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ticular the changes in the US economy, we're moving ever more rapidly toward
a service oriented economy. It used to be no matter what one did, one could
count on fairly good blue collar and white collar middle class jobs, but this is no
longer the case. If you look at the income profile of the United States in the
period spanning the last two decades, the middle class has definitely eroded
and become smaller in terms of it’s purchasing power, and the poor and the
wealthy have become larger. And it’s increasingly the case that a college edu-
cation isn’t enough to do much of anything. The kinds of specialty skills that
are necessary to compete in a high powered service economy, the leadership
roles and the high income roles in the service economy are going to people with
highly honed technical skills in communication, skills having to do with comput-
er technology and other forms of telecommunications. Increasingly there sim-
ply aren’t blue collar jobs and white collar jobs that pay fifteen dollars an hour,
as there once were. So, I’m increasingly convinced that we should perhaps aban-
don the notion that everyone is entitled to a college education, that is, an arts
and sciences education. And we should also abandon the notion that it’s even
a good thing. I’m convinced that for particular career groups, a college educa-
tion is still ideal, and it’s certainly the step one must take if they want the high
paying leadership roles in a service economy. But looking at the manual labor-
ers and skilled people who help us with aspects of our house, for example, the
plumber, the electrician, landscapers — these are not even jobs that require a
college education. My guess is that these people are making a better living for
themselves than the recent college graduates, say from the SUNY business
school who end up being a branch manager in a suburban bank, perhaps never
having the hope of making more than fifty or sixty thousand dollars a year. In
our society, | think there should be a revival of the old agricultural and techni-
cal schools which are basically aimed at training one in a particular career. Cook-
ing, hotel management, plumbing, electricity — these are all service oriented
jobs, and frankly, | don’t think an arts and sciences education is ideal for every-
one. If one became an apprentice plumber at seventeen instead of going to col-
lege aiming for some imagined, high powered job, it’s possible that such people
would end up better in the long run, in terms of income. Now that’s a very jaun-
diced view, but | think it’s real. Whatever happens to the US economy and inter-
national trade, there will always be a need, an increasing need for things like
electrical contracting, plumbing, hotel management — jobs that make life work.
These jobs require very little specialized, intensive training, but you don't have
to know sociology, psychology, calculus, western civilization, or anything except
the particulars of your chosen career.

| think we should be down scaling arts and sciences education, making it much
more intensive and better for those who opt for it, but not assuming that it’s
the best for everyone. | find it very encouraging that the New York state sys-
tem has a lot of diversity in what the colleges and specialized technical insti-
tutions do. For example, SUNY has a school of forestry. | foresee that with New
York’s economy in such awful shape, perhaps there is a future for expansion of
truck gardening in every culture in New York state, because it’s very clear that
manufacturing jobs are leaving the state. What is there for us, other than flip-
ping burgers and taking care of people in hotels? We need a radical rethinking of
the kinds of things that this state can do well, and our education system
should reflect this need. | think a sort of mindless commitment to liberal arts
for everybody is bad, because as we See in the current state of the budget pro-
cess with SUNY, it’s clear that we're going to have to do more and more with
less and less and less every year; that means that the quality of education
students are going to receive is probably going to decline, unless we abandon
the notion that arts and sciences education is for everybody. | think it would
serve New York state, the taxpayers, and the students themselves, to re-orga-
nize our thinking not in terms of low, middle, and high tier education, technical
schools, four year colleges, and universities are not “weakest, middle, and best”
— | don’t believe that. | would like to see extremely strong technical schools
which are as well funded by the state as research universities. And frankly, |
think that’s where our economy and our culture are going, and we should be
putting a lot more emphasis in that area.

In theory, | would like to live in a society where everyone knows about the Refor-
mation and the Counter Reformation, and everyone knows why Yugoslavia is
blowing up in terms of its civil conflicts today. Looking around me, at the polit-
ical and cultural climate in the United States, I’m not convinced that we, prob-
ably the best educated country in the world, are doing particularly well in turn-
ing that education into enlightened, domestic, or international policy. This
country is the throves of a populist reactionary flood in which the tone of things,
more than anything in my memory, is anti-intellectual and absolutely tuned to
popular culture. Even Senator Dole has apparently abandoned all principles that
are part of his own world view in order to change his positions to accommodate
popular opinion in the sectors where he thinks he can get elected. In other words,
looking around me, | don’t think that virtually mags, universal education has
served us particularly well. | don’t think that we are a more just society. | don't
think we're a more enlightened society. | don’t think we're a more cosmopolitan
society. This country has always sort of lived on the notion, with the notion,
that we live in the center of the universe and anybody that wants to deal with
us has to deal with us on our own terms. We've traditionally been a provincial,
isolationist country, and | don’t see any signs of this changing. If anything, |
think it’s worse now than it’s been anytime in my memory.

| think that what we should be doing to supplement everyone’s education
beginning in high school and perhaps even continuing at the post secondary level
— whether it is a trade school, a technical school, a four year college, or
research university — is to make everyone aware that the world has radically
changed, particularly since the end of the cold war. Right now, there are 500
million people on the move in the world, ending up in countries where they weren't
born. This is an unprecedented period of immigration, forced migration, and peo-
ple fleeing as refugees, and any country in the world that wants to make the
most of the next few decades has to tune into the eclectic population that
they are going to share a future with. So if there’s any part of the curriculum
of this university that should be enhanced, it’s the area that has to do with
cross-cultural sensitivity. Because whether one is going to be a cook, or a schol-
ar, the world is such that we're not becoming more and more the same. The end
of the Cold War has provided an opening for long, repressed ethnic affirmations
to be expressed. And look what's happening in Chechnya in Russia. Id certainly
never heard of Chechnya, and now Chechnya wants to become an autonomous
country. In the part of the world where | work, the Mayas in Mexico and
Guatemala are seeking cultural autonomy for themselves, parallel to the
nations in which they live. Our own country has a non English speaking commu-
nity that now numbers in the tens and tens of millions — and these people pur- |
chase goods and services. To make it, | believe, in the next few decades, the win-
ners are going to be those who learn about this, learn another language, learn
to do whatever they do in essentially a pluralistic environment. Only yesterday
| saw an article in the New York Times that said that The New York Daily News |
is going to publish a Spanish edition for the first time. It’s going to be sold in
4,000 outlets in metropolitan New York. What this means is that advertisers,
business people, people who sell goods and services, are aware that New York
City may be a melting pot, but it is a melting pot for certain segments, but not
for other segments, and those people have purchasing power in the billions and
billions of dollars. So I’m convinced that skilled laborers, scholars, and educa-
tors, politicians, public policy makers, business people, every last one of them,
should become sensitive, perhaps all technical degrees, arts and sciences
degrees, should have a serious component of having to learn another language.
Ideally, now this is simply my private fantasy, | would like to see the day when
everybody, the English speakers, be required to learn at least to the level of rea-
sonable conversational facility, the dominant language spoken by minorities in
their region. For example, some places in northern Maine would profit from hay-
ing the English speaking kids learn the French-Canadian dialect of French. | think
it would be excellent business — | mean business, in the sense of pushing one-
self up to make a profit — whatever one does, be it an educator, a computer
technician, a bank teller. It would behoove all of us in the capital district to know
Spanish. lf you look at job descriptions in the help wanted section, particular
ly the high paying jobs, knowledge of Spanish is needed.

| see this country looking away from, rather than toward, an ability to com-
municate with other than our own culture. You look at the English-only move-
ment in California, you look at what's happening to affirmative action programs;
Fete Wilson, the governor of California, has made anti-affirmative action one of
the cornerstones of his presidential campaign. You look at the rhetoric coming
from virtually the whole spectrum of the Republican party. It is xenophobic,
retreatist, anti-progressive, certainly anti-international sentiment. Now, in part
this is global; I'm not pointing a finger at the US. You look all around the worla,
and as people are facing the movement of these 300 million people | talked
about, people who are going someplace where they weren't born, means they're
going somewhere else, presumably where there are people who have been there
for generations. You look at what's happening in France, what’s happening ir
socialist Scandinavia, the whole continent is moving to the political right. The
United States is moving to the political right. Mexico is moving to the political
right. Fart of the reason for this is the “first response.” When countries like
France see themselves having to share their space with six million north
Africans, the response is “to hell with the north Africans, we want to be French,
and we’re going to be French aggressively.” The whole world is in a reactionary,
xenophobic mood. And it's not going to solve problems to be xenophobic and iso
lationist. The biggest market in the world opening up right now is that of China
— not that many students on this campus study Chinese. The biggest minor-
ity in this country is Spanish speaking, and | don’t know this to be the case, but
| suspect that the number of enrollment in advanced conversation ana
advanced composition in Spanish is probably not very impressive. Ferhaps if the
cultural mood of the country is in the condition it’s in, perhaps I'm beating my
head against a brick wall, but | believe in it.

Just for the record, | think this is a great university, and | think this univer
sity suffers terribly from a weak self image. We don’t have any sort of bonding
rituals that make us a real intellectual and social community, and | would like
to see a lot more invested in creating sort of collective rituals that we all ae
together, or that segments of our community do together, that would truly
bring us together. Universities are supposed to diversify tastes, and presuttr
ably open new windows as to what life can be. Instead | feel that we're simply
replicating the lowest common denominator, and | don’t think that’s what edu
cation should be about.

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In 1991 | entered the University at Albany. | came in from
Brooklyn, Brooklyn New York, born and raised. | went to
Brooklyn technical high school and graduated there as a
chem. major. Then | came up here, originally planning to be a
chemistry major, and in my sophomore year made the deci-
sion to go with Mediterranean Archeology, which | am major-
ing in now and will be getting my bachelors of arts. Fresh-
man year | was a Social butterfly. | tried to do anything and
everything that was a social event on campus. | was also a
student ambassador and a volunteer recruiter for the foot-
ball team. | continued to do that my sophomore year and |
made the move from junior varsity to varsity that year.
Junior year | settled down completely, got myself into gear,
played football, again stayed as a student ambassador for
the university, and rolled into my senior year with my basic
goal: graduate. | was almost to the point, | had the credits,
then December 14th came around ...

My overview of the situation: last day of classes before
finals, we were in a classroom that we attend on a regular
basis. Everything is the same, and out of nowhere, we're now
held hostage. At first | thought, “this is a joke, this is a
prank,” and then a couple of minutes later | thought “maybe
he wants funds, he wants our money, this is a robbery.” Then
| realized we’re college students, and we don’t have any
money, 90 this really is a hostage situation. After the first
gunshot | realized that the gun was real, | didn’t know it was
real until then, but | wasn’t impressed. | didn't realize it was
a semi automatic, | thought he'd have to shoot, reload,
shoot, reload ... After the whole ordeal, | did take a new
look at life. Nobody has time. | mean, before the incident, |
pushed things off, procrastinated. If it has changed me, it’s
made me just a little more aggressive, but not in a violent
way — aggressive towards my goals. The adrenaline rush
out of the whole ordeal after we subdued him, witnessed a
fellow student get injured, and saw people hysterical and
angered, it just opened my eyes to how people react to
stress, or to uncommon circumstances. And that really did
open my eyes to the real world. Everyday we walked into that
class, you see the same people, we were all the same. Damn,
do we have to be in this class? when is this class over? how
many more notes is he going to give us? But at that point
we were all the same; when we were hostages, we were all dif-
ferent. We were all faced with the same problem, but we were
all different. | realized the differences in our personalities
just by the way everyone reacted. Consider the five of us who
were supposedly heroes: I’m the calm comedian, Robert's
the calm guy, Mike’s the opportunistic, vocal guy, Kevin's the
quiet guy — (we all have different personalities). The five us
bonded over the semester break — home phone numbers,
parents talking, etc. The rest of the class, when | see them
and recognize them, and they recognize me, we can talk, and
that’s the one thing we talk about. Yet | feel that now that
it’s died out, we've gone back to the way we were before. They
knew how | felt during the situation, | knew how they felt, so
now | know their true personalities. Now if | see them | know,
this person is good under pressure, or this person shies
away from it. | know who is quiet and who gets hysterical.

| tried not to let being considered a hero go to my head.

| just went along with the flow. As a result, | got to see the
governor and | got to go to the inauguration. | saw a differ-
ent side of this country, the political side. | figured I'd intro-
duce myself to that side of the world. Now all of the sudden
| am involved politically on campus as a central council rep-
resentative. As for my friends, nothing changed between us.
However, for the first few weeks after the incident | felt
depressed academically and socially. But then | realized, it’s
all over, nobody really got hurt, we can git back and laugh
about it. I’m glad that all my friends are comedians too, so
we just joke about it. Otherwise | just wouldn't be myself. As
for what changes have happened since then, basically | don't
take bullshit anymore. Like, if someone’s bullshitting with
me, | cut to the chase. | don’t really have time for it. I’ve
learned to appreciate time, so | just waddle around, and
absorb things, but I’m more vocal about things now. Instead
of beating around the bush, I'll get straight to the point.

As far as who’s at fault, | do not blame anybody. There's
a one ina million chance. You don’t expect that type of thing.
In general, | think the university was in a slump at the time.
They had the Kendra Gillis situation, demands for more
security, and several other negative events all for which the
university was being blamed. And this bad luck left one more
incident to blame on the university. | can’t blame the uni-
versity fully. It’s an open university. Anyone can walk onto
our campus. That’s the way the campus was designed, to
invite the Albany community. Albany, regardless of being the
capital, is really a college town. There's 5 colleges around
here, 50 to close us off, to section us off, wouldn't help us.
So | don’t blame the university. Had this been in a different
room, ina small classroom ... maybe. Jason is in a differ-
ent predicament. He suffered a physical injury. His injury is
definitely different than ours. If | had gone into a state of
depression, hysteria, or something like that, | would like to
be compensated. But this is something that he couldn't
have prevented and it happened on this campus. | do feel the
university has some responsibility for Jason's injury. | think
he’s entitled to something. As for me, | had friends saying
“sue, sue, Sue,” but it didn’t seem that it would be a wise
idea to sue. | just wanted to get my degree, that was my
biggest concern. Each person has their own reason. | didn’t
feel the need.

It almost capped off the year. The only event that will top
it is actually graduating. |’ll tell you one thing, I’m going to
be extra careful when | go to class the last day this spring,
and I’m glad my classes are meeting in small classrooms
and not in LC’s. | still sit next to the door so just in case
someone comes in | can get out. | wouldn't want to go
through it again, but it did add a ring to my semester and
my senior year. Unfortunately someone wag injured. Howev-
er, I'm going to look for a silver lining in a dark cloud: it was
an experience. In light of what could have happened, | con-
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disastrous incident at least being able to learn more about
myself and other people.

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than death, and in the end the greatest gifts of love will be
received again and again. For more than we can imagine, we have
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The reasons that the Athletic Department gave us, and the rea-
s0ns they are doing it are very different. The Title IX section of the
NCAA regulations addresses Gender Equity which requires the
ratio of male to female athletes to be proportionate to the male
to female student population. The ratio that presently existe in
the Athletic Department does not meet the guidelines of Title IX.
Therefore, they are trying to cut tennis, wrestling, and swimming.

| agree with Gender Equity. But Gender Equity is about being
fair, and the way in which the Athletic Department went about get-

ting these teams cut was very unfair. They hired a secret commit-
tee to discuss which sports to eliminate over the summer, with-
out any student or faculty input, hoping the entire dilemma would
be solved by the time students returned in the fall. If they were real-
ly concerned about Gender Equity, they could have been open and
discussed their plans, but they didn’t ask for our ideas or opin-
ions—they weren't willing to listen to anyone.

The IAB, a group that judges all moves in the Athletic Depart-
ment, is supposed to have five students representatives: four ath-
letes and one non-athlete. The four athletes that ended up on the

IAB were not on sports that were in danger of getting cut, and two
of them had coaches that were in favor of these cuts. Furthermore,
these students were supposed to be voted on by the central coun-
cil, but they completely bypassed this process. In doing so they vio-
lated the IAB bylaws. In addition, there weren't any advertisements
concerning the open positions for students on the IAB. When we
questioned the Athletic Department about this, they claimed
there was an article in the ASP publicizing these openings. We
checked all the back issues. We found no such article.

| have to question the Athletic Department's
motive to achieve Gender Equity since they have
eliminated women’s swimming. This cut appears to
be a financial issue rather than an NCAA issue
because in order to compete in a higher division the
pool must be renovated. | heard the Athletic Depart-
ment estimated this project to cost approximate-
ly $100,000. The swimming coach obtained his own
estimate of $17,000, and he said he would pay for
it himself. | guess he had sponsors who were willing
to pay for it, but the Athletic Department claims
they did not hear anything about this estimate. If
you think about it, now that the swim team is cut,
they could rent out the pool and make money on
that too.

As far as other expenses are concerned, the esti-
mate for the tennis team is $4,000, and wrestling
is about $12,000. Meanwhile, the football team is
flying to Florida to compete in a tournament that
will cost $18,000. If they don’t have that weekend,
Albany can keep a Sport. That’s what this is all
about—money. And the budget cuts serve as
another excuse; they were contemplating our elimi-
nation before the budget cuts factored into the
decision.

If the Athletic Department wins the lawsuit, | can
see that within a couple of years Albany will have
high profile basketball and football teams, but no
tennis, wrestling, or swim teams. If we win, we may
not have high profile teams, but we will have the
teams we want.

Playing tennis has been a great experience for me:
it's fun, it's competitive, and it is something you look
forward to every day. Sports are such a great part
of your college experience. You need activities out-
side of your school work, and for me, tennis has
become a major part of my life. It provides a lot of
excitement; it’s awesome, and to take it away with-
out warning, for reasons the Athletic Department
won't even give, hurts a lot.

| certainly hope that the Athletic Department

does hot win this lawsuit. In sports you learn discipline and fair-
ness; what they did went against everything that sports stand
for, and that hurts the most.

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Captain Mens Tennis

As of the Torch 1995 publication deadline the lawsuit against the University was still pending.

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On November 8, 1994, New York State Senator George Elmer Pataki was chosen
to lead the State as the new Governor. New Yorkers, after 12 years with then Gov-
ernor Mario Cuomo, felt it was time for a change—just what Fataki promised. In
his victory speech, Pataki promised increased job opportunity with lower taxes. “We
are going to have a government that serves the people instead of a people that
serve government,” he said. “And that is a change we will make.”

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On February 1st, Governor Fataki released his first exec-
utive budget proposal. Major cuts were proposed for the
SUNY and CUNY systems. Cuts, that if passed by the leg-
islature, would change the face of higher education in New
York state. Exactly what did these proposed cuts mean to
students at SUNY Albany? The facts speak for themselves:

*Fotential tuition hike of up to $1,000 to $1,200

*$290 million (31.5%) cut from state aid to
SUNY’s operating budget. That would mean further
reductions in services and course offerings

“Drastic cutbacks of $99.6 million from the
Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) for undergradu-
ates

*Total elimination of Aid for Part-Time Study
(tuition assistance for part-time students)

“Total elimination of graduate TAF (Tuition
Assistance Frogram for grad students)

“Total elimination of the Educational Opportuni-
ty Program (EOP)

The Governor's executive budget proposal was the focus
of intense scrutiny and debate throughout New York state.
In a time when education is more important that ever, stu-
dents were being told to make do with a lot less. A SUNY or
CUNY education puts many in the category of first gener-
ation college graduates. In defense of this opportunity,
thousands of students, administrators and faculty mem-
bers across the state, began to organize. On February 27,
over 7,000 concerned citizens traveled to the Capital to
rally against the devastating proposals.

Following an extremely intense campaign to stop the
cuts, tuition for the Fall 1995 semester will go up, but not
as drastically as proposed. Students also won victories for
EOF, HEOP and SEEK. The message here is that students
neéd to get involved and citizens need to take action. Learn
the issues that directly affect you. More citizens should
participate in the simplest of activities—registering and
voting! It takes less than five minutes and the time spent
getting active will be well worth it.

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It seems that many University at Albany students are
unwilling to embrace the much needed change represented
by Governor Fataki’s 1995-96 budget. There have been sev-
eral organized protests by students against the budget
cuts the Governor has endorsed. Folitical protesting is a
truly American activity, a manner of expressing the freedom
of speech and thought this country allows. However, the
vast majority of the students attending the anti-Fataki
rally are not and have never been aware of the fiscal crisis
facing New York state. These students are given half-truths
and distortions of fact by special interest groups and are
whipped into an angry frenzy by fearmongering liberals on
campus who have a vested interest in state governmental
excess (e.g. professors, teaching assistants). Meanwhile,
the truth and the facts remain hidden and undiscussed.
Well, if the Governor's budget is an attempt to reshape the
economy of New York, then we can do worse than to
attempt to comprehend this budget by examining the cur-
rent fiscal state of New York.

When preparing his budget, the Governor faced a $5 bil-
lion budget deficit and a $300,000 budget shortfall for the
current fiscal year. He knew that he had made a commit-
ment to the people of this state to cut personal income tax
by 25% without shifting the burden to local and school
taxes, to balance the budget, and to restore fiscal sanity
to Albany.

It would have been impossible for him to accomplish all of
these things without absolutely severe cuts in state spend-
ing of all kinds. So, the Governor went to work, just like he
promised us he would. He cut funding for welfare, Medicaid,
hundreds of highlevel state jobs, the state workforce, envi-
ronmental conservation, hospitals and nursing homes,
state government and SUNY.

Without these cuts, we college students would never be
able to find meaningful employment in the private-sector in
this state. If it were not for these cuts, we would continue
to pay the highest taxes in the country. How many of us
have friends who have graduated from college and are now
working at menial jobs just to pay off huge college loans?
How many of us have friends who simply cannot find employ-
ment? The Governor is working to change that. As of now,
when New York State college graduates head out into the
real world to find jobs and a bright future in the Empire
State, they are likely to find that the jobs they are looking
for have disappeared because companies could no longer
afford to pay taxes in New York. As college students, if we
want to change this situation, we are going to have to
tighten our belts and pay the increased tuition. The Gover-
nor was elected on the promise of change; let us not run
from this change but embrace it.

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Jan. 7, 1995 ;

The Russians have decided to blow the crap out of Grozny before
invading. Rumors are grinding out of control, mostly generated, as
far as | can tell, by journalists trying to come up with theories as to
why the Russians haven't taken the city so far. | don’t know, | don’t
want to theorize. Anyway, the theories are the Russians are soft-
ening up the city before they send in their troops. Another theory is
they are going to infiltrate at night with small commando groups and
try and knock out the Chechen fighters. Another theory is they'll
send in more tanks in a
better coordinated attack.
| don’t know which one is
true, | guess we'll see in
good time.

| hooked up with an old
friend of mine today, Mike
(Misha), who came down
yesterday from Moscow for
AFF. He’s an old Afghan
hand, having been in the
Russian army then, but as
a correspondent, not as a
combatant. He speaks
excellent English and excel-
lent Russian, so he’s a good
guy to hang out with ina
situation like this. Also, he
knows military stuff, espe-
cially Russian military
stuff, so that’s good as
well. Anyway, | led him by
the hand into Grozny
because, although he was
in Grozny for the beginning
of the combat outside of
the city, he took a couple of
weeks off to spend Christ-
mas with his family.

| explained the situation
to him as we drove into
Grozny, still a two hour
drive in our crummy, mili-
tary-green, _four-wheel-
drive, Russian van/jeep. |
said it’s the hairiest situa-
tion I'd ever seen, the most
artillery and lead flying
around I'd seen, and | was
glad he was with me. Our
driver stopped way, way on
the outskirts of the city because there was a TON of noise coming
our way. Not to be deterred, we hoofed it into the center of town.
Once we got to Minutka square (or something like that), we hung out
while Mike got the feel for the situation. He didn’t want to go in until
he felt comfortable and | didn’t want to go in with him if he felt
uncomfortable. We also ran into his AFP reporter who is staying just
a few minutes away with a portable satellite telex in Grozny. So all
three of us decided to head off into town, to see if we could see the
Presidential Palace, which was supposed to be on fire.

| have NEVER, EVER heard as much incoming shell fire as | heard
today. lt was coming in every five seconds or so. Heavy too. Not small
arms. Big arms. Arms that you want to hug bears with. Grad rock-
ets which come in forty round bursts, 150mm artillery rounds which
are launched some 20 kms away, air-to-ground missiles launched
from SU-27s and, of course, the bombs, which Yeltsin yesterday
promised would stop landing. After feeling comfortable with the
amount of lead around, we headed off. We went the same direction
we went yesterday, right down the main road to the presidential
palace. To get there, from the relative safety of Minutka square, you
have to either go over or under a railway bridge, across a kilometer
of apartment buildings, past a few small kiosks and over a bridge into
the main town square where the presidency is. We went over the
tracks, hugging the right hand wall of the apartment building, fol-
lowing a couple of Chechens who volunteered to be our guide (like we
need a guide to get killed. Often times | wonder, if there’s so much
shell fire coming in, why am | headed to it? Shouldn't | be going the
other way? Obviously there’s something wrong with this job.) We made
it some 50 meters from the bridge which leads to the palace, but
because of fear, we didn’t cross it or get to a point where we had a
view of the palace. None of us had the guts to check it out.

After hanging out with the Chechens for about five minutes, we
decided it wasn’t safe to hang out with such a huge group of volun-
teers, 50 Mike, Boris (the AFP guy) and | took off up the road. There
if a Subway which crosses under the huge Leninsky Prospect, so we
took a breather there. Apparently someone had spotted all these
people ducking into the subway because as soon as we had made it
down into the subway, the rockets, tank shells and artillery were
thudding almost directly above us. The pressure was bad enough to
blow your eardrums if you didn’t breath out of your mouth (impor-
tant hint for those of you planning to watch people shoot large cal-
iber weapons). We were pinned down there for at least an hour, shells
landing every 10 seconds. Frightening if you think about all the explo-
sives around, YIKES.

Every time we thought about leaving (hey Mike, they haven't land-
ed a Shell near here in about a minute, everything must be better!)
another shell would come blasting in and make us retreat to the
exact center of the tunnel. Finally, we timed a five minute break and

made a run for it. This is a great way to get in shape for skiing, by
the way. Half way back to Minutka square, we ran into Patrick, the
guy who | came down with, who Misha met in Sarajevo and who has
covered just about every war since Vietnam. We went into an apart-
ment building and chatted for a half hour. He’s been staying in
Grozny, sleeping in various shelters and taking pictures for the BBC
and for Sygma. He was looking a little frazzled, but in good shape. |
was glad, | hadn't seen him yesterday and was slightly concerned. He
said he was on his way to the presidency, we said we were on our way

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out. However, | was tempted to go with him. | was prevented by Mike
who pointed out that we hadn't made it before and probably would-
n't make it again. | concurred and realizing it was Saturday, which
means basically no deadlines, decided to head back to the relative
safety of the square. So we went back, made it without trouble, got
into the car and went back to Khasavurt.

Jan. 14

We got to Minutka square around noon. | met an old friend, Mal-
colm of the BBC who wag in Sarajevo with me when it first went down
in 1992. He’s a good guy. We were chatting, he was trying to suss out
the situation here. Misha and | had agreed to hang around and get
the feel for the situation before doing anything else. So | was chat-
ting with Malcolm, drawing him a map on the ground of where the
Russians were in relation to where we were, etc. | told him this was
heavier than anything I'd ever seen because the Russians are well
armed and know how to use those arms. | heard a slight hiss. Well,
I'm pretty jumpy after yesterday, so | gave Malcolm a big shove and
ran into this house. Unfortunately, this house had no windows, just
steel grating. Anyway, Malcolm was flat on his stomach trying to get
up when there was an enormous explosion, Really Close By. Whew, |
thought, it didn’t get us. | put up my camera and started to take
pictures. Then there was another explosion, and another and anoth-
er and another until | couldn’t count. | could see out of the corner of
my eye a building not 20 meters away being hit. Weird, it was like a
time zoom, like when time comes to a stop. All the time my camera
was Clicking away, capturing all these people huddled together on the
ground in fear. | thought the explosions would never stop. It was like
a pipe bomb going off nearby, except deadlier.

After the noise stopped people started to shout. There was dust
all over, debris was spread around the street. There were two dead
guys just 10 meters from the doorway | was in, one with a bit of
shrapnel through his head, the other, | didn't see too well. | had only
one thought, get somewhere safer. | wasn't convinced of the safety
of the building we had sought temporary refuge in, so | sprinted for
a safe bunker. Others thought they heard more planes coming in. |
thought we had been hit by grads although | later learned a plane
had done it, swooping low over our former house and dropping it’s
payload on the square, | started to film this fear in the bunker on my
little video camera. The soldiers weren't sure if the planes were going
to return, if there was going to be artillery fire or what, neither were
we. At the same time | felt the need to get out into the open and
take pictures. | suppressed the need. | felt a greater urgency to stay
safe and not have my head, legs, arms, or anything else taken out by
another errant bit of flying lead.

War photography | think is coming to terms with your own fear.
There are wonderful, horrible images to be made in the aftermath of
a bomb explosion. How brave is the photographer, how willing is he or
she to risk his or her life to go out and make the picture he sees but

instinctively will not shoot? | guess that’s what separates the great
ones from the ok ones, the guys who take the risks and make the
pictures. I'd rather go skiing at the end of the month than go down
in the annals of photojournalism as a great, but dead, war photog-
rapher.
Jan. 15

What to do? Here’s the question of the day. Minutka square is
out of the question because of the bombing. | was talking to Feter
last night, who covered Afghanistan for a number of years and is
familiar with Russian tac-
tics and he said the Rus-
sians usually go for famil-
iar landmarks, ie big
intersections or special
buildings. Minutka is a big
landmark So we definitely
didn’t want to hang out
there. Going down to the
bridge and to see the
palace is questionable
because of the fighting. So
what to do?

By 0830, though, | was
feeling anxious. | hate sit-
ting around. | want to get
into the Bad Area, get my
pictures, get out and file. |
don’t like hanging around.
Also, Peter hadn't shown
up, 0 we went to Minutka
square to get a feeling for
the situation. There were
no people there, so we
walked around the back,
through some apartment
complexes and saw some
civilians scooping water
out of a muddy pudale. It
was worse than muddy,
actually, it was oily. The
people, though, are too
frightened to go far from
their houses to find fresh
water. | don’t blame them.
| choose to cover war, they
had this war come to
them, had their houses
and lives destroyed, their
livlinoods taken away, and
for what? Autonomy?
Independence? | don’t think the average person in Grozny cared
whether or not he was independent from Russia or not. | reckon your

plan

.average person in Grozny cared whether he was making enough

money to buy bread, booze, milk, and honey. These are the things
that ultimately matter.

| wanted to find Feter, though, to make sure he had made it into
Grozny okay and to see if he had any video tapes for me. Not that
I'm doing video full time, but if I’m going to do it, then I'd like to do it
fully. We ran into the AP team from Nazran who said they had just
left Feter and Fascal at our old house. Cool, we raced over to see if
they were there, but they weren't. In fact, all the guys there said they
had just gone to Minutka. Well, hell, back into the fire. So we set off
again for Minutka, parked our car behind a “safe” building, piled out,
into the underground, under the street, up on the far side where |
spotted Feter and Fascal. Feeling fearful, | said a quick hello and said
we ought to talk in the underground. So we sprinted into the under-
ground, exchanged pleasantries, and talked about the situation.

Anyway, Feter had been bombed on the road on the way in from
Khasvurt. Actually the planes had bombed a farmhouse 500
meters away, but when there’s a plane coming down at you firing
missiles, you don’t ask if the missiles are aimed at you. The planes
did their deed, killing an old lady tending her cows. Another old lady
was wounded. Nice shooting guys. Feter was pretty shaken up and
didn't feel like hanging about. | couldn't convince him or Misha or Mike
to walk downtown with me, so | asked Luc if he wanted to and he did.
Luc is working for Magnum and | think on assignment for Newsweek.

So off we went, down the right hand side of the street, my video
camera on standby, my cameras ready to roll. | was feeling pretty
nervous. We walked under the bridge for the first time. | usually walk
over the railroad bridge, but Luc thought it would be safer under the
bridge, 50 that’s the way we went. Out from the bridge, down the
building until we saw a few people. | asked them what was up, they
said they had been getting some supplies and if we wanted pictures
of people we should go down the street they had just come from. So
we did. There were no people at all. In fact, the only people we ran into
were fighters returning from the front. Lots of fighters. Luc com-
mented that it looked like they hadn't fought. Maybe they did,
maybe they didn’t, we didn't ask. Onwards down a street parallel to
Leninskaya. There were buildings which had been totally destroyed
by mortar fire, artillery fire, machine-gun fire, bombs. | didn’t know if
there were snipers there or what, so | stuck fairly close to the wall,
three meters back from Luc, walking quietly so | could hear if there
were any incoming shells. The Chechens had set up a mortar or
something about 200 meters from us and were firing it at intervals
of two minutes. Well, as | learned in Sarajevo, outgoing attracts
incoming. Sure enough, within three minutes, a huge shell came
crashing in. | didn’t feel very safe, told Luc and we agreed to cut

through another building, across the other side of Leninskaya and
through the apartment buildings there.

Once across the street, it was pretty quiet. The buildings were big
and | felt that we had a good cover especially since they were trash-
ing the side of the street we had just left. In all these apartment
blocks were people, trying to get on with their lives, cooking on fires
on the doorsteps, no heat or electricity in their apartments. We
stopped to take a few pictures, but mostly carried on, towards the
front line. A group of men came running towards us, a body on a
stretcher. Good picture, nice body language. Snap, snap, snap and
move onto something else. Never stay in one place too long, no longer
than it takes the average smoker to inhale one cigarette (Luc
smokes). We came out onto Leninskaya but | couldn't recognize it
from the last time | had been there, just three days before. It looked
like a back alley, not a main street. All the trees have been destroyed,
knocked over, broken and twisted like a hurricane had come down the
street. There was broken glass littering the sidewalk. Dirt had been
heaved up over everything and there were large craters in the streets
and buildings from where shells had impacted. Truly weird. The clos-
er we came to the Very Dangerous Bridge, the more intense the
shelling and shooting got. The Russians were blasting the hell out of
one apartment block, 16-stories high, because they suspected there
were Snipers or spotters there. Not any more, the rounds were hit-
ting that building every couple of minutes or so. It made great video.

We made our way off Leninskaya and down a side street. The shells
were thudding around, but not around us. The Russians had target-
ed certain buildings and were going after them with vengeance. Every-
thing that was not a target was fine. At least that was our think-
ing because if you start to think that everything is a target, you
won't be able to work. Luc wanted to get to the river to see if he could
find some fighters or wounded or something. | was running out of
bravery pretty quickly and said so. | wanted to get back to file, to give
my tape to someone and to get my butt out of this Bad Neighbor-
hood. Then we heard a plane. Right, no more thinking of advancing,
get the hell in the nearest building, into a stairwell where there's a
lot of cement. Getting bombed has got to be my most recent least
favorite thing. We scrambled into an old school and waited for the
plane to pass. Out the window we noticed, however, there was a fine
view of the presidential palace. SCORE!!! Up we went to the top floor
and there, in all its glory was the palace, with a clear view of what
was going on. APTV was about to be very happy and they didn’t even
know it yet. | shot about three minutes of video of the palace before
finding a better place to watch. We stayed for one cigarette and
moved on to another room that had a fantastic view of the apart-
ment building taking rounds. | filmed that and then together we shot
it before moving back.

It took perhaps 15 minutes to retrace our steps back to Minutka
square. | said to Luc as we were crossing under the railroad bridge
that | was always amazed that it took 50 much time to go down to
the front and so little time to come back. | guess, having overcome
$0 much fear to get down to the front, going back is like putting your
fear behind you and getting away from a Very Dangerous Place. The
further you get away from the front, the easier conversation
becomes, the less alert you are to Very Bad Noises and the happier
you still feel about being alive. | feel glad to be alive every single day |
come out of the area of Serious Conflict here. This is, like I've said
earlier, the most amount of lead flying through the air I've ever seen.
Yikes.

Jan. 22

I'm sitting in a Moscow hotel, having showered (extensively) and
shaved, reflecting on my time in Grozny. | had more close encounters
in the last three days than | care to recall. | think when you realize
you're a short-timer, you become more aware of your own mortality.

| got caught by a tank, partly because | was stupid, but probably
more because | was curious and saw a scene that would have yield-
ed the most dramatic pictures | would have shot in Grozny the entire
time | had been there, if | had been able to shoot them. That stands
out as the closest to death I’ve come in a long time. It also brings
out the most confused emotions in a photographer, to stop and help,
shoot or to keep on going because of the safety factor.

| had spent all Thursday morning in town with Jon and Tomas.
Mostly we were feeling paranoid and hung out near Minutka square
in case a bomb came in killing people, but not on the square itself, in
an apartment complex away from it with lots of cement between us
and any prospective bomb. We were talking, waiting for Jim to come
back from a couple of bodies we had found earlier from the day before.
There's a sad story, a couple of elderly Russians, their belongings in
their hands, were walking out a back roads, some 100 meters away

from Minutka Square, trying to get out of Dodge, and a cluster bomb
landed between them. The woman was blasted into a fence on her
right, the man against a wall to his left. Presumably small bits of
shrapnel and the force of the explosion killed them both pretty much
instantly, because there wasn’t a lot of blood on either. We came
upon the scene while walking downtown from our house and it was
eerie. | thought the guy was sleeping except he was the wax color
that dead people have and his eyes were wide open, still seeing what-
ever it was that killed him. He was clutching his bag with his goods
and, frankly, he looked drunk. But the red on his lips and handg, plus
the blast mark in the center of the road, said otherwise. His wife had
both her ankles broken and had bled extensively from her legs, but
her upper body was fine. Jon, Jim, Tomas and | photographed the
eerie scene for 15 minutes, working the bodies alone then with
passerby until one old lady came along and cried for them. We all got
good pictures and left. Jim went back, which was why we were wait-
ing for him, to see if the bodies were going to be removed, and instead
saw them being looted. Tragedy of war but the living needed the
money, clothes and food more than the dead did. Incidentally, the
bodies were laying there the next day covered in snow, still waiting to
be removed. The Chechens are very good about getting their own peo-
ple out but the Russians (Azeris, Armenians, Jews, ukes, etc.) are
dying and laying there. Sad.

| digress. Jim came back after running over the tracks and going
a little ways towards the palace. He said there weren't any pictures.
Anyway, we weren't going to beat the picture we had made with the
bodies, it was really very strong. Also it was safe, no bullets, no
artillery, no bombs and no one in jeopardy. We decided to hoof it out,
go back home, reassess the situation, | would file and the guys would
see if they wanted to go out again in the afternoon.

| was headed out the door without my cameras, | figured | was
going to file and come back, when a little fairy said to me, never go
anywhere without your cameras, you never know what you may see.
Fair enough. | grabbed a couple of video tapes, stuffed them into my
belt pouch, and my gear. It took maybe an extra twenty seconds to
grab all the stuff and head out to the car.

By this time the artillery, rockets, bombs were coming in thick and
fast, but mostly, it sounded like, around the center of town. The day
before a car had been shot up near the bus station, near our house
and a photographer who had gotten out of his car immediately after-
wards to shoot pictures had taken a round and a piece of shrapnel
had gone into his small intestine. He was in Nazran where they had
operated on him. | said to Said, as we drove by the destroyed car, |
don’t like the bus station and he concurred. We sped off down the
road when there was a loud bang fairly close by. | said, hmm, must be
the bus station and he agreed again. We rounded a corner and there
was a scene of horror in front of us (yet, every photographer's
dream). Two cars had been shot up, one Lada Niva Jeep, one
Moskovich. There were four people laying on their backs, apparently
dead, two crawling for cover, both badly wounded. The dust was just
settling. Jesus, | said to Said, stop the car, we have to help. | didn’t
know what to do. | wanted to help these people, get them out of there
and to a hospital. | wanted to take pictures, it is so rare when you
get a chance like this, immediately after an attack, when the pain
and shock are etched on the faces of the dead and wounded, where
the scene is $0 vivid and real, the pictures would take themselves.
But underneath my concern and eagerness was a wariness, some-
thing wasn’t right and | didn't know what.

| took two steps towards the wounded and then opted for cover
behind the Lada Jeep. | wanted to see what was up. | snapped three
quick frames of the entire situation, the jeep, it’s radiator smoking,
the dead and wounded on the ground, the earth on the road and the
factories smoking in the background. | was about to emerge from my
position when the screech of a tank round and the blast of the con-
cussion took out a small hillock to my left. | ran the opposite direc-
tion and hit the deck, next to a Chechen fighter in a snow suit. We
were hiding behind a small cement post. Unfortunately | was wearing
black, black coat, black trousers, and stood out like a sore thumb on
the snow-covered landscape. | fumbled into my pouch for a tape and
ripped off the plastic covering. | put it into my video camera. | could-
n't make stills, | could shoot the scene for TV. Another round came
in, faster, closer, maybe thirty seconds after the first one. | ate snow
and dirt with the Chechen. It’s a tank, | thought, and he’s got a bead
on us. | started to babble to the fighter, | told him | really wanted to
take these pictures, | wanted to help these people, but | didn’t want
to lose my own life doing it. He nodded, knowingly. Another round,
closer.

I'd had it, | got up and ran, fast and hard to a garbage dump 50
meters away. | dove for cover and discovered three other civilians also
cowering there. The tank shifted his target and put a round direct-

ly behind where we were, maybe 15 meters away. These bastards, |
thought, have a good pair of binocs and have got a good sight on us.
The fighter | was laying with in the snow came over and dove for cover
as well. We stayed huddled in the ditch for 20 minutes as shell after
shell impacted. The tanker knew we were around, but he couldn't see
us because of the snow and because we were in a depression. Still,
if he managed to land a round on the back side of the depression,

the concussion would kill us all, just like the man and lady | had seen
earlier in the day.

| started to rue my decision to get out of the car and try to make
pictures. Stupid, selfish, | thought, | should have carried on. That
would have been selfish as well. WHAM, another round. | had left the
video camera on to capture the noise, it is truly amazing noise, the
rush of a round and the impact. If you live, you're amazed, if you die,
well, | don’t know. | focused on the guys | was cowering with, | figured
that would be better than focusing on the sky and would take my
mind off my current situation. Still, as | looked through the camera,
| thought, Christ, he can stay there all day, he probably has night
vision, and we'll all freeze to death before he gets bored. But why
would he want to kill civilians? Probably for the same reason the jets
were bombing the neighborhoods. Then, Whoosh, a jet came over, low
and loud. He circled and came back. At this point | was truly terri-
fied. The tank surely had communications with the jet and he was
looking for us So he could missile or bomb us. A most unpleasant end-
ing of a pretty pleasant life. | was getting pretty upset. Then | noticed
my wallet and digital diary were missing. Hell, now | was really upset.
| couldn't lose those! All my credit cards, my money, my phone num-
bers, my expenses, my receipts. Jesus, | put them in the same place
as the god damn tapes, jerk. | forgot about the tank, | forgot about
the jet, | started to look for my stuff. Isn't that weird? It wasn’t
where we were laying, it must have fallen out as | ran for cover. There
wag an instinct pulling me back from whence | came to find my stuff.

Fortunately my head took over and said, hey jerk! STAY WHERE YOU
ARE, THIS IS SERIOUS!!! | took that advice, but | was bugged.

The jet came back, we all cowered. It left in a roar over downtown.
Maybe it wasn't looking for us. | sure hoped so. The tank hadn't taken
a shot in about three minutes and we were getting antsy. We all
wanted to live and we all wanted to leave. One fighter in a snow suit
jumped up and raced away. The jet came back. Rat-a-tat-a-tat went
his machine gun at the plane. BOOM went the tank in reply. Jerk, |
thought, he gave our position away. Sure enough more rounds fol-
lowed on the heels of the first one and we ate dirt for another five
minutes.

Then, Silence. No booms, no jets, no whizzes. We could hear the
sound of cars as they drove slowly up to the destroyed jeep and
Moskivich and then as they sped up and fled, away from the scene
and possible destruction. | counted perhaps five cars and conclud-
ed it was safe to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE NOW! | popped my
head up to take a view of the situation. At the car was the ITN crew
| had handed my tape to. They had their tripod out and were doing a
shot when the tank tried to nail them. I've never seen four guys in hel-
mets, flak vests and gear get into a car so fast and speed off. But
| saw this as | was hoofing it at top speed away, frantically waving
my arms at their car for them to stop and get me and almost cry-
ing with fear. They pulled alongside me and | dove in. | slammed the
door shut and said “Thanks, you guys have just saved my life.” |
meant it. Then | gave them my tape.

So what happens? | heard from people here the Russians have
Spread out their attack and are going after villages all over the
province. | spent the evening with a bunch of photographers here talk-
ing about what was going on. The Russians will never win there, of
course. The Chechens will fight them for years. They fought for 300
years in earlier centuries, and they will fight that long again. If the
Russians do subdue Grozny, so what? They'll never be able to install
a government that will be acceptable to the Chechen people. It will
always be a puppet regime like the Russians supported in
Afghanistan. Obviously the Russians will have to come to a political
solution, probably soon, as well because as the soldiers continue to
die, tolerance for the war will go down and Yeltsin will lose risking next
year's elections. The Chechens will have won their independence, it’s
the only way, but at what a cost. And the only thing the Russians
have earned is the undying enmity of the Caucas’ people. Not a good
Start to a new nation.

David

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Finally, after a year and three weeks | can say I’m done. I’ve been
looking forward to this for a long time, the point at which all that is
left are these two pages. Now that they're here, | can’t figure out
what to gay. This has been the most difficult year of my life and |am
happy just to have survived through it all. Physically that is, whether
I've made it mentally is yet to be determined. | am still pretty con-
fused about everything that has happened this past year. All| know
is that doing this book has given me the most amazing mix of expe-
riences | have ever had in one year and it is going to take me some
time to completely understand and come to terms with everything
that has happened.

| guess | should be excited, but | think the lack of sleep and over-
all stress of trying to finish this has made me quite numb. For a year
this book has been on my mind, no matter what | was doing. It is
going to feel good to finally put it to rest. One thing | can say is that
I’m looking forward to becoming a normal human being again. | can't
wait until | have the time to cook and eat real food. Going to sleep
at night will be a nice change, although I'll miss seeing the sun rise.
Taking a shower and changing my clothes, now there’s a novel idea!
Well I’m off to return to reality 90 here it is, | hope you enjoy it.

h y KEVIN H. LYSAGHT

EpitoR-|IN-CHIEF
TORCH 1995
For the past couple of days | have been making a list of people | want-
ed to mention because |’m afraid that | am going to forget someone.
List or not, | wouldn’t be surprised if | do in fact forget someone solam
going to take the time now to apologize. To anyone who had helped me
this year in any way, shape, or form, you have my deepest gratitude.
GOLD: This section probably sounds like a broken record to you by now,
but I’m going to write it anyway because its true. You are the secret
ingredient to this yearbook. Without you I’m not sure if this book would
ever come out. Any question I’ve ever had, you've been able to answer.
Your generosity and patience are amazing. | don’t know how you've put
up with all of us over the years. Thank You.
JOE and MIKE DURINZI: Thank you for all that you’ve done for me. You
went out of your way to help me out several times this year and | appre-
ciate it. You should come up with Rick during one of the sessions this
year and visit. VAL: By the time this comes out you should be starting
to hear wedding bells. Congratulations and thanks for your help.
PROF. GOSSEN: Thank you very much for taking the time to work with
me this year and for also having 0 much patience with me. | apologize
for all the times | came to your office to talk and my head was some-
where in the clouds. I’m sorry | couldn’t put the kind of time into my
paper as | would have liked, but hopefully seeing the finished book will
help explain what | was doing.
MR. LAMPARTER: Hey Lamps, how's it going. | bet you never thought
about seeing this, huh? You are probably the one reason | got into pho-
tography in the first place. Your encouragement and enthusiasm is what
got me going. Thanks. | hope Montauk is treating you well.
SEAN: Uhh, Whatdayacallit, thanks. Without you this year | would have

been a dead man. You're right up there with Gold. Hell if you had any
more photos in this thing it would have your name on it. You looked out
for me 50 much this year, | owe you big time. Thanks for being such a
good friend and good luck at ICF. One last Question, How old do you have
to be to play with the balls?

TERU: You really saved my ass this spring. You're a great inspiration,
your book is like a bible to me. Good luck, | know you're going to go big
very soon. Thank you for all the great photographs. No thanks for the
onion armpits and the beat downs with the whiffle ball bat though.
ANDREW: You’re a hard act to follow, thats for sure. Thanks for the
chance to do this book, | hope its to your liking. You had really good tim-
ing with your phone calls this year. You always caught me when | wasn’t
doing too good and your call kept me going. Your visit this summer
helped me out so much, thanks. Good luck, | know you're going to make
it big. Its amazing what you've already accomplished in the short time
you've been in N.Y.C.

RAE: Good luck on your film this winter. You’ve got such a desire to do
it, | can even hear it in your voice. You really added life to this office, and
it was always fun to have you around. Go out and get famous so |can
brag about how | uged to work with you in college.

MATT: Thanks for all your help this year. | wish | would had seen you
around a little bit more. | definitely think its time for you to get out of
Albany before you get too comfortable. Its good to hear you're headed
to N.Y.C. We should think about starting a photo service alumni asso-
ciation in N.Y.C., | definitely think there is enough of you down there. |
know you'll do well at whatever you decided to do. Hey there’s always
those quilts. (ha-ha)

JORGE: By the time you read this you probably will have given up all hope
of maintaining your sanity. That’s alright though, it comes back after
a while. If you haven’t realized yet, you're in for one crazy year. You have
your work cut out for you in a big way. | know you'll do a great Torch 96,
| have confidence in you. Just keep your chin up and remember one thing,
try to have fun.

SCOTT: You have gotten really good and you should be proud. I've seen
some really nice concert shots from you and they'll only get better.
Shoot a lot for Jorge this year, you could be a valuable photographer to
him.

JAY: What’s up muffin head. That's crazy!! It was really good to have you
on the staff this year. Your stories always seemed to cheer me up and
put me in a good mood. Your in a good position to learn a lot this year.
Try to shoot as much as possible.

STORM 'IN MIKE: | don’t think this office will ever be the same as it was
before you joined. If Beavis only knew he had a real life counterpart. You
were my right hand man this summer. | don’t think you realize how much
you helped me. Thanks for transcribing those interviews and pulling
through with those news shots at the end. Our conversations this sum-
mer were interesting. Hearing all your warped ideas makes me glad that
you're on our gide. | only ask one thing of you this year, go out there and
shoot!

SUE: Thanks for all your help. It was cool having you around this sum-
mer. Thanks for tackling the senior section, you don’t know how much
that helped me. The hummus bagels were a bonus. You really saved me
a ton of work this summer, | really appreciate it.

DAN: Thanks for all your help. | know | didn’t take you up on most of your
offers to help but just the fact that you asked meant a lot. You were a
good person for advise, you always have smart answers. Good luck in
Japan this next year.

STU: Thanks for the help with the senior section and mailing out those
yearbooks. | look forward to seeing some good photographs from you
this year.

HEATHER: You learned so much in just one semester its scary. You're
in a good position to be an editor.(wow this sounds exactly like what
Sean wrote to me, spooky.) Trust me, your good enough now and you'll
definitely be good enough when the time comes. Its a great experience,
think about it. One other thing, slow down and enjoy yourself.

CHAS: You were like a surrogate mother to me this year. Thanks for tak-
ing care of me. | didn’t realize how lucky | was to have you as a house-

mate. It was so nice to come home and relax, sorry if | wasn’t the neat-
est person in the world. Congratulations on NBC, now your an official
suit working for the man.

ELYSE: What's up woman! It was cool having you around this year. You
added some much needed character to this place. So now that your like
a graduate and stuff, what's next.

ESPERANZA: It was good to see you shooting at the end of the
semester. You have a good eye. Shoot a lot this year and the rest will

| fall into place.

DOREEN: Thanks for looking out for me this year. You were my eyes and
ears first semester. Without you, | would have missed a lot of stuff.
Thanks. You have my camera, now just uge it!

MELISSA: Its good to know you're going to be around again this year.
This means | will have another full year to annoy you like a little broth-
er. Sounds good right, just don’t hit me.

VERONICA: You were one of the people | was always happy to see come

| into the office. You were always in a good mood and it wore off on me

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many times. So thanks for cheering me up, even if you didn’t realize you
were doing it.

JOE: Its good to know you'll still be around this year now that you have
the Metroland hookup going on. Thanks for the writing.and proofing you
did for me. It should be interesting to see the Jay/Joe combination
working again.

STEVE: I’m glad | got to know you this year because | have to admit, |
was a little weary of you at first. Your a good person and you're cool to
talk to. You have a good eye, and | look forward to seeing what you have
to offer this year now that you'll be around again.

ADELA: I’m hoping to see you come back shooting this year. | know you
have the interest, just go out and shoot.

ALLEN: Your a cool person and I'm glad that you joined photo service.
Now take that new FM you got and go shoot some film.

SUSIE: It was too bad that | didn’t get to really know you better last
year but I’m looking forward to seeing you around and getting more
involved this year. I’m sorry about the picture.

TARDIS: You are one of the only truly genuine people I've met this year
and I’m glad we became friends this summer. Your visits and our con-
versations about various “issues” were always a good pick me up.
Thanks.

MOM, DAD, KELLY & KATHY: Thanks for being so supportive and under-
standing this year. Those carepackages were life savers. I'm sorry | was-
n't around a lot this year but hopefully you'll understand once this thing
comes out. Kathy, thanks so much for doing that handcoloring for me.
To do them that fast and so well while in the midst of moving was more
than | could have ever asked for. | can’t wait until semester break to
spend time with you all. Mount Snow is going to be awesome. | love you,
thanks for everything.

JEN: Well | don’t know where to start. First | should start by telling you
that | love you so much. Ag | sit here finishing, I'm a little bummed out
because | know it is going to be another two weeks before we are togeth-
er for the first time, free of this book. | don’t know how to express in
words how much | owe you for this year. You were always there for me no
matter what. Even when you had your own problems to deal with you
still helped me with mine. You never stopped giving this whole year. | know
| also took so much more than | ever gave back and | apologize for that.
| don’t think | would have made it this year if | didn’t have you on my side
supporting me the whole way through. Sometimes | think you had it even
worse than | did because whatever was bothering me would ultimately
bother you too. You were the only one this year who truly knew what was
going on in my head and in my life. | think you are the only one who knows
what it is like to do a book without actually doing one, because you
shared the experience with me. Although this past year has been real-
ly hard on both of ug, it has proved to strengthen our relationship even
more. Over the last several months, | have had the strongest feelings
for you than | have ever had before. If this deeper love for you were the
only thing to come of this year, | would not have a complaint in the world.
Thanks for everything. | love you Jen.

Photo credit lettered from A-Z, clockwise
from top left.

All photographs by KEVIN LYSAGHT except:

SEAN SIME: 4-5, 21 29B, 34A, 54A, SOB,
TTA,E, S1A, &6C, 112A,B, 115B,D, 1OF, 121,
122A, 120A, Rito, Tee, IAD, 156-197,
TAA OSAD, 125. ae, 200, 220, 229.
D0, ZOLC, COO, ea, CO, COON,
261B, 262B,D, 263D, 266-267,
309,312A,G,FQ, 313,D,L,R,9

MATT GLYNN: GOB,E, 63A, 1150, 142B, 1046,
195C,); ZIGA,D. 220, 24ic, 2O2B.C, 25350,
2OOB, 203B

JORGE RUBIO: 42B, 72A, B, 7B, 9GA, 102A,
143L, 161A, 171B, 2OGA,C, 312B,H

TERU KUWAYAMA: 40-41, 42A, 87D, 146,
14060, 170, 1990 1907, O10-511, SIZT
RAYMOND McGRATH: 8238, 142U, 147D,

176C,D, 177A,B,C
HEATHER ROHAN: 47B, 1420, 176B, 256C,
2O/h, ZO, 2626, PEOL

MIKE CATCHPOLE: 237C,D,l, 241G,H,1,L
ANDREW GOLDBERG: 320A, &1B,C, 8GA,
159A, 241D

SCOTT GRIES: 144B, 240B,241M
DANIEL NEWMAN: 142A, 313N

ADELA SINCLAIR: 163A

TOM FILLSWORTH: 320

JOSHUA DENENBERG: 133A

All photographs on pages; 22,25,31,147,
handcolored by KATHLEEN LYSAGHT.

Writing:

JOE SCHRAM: 227

ZINA CARY: 228

JOSEFH F. BUCCINO: 235
DAVID BRACHLI: 238-239

Concept, Layout, Design, and Interviews by
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Senior Fortraits by CARL WOLF STUDIO.

TORCH 1995 printed by DELAMR PRINTING
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