competing in the Division III National
Championship game on National television
this Saturday in the Amos Alonzo Stagg
Bowl against Augustana. The game will be
aired by channel 10 beginning at 12:00
noon.
The Dutchmen defeated Hofslra Iwo
Saturdays ago in the quarterfinals, and lasl
Saturday beat host Salisbury Stale 23-21 lo
reach the championship game. The Duichmen defeated Albany 24-7 earlier Ihis
year on their way to a 9-1 regular season
record.
Upcoming events
The Albany Great Danes return lo action
tomorrow night after a 10-day layoff when
l"cy visit ihc Stony Brook Patriots beginn"}t at 7:30 pm. The Danes were beaten by
Inc Hartwick Warriors 74-51 In their lasl
game on November 22, and they are looking to bounce back from thai game and improve on their 2-1 season mark. All the action can be heard over 91 FM WCDB...Thc
women's basketball team will travel to
Manhattanville College to compete in the
Manhattanville Invitational tomorrow and
Sunday...The men's jv basketball team hits
; « road for the sixth straight game when
'fey visit Williams College tomorrow after-
noon beginning at 4:00 pm...Thc wrestling
team will host a three-way mcel against
Binghamton and Conland tomorrow afternoon in University Gym beginning al 1:00
pm...The unbeaten (5-0) women's swim
team will compete along with ihc men's
team in the McGill Invitational on the road
today and tomorrow...The women's gymnastics team will open their season tonight
at 7:30 pm with a mcel against Hunter College here in University Gym...The Albany
Ice hockey learn will face Siena in llicir second game of Ihc year Monday niglu 111
10:30 pm at Center City Rink in Schenectady.
cond off her best time ever. In the 100-yard
backstroke event, Monahan and Wendy
Cedar finished second and third, respectively.
The squad's mosl challenging mcel of the
season came at home against Hartwick on
November 21. The learn got off to a poor
start, but came from behind and won 59-46.
Going into the last relay, the score was 52-46
in Albany's favor. The relay was a winnerlake-all event worth seven poinls and it was
this relay that decided the outcome in
Albany's favor.
After nine out of 13 events, Albany trailed
Hartwick 44-31. In the last four events
Albany outscored the Warriors 28-2. Beginning with the 500-yard freestyle, Smith and
Filzpatrick finished 1-2 respectively in times
of 5:53.34 and 5:58.52. Jane Klotz won the
3-meter diving in "a very clutch and crucial
performance," according to Shore.
In the 100-yard breastslrokc, Schmidt won
in a time of 1.19:37 and Cerky finished sccond in a lime of 1.20:34. This set up the con-
cluding event, ihe 200-yardfrcestylc relay and
the learn of Monahan, Gottlieb, Smith and
Pearl won the meet winning in a time of
1.49:40. Coach Shore was very pleased, saying, "It was a good win for us and it showed
we have the ability to swim well under
pressure."
Some other good performances were turned in by Elie, who won Ihe 100-yard butterfly
in a time of 1.08:48. In the 100-yard frecslyie,
Pearl finished second in a lime of 58:37,
which was 3 lenths of a second off the school
record.
Upcoming this weekend for the team is the
McGill Invitational in Montreal with both
Canadian and American colleges competing.
Next week there are meets at home against
R.P.I, and at Plattsburgh.
"We are looking to the Plattsburgh mcel
as lough competition and we're getting ready
for them. So far this year I've been thrilled at
our performances and I am sure we will be
improving both our times and our record,"
notes Shore.
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Bowling results
The Albany women's A leant losl lo
Albany Business College 3-1, The Albany
women's B team ended up in a deadlock
Willi ihc College of Si. Rose 2-2.
Barb Wollman of Albany Business College shot 227 lo lake over ilic high game in
the women's division.
In Capilal District Collegiate Bowling
Conference action lasl night, the Albany
men's A team raised its first place record lo
15-1 by beating Albany Business College'
3-1. Dennis Hewitt bowled a 584 scries including a 212 game. The Albany men's B
team beat Junior College of Albany 1-0 by
forfeit. The Albany men's C team beat
Siena 4-0 also by default.
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Danes look to bounce back against Stony Brook
I've seen him work," he said.
By Keith M a r d e r
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITCM
After an emotion-packed weekend which
saw (hem beat local rival Union in the championship game o f the Capital District Tournament, the Albany Stale men's basketball
team suffered a major letdown by losing io
Harlwick 74-51 the following Tuesday,
November 22. This loss dropped the Danes'
season record to 2 - 1 .
As for Stony Brook the Danes will have
their hands full with 6 ' 4 " forward Gregory
Angrum and 6''9" center David Burda.
According to Sauers, Angrum is the best
athlete on the team whose only question
, He is a good peneirator and
has the ability to handle the ball like a guard.
A very good lcaper, Angrum can post lip
most forwards and must be boxed oul
especially on the offensive boards. Thomas
and Adam Ursprung will have to continue
their strong play on the boards to, neutralize
him.
Hartwick is a team rich in talcnl with an .
abundance in size. They have f o u r ' o f five
starters back from last year's squad which
made the N C A A s . Their three starting front
court men are all over 6 ' 6 " and their guards
measure 6 ' 4 " and 6 ' 0 " . The Danes just
couldn't match up. with this size.
" W e play a 1-3-1 zone defense; i f you have
the right personnel with the big point guard .
you can do i t , " said Hartwick Coach Nick
Lambros. " W e had a 6 ' 7 " guy on ( 5 ' 7 "
Dane point guard Dan) Croutier."
Lale in the first half the Danes fought their
way back into the game. Down by lour with
1:21 left in the half, Jan Zadoorian crashed
the offensive boards and was fouled. Before
he could shoot his shots Jerry O'drady was
hit with a.tcchnical. This gave Albany an opportunity to cut the deficit to one with
possession of the ball. Zadoorian missed the
front end of the one and one, and Croutier
converted the technical; Albany then didn't
cash in on the ensuing possesion. A Wilson
Thomas jumper at the buzzer capped o f f a
7-2 Albany streak right before hall'lime with
the score Hartwick 28, Albany 25.
Burda is a big muscular center who is not
afraid to pull the trigger. He too must be
boxed o u l . This will keep Pele Gosule, John
Mracek, and Greg Hart busy all nighl long in
a bailie underneath. He is not too mobile but
is not shy about dribbling in from the wing.
The rest of their starting team, according
lo Saucrs, is Brian Reed, a 6 ' 3 " forward who
only looks l o shopl o f f the break; Pete Axclson, a good shooter whose major flaw is
that he needs a lot 6f time l o get his shot off.
Axclson is an agrcssive defensive player who
has trouble handling the ball against
pressure. Their point guard is Keith Walker
who is extremely quick but doesn't look to
shoot.
Albany's guards should have no trouble
matching up against Stony Brook's guards as
Croutier and Dave Adam arc both quick
enough to pressure opposing guards into
making mistakes, which seems to be a major
problem for Stony Brook. This was exploited
by Stalen Island, who forced many turnovers
by using a lough trapping defense. Another
factor in the.Stalen Island game was the f a d
that Stony Brook fell apart when Angrum
was in foul trouble.
Coming o f f the bench Stony Brook has
6 ' 3 " sharp shooting forward in Tabarc Borban, and Andrew Vassel, a 5 ' 9 " guard who is
very quick but like VValker doesn't look
towards the basket.'
On defense Stony Brook plays a 2-3 which
is very agrcssive up front. They only try to
run occasionally, because I hey arc usually
trying lo set.up the offense for Burda.
In the second half Albany came out flat;
this enabled Hartwick to blow the game wide
open. Sharp shooting by the Warriors led to
Albany's defeat, as they shot 50 percent from
the floor and an astounding 16-16 from the
line in the second half.
" W e played like the season was over, on
Saturday," commented Albany Head Coach
Dick Saucrs. " O u r guards didn't control
their guards. We have alot of work to do
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before Stony B r o o k . "
Saucrs felt Thomas was one bright spot in Dave Adam and the rest ol the Great Danes will travel to Stony Brook and take on
defeat. "Wilson has been working as hard as the Patriots tomorrow night at 7:30.
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H O O P - L A : Stony Brook is mil a member of
the SLINY Conference— the Dunes open up
their conference schedule Wednesday night
against Mike Ptieynlyliik and the Oiiconlii
Red Dragons. . . Thomas led the Dunes in
scoring ugulnst Hartwick with 11 ami
Ursprung led them in rebounding with
7. . . The Dune guards shot a horrendous
9-33 while trying to shoot over Hurtwlek's
1-3-1 defense which h u d u 6 ' 7 " , u 6 ' 4 " , undo
6 ' 0 " player up on top... Tomorrow's gume
will be broadcast live on 91 KM W C D B
beginning at 7:30 p.m. with broadcasters
Adam Goodman and Steve Goldstein.
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By M a r k Wilgard
STAII WAITER
Last Tuesday, the Albany Slate women's
basketball learn turned in a lackluster performance against RPI and came up on the short
end of a 62-50 score. With a week o f f between that game and a meeting with
. S U N Y A C rival Oneonta, the women cagers
had hoped to strike back and push their
record over the .500 level. The Danes turned
in a fine defensive game and played Oneonta
tough most of the way. Bui there's one thing
any defense has trouble containing: 25-fool
j u m p shots from near the sidelines.
Thai's what did the Danes i n . Onconla's
Deanne Hendricks scored 15 of her 17 points
in the second half and led her team to a
come-from-behind 67-57 victory. Most of her
points were scored on those long-range shots.
" W e looked 100 percent better oul there
than we did against R P I , " remarked Albany
Head Coach Mari Warner. "Those type of
shots are tough l o slop. Once they got the
"momentum rolling in their favor, we slacked
o f f and let them get right in the game."
The Danes saw numerous leads evaporate
during the game. Albany eased up near the
end of ihe first half and blew an eight-point
lead, taking a 25-24 advantage into the locker
room.
" W e haven't been playing well under
pressure," commented Warner. ''When we
get the lead, we lend l o slow d o w n . "
The Danes held Oneonta scoreless ihe first
four minutes of the second half and built up
a 10-poinl lead. But once again Albany saw
their lead diminish and with eight minutes remaining, the game was all tied up. Oneonta
pulled away after that for lhc.67-57 win. .
" W e played a nice defensive game," statej
Warner. " I t was that one kid who hurt us,
plus our shots-just weren't falling."
Rainny Lesane led the Danes with 21
poinls. Ronnie Patterson had 12 points, and
Kim Kosalek added I I poinls and 8 re-*'
bounds.
Warner was quick to praise the Oneonta
club. "They arc a strong, well-balanced
learn. They may be Ihe icam to beat in the
SUNYACs."
ED MARUSSICH UPS
The women's basketball team dropped games to API and Oneonta setting their
season record at 1-2. They will travel to Manhattanville tomorrow.
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NYPIRG reveals toxic waste dum6 near campus
By Eric H i n d i n
STAFF IIRITEH
New York's environment is being polluted
by tens o f thousands o f toxic landfills, industrial discharges, and other sources o f
chemical contamination, according l o the
New York Public Interest Research Group
( N Y P I R G ) . Albany County is no exception,,
adds Patty C i a r f c l l a , a member o f
NYPIRO's S U N Y A chapter.
The map indicates locations o f over 1000
known or potentially hazardous waste dumps in
New York Slate. N Y P I R G hopes l o increase
government action for the cleanup o f such sites.
One such dump is located less than a mile from
SUNYA.
N Y P I R G at S U N Y A sponsored a Toxic
Victims Forum in the Campus Center
Ballroom lasl Wednesday. According l o
Ciarfella, Ihcy arc presently participating in a
state wide effort aimed at an increase in
government action and programs for the
cleanup o f the many toxic waste dumps in
New York state.
One such dump, said Ciarfclla, is located
less than a mile from S U N Y A , and as such,
whatever harmful effects ihis dump has on its
surrounding community will also include
S U N Y A students living on the uptown campus.
N L Industries, according t o Ciarfclla,
formerly located on Central Avenue, was
shut down in 1979 when Ihe attorney general
brought suit against the company on behalf
on the Department of Energy and Conservation (DEC). In testing prior lo Ihis suit, N L ' s
properly was found to exceed federal safely
limits for toxic waslc dumping, explained
Ciarfella.
According to David Romano, the regional
Air Pollution Control Engineer for DEC, the
United Stales Department o f Energy was at
the site this fall to survey Ihe area. The results
of this survey, said Romano, should be made
public by the end o f the winter. The Depart:
menl of Energy will be back in the spring,
and at that lime, added Romano, there might
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be some cleanup. The timetable; Romano
said, is entirely up l o Ihe Federal Depart menl
of Energy. Though the slate does have a
lawsuit in progress against N L Industries,
this docs not affect plans for a cleanup of ihe
area, he noted.
Ciarfclla said thai the situation is more
serious than mosl people realize. N L Industries used what is called a "shallow waslc
b u r i a l , " lie noted, and Ciarfella charges that
NL Industries did not construct their burial
properly, and as such has infected their
porperty with dangerous radioactive uranium
U235.
According lo Dr. Albanics, o f the NewYork Stale Geological Survey, an organization lied to the Slate Education Department,
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Corporate policies in South Africa denounced
By Ian Clements
" I n Soulh Africa during Ihe lasl hour 1000
men were arrested, 500 babies died and one
American company made a profit of $5,000.
By Ihe lime 1 finish (the speech) I will show
that this campus has had something to do
with t h i s , " said Bojan Vuyisilc Jordan during
a speech Saturday at S U N Y A .
Jordan, president of the American-South
African Peoples' Friendship Associalion,
was one of a number of speakers al the Third
World Caucus Conference Ihis weekend.
The conference, sponsored by Ihe Student
Associalion o f the Slate Univcrsliy (SASU),
also featured a speech by Larry Curlis, a
SUNYA educational opportunity admissions
counselor.
" Y o u r companies are killing my people.
U.S. role escalated in Lebanon;
eight Marines killed in shelling
Albany is now I and 2 on the year, but
Warner says, " W e have lo look ahead and be
positive." 5 ' I I " center Nancy Grasso is due
back any day now, and "She'll give us that
extra rebounding strength and toughness we
need," said Warner.
Warner is not accustomed l o such a slow
Marl. Last year, the team won 11 of lis first
13 games before tailing o f f hear the end of
the season. Bui Warner said she and her
young Icam " w o u l d rather be peaking when
the post-season begins, instead of n o w . "
Nevertheless, the Greal Danes would like lo
generate-as soon as possible the kind of play
that made them Ihe Cinderella team o f lasl
year, when Ihcy finished with a season mark
of 13-7 and barely missed qualifying for the
New York State Championships.
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Women cagers drop games to RPI and Oneonta
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(AP) President Reagan, escalating the U.S.
role in Lebanon with the first air strikes
against Syrian gunners, says the United
Stales will keep hilling back in retaliation
for any attack on American forces in
Beirut.
Earlier Sunday, 28 U.S. warplnnes slaged
a retaliatory attack against Syrian antiaircraft positions thai had fired Saturday
on two unarmed U.S. Navy reconnaissance
planes flying over Lebanon.
T w o of the U.S. planes were downed and
one pilot was rescued after the raid, while
another flier was captured by Syrian forces.
Syria's defense minister said today a third
airman died of injuries.
The two pilots who fell in Syrian-held territory were identified as L t , Mark A .
Langc, 26, o f Frasicr, M i c h . , and L l .
Robert O. Goodman, 27, of Portsmouth,
N.H.
They were classified by Ihe Navy as missing bul Syria's defense minister, L l . Gen.
Mustafa Tlass, told The Associated Press in
a telephone interview thai Langc had died
and said the body would be turned over l o
the U.S. Embassy in Damascus " i n the
course o f the d a y . "
Regarding Goodman, who was captured,
Tlass said: " H e is in excellent condition, in
good health, suffering no injury of any
kind."
He said Interviews with Goodman would
be allowed "as soon as the investigation is
finished."
Asked when Goodman would be freed,
Tlass said: " L i k e in all wars, when war is
over. That is when Ihe Americans will leave
Lebanon."
The Pentagon gave no estimate o f
damage caused by the 1,000-pound bombs
and cluster bombs dropped by American
planes, but Syria said two of iis troopers
died and 10 were wounded, l l also said i i
losl an ammunition dump.
Even before Reagan could sound his war17»r
American companies gel oul of South Africa
n o w , " claimed Jordan. " Y o u r companies
are nothing bul murderers and Reagan is
murderer number o n e , " Jordan maintained.
" Y o u arc partly responsible for the
murder, tragedy and pain in South A f r i c a , "
lie told Ihe audience of approximately 40
people. He explained that the Stale University of New York invests in some U.S. companies which invest in Soulh Africa. These
businesses, he said, support the Soulh
African government which Jordan opposes.
" W e arc not fighting five million whiles (of
Soulh Africa), we arc lighting multinationals,.'' he emphasized.
He asked the audience lo pressure SUNY
lo stop investing in companies which have
Soulh African investments. He cited Ihe case
o f the Unvlersity o f Michigan, where
students pressured ihe school officials into
withdrawing investments from those companies will) Soulh African interests.
Jordan explained his anti-corporate stance
saying, " I n order lo slop prolesl Ihe South
African government needs money. U.S.
businesses supply money to buy guns."
He discussed ihe conditions of black people in his native land of South Africa. According to Jordan, black people may not vote or
participate on any lawmaking body. " T h e y
receive one-tenth the salary of their white
counterparts,'' he contended. " F o r every 50
babies born, 20 usually die before they are six
months o l d , " he said. The average life span
for a black person is 41 years, while for a
while person il is 67 years, stated Jordan.
He asserted that a white policeman, after
killing a black man in chains said, " W e don't
work under statutes."
Jordan compared Ihe situation in South
Africa to thai o f Iran shortly before
American hostages were taken. " W e are say-
ing l o American companies, 'gel away, run
away.' When we lake over, we'll have to give
protective custody to Americans. We'll have
lo put them in jail to protect them from the
anger of Ihe peole. We'll keep Ihem (here until the anger ends."
He called upon all blacks to work together
and support the itleas of " P a n - A f r i c a n i s m . "
According to Jordan. Pan-Africanism is a
"philosophy linking all blacks from all over
the w o r l d . "
He discussed Ihe "Sullivan Principles,"
which lie opposes. According lo Jordan these
principles call tor Ihe abolition of segregation
in Soulh Africa. "Soulh Africans don't want
lo share bathrooms or cat together with
whiles. We wanl our land and our freedom,"
he asserted. He called Sullivan, who is a
Philadelphia minister, a "house nigger" and
an " U n c l e T o m . "
The American-South African Peoples'
Friendship Associalion is pari of Ihe Soulh
African "liberation movement" and is based
in Albany, said Jordan. He said he came to
the United Stales 15 years ago. He has been
" w o r k i n g for liberation" at the United Nations and has taught on the university level.
Audience reaction to Jordan's speech was
positive. Dwayne Sampson, coordinator o f
the caucus, said that he was in " t o t a l agreement," with ihe speech. Eddie Edwards,
president of the Albany Stale University
Black Alliance, A S U B A , called him a
"spiritual brother and teacher."
Hector Muniz, a SUNY-Farmingdalc sludent, called the Sullivan principles a " t o k e n
measure, something thai the companies can
sland behind."
In his speech, Curlis discussed the "cycle
of poverty" which afflicts minorities. He
claimed thai Ihe "cycle keeps perpetuating
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