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31, 1984
Danes succumb to Potsdam's late surge, 81 -68
penetrating, dishing off, hitting
open shots, and most importantly
playing a smart brand of basketball
while making a minimal amount of
mistakes.
Potsdam, in an effort to regain
their early composure, called
timeout 13 seconds later.
Whatever Bear Head Coach Jerry
Welsh said during that break certainly did the trick as the Bears
outscored the Danes, 26-11 in the
final 6:01.
"We started to run our offense
well in the last few minutes," said
Welsh. "We stayed away from turnovers while at the same time forced Albany into some."
The Potsdam defense forced
Albany into a turnover after
Potsdam's Leroy Witherspoon tied
the game with 5:37 left. Following a
Dane turnover Bear forward Scott
Culler hit a shot and the Bears took
the lead for good at 59-57 with 4:39
to go.
Due to tremendous pressure on
their next possession Albany was
unable to inbound the ball and was
forced to call timeout. Their next
attempt to get the ball in play during the aliened five seconds was unsuccessful.
Potsdam took over with a onepoint lead and the clock reading
4:07. Croutier fouled Culler 14
seconds later. Culler hit both foul
shots, which stretched the Bears'
lead to three, 62-59.
By Keith Marder
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
ED MARUSSJCH UPS
Wilson Thomas, shown hare against RPHast Wadnasday, scored
nine points in tha Danes' 81-88 loss to Potsdam on the road.
Potsdam
Sometimes the final score of a
basketball game can pretty much
tell the tale of how the game went.
There are other times when the
score is anything but indicative of
what happened in the previous 40
minutes. The latter was the case
Saturday night at Maxcy Hall in
Potsdam as the Potsdam Bears
defeated the Albany State Great
Danes, 81-68 in a game that was
close most of the way.
By reading deeper into Saturday
night's box score the real story can
be seen.
The most noticeable thing lacking
for Albany was 6'8" center Pete
Gosule, who injured his knee in
Wednesday's RPI game. Gosule's
injury hurt Albany's bench depth as
Potsdam's substitutes outscored
their Albany counterparts, 27-6.
The absence of their tallest player
also hurt the Danes' rebounding
game as the Bears beat them 38-21
in the war of the backboards.
Another fact that shows Albany's
lack of inside play is that 5'7" point
guard Dan Croutier led the team in
rebounding with 4.
The Danes rallied behind
Croutier to lake their second and
last lead of the game. A John
Mracek hoop off of a Croutier pass
made the score 57-55 Albany with
6:14 remaining in the game.
Croutier was doing everything a
From there on in it was all
point guard is supposed lo do-hc
was creating opportunities by Potsdam. The Bears did nothing
wrong for the last 3:53: they hit key
foul shots and shut down the
Danes' offense. A couple of meaningless baskets by Roosevelt,
Bullock and Whitney accounted for
the big final spread.
Albany stayed close early by
shutting down Potsdam's running
game. The Danes got the lead
brfiefly when freshman Adam
Ursprung hit a short shot off of a
pass from Wilson Thomas. That
advantage was short lived as consecutive baskets by Pat Crawford
and Leroy Witherspoon gave
Potsdam the lead until late in the second half.
As Albany State Head Coach
Dick Sauers said,"We were playing
our game and then we stopped getting the loose balls when they were
there."
HOOP-LA: Both teams shot extremely well from the field at 52
percent, especially Albany in the second half 62 percent...Albany's
record is now 10-7 (3-1 in the
SUNYAC Conference)...Potsdam
is 6-0 in the conference...Croutier
was Danes' main bright spot: 6-11
from the field, 9-11 from the line,
21 points; 4 rebounds; 10 assists; 2
steals...Ursprung, also shot well,
7-11 for 14 points...Wednesday
night the Danes travel lo Pittsburgh for another SUNYAC
game...The game will start at 8:00
and will be broadcast on 91 FM
WCDB with broadcasters Adam
Goodman and Rich Udewitz.
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Women cagers drop Invitational to St Michael's
Poor foul shooting hurts team in loss;
Albany's record 11 -5 for season
By Mark Wllgard
STAFF WRITER
When one associates the sport of
basketball with the art of freethrow s h o o t i n g , the word
"automatic" comes to mind. It's
supposed to be two gift points for
your team courtesy of the opposition. Try telling that to the Albany
State women's basketball team.
The Danes shot only 38 percent
(10-26) from thg free-throw stripe in
the Championship Game of the inaugural Albany Invitational against
St. Michael's. The misses cost them
dearly as they bowed 72-56.
"If you had to pick a weakness,
that was it," commented Albany
Head Coach Mari Warner.
"Overall, we played a nice game,
the difference being the free
throws."
for the Danes, as she popped in 22
points. It was Patterson's precise
shooting that helped Albany to a
30-28 hairtime lead.
Patterson leads Scorers
After Patterson hit a 25-footer to
open up the second half, St.
Michael's reeled off nine
unanswered points to take a lead
they would never relinquish.
Albany's Rainny Lesane, who had
10 points in the game, cut the lead
to 58-50 with 7:25 to play, and it
looked like the Danes were on their
way back. But St. Michael's would
not miss from the floor the rest of
the way as they rolled to the victory.
All in all, Warner was pleased.
"You hate to settle for less, but
they were quicker and stronger than
us," assessed Warner. "On the
positive side, we were physical out
there plus we moved the ball around
very well."
.With 3:05 left, the Danes trailed
64-56. A traveling violation on St.
Michael's gave them a chance to
To reach the title game, Albany
pull within six. Peg Squazzo was had to do away with William Smith
fouled, but she missed the front end on Saturday. In a very physical
of a one-and-one. That was game, the Danes rolled to a 62-39
Albany's last chance, as St. triumph.
Michael's put them away in the
closing minutes. They scored the
The tough Great Dane defense
game's final eight points en route to held William Smith scoreless for the
the win,
first five minutes of the game and
Ronnie Patterson was the big gun built up a 29-12 halftime lead. Kim
Kosalek had 12 points, while
Lesane and Diane Fernandes added
eight each in leading Albany to the
rout.
:
uller Road complex would include a University fieldhouse
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.JJHjMfF WRITER
B If SUNYA President Vincent
O'Leary can sway state, Albany
county and city officials to his side,
a $25M civic center complex would
be built on a now vacant, 77 acre lot
across from the uptown campus on
land owned by the university.
<; Formally presented before the I
Albany County Legislature Thurs-f^
day by O'Leary, the plan provides (~
for a 11,700 seat arena for concerts, i
sporting events and conventions!
and a 60,000 square foot SUNYA|J
field house, all under one roof.
The field house, included in the |
architectural design by Daniel F.
Tully Associates of Melrose,
Massachusetts, would be owned |
and run by SUNYA under the provisions of the plan.
When the uptown campus was II
still on paper, it included u large I
field house for SUNYA indoor '
sports, but because of budget restrictions at that time the
athletic field house was never built.
According to the plan, the field house would cost the state
$6 million with requests that the state would also pay an additional $4 milllion toward construction of the arena "to insure that the University could have a limited access to the
arena," said O'Leary.
"We are not trying to sell you a facility here, only a conI cept," asserted O'Leary to the county legislature attending
the meeting. "It is up to the county now to decide what they
want to do," he added.
According to the university plan, the campus, county and
city of Albany would jointly request capital funds for the
construction of the center. A 35 year loan would be sought
from the state Urban Development Corporation to construct
the center. The debt service or loan payment on the bonds
per year is predicted to be $1,145,000 with the assumed 8.5
percent interest.
A public corporation would be established, according to
the plan, to lease the civic center from the university, build
the facility and then contract with botlrthe county to operate
the arena, and the university to operate the field house.
Monies to operate the facility and meet the debt service arc
anticipated to come from profits earned by the center, and
from contributions from the city, the state, and the university. Much of the responsibility will fall on the county of
Albany, according to the plan.
The University has a clearly documented need for an
Top: ED MARUSSICH. UPS; Inset: UPS I
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Top: Proposed site lor Albany Civic Center; Bottom: Artist's conception of
Center's interior; Inset: SUNYA President Vincent O'Leary.
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athletic field house according to vice president for University
Affairs, Lewis Welch. "The facilities we have on campus
now are not adequate for a university this size and in this
climate," he said.
Fourth of several proposals
This latest proposal by SUNYA for a Capital District civic
center is the fourth to surface in recent months and adds even
more contestants to the groups already vying to have a civic
center built in their own interests.
Private developer Joseph Futia, who operates Ihc Colonic
SUNYA signs computer pact
This week, Albany has a pair of
conference games. Tomorrow, they
travel to Binghamton and on Saturday it's off to Pittsburgh for a big
meeting with the Cardinals. A win
over Pittsburgh will help the
Danes' chances of hosting the
SUNYAC Regional on February
21..
—
By J i m O'Sulllvan
EDITORIAL
ASSISTANT
As part of a research agreement with the University, the
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) has given the
University a $600,000 price break on its computer equipment purchases, and plans to create a user room on State
Quad, according to acting Vice-President John
Shumaker.
The equipment, purchased from DEC, includes a DEC
systcm-20 mainframe and 96 full screen editor terminals,
Shumaker said.
FAST BREAKS: SI. Michael's
defeated Castleton Slate Saturday
to advance lo Sunday's finals. In
the consolation game, William
Smith got mauled again,
78-48...The split of the weekend
games leaves Albany with an 11-5
record for the year...Tournament
MVP was Becky Bouchard of St.
Michael's. Patterson and Lesane
were both selected to the AllTournament team...The Danes are
averaging 57.3 points a game while
giving up only 49.1 per game.
Warner stated, "Defensively, we're
playing great hall; offensively,
we're
missing
something."...Lesane leads the
team In scoring with 14.7 per game.
Patterson
has
an
II.I
average...Leading rcbnunder Is
Kosalek, 6.7 per game.
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'Leary unveils proposal for $25M civic center
"The system is designed to
be user friendly, it's easy to
use for a naive user. "
—Barbara Wolfe
BOB LUCKEV UPS
Albany's Debra Logan battles for a loose ball in the women's
basketball team's victory over William Smith on Sat urday.
• The DEC-20 was purchased with funds raised last
year's tuition increase, and through regular SUNYA
cquipinciii funds. Shumaker said that no private money
was used, as was first planned, because extra equipment
funds became available. Two researchers at SUNYA will
work on specific projects regarding '.'artificial in-
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telligence," and Digital will have exclusive rights to the
research until June, 1985, said Associate Vice-Presidenl
for Computing Services Barbara Wolfe.
The research will be done by computer scientists
Miriam Baiaban and Neil Murray. System Administrator
for the DEC-20 Isabel Nirenbcrg called their work "very
exciting" and said "the language they'll be using is really
frontier language."
Artificial intelligence, Wolfe said, is programming
computers to try and get them to behave as if they had intelligence. But, she added, there arc many different
definitions of intelligence.
As examples, Wolfe cited computer chess games that
played on the World Champion level, and robots that
work on manufacturing assembly lines, "but I lull's a
primitive definition of artificial intelligence."
Currently, artificial intelligence is (lie focus of a $45
million national program in Japan. Many American computer scientists are calling for greater research efforts in
, this country to offset the Japanese program.
Murray said that he and Baiaban had co-authored the
original proposal for the system, but said that the research
topic is in Balaban's field.
Murray explained, "1 work in a subficld which is
sometimes contained...within artificial intelligence
research," He said he is in a field called "computational I
logic," and he described it as "the study of logic with the |
idea toward developing logical techniques ihql can be,o
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Coliseum, offered to personally fund an $11 million civic
center complex to be built on his land adjacent to the Colonic
Coliseum in Latham. Under Futia's plan, he would then sell
the center back to Albany County and the county would
allow him to operate it.
Upsel with the county for "dragging their feet" on his proposal, Fulia recently approached Rensselaer County Executive William Murphy with a proposal to build Futia's civic
center in Rensselaer, across Ihc Hudson River opposite
downtown Albany. Murphy has come out in support of
Futia's plans but the Rensselear County Legislature has yet
to decide for or against the proposal. The Rensselear site
discussed is located along Interstate 90 in East Greenbush.
Futia would not comment on the SUNYA proposal.
Underlying all Ihese plans is one to build Ihc center on vacant land adjacent to the Empire Slate Plaza. This plan is
favored by Albany County Executive James Coyne. "I still
prefer the downtown site," Coyne saiJ after Thursday's
presentation by the university. "We are now involved with
discussions with the governor on whether South Mall bonds
are available for construction," he said.
If South Mall bonds for ihc plaza location are available,
according lo Coyne, Ihe state could pay beiween 50 and 100
percent on the construction of the civic center there. He add
cd that this plan would relieve Ihc lax burden on county laxpayers.
When asked what the Albany County legislature's feelings
were following the SUNYA presentation, Coyne only said
that "The legislators and the commission will keep an open
mind on the issue."
Coyne added that there are three more proposals of sites in
Ihe works and "We are shooting for a final decision by the
end of March."
Whalen favors SUNYA
The only prominent local official to come out in favor of
Ihe SUNYA proposal has been Albany Mayor Thomas
Whalen III. "The most preferable site is at the campus,"
said Whalen yesterday morning before the presentation to
the legislature. "It (the SUNYA plan) is thorough and well
done and by far much more attractive than anything to
date," he added.
According lo O'Leary's report, Whalen has agreed lo provide $200,000 per year lo the center from Ihe city budget to
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1984 a ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3
Worldwide
New bishop named
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(AP) Pope John Paul II Tuesday named
Bishop John J. O'Connor, a former Navy
admiral who helped draft a pastoral letter
condemning nuclear war, to head the influential Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New
York, the nation's fourth largest.
The 64-year-old O'Connor succeeds the
late Cardinal Terence Cooke, who died last
Oct. 6 as the leader of the influential archdiocese.
The announcement came in a brief statement in the daily Vatican bulletin, which
said: "Nomination of the archbishop of
New York. John Paul II has nominated to
the metropolitan church of New York, Monsignor John O'Connor, up until now bishop
of Scranton."
MIA data pooled
United Nations
(AP) Vietnam's ambassador to the United
Nation says Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
have agreed to pool any knowledge they have
about American servicemen missing in action
in the Vietnam war.
Ambassador Hoang Bich Son said Monday the three Indochinesc countries would
work with American non-government
organizations in the search for the missing or
their remains.
The agreement, drafted by the three countries' foreign ministers last weekend in Laos,
says in part, "Out of humanitarian concern
and regard for the American people, each
country of Indochina will endeaver to communicate to the other two any eventual information on the American missing during the
war In Laos,' Vietnam and Kampuchea Cambodia.
^
The U.S. government has said some 2,400
American servicemen are still missing from
the Vietnamese war that spilled over Into
Laos and Cambodia.
Cease-fire observed
Beirut
(AP) Shiite Moslem militia leaders Tuesday
ordered their fighters to observe a cease-fire
and described as "accidental" the series of
battles Monday that killed one U.S. Marine
arid three Lebanese civilians.
Three other Marines were wounded in the
day-long clashes, and spokesmen for the
Shiite militias group Amal and at south
Beirut hospitals said the Marines' fire killed a
9-year-old girl and two other civilians, and
wounded 22 people.
An Amal spokesman said militiamen in
Shiite neighborhoods near the Marine base at
Beirut's aiport were told to "strictly adhere
to the ceasefire and refrain from any form of
attacks on the Marines."
Nationwide
Weinberger sees cap
Washington, D.C.
(AP) The Pentagon plans to leave a "permanent" force of 700 to 800 American soldiers
in Honduras after military exercises end there
this month. Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger says.
Meanwhile, an unpublished House report
says the extent of U.S. military construction
in Honduras — much done without formal
congressional approval — suggests "an
ongoing, significant presence" of American
forces in the Central American country.
"The recent U.S. military exercise has
created a substantial, semi-permanent
military capability in Honduras," said the
eight-page report by the, House Appropriations subcommittee on military construction.
Weinberger's statement Wednesday was
the first public confirmation that a sizable
contingent of U.S. troops will remain after
joint U.S. - Honduran exercises, known as
"Big Pine II," are over. U.S. troops may
take part in another round -of exercises starting in June.
Reagan decries debt
Washington, D.C.
(AP) President Reagan, decrying the huge
deficits in his own new budget, promised
Thursday to submit a plan to eventually dry
up every drop of red ink. But he said he
won't do it till next year •+- after November's
elections.
Submitting such a plan in this election .year
wouldn't do any good, he said.
Reagan noted that he has already asked
Congress to work with his administration
toward $100 billion in still-unspecified deficit
reductions over the next three years.
Wednesday, Reagan sent Congress his
budget message for fiscal 1985, including
projections that governnftnt would outspend
its income by about $180 billion a year
through 1987. The deficit would still be over
$120 billion by the time he left office in 1989
if he won a second term — a painful forpcast
for a president who had vowed as a candidate
to balance the budget by 1983.
Soviets seek to return
Washington, D.C.
(AP) The Reagan administration believes the
Soviet Union is looking for a way to return to
arms control negotiations with the United
States in Geneva, but doesn't expect it to
happen for a while yet, a senior administration official says.
The official said Soviet officials have
privately Indicated In meetings In Stockholm
that they want "to get on with the dialogue."
The official, who insisted on anonymity,
briefed reporters on a meeting here Wednesday between President Reagan and Yugoslav
President Mlka Spiljak.
Statewide
NY won't sue Exxon
Albany
(AP) New York state has "no immediate
plans" to sue the Exxon Corp. for taking
millions of gallons of fresh water from the
Hudson River without paying for it, according to a spokesman foi state Attorney
General Robert Abrams.
But the state will continue to negotiate an
out-of-court settlement in the matter, said
department spokesman Nathan Riley
Wednesday.
Riley said the attorney general's office had
the day before received Exxon's answers to
about 35 specific questions it asked regarding
Exxon oil tankers' discharging and taking in
of water in the mid-Hudson.
Dicofol ban debated
Albany
(AP) New York state is considering banning
the pesticide dicofol because of increasing
levels of DDT being found in the Finger
Lakes, according to a state Department of
Environmental Conservation official.
But the state has not yet acted because the
source of the DDT "is not totally known,"
said Lawrence Skinner, noting that old
buried stores of DDT may be leaking and getting into tributaries.
Dicofol, which contains up to 15 percent
DDT, is used by grape growers and some apple orchardists to control mites,' tiny insects
similar to the spider mites sometimes found
on house plants. They are so small that people normally spot the webs of spider mites
and never find the insects themselves.
Victim law backed
Albany
(AP) Gov. Mario Cuomo has thrown his support behind legislation designed to give crime
victims and witnesses more information
about the way the justice system deals with
their cases.
The bill is a watered-down version of a
measure passed by the Legislature last year
only to be vetoed by the governor.
The sponsors of last year's bill — Sen.
Ralph Marino, R-Nassau, and Assemblyman
Richard Gottfried, D-Manhattan — reached
agreement with the governor Wednesday on
the new measure, Cuomo announced.
The key difference between last year's bill
and the new version is the elimination of a requirement that district attorneys consult with
crime victims before closing a case, said
Cuomo spokesman Gary Fryer.
"Freedom Has Never Been
Free" will be the topic of a
free one- day conference on
the past and future of the
Civil Rights movement on
Saturday, Feb. 4, at the New
York State Museum, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Call the
museum at 474-5842 for Information.
The Holocaust will be the
topic of a film to be shown
Monday, February 6, at 8 p.m.
in the Business Building,
room 229.
Sexuality Awareneaa Week
will be held February 7
through 10. Shere Hite,
author of The Hlte Report,
will be the keynote speaker
on Wednesday, February 8,
at 8 p.m. In the Campus
Center Ballroom. The week
will be sponsored by Genesis
and Middle Earth.
Safam, a Boston based
musical group, will perform
Saturday, February 4, at 8
p.m. In the Campus Center
Ballroom. The ooncert Is
sponsored by the Jewish
Students Coalltlon-Hlllel.
Biological Sciences will hold
a seminar Tuesday, February
7, at 4:10 p.m. in the Biology
Building, room 248A. Eric L.
Charnov of the University of
Utah will speak on "Natural
Selection and Sex Allocation."
system, said Wharton in his opening remarks
to the group.He stressed the value of the inThe State University of New York has dependent commission "to provide a broad
formed an independent IS member commis- assessment as to what should be the future of
sion to study and to recommend viable alter- SUNY."
natives for the future of the SUNY system.
There is no agenda of priorities for the
Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. said at commission, according to Wharton. He exa press conference Thursday that the naming plained that the group would try to Identify
of the commission was "not due to any par- five broad areas which they may wish to exticular crises," but that he had been consider- plore.
ing it lor some time. The former Managing
These areas may include size of the univerEditor or the CBS Evening News, Walter sity, admission standards, governance, qualiCronkite and former Treasury. Secretary ty of education, and access, said Wharton.
W. Michael Blumcnthal will be members said "There is no hidden agenda," said Wharton,
Wharton.
and he added that there would be no "atThe commission will examine the State tempt to direct"the commission. •
University for six months, and will then subWharton explained that the commission
mit a report to Wharton and to the SUNY would hold public hearings in order to
Board of Trustees, according to Wharton. receive input from students, faculty, and
The findings of the commission "would have citizens, and he said that meetings would also
significance for all public higher education in be held with "key members" of the executive
the United States," contended Wharton.
and legislative branches of the state governThe commission will "look at the question ment.
of adequacy of rcsources"for the SUNY
The commission's study will include visits
system, said Wharton. The inquiry will in- to "selected campuses," said Wharton. He
clude "a fairly careful look at the balance contended that he did not know specifically
between resources and expenditures," said which campuses would be viewed because
co-chairman of the commission and Presi- that decision was up to the committee, but
dent emeritus of Ohio State University that the schools would be chosen with an eye
Harold Enarson.
to the "different types" of schools in the
' "We were not brought together to take a SUNY system, as well as to the convenience
look at the budget problems of SUNY," of the committee members.
maintains co-chairman of the commission
The commission will report to Wharton
and chair of Time, inc., Ralph Davidson.
and to the SUNY Board when its evaluation
In the past few years, SUNY has been, is complete, said Wharton. "Whatever their
"pushing resources more towards graduate recommendations are, they will receive full
studies than to undergraduate education," consideration" by SUNY-Central adsaid Student Association President Rich ministration and by the Board of Trustees.
Schaffer. "I hope that the commission will
If Wharton and the Board of Trustees conwork towards balancing" the graduate and cur with the commissions' recommendations
the undergraduate resources more equally, he "we will certainly implement them," said
said.
Wharton. "There will be a follow-up," he
"We believe that this (forming of the com- maintained.
mission) is one of the most important
The New York State university system
developments" in the history of the SUNY "has grown very rapidly," said Wharton,
By Jane Anderson
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
By Lisa Strain
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Comparable worth, or equal pay for work
of comparable value, will be a major issue ol
the 80's according to the National Education
Association.
NEA, the largest faculty organization in
the United States is currently involved in
several major efforts to eliminate sex-based
pay discrimination, according to Ken Megill
of the NEA Communications Department.
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"Five Flavors of Judaism"
will be the topic of an Infor. mal gathering and meal on
Wednesday, February 8, at 5
p.m. at Chapel House.
NAACP will celebrate
Founders Day on February
12, at 3:30 p.m. at the Mt.
Calvary Baptist Church, 28
Alexander St. Principal
speaker for the event will be
James Brown, Jr., who Is Northeast Regional Director of
the NAACP. All are Invited to
attend.
Applicants for Phi Alpha
Theta should return their application forms to Professor
William Reedy In SS 346 by
Friday, February 10. Forms
are available in the History
Office, Social Sciences 341.
1
Carmlna Burana, Cantlones
Profanae will be performed
by the University Chorale this
Sunday, February 5, at 3 p.m.
at the Performing Arts
Center. Admission Is free.
Off-Campus Association will
hold a planning meeting this
Sunday, February 5, at 1 p.m.
In the Student Association
office in the Campus Center.
The Class Council of 1987
will meet this Sunday,
February 5, at 5 p.m. outside
the Student Association office in the Campus Center.
" H u r r i c a n e s : Are They
Predictable?" will be the
topic of a presentation Tuesday, February 7, at 12:10 p.m.
at the New York State
Museum Orientation Theatre.
The Shroud of Turin will be
discussed at a lecture and
slide presentation Monday,
February 6, at 8 p.m. at the
Chapel and Cultural Center
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute In Troy. Kevin Connolly of Education and Research
with the State of New York,
will speak.
The Albany State Debate
Society will hold their opening meeting on Tuesday,
February 7, at 7:30 p.m. In the
Humanities Building, room
354. No experience Is
necessary to join. For more
information, call the Communications Office at
457-8470,
SUNY Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
Commission includes noted journalist Walter Cronkite.
and it is the most diverse and complex public
university system in the country. At present it
enrolls 381,000 students on 64 campuses, he
said.
Wharton mentioned that in the recent past
some campuses have eliminated programs
and have become narrower in scope, and said
that the commission would study whether
this pattern should proceed.
When asked whether one or more campuses could be closed due to the
commission's report, Wharton maintained
that "no system is immune to (school) closings." He contended that he did not know of
"any particular rationale to cause the closing
of campuses."
The commission will meet in New York City every month for six months, said Wharton. The report will not necessarily be out in
July, he added. "They may find a need to
spend a bit more time" studying the SUNY
system before making their final report, said
Wharton.
The Chancellor stressed that "the proposal
for the commission has been in gestation for
a long period of time." He added that it "is
not something that just happened."
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NEA to deal with wage differential among sexes
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Has handled issues of salary equity.
"The National Coalition on Pay Equity,
of which NEA is a member, has been working for years on what people should be paid
in relation to the functions they perform,"
Megill said. "There are certain professions
that are on a whole underpaid. They are
traditionally female occupations like nurses
or librarians," he added.
Previously, NEA had handled individual
cases of pay discrimination, and NEA continues to handle these cases. But,"this is part
of a whole labor movement for what people
ought to be paid, and to, through collective
bargaining or legal action, bring about equity," Megill said. "We want to call attention
to the fact that the whole notion of comparable worth is really the cutting edge - it applies to higher and lower education. It cuts
across all faculty levels."
"It's a new issue in education . We're just
now exploring the ramifications," said
Human Civil Rights Specialist at NEA Helen
Marlow. "On the surface, there's a big wage
differential. Maybe this time next year we'll
be able to say yes, there is a definite differential," she added.
Marlow discussed individual cases where
"oftentimes Title VII (of the Civil Rights
Act) is brought in, (when) individuals begin
to complain about salary. It is discrimination
because most women are segregated into certain jobs. Let's look at the skills, effort and
responsibility (of a job) - it may be that one
job compares to another," Marlow said.
NEA and the Maine Teachers Association
are currently supporting a comparable worth
project for support staff jobs at the University of Maine, according to Megill. NEA has
also recently committed funds toward filing a
class-action sex bias suit involving 2,000
women faculty in Oregon's eight state universities.
The Center for Women in Government, a
unit of the Institute for Government and
Policy Studies at the Rockefeller College of
SUNYA, was awarded a $500,000 labor
management contract in June, 1983. The
contract will enable New York Stale to
undertake the first comparable worth study
of its kind in the nation, according to Public
Information Director Fred Padula, who added that, the Center will conduct the study.
"It's in the initial stages of development,"
said Padula. "The right kinds of jobs have
to be looked at to see if there is indeed wage
discrimination. We're looking at fields which
are largely filled by women and minorities,"
he added.
Padula emphasized the differences between the study the Center will be undertaking
and previous comparable worth studies. "It's
the largest study of its kind in the country.
No jurisdiction as large as (thai of the) New
York State government has ever undertaken
a study like this," he said. Padula explained
that "a new factor will be that we're also
looking at jobs (held) by minorities as well as
women."
"Our intent is to make this the most comprehensive study of its kind," Padula said.
The study will be conducted for New York
State civil service jobs, and the contract is
vi..id until August 31, 1984. The contract was
approved by the Governor's Office of
Employee Relations (OER) and the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA).
"Comparable worth is a major issue ol ihc
80's," said Director of Affirmative Action
Gloria DeSole. "We've handled issues of
salary equity, but no one has raised a comparable worth issue (al SUNYA)," DeSole
said.
"1 think people are paid more in the 'hard
sciences' like mathematics. "Of course you
have to bring in market value as well," she
said, referring to the greater number of
employment prospects for faculty in
mathematics and sciences than in liberal
arts.
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Groundhog makes brief visit
Punxsutawney, PA
(AP) A sniffling, wriggling groundhog
emerged from his burrow at dawn Thursday and saw his shadow, thus predicting
another six weeks of winter for the nation
— for the 92nd time in 97 years.
"Phil," this town's famed woodchuck,
was pulled from his electrically heated
burrow on Gobbler's Knob to the cheers
of tuxedoed members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog lub and hundreds
of cold spectators.
"In Ihc dimness of the early winter
dawn, he stood for a moment, tall and
proud. Then, in seconds, he saw a thin,
grey shadow," said club prcsidenl James
H, Means, 60, a local contractor who
claims to be the only translator for the
groundhog.
Folklore dictates that on Groundhog
Day, if a groundhog sees his shadow six
more weeks of cold weather follow. If he
doesn't, spring arrives soon.
Today, clear skies and temperatures in
the 20s greeted Phil. And, in special
ceremonies after the. prediction, the
10-pound male, grnnnrihng was nwii-lu-il
with an 11-pound female brought in from
the Philadelphia Zoo.
Last year, Phil the groundhog failed 10
see his shadow through the rain, predicting early spring for only the fifth time. i
A groundhog
"He saw a thin, gray shadow.'
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Committee promotes student spirit
UAS forced to clean up after health inspection
A group called the Dog Pound, originated ' University Auxiliary Services General,
By Christine Reffelt
by Howard Woodruff, Area Coordinator of Manager Norbert Zahm, a member of the
STAFF WHITER
Building unity at SUNYA and getting " North Campus of State and Colonial Quads, school spirit committee, commented that he
students more involved are the main goals on has also been extremely active at SUNYA's is "looking forward to all the enthusiasm
basketball games. "You know," said which the basketball games are creating.
the agenda of the School Spirit Committee,
according to Student Association Vice- . Woodruff, "I hear all the time how we need Hopefully the students will.come out," he
President Jeff Schneider. "Our goal is to more school spirit, yet people are always at a added.
Next week, three consecutive games are at
build unity, and to get the students' blood loss as to how to deal with the issue."
going," he said.
What the people involved in the Dog home, and Schneider hopes for a large turnThis Saturday, Albany will host
The answers to SUNYA's current apathy Pound actually do, said Woodruff, is go to out.
problem are being contended in a variety of the basketball games "and have a great Binghamton. There will not be any admission
ways, said Schneider. February 2 was kick- time." About 200 students sit in one section charge for SUNY students, said Schneider.
off of Spirit Week with Bud night in the of the stands, doing cheers, playing kazoos, The Great Danes will play Pittsburgh
and Hying streamers. According to February 8, and the big game against rival
Rathskeller Pub in the Campus Center.
The main emphasis however, is on school Schneider, "the section looks like a Penn Potsdam will be February 10.
Schneider stated that "the Potsdam games
sports, namely the Albany basketball team. State game. It's wild!" He added that his
Mayor Thomas Whalen III recently declared main intention is to fill the entire stand in this have always been sold out, but this year we
fashion.
"It's
exciting,"
he
said,
"and
next week SUNY basketball week, according
want to have a full crowd for the two other
to Schneider. In addition basketball coach everyone who comes to the games will have a home games. The basketball team loves to
Dr. Richard Sauers, who has accumulated great time."
have a full crowd, he added.
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474 wins in his 28 year career at SUNYA.
This achievement, said Schneider, ranks him
15 among active college coaches in the country.
To honor Sauers for. his outstanding
record, there will be a small reception for him
February 4 in the Patroon Lounge according
to Schneider. The guests included Whalen,
Assemblyperson Richard Conncrs,
(D-Albany), Senator Howard Nolan,
(D-Albany), and University President Vincent O'Leary. "This is a great opportunity to
honor the coach for his outstanding work,"
Schneider added.
Sauers stated that the spirit adds a lot to
the games, "and players benefit a lot from
that. It also intimidates away players, which
helps us." He added that he thought the attempts to encourage more student attendance
is "a tremendous idea, which the visiting
school admires." Sauers also felt that the
tribute in his honor on Saturday is "an honor
to all the players. I'll accept the tribute on
behalf of all of them," he added.
"One reason people think SUNYA is boring is because they don't appreciate sports
here," said Schneider. "People who go to Varsity basketball co-captains Dave Adam and Wilson Thomas
one game will go again, because it is such a
The Dog Pound is hoping lo see plenty of fans at games.
fun time," he commented.
By Johanna Clancy
The report of the University Auxiliary Services annual health inspection last December
has been published by William
Krumanocker.Senior Sanitarian for the State
of New York Department of Health, Office
of Public Health. He praised the food service workers' efforts.
"Although some cleaning violations were
noted, the total sanitation level in this area
for all the food service operations at the
University was extremely good and your
Food Service staff should be commended for
their efforts."
Violations of the health code were concentrated in four main areas. These violations
were in plumbing, lighting, maintaining proper water temperatures, and non-food equipment cleanliness conditions, noted
Krumanocker in his report.
Plumbing violations pertained to absence
of indirect waste drains, added
Krumanocker.
Norbert Zahm, General Manager of UAS,
described the indirect waste drain as "a drain
that doesn't connect directly from the sink
into the sewage line. This smaller drain fits
into a larger drain so that back flow will go
onto the floor and not inlo the sink, possibly
contaminating food."
Also noted by Krumanocker were improperly maintained temperatures on
dishwashing machines. These gauges have
since been replaced and are functioning properly.
Lighting violations written up by
Krumanocker included inadequate light and
lighting shields in various operations.
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All violations have been corrected excluding some lighting replacements on Colonial Quad and plumbing work that will require digging up floors in Indian Quad.
"Colonial Quad's lighting will be completed
by March 3," said Cheri Domanico, Nutrition and Health Inspector of UAS.
Above: UAS workers; Inset: Norbert Zahm
Four basic problem areas.
Equipment cleanliness violations included
in Krumanockcr's report were, "refuse
storage facilities that were not provided with
covers," and "the cutting board at the grill
section(in the Rathskeller's Snack Bar) was
cracked plus nicked and cut along the
edges."
Krumanocker, in his report, commented
on the "excellent food handling techniques"
he observed by the Food Service staff.
Zahm explained that Krumanocker conducts training sessions at least once a year to
update and refresh food service processes
with the staff.
"These meetings are very informal and informative," commented Domanico. "They
usually last an hour and he'll answer any
questions the staff may have about food
handling," she said.
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Slow response prompts SA to re-open A V bids
By Alicia Cimbora
Due to an unsatisfactory response, the Student Association has decided lo re-open the
bidding on their audio-visual equipment, according to Vice-President Jeff Schneider.
The AV equipment, which has an
estimated value between $32,000-60,000, was
put up for sale al the beginning of last
semester because il was not "cost effective"
said Schneider.
The original deadline for bids was set for
December 1 and the choice for a buyer was to
be made over the semester break. According
lo Schneider only "a little less than a dozen"
bids were received. "Most of the bids were
for pieces; there were only I or 2 overall
bids," said Mitch Fcig, Finance Committee
Chairman.
SA would like to get bids from a wider
range of interesls according to Schneider,
"Most of our bids were from the Albany area
and we'd like lo gel some bids from outer interests," he said.
"We bought it on a whim and we don't
want 10 get rid of it on a whim," said Central
Council Chair Bob Hclbock. SA plans tc^
advertise Ihc equipment in trade magazines
and newspapers, and according to Feig, they
are also recontacting places in the area they
may have ovclooked. So far, said Feig, they
have gotten a "positive response." The Performing Arts Center has also expressed an interest in the audio visual equipment.
However, according lo Feig this is "very tentative." There is also the possibility of an
outside appraisal to find out Ihc exact value
of Ihe equipment, added Schneider.
There has been "no bottom line bid set"
and there is "no set deadline as of now" for
accepting bids, said Helbock, who added that
SA would like lo complete the sale by the end
of this semester.
The idea for SA-AV was originaled in the
summer of 1981 by ihe Ihcn SA Vice- President Woody Popper with" Ihe purpose of "increasing group programming so groups could
do more shows."
The original expenditure for the equipment
was $22,755 followed by additional purchases worth $61,246.43 in 81-82 and
$41,095.06 in 82-83. According lo Schneider,
the original purchases for AV were for slaicof-the arl materials lo prepare for expansion
to a larger system.
The system was intended to pay Itself off
within two years, but because of a consistently overspent budget and lack of use, the annual revenue fell short of projections, according to SA.
AV manager Chris McCormack proposed
to make AV into a club run by student
technicians with SA groups paying a rental
fee for use of the equipment. However, this
was voted down unanimously because when
questioned, only two or Ihree of 19 groups
reported getting use out of the system.
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No bottom line set on A V equipment sale.
The equipment, which is being stored in
Ihe Page Hall auditorium, has become a
"thorn in our side" according to Helbock.
SA has spent an estimated $120,000 on AV
which includes about $50,000 in equipment
and the remaining $70,000 for the manpower
and for the cage where Ihe equipment is
stored.
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1984
SA planning lobby effort to fight Cuomo budget Parkes finds 'some things you just can't love'
By Ian Clements i
STAFF WRITER '
Student Association's lobbying efforts
against the tuition and room rent fee increases proposed in Governor Mario
Cuomo's 1984-85 budget were discussed during Wednesday's Central Council meeting. A
"fight the hike" rally will be held February
27, at the State Capitol, according to the
chair of council's Student Action Committee, Steve Gawley.
In other business, SA President Rich
Schaffer said that,he and vice-president for
Student Affairs, Frank Pogue, were trying to
push the development of the alcohol policy
so that it could be implemented by March 1.
According to Schaffer, the current alcohol
policy has been causing "confusion on the
quads." Many students don't know whether
they need permits to serve alcohol at oncampus parties, he said. Also few students
know how to obtain such permits, claimed
•Schaffer.
Gawley announced that the reinstatement
of the 271 jobs which will be cut from the
SUNY system on March 31 was another goal
of SA's lobbying actions. He seemed confident that SA would get its way. " I think we
can get a zero (budget) increase and those 271
positions back," he asserted.
Both Gawley and Schaffer were pleased
with the views of certain state legislators.
Schaffer commended the chairs of the State
Senate and the Assembly Higher Education
Committees, Kenneth Lavalle of Long Island
and Mark Allan Siegel of Manhattan, respectively, for opposing Cuomo on the fee issue.
"They're both for no tuition and dorm increases, and want more money for SUNY,"
he said.
According to Schaffer, another stale
legislator, Ed Sullivan of Manhattan said,
"Cuomo has left a sour taste in my mouth."
Legislators disappointed
Gawley claimed that many legislators were
disappointed that the SUNY positions were
cut without their consultation. Schaffer said
that legislators are saying, "how can we act
on the 84-85 budget, when the 83-84 budget
hasn't been followed." He criticized Cuomo
and Division of Budget officials for
eliminating the jobs. The cutbacks will result
in lay-offs within SUNYA's support services
system, which includes the bus service,
Schaffer said.
Other SA lobbying tactics will include
rallies on the quads on February 6 and
speeches made to classes, announced
Gawley. He said that a policy to "get more
letters out" is being planned. He added that
teachers arc being asked to cancel tests and
classes scheduled on the February 27 rally
date.
Bus fee
SA also plans to work against the bus fee
which was recommended by the Task Force funded groups often seek such exemplic.„sso
on University Bus, Fee Alternatives, he they can reduce prices which they are SUDDOS.
asserted. Schaffer was a member of the task ed to charge at events they sponsor. If thebill
force but prepared a minority opinion oppos- had passed, It would have granted exempli
ing the fee. That opinion was presented to power to the SA president and vice-president
President Vincent O'Leary, along with the The bill's defeat meant that exemption power
remains in the hands or the president and
recommendations of the whole committee.
Schaffer said that "he plans to send a letter controller.
Schaffer amended the bill so that exemn
with some of my views on the fee" to a soon
to be established budget panel, which will tions would be granted by the vice-president
and
controller. He half-jokcingly said, "g|«
further study the bus fee issue. This panel will
consist of faculty, students and ad- it (exemption power) to them, I don't wan! to
ministrators, he noted. SA, he said, hopes to do it." But the amended bill was also
"lobby them to see If we can lessen the im- defeated, this time by a 11-13-1 vote.
pact of the report."
Andrew Serp's appintment to the position
of Contact Office manager was approved
Tax exemption
without objections.
A bill to.change "tax differential exempA resolution commending basketball
tion" policy was defeated 10-13-2. SA- coach Dick Sauers, who has coached ai
Albany for 28 years and who is 15th In career
wins among all active college coaches was
passed by acclimation.
Student directories
According to Schaffer, the student directories should have been distributed by Thursday; He said that he was told this by Assistant Vice-President for University Affairs
Sorell Chesin.
Student Action Chair Steve Gawley
Some legislators are not supporting the governor's increases.
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Olympic hopefuls
An "Olympic Hopefuls" committee is being planned, said SA Programming Director
Rich Golubow. This group would engage in
fund raising to benefit SUNYA students who
are potential qualifiers for the l'») Olympics
A bill which would change SA's hiring
practices and a resolution calling for SUNY
to divest funds from corporations which invest in South Africa were tabled. It was suggested by Off-campus Representative Neil
Shapiro that the resolution be withdrawn so
that it could be printed and distributed to all
council members by next week. This would
allow them to study the wording of the
lengthy resolution, he said.
By I
NEWS
Michael Parkes doesn't want to
offend anyone, he just wants to express dislikes, in a lighthearted way.
Parkes, who is a 21-year-old
senior at SUNYA, and his uncle,
have invented and copyrighted a
logo that expresses what people
don't love. The
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logo is a variation
FridSV
of the "I love
N.Y." campaign.
Profjlp
In Parkes" version
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the heart is covered by a black
bisected circle which Parkes
translates to say, "I do not love."
"We wanted a non-verbal way to
express that its okay not to love. A
few people felt it was too negative,
but I still feci its okay not to love
something," Parkes maintains.
The phrases currently being sold
range from lighter topics such as "1
do not love mistakes" to more
serious issues like drunk drivers or
Reaganomics. They're even planning a jacket for dogs that says, "I
do not love fleas." The buttons and
bumper stickers have been appearing all over campus and arc beginning to show up in novelty stores
around the United State's.
"It blew my mind U go into my
home town stationery store and see
my own product on the shelves having come there via the West Coast
(where some of his products are
manufactured)," Parkes recalls.
Parkes, an RA on Indian Quad is
feeling the first affects of fame, but
the fortune hasn't come in yet. He's
still driving his 1979 Ford Fairmont.
Besides that, the most expensive
item he appears to own is a stereo,
and he got that as a gift. He dresses
like many college students; Lee
jeans and a plaid button-down
shirt.
When he talks about the recent
publicity he has gotten from the
Albany affiliates of NBC and CBS,
he clearly isn't comfortable with it
yet; his eyes Hash up towards the
ceiling, his face reddens, and he
grins self-consciously. "The thing I
don't like about it (the media couldn't get into SUNYA's business
coverage)," he contends, "is that school. Like many business school
Michael Parkes is getting the hopefuls, he explains, "Economics
publicity, Lighthearts (his com- killed me." He says, however, that
pany) isn't."
marketing his product was the best
The history of Lighthearts is a education he could have gotten.
story Parkes says he's told a million
times. Yet, he doesn't seem tired of
He spent last summer meeting
it.
with executives and acquiring
Parkes and his uncle, Steve hands-on experience in marketing.
Block, stumbled upon the idea of While his age has worked to his adexpressing dislikes when Block, a vantage in gaining the recent
Californian, was ridiculing the " I publicity, he asserts that it wasn't
love N.Y." campaign. According to
Parkes, Block said, "I wish I had a
bumper sticker that said 'I skull and
crossbones N.Y.'" Parkes adds,
"We started talking about it and
realized there are so many things
that people don't love." They knew
they had a good idea, but, says
Parkes, it took a lot of searching
and thinking to find the right logo
to illustrate it.
During that time he and Block
saw logos that portrayed hearts
with bullet holes or cracks in them,
but they couldn't find anything that
clearly said, "I do not love." One
day they were stopped at a red light,
when Parkes saw a 'No U turn' sign
that delivered its message by covering a " U " with a bisected circle.
Thus, after some minor problems
with copyrighting, in February
1982, Lighthearts limited was born.
Parkes says he did some informal
research on campus to sec how the
logo would be received by students,
and to find out which dislikes were
most popular.
"I walked up to people and asked
'What don't you like?' and at first
they looked at me like I had eight
heads or something. I got answers
like accounting 211, virgins, and exams," Parkes recalls.
According to Parkes, people
prefered to express what they don't
love as opposed to what they do
love by a 4-1 margin. Among the
more popular dislikes were
J . A . P . ' s , Reaganomics, and
dieting, Parkes said.
Parkes is a business and
distributive education major.
Ironically, this young entrepreneur
manufacturing the logo on pencils he explains.
and magnets. In addition, Parkes 11 Parkes Is doing his part to spread
estimates that he's netted about the word. He drinks coffee out of
an "I do not love smoking" mug
$400 from bumperstlckers and but- and wears around a selection of his
pins. "People look at the pin and
ton sales in the bookstore.
'
The SUNYA student maintains
that most of his profits have gone say 'oh, you do not love drunk
toward phone calls to his partner, drivers,' and I say, 'look again,'
t r a n s p o r t a t i o n to business and then they say, 'oh, you hate
meetings, and re-investmept in
Lighthearts.
Lighthearts, says Parkes, has
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Entrepreneur Michael Parkes
Popular dislikes were Reaganomics,
that way this summer. "I met with
businessmen and they all wanted to
know, 'Who is this 21-year-old kid
who wants to spend my time?*"
Well, he got some people to lake
him seriously. Lighthearts currently
has a contract for $5,000 plusi percent of the gross sales with Papel
Company who is marketing the
logo on mugs. Another company is
J. A. P. 's and dieting.
become a constant preoccupatii-n
for him. "I find myself sitting
around and doodling new ideas,"
he notes. But, he maintains, he's
not in this just to make money.
"The logo should be like the heart;
it should be so embedded in
people's minds ; it should be almost
like shorthand... I would love for it
to become part of the vernacular,"
drunk drivers?' and I find myself
explaining to them that I'm expressing the emotion of 'I do not love,'"
Parkes says.
The Lighthearts slogan, Parkes
notes, sums up the purpose of their
logo: "Some things you just can't
love."
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Students gain management practice on railroad
By Michelle Busher
STAFF WRITER
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A small railroad got some free advice from
two SUNYA students last semester, as part
of a School of Business program.
The two students were among 26 students
enrolled in Management 482. Their work included writing a computer simulation that
dealt with financial forecasts, debt
agreements on carloads and what Batten Kill
Railroad can expect in the future, according
to Ron Crowd, President and C-'icral
Manager of Batten Kill. The project was
useful to Batten Kill, because they didn't
have enough staff time to develop it
themselves.
The program is run by Associated Prolessor of Management and public policy,
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Management 482 is an integrating course,
explained Dandridge. He noted that the
course is designed to bring together all of the
different subjects that the students have
studied. The course, Dandridge said, tries to
accomplish several objectives: to understand
the principles of small business management
and consulting, and to deal with policy and
planning.
Crowd said that he was happy with the
computer simulation and that it was very
useful to Batten Kill workers. He further
noted that he was very impressed by how well
the program was administered. He added,
"Dandridge is doing an excellent job."
Crowd said that he didn't rely on the
students to provide consulting advice because
they had no railroad experience. He added
that "the students operated in an extremely
professional way."
According to Dandridge, the operators at
Batten Kill had a clear idea of what they
wanted accomplished, which is not the case
with many other small firms. He explained
that many companies have difficulty trusting
consultants in general, whether they arc
students or not.
"The students take the work seriously,"
maintained Dandridge and he said he is
"constantly impressed by the quality of training dedication that students put into it," and
he enjoys seeing students "experience their
own competence."
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Thomas Dandridge. It is partially funded by
local banks and the Washington based Small
Business Association. Dandridge has been
with the program since its initiation in 1976.
The course gives the students.a chance to
gain on-the-job experience while helping
small firms which might not otherwise be
able to afford professional consulting, according to Robert Tosner and Stuart Weinfeld,
the two students who worked at the railroad.
' Batten Kcll railroad is located approximately 50 miles northeast of the SUNYA
campus. "It reminded me of Petticoat Junction," said Tosner. Weinfeld added that at
first he was a little nervous. "You don't
know if you can do it," he explained.
The two asserted that they had a good
working relationship with Crowd, and
The student directories will conic out
either Monday or Tuesday, said assistant
vice-president for University Affairs, Sorrel Chesin. They have been printed and
are in the binding process, he said.
Today is the fourth target date for the
distribution of the directories. They have
been held up for five months because of
problems encountered by the publisher,
Chesin claimed. The publishing firm,
Clark and Moore, has had difficulty raising advertising revenues, explained
Chesin. This is the first college directory
they have published, he noted.
According to Chesin, Clark and Moore
will not handle the directories next year.
The publishers of next year's directory
have not been selected, he said. In the
past, UAS published the directory, but
they lost $1,500 to $2,000 each year, and
decided lust year to stop publishing it, said
Chesin.
Post Office to re-open
The University Post Office will reopen
on February 7, according to Director of
the Physical Plant Dennis Stevens.
The Post Office was previously shut
down last August when two postal
workers were arrested on charges of falsifying business records, official misconduct, and petty larcery. They were subsequently convicted, and "each resigned
from their positions," said Stevens.
The new hours of the Post Office will
be noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and all postal services, including the
purchase of stamps, sending of registered
mail, and package services, will be
available, Stevens said.
SA suit to start over
Student Association President Rich
Schaffer said that he would be meeting.
Monday with SA attorneys Mark Mishler
and Lew Oliver to begin appcalling a
lawsuit which SA lost last semester.
In the suit, SA charged the City of
Albany with gerrymandering In an attempt to disenfranchise students. Schaffer
said he has been collecting affadavits from
students who were reportedly hassled by
election officials when they attempted to
vote in last November's elections.
Schaffer said the suit would be filed in
the State Court of Appeals, "hopefully by
the end of February."
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New treatment for chronic headaches
offers more relief than clinical help
By Suzanne Murphy
New studies conducted by researchers at the University's Center for
Stress and Anxiety Disorders have
led psychologists there to conclude
that home-based non-drug treatment programs for chronic
headache sufferers offer as much,
and in some cases more, relief than
similar clinic-based treatment programs.
Researchers at the center compared the results of the home-based
treatment that they designed with
results of the traditional clinicbased treatment. Both home-based
and clinic-based patients were
taught by clinic therapists the relaxation and biofeedback techniques
used in treatment.
However, according to the director of the center Dr. Edward Blanchard, "The patients in the home
program are required to spend considerably less lime with a therapist!
With the help of specially designed
manuals and tapes, patients could
conduct the exercises at home."
Other researchers have done
BOB soucr UPS
studies comparing the two types of
treatment, but have been far less
successful than the Albany
Dr. Edward Blanchard
Home based, drug free headache treatment.
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researchers. This is because, according to Blanchard, the other programs lacked almost any "one to
one" contact between the patient
and the therapist. '
"The treatment takes about four
months, then we follow up on the
patient intensively, once a month
for a year. If the patient has a
relapse we will bring him back to
the clinic for a booster program,"
said Blanchard.
Relaxation training requires the
patient to concentrate on and relax
various muscle groups in the body.
In biofeedback training patients
learn how to raise the temperature
in their hands through mental effort. "Warming the hands has been
shown to help with headaches, but
it is not yet understood why,"
noted Blanchard.
The Center is making tapes and
manuals for the home-based program available to individuals
because it is important that live instruction be conducted between the
patient and therapist.
"Home treatment is much more
cost effective," says Blanchard,
"because patients spend less time
with the therapist." Blanchard
noted that the cost for one session
with a professional therapist can
run up to $75, while, "Our tapes
cost about two dollars to make and,
at 10 cents a xerox copy for the
manuals, the home-based program
will become less expensive."
The Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders is the largest research
center in the country devoted to
non-drug treatment of stress related
disorders. According to Blanchard,
the Center concentrates on four major problems: adult headache, child
headache, hypertension, and irritable bowel syndrome.
The Center's chronic headache
treatment program is open and free
to the general public. An individual
must undergo a neurological screening to determine the cause of the
headaches. If they are not due lo
physical causes, the person may be
accepted to the program. The clinic,
which is open from 8 am to 8 pm,
Monday through Friday, is located
at the downtown campus ' of
SUNYA in room 107 at Draper
Hall. The number to call for additional information is 455-6294.
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manipulated by computers not
humans."
According to Murray, the
research agreement allows Digital to
obtain research when it would not
be cost-effective for the company to
hire researchers and adequate support staff with complete facilities
for them. "They essentially tie up
with some research that's (already)
going on," he said.
Murray said that both his
SUNY Commission
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Donald Blinkcn, chairman of the
Board of Trustees of SUNY and a
member of the commission said
lhat the commission is a "compctant and well-balanced" group.
'This will give us a chance to step
back and look at the university
through compctant and objective
eyes," continued Blinkcn. He said
that the commission would provide
"an outside view" of the SUNY
system.
Davidson said thai "thisjook at
SUNY is vital." He maintained that
the "important asset" of "human
capital" was nol managed as well as
it could have been "over the past
few years."
'Education is on the front
burner in virtually all of the 50
slates," according to Enarson.
Enarson called governance of the
state university system a key issue of
higher education. "Not only internal governance, but how the university in entirety fits into the scheme
of things in the state government,"
be studied, he said.
'The basic issues (of higher
education) arc being debated in
other states" as well as New York.
The Computing Cantor
A State Quad user room Is planned.
Shumaker is looking to Involve as up with advances in technology.
many students as possible with
The Sperry was originally rented
computers through the DEC-20. by SUNYA in 1968, and' the con"We hope to attract students from tract was extended in 1974, 1979,
the humanities and social sciences and 1983, Shumaker said.
who might not have access to comShumaker said the school would
puters," he said.
purchase a new system in conjuncNirenberg said the new system tion with the other University
would be beneficial for several centers and SUNY-Central. The
reasons. "It will support a large research for a new system is just
number of terminals," she said, beginning, and both Shumaker and
and added lhat this will mean Wolfe said that the new system
shorter turn-around time, or the could end up being a Sperry.
time required for a program to
Many schools use DEC-20
finish running or printing, and the systems, according to Nirenberg,
time required for the terminal to who said she visited user rooms at
respond to a user's commands.
Columbia, Brandcis, M.I.T., and
Martone said that locating user
Nirenberg continued, "Students Carnegie Mellon Universities, all of
rooms on any other quad was still will be meeting a system that's quite which have DEC-20 systems. There
only a possibility because the school a bit different in quality than the is a "fairly strong group of universimply doesn't have enough ter- Sperry."
sities using this in the area," she
minals at this time. He maintained
According to Wolfe, the DEC-20 said.
lhat if a way was found to purchase is not replacing the Sperry, but supenough terminals a user room plementing it. She said the service
One of the reasons the departwould be established on cither contract on the Sperry, which the ment is hoping to attract students
Dutch or Indian Quad.
University rents, expires in who are not computer science maThe DEC-20 is considered an ex- December, 1986 and at that time it jors is because the new terminals
because will have full screen editors,
cellent computer for use by people will be r e p l a c e d
without a lot of expertise in the maintenance costs would become whereas many of the current terfield, both Shumaker and Wolfe too high.
minals are only line editors, that is
noted. "The system is designed to
Wolfe said lhat it is standard only one line of a program can be
be very user-friendly, it's easy to practice for a school to replace the seen at one time, explained
use for a naive user," said Wolfe.
main frame every 5-7 years to keep Nirenberg.
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said Enarson. He added that Governor Mario Cuomo had indicated his
support of the commission in his
State of the Stale address.
The members of the commission
were chosen by Wharlon, along
with the Board of Trustees, Wharton said. He said that he received
"a variety of suggestions from
within and out of SUNY" as to
possible commission members.
The 15 members of the commission on the Future of the State
University come from the fields of
education, high technology,
finance, commerce, labor, and
government, according to Wharton.
The cost of the commission
would be supported largely by
grants from the Ford Foundation;
Rockefcllor Foundation, Cargcgic
Corp., and the Ford Motor Fund,
said Wharton. He stated lhat he
had received $115,000 from these
grants, and that commission
members will not receive compensation.
Aside from the 15 members of
the commission, there will be an additional staff of four or five people,
said Wharton.
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make computers more accessible to
students, said Assistant to
Shumaker, 'Fran Stevens. She said
that specific estimates on the costs
of renovations and equipment for
the user room had not been received, but that she expected the room
would be open In about two months.
The State Quad user room plan is
the first program in which the
University will place terminals
directly in a residence area, Director
for Residence Life John Martone
said.
Terminals in the user room will
be able to work with either the new
DEC-20 or the Spcrry-Univac 1183,
SUNYA's current mainframe computer.
Martone explained that Slate
Quad was chosen because there was
sufficient room available, the
Fulton Hall lower lounge was not
set up as a study area and that
Residential Life wanted to make
State Quad "more attractive" to
uppcrclassmen. The quad is traditionally a freshman quad, but Martone denied that the quad's
stereotype had anything to do with
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Civic suspicions
I
ra civic center is to be built In Albany, then it belongs
in the shadow of the Empire State Plaza and not the
SUNY campus. University President Vincent
O'Leary's enthusiastic proposal for a civic center-fieldhouse
complex across the street from campus is not in the best interests of either the city or the University.
There are several questions raised by O'Leary's plans. According to his proposal, the complex would cost an estimated
$25 million to construct, plus an annual expense of
$1,345,000 in debt financing.
O'Leary assumes an initial contribution of $10 million
from the state, with the rest being worked out somehow between Albany county and the city. His proposal glosses over
any specifics of these assumed arrangements, and it curiously
avoids mentioning the very distinct possibility of considerable financial committment by the University. Does
O'Leary really expect to have his cake and eat it too?
This suspiciously murky financial setup does not do justice
to the costs involved once the center opens for business, from
security to snow removal. Most civic centers across the country operate at a loss. Between the massive initial costs and an
unpredictable plethora of operating expenses, this would be a
mistaken venture for the University to partake in.
The bottom line on paying the bills for the center could
very well end tip in the pockets of SUNY students. Where
else would the money appear from? And once the project
began, there would be no turning back, and students could
be saddled with an oppressive financial burden. Greater tuition and dorm rate increases, new atheletic fees and other
devious means would almost certainly be the legacy of this
extravaganza.
Where a civic center would do most good is right in the
heart of downtown Albany'-. After the success of the plaza in
catalyzing the revitalization of the city, a civic center would
be the next logical step. Now that financially successful
businesses and individuals have been drawn back, fresh support for active commercial and social development abounds.
Building a civic center downtown would help transform
Albany into the thriving metropolitan center it ought to be. It
would provide for the creation of a more diverse and exciting
cultural and night life, including restaurants, bars, clubs and
theaters, all within walking distance of the civic center and
Plaza. ThW kind of development belongs as a necessary
natural, and Integral part of city life, not.as a sore thumb
stuck out in the suburbs, A successful metropolitan ares
depends upon a successful metropolis. Every community in
the capital district will reap the benefits of a complete and
prosperous downtown district.
On the practical side, the downtown site has a great deal to
offer. The land is owned by the state, so the burden on city
and county taxpayers would be minimal and the financing of
the project much more feasable. The facilities of the civic
center and the Plaza could, be combined to provide
superlative possibilities for conventions and shows of any
kind. Traffic could be routed directly off the highways and
into the center's parking areas. Albany would become a
much greater lure to tourists, sports and music fans. The
money generated by this influx would spread throughout the
area, making Albany and its neighboring communities a
mbre inviting and exciting place to live.
O'Leary's pipe dream proposal seems born out of his
desire to enhance his own prestige through that of the
University. Financially it is laden with ambiguities and prcg.
nant with pitfalls. If the University wants a fieldhouse, that is
a separate matter. But it would be a tragic missed opportunity to build a civic center anywhere but In the heart of
downtown. The timing is right. The location is perfect. The
downtown center could propel Albany and its neighbors into
a new era of strength and prosperity
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A male perspective
The series of articles and letters at the end of last semester
by Libby Post, Hamilton South and others, dealing with
feminism — and specifically the question of men as feminists
— and the address given by Sonia Johnson to a large and
almost entirely female audience, have given rise to some
thoughts. Perhaps this column should be titled "Yet another
man's perspective!"
David Janower
Absent, from all of the discussion and letters is, of course,
a cogent definition of feminism. Since such a positive
political-social process is not really defineable, many people
can consider themselves "feminists" and believe very different things, with a restricted range, from others who use
the same label. (It is much easier to define negative things
like racism, sexism and ageism than it is to encompass all of
the positive aspects and goals of feminism in a tidy definition.) Lacking this clear definition, I would venture to
declare, in all humility, that I consider myself a feminist!
There, I've said it, for all to read! But what does that mean,
to be a feminist and a male?
,
Since I am at the ripe old age of 31,1 have a few years (for
better or worse) on some of the people who have been writing
to the ASP about this issue. I remember discussions in those
famous sixties, when Libby Post was a baby radical (a red
diaper baby, she said), concerning whether white people
could really be part of the Civil Rights movement. Aren't
whites, after all, the ones oppressing people of color (we
spoke only of black people then)? Well sure, we'd argue, but
that doesn't mean ALL of us whites are "like that." Some of
us want to change things, want to give blacks equal status,
equal opportunity (ah, those famous words), and so on. We
want to help, we want to march, we want to freedom ride.
We might even consider giving up a few of our privileges, so
that some of those blacks can have them. Revolution? Well,
that's perhaps not necessary, but the Civil Rights movement
is a good thing and we are behind it. Black Panthers? Too
violent. Martin Luther King? Right onl
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Well, that was certainly one scenario back then. Is it any
different now with men and feminism? I think it is not different in essence. It is still the "oppressors" dealing with the
"oppressed." Some of us truly believe, with all our hearts
and minds, that women (blacks, old people, other nations)
get a raw deal from the white, male ruling class. This is not,
as Lori Spaccarelli well pointed out in the 11/18/83 ASP, an
"accomplishment" of great proportions, to have come to the
realization that the white male is an "oppressor." It is a
beginning, though, just as recognizing the need for a Civil
Rights movement in the sixties was a beginning. A famous
slogan of that time (Cleaver?) is still appropriate: "If you're
not part of the solution you're part of the problem; The
questions that I (we) have always found so difficult is, how
do I (we white males) become part of the solution? In the
case of feminism, the corollary to that is: can a male be a
feminist?
I think the answer to that is yes, although I clearly have my
own definition in mind. A feminist, I would venture, is someone (not some woman, but someone) who believes that
men and women are inherently equal and that they should be
treated equally by society. "Equal." Hmmm. "Treated
equally." Hmmm again. More definitions are needed. One
could list specifics, I suppose: ERA, sexual preference rights,
maternity/paternity laws, inheritance laws, equal pay,
violence against women (in which category falls not only
domestic violence and rape but also pornography), reproductive rights, homemaker rights, and so forth. Docs believing
the "politically correct" way about these issues make one a
feminist? Does believing and actively fighting for these issues
make one a feminist? All of those issues? Some of them?
On the other hand, I have been trained since I was born
and my parents saw the extra apparatus I carried and what a
ridiculous difference two inches of tubing madel), to act and
think in certain ways. I was taught that men are
There are too many questions that have no clear answer.
authoritative, a lesson I learned all too well. I was taught
But here, at last, is what I believe. White males MUST work
many things I have rejected or tried to reject: men don't cry,
against the isms, both for selfish and selfless reasons, and for
men don't take care of kids, men don't cook, men make
the latter as much as humanly possible. This begins by
money, men get special treatment in everything, men don't
feel. Well, I cry, I love kids, 1 used to be a pretty good cook, recognizing the privileges accorded to white males, and by
I work at SUNYA so obviously I don't make much money,
trying to understand the way that we have "oppressed" peoand — oh oh, here's the problem — I get special treatment in ple of color, women, etc. This understanding will uneverything. I get privileges. I'm not even aware, no doubt, of doubtedly be an intellectual one at first, but we must eel
many of these privileges, because I don't realize that women
beyond that to really FEEL that the imbalance in society is
are treated differently. Or, I realize it intellectually, but I wrong. Then we must get off our privileged butts ami help, in
can't really see it, can't really understand it. Well, I don't
whatever ways we can. And, since the personal is political
disagree with that. I wish I understood it better, because then
and the political is personal, wc must help in both political
I could fight it better!
and personal ways. This means recognizing how we deal with
people, and CONSCIOUSLY trying to throw off old modes
Certainly men have much to gain once feminism achieves
of behavior, learned isms, and treat people the way wc want
its goals. So, for selfish reasons, I should support feminism,
to be treated in return (yes, that old Golden Rule).
and how good I am (wc are) at being selfish! Of course, one
could add, I (we) have much to lose, too, since we are the
It also means, however, that the white male musl get acprivileged "oppressors." In truth, however, I don't believe
customed to being part of a struggle he is NOT leading! I
wc really have anything to lose except hollow privileges that
think this is an important key. The Civil Rights movement
don't belong to us and that I don't think we really want.
has never been, should never be, a white-dominated struggle,
(That's easy to SAY isn't it?) I think I support the goals of
and whites must help and not hinder. And feminism is a
feminism (whatever we may define them to be)
struggle rough! primarily by women. Men musl light
wholeheartedly. I think I am against sexism, ageism, racism,
alongside, must give as much support as we can, but we must
and other heinous isms, even though there are learned
recognize that we are not in charge here! We must gel used to
vestiges within me that make me, to some extent, racist, sexbeing the followers for once. It's pretty difficult; we've been
ist, ageist, etc. I, the white male, receive the immediate
in charge (or some man has been) ail of our lives. Suddenly
benefits from this system from the day I am born. I must there is a woman at the head of the parade. Worse yet, there
unlearn my lesson, and attempt to throw off these benefits,
are LOTS of women at the heads of lots of things, organizing
comfortable as they are.
and reasoning and demanding and negotiating and simply
taking the responsibility for a social-political movement.
And there is a whole other set of questions. How much can And we men aren't used to that. I feel that we often have a
my political life be reflected in my personal life? Ah, now we hard time being feminists because as soon as we become part
come to the most difficult question. Even if I am "politically of any struggle we expect to run the whole danPerhaps this is
correct" concerning feminism and racism and ageism, how the first bit of understanding, to give up that privilege and
much does it affect my day-to-day dealings with people? that power, to learn from arid follow and look up to women!
How do I deal with women? It's not: how do I deal with the What a wonderful new idea! (How wonderful to hear a little
ERA, with abortion rights, with rape, etc., but how do I deal boy say that when he grows up he wants to be just like Sally
with women? Myself, personally. Well, this is a big door to Ride, or Harriet Tubman, or Holly Near, or Sonia Johnson,
plow through. How, in fact, do I deal with men? Shouldn't or Libby Post!)
my political (intellectual)'beliefs and my personal actions be
And so I call myself a feminist, although not usually in
exactly lined up, side by side, fitting together with a rwrfect
print. And as you have read, I have more questions than
^v mesh? Shouldn't they coincide EXACTLY? Yes! Do they? answers. But I DO think a man can be a feminist, and more
Well now, let's be realistic, I say. I can't have unlearned so than that, he SHOULD be one.
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expecting too much, wouldn't it? I mean, I'm trying, right?
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In Memorium
It occurred to m e , after reading about halfway through the first Installment of
this c o l u m n last week, that I h a d failed to say anything about becoming the new
editor. Reading It through again, It stunned m e ; I h a d completely neglected to
say a n y of those egotistical things that everybody w h o knows me (and m y ego)
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sounds and tape effects, designed lo evoke
the feeling Inspired by being In a certain location — at a film, In an airport. In another
country, etc. The music traditionally has an
ethereal quality, which has become minimalist
Brian Eno's trademark. Through small chord
changes within simple motifs, the prince of the
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ambient quality, and by two-thirds of the w a y '
through, It loses Its charisma. It rates not better
than sophisticated elevator music. The crime Is
that other ambient projects, like Music for
Films and Discreet Music are not only finely
produced albums, but they are interesting and
moving as well. Given Eno's past critical successes, It's still hard for me to believe that his
Apollo fizzles out like a dying star.
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Another innovative performer Is King Sunny Ade. Like Eno, his style is laid back, but the
musclal genre he operates in is completely different.
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats are
the happening thing In Eastern Africa today.
And, their most recent album, Synchro
System, reaffirms their prominent position
there.
Ade's style Is low-key. His voice Is so deft
that It transcends a crescendo from soft to
moderate more powerfully than a soulInsplred singer uses his scream.
Besides the untradltlonal (for an African
group) use of synthesizers, Ade employs,
stangely enough, a steel guitar and a
vebraphone.' Also, congos, maracas, and
bongos abound, threatening to break Into a
light samba at the drop of a chant.
A jazzy feel permeates the album, with occassional country-western strains, courtousy
of the steel guitar. The best way to describe the
music, however, Is that It pulses through you,
creating a smooth, tightly woven, intricate
sound.
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punctuated with a misplaced bass (I.e. me falling on the soil, me shaking a stem, and then
me suddenly falling silent). Side one's only
good point Is that the production is excellent;
all the sounds resound clear and crisp.
Side two shows some promise, thanks to
the angelic purity of Daniel Lanols' sole composition here, "Silver Morning." Pretty guitar
strums recall Pink Floyd's Wish You Were
Here. Collectively, side two approaches the
Idea of ambient music much more closely than
side one does. It lets the listener decide if it is
background or foreground music; Eno's style
allows the music to step In and out of either
easily. The music lets the listener control what
kind of attention he places on It. This is In
direct contrast to other types of music like
hardcore, which insists on being up front, or
Muzak, which is designed to take a back seat.
Synchro System surpasses Its predecessor,
Juju Music, because It stays more closely with
Ihe sound, where Juju Music tended to rely
more heavily on chants sung In solidarity, and
repetitive melodies.
Synchro System derives strength from its intense rhythms. The sound remains light and
breezy throughout, despite the Intricacy of the
instrumentation. There's something lacking,
however, in that for all the texture and
brilliance of the music, II Is ultimately sterile.
Ade and his African Beats, Ironically enough,
don't have enough soul, but what they do
have Is an energetic, Intelligent album with
Synchro System.
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erhaps the only time one can safely
consider himself grownup occurs when
he comes to realize his father as merely
another human being: another individual who
hurls, who enjoys, who aspires as much as
himself. If love, as a person once told me, is
the admission ol the existence of another individual as complex as oneself this period of
realization may also be the first time one can
truly say thai he loves or hales his father. The
first time a kind of slep back from the purely
emotional takes place and a father can be appraised under the same criteria through which
others are regarded, and tils good points and
bad points can be added and subtracted, ihe
pain from Ihe pleasure or Ihe pleasure from
the pain. I was never quite sure which.
Kevin Clarke
Before this time, and maybe it is a time
which never comes for some people or one
which is never necessary for them lo come to,
a father is too awesome a figure to allempl to
apprehend. He can be remembered as simply
an angry face, provoked abruptly by anything,
unjust and outrageous, or he can be
remembered as kind, and genlle composed of
a generous and warm nature.Ihe Ireeze-frame
TV image of Ihe good father, bad father. Real
fathers though exist as a combination of the
two. Often it is difflculi to conceptualize them
that way. It is a difficulty of moments. When
remembering childhood one recalls moments,
distinct usually intense instances that were an
expression of one trait or another of a father's
n a t u r e , but moments whose slnglepurposeness denies the ability to view Ihe man
as a whole. So one remembers the time when
a father seemed unnaturally cruel, or Ihe lime
a father was surprisingly affectionate, or, when
one is older and able to understand human
emolion and its frailty a little better, those
moments which were sometimes the most
troubling of all when a lather behaved most as
a human and not at all as'Ihe unapproachable
Ideal he tried to represent and to live.
Fathers, in iheir endeavor to be Infallible, to
be omnipotent forces of domestic stability, are
perhaps most responsible for Ihe inability of
thelrchlldren to accept them as humans. I
remember my Father cross examining Ihe entire family as lo the disposition of a package of
Oreo cookies and remember loo the feeling as
a child o l fearful nausea and a sense lhat
maybe all this fuss over a few crumbling
cookies was a bit ridiculous. But this latter
thought was quickly suppressed when Ihe
stern and utterly serious eyes of my Father fell
upon me and he rumbled, " How many
oreoes did you eat? " Surely II my Father was
disturbed by the disappearance of a box of
cookies It was an Issue that demanded my
respect.
At this point 1 would of course deliver the
standard unscrupulous sybling lie," I only ate
two, but Andrew had some. "
I think the point of all this gibberish might
begin lo be obscured by this oreo anecdote so
let me try to make It somewhat more clear.
Fathers are not more fallible now that as older
people we percleve their faults with more
regularity. They committed crimes of arrogance, egotism, and stupidity just as often
when we were children, but the role we accepted them In and Ihe one which they tried
so.hard to fill made It possible for us to do
nothing but reject any indication of inconstancy In their behavior. They hid behind a great
wall of tradition and physical proximity lhat
protected Iheir positions. It was a wall of straw
that fell to the fact of our aging, and the
distance and the resentment we grew to feel
lor Iheir presence which paralleled the growth
of our bodies and our Intellect, and our own
egocentric adolescent natures.
My Father has always been a hard case for
me. Everything you have so far endured In
wading through this article has been an effort
I've made lo make some sense out of my relationship with him and one hopeful of arousing
some empathy. I may have succeeded only In
confusing everyone, but If I have than you at
least know how I feel about my Father, Since
I've known him, which has been all my life and
a good portion of his, Dad has been someone
almost Irrationally bothered by the smaller Irralions offered by suburban living. The
mysterious vanishing oreoes, the lonely
discared underwear on the bedroom floor, or
Ihe unexpectedly drained bottle of Pepsi; the
small print of procreation. II was these
moments I recall him at his worst. Thinking
back, my first impressions were merely a
child's fear of Ihe angered parent, later it came
to be disgust or amusement at what I percleved as his pettiness. Now I am older and leel
Ihe need lo analyze these memories. How to
go about It though? Should I do it
psychologically? Was my Father pathologically
enraged by ravaged, crinkly oreo packages or
Insanely intrigued by Ihe mlgralory habits of
dirty day old underwear making the big move
Irom the center of the floor to a month long
hiatus under the unmade bed? Or should 1
regard him as some kind of cheap creep who
liked to instigate arguments over trivial things
and agonized over the price of Peps! and
sugared breakfast cereals? Either way I would
be wrong and certainly unfair to him. Looking
back, sllll lasting the salty terror in a rapidly
drying mouth as I mumbled, " I only ate two, "
or " I only had one glass, " or finally " That's
Andrew's underwear, not mine, " and recalling my Father's angry face and his Injured
voice as he waved an empty soda bottle like
some kind of desecrated relic before me I can
only grin in slow, but sure comprehension. My
Father was a sensible man who wanted
nothing more from his sons but lhat they left
him a cookie with his soda after work and kept
Iheir underwear out of sight. We failed him In
even these small endeavors. He was
sometimes selfish, usually truculent, occasionally Insensitive, and like a true Clarke, at
heart, an egotist. In short too much like the
man I've grown Into; both of us children
who've gotten a little bigger. Now I can
understand him more and come to terms with
the entity that is not just my Father, but a
thinking, and more importantly, feeling
human being. It Is a good thing when a Father
becomes human for us; a sign of our own
maturity, a sign also that we are heading inexorably along Ihe route that leads to frantic
arguments over Oreo cookies and children
who can't see us for what we are.
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W
illiam K e n n e d y , rising star o f c o n t e m p o r a r y fiction, wrote a book about his love affair w i t h a city p o p u l a t e d
by thousands of "politicial wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, a n d underr a t e d scoundrels."
O Albany! Is Kennedy's latest c o n t r i b u t i o n t o his wealth of literature o n the city of his y o u t h — the city that
obsessed h i m w h e n away f r o m It a n d Inspired h i m w h e n h o m e .
"This b o o k is dedicated t o p e o p l e w h o used t o think they hated the place where they grew u p , a n d then took a
second l o o k , " K e n n e d y writes, a dedication that reveals his learning, loathing, then love of A l b a n y .
K e n n e d y hasn't been the o n l y person t o have ill thoughts about this t o w n . In O Albany! he quotes architect
' H . H . Richardson saying In 1 8 7 0 : " O f all the miserable, w r e t c h e d , second-class, one-horse t o w n s , this Is the most
miserable."
A m o d e r n analogy might be the too-oft heard o n the campus o f this concrete monstrosity: " T h i s place Is
nothing like L a w n G u i l a n d . "
B o t h opinions have n o f o o l i n g , of course, in reality or truth as displayed in K e n n e d y ' s "improbable h i s t o r y . "
H e left A l b a n y at 2 8 for P u e r t o Rico a n d M i a m i , but he was d r a w n back by his memories and the need t o k n o w
more.
" O n c e I thought 1 loathed the city, left It w i t h o u t a sigh a n d t h o u g h t I'd g o n e for g o o d , only to c o m e back to
w o r k and live in H a n d become this curious cheerleader I n o w seem to be. But I'm f o n d of things b e y o n d the city's
Iniquity. I love Its times of grace a n d greatness, its political secrets a n d its historical presence in every facet of the
nation's life, including the unutterable, the unspeakable, a n d the ineffable," he writes.
O Albany! Is a description of the city's y o u t h , Its ethnics, Its pols a n d its proles. A l l the vision is t h r o u g h the
thoughful eyes of K e n n e d y : a l o n g chapter outlines his N o r t h A l b a n y roots in his classic lyrical style.
This chapter details the 300-year history of his n e i g h b o r h o o d — f r o m the Dutch colonial days to the lumber and
mills that brought its industrial peak t o the sprawling state bureacracy that n o w hires its workers.
For s o m e o n e trained t o write painfully short paragraphs, I f o u n d this chapter most enjoyable for a reason
unrelated to Kennedy's honest account of the crucible of his y o u t h . This segment of the book is a twenty-page
long paragraph. O n e long, quickly f l o w i n g 'graph floating .over centuries of history and decades of autobiography.
One page, for instance, flows f r o m professional baseball teams, to the circus In the 30s and 4 0 s , to Albany
Times Union city editor Barney Fowler's problems with loose elephants in the 50s, to an obituary K e n n e d y wrote
about Langford the cat, to a n e i g h b o r h o o d cat raffled off In a fund-raiser for Sacred Heart C h u r c h in the 1890s.
He's not drifting, he's w i n d i n g a l o n g trailing story that reads like an oral story; a verbal passing of history.
O Albany! reflects Kennedy's training as a journalist. T h e b o o k finds space for some original r e p o r t i n g , such as
his tracing of Jack " L e g s " D i a m o n d ' s killing that night after a k i d n a p p i n g acquittal to the Albany cops.
H e donates a chapter to u n w r a p p i n g the city's p o w e r f u l Democratic m a c h i n e , fueled by the Irish — like
machine f o u n d e r D a n O ' C o n n e l l — a n d f r o n t e d by W A S P s — like Erastus C o r n i n g I I .
T h e genesis of this book was interest f r o m a small regional press in reprinting articles K e n n e d y wrote about the
city's neighborhoods for the Times Union in 1 9 6 3 . T h e rest of the b o o k grew out of these original pieces, w h i c h he
completely revised and updated for the b o o k .
Washington Park Press editors Susanne D u m b l e t o n a n d A n n e Older asked h i m if he w o u l d submit the pieces,
but he finished w i t h a complete o n A l b a n y ' s origins. T h e press co-published O Albany! w i t h V i k i n g .
O f particular Interest t o A l b a n y students m i g h t be the chapter about the Pine Hill n e i g h b o r h o o d , h o m e to m a n y
student apartments, hang-outs a n d night spots.
T h e n e i g h b o r h o o d changed over time f r o m its successful middle-class family origins to the present heavllystudent p o p u l a t i o n . " T o cope w i t h it, m a y of the h a n d s o m e o l d h o m e s , w i t h their n u m e r o u s b e d r o o m s , have
been cut into apartments a n d m a d e into r o o m i n g houses, fast-food shops have o p e n d e d , and the p u b traffic is
n o w f o r m i d a b l e , " he writes.
K e n n e d y quotes Vincent Reda, S U N Y A l b a n y graduate a n d local writer: "It was a place of pretty tree-lined
streets — Western A v e n u e a n d H u d s o n A v e n u e — a nice place t o walk outside, t o check out where y o u ' d like to
live next.
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ennedy catches the silent majority that caused the city's trends a n d the masters w h o controlled the city with
politics.
T h e masses w h o w o r k e d in Albany's rallyards, lumber mills a n d meat packing plants are the history of its
neighborhoods a n d ethnics — not the official history of developers a n d rulers.
K e n n e d y has make his n a m e w i t h a cycle of novels about Albany's sordid past. It began In 1 9 7 5 w i t h the
publishing^? Legs, a fictional account of the life of gangster Legs D i a m o n d whose greatest gift to A l b a n y was his
,38-callber lead-induced death h e r e .
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, published In 1 9 7 8 , focuses Kennedy's pen on a lesser-known fictional underworld hustler and a newspaper columnist with an o d d interest his adventures.
Of the trilogy this novel focuses most strongly o n A l b a n y . It takes a little while to get used to familiar sites included In writings of such polish a n d skill. Familiar references like, "Billy got off the A l b a n y - T r o y bus at B r o a d w a y a n d
Clinton A v e n u e . . . " are a shock to see before the realization sets in that this t o w n has as excliing a history as any
setting.
T h e stark Ironweed
drunk.
has rebuilt the city of b u m s of the late depression, a w o r l d of Francis Phelan, a loser and
It Is a w o r l d of ghostly images, m e m o r i e s of the d e a d lingering In the guilty m i n d of Phelan. K e n n e d y Is obsessed with these l o w - d o w n s , but he is not In love w i t h t h e m . H e paints a sympathetic but brutally honest image of
shattered life.
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It Is his concern w i t h the mass of p e o p l e , not the stars of history that concern Kennedy's O Albany! a n d prior
novels. In a Schenectady
Gazette interview, he said: " W h a t I feel Is, If y o u d o n ' t move these beings in a real
w o r l d , If It doesn't seem to be authentic, then y o u d o n ' t believe In the people. T h e y become shadows. T h e w o r l d
of A l b a n y serves as a ready-made universe In w h i c h these beings can f u n c t i o n . "
K e n n e d y brought h o m e the 1 9 8 3 National B o o k Critics Circle A w a r d a week ago because of his feeling for the
people behind his stories of low-llfes a n d losers, leaders a n d ward-heelers. T h e p o w e r of O Albany! Is In this feel
for a city a n d Its people.
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Live, Underground and in Albany
by Wayne Peereboom
"Awww, come on Gran-pa, are you goin' ta
watch the Mick Jagger Show again this
week?" Tommy asks with equal bits of sarcasm and disbelief. I think he finds it a bit silly
to see a white-haired old man creaking about
the stage In a football Jersey and white tights.
Jagger concludes each show with "Time is on
my' Side," which has long since become the
anthem of the White Panthers.
"Hey, remember this one," Jagger asks with
a broad smile and a twinkle In his eyes. He
goes into "Undercover of the Night."
"Gramps, did you ever see the Rolling
Stings?"
"The Rolling Stones, Tommy," I remind
him. "Sting was in another band called the
Police. He didn't play In the Rolling Stones
until 1993 when his career was on the slide
and the Stones needed a new bass player.
"No, Tommy," I say answering the original
question. "I never saw the Rolling Stones. The
places they played were so huge and there
were so many people that I really didn't think it
was worth all the trouble. You couldn't see the
band unless they had a huge video screen set
up and then you might as well watch television." This didn't mean much to Tommy. The
only place to see bands In 2021 was on the
video screen. I decided to spice things up a bit.
"Back before President Cuomo raised the
national drinking age to 32, live bands used to
play in bars and clubs." His reaction Is one of
fascination and disbelief.
"Sure, Gran-pa. Just like the time you told
me you used to play in the Grateful Dead or
that time you told me Boy George . . . "
"Alright," I interrupt him. "Maybe I did exaggerate sometimes but this time I'm telling the
truth, I can prove it."
"Go ahead," he challenges.
I rummage through the record collection I
had held onto for all these years. "This will
prove it," I say, dusting off a copy of Live at
288.
Tommy's eyes almost bug out of his head as
I hand him the album cover: photos of Hue
bands playing in a cfubl
"Come on, is this real?" he asks.
"Sure," I reply, throwing the album on my
antique Technics turntable which was quite an
attraction among the neighborhood youth. He
seems to get quite a kick out of Operation
Pluto's repeating chorus of "Where's my doggie blsqults."
"People were really weird back in the old
days," he says with a laugh.
He even recognizes The Reedles' version of
"Mirage." Tommy James and the Shondells,
originators of that tune, had made a big come
back around 2015.
As for French Letter, he can't believe they
were from Albany. The band sold 25 million
albums before finally calling it quits In 1996.
He knew the origin of Lumpen Proles since
Marxism was now taught in elementary
schools.
"You really saw all these bands?" he asks in
wonderment.
"Yup, most of 'em and I even wrote a
review of the album," 1 say, pulling out a
yellowed newspaper clip. It was dated
February 3, 1984:
Live at 288
Various
Lark Street Records
The idea to record an album of the bands of
288 Lark came about over two years ago but
the time wasn't right according to the club's comanager Charlene Shortsleeve. "The bands
weren't great at that time," said Charlene who
was also an executfve co-producer of the
album.
By last August there was sufficient confidence In the talent to go ahead with the project. Charlene and David Shortsleeve — lets
get It straight, David Shortsleeve co-manages
the club and also co-executive produces the
album — compiled a list of 15 of the best
bands that play 288 regularly. The list was narrowed down as a couple of the bands — the
Decentz and 10,000 Maniacs — were on tour.
Another band dropped out when their drummer passed out during recording sessions and
landed in the hospital.
Unlike the fabled Hudson Rock album of
1982, this album doesn't appear to be a compilation of local bands but rather a "best of"
288 Lark. Some of the bands originally
selected come from such places as Burlington,
Vermont, as well as Woodstock and
Jamestown.
The recording, financed by 288, took place
on five different occasions over the month of
September. "It was a month long experience,"
Charlene recalled. "We all just about lived
there." The third floor area was transformed
into a recording studio while the bands played
on the usual second floor stage. Not all the
recording was "live" in the absolute sense.
Five of the album's cuts were recorded during
the afternoon, Charlene explained, while the
other four were recorded during regular hours
at night.
Since Its early January release, Live at 288
hasn't met the greatest reception on the air-
waves. First of all, the fact that none of the
bands on the album have made it nationally
prevents airplay on commercial stations. Further, the album has gotten a somewhat cool
reception from the area's more progressive
stations although The Tragics and French Letter have been getting airplay on SUNYA's
WCDB.
Musically and production-wise, Jeahnle
Smith and the Hurricanes rendition of the
rockabilly standard "Ooby Dooby" is probably
the tightest cut on the album. Saratoga's The
Watts put on a catchy performance, featuring
vocals reminiscent of Bryan Ferry. What the
Lumpen Proles' "Worlds in Darkness" lacks
musically, it makes up for in dark, intense
lyrics. Operatfon Pluto adds a dash of syntholyrlcal madness while Capille anchors the
hard-core end of things as they did on Hudson
Rock. A combobulation of musicians from
various local bands, The Reedies seem to
have been blessed with the " f u n " cut from the
album.
On the negative side, the overall production
of the album is a little weak. For one thing, the
small second story of 288 Lark is far from the
ideal recording area even in a live setting.
While the sound of the album is O.K., it could
be better. A-lot of highs and lows were lost
along the way. Also the fact that some cuts
were recorded before a live audience while
others were not, leads to some confusion. On
some songs we hear communication between
the band and audience while at other spots
there is none.
Nevertheless, 288 has provided Albany
with a place to hear good original bands. With
a sagging local music scene, it becomes more
important. Live at 288 provides a good
testimonial to what people were listening to
back In 1984 and maybe in the future.
American
Underground
sides, one will find R & B , straight pop, synthopop, reggae Influences, southern rock, country rock, lots of heavy metal and many combinations of the above.
Let's talk about the heavy metal first. Occupying nearly three full sides of the album, it
has to be said that heavy metal is the dominant
style of music on the album. I must admit to
not being much of a metal fan' but I can
recognize some of the schools of metal
represented on the vinyl: The Ozzy
Osborne/Black Sabbath/Bite the Head off a
Bat School; The A C / D C "I'm Burning In Hell
and I Love It" School; The slick, technical
Deep Purple School and the mellower
Syntho-metal School. For the most part, the
metal is tightly and professionally done with
strong rhythm guitar, searing lead and solid
bass line. For metal fans this should mean
eternal bliss. The album should be a hit in
suburbia where I believe the heavy metal
bands lurk.
How about the heavy metal haters? Well the
metal promlnance hasn't exactly endeared
American Underground to progressive radio
and that is the only place where the album has
a chance for real airplay. But metal-haters take
note; There's still enough non-metal material
on the album for you to get your money's
worth. Cuts by the Sharks, The Fan Club,
Dresden Pink, and the Walts, for example,
have been getting progressive airplay.
The Sharks are in their top R&B form with
"Complex." The Fan Club comes forth with
some tight energetic pop. Martha's Airheart
adds some syntho-pop with a catchy rhythm.
Interstate plays a brand of southern rock
similar to Marshall Tucker which Is not terribly
chic but very well done with the help of some
fine guitar work.
If there is a problem with the material on the
album, it Is the fact that many of the cuts
sound like established bands. At various points
one can hear an overriding Influence of Mar-,
tha Davis, for example, or Black Sabbath. This
seems somewhat unusual since I believe that
of the songs are originals — .there are no
songwriter credits on the album.
Production-wise the album seems very pro-'
fessionally done and well produced. The
sound is good.
Various
M C E Records
" A triple album? They gotta be crazy!
Nobody will be able to afford to buy the damn
ihlng. It will be a wipe-out. A total disaster."
Yes, that was my reaction just a few months
ago when 1 found out that MCE Records' latest
local c o m p i l a t i o n a l b u m ,
American
Underground, was a three record set. That
was also before I started going around to
record stores and pricing the thing — it goes
Overall, there Is plenty of llstenable material
for under seven bucks.
for the metal-head, the anti-metal-head and
Released last fall, MCE's follow-up to Hud- those In between. The six or seven dollars
son Rock has a total of 30 bands performing seems like a good Investment for those with
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alt different kinds of originals. Over six record any Interest In music on the local level.
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IBRUARY3, 19841
I FEBRUARY 3,
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Milk And Honey' A Sweet Mix
DON'T JUST THINK
ABOUT IT!!!!
|efore John Lennon was killed In 1980,
| h e had partially recorded six songs for an
"upcoming record. Last month, Yoko
o released the album,Milk.and Honey,
|jch Includes songs and several new tracks
. Yoko.
polyGram Records, who Included a
(•page color booklet of lyrics and photos
i the album, could not have been disapInted with John's material. His tracks are
|te good and will certainly ensure the album
Iromlnent position on the charts.
I'Borrowed T i m e , " a melodic reggae
Tiber, Is very strong and the lyrics are very
trusting. In the song, John reflects upon his
Jbious past; "When I was younger, living il•lons of freedom and power, I was living on
jrrowed time without a thought for tomor/." John then expresses relief for a more
Iture perspective on life: "Good,to be older,
puld not exchange a single day or a year.
ks complications, everything clear."
['Nobody Told m e " Is an irreverent thumper
^arently reflecting Lennon's tainted Impresof
the
world
when
he
bte . . . "There's Nazis In the bathroom just
l o w the stairs/' This song's magnetism lies in
m joyous melody, which slightly resembles
Cannon's "Instant Karma", and makes the
tune a perfect choice for the album's first
jungle.
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parison. With all due respect to Yoko, she has
a very poor voice for conventional melodies,
which comprise the bulk of her recent albums
Double Fantasy, Season of Glass ' and It's
Alright.. Ono's songs o n Milk and Honey are
equally disappointing.
"Sleepless Night," "Don't Be Scared," and
"You're the O n e " are weak melodies which
suffer from excessive verbiage and an unmodulated soprano. The strength of " O Sanity" Is Its length. The song Is about a minute
long.
" Y o u r Hands," which features Yoko
describing, in Japanese, various parts of her
lover's body and what they mean to her, is
tedious. Maybe Yoko's present music, like her
early work, is years ahead of its time and won't
be appreciated until sometime in the distant
future. Don't hold your breath.
fyorey Levitan
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Poor lyrics hinder the effectiveness of
another Lennon track called " M y Little Flower
Princess." This reggae lune recalls "Bless
. i " l Don't Wanna Face It" Is traditional, hard- You" from John's "Walls and Brldges"album,
edged, mid-70s Lennon. In an obvious but doesn't work nearly as well. Syruppy lyrics
reference to himself, he reveals a character make the song come across as mawkish:
.flaw: "Say you're looking for some peace and "Forgive me, my little flower princess, for
love, leader of a big old band. Y o u wanna crushing your delicateness." O h , please.
save humanity, but it's people that you just
The musicianship on John's tracks is adecan't stand." John's voice is In fine form here. quate. The album features most of the musiI Specific references to himself and Yoko are cians who played on Double Fantasy, invery evident In John's material, and it often :ludlng guitarists Earl Slick and Hugh Mcborders on self-indulgent. Considering the | Cracken, bassist Tony Levin and drummer
romantic dialogue theme of the album, some Andy Newmark.
exclusive communication between John and | There are occasions where the overdubbing
Yoko Is understandable. But a decent melody done by Yoko and company Is obvious, as in
can be wasted if nobody but the arltst can "Borrowed Time." An added chorus of guitars
relate to the song. This Is the case with "I'm stands out and it's hard to imagine that LenStepping Out," the tale of a househusband's non would not have re-recorded the song. His
big night on the town. This potentially cute electronically-altered voice shakes noticeably
rocker describes the banality of Lennon's and even cracks once on the chorus. In
home life in very boring detail: "Baby's sleep- "Flower Princess," John can't even remember
i n g . The cats have all been blessed. Ain't the words at the end of the song. Count-offs,
nothing doing on T V . . . Summer repeats."
impromptu speeches and comments like
'hold It down" and "you can get out n o w "
throughout the album hardly support the nolion that these were the versions of John'?
songs he intended to be on the album.
Yoko's half of Milk and Honey Isn't very 1m
presslve. In Ihe late sixties, Yoko's music was
popularly regarded as little more than screams
and strange noises. Though her unconventional styllngs were not appreciated at the
time, they gained a strong following In later
years. "Yoko was avant-garde before avantgarde was fashionable," Lennon once said.
The B-52s admitted they scrupulously studied
Ono's early work and they cited it as a major
influence in their music. Another fan of
Yoko's is Elvis Costello, who, along with the
B-52s and other contemporary artists, is
presently recording an album of cover versions
of Yoko's early music.
Although Yoko's avant-garde offerings from
popularly overlooked albums like Approximate Infinite Universe are Innovative and
fascinating, her recent work is putrid in com-
A touching surprise appears on Milk and
Honey in the form of a demo version of a song
John never recorded in the studio. The
melody in "Grow Old With Me" is as beautiful
as anything John has ever written, and the
lyrics are tinged with ironic sadness: "Grow
old along with me. The best is yet to be " John
borrowed the lyrics from a Robert Browning
poem and recorded the version on Milk and
Honey in his bedroom with a piano and
rhythm box. The rough quality of ihe recording may be the only thing that will keep the
song from becoming another "Imagine,"
Yoko offered some background on "Grow
Old With M e " : "For John, 'Grow Old With
Me' was one that would be a standard; the
kind that they would play in church when a
couple gets married. It was horns and symphony time. We were working against' a
deadline for the Christmas release of Double
Fantasy and finally decided to leave the song
for Milk and Honey so we wouldn't do a rush
job." The version of "Grow Old With Me" on
Milk and Honey was the last John Lennon
song ever recorded.
A Demo of Yoko's "Let Me Count the
Ways," which was recorded around the same
time as "Grow OJd With M e , " Is also included
in the package. I'm happy to say that Yoko
shines o n this track, which features just her
voice and piano.
In short, although Milk and Honey's
historical significance overshadows its musical
merits, I believe I can safely say that anyone
w h o b u y s t h e a l b u m w i l l not be
disappointed.
•
Richman's Unrecognized Rock
round the end of every year, music
critics put out their lists of the top
Lalbums for that.year. One album I en]oyec| a great deal but which didn't seem to
make anybody's list was Jonathan Sings!, by
Jonathan Richman and the Modem Lovers.
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
are the most spontaneous live band I've1 ever
seen. Jonathan careens through ideas on
stage, and his band usually manages to keep
up with him. For Instance, "This Kind Of
Music"was sung a cappella by Jonathan after
the first verse when he played recently at RPI's
McNeil Room. Jonathan used the stage as a
percussion instrument, stomping on it to keep
rhythm as he sang. He and his band did a funny flamenco jam as well'as a hilarious version
of "Smoke on the Water." If you get ihe
chance to see Jonathan Richman and the
Modern Lovers, don't pass up the opportunity. It will be a fun and very entertaining evening.
Norman Kee
Released towards the end of 1983 with very
fittjfe publicity, it is one of the most straightforward, honest, personal yet accessible
LilJBums 1 have ever heard. Kevin Rowland
may wail all he wants about Dexy's "pure"
music, but Jonathan's got it.
(wven a start In the early 70's with the help
<Ovengall Kim Fowley, Jonathan Richman
md the Modern Lovers produced their first
LP, which had a great deal of influence upon
^ d e v e l o p m e n t of punk. This first album was
a collection of punky-soundlng pop songs with
iibijjof tongue-in-cheek to them. "She CrackecijSand "Roadrunner," which celebrates the
joffiof tooling around past the Stop ' n ' Shop
the A M radio o n , are two of my favorite
tunk songs.
le original Boston-based Modern Lovers
ded Ernie Brooks on bass. Jerry Harnow of the Talking Heads, on guitar
keyboards, and Dave Robinson, who
ft on to become the drummer for another
Boson band, the Cars. They were a rockln'
ba i, a bit more artsy and less raunchy than
ih Mew York Dolls, but with the same sense
of iumor and appreciation for rock's past.
•Jo ithan has become a bit mellower musically* ut he remains a witty and sarcastic writer.
nathan Sings! has ten songs, all written by
Jo; [than Richman. The overall sound of the
album could be described as "Pee Wee Herman meets Nebraska." Each song seems to
have been influenced by the humor, harmony, and sense of fun of early rock and roil.
The album opens with "That Summer
Feeling," a song that captures the feeling of
summer so well that it's sort of scary. "When
the Oldsmobile's got the top down on
it/When the catamaran has got the drop down
on it/When the flat of the land has the crop
down on It/What I now proclaim is sort of
hard to name/That summer feeling's going to
haunt you the rest of your life."
Jonathan seems to like singing a cappella.
He says in "This Kind of Music," "When
you're singing with nothing, hen, I like that," a
point he especially demonstrates live.
After "This Kind Of Music" comes ."The
Neighbors," the most serious song on the
album. A beautiful duet between Jonathan
and one of the female Modern Lovers, it is the
slory of a man's determination not to be influenced by his neighbors when he talks to the
neighborhood women.
"Somebody To Hold Me" is the catchiest
song on this album of catchy songs. Its startand-stop rhythm and changing tempo acompany Jonathan's profession of happiness since
he's got somebody to hold. .
The song that starts off the second
side,"Stop This Car," is one of the most exuberant songs around. It makes the Ramones
sound like Pink Floyd. It starts fast and keeps a
pace on the edge of tripping over Itself for the
whole song. The words tell the story of what It
must have been to ride with the girl from "Fun,
Fun, Fun," by the Beach Boys.
Jonathan expresses childlike enthusiasm,
innocence, and a sense of humor In "Not Yet
Three" as he sings from a little kids point of
view, Jonathan's slightly awkward voice is
nicely complemented with lullaby-like back-up
vocals as he croaks, "I'm stronger than you,
you're simply bigger than me."
In another beautiful love song,"You're The
One For M e , " Jonathan sings to his love that
"it's too late...You should have never come to
see the Lovers play/because now you're the
one for m e . " Jonathan's voice, while it seems
to be always on key, would always seem a little out of place if it weren't for his personal,
nonest, almost train-of-thought lyrics. He has
great skill in picking phrases that tap a whole
collection of thoughts and emotions.
In "When I'm Walking," the last song on the
album, Jonathan expresses his love of walking
and being with himself "with nothing between
(him) and the ground." It's a wandering song,
or rather a song to wander to. He wraps up
the album by demonstrating his walking
technique, stomping around the recording
studio saying. "like that kinda."
Jonathan Sings! Is one of the most confident, enthusiastic, and mature albums I have
ever heard. Critics seem to be standing in line
to talk about Paul Simon's "adult rock and
roll," but the guy never rocks and he's so busy
trying to say things cleverly that it's rare that
anything gets said. Jonathan Richman's "Letthe-cameras-roll" song writing seems so much
more fresh, funny, unaffected, and ultimately
more intelligent when compared with Paul
Simon's songs that it is a shame that Hearts
and Bones received so much attention while
Jonathan Sings! received almost none. Call
WCDB and request something off of Jonathan
Sings!or try t o get It from the Record Co-op. It
is an album that deserves to be more widely
heard.
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I the Editor:
I fail to understand why Timothy Taylor so heatedly insists
jSP. 1/27/84) that only economists have the right to comInt upon the achievements of democratic socialist parties
• the Socialist, Labor, and Social Democratic Parties that
jve governed many democratic nations over the past half
ptury. Furthermore, Mr. Taylor is not himself an
pnomist.
But as he seems to think that only economists can grapple
kh these matters, permit me to cite some facts drawn from
Ith Leger Sivard's World Military and Social ExpenMures, 1983. Sivard was formerly chief of the economics
lision of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agen', an executive with Dun and Bradstreet, and an official of
; Marshall Plan in France.
Men we look at the economic ranking of the world's naIns, we find a rather startling picture. In 1983, the United
lies slipped to 16th in per capita GNP. Five of the nations
Bl ranked above the United States were fabulously rich oil
feikhdoms, which owed their high status to fortuitous
ography. But the others are nations that have been govcrn| by democratic socialist parties in recent decades: Sweden,
prway, Denmark, France, Belgium, the Netherlands,
ivitzcrland, Iceland, Luxembourg, and West Germany,
prcover, thanks to the more equitable distribution of innc and wealth that the socialists secured in these countries,
t average citizen there enjoys a level of economic prosperii substantially higher than does the average citizen of the
fiited States.
Let us also look at some indices of social well-being that
{rttrd provides. The United States ranks 7th in school age
•pulation per teacher, 12th in percentage of women in
liversity enrollment, 19th in infant mortality rate, 26th in
ppulation per physician, and 34th in population per
pspital bed. Overall, the United States ranks 9th in
onomic-social standing. "The 8 nations ranking above it are
I descending order): Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France,
bland, West Germany, Australia, and Finland. Here the inJtence of democratic socialist parties — which have enacted
•form programs in all of these countries in recent decades —
I again apparent. Indeed, Sweden has enjoyed practically
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uninterrupted rule by the Social Democrats for the past half
century!
By contrast, let us examine two bell-weather societies for
capitalist and Communist development, Japan (which has
had practically uninterrupted rule by conservatives and
fascists in the twentieth century) today ranks 23rd in per
capita GNP and 20th in economic-social standing among the
world's nations. The Soviet Union (which has had uninterrupted rule by Communists since 1917) ranks 34th in per
capita GNP and 25th in economic-social standing.
The conclusion, 1 think, is quite evident. Far from retarding economic growth or social well-being, democratic
socialist parties have advanced these to the highest levels in
the world — all within the framework of free and democratic
societies. Surely we have more to learn from the programs of
these parties — the extension of public ownership, workers'
control, and economic equality — than we do from brittle,
outdated capitalist dogma.
—Lawrence S. Winner
Professor of History
Committed justice
To the Editor:
I write this letter to express my feelings both of tragedy
and amusement regarding Timothy Taylor's response to
Prof. Winner on the nature of socialism.
Taylor contends that Prof. Winner would be more
qualified speaking on the topic of history, rather than venturing to explain capitalism and socialism, which Taylor maintains are "primarily economic topics, not historical ones." I
suggest Taylor register for a course in introductory history.
Socialism is indeed an economic topic, who would deny it?
But socialism likewise addresses itself to class-based
discriminations as racism, sexism, homophobism, among
others; as they stem from the antagonistic nature inherent in
capitalism. An economic system docs not only determine
whether every person shall be able to purchase two cars and a
television set, or more basically to most people in the workd,
whether they shall have anything to cat; it must as well determine the social and cultural relationships between them.
Socialism emerged from a philosophical and historical
analysis of the very nature of these relationships, to admit
otherwise is but to reveal one's ignorance on the matter.
Taylor further contends that it is capitalism that has made
Japan and Germany such economically superior nations.
To this claim, I must disagree also. What had made the
Western powers economic bastions of wealth and prosperity,
is due to the processes of industrialization, or in the case of
Japan and Germany, re-industrialization. This was coupled
with traditional capitalist imperialism, which since WWII,
has manifested itself in neo-colonialism.
The wealth of the western world lay not in their own
resources, but in the Third World nations, amongst the vast
supply of raw material and cheap labor, which are continually exploited by our nation, as in South Africa, El Salvador,
and Bolivia.
Taylor asks why we should institute socialist economic
policies in the United States? The answer is justice. I take to
pride as an American knowing that my country allows the
exploitation of workers throughout the world, and at home.
That is why the Democratic Socialists of American (DSA) is
committed to not only political democracy, but economic
democracy; for ourselves and for all: people in the world.
Justice, that is all.
—Brian F. VanGrol
Economic balloting
To the Editor:
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Most people believe correctly that the health of the
economy is an important background issue in the presidential
election year. Yet there seems to me to be a serious public
misperccption of how voters are likely to react to the overall
economic indicators.
Analysts assume that voters will reward the president of
cither party if the economy is perceived as doing well and
punish him if it's felt the economy is not doing well. Experts
argue that in 1980 a stagnant economy cost Jimmy Carter
votes and in 1984 an upturned economy will help Ronald
Reagan's election chances. So much for the conventional
wisdom. Hut il hasn't worked (hat way in the past and there
is no reason why it will work like that now.
What really happens in presidential elections is that
Americans turn to Republicans in hard Jimes, Democrats in
good times. Hard limes can be measured by a misery index (a
composite of unemployment and inflation) by consumer
disposable income, or both. Except for displaced workers in
manufacturing, the poor and minorities these arc relatively
good times for the economy so President Reagan is in trouble.
/
Carter was repudiated at the polls in 1980 because he was a
Democrat presiding over a sick economy. Voters wanted a
Republican for that job. In 1976 recovery worked against the
election of Republican Gerald Ford. The upturn was a signal
to voters to return the Democrats to power. After Democrat
Lyndon Johnson was elected on a wave of 1964 prosperity
Republican Richard Nixon was called on in 1968 to get a handle on Johnson's Vietnam Induced inflation. Nixon imposed
wage-price controls in August, 1971 and was re-elected in
1972 while controls were still in effect. Voters wanted
Nixon's economic cure to continue.
The theory behind this voting behavior is that voters act on
strong attitudes about the two major parties' respective
orientations to the economy. They expect the Republicans
will govern with whatever draconian measures are necessary
because they understand better than the Democrats that our
capitalist market economy even with built in stabilizers like'
unemployment compensation and lower taxes during
downturns is not self correcting and requires regularly a painful fiscal and monetary regimen to restore prosperity. The
Republican credo is that things have to get worse before they
can get better. Usually this means high interest rates, cuts in
social programs and a period of higher unemployment than a
Democratic administration could tolerate.
President Reagan can take credit for overturning the recession of his first two years in office by a consumer led
recovery prompted by tax cuts that favored the rich and a
$1.7 trillion five year military buildup. His $200 billion
deficits and big spender budget request that in fiscal 1984
hovered around 24 percent of GNP, close to the total dollar
amount approved by Congress (the largest peacetime federal
budget in our history), undermines one's belief in Republican
frugality. In prior years Ronald Reagan would have labeled
such unprecedented federal spending "creeping socialism."
Thanks to Ronald Reagan we now know, contrary to
Democtatic Keynesians like Lester Thurow, that if job loss is
high enough and pressure for union wage concessions great
enough, the Kcyncsian floor under wage rates will disappear.
The Democrats arc the party of the union wage and the
social wage embodied in the welfare state. For a Democrat to
be elected president the underlying economy must be perceived as robust and healthy by the electorate. Usually more
growth means more revenue means more spending and
before Reagan came to office the Democrats were considered
the party of big spenders.
Most Americans ideologically ambivalent. They would like
to buy in to at least some of the Democrats liberal agendafood for the hungry, medical care for the aged, education for
the young- but seriously question how much the economy
can support. Survey data showing increased voter confidence
in the economic future should help the Democrats. Happy
days are here again.
Contrary to their rhetoric, the Democrats best hope this
year is that the improved economy will overshadow the
deficits as a salient issue with most voters. They could argue
that since Ronald Reagan has so brilliantly restored
economic growth and lowered inflation we can now dispense
with severe Republican fiscal and monetary austerity and
return to the prevailing post-war liberal Democratic public
policy agenda so rudely interrupted by the harsh economic
conditions of recent years. As the good news on the economy
comes in voters might decide we can afford a Democratic
president again.
• In 1984 it will be difficult for Ronald Reagan to convince
the electorate that economic weakness, like deficits, high real
interest rates and an overvalued dollar, is reason to keep him
around awhile longer. In 1980 the voters predictably elected
conservative Reagan because their priority then was reviving
the faltering economy. That's why we elect Republicans.
Now that the economy is turned voters may decide to discard
Reagan unless the Democrats persuade voters that the
deficits are so alarming we must continue a conservative
Republican in office another term.
—Gene Dimm
A correct definition
To the Editor:
' This letter is in rcspohse to the letter written about
/"Nemesis" published in the ASP several issues ago.
Here is the definition of the Goddess Nemesis from The
Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, by Barbara C.
Walker:
NEMESIS: "Due Enactment," the Time-goddess also
called Dike or Tyche, "Destiny." She was probably derived
from Kala-Nemi, the Mother of Karma and of the wheel of
time. Many versions of the Moon and Iter holy groves were
cognates: Nemea, Diana Ncmetona, the Celtic Nemhain,
Merlin's Ninttie, the Mother of the ancient Nemed or
"moon-people."
Ovid called Nemesis "the Goddess that abhors boastful
words," because she brought all kings and heroes down to
destruction in the end, no mailer how arrogant they might
become. The Stoics worshipped her as the world-governing
principle of Nature, which in lime reduced all things to their
component elements. Even Zeus feared Nemesis, for she was
once his destroyer and devourer, the Goddess who gave birth
and death lo all gods. She was sometimes entitled Adrasteia,
the Inescapable one.
Nemesis is the Goddess of time, of fate, of birth and
death. If you are going lo define the Goddess, you could at
leasi gjyc Her due respect by going to a volume on
mythology, rather than to a dictionary.
You mentioned that She is the Goddess of divine retribution. Couldn't this also be said of your Judeo-christian god?
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(COLLEGE PRESSSERvicm Former Secretary of
the Interior James Watt is hitting the campus lecture circuit this month, commanding as much as $15,000 in honoraria and
fees for on night, appearances, his New
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and special interest groups," she noted.
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paigns, among others — all try to keep
permanent residents of the state. At about.
. promises to help masses or students
the same time, 3,000 .Rutgers students
register to vote during the 1984 primary
learned they wouldn't be able to vote
and general presidential elections. Many
locally because they hadn't completed.
of them are finding, however, that the inpre-registration forms mailed to them
consistent and seemingly whimsical voting
over the summer.
requirements of local election officials is a
much bigger problem than student
In October, a New York election judge
apathy,
denied State University of New York College at Purchase students the right to vote,
"It really is a big mess," laments Kathy
locally because campus dormitory adDowney, who just completed an in-depth
dresses cannot be considered permanent
study of student, voter registration proresidences.
blems for the National Student Education
It's happened at campus after campus:
Fund (NSEF). "It's really discrimination
the best-laid plans of ambitious student
against students by the local election ofvoter registration drives break up on the
ficials," she asserts. "When local powers
shoals of peculiar local eligibility rules,
get nervous about the student vote — the
locking students out of the electoral profact that in many places students could ac-
McKinncy acknowledges "there will be
some problems" with regional election
commissions, but adds "we'll be working
directly with the ACI.U (American Civil
Liberties Union) to provide legal backup"
when such conflicts occur.
Students have had clashes with local
election boards ever since 18-year-olds
received the right to vote in 1972. One of
the first, and perhaps the. most notable
confrontations between college students
and a local elction board occurred in
1976, when Texas officials disqualified
over 500 Prairie View A&M studctns from
voting locally. Election officials said
students had to own property, have family, work, or pay taxes locally to vote.
Texas law, however, defines "residence"
only as a "fixed place of habitation," and
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1979 the
Texas officials had unfairly placed an extra burden on students that it did not impose on non-students.
NCAA delegates defeat several
key proposals at annual meeting
ICOLLECH PRESS SERVICE/ It was an NCAA
convention that once again demonstrated
mixing academics and athetotics is almost
as difficult as mixing oil and water.
As. part of an ongoing internal movement to reform the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), delegates to
the convention here January 9-11 turned
down an effort to revise academic standards for athletes and, perhaps more importantly, then handed a resounding
defeat to a group of college presidents
that wanted to wrest control over the
orgahiztion form its current governors.
the presidents wanted to form a
44-member board that would have had
power to adopt new NCAA rules and
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FRIDAY, FEBRUAR Y 3* 1984
Women tracksters open
with 3rd place finish
By Jim Erwin
The Albany State womeri's indoor track season got underway last
Friday as the team traveled to Cortland for a five way meet. The
Danes finished third with team
scores as follows: Cortland 94'A,
Binghamton 28, Albany 16, Alfred
15'/4, and Erie 14. The third place
finish was quite respectable as the
Danes did not take a full team to
Cortland. Coach Ron White did not
want to force individuals not ready
or injured to run this early. Coach
White stated, "This meet was a get
started type meet. I'd like to bring
the girls along slowly to try to avoid
injuries and have them peaking during late season." For this reason the
Danes operated at just over half
strength.
In the 5,000-meter run, a grueling
25 laps around Cortland's track,
Donna Burnham finished fourth
with a respectabje early season time
fo 19:54.8. '
Future Looks Promising
All in all, the women were pleased by their performance and arc
looking forward to the near future
when they will be competing at full
strength.
If all goes well for Coach White
and the Danes, this year's women's
ED MABOSSICH UPS
squad looks quite promising. There
The men's swimming teem defeated RPI for the second time this season, 64-49. The Danes will host
arc a record thirty individuals out
Cortland Saturday afternoon In University Gym.
for the team and Coach White is
very optimistic. Said White, "The
women's track program is looking
up. We should be able to cover all
events this year, which we have had
ter than his previous best. Co- seasonal best of 1:02.04. But it was
By Adam Goodman
trouble doing in the past." With a
the 500 freestyle that iced the vicSTAFF
WRITER
captain Parker finished second with
Impressive in Early Season
number of quality athletes, a good
tory
for
Albany,
as
Tom
Handy
his
personal
best,
only
two
seconds
For the second time this season,
crop of talented freshmen, and new
and Frank Caulcy teamed for a 1-2
the Albany State men's swim team off the lead. Albany then dropped
The Danes had quite a few im- found depth, this year's women's
finish, to increase Albany's lead to
defeated their Capital District rival, the 200 free and the 50 free, but
an insurmountable 54-34 lead, with pressive early season performances, team could be one of Albany's best
the RPI Engineers, by an identical they managed to capture second
led by Ginny Grincr and Carla ever.
score of 64-49, Tuesday afternoon and third in each event, thus dropp- 3 events left.
Diver Mike Vardy added insult to Docharty's one-two finish in the
ing only 2 points off their lead.
at University Gym.
"Our depth has really increased, injury with a victory in the 3 meter high jump. Grlner won the competiThis time, however, Albany put
diving (197.50). In what would be tion with a jump of 4 ' 8 " and Albany Results: (through fifth
RPI away early, as they rolled to which enabled us to hang on tough
their third straight victory over the even in races that are not our analogous to basketball's garbage Docharty followed with a jump of place) 400m run: Mary Carmody,
3rd, 1:05.8; 800m run: Carla
time, Ober won the 100 breast 4'6".
Engineers dating back to last year. strongest," said coach Joe Shore.
Lynn Jacobs looked very im- Docharty, 5th, 2:43.4; 1500m run:
Albany, behind the team of Jeff Then Kennedy, who earlier set his (1:03.73), with a strong showing
from Dean Wilson (1:09.37). The pressive in the 3,000-meter run, Kitty Sullivan, 5th, 5:47; 3000m
Kennedy, Ted Ober, Bill Meier, and personal best in his split of the
finishing second in a very tough run: Lynn Jacobs, 2nd, 11:05;
Fred Greenbaum, won the opening medley relay, took the individual rest was academic.
field with an excellent time of 5000m run: Donna Burnham, 4th,
400 medley relay, vaulting the medley with a good time of 2:08.44.
19:54.8; High Jump: Ginny Griner,
Danes to an early 7-0 bulge. Jeff The Danes then again held their POOLSIDE NOTES: Albany will 11:05.
In the 400-meter run, promising 1st, 4 ' 8 " , Carla Docharty, 2nd,
Ball and Frank Parker then com- ground, taking second and third in battle Cortland at University Gym
bined for perhaps Albany's finest the 100 fly and 100 back.
Saturday afternoon. The Danes freshman Mary Carmody took a 4'6"; Shot Put: Mary Randies, 3rd,
32'5"; 4x800 relay: Chris Varley,
victory. In the 1000 free. Ball finishhave
never
beaten strong third in a time of 1:05.8.
In the latter race, Ober bettered
Mary Randies took third place in Kitty Sullivan, Maura Mahon,
i first with a personal best of the 1 minute mark for the First time Cortland...Albany upped their
D
0:57.0, a whopping 7 seconds bet- (59.37), and Ball recorded a lifetime mark vs. RPI to 5-».
D the shot put with a throw of 32'5". Lynn Jacobs, 3rd, 11:26.4.
Men swimmers trounce rival RPI
n\
3, 1984 • ALBANY
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Women gymnasts rebound; top Smith College
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the team leaders and it seems only
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It takes determination and true mark," commented coach Pat
character for a team to bounce back Duvai-Spillane. Behind Thomasett
Brenda Armstrong In action oh the uneven j
after a tough loss, and that's exactly was senior Lockman, a consistently
parallel bar* Tuesday night.
S O S L U C M - V UPS
what the Albany State women gym- strong finisher, and freshman Nora
nasts did Tuesday evening against Bellantoni, who put on one of the
Smith College. Coming off a loss to best performances of her young
Ithaca last Saturday the Great career.
Danes showed their ciassy and enOther freshmen who gained
thusiastic display of ability by recognition Tuesday were Carol
trouncing their opponent 149.65 to Bart and Karrie Brooking, each
119.3.
making their debut on the collegiate
In front of the home crowd, level. Bart proved her talent in both
freshman Terri Sokol started things the vault and the uneven parallel
off with an outstanding display in bars, while Brooking excelled on
the vaulting exercise. Her vault war- the balance beam and in the floor
ranted the high score of 8.1, and exercise.
seemingly set the tempo for the rest
Brenda Armstrong also showed
of the night's events. The Danes' trememdous prowess on the balance
Virginia Lockman and Karen Bailey beam, recording the high of 7.8.
each followed closely with a 7.85 Jennifer Clcary was a close second
and a 7.6, respectively.
with a 7.7.
A very strong showing by the
On the uneven parallel bars,
Danes in the floor exercise also con- Bailey were also impressive.
Brenda Armstrong's season-high
"The scores were a bit lower than their winning ways this Saturday
record was smashed by Anne tributed to their victory. Elicia
Coach Duval-Spillane was ex- usual, but that's to be expected with when they lost a tri-mcct against
Steinberg
scored
an
event-high
Thomasett, who set the new stantremely pleased with the Danes' the tough judging in this region."
Brockport State and Bryn Mawr
dard with an 8.05. "Anne is one of 8.15, while Lockman and Karen performance although she added,
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY3, 1984 U ALBANY STUDENT PRESS S P O t t R 1 9
Five records smashed; women swimmers 11-0
JV Danes lethargic in easy win over Engineers
the 200-yard freestyle, Elie and
Pearl have dominated the short
distance events for most of the
season.
Against St. Michael's the team
again had an easy meet, winning by
a score of 67-45. Head Coach Joe
Shore was able to use different
combinations toward the end of the
meet,.a situation in which he is able
to experiment with new teams.
One highlights of the meet was
Monahan, who set a new personal
best time for herself in the 200-yard
individual medley with a time of
2.30:67 which was four seconds off
her previous best time. Pearl won
two events, the 100-yard butterfly
and the 500-yard freestyle in times
of 1:09.73 and 5:44.43, respectively.
In reading about swimming,
many people forget that records.are
the results of hard work and dedication in practice. Mary Daly, Mary
Janet Boman has quickly made a Anne Schmitt and Randi Marrow
significant contribution to the have been working especially well in
team. She continued her torrid pace practice and Coach Shore is confiby setting two school records. In the dent that they will become a vital
200-yard butterfly her time wa: element in his winning team.
This Saturday, there is an impor2:21.38 and in the 100-yard freestyle
her time was :58.0. The final school tant match against Cortland here at
record of the day was set in the University Gym. The Red Dragons
800-yard freestyle relay where the are much improved and Shore is exteam of Carol Pearl, Boman, Smith pecting a tough match. "I think we
and Carole Elie won in a time of can continue our winning streak
8:34.00. Elie had the best day out of because our times have been good
all the swimmers as she dropped lately and the team as a whole is
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two full seconds off her best time in swimming well."
Danes. Amidst the turnovers, mental lapses
and overall sloppy play were some bright
In the eyes of the Albany State junior spots. Albany shot very well as a team,
varisty basketball team, Wednesday night's thanks to some outstanding -passes from
game with RPI was over before it even
Duanc Corley. Corley totaled seven first-half
started. The Danes felt they could just walk
assists while keeping the offense under conout on the court and automatically be handed trol. "Even though we were up by 10 at
a victory. Unfortunately for the Engineers, halftimc (40-30), we really weren't playing
they were correct.
loosely," said Corley.
The Danes went through the motions and
The second half was much like the first;
defeated host RPI by an underwhelming disorganized play with an occasional great inscore of 81-61. The margin of victory could dividual play. Oliver continued his torrid
have easily been 40 points had Albany come play, combining 15-footers with strong inside
to play. A week ago, the Danes manhandled play, Corley driving the lane on his way to a
RPI, 81-51, without giving their best effort.
three-point play, and back-to-back steals by
They knew how poorly RPI had played, and Andy O'Connell. But that cohesiveness was
they assumed it would take very little to beat still missing.
them.
The numbers don't tell the correct story
"We didn't have any intensity out there," about the game. Albany shot 36 for 66 from
said Head Coach Jim Boland. "We thought the field and outrcbounded RPI easily.
we could roll over them without even trying. Against a team like RPI, those numbers
In essence, that's what we did. We can get aren't that impressive. To the Danes'
away with it against RPI, but if we play like defense, there were negative circumstances
this against Onconta (a team Albany has that could have caused the poor perforalready beaten this year), we're going to get mance.
beat."
Starting forward Kevin Mann was unable
"It's hard to get the team up for every to play because of the gash he suffered
game," continued Boland. "If we played against CSR. O'Connell sprained his ankle
RPI last semester, 1 could have told them late in the first half and appeared to be
that they were a much-improved team. hampered by it in the second half. On top of
There's not much you can do when wc just that, due lo a transportion mix-up, most of
played them last week."
the team didn't arrive at RPI until game-time
Despite the team's overall lack of concen- and were unable to warm up. "I can understration, there were some fine individual per- tand why the guys didn't want to play this
formances turned in. Curtis Oliver played his game," said Boland. "But wc would have
best game of the year, hitting 13 of 15 shots played like this even if wc had warm-ups."
for a game-high 26 points. Oliver made a
Center Rich Chapman had another strong
mockery of RPI's zone, cutting through game, scoring 10 points and grabbing 12 reunguarded and scoring at will. Even after bounds. If Chapman has any faults, it's that
RPI made a defensive adjustment on Oliver, he doesn't take enough shots. "Rich took
the points kept coming.
only six shots the whole game," said Boland.
"Curtis played one of his best offensive "We have to get him more involved in our
games," said Boland. "But I know that he offense. On defense, wc would be in big troucan shoot and score. His defensive play is ble without Rich."
what impresses me. Curtis went to the boards
The players realize that they'll have to play
hard and hustled out there. He was one of the better in general than they did Wednesday
:few who was ready to play."
night. "If wc want to beat Union, (tonight's
The first half wasn't all that bad for the opponent), we're going to have to play much
By Dean Chang
By Michael Skolnlck
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
STAFF r/t/m/t
The underrated women's swimming team took their record on the
road last Saturday to St. Michael's
. and Wednesday to Binghamton,
beat both teams and upped their
record to 11-0. But the team's
record does not tell the whole story.
Five new records were set in the
meet against Binghamton as the
Danes won easily, 87-50.
Nancy Smith has become the
team's premier long distance swimmer and she set a new team record
in the 1000-yard freestyle in a time
of 11:54.07. The next record was set
by Kris Monahan in the 100-yard
brcaststroke with a time of 1:15.74.
She has been a mainstay in the individual events as well as an integral
part of the consistently successful
relay teams.
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The women's swimming team broke live team records In their victory over Binghamton Wednesday
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Curtis Oliver goes up for a lay-up against RPI. Oliver scored a season-high 26 points
in the JV Danes' win over the Engineers Wednesday night.
belter," said Corley. "It will be easier to play
in front of our fans than it was tonight."
RIM SHOTS: Along with his seven assists,
Corley threw in 14 points...The Danes totaled seven blocked shots; John Gore led the
Albany's Shawn Sheldon and Craig Coffey
by the Danes as he recorded a pin with 20
were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation. But,
seconds to go in the opening period. Averill
one point was added lo Coffey's score for
If there was one meet this season that truly boosted his dual meet record to 12-1.
2:25 seconds of riding time which gave the
"1 was very impressed by Averill," said
showed the disparity between last year's
118 pounder the victory, 3-2.
sixth-ranked national club and this year's Western New England's coach, Bob
134 pound John Balog was back in the
Albany State wrestling learn, it took place Skeleton. "He's one of the premiere 126
pounders I've seen. He's real tough and he lineup but was nursing a sore ankle. He dropWednesday night in the University gym.
ped a close decision lo Tom Cahill in a match
Last year when the Danes met up with shows a great mental altitude,"
Western New England it was a tight meet
Averill came oul like a tiger against Lewis . Balog might have won if healthy.
Junior 142 pound Greg Stackel, a swimmer
with the Golden Bears ceking it out at the Cooper building a 12-0 lead, coming close to
turned wrestler, lost lo a game Sebby Amalo
o
end. This season's match was no contest as a pin three different limes. On the fourih aton a fall. Stackel quit the swimming learn inn
the 17th ranked Bears clobbered the Danes, tempt, he was successful. The pin boosted the
November and joined the grapplers wilhout
34-9.
Danes to their first and only lead of the evenil
any prior wrestling experience. In most matIOstensibly, the Danes' record now shows ing, 6-3.
ches, Stackel is giving up at least six years of
if
Following Averill's match, the Bears
9-4, but their failure just to come close to
top-ranked teams is what is irking coach Joe strung together seven straight triumphs, ineluding three pins before Dane heavyweight
DeMco.
Two time Ail-American Dave Avcrill, who Ivan "The Terrible" Katz closed oul the
continues to be the only wrestler that links meet with a gritty 10-7 decision.
Maybe the Danes knew it wasn't going to
the Danes with the glory years of the past, accounted for six of the nine points registered be their night when in the opening match,
By Marc Berman
team with three...Albany shot 60 percent
from the line...The Danes' record stands at
11-2...Mann will Iry. lo return to action
tonight against Union. The game will be held
it 8:00 at University Gym.
D
experience to his opponents.
"He's done a great job so far," said
DeMeo. "He's learning very quickly."
The Danes will try to rebound this Saturday when they compete in a triangular meet
on the road against Central Connecticut and
U.S. Coasl Guard.
TAKE DOWNS: There will be no return by
former Dane wrestler Ed Glcuson. Glcuson,
who dropped out of school lust semester, has
decided II is in his best inlercsl nol to enroll at
Albany Stule ugain.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Spirit week
This week, February 5 to 12, has been
designated as "Basketball Spirit Week"
by the Albany Common Council and the
Stale Legislature in honor of Dane
coach Dick Sauers, who has coached at
Albany State for 28 years.
Sauers, who has accumulated a record
of 474 wins here, was presented last
night a plaque from the SA and
Budweiser in a "tribute to basketball excellence."
Preceding Saturday night's big game
against SUNYAC rival Binghamton, a
reception will be held for Sauers in the
Patroon Room where guests such as
Mayor Whalen, Assemblyman Conners,
Senator Nolan, and President O'Leary
will be present.
Upcoming events
The Albany Stale basketball team will
Iry lo snap their recent losing streak
when they host. S U N Y A C . rival
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Binghamton, Saturday night at 8 p.m.
Admission is free...Tonight, the junior
varsity basketball team will be home
against cross-town rival Union at 8
p.m....The women's basketball team
will be in Pittsburgh, Saturday night,
for a game with the Cardinals starling at
6 p.m....The Dane wrestling team will
travel for a tiiangular meet against Central Connecticut and Coast Guard on
Saturday...The men's and women's
.wimming learn will be at the University
Jym for a big meet against SUNYAC
rival Cortland at 2 p.m....The men's inJoor track team will be at RPI for a
meet beginning at 1 p.m.
Bowling meeting
The Albany State Intercollegiate Bowling Club is having a meeting Thursday
February 9, 6:00 pm. at University Lanes.
For information: call Sal Pcrednia at
457-4715.
Results from last night's action will appear in the ASP on Tuesday, February 7.
PUBLISHED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY BY THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION
Sports Friday
Tuesday
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY3, 1984
February 7, 1984
Danes mauled by Cards for third straight loss
blems holding onto the ball. Two fast break
baskets by Cardinal guard Pat McGinn, one
of which was a three point play, evened the
score at 39 to close out the half.
"1 layed it into them pretty good during
halftime," said Albany Head Coach Dick
Sauers. "It may have had adverse effects."
One "adverse effect" Sauers mentioned
may have been that the Danes came out flat
at the outset of the second half. In the first
seven minutes of the half the Danes were only
able to put four points on the board, and it
took the Danes over three minutes to even
break the ice in the period.
"We were getting a lot of good shots and
we have to be able to hit those shots," said
Sauers.
Keeping the Danes in the game at this point
was the fact that Plattsburgh wasn't taking
advantage of the Danes' poor start.
In the same seven minute span the Cardinals
only managed to score 10 points.
Another factor that kept the Danes close
was the play of John Mracek, who scored
seven of his 13 points in a 3:13 span of the
period.
In the early stages of the game the Danes
were lucky that none of their players got into
serious foul trouble as the fouls were very
evenly distributed. This fortune turned out to
be a disaster as Adam, Wilson Thomas, Jan
Zadoorian, and Brian Kauppila all fouled
out.
The loss was the Danes' third straight and
dropped their overall record to 10-8 while
their SUNYAC record fell to 3-2. This is the
closest Albany has been to the .500 mark
since November 22 when the Danes lost lo
Hartwick and their record was 2-1.
By Keith Marder
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Plattsburgh
The Plattsburgh Cardinals beat the Albany
Slate Great Danes 81-77 Wednesday night in
Memorial Hall at Plattsburgh in a game that
was interrupted by two fights, one of which
was a bench-clearing altercation.
With 1:47 left to play in the game and Plattsburgh leading 74-67, Albany guard Dave
Adam fouled out of the game as he was
charged for blocking Plattsburgh guard Jeff
Law. It was Law who was also involved in an
altercation with Dane playmaker Dan
Croutier 50 seconds earlier. In that instance
Law had a breakaway layup and Croutier, in
an attempt to stop him, dragged him down
from behind. The two players traded heated
words along with shoves.
In the second incident, Adam and Law fell
to the ground directly in front of the Cardinals' bench. Law was slow in getting up.
Adam, obviously
obviously unhappy
unhappy about
about this,
this, shovAdam,
shov-
ed Law. All of a sudden the Plattsburgh
bench cleared to come to their teammate's
aid. The whole Albany team soon followed
as some fans, including former Cardinal
player Paul Glodis, joined in. It was a very
messy scene as the referees were clearly ineffective in stopping this melee.
Albany seemingly had gained momentum
as they built a seven point lead with 2:18 remaining in the first half. But, the Danes
decided to
to slow
slow tnc
the tempo
tempo aown
down ana
and had
decidea
naa propro-
HOOP-LA: There were no serious injuries
resulting from the brawls with the exception
of Adam, who left with a bandage over his
left hand...One possible explanation for the
violent fan reaction is that Coach Law offered a keg of beer to the loudest section of
the crowd,..Plattsburgh had previously lost
their last seven games by a total of IS
points...Danes host Blnghamton lo kick off
Great Dane Basketball Week Saturday night
at 8:00 pm. Admission to the game is free.
at »:uu pm. Admission to (lie game Is tree.
VOLUME
LX XI
NUMBER
4
Conference focuses on black awareness issue
By Alicia Cimbora
STAFF WRITER
Kicking off a black history month in the
capital district was a one day civil rights conference held in the New York State Museum
February ' , Among the speakers attending
were noted civil rights leader Reverend Wyatt
Tec Walker, and SUNYA Vice-President of
Student Affairs Frank Pogue.
The conference, entitled "Freedom Has
Never Been Free," was a one-day event
which focused on the past and future of the
Civil Rights movement,
Also speaking al the conference were
President of the Albany chapter of ihe National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) Dr. F.J. Josey,
and the Dean of Junior College of Albany
John Strolle. In addition to the speakers,
workshops dealing wilhissues concerning
blacks were also offered.
Walker, following an impressive introduction and list of credentials which included his
recent accompaniament of the 1984
Democratic Presidential hopeful Jesse
Jackson to Syria, began his address lo (he
already primed audience.
"We must keep black history alive twelve
months out of the year — not just one
month, he said. He expressed great concern
for the black youth of today saying ihal "ii is
important to learn from the past lo understand our present and to plan for the future.''
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"It is a challenge lo keep black history
Vice President of Student Affairs Frank Pogue
alive,V* he said, because "while historians ex"Dark pigment lends to contempt, ostmcism mut low social stains.
pect black scholars to internalize their
distorted versions of black history."
systematic in America and segregation Is only
Walker called the 17 percent black
Commenting on school segregation, a phenomena of this system;"
unemployment rate a "national disaster"
Walker said that "all busing does is
"It is only in recent years (hat segregation
and noted that the median income gap betdemocratize an inconvenience. The problem has not been such a blatant example of social
ween blacks and whiles is widening.
is not with busing — it's with us. They're discrimination," said Walker.
Turning to politics. Walker termed the
afraid we're going to get a chance at an equal
Walker slated thai the condition o\' blacks
Nixon years "regressive and recessive" for
education."
hasn't changed substantially since 16I9.
blacks and charged Reagan with "packingEducational opportunities are going "The flow of history as it related to blacks in
the Civil Rights commission with reactionary
backwards not forwards, he added. "There America is like a re-run of an old movie,"
blacks and right wing conservative whites."
are more segregated schools now than when Walker said, adding, that "llie changes are
Walker hud no praise for Reagan's
the I4lh ammendmcnl was passed," he more cosmetic than consequential and a great
political opposition cither, saying "the
charged.
majority of blacks are worse o\'\' now than
Democratic Party is taking our votes for
He went on to say that "Racism is they were thirty years ago."
granted and never delivering."
He also called Andrew Young, Ihe head of
the NAACP, "politically naive and imprudent" and said that black public officials,
once elected, become "more loyal to the
Democratic Party" than to the blacks who
elected them,
Walker was vehement in his endorsement
of Jesse Jackson for the Democratic nomination and said that "no candidate has a Civil
Rights record to match Jesse Jackson."
Walker said he feels that Jackson has a
strong chance because he works through the
church network and that "blacks will follow
their reverhed rather than a black elected official."
According lo Walker, Jackson's candidacy
will force other candidates lo discuss issues
thai might never have been discussed "such
as the invasion of Grenada, covert military
action, support for Nicaragua, and trade
policies with South Africa.
An ABC Night line poll shows Jackson is
tied wiih John Glenn among the Democratic
presidential hopefuls', said Walker, who called Jackson llie "most attractive candidate for
any right-thinking American citi/en."
Walker also emphasised 'he Importance of
voter registration and said that blacks who
dbn-'l register to vole "ain't dohr noihin' but
shuck in' and jivm'."
1 le expressed concern that black youths are
not voting by saying that 'Ml was a hell of a
struggle to get the vote and our young blacks
do hot vote,"
Walker.declared mat '*a.\otele.ss citizen is
a hopeless cili/cu."
Walker, speaking with great conviction
and candor, was interrupted numerous times
by hursts of applause.
I he opening address, entitled "The Meaning and Value of Black I jlstory Month" was
given by Pogue, who declared he was "pleased lo represent the University" at such an important event.
According to Pogue, Black history month
is important because it "destroys ihe
distorted images of blacks" that white
historians have perpetuaied.
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Women cagers foul up in OTIoss to BinghamtonStudent vote could sway Reagan re-election bid
By Mark Wilgard•
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STAFF WRITER
Things were going great for the Albany
Siate women's basketball team immediately
after semester break. They had dominated
such teams as Skidmore, Dominican, RPI,
and William Smith. They had won four of
five games; their only defeat being a onepoint setback. They were moving toward the
top of the SUNYAC East Conference.
But now the Danes will have to struggle if
they want to host the SUNYAC regional on
February 21. The reason for this is simple:
the team suddenly can't make foul shots.
On Sunday, the Danes missed 16 free
throws in a 72-56 loss to St. Michael's. And
on Wednesday night, the poor shooting from
the line continued. In a big SUNYAC conference game, Albany bowed to Binghamton
67-65 in overtime while shooting a disastrous
19 percent (3-16) from the free throw line.
"You just can't shoot 19 percent (from the
line) and expect to win," assessed Albany
Head Coach Mari Warner. "A lot of those
were front ends of one and ones. The free
throws literally lost the game for us."
* The officials also might have had
something to do with the defeat. The score
was lied at 65-65 with 35 seconds remaining
in overtime. The Danes began to work the
clock in hope of getting off the final shot.
However, a 3-second violation was called and
the Colonials took over. Suddenly, Albany
center Nancy Grasso went flying to the
ground with the Colonials in possession ofr
urnnrwl
ill' was
Cn nrmik
Ol
the
ball. with
No foul
called, inbutpossession
Warner was
more irritated that the officials let play continue on.
"Time should have been called, Nancy was
hurt," said Warner. "We were playing four
against five."
Albany managed to steal the ball, but
Warner had to utilize a time-out to get
Grasso out. Then, with 18 seconds left, the
Danes traveled with the ball. With 5 seconds
to go, Binghamton let go with a missed shot.
A mad scramble then ensued and the Colonials put in the winning bucket with only 1
second showing on the clock. To Warner's
disbelief, no foul was called.
"It got a little rough and out of hand out
there" she said.
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By S t e v e Fox
NEWS EDITOR
As in all presidential election years, Ihe first couple ol'
months of campaigning bring about a lot of speculation on a
variety or issues. Conservation topics range from the importance of the gender gap unci the minority vole lo Ihe condition ol' the economy and the slate of world affairs.
One voting bloc that will have to be granted serious consideration this election year is the student vote. And one.
question that comes to mind is whether or
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not the student vote can hurt or help PrcsiN6WS
dent Ronald Reagan's chances at re-
eieciion.
Analysis
Student Association of Slate University's
The Danes had to play the last three
minutes of regulation time plus the OT
period without their point guard, Rainny
Lesane, who fouled out.
Warner staled, "We had crucial turnovers
at bad times. We also put up shots we
BOB LUCKEV UPS
shouldn't have taken. It wasn't one of our Chris Cannatta runs down a loose ball as Deb Pardew (12) looks on in the women
better games."
basketball team's loss to Binghamton Wednesday night, 67-65.
Next up for the Danes is a critical
SUNYAC East game at Plattsburgh tomorrow night. The Cardinals boast two goodFAST BREAKS: Diane Fernandes had 14
shooting players, Anne Siatlery (19 points
points in leading the women cagers. Ronnie
per game) and Maureen McLendon (17 per
Patterson and Jean Pollock each had
-game). "They're a running team, but we feel
II...Albany's record fell to 11-6 overall, and
that we'll be able to keep pace with them,"
1-2 in the conference...Next home game is
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said Warner.
February 9 versus Hamilton.
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Women swimmers
win to go 11—0
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Ronald Reagan
Often mlucked for cutting financial aid.
(SASU) President Jim Ticrncy said he believes that if
students nationwide register and vole it is possible ihal the
student vole could be powerful and possibly become a swing
vote. Ticrncy stressed that SASU is not supporting anybody
right now and thai they are strictly non-partisan.
He did say, though, that he docs not sec students voting
for Reagan. "As far as the issues concerning students,
Reagan lias been on the wrong side," claimed Ticrncy.
He cited financial aid cms, the Solomon Amendment, and
the renewal of the draft registration as the obvious issues
which students should consider when voting this fall. "If
students vole on Ihe issues, then the vole will be against
Reagan," Ticrncy maintained.
SUNYA College Republicans President Will Kamishlian
disagreed with Ticrney's statement, and asserted that there is
a "good chance" thai the student vole will help Reagan's reelection bid.
Kamishlian supported a "whole pie" philosophy in opposition to Ticrney's issue-concentrated philosophy, mainSASU President Jim Tierney
taining that, "with a lot of things you have lo look beyond,"
the initial impact. He pointed out ihal students have to be
Does not see students voting for Reagan.
business-wise and realize Ihal, "budget cuts affect
recognized bloc," maintained Merrick.
everybody," and that "everybody has lo share ill Ihe cuts."
"Reagan is only a proportion of ihe equation," claimed
New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
Merrick. Students can become a significant swing vole in
Project Coordinator Paul Merrick said thai the whole poinl
statewide elections, claimed Hcrrick, bill he said he has
behind the national voter registration drive kicked off in
doubts about whether Ihe student vole can be effective naAlbany iwo weeks ago is to give students a voter education
tionwide.
centering on Ihe issues that affect Ihcm. "Students have go!
College Democrats President Patty Salkin said she believes
to start caring," claimed Hcrrick, if progressive change is lo
ihat Reagan is "very conservative," and thai since most
be brought about.
students are liberal Voters, the student vote will not help
Merrick made an interesting comparison to ihe senior
Reagan.
citizen voting bloc, saying Ihal students have loget a "sacred
"If Reagan gels a second term, his actions will become
cow" issue Ihe way Ihal the senior citizen voting bloc made
mure1'conservative, less pragmatic, doing a lot more to hurt
social security their "sacred cow." "Tuition and financial
students and young people," added Salkin. She insisted ihat
aid have to become that 'sacred cow' if students arc to be a
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