PUBLISHED
By Keith Marder
Foul shooting was the most important factor in the
Albany State Great Danes' 75-60 win over the Stony
Brook Patriots last Saturday night at University Gym.
In the first half it was foul shots that kept the Patriots
close. While they only managed to hit eight of their 30
field goal attempts, the Patriots made all nine of their free
throws.
On the other side of the court it was a totally different
story. The Danes did not get a single chance at the charity
stripe while they shot 15-29. Albany was led in the field
goal shooting department in the first half by Brian Kauppila (4-5), Dave Adam (5-7) and Greg Hart (3-4).
But the second half was a different story. When Stony
Brook fell behind by six with 3:26 left in the game and
resorted to fouling Albany. But 'unfortunately for the
Patriots, the Danes made the most of these opportunities
and canned 16 out of 18 foul shots in a 3:12 span of the
second half that ran until there were only 14 ticks left on
the clock.
Leading the way for Albany was point guard Dan
Croutier who hit all of his eight foul shots. He was having
a rough evening hitting only two out of seven field goals.
But as usual, when the game comes down to the wire and
Croutier gets fouled, you might as well put the two points
in the books.
"I didn't want to jinx him," said Albany Head Coach
Dick Sauers. "But every time Danny has a big night (he
had 26 points on 13-19 shooting against Ithaca the
previous Wednesday), the next game he comes back and
he can't throw the ball in the Atlantic Ocean.
"But he hit his foul shots at the end when it counted,
which is par for the course."
Kauppila also hit six foul shots down the stretch to help
secure the victory. Kauppila has hit all 13 of his foul shots
so far this season, as well as 64 percent of his field goals.
At the outset of the second half, Albany built up an
11-point lead behind strong play by Hart and Kauppila.
With 14 minutes left, the Patriots made a strong com-
eback cutting the Danes' lead to four, 50-46 with 4:45 to
go in the game. But the Patriots would get no closer, as
Albany converted their free throws.
The win over Stony Brook was Albany's fourth on the
season without a loss. Albany has virtually the same cast
of players as they had last year, so the Danes are able to
go nine deep as opposed to the six or seven that they could
last year.
"My second team is very nearly as good as my first
team," said Sauers after the team's second game.
But, with recent injuries, Sauers has had to shift the
line up around a little bit. So far this season, he has lost
his starting small forward, starting shooting guard, and
his first guard off the bench. That is where the depth of
the team has come in so handily.
When Dave Adam was slowed down with one of his
three injuries: an ankle sprain or a sore back, Sauers
could put in Doug Kilmer or Kauppila to fill in. That was
not a luxury that Sauers had last year.
Then before Sauers could finish saying, "This is the
first time I have had my whole team healthy in two and
one half weeks," as he did after beating York College in
the second game, he found out that last year's leading rebounder, Adam Ursprung, would be out indefinitely.
Ursprung was playing with a deep bruise in his thigh,
which caused the condition to worsen. Ursprung has not
dressed for either of the last two games as further tests
showed that he has a calcium deposit on the thigh. But
Kauppila and senior Jan Zadoorian have picked up the
slack by filling in at that position.
Then when Kilmer was sidelined for the Stony Brook
game due to a sinus condition that is giving him migraine
headaches, Sauers decided to have freshman John
Carmello suit up for both the junior varsity and varsity
games in case he was needed.
But even with all those problems, the Danes have gotten off to a great start.
The season started off with a return to the winner's cirrcle of the Capital District Tournament. In the first round
21 »-
V O L UME
By Marc Berman
Imagine when the Albany State wrestling team hits their peak.
It is usually a trademark of Coach Joe
DeMeo's Great Dane grapplers to reach
their highest level in February when the
SUNYACs and NCAA Championships
begin.
Either the Danes have peaked too early,
or it is still unknown just how powerful
this year's Albany State squad is.
The opening two weeks of their campaign has been nothing short of spec-
LUCKEV UPS
Ivan "The Terlble" Katz (on top) placed an Impressive 4th In the heavyweight division In the Coast Guard Invitational. The Danes placed second out of 16 teams.
OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
—Steve Gawley
SUNYA officials foresee 21; SA
nabs over 1,000 anti-hike letters
By Jacquie Clark
. STAFF WRITER
' While more than 1,000 students were writing letters to protest a possible hike in the state's drinking
age, a university administrator was forming a committee to review options for the campus in the event
"21" is passed.
LUCKEV UPS
tacular. It started two weeks ago with the
capturing of the Great Dane Classic. Then
came two straight dual-meet massacres —
a 34-18 blowout over Potsdam and a 47-8
destruction of R.P.I.
But the best was saved for this past
weekend at the 16-team Coast Guard Invitational held in New Loundenberry,
Connecticut. The Danes even outdid their
own expectations by taking second place in
a tournament which featured eight Division I schools and four Division II teams.
"I knew we had a good team going into
the tournament, but I didn't know how
good," said Coach DeMeo. "This was a
real test and we came through."
Springfield College, a top-ranked Division II school, was the only team to top the
Danes. Albany nipped Division I Columbia for second place by three-quarters of a
point. The Danes finished well ahead of
the rest of the pack.
USA Olympic team-member Andy Seras
was named "Outstanding Wrestler" for
the second straight tournament. Coming
off his first-rate performance in the Dane
Classic, Seras pinned Columbia's Rich
White 1:45 into the 158-pound final
match, giving him not only the title, but
the Danes a second place finish.
"I told Andy before that match that we
needed a pin to finish ahead of Columbia," said DeMeo. "And that's what he
did."
In all, six out of the 10 Dane grapplers
placed. Last year's NCAA champion Dave
Averill took the 126-pound title as did
another USA Olympic team-member,
Shawn Sheldon, who captured the
118-pound class.
Sophomore Marty Pidell wrestled solidly, claiming second place, losing in the
finals to Southern Connecticut's Ed
Myers.
"Marty's coming along faster than we
t h o u g h t , " praised DeMeo of the
Brockport transfer.
142-pound Jim Fox nailed fourth place
as did the ever-improving Ivan "The Terrible" Katz in the heavyweight division.
Katz's outstanding efforts so far this
season have his coach bubbling with
complements.
"His turnaround from last year is
unbelievable," said DeMeo. "Last year he
wrestled not as well as we expected. Over
the summer he did some thinking and
came to conclusions about himself. And
he's just gone out right after his opponents
so aggressively. He's wrestling, almost
beating guys that destroyed him last year."
Averill's first place effort might not
have surprised D e M e o , but the
126-poundcr had to work hard for the
title.
Averill was matched in the finals against
Springfield's John Dunn, an opponent the
defending NCAA champion barely nipped
3-2 in an earlier round bout. In the finals
Averill soared to a 7-0 win.
"I was a little worried," said Averill.
"That early match was really tough. But in
the finals, I got ahead early and I knew I
had him."
Sheldon had an easier time of it. Never
tested throughout the two-day affair, the
Ail-American sophomore cruised to a 9-1
final victory over Columbia's Bob
Gladreaux.
TAKEDOWNS:!The Danes have the rest
of the week off due to the cancellation of
Thursday's Boston University match.
They will be back in action this Saturday in
a tri-mcet against Hartford, Brown, and
Boston College at Hartford.
Q
STUDENT
PRESS
CORPORATION
Friday
December 7,1984
NUMBER
Students are intelligently
protesting the 21-drinking
age law with a strong
case.
Dane center Greg Hart goes up lor one ol his many
baskets against Ithaca last Wednesday night.
BY THE ALBANY
LXXI
This past week, the Student Action Committee's
campaign to defeat the 21-year-old drinking age
proposal saw the successful completion of a letter
writing campaign which was instituted on
SUNYA's four uptown quads as a way of making
legislators aware of students' views on the proposal,
which will be under consideration next year.
"I've never seen anything like it," said Steve
Gawley, chair of Central Council's Student Action
Committee, expressing his enthusiasm over the
results of the letter writing campaign thus far.
Student Action has obtained nearly 1,100 letters
from just the four uptown quads, with an Alumni
Quad and Campus Center campaign still planned.
"Students are intelligently protesting the
21-drinking age law with a strong case," Gawley
said.
Results on State Quad were especially positive,
said Gawley, where a total of 500 letters were written, up from 350 in last year's drive. "Of the 900
Grapplers roll by Division I foes at Coast Guard
SPORTS EDITOR
UNIVERSITY
ALBANY
STUDENT
PRESS
Unbeaten Danes win fourth over Stony Brook
SPORTS EDITOR
AT THE STATE
people (on State Quad) who went to dinner, 500 of
them wrote letters," said Gawley, adding, "I think
that Student Activism is on the edge of a whole new
trend for SUNY at Albany." He pointed out that
not only did the letter writing campaign serve to
educate students about a vital issue, but it helped
raise interest and concern for future actions.
Jim Doellefeld, Director of Campus Life, will be
accepting the position as chair of what he calls the
"Impact of 21" committee, charged by Frank
Pogue, vice president for Student Affairs, with
compiling a list of possible alcohol policy changes
in the event of a 21-year-old drinking age.
"I think there are some clear signs," said
Doellefeld, that legislators will act on the proposal.
"I think the pressure is really on the State
legislature," he stated, noting that Governor Mario
Cuomo is strongly pushing for a hike and that New
York will lose federal highway funds if the 21 proposal is not implemented.
Gawley said that a 21-year-old drinking age
would have several implications on campus life.
"This is not the solution becaue it will just mean
that students will drink in more dangerous situations," instead of drinking on campus, Gawley
12*
Legislature stalls SUNY
control of exec, salaries
By Michelle Busher
have on salary hikes.
Acting SUNYA University
A proposal giving the SUNY
President Judith Ramaley said
Board of Trustees the power to that if the proposal passed, "it
decide the salaries of upper
would give the Board more
level state education officials
flexibility," but she would not
such as University Presidents,
expect an extreme increase in
was tabled Thursday at the
salaries.
legislature's Special Session,
In most other states, said
said an official at the GoverRamaley, state universities
nor's office.
have some kind of autonomy
P u s h e d by u n i v e r s i t y
over the way money will he ustrustees, the proposal was added and can set the salaries of its
ed due to concern that SUNY
officials at a level competitive
Presidents' salaries were not
with private schools.
competitive enough to attract
The salaries for SUNY
highly qualified applicants for
presidents, as stated in the
college presidency positions acKnickerbocker
News, range
cording to an article in Thursfrom $63,336 at two-year
day's Knickerbocker News.
agriculture and technical colAccording to Madeline
leges to $71,070 at the four
Lewis, a press spokesperson for
SUNY University Centers in
the Governor, Senate Majority
Albany, Buffalo, Binghamton,
Leader Warren Anderson has
and Stonybrook.
said he isn't "willing to con"These salaries may sound
sider the proposal and its
impressive," said Lowry, "but
ramifications in this short a
in comparison with other innotice."
stitutions of higher education
The proposal had been addt h e s e s a l a r i e s are not
ed on to a bill that would raise
competitive."
the salaries of legislators,
Ramaley said there are two
j u d g e s , and
state
reasons why SUNY has not
commissioners.
been able to attract highly
The legislature is meeting in
qualified applicants. First, top
Albany in a lame-duck session
executive salaries have not into complete business that was
creased as a result of the
not decided on in their regular
Governor's decision to put a
session which ended during the
cap on executive salaries, and i
summer.
also that SUNY executive posiThe salary project was "just
tions do not have the same pay
a transfer of authority," said
scale associated with the post
Senate Higher Education Comof college and university
mittee Programming Analyst
presidents in other states.
Bob Lowry, and so it would, he
Although SUNY Chancellor
added, be difficult to determine
Clifton Wharton is one of the
the effect the measure would
9»EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
College student growing target
By Judy Torel
BUSINESS MANAGER
The traditionally volatile college
newspaper advertising market which has
deterred national advertisers in the past is
currently experiencing a period of growth,
according to officials at leading college ad
agencies.
The three major ad agencies, CASS,
American Passage, and College Media Service, representing the 3,000 college
newspapers across the nation, offer several
conflicting reasons for this transition.
Mark Rose, Director of Marketing for
CASS, the agency representing the largest
percentage of advertisers to the college
newspaper media, says he sees the college
market place as expanding.
In the past, said Rose, college markets
have consisted of ads for beer, military
recruitment, calculators, and entertainment products and services. These ads,
Rose explained, were based on advertisers'
common knowledge that the college
market is receptive to those particular
products.
Now, Rose said, large corporations such
as AT & T, MCI, and Proctor and Gamble, who previously directed their advertising towards 30 year olds and heads of
households, are targeting their ads at college students.
Rose attributed the advertisers' new
strategy to research that found students to
42
be like "mini households" who buy pro- Bryant claimed, "and some are the result
ducts such as laundry detergent, health of new products entering the market."
and beauty products, and long distance
1983 is the year of peak college enrollphone service.
ment, Bryant said, explaining that it will
In a d d i t i o n , R o s e s a i d , more not peak again until the early 1990's.
sophisticated research of the college Trends in enrollment can lead to changes
market has resulted in major changes in in the market. These could mistakenly be
advertisers' perceptions of what the college reported as evidence of an expanding
market really encompasses,
market, he explained.
Carl Bryant, marketing director of
In general, the college market is in a
media efforts for American Passage Agen- transition phase. Bryant asserted, "three
cy, was not as optimistic about the in- million dollars, about 20 percent of the
dustry's outlook. "A lot of statistical in- market is disappearing due to a decrease in
creases are based purely on inflation," alcoholic beverage advertisements," he
said. The 19 year old drinking age and the
increased national enforcement of drunk
driving laws is the probable cause of the
decrease in ads for alcoholic products,
Bryant explained.
Larry Smuckler, Vice President of National Sales and Marketing for College
Media Placement Service, agrees that college students represent an increasing
market.
However, he said, he feels that color
magazines, such as Ampersand
or
Newsweek on Campus, inserted into college newspapers, serve as advertising incentives to large corporations like car
manufacturers, that might not advertise in
a black and white newspaper. Publishers
of these magazines pay college newspapers
for the right to insert them in the
newspaper.
Smuckler asserted that the different image of college students is another reason
for the increase in corporate advertising.
"As part of the 'me' generation, students
are concerned with getting out of school
and getting a job, instead of changing the
world," Smuckler said.
Rose did not agree, claiming "the college image is still the same as it was in the
60's and 70's. The sales representative
must convince the buyer that the real college student is the one research has uncovered,"
D
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2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS D FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1984
FRIDAY,
NEWS BRIEFSrecognize the rights of people who live
spokesman, Brig. J.J. Viktor.
together without benefit of marriage."
The killing took place hours before the
The domestic partners law, similar to a
Soweto Township Council was to hold a
Danbury, Connecticut 1982 ordinance vetoed by San Francisco
meeting at which Manyosi was expected to
Mayor Dianne Feinstein, would apply to
challenge the leadership of Mayor (AP) A Union Carbide Corporation
pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, where a homosexual partners as well as heterosexEphraim Tshabalala.
The Soweto Council is seen by most of chemical leak killed at least 1,267 people uals. Berkeley is believed to be the first city
Bhopal, India the township's estimated I.S million blacks and injured thousands, was built to the in the nation to adopt such a law.
(AP) Workers carried out mass cremations as a tool of the white government. Coun- same specifications as U.S. plants, a
and used cranes to remove animal car- cils handle routine township affairs, but spokesman says.
Jackson B. Browning, Union Carbide's
casses Thursday as doctors struggled to generally go along with the government's
prevent an epidemic after the toxic gas leak laws separating the races and guaranteeing director of health, safety and environmental affairs, responded Wednesday to a
that killed more than 1,200 people. Unof- white privilege.
charge made by India's minister of
ficial reports placed the death toll at 2,000.
chemicals and fertilizer, Vasant Sathe.
Union Carbide Corporation chairman
New York City
Sathe charged that Union Carbide,
Warren Anderson arrived in India and was
which owns 51 percent of the Indian sub- (AP) While the Treasury seeks to eliminate
en route to Bhopal today to survey the
sidiary that operates the plant, failed to or limit many income tax deductions to
devastation first hand and discuss compenprovide the same safety standards it would which Americans have become accustomsation for victims of the leak from the U.S.
for a similar plant in the United States and ed, its retention of a new one could cost it
firm's plant.
i
Washington, U.C.
Vasante Sathe, India's minister of (AP) President Reagan, anxious to give kept the Indian government "uninformed billions.
The new deduction is indexing, which
chemicals and fertilizer, said Wednesday Anglican Bishop Desmond M. Tutu "an about the safety devices in the factory."
Indian officials have said they expect the begins automatically on January 1 as a
he expected the Connecticut-based accurite understanding" of U.S. policy
multinational to pay American rates of toward South Africa, plans to meet Friday company to provide financial compensa- device for protecting taxpayers from being
compensation to the victims.
with the black South African cleric who tion according to American legal stan- shifted by inflation into higher tax
dards. The company has maintained that it brackets.
has called the policy "immoral, evil and
The Tax Foundation has estimated that
totally un-Christian," a White House has enough insurance to cover any
indexing could save taxpayers $8 billion to
eventuality.
spokesman said today.
$10 billion on their 1985 taxes, and poten"The president looks forward to
Johannesburg, South Africa
tially more in times of greater inflation.
(AP) A gunman firing from a speeding car meeting this distinguished leader" who
Thursday assassinated the top rival to the won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, said
Berkley
mayor of Soweto, South Africa's largest spokesman Robert Sims.
(AP) A city councilwoman said a new law
Tutu has been an outspoken critic of the
black township, as the victim's caravan
Albany
that extends health and welfare benefits to
motored through Soweto's streets, police administration's policy of "constructive
the unmarried live-in partners of city (AP) Judicial salary raises along with the
engagement" in which it has sought to
said.
employees was approached "as a civil legislative and executive pay hikes are inCouncilman Edward Manyosi, chair- discourage economic sanctions and other
right."
cluded in a proposed bill being negotiated
man of the Soweto Management Commit- pressures on the South African governAnn Chandler said this is "a time when between Cuomo and legislative leaders.
tee, was shot in the head and body by one ment while working through diplomatic
the family structure and definition of
The salary raises proposed to take effect
of four men in a car that sped past the con- channels to encourage change in the white
family has changed, and we have to January 1, 1985, would increase the base
voy about I a.m., said the police supremacist policy of apartheid.
pay from $32,960 to $43,000. Alaska
legislators earn about $48,000 a year, but
they receive no per diem expenses. Total
pay comparisons from state to state are
difficult to make because added benefits
vary.
Plant met standards
Worldwide
Clean-up continues
Statewide
Tax savings possible
Nationwide*
Reagan to meet Tutu
Rival assassinated
Law extends benefits
Pay hikes proposed
Correction
In the December 4 issue of the Albany
Student Press, Political Science Professor Anne Sloan was quoted out of
context in an article on a Professor's
Forum on the Arms Race.
Sloan was outlining what she said were
the three different views held on the arms
race. The are people, she said, who see
the arms race as only a continued competition, and those who believed it can be
controlled through negotiations, and also
those who think that only a technical
breakthrough, such as 'Star Wars'
weaponry, can stop the continued buildup of nuclear weapons.
The quote used in the article seemed to
say that Sloan favored the 'Star Wars'
weapons, when in fact she had, later on
in the forum, ridiculed that particular
proposal as both dangerous and
unfeasible.
The ASP regrets the error.
PREVIEW OF EVENTS'
Free listings
New York Stat* Division of
Criminal Justice Services will
host the 1st Annual Symposium on Alternatives to Incarceratlon, Monday,
December 10 and Tuesday,
December 11 at the Albany
Hilton Hotel. The student fee
for two days wll be $12.50,
and for one day will be $5.00.
For more information contact
Tammy Crawford at 465-1473.
Freshman Class Council will
meet Sunday, December 9 at
8:00 p.m. in the SA Lounge.
All freshmen are welcome.
December
Graduate's
Assembly will be held Sunday, December 9 at 1:00 p.m.
In t h e C a m p u s C e n t e r
Ballroom. History professor
Warren Roberts will be the
guest speaker. A reception
will follow. More Information
can be obtained from the Office of Student/University Activities, CC 130.
BACCHUS-Albany (Boosting
Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students) will be meeting
on Monday, December 10 at
6:30 p.m. In LC 15. All
students are welcome. For
more i n f o r m a t i o n call
457-3326.
I n v e s t o r s C l u b w i l l be
meeting Tuesday, Decembei
11 at 7:30 p.m. in LC 5, Topics
and Ideas for next semester
will be discussed. All are
welcome.
Minority Health Professions
Students A meeting with Peg
Reich, Coordinator of Health
Professions Advisement will
be held Monday, December
10 at 4 p.m. In EOP Room 97E.
For more Information contact
Peg Reich at 457-8331.
Informal Footworks will be
performed Friday, December
7 and Saturday, December 3
In B r u b a c h e r B a l l r o o m .
Tickets are $1.50 with tax
sticker and $3.25 without tax
sticker.
Are you ready for the "Real
World"? A discussion on the
meaning of the "Real World"
vs. the "University World"
will be held Friday, December
7 at 8:00 p.m. In t h e
Humanities
Lounge.
Refreshments will be served.
" F e s t a dl N a t a l e " a
Christmas party will be held
Friday, December 7, 9 p.m. • 2
a.m., In Sayles Hall. The cost
is $2 with tax sticker and $4
without tax sticker. The party
Is sponsored by the Hallan
American Student Alliance.
Kappa Alpha Psl Fraternity is
sponsoring a donations drive
for Capital District Day Care
Centers. Toys, books, gift certificates or any other Items
are welcome. Donations can
be dropped off In the SA offices, CC 116.
"A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum" will be
presented by the Visual and
Performing Arts Department
of Russell Sage College on
Decemober 7, 8,13, 14 and 15
at 8:00 p.m. In the Meader Little Theatre, Russell Sage College. General admission Is
$5.50. Admission for students
and senior citizens Is $4,00
For further Information call
270-2340.
DECEMBER
7, 1984 D ALBANY
STUDENT
PRESS
3
Outcry convinces bookstore to hide porn mags
By Pam Schusterman
STAFF WHITER
The controversy over selling pornographic magazines, such as Penthouse,
Playboy, and Playgirl, in the Barnes and
Noble bookstore on campus has forced the
store to put the publications out of sight.
"The bookstore does not wish to act as
campus censor," said Marj Campbell,
manager of Barnes and Noble, "but we
have placed the magazines behind the
counter to cut down on the embarrassment
of passing customers."
"This issue puts the bookstore in a
precarious situation," she said. "We have
tried to compromise, the magazines are
still available, you just have to ask for
them now."
University Auxiliary Services leases the
bookstore concession to Barnes and Noble, and UAS Bookstore Committee chair
Karlcen Karlson said, "the bookstore
policy is a workable and practical solution
to the problem."
"What astonished me," Campbell said,
"was that no one has come to me about it,
usually a delegation from the women's Campus bookstore newstand
groups are in here" if the issue comes up.
Campbell said she is aware of the con- Pornographic magazines are available upon
troversy through reading letters on the photography, enhances the beauty of
editorial page of the Albany Student Press. women," adding that removing the
On November 2 John Spettel wrote to magazines would violate First Amendment
the ASP advocating the existence of por- Rights.
Another student, who requested their
nographic magazines in the bookstore. He
said, "Penthouse, through the art »f name be withheld, wrote in opposition on
DAVE ISAAC UPS
request
October 30, calling pornography "antiwomen propoganda." The letter accused
Barnes and Noble of being an agent of
pornography, and "contributing to
violence against women in the SUNY
community."
According to Stacey Young, Student
Association media director, "SA has not
taken an official stand yet although my
hopes are that they will in the future."
Young said, "I have talked to (SA President) Rich Schaffer and given him information, I hope SA will take an official
stand because I think it is a relevant issue
for all students,"
"At the same time," she added, "we
have to remember that the real target is the
pornography industry and not necessarily
the individual places that sell it."
Karlson agreed, saying she was concern:d about a conflict with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which
guarantees freedom of speech. "I fear censorship," she said, "where does it stop?
Can it go as far as our library shelves?"
Citing an awareness campaign as a
possible solution to the problem, Karlson
said "the best way to deal with the problem is by working with the media and
educating men on what pornography really
is."
Campbell asserted, "my personal opinion is that I don't care if we sell the
magazines. I would rather we didn't, but I
am afraid of a backlash if I stopped selling
them."
Young added, "I think the bookstore
has taken a step in the right direction, I
think it Is important for us to work hard to
get pornography off the shelves
everywhere."
p
New MoneyMatic fee could invite competition
By Tom Bergen
STAFF WRITER
Student and University officials
are exploring possibilities of getting an additional banking service
on campus in light of Marine
Midlands recent implementation
of a 20-cent fee for balance inquiries on their MoneyMatic
Machines.
The fee, which applies to
Marine Midland's Mid-State
Region, including the northern
and central parts of the state, the
capital district and the southern Auxiliary Services (UAS) which
tier of New York, went into effect handles contracts with banks on
on December 1st and is designed campus.
to eliminate "unnecessary tranAccording to James Lamanna,
sactions which increase the traffic Assistant Vice President for
on computer lines," said Howard Public Relations at Marine
Broadnaex, Assistant Operations Midland, over the past nine monOfficer at Marine Midland.
ths 23 percent of all transactions
Marine Midland has operated at MoneyMatic machines in the
two 24-hour moneymatic Mid-State Region were balance
machines in the lobby of inquiries.
SUNYA's Campus Center since
Account balances, Lamanna
1978, said E. Norbert Zahm, stressed, will still appear on
general manager of University withdrawal slips, "so in our view
Panel urges South African divestiture
By llene Welnstein
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
"Racism in America is the same as racism in
South Africa...except that racism in South
Africa is legal," said Bojana Jordan, Chair of
the American-South African Friendship Association, in a speech Monday night in the Campus
Center Assembly Hall.
South Africa, charged Jordan, is the "only
country in the world where it's illegal to be born
black." Jordan spoke in front of 30 people as
part of a panel discussion on South Africa and
American investments in that country.
Citing the South African constitution, Jordan
explained that it is illegal to pay blacks the same
amount as whites for equal work. "In the 1940's
and 1950's the average salary (per week) for
Blacks was five dollars. Now it's twenty dollars,"
said Jordan, a South African native who has
since moved to the United States.
The whole system in the African nation is
geared to "eliminate Blacks," Jordan said.
The South African government has borrowed
moi.«:y from American banks in order to "buy
more guns to kill Black protesters," Jordan said,
adding that without money from foreign countries, the government would not be able to
persecute Blacks. South Africa is second only to
the United States and the Soviet Union in total
armaments, he said.
Besides the United States, Jordan said
Canada, Ger any, Israel, Japan, Great Britain,
and France have millions of dollars invested in
South Africa.
The African country also has vast mineral
deposits of gold, diamonds, and copper that are
wanted by industrial countries, said Jordan.
The SUNY system has about $17 million
dollars invested in South Africa, said Jordan,
who urged SUNYA students to put pressure on
the school's administration to divest their money
from South Africa. SUNY is "aiding and abetting apartheid," he asserted.
The American people must understand who is
ruling in South Africa, said panelist Henry
Elonge, President of SUNYA's African Students
Association.
"There are many Nazis in South Africa who
left Germany after the war," he charged, adding
that many members of the government supported
Hitler during the war, even though the country
officially fought as part of the British Empire
against the Nazis.
Elonge, who said he agrees with Jordan that
Americans should stop investing in South Africa,
explained that divestment will have more
psychological effects than economic effects. "It
will be a shock to the international economic
system. Maybe others will follow," he said.
SUNYA students "should go after New York
State" instead of pressuring just the SUNY
system, said panelist Jerry Lee, an aide for
Assemblyman Arthur Eve, deputy speaker for
the State Asembly.
The state has about $2 billion of taxpayers'
money invested in South Africa, Lee said. "We
should get them to reinvest in companies doing
business in New York State," he added.
"All decisions for New York are made right
downtown," Lee said, urging students to lobby
the state government. %
In the past students have worked for divesture
from South Africa, according to Troy Oechsner,
one of the organizers of a year long campaign for
SUNY divestiture which failed in 1979.
Oechsner, one of the panelists, said the Board of
Trustees refused to divest its holdings because of
"the Sullivan Principle" which says that
American investments in South Africa help
blacks by keeping the"country's economy afloat.
we're not really taking something
away from our customers that is
essential."
A large percentage of SUNYA
students are Marine Midland
customers, spurring student
leaders to express concern over
the new fee.
In a letter dated November 6th
and addressed to Anthony Shay,
Branch Administrator of Marine
Midland, Student Association
President Rich Schaffer called the
fee "both unnecessary and inconvenient." Schaffer said, at
that time, "if the charge is approved, there are discussions to
find another banking service at
the Albany campus."
Marine Midland pays the
University Auxiliary Services
$600 per year for each machine in
a contract which runs out on July
31, 1987, according to Zahm.
Dan Altman, a student member
of the UAS Board, said, "We're
going to be looking into some options. We're not looking to get rid
of Marine Midland, we're looking
for more options."
When asked about getting
more banks on campus, Zahm
said "One of the problems we
have is space. Where are we going
to put other machines?"
Zahm said that one clause in
UAS' contract with Marine
Midland says that '"Our students
will be afforded the same benefits
that are afforded students at
other campuses,' so if they
change the policy at other campuses we'll still be at the top end
of it."
Since the balance inquiry fee
docs not apply to schools outside
of Marine Midland's Mid-State
Region, both UAS and SA are
looking into whether this clause
could be used to remove the fee
from SUNYA.
Shay, of Marine Midland,
would not comment on that
possibility, other than to say,
"We would have to have our people in Buffalo (location of Marine
Midland's Main Office) look at
that.
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Survey may shed more light on housing crisis
By Jacquie Clark
Albany was no longer available."
Among the options listed were living
Thousands of tenants may be forced out further away and driving to school, living
of their homes next September if the city outside City limits and paying more for
begins enforcing the "Grouper Law," but University buses, or living in Schenectady
at least one SUNYA administrator said he or Troy and taking city buses to classes.
hopes a recent off campus students survey
Both Pogue and Assistant Vice Presiwill show it is not only SUNYA students dent for Residential Life John Martone
who are violating the law.
said the survey will provide data for Sunya
The survey conducted on SUNYA buses to use in negotiations with the city and
before Thanksgiving, will give the Univer- during the SUNY budget process.
sity a more complete picture of off campus
In fact, included in the SUNY Budget
students' housing, according to Vice Presi- Proposal sent by the Board of Trustees to
dent for Student Affairs, Frank Pogue. Governor Mario Cuomo for approval in
"Maybe we don't have a problem."
October was funding for a University
Pogue explained that while many apartment complex to house graduate
students are living in violation of the law, students. The complex, however, would
not all those in violation are necessarily house a few hundred students at most and
registered at the University. "SUNYA is would take several years to complete.
not the only college in this area," he
The proposal has to be approved by the
added.
Governor and then by the legislature
The Grouper Law is an Albany City or- before construction can be started.
dinance which states that no more than
Pogue said his office would "continue
three unrelated persons may share the to push for more on-campus housing
same house or apartment. Community space," but added that any new project
groups in the 'student ghetto' — an area would not be completed for at least three
STAFF WRITER
'The on-campus housing sign-up this spring
will show us how serious a problem there
really is."
—John
where many off-campus students live have been pushing for the law's enforcement in an attempt to halt deterioration
they say their neighborhoods are
undergoing.
The survey will "identify concerns off:ampu5 students have" said Pogue, and
will also help administrators see "how the
University can respond to those
:oncerns."
While the survey requested information
)n students' current housing situation, it
llso asked how students would feel about
'arious alternatives to their present housng if "off-campus housing in the City of
Martone
years.
In the meantime, Pogue said he plans to
meet with a local real-estate consultant to
determine where additional housing in
Albany may be available other than in the
student-ghetto area. Possibilities Pogue
mentioned are, multi-dwellings outside of
that area, and "homes near enmpus off
Central Avenue and in the Arbor Hill
area."
Martone said students often look for
other things than what families look for in
an apartment or house. "We're not looking at them (students) as oddities," he explained, "they're citizens, their needs are
A NEW MATT DILLON
...ON THE MOVE
OK, smart guy! What would you
do if you were Jeffrey Willis? It's
your last summer before choosing
between college and jobless
oblivion. Now comes a summer
dream job at the ritzy El Flamingo
Beach Club, a luxurious haunt of
the New York rich absolutely
dripping easy money and overrun
with beautiful girls. You rub more
than shoulders with a gorgeous
b l o n d e coed visiting from
California, you are taken under the
wing of the Club's resident "getrich-quick" artist and, suddenly,
college is coming in a very distant
second.
"The on-campus housing sign up this
spring," said Martone, "will show us how
serious a problem there really is." Martone noted that every summer, since some
300-600 students, mostly transfer students,
are denied housing. "No limits are planned (on housing)," said Martone. "Such a
decision would require full involvement of
(the) entire campus, including students."
SUNYA's campus, designed to house
about 6,200 students, was operated at 103
percent capacity at the beginning of the
fall semester, said Martone, adding that
number has dropped to slightly over the
100 percent mark, but "there are still approximately 70 students living in
increased-housing situations" on campus.
These numbers, he noted, "were not
unexpected."
"This is the 13th straight year that we've
been at over 100 percent capacity," said
Martone. Students assigned to live in staff
rooms, bunk rooms, and lounges are given
priority for room changes he said, and
most have been relocated.
The high occupancy rates in dorms is a
result of the "desire of continuing students
to remain on campus," said Martone,
"and large numbers of freshmen. But, he
added, it means that the University does
not have the faculties to house students
displaced by the Grouper Law.
Overcrowded campuses perplexed
Cleveland, Ohio
(COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE) For the price of a regular, on-campus dorm room, John ( ill
roll University (JCU) senior Norm Kotoch and 65 other students live in a luxury hotel
off-campus, where they enjoy private washrooms, cable television, refrigerators, maid
service, and swimming pool privileges.
"Everyone's acting really well because they don't want to spoil this situation," Kotoch
said. "It's really working out great."
Not for everyone. For JCU itself, putting up Kotoch and the others is costing a
"substantial" amount of money, said James Lavin, JCU Dean of Student Life.
But JCU had no other place to house the new students it attracted this fall, thanks lo
an unexpected six-percent enrollment increase.
In part because they've been successful in recruiting new students and in part because
more students arc opting to live on-campus this fall, many schools are suffering dorm
room shortages, reported Jim Grimm, president of College and University Housing Officers International (CUHOI).
And while a lucky few students arc living it up at luxury hotels, on most room-shoit
campuses students must endure long wails, overcrowding, temporary housing in lounges
and storage rooms, and sometimes no housing at all.
At least 600 Iowa State students, for example, started this year without a place to live.
and local and state agencies are still trying to shelter them.
But a shortage of off-campus as well as on-campus housing as making a bad situation
worse, officials report.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have turned down some 4,000 housing requests because of over-crowding there, said Lawrence Halle, associate housing director.
Over 500 University of California-Davis freshmen similarly were denied housing this
fall.
Other schools - South Florida, Illinois, Southern Cal, and Bates College in Maine
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Stallone in a second "Blood" called
"Rambo;" Hector Elizondo (as
Jeffrey's concerned father) was last
seen in the hilarious "Young
Doctors in Love," and Jessica
Walter (as the status-conscious
Mrs. Brody) is best remembered for
asking Clint Eastwood to "Play
Misty For Me."
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Matt and Janet — a breath of fresh air.
So, in September, what will it be?
For Matt Dillon as Jeffrey Willis in
Twentieth Century Fox's "The
Flamingo Kid," the decision won't
be easy. Everyone has an idea about
what he should do with his life —
and they're ALL wrong.
Flair for comedy
Matt Dillon is"The Flamingo Kid.
just different."
Martone said his office would be looking into housing suitable for students such
as rooms with families and housing in area
hotels and motels. He declined to mention
specific hotel names, but said that at least
one area hotel has agreed to increase
slightly their current student housing
space.
As the bright but less than "Easy
Street" smart Jeffrey, Malt Dillon
takes on a role tailored to show the
talented young actor in a new light.
Sure, he's still a legend in his own
n e i g h b o r h o o d , but in "The
Flamingo Kid," Dillon is a
rumblefish out of water with a flair
for comedy and a crush on shapely
newcomer Janet Jones. The tall,
sunny blonde shines in her first
major film role after brief
appearances in "One From the
Heart" and "Grease II." A veteran
at age 22 of five seasons on TV's
"Dance Fever" team, Janet Jones
will follow her role in " T h e
Flamingo Kid" by starring in the
eagerly awaited film version of "A
Chorus Line."
Also starring is a seasoned trio of
top performers. Richard Crenna
(as slick sports car dealer Phil
Brody) recently made his mark in
"Body Heat" and "First Blood,"
and will soon reteam with Sylvester
Shapely newcomer Janet Jones.
For director Garry Marshall, "The
Flamingo Kid" is a comedy right up
his alley. Known for his knack with
youthful casts of hit TV shows such
as "Happy Days" and "Lavernc &
Shirley," Marshall guides "The
Flamingo Kid" on the heels of his
first hilarious feature, "Young
Doctors in Love."
For a dash of summer in the dead of
winter, here comes "The Flamingo
Kid." Your last days before college
were never this hot and bothered.
UAD awareness day to offer
new insight for able-bodied
dalism on campus. "People will realize
that destroying and ruining equipment
On February 25th some members of the designed for the handicapped only intenUniversity community will give up their sifies the problem," he said.
sight or the use of their legs as part of Handicapped Awareness Day, which Student
UAD Vice President Rob Pipia said he
Action .Committee Chair Steve Gawley also believes the program will be a success.
described to Central Council Wednesday "It will show both students and faculty
night.
what the disabled student goes through,"
he explained. In addition, he said, it will
The event, which is only C e n t r a l
also bring about better communication
tentatively scheduled for
between disabled students and the univerFebruary 25th, is being
sponsored by University
sity. "Finally other people will see how imAction for the Disabled (UAD), the Stu- portant the issues really are because they
dent Community Committee, and the Stu- will have hands-on experience," he added.
dent Action Committee.
Pipia also stressed the advantages of
According to Gawley, both students and working in conjunction with Central
administrators will be involved, and will be
JOHN CURflY UPS
"going through the day as disabled
Karen Fernandez
itudents do." Participating individuals
"The political situation (in Israel) for women is slowly improving. "
will be either blind-folded or restricted to
using wheel chairs for a day, representing
loss of sight or lack of mobility in the legs.
Participants will be grouped in pairs, explained Gawley, "since they will not be used to being disabled, they will need help."
One person will be taking notes "on the
problems the disabled person encountered,
By Ken Dornbaum
women a lot - pregnant women can't be and all possible improvements."
"The Israeli feminist movement has fired, a woman is entitled to 12 weeks of
There are many problems the disabled
caught on somewhat slowly," asserted pregnancy leave with full pay, and then an student must face which other students
Israeli feminist Karen Fernandez, "despite additional year off without risk of losing don't realize, Gawley said. "In lecture
the fact thai Israel has had a woman prime her job." she commented, adding "Also, centers, the disabled individual has no
minister • Golda Mcir. And she was not abortion is legal and birth control is readi- choice but to sit in the front or Ihe back of
ly available. Many women opt for illegal the room," Gawley said.
really a feminist, either."
Fernandez, a member of the Executive abortions, though. If one chooses a legal
"Our purpose is to alerl Ihe faculty that
Board of the Israeli Feminist Movement, abortion, she must go through a commit- it is a problem," Gawley asserted, adding
spoke to 30 SUNYA students on Wednes- tee of social workers and doctors and can that since there aren't any sidewalks
day night about Israeli feminism. Original- be rejected, especially if she is married," around perimeter road, "trying to get
somewhere as close-by as ShopRite or
ly from Buffalo, N.Y., Fernandez said she she said.
emigrated to Israel in 1974 where she
"Feminism in Israel is eight decades Stuyvesant (Plaza) is almost impossible."
subsequently became involved in the old," Fernandez said, adding "It began The solutions to such inconveniences will
feminist movement.
with the first wave of Jewish emigration be addressed at the end of the day, with
"The political situation (in Israel) for from Eastern Europe, many of those both participants in the Awareness prowomen is slowly improving," said Fer- women were socialists. The modern gram and disabled students.
nandez. "About ten percent of the Knesset feminism was imported from the U.S."
"It will be beneficial lo everyone,"
At a conference in Haifa in 1982, "Nine
(the legislative body) is women." In addiMARK MEDIAVILLA UPS
tion, she said, "the head of the Citizen's hundred women showed up, and we held Gawley said. "Students and adRight Party, which has three Knesset the first 'Take Back the Night' rally in ministrators will be more understanding to Rob Pipia
problems faced by the disabled."
members, is a feminist-oriented woman, Israel." said Fernandez.
Student Community Committee chair Stressed the need to work together.
Shulamil Aloni, (who) is one of the most
"There are many factions in the Israeli
Council. "Our people (UAD committees),
liberal members of the Knesset." Aloni, woman's movement," Fernandez told Ihe Rick Dallon said he thinks that the event combined with Central Council committee
supports women's rights, lesbian and gay audience. One group she cited, ihe Israeli will make Ihe campus more conscious of
members both have the same goals, and if
rights, and Arab rights. However, she docs Feminist Movement, was started in the Ihe problems that exist. "I think it's a
grcal
idea,"
he
said.
we
didn't work together, it would defeat
early
1970's
and
is
considered
lo
be
not have much support on many of these
"Hopefully students and the ad- our purpose."
homophobic. There is also, she said, a
issues," Fernandez said.
"Politically, we have a lot more to New York-affiliated group, Women ministration will become more aware of
Office renovations
the difficulties the disabled face," he
gain," she continued, "every Woman's Against Violence Against Women.
Renovations now underway in the SA
"Rape is a big problem in Israel, but Ihe noted. Dallon also said he believes that the
Day, March 8, we feminists protest outside
±2+ program will decrease Ihe amount of van- offices will be completed by the middle of
the Knesset. We have been effective with
lanuary, said SA President Rich Schaffer.
some changes, too."
Financing for the project will be ap"Marital rape is now a crime in Israel, in
propriated from SA's general fund at "the
New York State it is not. We effected this
lowest price possible of $4,400," Schaffer
change through Jewish Law which states
By llene Weinsteln
explained. Changes include an expansion
that a husband may not 'take' his wife
BDltORIAl ASSIS r.\Nl
of SA Legal Consultant Mark Misler's ofwithout her permission," she said.
A SUNYA student, victim of a $700 armed
fice, and a series of alternatives in other
"In Israel, women are drafted into
robbery on Slate Quad three weeks ago, has
offices, Schaffer said.
military service," Fernandez recounted,
moved off campus and is currently appealing a
Director of Student Programming Patty
"but only about sixty percent go. Of these,
decision on charges filed by a Department of
Salkin disclosed that since the on campus
about seventy percent are relegated to
Public Safety official.
restaurant 'The Dutchess' is not doing veryclerical positions; nursing positions are
The official, Public Safely Director James
well, on Thursday nights next semester the
also popular." Women do not serve on the
Williams, has refused lo comment on Ihe
restaurant will become "a comedy, variety
front lines, she said, explaining that the
charges, but several campus sources have suglight club to attract more students." The
mentality is that women would distract the
gested that Ihe case may be related lo drugs.
night club will feature stand-up comedians
male soldiers.
The victim, freshman Chris Shanker, had his
and other related routines, Salkin added.
Israeli women are required to serve two
case heard before Ihe committee on student
years in the army and need only do reserve
conduct, a branch of Ihe office of student afNew Media Director
duty three months per year until age 26,
fairs, on Monday, November, 27.
Debbie Demarco was appointed as
Fernandez said, adding that, "On the
Shanker said he is currently appealing Ihe ridMedia Director for the remainder of the
other hand, men serve three years in the aring, which he and University officials have James Williams
1984-85 academic year by unanimous conmy and are required to show up for reserve
refused lo disclose.
sent. Demarco is replacing Stacey Young,
duty until age 55. Israeli feminists want lo
Shanker's appeal will be heard by the Student Affairs Council.
who left her position for personal reasons.
equalize the requirements."
Shanker refused to comment on his decision lo move off campus.
Young said that Demarco "has been
Calling the Kibbutz the "one uniquely
The armed robbery, in which $700 was stolen from Shanker, occurred in his room in
training with me all semester, and will do a
Israeli institution," she said, "Although at
Tappan Hall on Slate Quad. Two black men wearing ski jackets and carrying pistols
good job. She has worked with SASU and
one lime it was a more egalitarian system entered Shanker's suileroom on November 13, where he was studying with his
knows what she is doing."
women and men sharing all chores suilcmale, David Marsh. One of the attackers dragged Shanker to his room where his
women are now choosing the more Iradi$700 was in an open drawer. "The money was in clear view," Shanker said.
The Intercollegiate . Athletic Council
tional jobs." Women must now compete
proposed a "leasing system" for a new inwith men for jobs in the fields or machine
According lo Williams, Ihe robbery did not appear lo be random. He would not
tercollegiate "super van" beginning in
shops, but "once ihe children see their
comment, however, if he thought ihe (heft was drug-related.
March 1985. The teams currently use a
fathers in the fields and their moms in the
Shanker said he won ihe $700 at Ihe Monliccllo racetrack over Ihe summer, adding
1982 Dodge van with 55,000 miles on it.
kitchen, these roles become even more
thai he kepi the money in his room for "personal expenses."
The van would be traded in for a leased
established," Fernandez explained.
There were no witnesses other than Shanker and Marsh and there are no suspects in
van to be used to transport most athletic
"Israel is a socialist country with a very
Ihecaseyel, Williams reported.
D
teams to their away contests.
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strong union. This has adviinlagcd Israeli
By Kris Reffelt
STAFF WRITER
Council
Fernandez outlines Israeli
feminists' work, triumphs
Robbery victim to appeal charges
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Rabbi says world tensions force
Soviets to slow Jewish migration
By Leslie Chalt
STAFF H i r E I
Having travelled to the Soviet
Union with the the'me " I seek my
b r e t h r e n , " Rabbi Simon I.
Konovitch related his experiences
to SUNYA students and grappled
with the question: should Soviet
Jews have to go to Israel or
should they be permitted to go
wherever they want when they
leave the USSR?
"There are pros and cons,"
said Konovitch, speaking on campus Tuesday. "Some people say,
'well, the Russian government
gave them permission to leave on
the grounds that they want to be
reunited with their families in
Israel, and should therefore go to
Israel'." Others, he said, "feel
that any individual who can free
himself or herself from anywhere
in the Iron Curtain should do so.
To save a life you don't ask any
questions."
Konovitch also asked, "when it
comes to working on behalf of the
freedom for Jews in Russia, what
should be the approach? Should
there be mass protests and marches, or should there be quiet
diplomacy?"
"Protests and demonstrations
do have an effect," asserted
Konovitch, adding, " w e should
demonstrate whenever there is an
opportunity."
In talking about Russian
Jewry, there are two questions to
be considered, Konovitch contended, these being, "should we
concentrate on a mass exodus of
Jews from Russia or should we
safeguard the rights of Jewish
people living in Russia to make
sure they are given the privilege of
living as Jews in Russia?"
Jews came to Russia approximately 1,000 years ago, and settled in the Crimea, Konovitch said.
"Despite the persecutions, Jewish
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"We should demonstrate
whenever there is an
life flourished in Russia for
many, many y e a r s , " he
continued.
"The birth of zionism began in
Eastern E u r o p e , " stated
Konovitch. Russian Zionists were
university students who' believed
that there was no future for Jews
in Russia, and so decided that the
time had come to create the
Jewish State of Israel. The
founders of the modern State of
Israel, according to Konovitch,
were Menachem Begin, David
Ben Corion, Colda Meir, and
Chaim Weitzman, all of whom,
he said, emigrated from Eastern
Europe.
Currently, he noted, "Jewish
religion as well as any religion is
outlawed in Russia." But, he
asserted, "Despite the persecutions, the spark of Judaism still
flickers in Russia." He continued, "the quest, for religious
observance is deeper than people
realize."
When international relations
arc not going well, Konovitch
said, the Soviet Union clamps
down on emigration, and when
they become less frigid, the
government permits Jews to leave
Russia. However, when relations
are going poorly, Jews arc once
more rcstricled from emigrating,
according lo Konovitch.
Today, according lo statistics
Konovitch cited, there are about
2.5 million Jews left in Russia.
"We hope and pray that the
struggle, and the Cold War, and
everything else that's going on
between [he superpowers will
cease for the sake of civilization,"
Konovitch said, adding " w e look
forward to the time when the
superpowers will negotiate peace
and a halt to the arms race.
"There is no question that this
will affect immigration and the
conditions of Jews in Russia," he
concluded.
Konovitch said his trip to
Russia was " a great experience,"
and continued by saying, " I t ' s
very important to visit Russia. We
hope and pray that the confrontation between East and West will
(be resolved) and the people who
want lo leave Russia will be able
lo...and to be reunited with their
families."
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opportunity.
Finals week construction concerns Alumni
University officials are taking a lot of heal for a
new sprinkler system slated to be installed on Alumni Quad just prior to and during finals week.
According to signs posted on Alumni Quad, construction of the system, planned for Alden and
Waterbury Halls, was scheduled to begin December
3, and be completed by January 11. The posters
said work would start between 9 and 9:30 a.m. and
would "be noisy."
Alumni Quad residents have expressed strong
concerns that the possible noise could impede their
studying during finals week.
Asserted Alumni Quad representative to Central
Council Mike Miller, " I t ' s totally unacceptable for
the University to impede the learning process with
these petty antics, the University could always install the sprinkler system at a more appropriate
lime."
Hoping to get Ihe construction postponed, Alumni Quad Board member Greg Cadillo, in cooperation with Alden and Waterbury Councils, got more
than 60Q students to sign petitions which were sent
to University officials.
The posters anticipating the noise, said Vice
President of Student Affairs Frank Poguc, were inaccurate and were put up by Alumni Quad Director
Phyllis Canty, wilhout his knowledge. " T h e new
sprinkler system," Poguc asserted, "is necessary
for Alumni Quad. The present system is not totally
adequate and these times are the only ones available
for the work to be done." He added, " t h e work will
be done quietly and shouldn't provide any
inconvenience."
The work on the sprinkler system has been subcontracted, said Dennis Stevens, maintaining that it
'•It's totally unacceptable
for the University to
impede the learning
process."
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1984 D ALBANY STUDENT PRESS^ g
BACCHUS member toasts alcohol awareness
News Updates
Weiss, approximately 12 Dutch Quad
RA's volunteered their time for the presenRandy Weiss, a SUNYA student, says tation and "got themselves shit-faced" to
drunk driving is a dangerous activity that demonstrate how the Breathalizer test
causes one death in the United States every works.
The RA's were then "arrested" by two
23 minutes. She is concerned, and she is
doing something to prevent drunk driving University Police Officers on DWI
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charges. "We got really good response
on this campus.
from the RA's," Weiss said, adding that
Weiss is a chair of
"everyone there really enjoyed seeing their
Boosting Alcohol Con- Friday
RA's sloshed out of their minds."
sciousness Concerning the _ ...
Weiss wants to present a similar proHealth of University
PrOllle
gram on State Quad, "aiming at freshmen
Students (BACCHUS), a
new campus group which hopes to stop and sophomores." She believes that such a
students from driving drunk and make presentation would teach State Quad's ma*tt~
them more aware of alcohol abuse. She ex- jority of frosh that "just because they're
plained that Dr. Richard Ellis, the group's completely free of responsibility doesn't
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faculty adviser, started a similar campus mean they have to go all out."
program RID (Remove Intoxicated
BACCHUS' other action is the creation
Drivers) last year, but according to Weiss, of a "Suitemate Contract" which makes
"it bombed."
all suitemates promise to not drive while
She said that BACCHUS was formed intoxicated, and to provide alternatives to
this year by Ellis and "about 12 of us in drunk suitemates driving drunk. Other
assorted classes" with the hope that they plans include an Alcohol Consciousness
HOWAKD TYGARUPS
could avoid the problems that made RID a Week and an investigation of Albany Randy Weiss
failure. "He (Ellis) is the one who got bartenders "to see if they actually cut peo"The biggest problem Is getting people moti
vated."
things rolling for us," she said, adding, ple off" when they appear intoxicated.
"everything is just getting off the
From the results she's seen, Weiss were actually arrested on a DWI charge, suitemates and they'll tell you I'm noi exground."
believes BACCHUS is not going to meet and actual footage of car accidents due to actly a sugar and spice girl," she said.
New organizations are bound to have RID's fate. "1 think it's going to be suc- drunk driving.
Weiss added that she will come back from
problems, and Weiss believes that BAC- cessful just from the presentation on
Although she is obviously against drunk a softball game with "Ben Ga> all over
CHUS' main one will be getting students Dutch," she said.
driving, Weiss doesn't support the 21 me."
involved. "The biggest problem dealing
Weiss began her work of combatting drinking age proposal. "I don't think the
This week, Weiss was to find mil if she
with such a large university is getting peo- drunk driving in the Massapequa High 21 drinking age is going to prevent them was admitted into a SUNYA sorority,
ple motivated," she said. "People laugh at School's chapter of Students Against (minors) from drinking. They're not going "That's going to be good. It just makes
you when you tell them it could happen to Drunk Driving (SADD). "I've always been to get it (alcohol) in bars, but they're going college so college-y," she declared,
them," Weiss added.
interested in this. I just want to prevent it to get it," she predicted.
During the interview, Weiss excused
The brown haired sophomore, clad in a from happening to someone I know," she
Weiss, a business major, hopes to get a herself to have a five minute screaming
bright red sweater, white oxford cloth shirt asserted.
job in marketing. She has previously work- fight with the Ncwsday collector who came
and beige courdory jeans, comfortably sat
While a member of SADD, Weiss wrote ed at a camp and a local counseling agency to her door looking for payment. After the
in her Dutch Quad suitcroon and explain- and directed a 23 minute film entitled It's a over the summer. Describing her helping two exchanged loud verbal abuses, Weiss
ed BACCHUS' achievements to date.
Long Ride Home, which showed the and teaching of others in these jobs, she chased him out of the room and returned
On November 13, the organization dangers of driving drunk. The film includ- said, "It's the best feeling of accomplish- contently to continue the interview. "I can
presented a program on Dutch Quad ed an interview with the parents of a ment in the world."
be feisty. If I believe in something I won't
which dramatized a SUNYA student being Massapequa girl killed by a drunk driver,
Weiss said she also loves participating in stop until I know I've done by best," she
arrested on a DWI charge. According to teenagers discussing the issue, people who sports, especially softball. "Ask my said.
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Ilchman, a political economist, is one of
eight New York members of the National
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President for Research and Educational
Development before assuming his currents,
position. He has been a professor and administrator at Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge universities, the University, of
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highest paid state department
heads, according to the Knickerbocker News, Ramaley said
Wharton is one of the lowest paid
executives of a university system
in the United States.
Ramaley said that for at least
the two years that she has been at
the school, SUNYA's lack of
salary competitiveness has been
discussed. "I'm delighted that someone has recognized that
something needs to be done," she
said.
If the salaries of SUNY officials were more attractive, "that
would make it easier for me to
hire good deans when I do have to
do that," said Ramaley.
"Right now the people in the
New York University System are
dedicated to their jobs, but at
some point, with their kids wanting to go to college and the salary
balancing at the other end, SUNY
officials will start thinking about
whether or not they can afford to
keep the job that they have," said
Ramaley.
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the academy.
Recruitment opposed
In what was described as a "video war,"
a group of campus activists staged an event
in opposition to a three-day recruiting effort by the US Marines at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
November 26-28. The group's aim was to
provide people walking through the Student Union with a visual contrast to the
Marines' slick presentation.
The activity was organized through the
Red Balloon Collective, a direct-action
oriented Marxist group on campus. The
group learned that the Marines, were planning the recruitment effort only the week
before it was scheduled to occur, so different members of the group donated the
equipment needed for the event, including
a television set, a VCR, and videotapes.
The activity involved setting up a display
area next to that of the Marines. As the
Marines were showing training films, the
activist group was showing the actual horrors of the Vietnam War in the acclaimed
documentary "Hearts and Minds." Other
videotapes shown in opposition to the
Marines' presentation were "Atomic
Cafe," "Jeo Hill," "Missing," and
assorted antiwar rock V roll videos.
Kwanza celebrated
Dr. Maulana Karenga, the Executive
Director of the Institute of Pan-African
Studies in Los Angeles, will speak this
weekend as part of a Kwanza week
celebration sponsored by the Albany State
University Black Alliance (ASUBA).
Kwanza, a Black cultural holiday officially celebrated from December 26 to
January 1, was established in 1966 by
Karenga. A non-religious holiday, Kwanza
was not designed to take the place of
Christmas, but, instead "to strengthen the
bonds between us," according to Karenga.
Karenga's appearance, Saturday
December 8, in the Campus Center
Ballroom, is sponsored by ASUBA and
Speaker's Forum.
Store issues policy
To prevent customer sloppiness, Barnes
and Noble bookstore now has a sign in the
newspaper section that reads "Please Do
Not Read These Newspapers Unless
You're Going To Buy Them."
According to store manager Marj
Campbell, "the people who have to keep
that section neat and tidy are utterly
frustrated." She explained that several
customers often read the papers and then
return them unorganized; this lessons the
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process," especially compared to
the alternative of turning students
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especially at state schools, is a
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hile men are dancing around the Campus
Center Ballroom stripping down to near
nudity, the bookstore is coming under
pressure to quit selling pornographic magazines.
If you think that male strippers are okay while
dirty magazines aren't,' then think again. The
fight against pornography must extend to men as
well as women.
The effects of male strippers are different from
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the effects of Playboy and Penthouse centerfolds,
but they are effects of a similar cause. The cause is
making sexual objects out of human beings. And
until we can all learn a better way of treating each
other, we'll keep pursuing transient pleasures at
the cost of genuine fulfillment.
So, those who enjoy dirty magazines and strip
shows ask, "what's wrong with superficial
pleasure? If I enjoy it, why not indulge?"
Well, you may not realize it, but that magazine
you bought in the bookstore last week or the strippers you saw last night are a lot more than just a
good time.
W h e n you turn someone into an sex object,
you take away their value as a person. Objects are
things; to be played with and controlled.
Objects can't be hurt. People can.
When something becomes an object you can exploit it, because all that matters is what you want
out of it.
When we do this to the trees and the air it is an
act of violence which results in a deadly environment. When we do it to men and women it is a
much more severe act of violence — it results in
cultural, emotional and physical abuse, sexual,
racial and ethnic abuse.
It results in a reality in which one in three
American women can expect to be sexually abused
in their lifetime.
It results in a world practically obsessed with
sex from cradle to grave. Where, if not with our
hands then with our minds, we masturbate to
magazines and TV and sunbathers on the podium
and the fantasies that pervade our thoughts each
day.
M u c h of this battle has been fought through
the growing awareness of society's exploitation
and abuse of women. But we can't stop there,
Whether its women in the centerfolds or rriale
strippers on the floor of the Campus Center
ballroom it's objectification of the human body,
How can those fighting the exploitation o'l
women stop short of' fighting all sexual
exploitation?
There's no doubt that women suffer more from
being treated as" sexual objects and stereotypes.
More inequality and abuse — in the home, He
workplace, the media, the streets and the government. We must never stop fighting this tragedy,
But this battle is built on the foundations of a
principle — the idea of treating people as people
and not as objects. The idea of breaking out of the
prison of objectification. The idea of creating a
new vision for human life.
Those of us who are commited to these ideas
should be fightimg for them for all people.
Fighting porn in the bookstore is not enough. We
must stand on the principle of ending the exploitation of all people.
COLUMN
Alternative ideas on government
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In this, my final column as editor of the editorial pages,
I will suggest an alternative to the traditional conservative
and liberal perspectives. The audience it will appeal to
will be anchored by those that generally agree with
Reagan policies but who are repulsed by encroachments
on personal liberties such as prayer in school or the abolition of abortions.
diverges with Reagan and the right wing. Along with a
semi-laissez-faire economic policy is a largly laissez-faire
social policy. A staple of this policy would be a completely secular state. Any kind of prayer in school led by a
teacher or any other person in a position of authority
should be forbidden. Obviously prayer in private school
should be allowed. Private schools should not be
discouraged, however, no government aid should be
given to these schools in any form. Tuition tax credits are
an example of government subsidy that should not be
The liberterian view has existed for quite some time.
tolerated. Legal oaths and the words on money should be
More recently it has manifested itself as a fringe party.
washed of their references to someones God, admittedly
The major fault of this party has been their persistent
this must fall low on the list of priorities. The payment of
dogmatism. A careful balance of dogmatism and
government funds to the official clergy of a legislature is
pragmatism could turn this irrelevant party into an im- wrong as is the granting of space or funds for the erection
portant political force. The constituency definitely exists
of secterian holiday paraphenalia.
and is only suppressed by the lack of self-definition.
Censorship goes against the basic tenets of this
Economically this paradigm is quite similiar to the curphilosophy. It is a shame that school libraries are scoured
rent conservative view. It stresses continued deregulation
for vague references to the human body. It is disastrous
of industry, a firming up of the social safety net for the that the Reagan administration has impinged on the imtruly needy, elimination of most programs for the middle
portant Freedom of Information Act. In short, people
class, minimization of federal control over state spenmust be free to communicate ideas popular or otherwise.
ding, a lower flat tax rate, and such innovative ideas as
Their are exceptions where national security is involved
the urban free-enterprise zones.
but the scope of censoship currently exceeds this
Deregulation of industry has been quite successful both
ridiculously. There will be evils as a result of a more open
for the consumer and the efficient supplier of goods and
society, for example neo-Nazi literature or the perpetuaservices. Two good examples of this are natural gas and tion of bigotry through words.
the airlines. Of course it should be noted that in some
Bigotry can only be stopped by a completely colorcases regulation is a necessary evil. The existence of the
social saftey is vital to our society, however, in its current
form it causes the breakup of families, dependency, and
shame for those that need help. It should be rebuilt; one
suggestion is the negative income tax which does hot
devour the initiative to work. This is not incongruous
with the flat tax program recently released by the
Treasury department (Which will most likely be
decapitated by well-financed lobbyists and a vengeful
Congress). A return of power to the states through
revenue sharing is key because only a state can truly be
aware of where the money can best be spent.
Innovation should be explored more fully. For example, social security should become a lax and not an insurance. The private sector is superior at providing insurance for the bulk of the population. There is absolutely no need for a billionaire to receive social security.
Those that do not have adequate savings should still be
covered under the social security program.
Defense, as stressed by the founding fathers, would
clearly be the primary responsibility of the federal
government. Thorough reviews of contracting practices
should be performed by outside agencies like the General
Accounting Office as well as a shakeup of the entrenched
Pentagon bureaucracy. Modest cuts in defense would be
useful in reducing the deficit without appreciably reducing our capabilities.
At this point this neo.-liberlarian paradigm sharply
Edward Reines
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blind society. Perpetuating the notion that one person
should be dealt with differently than another is counterproductive. Swift penalties against people thai break this
sacred rule will over time minimize the perceived differences of races, creeds, colors and sexes.
Victimless crimes in most cases should be decriminalized. The best example of this is the legalization of marijuana. The marijuana high is undeniably less intense and
less violent then that of alcohol. If people choose to use
this drug, that is their priority. It would be making a large
and unfair value judgement to assume that all people
want to maximize the length of their exislancc although
pot has never been proven to shorten one's life. On the
contrary a drug like PCP is proven to induce violent and
antisocial behavior and must be outlawed.
Throughout this article I have left room for further extrapolation of policy proposals. To me the Liberterian
philosophy offers much, but no ideology can serve as a
panacea. We are a society of humans and emotions, and
compromise and pragmatism are a part of all solutions.
In this world, the anarchy of the marketplace (ideas,
goods, and services) has proven more effective then the
heirarchy of government. Unfortunately, the Liberals
forget this when they propose a larger economic scope for
government. The Conservatives forget this when they
preach their values and morals from the pulpit of government. Maybe one daythis view will be represented on the
American political scene. I hope so.
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by David L. L. Laskin
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I was firmly embedded in my lazy-boy,
contemplating a sheet of paper which, excepting the heading "Dave's Inferno," was conspicuously blank. Sometimes a blank page
can be a very aesthetic thing-it's clean and
neat, yet anticipating a smothering rush of
print.
Not this one. This particular page glared up
at me in a defiant, complete emptiness which
seemed to possess a life-force of its very own.
Each line became a searing indictment of my
inability to fill it. And every second I spent
. agonizing over the paper I should have been
writing fueled this potent, threatening emptiness. "Who are you," the page seemed to
taunt, "to judge over good and evil, sin and
punishment? You're no genius, no visionary,
the ideals of perfect right and wrong are lightyears beyond your Lilliputian horizon. You
are ultimately a pompous sinner like any
human, and your ideas are nothing but
pretentious, insipid drivel which will fall to
pieces at even the slightest encounter with
reality. Give it up! Fehl"
Wracked with despair, I could sense the entire matrix of my moral-intellectual potential
collapsing, and spiraling downwards into an
abyss of radical worthlessness. More prosaically, I needed a beer. The closer I
scrutinized my attempts at constructing a
critical personalization of Dante's Inferno, the
more my constructions seemed to weaken
and give way to self-doubt and ultimate, insoluble ambiguity. Is it at all possible to
establish objective criteria for the categorization of sin and punishment? Or even to assert
principles which would govern the functioning of such a structured ethical system?
Which human actions are movements
towards "goodness," and which draw us
towards "evil?" It seemed that with this sort
of thing one had to start at the root, the most
radically fundamental level, of human reality
that could be imagined. If I couldn't answer
any questions within my own hell, how
could I confront them in Dante's?
I was lost in the terror of my own frustration. It seemed as if the only answer could be
no answer at all. My vision returned from its
contemplative oblivion to focus upon the defiant page before me, and, in a rush of sinister
h o p e f u l n e s s , my pen offered this
challenge-"No Answer!" I believed I was on
the right track, but as I set myself to the task
of following it, there arose from the paper a
vortex of shape and color which, growing
before me, became manifest in the form of
my professor, Tom Smith, thrashing in front
of my eyes a sheaf of paper. Seared in blazing
red upon the cover, next to my typewritten
name, was a large, bright-red "F."
Oops.
All efforts to return to the paper were
thwarted by this horrific vision. Even if "no
answer" was no answer, I believed I had
found the most realistic starting point, an area
from which I could develop my ethical thesis
(and get the paper completed before
Thanksgiving). It appeared that I would be
blocked-off from my back-door approach
through Dante's Inferno, regardless of its
validity. The empty page was triumphant. I
was without hope,
Placing the paper on the table beside me, I
wheeled the recliner around to face the wall,
retreating into my former state of brooding.
Had I strayed so far from the meaningful
ground of human existence that I could no
longer see my way through it7
"Don't be ridiculous," claimed a terse voice
behind me. I could see the shadow of what
appeared to be a human being looming
.beside, the .chair. Being in. no hurry, to
What kind of evil deserves eternal punishment?
passing into the realm of the opportunists and
neutrals, who were condemned to endlessly
chase little blue banners through piles of
sludge and shit. They didn't have to, though;
they could just sil around in it. Dante obviously this to be ,1 fair finale for these folks, a
reasonable punishment for avoiding moral
decisions in life, but I could not accept his
condemnation so readily. "It seems to me," I
remarked to my guide, "that there is
something of the opportunist in all of us, and
that there is much more to these people than
this fate merits. How can one's character be
characterized so singularly? There are times
when I've been about as much of a nebbish as
possible, yet could I honestly label myself
'opportunist' and leave-it at that7 And why
should these people suffer from only this particular sin — shouldn't they account for all
the 'good' and 'evil' in their lives? It seems
that if Dante were hue to his law of retribution he could not discount what lies outside
the periphery of this one sin."
I caught myself on the brink of a
philosophical tirade. The presence of the
great poet himself barely an arm's length
away served as a reminder that I was, after all,
passing through one of the great works of
literature (not to mention it was his) and that I
could stand to be a tad less pompous. At least,
being an outsider to the poem, none of the
characters within it were able to hear me, so
no offense could be transmitted. I did feel a
discover the source of this projection I held
my position and queried, "Oh7" I figured I'd
put the ball in his park.
"The answers can be found only within
yourself," he replied. "Case in point: David
L.L. Laskin. The solution you seek is not 'no
answer,' yet it cannot be determined simply
by stuffing empty pages with words. Dante
escaped despair by witnessing a remarkable
inner journey and discovering his own solution. Very shortly, Mr. Laskin will retrace
Dante's footsteps.. .in the Twilight Zone."
The voice sounded so familiar that it could
only be a practical joke. Just one of my
housemates harassing me for procrastinating.
Spinning myself out of the corner, I chuckled,
and sighed, "Give me a break, will ya?"
Oops again. It was no mischievious
housmate who stood waiting for me, and that
lecture had been no practical joke. Waves of
fear gripped my paralyzed body with such
fierce intensity that I felt on the verge of
spontaneous combustion. Several inches
beyond my outstretched leg rest, stark and
lipless, stood the master himself — Rod
Serlingl
As much as a man with no upper lip and
eyebrows the size of a small knockwurst can,
he smiled reassuringly. "Look, you need someone to guide you through a personal appropriation of Dante's Inferno in order to
write this paper, right7 You need someone
who is familiar to both your own personality
and to the spiritual values you are trying to
actualize. Got any better candidates? Good,
let's go!"
Having been rationally short-circuited at
the instant this encounter began, I was
defenseless (besides, what he said made a
good deal of sense), and I followed Rod out
of my apartment and into the quiet earlymorning darkness. I made a mental note that
the Capital District Psychiatric Center was
merely a short block away.
"There they are,"-he pointed. I could make
out the figures of Dante and Virgil in the
distance travelling side by side through the
dim woods (away from the psychiatric center,
too, damn the luck). "Come on," Rod urged,
Several inches beyond my outstretched leg rest,
stark and lipless, stood the Master him$elf —
Rod Serling!
"Look, you need someone to guide you through
Dante's Inferno. Got any better candidates?"
"let's catch up with them."
We followed close behind the two poets,
abandoning all hopes at the Gate of Hell, and
f*iijj
bit guilty, though, for possibly transgressing
on my privileges.
Rod read me like a book. "You were
assigned to make your own Hell within the
context of Dante's Inferno, right? Don't be
afraid to discover sometning radically different within that context. What Dante
created was true to his own creativity —
what you find must be equally true to yours.
We better get moving before Charon shoves
off without us."
As we climbed aboard the infamous barge
to cross the river Styx, I discovered that
inner vision are all woven into the fabric of
an individual 'soul', and that in knowing, willing and acting, one draws upon many, if not
all, of these elements. To distill reason into a
solitary, objective value ignores the
mysterious, organic dynamism of reality.
Some of the stuff these Greek thinkers produced was little more than mental masturbation. The truly virtuous should be those who
are 'good' without the rational justification,
"I hate to be pushy but, well, I've got a lot of
problems with this whole limbo scene."
visitors within a literary work have no
substance whatever. I tried not to let it
depress me. Rod and I stood by as Dante paid
his tribute and shared his sympathies with the
great virtuous thinkers of the pre-Christian
era..
"I hate to be pushy, but. . .
"Dante was only human, and so are you.
It's not as if you are sitting in judgement of
him — you're just trying to find your own
way. He can take it."
"Well, I've got a couple of problems with
this limbo scene. First, I refuse to believe that
even a Christian god could be so nitpicky and
inhumane as to allow thousands of years of
virtuous conduct to be imprisoned here
because of a calendrical discrepancy. So they
lived and died before the alleged Son of God
was born, so what7 I mean, regardless of the
existence of a particular god, the comings and
goings of the Messiah, etc., all we can really
act upon is the human condition within the
context of reality-as-we-know-it.
"Second is the way in which he deals with
reason. Reason becomes the positive
manifestation of the intellect, which is the
source of all sin and virtue. I'm very skeptical
of his readiness to turn the ambivalent shifting ground of human existence into absolute
dualisms. It just seems to me that elements of
intellect, emotion, memory, personality and
who live revelation without having to indulge in a fabricated idol of reason. Of
course, there are in reality, no answers here,
no simplistic structures or criteria for determinate objective values. The highest value of
reason is probably to reveal the severe limitations of the knowing consciousness. Yet
Dante seems to be moving towards
establishing a very determinate a,rfrl objective
ground for all human action and experience.
He is taking a direction I can not at all agree
with."
"Speaking of which," Rod inserted, "We
better get going or we'll lose him." We hurried after the poets who were already approaching the dark and cacophanous edge of
the second circle.
"Oh, one more thing," 1 continued as we
left the unfortunate pagans behind, "did you
see the way he treated Aristotle7 Sitting 'on
high. . . ringed by the great souls of
philosophy.' Give me a break! If any of that
gang should be singled as virtuous and
enlightened it should certainly be Socrates.
He knew enough to seek, not the answers to
life's questions, but the questions that would
aid us in appropriating what we can not
know. Aristotle was a glorified naturalist who
figured that if he could objectively categorize
the empirical world (which he did not do exceptionally well), he could do the same to the
metaphysical. The greatest, most fundamental, weakness in Western thinking can be traced back to this master of those who know.
Western civilization is mired in the notion
that through rational objectivity we can not
only arrive a I definite knowledge of reality,
but can transcend and control it. It took
around 2000 years for us to begin breaking
— at least intellectually — the contrived,
delusory structural yoke of Aristotle's
philosophical system. Dante seems sadly
mired in this tradition, which became
manifest in the epic sitting of Thomas
Aquinas, and the unfortunate success of the
Church. I would not deny the extraordinary
greatness of any of these men, yet 1 believe
they led us astray, and closed us off for much
of our existential condition, enhancing us
materially but depriving us spiritually."
"Well, I'm glad I came along to explain
things to you."
I felt terrible. Instead of remaining silent
and open to this experience, I'd been shooting
my mouth off. Yet this is what I felt I had to
do — to deconstruct Dante's idea of Hell so
that I might discover my own. But I did feel
sorry for Rod.
"Look, Rod, most of what I've been saying
would never have been possible without you.
Have you any idea how many hundreds of
nights I made sure to be in front of the television to hear your opening monologue? The
Zone provoked me into thinking, questioning, appreciating, and learning what I could
from the human experience. You kept my
mind open. You helped me to affirm the
qualities I value most — honesty, kindness,
decency, humility, playfulnees, wonder. . .
At a time when television seemed the most
real thing to me, it was through the Zone that
I was able to maintain a hold on those
positive values within me."
He knew I meant it all earnestly, and he
was quite moved.
We descended behind Dante and Virgil into the second circle. One thing I would
definitely not argue against was Dante's imagination — he had whipped up a pretty wild
scene here, and this was barely the tip of the
iceberg. Throngs of condemned spirits
crowded around Minos, whose malicious
delight was truly devilish as he wrapped his
gruesome tail around each one, knowing the
horrors which awaited it. I was so struck by
the vivid imagery of this performance that I
almost lost interest in the true purpose of my
visit.
"So, this is where all the condemned souls
receive judgement," my guide remarked,
speaking in such an excessively casual tone
that you'd think he was shootin' the breeze
outside the general store on a lazy Sunday
afternoon. "Procrastinaters, prideful, and
such."
I took the hint.
I turned away from the infernal scene and
headed back towards the ledge. "I've got a
paper to write."
"Don't you even want to see the rest?"
"Sure I do, but this paper's going to be late
as it is, and I've seen all I need to. It wouldn't
be fair to overstay my welcome."
We continued back through the plain of
the virtuous pagans.
"If there is one thing I believe absolutely it
is that human beings can neither receive nor
give judgement. Judgement presupposes a
great deal of transcendent certainty, and I
don't believe that human existence warrants
that kind of objectification. To judge someone you must know everything about that
person, and then you must be able to apply it
to a total, cosmic, objective, moral structure.
It seems more than a jot arrogant to assume
the existence of a system such as this. There is
an clement of the unknowable in everything
human. The only way to judge a person is to
close yourself off from these elements of insecurity, mystery, and dynamic crealive
potential."
We passed through the threatening gate. It
felt good to regain my abandoned hope.
"If you continually strive to objectify the
mysteries of being, you will ultimately steal
all the joy and wonder out of being human.
To me, the idea of judgement betrays this
fundamental ground of human existence. We
are involved in a process of continual, spontaneous self-creation. This cannot be accountable to any divine judgement, but only to
ourselves. We can not shift the burden of accounting for ourselves on to the metaphorical
shoulders of another. Our Heaven and our
Hell are all embodied in the purgatory of this
world. The metaphysics of punishment and
reward, suffering and bliss, operate out of the
material of our everyday lives. We must take
responsibility!"
We walked in silence up the steps and into
the apartment. I regained possession of my
pen and paper, sank into the lazy boy, and
wheeled it around to face the corner of the
room.
"So you found your place in Dante's Hell?"
Rod inquired rhetorically.
"Here and now," I answered, crossing out
the words "No Answer."
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•MWfcMAimn««IIWM>-dMBMBaMM
-INFERNO
by David L. L. Laskin
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I was firmly embedded in my lazy-boy,
contemplating a sheet of paper which, excepting the heading "Dave's Inferno," was conspicuously blank. Sometimes a blank page
can be a very aesthetic thing-it's clean and
neat, yet anticipating a smothering rush of
print.
Not this one. This particular page glared up
at me in a defiant, complete emptiness which
seemed to possess a life-force of its very own.
Each line became a searing indictment of my
inability to fill it. And every second I spent
agonizing over the paper I should have been
writing fueled this potent, threatening emptiness. "Who are you," the page seemed to
taunt, "to judge over good and evil, sin and
punishment? You're no genius, no visionary,
the ideals of perfect right and wrong are lightyears beyond your Lilliputian horizon. You
are ultimately a pompous sinner like any
human, and your ideas are nothing but
pretentious, insipid drivel which will fall to
pieces at even the slightest encounter with
reality. Give it up! Feh!"
Wracked with despair, I could sense the entire matrix of my moral-intellectual potential
collapsing, and spiraling downwards into an
abyss of radical worthlessness. More prosaically, I needed a beer. The closer I
scrutinized my attempts at constructing a
critical personalization of Dante's Inferno, the
more my constructions seemed to weaken
and give way to self-doubt and ultimate, insoluble ambiguity. Is it at all possible to
establish objective criteria for the categorization of sin and punishment? O r even to assert
principles which would govern the functioning of such a structured ethical system?
Which human actions are movements
towards "goodness," and which draw us
towards "evil7" It seemed that with this sort
of thing one had to start at the root, the most
radically fundamental level, of human reality
that could be imagined. If I couldn't answer
any questions within my own hell, how
could I confront them in Dante's?
I was lost in the terror of my own frustration. It seemed as if the only answer could be
no answer at all. My vision returned from its
contemplative oblivion to focus upon the defiant page before me, and, in a rush of sinister
h o p e f u l n e s s , my pen offered
this
challenge--"No Answer!" I believed I was on
the right track, but as I set myself to the task
of following it, there arose from the paper a
vortex of shape and color which, growing
before me, became manifest in the form of
my professor, Tom Smith, thrashing in front
of my eyes a sheaf of paper. Seared in blazing
red upon the cover, next to my typewritten
name, was a large, bright-red "F."
Oops.
All efforts to return to the paper were
thwarted by this horrific vision. Even if "no
answer" was no answer, I believed I had
found the most realistic starting point, an area
from which I could develop my ethical thesis
(and get the paper completed before
Thanksgiving). It appeared that I would be
blocked-off from my back-door approach
through Dante's Inferno, regardless of its
validity. The empty page was triumphant. 1
was without hope.
Placing the paper on the table beside me, I
wheeled the rediner around to face the wall,
retreating into my former state of brooding.
Had I strayed so far from the meaningful
ground of human existence that I could no
longer see m y way through it?
"Don't be ridiculous," claimed a terse voice
behind me. I could see the shadow of what
appeared to be a human being looming
beside the chair. Being in .no hurry, to
What kind of evil deserves eternal punishment?
passing into the realm of the opportunists and
neutrals, who weie condemned to endlessly
chase little blue banners through piles of
sludge and shit. They didn't riave to, though;
they could just sit around in it. Dante obviously this to be a fair finale for these folks, a
reasonable punishment for avoiding moral
decisions in life, but I could not accept his
condemnation so readily. "It seems to me," I
remarked to my guide, "that there is
something of [lie opportunist in all of us, and
that there is much more to these people than
this fate merits. How can one's character be
characterized so singularly? There are times
when I've been about as much of a nebbish as
possible, yet could 1 honestly label myself
'opportunist' and leave it at that7 And why
should these people suffer from only this particular sin — shouldn't they account for all
the 'good' and 'evil' in their lives? It seems
that if Dante were true to his law of retribution he could not discount what lies outside
the periphery of this one sin."
I caught myself on the brink of a
philosophical tirade. The presence of the
great poet himself barely an arm's length
away served as a reminder that I was, after all,
passing through one of the great works of
literature (not to mention it was his) and that I
could stand to be a tad less pompous. At least,
being an outsider to the poem, none of the
characters within it were able to hear me, so
no offense could be transmitted. I did feel a
discover the source or this projection I held
my position and queried, "Oh?" I figured I'd
put the ball in his park.
"The answers can be found only within
yourself," he replied. "Case in point: David
L.L. Laskin. The solution you seek is not 'no
answer,' yet it cannot be determined simply
by stuffing empty pages with words. Dante
escaped despair by witnessing a remarkable
inner journey and discovering his own solution. Very shortly, Mr. Laskin will retrace
Dante's footsteps. . .in the Twilight Zone."
The voice sounded so familiar that it could
only be a practical joke. Just one of my
housemates harassing me for procrastinating.
Spinning myself out of the corner, 1 chuckled,
and sighed, "Give me a break, will ya?"
Oops again. It was no mischievious
housmate who stood waiting for me, and that
lecture had been no practical joke. Waves of
fear gripped my paralyzed body with such
fierce intensity that I felt on the verge of
spontaneous combustion. Several inches
beyond my outstretched leg rest, stark and
lipless, stood the master himself — Rod
Serling!
As much as a man with no upper lip and
eyebrows the size of a small knockwurst can,
he smiled reassuringly. "Look, you need someone to guide you through a personal appropriation of Dante's Inferno in order to
write this paper, right? You need someone
who is familiar to both your own personality
and to the spiritual values you are trying to
actualize. Got any better candidates? Good,
let's go!"
Having been rationally short-circuited at
the instant this encounter began, I was
defenseless (besides, what he said made a
good deal of sense), and I followed Rod out
of my apartment and into the quiet earlymorning darkness. I made a mental note that
the Capital District Psychiatric Center was
merely a short block away.
"There they are,"-he pointed. I could make
out the figures of Dante and Virgil in the
distance travelling side by side through the
dim woods (away from the psychiatric center,
too, damn the luck). "Come on," Rod urged,
Several inches beyond my outstretched leg rest,
stark and lipless, stood the Master himself —
Rod Serling!
"Look, you need someone to guide you- through
Dante's Inferno. Got any better candidates?"
"let's catch up with them."
We followed close behind the two poets,
abandoning all hopes at the Gate of Hell, and
bit guilty, though, foij possibly transgressing
on my privilcgi
like a book. "You were
Rod read
assigned to make your own Hell within the
context of Dante's Inferno, right? Don't be
afraid to discover sometning radically different within that context. What Dante
created was true to his own creativity —
what you find must be equally true to yours.
We better get moving before Charon shoves
off without us."
As we climbed aboard the infamous barge
to cross the river Styx, I discovered that
inner vision are all woven into the fabric of
an individual 'soul', and that in knowing, willing and acting, one draws upon many, if not
all, of these elements. To distill reason into a
solitary, objective value ignores the
mysterious, organic dynamism of reality.
Some of the stuff these Greek thinkers produced was little more than mental masturbation. The truly virtuous should be those who
are 'good' without the rational justification,
"I hate to be pushy but, well, I've got a lot of
problems with this whole limbo scene."
visitors within a literary work have no
substance whatever. I tried not to let it
depress me. Rod and I stood by as Dante paid
his tribute and shared his sympathies with the
great virtuous thinkers of the pre-Christian
era.
"I hate to be pushy, but. . .
"Dante was only human, and so are you.
It's not as if you are sitting in judgement of
him — you're just trying to find your own
way. He can take it."
"Well, I've got a couple of problems with
this limbo scene. First, I refuse to believe that
even a Christian god could be so nitpicky and
inhumane as to allow thousands of years of
virtuous conduct to be imprisoned here
because of a calendrical discrepancy. So they
lived and died before the alleged Son of God
was born, so what? I mean, regardless of the
existence of a particular god, the comings and
goings of the Messiah, etc., all we can really
act upon is the human condition within the
context of reality-as-we-know-it.
"Second is the way in which he deals with
reason. Reason becomes the positive
manifestation of the intellect, which is the
source of all sin and virtue. I'm very skeptical
of his readiness to turn the ambivalent shifting ground of human existence into absolute
dualisms. It just seems to me that elements of
intellect, emotion, memory, personality and
who live revelation without having to indulge in a fabricated idol of reason. Of
course, there are in reality, no answers here,
no simplistic structures or criteria for determinate objective values. The highest value of
reason is probably to reveal the severe limitations of the knowing consciousness. Yet
Dante seems to be moving towards
establishing a very determinate a,n)d objective
ground for all human action and experience.
He is taking a direction I can not at all agree
with."
"Speaking of which," Rod inserted, "We
better get going or we'll lose him." We hurried after the poets who were already approaching the dark and cacophanous edge of
the second circle.
"Oh, one more thing," I continued as we
left the unfortunate pagans behind, "did you
see the way he treated Aristotle? Sitting 'on
high. . . ringed by the great souls of
philosophy.' Give me a break! If any of that
gang should be singled as virtuous and
enlightened it should certainly be Socrates.
He knew enough to seek, not the answers to
life's questions, but the questions that would
aid us in appropriating what we can not
know. Aristotle was a glorified naturalist who
figured that if he could objectively categorize
the empirical world (which he did not do exceptionally well), he could do the same to the
metaphysical. The greatest, most fundamental, weakness In Western thinking can be traced back to this master of those who know.
Western civilization is mired in the notion
that through rational objectivity we can not
only arrive at definite knowledge of reality,
but can transcend and control it. It took
around 2000 years for us to begin breaking
— at least intellectually — the contrived,
delusory structural yoke of Aristotle's
philosophical system. Dante seems sadly
mired in this tradition, which became
manifest in the epic sitting of Thomas
Aquinas, and the unfortunate success of the
Church. 1 would not deny the extraordinary
greatness of any of these men, yet I believe
they led us astray, and closed us off for much
of our existential condition, enhancing us
materially but depriving us spiritually."
"Well, I'm glad I came along to explain
things to you."
I felt terrible. Instead of remaining silent
and open to this experience, I'd been shooting
my mouth off. Yet this is what I felt I had to
do — to deconstruct Dante's idea of Hell so
that I might discover my own. But I did feel
sorry for Rod.
"Look, Rod, most of what I've been saying
would never have been possible without you.
Have you any idea how many hundreds of
nights I made sure to be in front of the television to hear your opening monologue? The
Zone provoked me into thinking, questioning, appreciating, and learning what I could
from the human experience. You kept my
mind open. You helped me to affirm the
qualities I value most — honesty, kindness,
decency, humility, playfulnees, wonder. . .
At a time when television seemed the most
real thing to me, it was through the Zone that
I was able to maintain a hold on those
positive values within me."
He knew I meant it all earnestly, and he
was quite moved.
We descended behind Dante and Virgil into the second circle. One thing I would
definitely not argue against was Dante's imagination — he had whipped up a pretty wild
scene here, and this was barely the tip of the
iceberg. Throngs of condemned spirits
crowded around Minos, whose malicious
delight was truly devilish as he wrapped his
gruesome tail around each one, knowing the
horrors which awaited it. I was so struck by
the vivid imagery of this performance that I
almost lost interest in the true purpose of my
visit.
"So, this is where all the condemned souls
receive judgement," my guide remarked,
speaking in such an excessively casual tone
that you'd think he was shootin' the breeze
outside the general store on a lazy Sunday
afternoon. "Procrastinaters, prideful, and
such."
I look the hint.
I turned away from the infernal scene and
headed back towards the ledge. "I've got a
paper to write."
"Don't you even want to see the rest?"
"Sure I do, but this paper's going to be late
as it is, and I've seen all 1 need to. It wouldn't
be fair to overstay my welcome."
We continued back through the plain of
the virtuous pagans.
"If there is one thing I believe absolutely it
is that human beings can neither receive nor
give judgement. Judgement presupposes a
great deal of transcendent certainty, and I
don't believe that human existence warrants
that kind of objectification. To judge someone you must know everything about that
person, and then you must be able to apply it
to a total, cosmic, objective, moral structure.
It seems more than a jot arrogant to assume
the existence of a system such as this. There is
an element of the unknowable in everything
human. The only way to judge a person is to
close yourself off from these elements of insecurity, mystery, and dynamic creative
potential."
We passed through the threatening gate. It
felt good to regain my abandoned hope.
"If you continually strive to objectify the
mysteries of being, you will ultimately steal
all the joy and wonder out of being human.
To me, the idea of judgement betrays this
fundamental ground of human existence. We
are involved in a process of continual, spontaneous self-creation. This cannot be accountable to any divine judgement, but only to
ourselves. We can not shift the burden of accounting for ourselves on to the metaphorical
shoulders of another. Our Heaven and our
Hell are all embodied in the purgatory of this
world. The metaphysics of punishment and
reward, suffering and bliss, operate out of the
material of our everyday lives. We must take
responsibility!"
We walked in silence up the steps and into
the apartment. I regained possession of my
pen and paper, sank into the lazy boy, and
wheeled it around to face the corner of the
room.
"So you found your place in Dante's Hell?"
Rod inquired rhetorically.
"Here and now," I answered, crossing out
the words "No Answer."
•December 7, 1984
6aAspect
WdloZ D a n c i n g - - -
— -
nber 7, 19841
|
falter Koenig, his daughter, and 1 sat
chatting at a smal' ' -ier just outside
Kennedy Ai,,jui i As
'e a late
(tfast several people cou.J be heard
bling "that's Chekov," "' at's Walter
ig." Koenig overheard the . c i m e n t s .
oung daughter peered up at him and
lowingly smiled back. Koenig enjoys
recognized but prefers not to be
ered. Despite this, he gladly shook
i with one gentleman and joked with
bman outside who asked if he is sohe famous. "My name is Walter
flig," he said without elaborating. He is
fer Koenig, not Pavel Chekov.
.
W
ith the chant of the bells, the
musical group Shadowfax began
their performance this past Monday night at the Troy Savings Bank Music
Hall. Their work reflects a close harmonization among the members of the
band,which results in a group sound. They
cannot be classified along any one type of
music since their work is influenced, an intern reflectgs a wide base of musical
ranges.
Rina Young
Shadowfax opened their performance
with the title song of their second album,
Shadowdance. Starting out softly, the
backbeat of the piece was soon added to
with layers of musical rhythms that interweaved themselves into and out of the
main beat. With the fine acoustics of the
Music Hall, their music vibrated out to the
audience, raising their adrenaline and filled
the air. The momentum built up and kept
radiating enegy with the intensity of dawn
about to break.
When the applause subsided, Grey
Stouson, the band's 12-string acoustic and
6-string electric guitarist introduced the
group which began in a farmhouse in the
winter of 1972 comprised of Chuck
Greenberg on soprano saxophone and
lyricon, Phil Magginni on bass and Stuart
Neirtt on drums. In addition to the basic
quartet are Jamii Smadzinski on violin and
baritone violin and Jared Stewart on piano
and synthesizers.
The groups sound fuses acoustical electronics and is punctuated by African and
oriental rhythms that refer at once to ancient rituals and the hi-tech society in
which we live. While having more of a
rock influence on their most recent album.
The Dreams of Children they still integrate
jazz style,
style. their
Their music
music cant
cant oc
be i
r u p ana jazz
'•'pop!and
called "commercial." It provides
background wherein thoughts can grow
freely without being interrupted, their
style of world music, .resulting from the'
different styles, is what Ihey most identify
with. Yet it doesn't create boundaries so
that their scores have a wide range and
their music reaches into a variety of
backgrounds.
A quiet transition set the pace for their
second piece where the undulating
rhythms were modulated by a calmer
violin piece. The Indian mantralike mood
set the pace and seperated it from the far
off distant backbeat until it gained forces
and the two fused into something reminiscent of a full force rock instrumental interlude, creating a tension, then dropping
back until it climbed to the edge, almost
reaching it.
Much of their mu«!c brings with it the
imagery of visual motion and speed. The
m i a ^ i y ^ v. a u n . .,
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SPRING 1985 SCHEDULE
Mar. 14 Forbidden Planet
Mar. 15 Romancing the Stone
Mar. 16 Last Starfighter
Jan. 31 Wizard of Oz
Feb. 1 All Of Me
Feb. 2 The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Rated (X)
Mar. 21 Black Orpheus/Blazing Saddles
Mar. 22 2001 - A Space Odyessy
Mar. 23 Eraserhead
Feb. 7 The Producers
Feb. 8 Raiders of the Lost Ark
Feb. 9 Tightrope
Mar. 28 Never Say Never Again
Mar. 29 The Natural
Mar. 30 Revenge of the Nerds
Feb. 14 Pygmalion/Duck Soup
Feb. 15 An Officer and a Gentleman
Feb. 16 Indiana Jones & the Temple of
Doom
Apr. 11 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Apr. 12 Karate Kid
Apr. 13 Risky Business
Feb. 21 La Cage Aux Folles
Feb. 22 Splash
Feb. 23 Repoman
I
Ian Spelling
oenig is a realistic man who knows Star
c places limitations on his career opperJties, but realizes the phenomenon is an
ortant source of financial security for
family. He progects a dark intensity
I highlights his serious attitude. To this
Koenig maintains the boyish good
Ics which earned him the job of Chekov
enteen years ago. He also has a good
l e of humor, one he believes would fur| develop the Chekov character if ever
fen the chance.
During the course of the interview,
fnig's daughter Danielle remained silent
patient. When Koenig and 1 finished
[discussion, I quickly turned to Danielle
I asked, "What is your opinion of your
fier?" She replied, "Well, I'm very proud
nim." 1 wanted more. The 12 year old
nbled for a moment or two until her
ier interrupted. "Come on Danielle, I
lied you on this. You should have it
morized by now," he quipped. She gigd and offered him a hug.
P: What keeps Star Trek so popular
* 20 years7
: There are a host of reasons, not the
t of which has to do with the quality of
• material, initially when we did it as a
ies. We had real science fiction writers
opposed to people who simply expolate from other stories, other genres,
I put it in the science fiction nouveau.
Jese stories are indiginous, or were inlinous, to science fiction. Most of It,
|st of the good stories anyway, we had
clunkers, but the Norman Spinrod
lies, the Harlan Ellison stories, the
pert Bloch stories; these were specific to
I medium.
Characters were written dimensionally
played dimensionally. The relationwere dimensional. The characters
l e not cardboard heros. They had fceland vulnerability. There is the whole
ng of projecting a future that is not
k, does not implicitly suggest a
lOgenous society where everybody is
of anonymous. That is sometimes the
Ing about the future.
l e still had our ethnicity. We still had
I cultural differences. And we were
at the same time, to work together
bout l o s i n g t h o s e i n d i v i d u a l
acteristics. 1 think these things are
fcble and attractive to fans. In addition,
i the show went into syndication we
seen so constantly. Not simply
times a week, but several times a
I
I
day in some areas. I think we became a part
of the American extended family. We
were in their kitchens and their living
rooms. I think they came to view the Star
Trek cast as part of the family.
ASP: What about the conventions? You
see no Bonanza conventions'?
WK: I think the conventions have helped
us. I think it's been symbiotic. Their interest has been very encouraging to the
studio. The word "trekkie" is now part of
our vocabulary. And I think it is directly attributable to the people who come to the
conventions. It is the ones who are ambulatory that actually act upon their interests as opposed to sittig passively at
home and watch. At the same time I think
Star Trek is a reason for people to convene.
The people have a like mind, like interest.
They come to conventions as a social happening. They find that there are people
there they can communicate with. It
becomes an event.
ASP: O.K., but the point is you do not see
any other shows (with the exception of
DR. Who) with the type of following worthy of a convention.
WK: I think there is always a danger in
making sweeping generalities. But I think
science fiction fans, in general, live in their
minds as much as they live any where else.
Any show that stimulates the imagination
is probably one they find attractive. We
did it in a very literate way, and in a very
literate sense. The shows were very well
written. I think they gravitated towards
Star Trek because it was a show that sparked their imaginations. Most people become
indoctrinated in a nine to five world. They
abandon their imaginations, abandon their
dreams.
I think science fiction has the ability to
keep that alive, that child like quality of
wonder and dreaming and so on. Star Trek
became an excuse. It could have been
Apr. 25 Dreams of Passion/Blues
Brothers
Apr. 26 A Clockwork Orange
Apr. 27 Body Double
Mar. 7 The Thirty-nine Steps
Mar. 8 Purple Rain
Mar. 9 Police Academy
SA Funded
May 2 Fame
May 3 Heavy Metal
May 4 Streets of Fire
casting director on Star Trek. He initially
brought me in. I'd also worked with Gene
Roddcnberry in a starring role in an
episode of Lieutenant series that he had
done. And I worked for the alternating
director on a Hitchcock (Hour). So they
knew my work.
ASP: What would you like to see done
with the Chekov character?
WK: I think there is a potential to play
Chekov for humor. It really hasn't been
done since the series stage. I would love to
see that. Just to be involved in a way other
than just promoting the plot, other than
just reading out the consoles and making
statements about what our velocity is.
^
^
^
"I don't know if I'd still be in this
business if it weren't for Star Trek."
another show, but Star Trek did it better.
That is why the conventions continue,
because Star Trek did it better; certainly
better than Battlestar Galactica, better than
Space 1999. They tried to do conventions
around those shows, but they were not
able to maintain interest.
ASP: Each mnemberof the cast has a story
about how and why he was chosen for his
part. What is yours?
WK: 1 came in the second year of the
show. I wasn't there originally. They were
looking for a character Ihey thought would
have appeal to the bubblcgum set, the little
kids. The prototype was Davey Jones of
the Monkees. They wanted that appeal.
Originally the character was going to be
English. They decided, however, that since
the Russians had put the Cosmonauts in
space and they were the first space
travellers, that there should be some
acknowledgement of their contributions.
I was chosen. It was a relatively simple
choice. I had done the part of a Russian in
another television series, Mr. Novak. The
casting director on that show was also the
Apr. 18 Metropolis
Apr. 19 Das Boot
Apr. 20 Conan the Destroyer
Feb. 28 Dr. Strangelove
Mar. 1 Star Trek III
Mar. 2 Breakin'
7a
Checking Out Star Trek's Chekov
Shadowfax At Troy: A Review
W 9 ^ M ^ K - 1 I aa kanjgeera.
kanjgeera. All
All of
ol these
thest foreign bells and
bongos lend the music a strange primordial
connection that refers to a collective past
as we sit and wonder where it will lead us.
Reminiscent of the call of an ancient
nomadic African tribesman, each member
furiously tracks the rhythm of the piece
and then adds the electronic beat, juxtaposing the two modes of music to create an intensity that is pushing, moving, and
wondering until the drum bumps the
rhythm and at once, all motion halts.
Needing a rest from all this movement
and concentration of energy, Shadowfax
played the more classical pastoral piece,
Watercross Way. It was a slow melodic
almost haunting piece, as the violin
enveloped itslf aroung the lyricon (which
sounds like an electronic flute) and reminded one of a vague reference to a dream
half-forgotten.
In another piece, similar to a musical rendition of an Indian mantra, Ihe group movrock variation become the center of the
ed into a very Indian Rega style thai
piece until they too fade back leaving the
wafted in and out of reality. The rock
lyrical poetry of the electric violin to carry
undertones brought one back to the
on until the drums and percussion mesh
awarenes of the different things going on
and the sound unfolds into something that
within, in a slower drawn out melody tillisn't what it seemed to be in the first place.
ed with Middle Eastern accents played
against the instrumental Indian beat. The
The pieces from their new album are still
synthesizer pulled everything to bring you
recognized as being distinctly created by
back to musical reality of the present.
Shadowfax, but within the record, pieces
Often, the jazz of the saxophone mixed
seem to lose their uniqueness and fuse
with the different tonal dependence of the
together. However, included within this
African beat, creating two trains of inpiece was not only the modernist rendition
ference that coiled d e l l c a t e l y - b u t
of rock variations, but at points Smadzinforcefully-about one another, off playing
ski's violin took on the classical draw and
the two distinct melodies. Shadowfax plays
tease creating a feeling of giving all, yet
upon the idiosyncrasies of each of the acholding out for more.
cents of their music. As one gets used to
The control of sound at once reflects the
the Oriental flavor, the synthesizer and
chases that abound as the music of another
drums are added which bring a contempiece started off with the distant cry of the
porary nature to the ancients rhythms.
forest,' using such instruments as the
The final piece, Brown Rice, started out
Balianese gamelan gongs, metal and bamcpn'tiriuetl on K.i
boo ankglongs, Chinese water cymbals,
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WK: Probably to some degree. Mamtaining a career as an actor is a very difficult
proposition. 80 percent of the actors in the
guild, and Ihe guild's membership is
500,00, earn less lhan $3000 a year. On
that basis you can see it is difficult for any
actor to survive econaomically. It is as
much a result of Ihe supply and demand as
it is stereotyping that my career has not
taken of in a more concrele way.
ASP: Would you prefer to be a superstar
who couldn't enjoy a pleasant lunch
without being interrupted and badgered?
WK: The best of all possible worlds-and
I'm taling fantasy hcre-would be to choose
what roles I want to play and lo be rewarded for it. But that is obviously not in the
cards.
ASP: Do you still cngoy doing Star Trekl
Could you picture yourself performing in
Star Trek IV!
WK: Well my feelings on that continually
change. My present feeling is that it's o.k. I
don't feel threatened by it. I've come to
some kind of grips with the fact that this is
a source of income, not to confuse it with
my ego. The fact is it's a way of achieving
some financial security.
ASP: Did it make sense to spend an hour
and a half searching for Spock or would
twenty minutes have been enough to
reestablish him so that the story could
advance?
WK: No. I think the supposed demise of
Spock was Ihe most extraordinary
phenomenon in Ihe Star Trek literature. It
had to he dealt with with all the attention
and detail it was. The recovery had to be
deall with with all that attention. I do not
think it was a twenty minute job. That part
was fine.
Whether or not we should have
destroyed the Enterprise? I had a feeling
we were-sort of killing the gose that laid
the golden eggs, at that time. The Enter-
prise, perhaps even more than Spock, is
synonymous with Star Trek. But if you can
regenerate flesh, blood, and bone, you can
regenerate stone.
ASP: Did Nimoy not want to do Star Trek
m
WK: Nimoy said he would come back for
Star Trek 11 with the provision that the
character was killed off. During the course
of the filming, when he saw how well it
was going; he had been very unhappy with
Star Trek I, as most people were, he stressed the feeling that he would not mind coming back again. Having already written the
script, and been committed to have him
die, they then found themselves backed into a corner. There was some ad-libbing going on as to how they could ultimately
write another story in which he returned. J
know it was an after the fact concept to include the shot of the torpedo casing on the
planet. That was not in the script. That was
something decided after Leonard decided
he wanted to return. As far as I know that
was the only thing that was designed for a
sequel.
Leonard's coming up with "remember"
may have been some way that he hoped it
would be able to be used. What I've read in
several articles is that he was looking for
something mysterious to say that would
sound Spockian. After the fact Bennett
decided to use that as a means, as a tie in, a
segue into Star Trek III.
ASP: How was Nimoy as a director?
WK: He was fine. A good man to work
with. Respectful, considerate, and sensitive
to the actors. You have to be careful with
actors turned director because there is a
tendency, I think, for them to try to impose their perception and interpretations as
actors on you. He didn't do that.
ASP: Do you think Ihey will let him direct
Star Trek IV}
WK: I think so. I think that is what's going
to happen.
ASP: If you had it all to do again would
you follow the same route?
WK: You know, I would. I don't know if
I'd still be in the business if it weren't for
Star Trek. Seeing what has happened to the
careers of other people an how they suecumhed to the statistics, I may well have
moved on to some other field, one totally
removed from the film industry. Star Trek
has make it possible for me to do other
things. I've acted in theater, I've written for
television, and I've directed plays. This life
might have been considerably different if I
hadn't been involved in Star Trek.
Star Trek has not been totally fulfilling
because I didn't train as an actor to play
one character for ten minutes at a time in a
motion picture. On the other hand, there
are actors who have trained and never get
lo do anything. So I feel, adding up all the
plusscs and minuses, it has certainly been
advantageous. A mixed blessing, but in the '.
final summation it has been more positive [
than negative.
December 7, 1984
8a Aspects 0
Spectrum
MUSIC IN THE CLUBS
Jbsurd actions
Sklnfllnis<436 8301)
Fri/Sat. Second Street
Empire State Institute of the Performing Arls(ESIPA) (473-3750)
Raggedy Ann Dec.7-19
Christopher's Pub(459-7757)
Every Wednesday: The Works
Junior College of Albany (445-1725)
140 New Scotland Ave.
Pauley's Hotel(463-9082)
Fri: Kingpins
Sat/Sun: joey and the Nightrains
SUNYA PAC (457-3300)
Music for Tape, Synthesizer and a musician. By Adam Kendall Dec.7 8pm
University Symphonic Band and University Percussion Ensemble Dec.10 8pm
Findlay Cockrell and University Community Symphony Orchestra: Mozart and
Shubert Dec.ll 8pm
Amadeus Dec.7&8 8pm
Findlay Cockrell Noon Condert 12:05pm
Skyway<399-4922) Fri/Sat: New North
Lark Tavem(463-9779)
Fri/Sat: Yours Truly
288 Lark(434-2697)
Sun, Bert Summer 8-lOprri
Tues. Cost of Living ,
Wed. Capitlt
Thurs. Lumpen Proles
Eighth Step Coffee House(434-1703)
(Note: all'events now begin at 8pm)
Dec.19 Bread & Roses. A 6 Woman Choir
Dec.13 8:45pm Josee Vachon
N.Y.C. Cafe II (489-2916)
43 Fuller Rd.
Bogies (482-4308)
297 Ontario St.
Capital Reperitory
Company
(462-4534)
The Dining Room, Nov.I7-Dec.l6
Palace Theatre (465-3333)
The Canadian Brass. Vivaldi, Bach, Pureed
Dec.31 8pm
Russell Sage College (270-2263)
A Funny Tiling Happened on the Way to
The Forum Dec.7-8,13-IS 8pm
Cohoes Music Hall (235-7969)
A Christmas Carol Nov.30-Dec.22
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
(272-9466)
Handel's Messiah. Capital Hill Choral
Society Dec.7 8pm
The Waverly Consort Dec. 11 8pm
Sienna College Foy Campus Center
Theatre (783-2527)
Candide Nov.9-15,16,17
One Act Festival Dec.6-8 8pm
continued from P.I
with muffled vocals and hissing sounds.
The tonal variations reminding us of the
beat of a metronome, and the saxophone
slowly began to weave a tapestry around
the stationed beat. The delicate sound of a
morroca-like instrument gave off a soft
reminder of the steady beat. As the basicrhythm repeats it picks up a greater intensity of sound and melody. Each instrument
picked up momentum and force until the
full sound was underway. The violin add
ed the final polish to the piece in an explo
sion of musical intensity, charging up the
audience, raising expectations and hopes
and moving everyone with the ever increasing feeling of continual motion and
release until they fealt as if they must get
to the top until the continual power of
energy and thythm brought one catharthic
release of tension.
Although it was a short show, the group
played to an enthusiastic audience who applauded until the bands came back for an
encore of something quite out of their
style-some good old swing jaz. Big band
sound, big bang ending.
To date, Shadowfax has recorded three
albums- Watercourse Way, Shadowdance,
and their latest, The Dreams of Children
which can be found on Hie Windam Hill
label.
Cine 1-W459-8300)
(note: last times given are only for Fn-bat.
shows)
1 Beverly Hills Cop 1:35,3:50,7,9:45,12
2.
F a l l i n g
I n
L o v e
115 3:40,6:50,9:30,11:40
3. Amadeus S-Th 2,5,8/F-S 1,4,7:10,10:15
4. Soldiers Story 1:30,4:15,6:45,9:15,11:30
5 Teachers 1:40,4:20,7:20,9:40,11:50
6 Night of the Comet 2:10,4:30,6:40,9,11
7. Terminator 2:15,4:45,7:15,9:50,12
8, M i s s i n g
in
A c t i o n
2:05,4:40,7:40,10,12:05
SUNYA Gallery
(457-3375)
The Janus Press 1975: an exhibition of 35
hand crafted books containing the works
of notable contemporary printmakers and
poets produced in the Janus Press. Thesis
exhibition of 3 candidates for the MFA
degree.
Albany Institute of History and Art
(463-4478)
125 Washington Ave.
T-Sat 10-4:45pm, Sun 2-5
There had to be a better way; Inventors
and inventions of the Upper Hudson
Region; Kennedy's Albany Novels, An illustrated view; The American PainterEtcher Movement. Also- open Juried exhibit: interplay; Multiple Images, Various
Artists. Multiple imagery in technique and
sustance thought process; Walter Launt
Palmer: Poetic Reality
A Concert of Ideas Dec. 15 8pm
In Holiday Spirit. Bach, Bloch, Mozart
Williams Dec. 16 8pm (Troy Dec.15 8pm)
3rd Street Theatre(436-4428)
Les Comperes Dec.7-9 7,9:10
Cold River Dec.11-13 7,9:10
Harold and Maude Dec.14-16 7,9:10
Spectrum Theatre(449-8995)
Closed for Reservations
Madison(489-543l)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
7,9:10
Hamm Brickman Gallery(463-8322)
Original work in varied media by area
artists.
Solo sculpture Show by Mark Eliot
Schwabe. Varied Materials
The Colliseum Theatre (785-3393)
Near Latham Circle
ART
RKO Fox Colonie 1-2(459-1020)
1. Buckaroo Bonzai 7:20,9:20 S/S
2,4,6,8,10
2. The Gods Must Be Crazy 7,9:30
N e w York State Museum(474-5842)
Roman Vishniac: A Vanished World
Three Generations: Immigrants and Their
. Families in Broome County
The Albany Gallery (482-5347)
M-F 10-9, Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Center Galleries in the C D P C
(462-4775)
Frederick Von Waldenberg. Works on
paper
Nov.l8-Dcc. 15
Schact Fine Arts Center
Russel Sage (270-2000)
FILM
SUNYA
Patroon Lounge
Proctor's Theatre (382-1083)
An Old Fashioned Chrestmas: Allen Millsorgan; carol sing. Dec.9 3pm
Macbeth Dec.10 8pm
Candida Dec. 12 8pm
Flying Karamozov Brothers Dec.13 8pm
Vienna Choir Boys Dec.14 8pm
Berkshire Ballet Company: The Nutcracker
Dec. 16
Bill Cosby Dec.19 6,9pm
Octavo Singers: Handel's "Messiah"
THEATRE, MUSIC, DANCE
Albany Civic Center (462-1297)
\LETTERS-
•Retrospect
Gnllery-
Harmanus Bleeker Center (465-2044)
Posters Plus Galleries (377-3055)
295 Hamilton Sq., Robinson Sq.
M-Sal 10:30-5:30
Original works by Peter Milton, Miro,
Ko/o, Dine and others. Also regional prints
from the 19th century
Mayfair H o m e Furnishings
(458-7080)
Wolf Rd.
'Daily 10-9
Original prints by Neiman, Miro, Calder,
Dali and more.
U A Center 1-2(459-2 170)
I. Crimes of Passion 7:15
1, The Little Drummer Girl 9:05
2. Superglrl 7:20.9:20
Dietel Gallery (274-4440)
Emma Willard Student Show and works
by Emma Willard Children's Show
Schenectady Civic Players (382-9051)
Detective Story Dcc.7-15 8pm
UA Hellman 1-2(459-5322)
1. Places in the Heart 7:20,9:30
2. Oh God You Devil 7:40,9:35 S/S
2:10,4,5:50,7:40,9:35
Rensselear County Council for the
Arts (273-0552)
loan Pual: Large Works suggestive of surrealistic imagery In representational form
JCA Rathbone Gallery (445-1757)
240 Washington Ave.
M-F 10-4, M-W 6-8
JCA art faculty members. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, graphics, fibers,
prints.
The Albany
(405-1461)
Academy
Gallery
Crossgates Cinema Mall(456-5678)
1. Country 12:25,3,5:^0,8:20,10:40
2. Supergirl 12:30,3:15,5:30,8:30,10:35
3 . Night
o f t h e C o me t
12:45,3:30,6:30,9:15,1 1:40
4. 2010 70mm 12,2:30,5:10,8,10:20
5 . M i s s i n g
in
A c t i o n
1 3:45,6:45,9:30,1 1:45
6. Teachers M-F 12:55,3:55,6:25,9:10 S/S
11:30
S/S Santa and the Three Bears 2,4
7. Terminator 1:15,4,6:50,9:40,12
8. Just the Way You Are 12:35,3:10,6,9,11
9. A Christmas Story 12:15,2:20,5,7:30,10
10. Beverly Hill Cop 1:30,4:20,7,9:50,12
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| T o (he Editor:
Did you hear the latest news? The officials at the StuIdent Association have decided not to push for the resignat i o n of Dean Hamilton. Isn't that generous of them?
Student Association has the immense potential to
Isecure and advance student rights and interests within the
[University community. Instead of effectively utilizing this
[potential it appears to be abusing it. SA seems stymied in
[their efforts by uninformed, over-anxious, self-serving
I leaders. Where has their sense of responsibility, fairness
[and maturity gone? The recent action aimed at Dean
] Hamilton is an unfortunate example of poor SA
[judgement.
For the last two years, I have worked rather frequently
[and closely with Dean Hamilton on the University
I Senate's Undergraduate Academic Council. In those two
years he has sincerely demonstrated caring and
j understanding of both student and university issues. He
[ has consistently emphasized fairness and soundness in
dealing with all matters. SA's absurd actions against
Dean Hamilton are not only unwarranted but blatantly
insulting. Considering all the problems and needs of
students today they (the students) should feel priviledged
to have this administrator working for them.
It was only a matter of time before the students on this
campus realized the costs of their apathy in student
government. It is you, the students of this community,
that made SA what it is. SA does do a lot of good for the
studeny body — it can do even more with effective
participation.
This entire "resignation" issue has certainly been a
great embarrassment for many students and faculty alike.
On behalf of them and myself I apologize to Dean
Hamilton.
— Michael S. I .ovine
University Senator
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an individual or group of individuals through cheating. It
is certain we must deal with this academic cancer before it
destroys the institutional principles the majority of us
strive to perserve.
Case in point. In the Dec. 4th edition of the ASP, I was
shocked to learn that Delta Sigma Pi, the business fraternity, maintains a filing cabinet of old examinations. I am
aware that many professors allow students to take their
examinations, but an equal number, if not more, forbid
students from leaving an exam with the questions. Has
Delta Sigma Pi violated the respect which this university
has for the fundamental building blocks of education? Is
the SUNY system doing all it can to discourage such blatant offenses, especially here at Albany? What can be
done?
I don't propose to turn administration officials into
police officers. The responsibility, I believe, of upholding
the ethical standards of this institution belong to the student. Yet we cannot turn away from overt academic
dishonesty. I suggest an inquiry by a joint task force of
students and administrators into the accusations made in
that Dec. 4th letter. Included on this task force could be
representatives from Student Affairs, Student Association, the ASP, and Delta Sigma Pi. If we are to conclude
that Delta Sigma Pi has violated university policy, let the
proper action be taken. If we are to conclude that Delta
Sigma Pi has operated in an upstanding, ethical manner,
let us dismiss any charges of misconduct with the
reassurance that we have made an effort to understand a
problem which has become rampant. My only concern is
that we, as a university community, are capable of
responsibly addressing one of the most visible injustices
here at Albany.
—Bill King
Blazing example
To the Editor:
Much attention has been given recently to the problems
of students living off-campus. To this plethora of fact we
would like to add a short description of an incident that
occurred in our house yesterday, December 3. Apparent^
ly, one of the girls upstairs left a bare light burning a top
a pile of old wool sweaters in a bedroom closet for a
period of many hours. During the afternoon, the closet
went ablaze. Luckily, as our apartment began to smell of
smoke, a truck from the Albany Fire Department raced lo
the scene and extinguished the inferno without serious
loss of property. A fortunate ending, but something remains to be said. One's home should be a safe, secure
place. In this case, not only were our lives and possessions
threatened but the resources of the City of Albany were
needlessly expended due to carelessness, ignorance and
ineptitude of this young woman.
—Name Withheld by Request
Double standard
To the Editor:
I was quite upset after reading "Male Dancers to Appear Thursday Despite Protest," the article about the
scheduled appearance of the male dance revue "Class
Act" which ran in the Dec. 4th issue of the ASP. I find
myself upset with the misleading title put forth by the
ASP, but even more so with a double-standard being
allowed on campus.
First off, what protest took place? The outrage against
the prospects of John Valby appearing on campus best
exemplifies a protest. For two weeks all I heard about was
how John Valby's performance was degrading to women,
and that he shouldn't be allowed to perform at this
school. By my standards, the sentiments expressed
against the male dance revue does not qualify as a protest.
Needless to say the strippers are signed and will perform. The fact that they will perform does not bother me.
But rather the idea that an act that is "degrading to men"
will be allowed to perform on campus while a performer
"degrading to women," i.e., John Valby, is barred. Since
men and women are equal, why should such blatant sexual discrimination as this be allowed to occur? Are we to
believe that magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse
and performers such as John Valby are degrading to
women, but a performance such as "Class Act," an obvious exploilalion of the male body, is not degrading to
men? I should hope not.
In closing I would like lo say I believe that men and
women arc equal. And with this in mind there should not
exist double standards such as the case with the male
revue show being allowed on campus.
—Michael Ciocei
Victory ignored
i'o the Editor:
I would like to take this opportunity to say that I am
extremely disappointed that the ASP has not yet reported
the victory of the SUNYA ACM Computer Club in the
Northeast Regional ACM Computer Programming Contest. It has been over a month now since the team of Alan
Buckwalter, Scott Ginsburg, Scott Anderson, and
Richard Silverman defeated MIT and 15 other schools in
a test of brute force programming capabilities. Though
we have received recognition from the Computer Science
Department and the Campus New Bureau, I feel that it
was pure negligence that the ASP did hot mention the
victory in our school paper for other students to share in
the glory.
The failure of reporting such academic achievements,
surely does not help promote school spirit on this
campus.
—Alan M. Buckwalter
Member of the winning team
Band-Aid solutions
To the Editor:
I am astounded, over and over again, by Anti-Choice
"feminists." Daily, women are discriminated against
economically, educationally, politically, etc. Discrimination against women takes many forms; a specific one being that there are so few "life" choices available to us.
The very fact that our lives are confined by limited choice
points to a large problem. Taking away a woman's right
to choose in re: abortion, seems to me to be the ultimate
in band aid solutions. The idea is similar to this: Let's
take away the guns from the Nicaraguan people so that
they can be murdered by the United StatesI There are
good reasons to have an abortion in a world that does not
value women enough to provide ways for us to sustain
ourselves, no less our children. The problem is not abortion. I think that Long's analysis points only to a symptom. If women did not feel pressured into, •«»•«!»• men; if
there was contraception available to poor women; if there
was cheap daycare; if there was equal pay; if there was no
rape — if all of these problems and more were taken care
of — then maybe there would be fewer abortions. But
even this is not the issue. I defend a woman's right to
choose wholeheartedly primarily because very few people
(as was indicated by this election) support even the
nominal Equal Rights Amendment. Do we have time to
piddle around with the ethics of abortion, when the year
2,000 and the feminization of poverty, (a time when 90
percent of the poor will be women of color and their
children) quickly approaches? 1 think not. In a world
where women are objectified daily, no matter where we
are or what we do, why take away one of the only
"rights" (however tentative) women have? If sex was not
so narrowly defined as intercourse; if clitoris was a word
we could all pronounce, maybe, just maybe, things would
be a little different. Try oral sex. Think about lesbianism.
Think about choice. To utilize Long's language, "What is
disturbing about this attitude is that it shows such little vision when it comes to the lives of..." women. This article
blames the victim. Oh yes, let's put an end to abortion,
and then the economy will change. Truly. Gee, maybe if
we disallow abortion, there will be no more wars!! But in
reality, if we disallow abortion, the economy will not
change, wars will not stop, women will starve and freeze
to death along with their children. During the Vietnam
war, the "old days" before abortion was legal, more
women were killed by backroom quacks than were
American men in the battlefield. The idea that "even illegal abortion will be safe" is so ludicrous, especially
now, in a time where many women cannot afford the
"safe" protaglandin hormone and a "scape out." Over
the years, the many trained doctors who have performed
illegal abortions have charged women an arm and a leg
and a nape, for which the victim had no legal recourse.
Try having a baby and going to school. Many men don't
feel responsible anyway, so you cannot expect "financial
aid" from them. Who is going to pay for the day care?
When you go to school, you must usually spend money —
you do not make it. If Long wants to see abortion become
unobtainable, I want to hear from her some good solutions to the multitude of problems that women face on a
day to day basis. When a Band-aid falls off, the wound
does not heal.
—-Tracy Morgan
Get your act together
To the Editor:
Telethon '85 24-hour talent marathon will be held on
March 22-3. It is that time of the year to send out the call
to everyone on this campus to put together their act for
Telethon '85. Telethon accepts any type of act, including
song, dance, magical, skits, or anything you can think of.
Auditions for acts will begin in late February. Be on the
lookout for announcements.
In addition, every year, Telethon accepts submissions
lor their song. This year's theme is "Today's Youth: The
Promise of Tommorow." The theme song shouldSnclude
any or all parts of the theme put to music. We will accept
these during Februrary.
So everyone start thinking about your talents, and get
your act together.
—Colleen Mack
—Nathaniel Charny
Telethon '8S Talent Co-Chairs
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Pago
said. "They will drink in parks
and drive to drink," which is one
of the major problems the
21-year-old drinking age is supposed to solve. "We're looking at
a dry campus. We're only dealing
with a small percentage of people
who will be able to drink."
Doellefeld was not convinced
that SUNYA would become a dry
campus. "That's entirely too
premature to say," stated
Doellefeld. "There's still going to
be students who are 21," he said,
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announces
nography in Israel has not been
well-received," Fernandez said.
"There is quite a bit of pornography in Israel, and also very
sexist advertising. One commercial that has been protested is
grapefruit commercial on tv. In
it, eight women in tight yellow
shirts and shorts are singing and
throwing grapefruits to men. The
point of the commercial is to
compare grapefruits with
women's breasts. In slang
grapefruits means breasts now.
Feminist groups tried to stop this
advertisement to no avail."
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dent life and what changes would
have to be made in University
policy.
"We need to discuss, as a
group of people, the kind of nonalcoholic programming options
possible," he said. "Pogue has
invited 7 or 8 people to serve on
the committee," and about half
the members would be students,
Doellefeld said.
Doellefeld would call for more
policy changes than the 18 to
19-year-old change. "Very few
resident students are over 21, a
comparatively small number, and
this will have an affect on alcohol
consumption in suites. Most of
the students will be under age. If
you are now underage and want
to drink, you can do it," he said
because the current alcohol policy
does not regulate in-sutte alcohol
consumption,
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nature of the violence is less
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Also, since Arab women usually
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of incidents of Jewish men attacking Arab women," said Fernandez, adding that months of
the 1982 Lebanese invasion, there
were many incidents of Arab men
gang-raping Jewish women. "It
was really scary because it was
like war within our borders," she
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words, rather than making an effort to find out what is the real
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and Hispanics while closing its
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EOP program is designed for
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They feel as though they are labeled "mentally incompetent" or inferior. Others have felt the need
to prove themselves mentally adeq u a t e to t h o s e who have
discovered their participation in
the program.
The EOP Program is extremely
beneficial, arid has provided
numerous opportunities for individuals to attend an accredited
college when their social, cultural
and financial background has
obstructed the opportunity for a
higher education. The program
can be associated along the
minority boundaries domestically
because it serves only a small
percentage of students on this
campus. In comparison to the
social, cultural and economic
backgrounds of the majority of
students attending this university,
EOP students can be viewed as a
minority.
Programs of this type are currently available at other universities although their titles may
vary. Once admitted, these
students are given access to
courses designed for development
in basic areas of study, financial
assistance, tutors, and academic
counseling. Counselors can also
be utilized to discuss personal and
social areas when requested.
These services are provided to ensure as much as possible that EOP
students recieve a thorough
education and simultaneously,
maximize their potentials.
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the heavy flow of false labeling
and misinterpretation of EOP
students. Those of you who do
n o t fully u n d e r s t a n d t h e
significance and essence of the
EOP Program and the students
enrolled in this program, should
make an attempt to become aware
of certain truths, and not resort to
spreading negative falsifications.
Had it not been for their ability to
reflect academic promise, motivation, and intelligence, the EOP
students enrolled at this university, would not have been accepted.
The truth is that EOP students
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declaring the same majors, and
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capacities although they may be
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will to utilize resevoirs of information and your ability to sustain
that information, it is highly probable that you would not be here.
As with most things that are a
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ourselves.
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Yanks get 'Rick the Quick';
if their price is right for him
Houston
(AP) Rickey Henderson will be wearing
pinstripes in 48 hours — if the New York
Yankees can suit him.
The Yankees, by far the most active
team so far during the winter meetings,
pulled off a stunner Wednesday night by
winning the Henderson sweepstakes.
But their trade with the Oakland A's,
supposed to be Henderson and a minorleague player for pitcher Jay Howell and
four minor-leaguers, hinges on a catch.
Before the Yankees can get the speedy outfielder, they have to work out a new contract with him.
Oakland has given the Yankees until 6
p.m. EST Friday to reach agreement with
Henderson and his agent, Richie Bry.
"We will ask for a minimum of five
years," Bry said after the conditional trade
was announced. And it was believed
Henderson, one of the best leaddff men in
baseball history, would be asking for $8
million for those five years,
Henderson, to turn 27 on Christmas
Day, is going into the 1985 season with a
one-year contract won in arbitration that
svill pay him $900,000. He would become a
free agent at the end of next year without a
new contract.
The Henderson deal easily overshadowed other activities at the winter meeting,
which included the Texas Rangers signing
free-agent designated hitter Cliff Johnson;
the Yankees sending catcher Rick Ceronc
to Atlanta; free-agent Lee Lacy about to
sign with Baltimore; and baseball's 26
owners meeting with Commissioner Peter
Ueberroth for the first lime.
Yankee General Manager Clyde King,
smiling at a press conference, said he had
not begun thinking about Henderson's
contract.
"Maybe I should have thought about it
before we did this," King said.
But with free-spending New York owner
George Steinbrenner in town, there was little doubt Henderson, who stole a record
130 bases in 1982, would be patrolling
center field in Yankee Stadium next year.
Oakland vice president Sandy Alderson
said the A's "made this transaction with
reluctance."
But we were faced with certain economic
realities, given the overall composition of
our ballclub, and the need to improve in
several areas."
Earlier during these meetings, Los
Angeles came close to landing Henderson.
But the Dodgers' offer of pitcher Alejandro Pcna and Greg Brock was not enough
to lure him from Oakland.
The Baltimore Orioles' offer of pitcher
Scott McGregor and outfielder Gary
Rocnicke also was not enough to get
Henderson, who hit .293 with 16 home
runs, 58 runs baited in and 81 stolen bases
last season. Henderson is the only majorleague player to steal 100 bases in three
seasons.
Meanwhile, the Yankees continued their
surprises. Hours before the Henderson
deal, New York traded Ceronc to the
Braves for Brian Fisher, a hard-throwing
Class AAA pitcher.
Cerone, 30, was injured most of last
season and has been unhappy in a reserve
role. He hit .277 with 14 home runs and 85
RBI in 1980.
Fisher, 22, is a right-hander who was
9-11 with Richmond last season while
struggling with control problems. In 1981,
he tied a Carolina League record by striking out 20 baiters in one game.
Danes
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"With me and Brian shooting hot
against their zone, we knew they weren't
going to keep it up," said Adam.
Cortland switched to a man-to-man
defense -arly in the second half, which
seemed to ,jive the Danes some problems.
"Cortland did a good job mixing up
their defenses," said Sauers. "Their
defenses bothered us. We weren't patient
enough to get organized."
The Danes travel to Plattsburgh on
Saturday for their second conference game
of ihe year. Plattsburgh is coming off a
29-poinl loss to defending SUNYAC
champions Potsdam.
HOOP-LA: Albany had five players score
in double figures; Hart had 13, Adam
scored 12, Croutier and Chapman each
had 11, and Kauppila got 10. Croutier also
had nine assists. . .The Danes outrebounded Cortland 32-19 and held Stokes, '
their leading scorer and rebounder, to 19
points and three rebounds.
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"Sometimes Greg doesn't realize what
the other teams think of him when he
walks onto the court.They are in awe of
him."
Chapman has the best natural instincts
for the game of basketball. He makes up
for his lack of height (6'4") with intensity
and smarts. According to Adam, in a
scrimmage against Division II LeMoyne
College, Chapman was the only big man
not to get a shot blocked.
With the big men playing the way that
they are now, teams won't be able to put
the Danes at a disadvantage by keying
their defenses on the guards. It might even
be belter for the Danes.
And they're doing all this without Adam
' Ursprung. The 6'4" sophomore forward
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who led the team in rebounding is out indefinitely with a calcium deposit on his
thigh. According to Sauers, the doctors are
contemplating ultra-sound treatment for
the ailment. Imagine how good they'll be
when he returns.
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The women swimmers' record Is now 3-1 after defeating RPI 60-49 in a dual meet on
Wednesday.
Women swimmers top RPI
By Sue Rlche
The Albany State women's swimming
team is off to an impressive start as they
defeated RPI Wednesday, 60-49, to up
their dual-meet record to 3-1.
With the resignation of last year's
coach, Joe Shore, the Dane swimmers are
now headed by veteran Dave Turnage,
who has coached at Glassboro State and
Ramapo College for II years.
The women are coming off their finest
season in the history of the swimming program. Coach Turnage is not sure whether
this year's edition will be able to duplicate
the heroics of 1983-1984.
"There may not be a repeat of last
year's 14-1 winning season," said Turnage, "but the team is a very dedicated
group of young athletes."
Wednesday's victory over RPI included
Carol Pearl taking first in the 1,000-yard
freestyle with a time of 11:49 and in the
50-yard freestyle with 27.1.
Nancy Smith's 6:06.4 in the 500-yard
freestyle and 2:13.9 performance in the
200-yard freestyle was also good enough
for first place.
Mary Anne Schmidt nailed first place in
the 200-yard individual medley clocking at
time of 2:34.7.
During the holiday recess, both the
men's and women's teams will be traveling
to Puerto Rico.
According to Coach Turnage, the Danes
are trying to coordinate a meet with the
University of Puerto Rico, but plans are
still uncertain.
"The team is doing well for this early in
the season," said Turnage. "I do,
however, think there will be an improvement by the end of the season."
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Upcoming events
The undefeated Albany State men's
basketball team will travel up to Pittsburgh for a big SUNYAC Conference
game against the Cardinals Saturday
night. . .The Great Dane wrestlers, also
unbeaten, travel to Hartford for a trimeet against three Division I schools,
Brown, Boston College, and Hartford. . .The women cagers host rival
Potsdam tonight at University Gym.
Tip-off time is 7 p.m.. . .The men's
swimming team will host Plattsburgh
Saturday at 1 p.m.. . .The women's
gymnastic team will compete in the Springfield Open in Connecticut. . .The
J.V. basketball team opens action in the
Schenectady C.C. Tournament tonight
at 6:30 p.m.
Hockey club
The Albany State hockey club will try
to rebound from their first loss of the
season when they host Le Moyne College tomorrow night at Center City Ice
Rink in Schenectady.
The Dane skaters suffered their first
defeat of the season last Saturday after
five consecutive triumphs. The visiting
Danes were beaten by Mohawk Valley
Community College, 5-2. Albany had
posted a 4-3 victory over MVCC in the
Great Dane Invitational earlier in the
season.
"Their crowd was really good," said
defensemen Larry Hartman, who leads
the backliners with five points. "We just
came out flat."
MVCC took advantage of Albany's
"flat" play to score three quick goals in
the opening ten minutes of the game.
The Danes never recovered.
Tomorrow night, Albany will be
looking for some offensive spark from
their leading scorer, freshman Mike
Mondiello. He has recorded seven
points (4 goals and 3 assists).
The Danes' third line has also played
good solid hockey: Scott Janicula, Mark
Tisdale, and John Franz.
While the defensive play has been
spotty at times, goaltender Jim Leskody
has come up with a number of crucial
saves. He has been averaging 2-3 goals
agaisnt him.
Last year when the Albany State Great
Danes would take the court for a basketball game, it would be expected that Dave
Adam and Dan Croutier, the starting
guards, would outplay their opponents.
When the opposition would use box-andone or triangle-and-two defense to stop the
Danes' backliners, the postmen would
have trouble picking up the slack.
So far this year the Danes' inside players
have been making their presence felt. This
is a major reason that Albany can currently boast an undefeated record.
"The big men are the difference," said
Adam. "They're the reason we're 5-0."
Wednesday night's 74-59 win over Cortland proved just that. In the first half
Albany's guards scored almost half of the
team's points; Adam and Croutier poured
in 18 of the Danes' 38 first half points.
Croutier also dished out eight assists.
Then came the second half and the Red
Dragons put an end to the Croutier and
Adam show by using the triangle-and-two
defense. This meant curtains for the
Danes, right? Wrong.
Greg Hart, Rich Chapman, Pete Gosule
and John Mracek would never dream of
letting the perfect season go down the
drain. In the second half, those four
scored 24 of Albany's 36 points in the session, while Croutier and Adam scored only
five.
But this year the guards have more confidence in the inside players and are not as
tentative about passing the ball inside.
"They are all good offensive players,"
said Adam. "They worked on their moves
a lot over the summer.
"(Assistant Coach) Barry Cavanaugh
deserves a lot of credit. He works with
them at the end of each practice."
Cavanaugh believes that there is more to
the success of the postmen than his
coaching.
"They all believe in themselves much
more," said Cavanaugh. "They are much
more confident and that is making them
more aggressive."
Hart is leading the team in field goal
percentage, shooting at a rate of 71, and
rebounding, at seven per game. But on
Wednesday night, the most impressive of
the foursome was Chapman. He is a
sophomore who is playing his first season
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Greg Hart is one of four Great Oane post men that's responsible for Albany's 5-0
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on the varsity squad.
Cortland had dwindled the Danes' lead
down to six points, 61-55, when Albany
Head Coach Dick Sauers inserted him into
the game. Chapman responded by scoring
seven out of the game's next points, as
Albany coasted to a 74-59 victory.
"Greg is getting better," said Sauers
after the Cortland game. "But today
Chapman gave us the lift."
Cavanaugh feels that the team's trip to
France over the summer really helped
Chapman get adjusted to the team in time
to start contributing at the outset of the
"There was a period of adjustment for
him and the team, and they worked that
out in France," noted Cavanaugh. "He
was accepted from the start. He had no
transition period in the pre-season.
"Rich has very good instincts for the
game — a good nose for the ball."
Chapman realizes that he has just begun
to pay his dues on the veteran team that
features Five seniors. He believes that the
older players have helped him a lot,
especially Hart.
"Greg gets me psyched, he goes for the
ball like no one else he's my kind of
player," said Chapman. "But I had to
work for it. And I'm still working hard."
"Rich helps a lot," said starting center
Pete Gosule. "He's doing a super job; it
takes the slack off the other thee. We don't
lose anything with Rich in there."
No matter which of the four is playing
the whole team feels confident that the job
will get done. When describing the team
the players use words like, "parity," and
"unified team," this is especially, true
when discussing the big men. In the Cortland game, Albany's four big men accounted for 19 rebounds, which was as
many as the whole Dragon team
accumulated.
"The postmen are helping each other
and subbing for each other," said the 6'5"
Hart. "It makes us a better team."
"Doc (Sauers) has confidence in all four
postmen."
Each of them has their own specialty.
For example, Gosule is the defensive stopper of the group. In a recent Albany victory over the Ithaca Bombers, Gosule was
called on to guard their high-scoring
center, Andy Vye. Gosule proved that he
was ready for the confrontation as he held
Vye to 14 points, eight of which came in
garbage lime, almost half of the 27 point
average that he brought into University
Gym.
Mracek brings outside shooting into the
position.
"John is a really good shooter," said
Adam. "It takes a lot of pressure off of
the guards to have another offensive threat
in there."
Hart, who is the strongest of the four, is
the most intimidating on the court and he
never lacks intensity.
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JV Danes defeat Red Dragons to mixed results
By Michael Skolnlck
STAFF WRITER
Men swimmers
The Albany State men's swimming
team topped RPI, Wednesday, 61-51, to
even their dual meet record at 1-1.
The Dane swimmers lost their opening meet to New Paltz by 20 points, but
the RPI victory has given the team a new
outlook.
"RPI's a big rival of ours," said captain Frank Cawley. "It was a good meet
to win because it has motivated us and
given us a better attitude."
The Danes were led Wednesday by a
solid effort from sophomore Greg
Greenbaum, who captured the 100-yard
freestyle and 50-yard freestyle.
Jeff Kennedy placed first in the Individual Medley with an outstanding
time of 2:10.5.
The Danes next meet will be at
University pool against Plattsburgh.
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Freeze Storey in a lighter moment.
The Albany State JV basketball team
came into Wednesday's game against Cortland looking to correct what Coach Jim
Boland l a b e l e d
"fundamental
weaknesses" in the team's play. The
results of Wednesday night's game to
Boland were mixed. The Danes won the
game 87-82, but let a 20-point lead dwindle
to a precious seven in the last few minutes
of the game.
The Danes came out flying at the start,
looking like world beaters as they opened
up to a 13-6 lead within the first Five
minutes of play. They were led by Tony
Dickens who scored 8 of the team's first 12
points.
Boland remarked, "Our defense played
excellently for the first 15 minutes — we
didn't have too many fundamental
breakdowns. However, this intensity did
not last for the entire half. When we built
that lead we should have slowed it down
and waited for the open shot but we
didn't," explained Boland.
In the first half.Tony Dickens set a torrid pace finishing with 17 points at the half
on 8 for 8 shooting from the field. Additionally, Charles "Freeze" Storey played
under control and finished with 20 points
on the night.
At the start of the second half,the Danes
began to pull away from the Red Dragons
extending their lead from 39-33 at the half
to 51-40 with 15 minutes left in the game.
"We forced a few shots and made a few
turnovers. For our part we are lacking the
killer instinct — the ability to put the game
away."
—JV Coach Jim Boland
The Danes regrouped at half and stretched
that lead even further to 20 points 71-51
with 8:12 remaining in the game.
It was at this juncture in the game when
Cortland started to make its run,sparked
by reserves James Boor and Chris Dodge.
They chipped away at the Dane lead slowly
but surely. The Danes were ahead 77-60
with 4:44 left but at the three-minute mark
they were only ahead by seven.
Boland offered his own explanation, "1
subbed a little too early and they didn't
hold the lead for US,said the coach."We
forced a few shots and made a few turnovers. For our part we are lacking the
killer instinct — the ability to put the game
away."
After starters John Carmello and Storey
came back into the game the Danes, were
able to regain some momentum and they
cruised the rest of the way.
For Dickens, it was his best game this
year as he finished with 29 points. He had
help from Brett Avelrod and Jeff Kee who
both had 13 points. Axelrod was a force on
the boards grabbing 10 rebounds. Dickens
explained hia big night this way, "I play
the swingman and tonight I was looking
for and hitting my shots. Plus it helps to
have Kee and Axelrod in the middle to lose
the rebounding burden. Storey explained
the game this way: "I wanted to pass off to
the bigger guys and hit the shot when
possible."
Coach Boland feels that the team is facing a lull in titer schedule now, but it will
be tougher after the break,
"We face Junior College of Albany who
we lost to twice last year so we'd like to
beat them this time,"said Boland. "This
team has a lot of heart and if we work
harder we could be much a better team."
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Danes slay Red Dragons, raise record to 5-0
By Dean Chang
MANAGING EDITOR
Led by seven straight points
from Rich Chapman, the Albany
State Great Danes pulled away
from the Cortland Red Dragons
late in the second half to record
their fifth win, 74-59.
Cortland's Mike Stokes had
just converted a three-point play
to cut the Dane lead to six with
four minutes to play. Albany
Head Coach Dick Sauers
substituted Chapman and Brian
Kauppila in for Pete Gosule and
Jan Zadoorian and got almost immediate results.
Cortland's Dave Wilson and
Allen Scott were harrassing Dane
point guard Danny Croutier on
defense for most of the game. On
this occasion, Croutier get the
better of it. Scott went for the
steal and Croutier dribbled
around him for a 15-foot jumper.
Scott came up from behind and
fouled Croutier, who hit the free
throw to give Albany a nine-point
lead.
After Cortland's Pete Shene
missed both his foul shots on the
next possession, Chapman blocked the follow-up attempt and was
fouled downcourt by Shene. Two
free throws later, Greg Hart stole
the ball from two Red Dragons
which led to another field goal by
Chapman.
At this point, Cortland was
forced to gamble on defense. But
the gamble didn't pay off. Off the
full-court trap, Dave Adam
found Chapman all alone under
the basket for an easy pair that
gave the Danes a 13-point lead
and the game.
The play didn't go off as plann-
• ed, according to Adam.
"We were in a high-post stall
and I was looking for Danny, but
he was being overplayed," said
the Dane shooting guard. "When
that happens, there's usually someone open. Then I saw Rich
waving his arms under the
basket."
Along with Hart, Chapman has
beefed up the Danes in the middle. But the two don't play
together nearly enough to Chapman's likings.
"I play with Greg for two
minutes," said Chapman. "I'd
love to play with him for the
whole game, but usually we come
in for each other. When we're in
at the same time, no one's going
to get any rebounds. He's my
kind of player."
This was one game where
Albany needed some physical
play from their big men. Cortland's guards were constantly
holding and roughing up
Croutier, especially after
Croutier's technical foul at the
end of the first half.
"I think that they (Cortland)
were trying to provoke me into
hitting him (Wilson)," said
Croutier, adding "and I almost
did."
Neither coach was happy about
the officiating, or more precisely,
the lack of it.
"I thought the game got out of
hand," said Sauers. "The officials let the game go too far."
Cortland Head Coach Bill
Williams, the recipient of a
technical foul late in the game,
was less generous in his appraisal
of the referees.
"I don't know of any place
where a coach gets a technical
with 30 seconds left in the game,"
said Williams. "Only in Albany."
"The game was very physical,
and there were fouls that should
have been called on both sides,"
said Williams. "I have no complaints with the bumping that
goes on. But if an arm is grabbed,
that goes beyond allowing
physical play."
Croutier and Wilson nearly got
into an altercation, which might
have been avoided had the officials been calling the game more
tightly, according to both
coaches. But neither coach would
blame either player.
"You can't blame Wilson,"
said Sauers. "He's just trying to
do his best. He's not as good of a
player as Danny."
Cortland was the first
S U N V A C o p p o n e n t the
undefeated Danes faced this year.
This was also Albany's first game
with a 45-second shot clock,
something the Danes seemed
oblivious to.
Albany rarely let the shot clock
go down to under 15 seconds,
even when killing time would
have been a good idea.
"When we have that kind of
lead, our players have to learn to
take their time," said Sauers. "I
don't think we took any shots in
the last 20 seconds."
The Red Dragons were less fortunate. Cortland was forced to
shoot several times to avoid having the clock run out. In one instance, Cortland's John Long's
jumper failed to beat the clock
and the ball was turned over.
"I didn't really care about that
early one," said Williams. "I
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SUN YA classes
draw favorable
reviews from
most transfers
V
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Student surveys
of general ed.
courses axed
by University
,.«<•,
'*'! :\
"/ guess the last 10yearswitnessed"a
tendency towards looseness in relationships, By Pam Schusterman
Beginning this semester, there will be no
^because young people are more free to meet student
evaluations of SUNYA's general
education courses because, explained a
easily and say good-bye easily. . ."
SUNYA official, the surveys are "not
By Maddl Kun
STAFF WRITER
STAFF WRITER
Is SUNYA really that tough? How do
SUNYA's academics stack up against
other private and stale schools? During
some recent informal interviews, transfer
students gave SUNYA mixed reviews on
it's coinpctetivencss, academics, professors, and classes.
"Albany is a good
Mouic
l , c n a
school to go to. It has a
little of everything," one F p f l t l j r G
transfer student explained. "1 went to Boston
University as a freshman and I had a great
time socilly but the academics were the
worst. Then I transferred to Brandeis
University where the academics were better
but the sociul atmosphere was not. Finally
I transferred to Albany where I think there
is a good mixture of academics and
socializing."
By Lisa Strain
Most transfers agreed that their choice CONTRIBUTING BO/TOR
Eight Soviet studqnts visiting SUNYA
was a good one. Senior Rhonda Kleinberg
said she left Queens College to get more of on an exchange program from the Threz
Institute in Moscow revealed some sura business education and to experience the
prising differences and striking
"away school life." "I'm so glad I
transferred, I think scholaslically 1 got a similarities between U.S. and Soviet
ways of life, in a campus panel discusgood education and being away at school
sion last Thursday night.
was a great experience."
" Y o u n g men are the same
Transfer students offered varying
everywhere," said Kirill Kasyanov in
reasons for making the switch to SUNYA.
A strong academinc standing and the response to a question about dating in
relative low cost of a state education are the Soviet Union. "Young people are
quite free to do different things — on
just two of the primary reasons transfer
the weekends you can go to bars. In the
students maintain when discussing their
summer when it's warm yu can go to
decision to attend SUNYA.
Erin Ringham did not plan on transferr- Gorky Park, sit on the bank of the
Moscow River."
ing from University of Massachusetts until
"I guess the last 10 years witnessed a
her sophomore year when she received less
tendency toward looseness in relationfinancial aid. "i would have stayed at
University of Massachusetts," she said, ships, because young people are more
had it not been for the financial problem. free to meet easily and say goodbye easi"It costs $8,000 a year at U Mass, it was a ly — the situation in our country is the
lot easier financially to go to SUNYA," same as it is here," Kasyanov explained.
she added.
Only civil marriages are legal in the
Andy Peik, a senior who transferred
Soviet Union, according to Valentin
from Southhamption College of Long
Klimanov. "If a couple wants to get
Island University wanted to live in another
married in a church, their union won't
environment and get a taste of a larger
be regarded as legal," he said. If they
school. "1 came from a small secluded
want a religious ceremony, they can go
school, 1 found Albany to be a very big
to church, but as Alex Kozin explained,
change but I'm very happy I made the
"it's very expensive because the church
switch."
is separate from the slate, and depends
One transfer student encountered
entirely on private donations."
negative feedback concerning her transfer.
Divorce is a "very sharp" problem,
"I transferred from a private University
Klimanov said. "When a couple gets
and I've found differences academically
married they must have two witnesses
but my professors have asked me why I
from both sides, and if they get divorced
transferred. They implied that I was mov- within one year these witnesses must pay
ing down a level by transferring to a fine of 100 rubles each." One ruble is
Albany."
equivalent to about $1.23 in American
Most transfer students agreed that the dollars. The main reason so many
pressure in this school is evident not only couples get divorced, Klimanov explainin the classes but in everyday SUNYA life. ed, is that "they arc usuaslly very
"The pressure here is definitely more in- young, sometimes 18 or 19. They don't
tense that at St. Johns University. And jknow each other very well, or a young
although my GPA was affected by my couple doesn't consider their feelings
trasnsferring, I'm glad I did it anyway," very well."
explained junior Joey Pugliese. "HopefulAbortion in the Soviet Union does not
ly my future employers will feel the same," Isecm as controversial an issue as in the
he added.
US, according to Kasyanov. "We don't
Not all transfer students felt that the have such a problem. Every woman can
competition at SUNYA was so intense. go to the hospital, but before doing this
Senior Howie Landman, who transferred she must lake a blood test, and the docfrom Bucknell University to attend a larger tors make sure the's o.k. Abortion is
school in a more metropolitan area, said
widely used and quite frequent, and the
"At Bucknell there was much more percentage is increasing," he said.
pressure than at Albany, it was very cutOther questions asked by members of
throat. The thing I love about Albany is the audience concerned sexuai
—Kiril Kasyanov
MAP COURTESY OF THE WORLD ALMANAC
meeting the requirements of the students
or the Committee on Evaluation policy."
"The problems with SURGE (Survey or
general education courses)," said Patrick
Tercnzini, Acting Assistant to President
for Planning, "are the students weren't using them, they weren't providing valuable
information for the committee, and
several departments were conducting
private evaluations and found these
(SURGE) burdensome."
"SURGE wa stopped when questions
about usefulness of the forms arose," said
Acting University President Judith
Ramaley.
Student and university officials say they
are exploring new means of conducting
student surveys, but for now, students will
have to get by on previous semesters'
evaluations.
One alternative student leaders are considering is a student-run survey called
SCATE, Student Course and Teacher
Evaluation. This would replace the administratively run SURGE that was
suspended by Ramaley beginning this fall.
Under this plan, said Steve Landis, a
student member of University Senate serving on the Council on Educational Policy
and Subcommittee of Evaluation Policy,
surveys would be distributed in the same
manner as most campus publications such
as the Albany Student Press. Acording to
Landis, Binghamlon currently uses this
method. He noted that no actual plans
have been made yet for the implementation of this survey. "But the fact is," Landis said, "we are losing a year of student
input which is critical, because education
tends to move very slowly."
SURGE was evaluated at the end of the
Fall 1983 semester and was found to be ineffective, despite articles announcing its
availability in the Center for
Undergraduate Education, Student
Association Office, and the Library
Reserve Desk, said Terenzini.
Communications professor Robert
Sanders of the Communications Department said, "The bottomline is that
students are looking at numbers and not
understanding the forms properly, it
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Russian student panelists
offer glimpses of their lives
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Brian Kauppila fights lor a rebound against Ithaca. In Wednesday's game against Cortland, Kauppila scored 10 points.
wanted to control the tempo of
the game. When we run our offense effectively, we'll get our
shots off in time."
In the first half, the Danes got
off to an 8-2 lead and never looked back. Led by the shooting of
Adam, Croutier and Kauppila,
Albany frustrated Cortland's
zone defense time and time again.
Adam knew that the Red Dragons
would have to change their defensive strategy in the second half.
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Aggressive second half cements Dane victory
By Kris Sauer
STAFF WRITER
On Tuesday night, there were two very different
Albany State women's basketball teams out on the court
playing the College of Saint Rose or so it seemed.
Albany Head Coach Mari Warner said, "It was as if we
played two different games — one in the first half, the
other in the second half."
After the game, i f you commended an Albany Stater on
the "good game," they'd correct you, "good second
half."
The final score of 84-48 does not give any indication of
how poorly the Danes played in the first half. At half time
Albany was ahead of St. Rose by 12 points, 36-24. By the
end of the third quarter, the transformed Danes had over
a 25-point lead.
The biggest problem in the first half was rebounding,
especially offensive rebounds which were close to none.
Saint Rose missed 14 shots of which Albany rebounded
only nine. One St. Rose player had ten rebounds in the
first half. This contrasts to St. Rose's only having 9 rebounds in the entire second half.
The next problem was shooting, which may be a continual problem for the Danes. Not only was there a considerable number of missed shots in the first half, the
shooting percentage from the season's start has been
lower than expected. Free throws are also a problem.
Albany shot 18 for 29 from the line.
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Women cagers romp to 84-48 win over St. Rose
Donna Hughes takes the ball to the hoop against CSR.
The women won the game, 84-48.
December 11,1984
The scoring was consistent. High scorers for the Danes
were Cindy Jenson (14 points), Chris Connata (12
points), Jill Siverman (12 points), Rainny Lesane (11
points) and Kim Kosalek (10 points). The high scorer of
the game was St. Rose's Nancy LeMarca with 16 points.
Jensen, who scored 11 of her 14 points in the second
half, said, "We were playing down to their level in the
first half. In the second half we played our game. At
halftime we talked and we all decided to go out there and
play the way we can."
Silverman said, "We were flat and not boxing out. We
were simply asleep the first half. Our rebounding was
really off. Even during warm-ups we were not ready to
go. In the second half we went out and played our game."
In the second half the Danes were much more aggressive and controlled the boards. They also effectively
ran their break in the second half. Silverman feels the
Danes may have taken it easy the first half relying on their
height which wasn't enough.
"We can't afford to be sluggish, slow and not be determined, basically," said Warner. "They got mad in the second half and went out and played like Ihcy can."
Tonight they face Potsdam in a SUNYAC game at 7:00
p.m. in the Albany Gymnasium. Tommorow night they
play New Paltz also a 7:00 home game. Potsdam lost to
St. Rose by ten points.
Warner said, "We'll use both games to work on fun"One thing that was good to see in the game was that damentals. I'm hoping to control both of those games."
Silverman said, "This team has everything we need exthey played a box and one and a diamond and one against
Rainny," said Warner. "It caused problems in the begin- cept height and when we play our game like we did in the
ning, but then other people started scoring. There is no second half against St. Rose, I don't think there are many
reason that everyone can't score — Our talent goes 14 teams who can beat us. I expect us to do very well this
weekend,"
D
deep."
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discrimination. Homosexuals, said
Dimitri Tamyin, "are prohibited by
law. Still there arc a lot of guy people;
we consider it abnormal. Homosexuality among women is accepted, but
among men it is illegal."Pornography
and gambling are also prohibited by
law, Tanyin said.
The Soviet students were questioned
about why there have never been women
exchange students from the Thorez Institute. According to their adviser
Leonid Nechaev, only 10 percent of the
enrollment in the English program at
Thorez is women.
As Klimanov explained, "it's only in
our department that it's 10 percent; the
German and French pedagogical departments are mostly women. Women participate in exchange programs to Germany and France, and they have the
same opportunities. 1 would say they are
in a more advantageous position
because they can teach after graduation.
We must take special courses like
psychology and the methodology of
teaching in order to teach."
The educational system of the Soviet
Union is different from the US, as Alex
Kozin explained. "There arc 4 types of
schools you can attend," he said, which
are vocational, secondary, professional
or language-oriented. "There has been a
growth of interest toward technical subjects — 25 years ago the major emphasis
was on the humanities," he said. The
usual course work lasts 5 years, while
for medical school it's six, Kozin added.
Education is free in the Soviet Union,
and three-quarters of the students
receive state stipends of about one-third
the average salary. These stipends "are
for those who pass their exams; if you
fail to do that you don't receive
anything," said Kozin.
Acording to Sasha Zincnko, the
availability of western music in the
Soviet Union "is really ;a problem. It's
very difficult to buy records in the
Soviet Union — the price is usuaslly 30
or 40 rubles each, so a lot of young people buy tapes instead of records,"
Zinenko said. The average monthly
salary is about 200 rubles in the Soviet
Union,
Music fans in the Soviet Union can be
divided into three basic groups, Zinenko
said. "The first Is young people who like
heavy metal, like Iron Maiden — their
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Patrick Terenzini