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A farewell from
Ashwani Prabhakar
Student Association President
149986-99

I came here in 1996 as a transfer student. I stayed in Albany for the
summer without any intention of going to school here, but I fell in love
with the place and decided to stay. I didn’t know anyone here so I
thought that getting involved in student government would be the
best way to meet people, I just didn’t know then what type of people
I'd be meeting. Advice: do not go near politics if you have real ideals.
So I ran for Central Council off campus representative that year and I
won. Because of the number of votes I received, people assumed I
had cheated and that was the first time I was hurt by the politicians in
S.A. I had ideals and a vision that were similar to most of the students
here. I thought we deserved respect from this town and the adminis-
tration, I thought our professors should know how to teach, and if we
paid for products such as food, it should be of decent quality. That
whole first year upset me. I sat in meetings with SA officials and we
didn’t do anything for the students. Hell, S.A. didn’t even know what
the students wanted; they never talked to them. That year I decided
to run for President. Some people probably remember the “Got Milk?”
posters. I was criticized for trying to create a cult of personality, rather
than addressing the issues. I was thought to be a joke, because I went
to the bars to campaign. But it was there and in student’s dorm rooms
that I realized what the true issues were, and it was there that I found
the solutions. Solutions that a freshman in Seneca might have given
me were far better than anything an S.A. committee could churn out. It
was respect for the students that I wanted, and it was that idea that
created support for me.

That first campaign was awful. My opponents spread every type of
rumor about me that they could think of: “He’s a racist... He’s a
homophobe... He only likes white people... etc.” Students began
believing these things and it was a painful experience for me at the
age of 20 to have to walk on the podium or be in a classroom and have
people give me dirty looks because of something they had heard. I
have never wished harm to the people that did that to me because
what they did is so wrong that I know Karma is going to bite them in
the ass for it one day. Even the people who will speak negatively
about me after I graduate I will hold nothing against. Their hatred for
me stems from something bad in them. I have no ill feelings for those
who speak badly of me. The students and I know the truth, and in the
end that is all that matters. I continueed to campaign, though, and
finished second by a handful of votes. I was not at all saddened by
this. Like Rocky in “Rocky I” my goal was to do the best I could for
what I thought was right; my goal was not to win the championship.

The next year, my friends and I decided that we needed to change
the student government. We went door to door that spring and vis-
ited every suite three times. We spoke to students non-stop. The
students responded, and we won. It was time to pay the fiddler and I
began working on our goals: students’ rights, UAS food, Parkfest,
and stronger student groups. I had the time of my life screwing with
the administration during my presidency. They hate me and I love it,

because it meant that I was doing my job. There were cases of students
being pulled out of showerts by UPD and their wallets being ille-
gally searched to find chalked ID’s, Residential Life staff running
freshman dorms like they were prisons: forcing first year studentsto
confess to things that they had not done, judicial board trials where
the student faced a prosecution and a jury that were all best friends;
our judicial board is a kangaroo court if 1 ever saw one. I fought these
battles with these students case by case. I knew the administration
was just waiting for my term to end so everything could go back to
normal. But these students I helped have strengthened their resolve
to maintain their self respect after our ordeals. Those students will
never let go of that dignity again.

Changing UAS was very fulfilling as well. The way the system works is
that I was able to appoint students to their Board of Directors. I ap-
pointed several students who had been trying to improve the food
for years. UAS wasn’t too happy about my appointments. But I still get
a kick when I think back to the looks on their faces when we were in
those meetings putting a fire under their middle management bu-
reaucrat butts. We achieved much there: better meal plans, better
food, more selection, hot water in the washing machines (my favor-
ite... haha)

Parkfest was very fun to plan. The university and the city did not want
us to have it. So I moved it to Altamont fairgrounds, but the mayor
there would not let us have it even though we had already gotten a
permit. So I moved it to East Greenbush, where it was actually held.
Every student I have spoken to said they had a great time. The music
was good, the beer was cheap, the weather was great and we had not
one thrown object, not one fight, not one theft, and we proved the
university and the city wrong. It was fun shoving a successful Parkfest
in their faces.

Of course, this whole time, my grades were going down the tube. I
had always been an “A” student, and now I was at the bottom of my
class. I rarely went to class. They were too early and my professors
with few exceptions did not make it easy to stay awake. I had fun with
the time I was not in class, though. I did work in the S.A. and walked the
podium speaking to students. I became obsessed with doing a great
job as President. I loved to speak and laugh with all the students. I had
to go to the students to laugh, because S.A. officers are “serious” and
“politically conscious” and have no time to laugh when there is the
delusion of saving the world.

Everyone on campus was familiar with my name and face. It was great
when students would come up to me and talk with me because they
knew who I was. It was a double-edged sword because some students
would only stare at me and I would get embarrassed and keep my
head down. Even now, I love it when Iam walking down the street and
students in a car passing by will yell hello to me. It even happened to
me in Long Island this sum-
mer and it was hilarious, I
loved it. It was, however, al-
ways awkward when stu-
dents were too shy to talk to
me or they were not them-
selves around me. It made
me feel sad because I would
have loved to have formed
friendships with them. Allin
all it was a great experience
and I enjoyed myself.

I hope the students I came
into contact with and who are
still in Albany will do well and make successes out of themselves.
Relationships are the only things that matter and I was blessed with
thousands of great students to form bonds with. I am thankful that I
came to Albany and thankful that I did something that helped me
make friends with an entire student body.

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Interview with
Joshua
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I’m from Merrick, NewYork on ©
Long Island. When I graduated
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company. But the problem
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mind, I was just going to Al-
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schools - Albany and Cornell
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so Albany it was. I came here
in the fall of 95 and I’ve been
here ever since. It took me
four years to get out of here. It’s been a crazy and long trip.

I was actually excited to get to Albany - it’s the State Capital and I’d always
gotten involved in politics when I was in high school and I was happy to be in
a political town. The first person I met the very first day that I was up here was
“Landslide” Larry Kaufman and from there my life just took a crazy turn.

He was president of the SA at the time and he got me elected to central council
straight off the bat in the fall elections my freshman year. I got 83 votes on
Indian Quad, it was like a record back then. And then at the very first council
meeting I kinda went against him and asked if we could permanently ban him.
And for that he hated me for a good two years but we’ve since made up and
everything’s cool now.

Well the guy got up there and he started talking about his penis in the middle
of the council meeting and I felt that that was a little bit inappropriate. SoI was
a hot shot at the time and I raised my hand and that was actually the very first
thing I said at a central council meeting. Mike Castrilli was the chair and I said
“Can we permanently ban the president from speaking in council meetings?”
and it didn’t roll over the way I thought it would.

It just paved the road for a long impeachment process that got blown out of
proportion when he got naked on top of a Ryder truck.

It was homecoming of my freshman year and we still had tailgate parties back
then. He was at the tailgate party and we were drinking our faces off. Larry just
got up there and he starts cheering everybody on and everybody’s like “yo,
he’s the SA president!” All of a sudden he just took his clothes off and let it all
hang out. A lot of students got offended, a lot of alumni and parents and kids
were there too. That was kind of like the straw that broke the camel’s back that

year.

The real reason Larry Kaufman was impeached was because he was making
contracts without telling anybody about it, for ridiculous amounts of money.
My sophomore year there were rumors of corruption, I never really saw any. In
my junior year there were some behind the scenes things, some comments that
were made - my sophomore year it was Mike Castrilli and then my junior year
was Rashim. This year, forget about it. There’s a lot of things that went on that
shouldn't have happened and I’m happy to get out of there so I didn’t have to
be a part of that.

I pledged Pi Kappa Alpha. I was actually an underground pledge. I had 23 AP
credits and at the time the university wasn’t very strict about who could pledge
and who couldn’t, even though they said that first semester freshmen couldn’t
pledge. ButI did. Pi Kappa Alpha was brand new on campus, I was actually a
member of the first pledge class. And it’s been great. We went from 26 broth-
ers my freshman year and now we have 52 with this year’s pledge class, and
just the memories I have from it are phenomenal.

Ever since I got into my fraternity I took an active roll andI held a lot of chairs.
In December of my junior year I ran for president - we run from December to
December - and I was elected for the full year position, basically 1998. That
was a lot of work. One of the hardest things to do on campus is to represent an
entire organization with administration. You really have to voice the opinions

of people you represent, but it was a lot of fun, it was a really good time and I’m
glad I got the opportunity to do it.

[hada really good time being the comptroller. You know, I’m one of those people
that likes to do other things for other people, that’s just the way I was brought up.
At the end of my junior year I wanted to run for SA president, I really did ...but...
politics is an ugly game and there was a bill to come up to remove me sponsored
by J.C. This was actually second semester of my junior year, right as I was
getting ready to mount the campaign and at the time I had just turned 21 and!
developed into a heavy drinker. I had a little flask I would keep in the top corner
of my desk and I would just take a little shot in the middle of the day. It wasn’t a
good scene. I went to the health center and they helped me out of it.So props to
the health center for helping students because they definitely did a good job on
me. Actually, the same day I sobered up I made amends with Larry Kaufman and
we got together - Larry, myself, and Ashwani - at a diner down on Wolf Road and
we had a summit of some sort. At that point I looked at Ashwani I said “Look, |
don’t want to deal with any of the bullshit anymore, all I want is my job back
because I enjoy it.” And at that point he said “Fine, if 1 win the presidency |
promise you your job back.” And he won and I took it and then things took a turn
for the worse.

The thing that really made up my mind to resign was I was working, the audit was
coming up and! had all the previous year’s files locked in my office. 1 came in
one day and they were all gone and nobody knew where they were. And it
turned out Ashwani had taken them because he was trying to dig dirt up on
me...at that point I just threw in the towel. I said, you know what, I’ve done this for
long enough and it’s not making me a better person so I’m sorry to all the
students but I needed time for me.

This year’s Greek Week opening ceremonies I was an official so I had to break
up fights and stuff like that. It was actually calm this year. I remember last year
I was an official also and I got trampled and everybody was just running at each
other trying to beat the crap out of each other and it was a bad scene, but this
year was actually a very good scene. It broke up early on its own. The yellow
team, I think it was, just picked up and left in the middle cause they didn’t want
to stand around anymore. UPD had nothing to do with it. They were there just in
case anything bad happened. Five Quad was there also and I think one person
fell and scraped their arm, and there was one girl who was actually attacked by
a member of another fraternity and that was the only really bad incident, but
fortunately there weren't a lot of disturbances this year.

The best part of Greek Week was that I got to referee the anchorman contest.
Anchorman goes until somebody has to go to the bathroom or until somebody
pukes. Somebody pissed on my leg and that was the official end but it was
actually a good time.

I guess my best memory here had to be Parkfest ’97 - you know, the last real
one. That was a great time, I hada
semi-religious experience that day
too so that will always stick out. |
Fountain Day was fun, especially this
year I got to go in the dunk tank, hav-
ing everybody I knew throwing balls
and knocking me in so, a lot of good
times.

The last day of Greek Week in my
junior year I threw a party at my house
over on Ontario street - we had 8
fraternities, 7 sororities, 13 kegs, a
live band downstairs, a DJ upstairs,
2 fights, 6 cop cars and at 8:30 in the
morning I woke up in jail and said
“Yo” to a judge and got a 20 minute
lecture on respect.Then that summer
the ranking came out that we were
the #1 party school and I definitely
agree with it. Not to sound conceited,
but I'd like to take a little bit of credit
for it.

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One thing I gotta say is thank God

for the Albany Coed Intramural Athletic League. I had the opportunity to play in
four of they’re leagues - football, basketball, softball, hockey - and I really think
if that organization wasn’t there, a part of me would have been lost in the univer-

sity. I was really glad I had the opportunity just to go out there and play, even if
I wasn’t the best.

I wanted to be an archaeologist when I was
eight years old. 1 remember this woman coming to
speak to my class about “cavemen” and I thought it
was so cool that there was all this stuff right
underneath us. I once enlisted my sisters to help me
dig under the porch. We found some broken
flowerpots, but I don’t think they were very old.

As an anthropology major, I have come to real-
ize that it is not the things we find that are important,
but the people who left them there. It never fails to
amaze me that we can reconstruct the past through
material objects. In my freshman year I got involved
with the Belize Postclassic Project, an archaeologi-
cal research project run by Dr. Marilyn Masson of the
Anthropology department. Dr. Masson helped me to
get a grant from the National Science Foundation
which funded my first field experience and an inde-
pendent research project while I was there. I have
been back with the project every summer since then.

The research is really exciting to me. We focus
on the Postclassic Maya (roughly 900-1450AD) of
Northern Belize, Central America. The two sites on
which we have excavated are Laguna de On and Caye
Coco, both small islands in freshwater lakes. In my
own research I have explored issues of local economy
through a raw material study of stone tools and
debitage (the garbage that’s produced when manu-
facturing or reworking a stone tool.) I asked ques-
tions about local manufacture and trade: where were
the residents of these islands getting the raw mate-
rial to manufacture their tools, or were they obtain-
ing the tools already manufactured? What kinds of
materials were used for what tools? Did patterns of
raw material use change over time? And is local
economy affected by social and political changes? My
first article will be published in the Fall 1999 edition
of the journal Lithic Technology.

Three seasons down in Belize have introduced
me not only to the science of archaeology and the
culture of the Postclassic Maya, but also to the modern
peoples of Belize. In Orange Walk Town, six miles from
where we live, it is not surprising to see people of
Chinese, Hindu, African-Caribbean, and Spanish
descent walking the streets. There are also German
Mennonites who have several settlements in Belize.
It is not uncommon to hear Garifuna spoken on the
bus, and our favorite Chinese restaurant will often
have Chinese television playing at the bar, although
most people know English, the official language of
Belize.

My experiences in Belize have certainly
opened a new world to me, far beyond the flowerpots
underneath my porch. I will be working on a project
in Oaxaca, Mexico this coming Spring, and plan to
pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology after that. And just as |
wrote in my sixth grade yearbook when I graduated
elementary school, you can “look for me in the future
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This year the State University of New York at Albany was ranked the #1 party school in the nation by the
Princeton Review. The ranking attracted media left and right. Many students were pleased, taking pride in their
binge drinking and the area’s bar-to-students ratio. Quite a few, however, were concerned about how the
ranking would affect the school’s academic reputation. This is what the Princeton Revew has to say about it’s
rankings. The following is a statement taken from the Princeton Review web page.

The rankings are often misconstrued; many in the media and general
public think that The Princeton Review annually deems colleges “party
schools” or places where the ‘students never stop studying.” Actu-
ally the rankings are based directly upon what students on each
campus tell us about their college. Besides inquiring about where
else they applied for admission, we ask them only about the college
they’re attending. No students are asked to rate other colleges com-
paratively in terms of any of the items the lists rank. And compound
rankings are just that-compound calculations based on responses to
multiple questions. There’s no individual “party school’ question on
the survey. In case you haven’t heard by now, the party school rank-
ing draws lots of attention every year. It’s even been the subject ofa
Doonesbury cartoon. Calls, E-mail, and letters begin to arrive in our
offices as soon as the first word of our rankings hits the media.Some
contacts are from students who complain that their college didn’t
make the list, while others are from those who are irate because their
college did.A Washington Post writer challenged WVU's #1 ranking
inthe 1998 edition as undeserved, contending that it’s nothing like
the good old days when he attended the university. Local media
have touted the fact that nearby colleges didn’t make the list when
they aren’t even in the guide in the first place, and thus were not
surveyed at all. Many incorrectly assume that an institution that shows
up on the party school ranking is a lousy college to attend-when the
basic premise of the guide is to highlight colleges that The Princeton
Review feels are among the top ten percent of colleges and univer-
sities in the U.S.

Best Colleges begins with the best as its basis. Rankings that are
among the less flattering of the sixty-two categories are not lists of
bad schools-colleges on all of these lists are still among the best in
the nation. This holds equally true for those on the party school list in
particular.Remember our earlier comments about these rankings
reflecting environmental considerations, broad categorizations of
the college experience on each campus. The University of Rhode
Island, Florida State University, and West Virginia University, for ex-
ample-each of which has placed at the top of the party ranking in the
past five years-are excellent places to pursue one’s college career,
and offer not only an exuberant social atmosphere but also a wide
range of high-quality academic programs. As does every college or
university that has ever appeared on this listin Best Colleges. The
“Schools Ranked By Category” section of Best Colleges includes

sixty-two different rankings. (One of these rankings focuses ona
single institution, Deep Springs College, the only two-year college
ever included in the guide. Deep Springs was assigned its own ‘‘Honor
Roll’ list this year that includes all categories in which it placed highly,
thus eliminating perpetual “apples and oranges’ comparisons be-
tween it and the four-year colleges in the rankings.) All of the rankings
are broad-based in their intent, designed to generally illustrate envi-
ronmental considerations at the colleges across a wide variety of
categories.

With few notable exceptions, no one should make the mistake of
assuming that the colleges and universities that don’t show up on the
party school rankings are in any way insulated from the influences of
alcohol and drugs on their student bodies and campuses. While a
student who has little self-discipline or is easily led might be best off
ona campus with a more distinctly academic emphasis,a glance at
the news of the past academic year reveals that such considerations
aren't often useful benchmarks. The gaps aren’t large in this regard,

and tragedy is not exclusive. Both Louisiana State University, labeled
as a party schoollong before The Princeton Review ever published a
college guide, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the
finest academic institutions in the world, each suffered the loss ofa
student in alcohol-related deaths at the beginning of the 1997-98

academic year.A Harvard University study has revealed that 86% of
college fraternity residents and 44% of undergraduates in general

binge drink (consume five or more alcoholic beverages in one sit-

ting). These facts are sobering, as they should be. Fingers can be

pointed in many directions as concerns campus drinking and party-

ing.““‘Dry campus” policies drive drinking off-campus, make it even

more dangerous, and only exacerbate the problem by removing any

opportunity to influence student behavior in this regard. If you’re

going off campus to drink, don’t drive back drunk-get a designated

driver.Wherever you're going to drink, do it safely, smartly, responsi-

bly,and within the law. Don’t let a peer situation (fraternity rush, etc.)

put you in jeopardy-it’s simply not worth it.Don’t use alcohol or drugs

as a badge of your coolness-there’s not much ofa fine line between

someone who’s socially engaging and someone who's totally disen-

gaging because s/he’s performed a chemically-enabled auto-lo-

botomy. Lastly, don’t simply take responsibility for yourself; remem-

ber to keep an eye on your friends, and never leave them passed out

and alone.

The following is a list of all the other Princeton Review rankings in which SUNY Albany ranked #15 or higher.

Academics: Ranked #7 in Their students (almost) never study
Ranked #6 in Professors suck all life from materials
Ranked #15 in Professors make themselves scarce
Administration: Ranked #3 in Students dissatisfied with financial aid
Quality of Life: Ranked #9 in Least happy students

Ranked #7 in Campus is tiny, unsightly, or both

Ranked #7 in Is it food?

Ranked #11 in Dorms like dungeons

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Interview with
Bob Ford
Head Football Coach

My name is Robert Ford and I’ve been the
football coach at the University at Albany
since the Fall of 1970.That was the year
that I arrived to the University at Albany
where we started a football program from
scratch. We were a club team for 3 years -
70, 71, and’72 and then became an inter-
collegiate team in the Fall of 1974.

It was kind of funny.I came here and thoughtI was going to use the
University at Albany as a professional stepping stone - two things
happened. One, we had a lot of success early on in football, the
second thing is the Capital District is an easy place to enjoy living in
- there’s a little bit of city life, a little bit of country life, and I love that
combination of both. And then obviously, as the football program
grew, it was my so-called “baby” and it’s hard to walk out on that.

I think we had a good spring season, spring practice, and finished
with a good spring game. I think the kids are enthusiastic about ’99
We’re entering into a new conference called the Northeast Confer-
ence. Some of those teams we’ve played before - Monmouth and
Stony Brook and Central Connecticut, but the other teams will be all
new for us so we’re looking forward to that challenge.

It’s hard to say why students don’t support us, because I’ve talked to

I think at my age, as I go back over the outstanding things that have

happened in my life, one would be the birth ofa child, two would be ane! sineites — Seep igs a ee gona
3 ennis getting my doctorate, 3, 4,5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and everything else high school athletic programs. I don’t know what it is. I’ve been here
after that would probably be specific ball games that we won and 29 years. Doc Sauers was our basketball coach here for 42 years, ogee
UA Opponent specific kids that have been in the program that will forever be etched 704 ball games, sg one losing season in 42 years, so it sure isn’t
3 Sucked “Noack l in my memory bank. I think the down things are death of parents, a because we haven't had success.
- Binghamton 0 divorce, after that was a loss of football games and then young hu-
5 i hed wae ke 0 man beings who did not live up to their Potential athletically or I think for example, if we were going to play Syracuse in basketball, I
? Bentley 2 academically. So! think those are the highs andlows,ifyouaskedme to = would say that game would probably draw quite a bit. But it’s funny,
q Russell Sage 0 pick out a couple ball games that really stand out in my memory through the years I've seen the kids come down to a ball game and
e Quinnipiac ? bank, well we beat the University of Maine, a full scholarship school, they'll pack the house for some games, be a great game and a great
eee veeree a few years back. That was a great win for us. We went down to the spectator event and n think “Boy, tie ‘ll be back the next week”
0 Skidmore : University of Central Florida and beat them in the fourth quarter 28 Be es os t “ tyes Ciera ss
: Binghamton : to 27. This year in the championship game we were down 24 to ee
l eee Oe ere A and I don’t want to get into predicting those things.
5 Verbont 4 nothing and came back and won 25 to 24. Those are games that just
2 Pace ? immediately stick out.
8 Union 1 Football and basketball have both had a great deal of success through
This year was just a phenomenal football season. We ended up 10 the years. They are so into the news media, : can’t help but feel that
and 1, and this was in light of graduating the greatest quarterback ena cae ee NR wohees een — psa ntic ae —
NTS Salunieac. Span —e we ever had in thep the greatest tight end we ever had in the know, it doesn't seem as if any of therm live in isolation booths. I just
and Pl MEE Scuenanart ake _ the greatest split end and our best offensive lineman. Those can’t believe that if they wanted to know how the teams were doing
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impact on the players or not. I think once the game begins no one

back, we won our divisional championship, got into the conference
plays for people in the stands, you play for yourself and your team-

championship and won that after getting down by 24 points. Sol

think that was an extremely rewarding season, both for the squad
and our coaching staff.

mates, but I just think it’s unfortunate that the students on campus
haven't been a little bit more supportive through the years.

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If you walked on this campus and you were just a spectator coming
in here, or a visitor,and someone asked you “where do you think this
university plays? what level of athletic competition?’’I think 90% of
the people who would visit would say “oh, that has to be a Division 1
school.” We’re a large public university located in the state capital.
We are a great academic institution, listed on top twenty lists of many,
many things and for years we’ve played in Division 3 level of athlet-
ics. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but it just isn’t where
most of your large public universities participate. SoI think the move
to Division 1 is one that is long needed and I thinkit’s a place where
the university should be. There will be growing pains in that process
as you move up. Obviously more resources are needed to fund that
machine as it moves up, but at the same time this university has
made a commitment to excellence on the academic level, and it
would seem as if we should make the same commitment on the
athletic level.

I think the program that’s gonna wag the dog right now is the basket-
ball program and I think we will probably become fully
scholarshipped in men’s and women’s basketball fairly quickly. We
will be playing at a Division 1 level of competition. You'll see better
teams, better athletes. I think in football, the step up to non-scholar-
ship 1AA is not as great a step as our basketball teams will be con-
fronted with. I think we still have a fighting chance of winning on the
level we're at. I think eventually the changes you'll see is the addition
of maybe another full time coach or more, the addition of better
seating facilities for spectators, and probably better football players
coming in.

Even if you've already noticed in the local news media, we have a full
time beat writer from the Albany Times Union that’s assigned to the
University at Albany - That’s all he covers - University at Albany
athletics. So that’s a little bit different than five years ago when we
may have had a writer assigned to cover a contest.

I guess I always hope that were gonna play with a lot of class, play as
a family, and win a hell of a lot of ball games, and I don’t think there’s
ever been a ball game I’ve gone into in the 29 years that I’ve been
here that I didn’t think we were going to win.

I’ve been at four different colleges, and I don’t know whether we’re
any more of a party school than any of the other ones I’ve been at. I
do think this - I know the administration gets very concerned about
it. At the same time, the school’s academic reputation does not seem
to suffer. We are still ranked extremely high in many polls, we attract
avery solid candidate to apply here with academic background. I
think the kids who get out of here have a great education, and I don’t
know whether anyone said that you're not supposed to have fun when
you go to college - there’s nothing wrong with that. You can have a
good time and get a great education. I think Albany might be a
tremendous environment for that.

When we went into this conference, the goal was to obviously try
to win your division. If you win your division you get to play for the

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conference championship and that’s our goal. We stayed healthy. We
turned the ball over very little on offense, we were very opportunistic
on defense, had a lot of interceptions, a lot of fumble recoveries, we
played extremely well in the special teams, and I think when you put
all that together we became a pretty good football team. We got beat
about the fourth game of the season by a real good C.W. Post team.
We played fairly well but they played very, very good and beat us ina
good ball game. But then our kids bounced back after that and got in
the Southern Connecticut game which was an outstanding football
game. We played very, very well and that won the divisional cham-
pionship for us, which got us into the conference championship. We had
beaten AIC earlier in the year in the second ball game of the season
and we had beaten them the year before in the conference champion-
ship,so when that happens the pendulum starts swinging the other
way a little bit. You get a little fat and sassy and they start having a little
bit more determination that they’re gonna finally beat you. They had a
great running back, big, strong offensive line that averaged 305 pounds
a man, and they dominated the line of scrimmage in the early going
and put up points. The next thing you know it was 24/nothing. We
came back and got 2 - before we went into halftime it was 24-13 and
then came back in the third quarter going with the wind and couldn't
score. We got the ball in the fourth going into the wind and scored
twice and won it. A great, great championship game.

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Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying
to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontifi-
cate on life to young people who’d rather be
Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to
sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps
and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain

ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Gradu-
ates.

I encourage anyone over 26 to try this and thank you

for indulging my attempt.

Ladies and gentlemen [of the class of ’99]:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sun-
screen would be it.The long-term benefits of sunscreen
have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of
my advice has no basis more reliable than my own me-
andering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never
mind. You will not understand the power and beauty
of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20
years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall
in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay
before you and how fabulous you really looked. You
are not as fat as you imagine.

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Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that
worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra
equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in
your life are apt to be things that never crossed your
worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on
some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

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Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t
put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're
ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and,
in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compli-
ments you receive. For-
get the insults. If you
succeed in doing this,
tell me how.

Keep your old love
letters. Throw away your
old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you
don’t know what you
want to do with your life.
The most interesting

people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to
do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-
year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll
miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll
have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you'll divorce
at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your
75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't con-
gratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be
afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the
greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your
living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make
you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll
be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your
best link to your past and the people most likely to
stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a pre-
cious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the
gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older
you get, the more you need the people who knew you
when you were young.

Live in NewYork City once, but leave before it makes
you hard. Live in Northern
California once, but leave
before it makes you soft.
Travel.

Accept certain inalien-
able truths: Prices will rise.
Politicians will philander.
You, too, will get old. And
when you do, you'll fanta-
size that when you were
young, prices were reason-
able, politicians were
noble and children re-
spected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you
have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time
you're 40 it will look 85.

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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with
those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dis-
pensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recy-
cling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

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Jackson, Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Stone, and
Staff Sgt. Andrew A. Ramirez give a thumbs
up together with members of the US delega-
tion at the end of the release ceremony in
Yugoslav military headquarters in Belgrade
on Sunday, May 2, 1999. Yugoslav authorities
handed over three captured U.S. soldiers to
U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson ending
their 32 days in captivity. Television
framegrabs at top, from left to right, are of
Spc. Steven Gonzales, Staff Sgt. Andrew A.
Ramirez, and Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone

At top left, President Clinton speaks to dozens of
ministers, rabbis, imams and priests at the an-
nual White House prayer breakfast on Friday, Sep-
tember 11, 1998. Clinton, in a solemn apology,
included Monica Lewinsky in a statement of regret for
having an improper relationship and lying about it.
Clinton spoke just hours before the public release of In-
dependent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s report to the House
accusing the president of perjury, obstruction of justice
and other possibly impeachable offenses in connection
with the Lewinsky affair. Front page headlines from ma-
jor Miami area English and Spanish Sunday Newspapers
are shown top center, from Sunday, December 20, 1998
featuring the news of President Clinton’s impeachment
and upcoming Senate trial. Monica Lewinsky is shown,
top right, in this video responding to a question during
her deposition February 1, 1999, shown during the House
Managers presentation in the Senate impeachment trial
of President Clinton on Saturday, February 6, 1999

Below, two unidentified relatives of one of the victims
of the Omagh bombing are visibly moved Saturday, Au-
gust 22, 1998, by the act of rememberance service held
outside the courthouse and overlooking the scene of
devastation where the bomb exploded. The open air
service was attended by tens of thousands of people
to remember the 28 dead and more than 200 who were
injured when the car bomb exploded in Northern Ire-
land on Saturday, August 15, 1998

Above, Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich carries his
suitcase from his house in
Marietta, GA. On Saturday, No-
vember 7, 1998, after telling
media gathered at his home

that he is stepping down.
Nelson Mandela, President of

the Republic of South Africa,
smiles as he lifts his honorary
Doctor of Laws degree at a spe-
cial ceremony on campus at
Harvard University in Cam-
bridge, Mass. On Friday Septem-
ber 18, 1998. Mandela joins an
elite group of out-of-season hon-
orary degree recipients which
includes George Washington
and Winston Churchill

A Kenyan soldier prepares to raise the
United States flag outside Ufundi House,
central Nairobi, Wednesday August 12,
1998, where a short ceremony was held
to commemorate the victims of the em-
bassy bombing that devastated the area
the preceding Friday. More than 250
people were killed and more than 5,500
were wounded in the twin bombings in
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A huge pall of smoke rises from civilian buildings,
near the largest military barracks in downtown
Pristinia, early Thursday March 25, 1999 after it was
hit by NATO airstrikes. Yugoslavia defiantly ab-
sorbed that first night of punishment from NATO air
power, claiming it suffered minimal damage from an
assault intended to force it to make peace with
rebels in Kosovo. But U.S. officials emphasized more
air attacks were coming. According to the Yugoslav
army, 10 people were killed and 38 wounded as a
result of the NATO attacks.

A NATO handout photo below shows an
aerial view of the damage done to the
Pristina army garrison in Kosovo by
NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia,
Sunday evening, March 28, 1999. Order-
ing up more firepower, NATO raced
against time to smash Serb military
units and head off what it called “geno-
cide” against Kosovo Albanians.

ont dhs ae GARRISON SW SERBIA.

A Serbian woman holds a photo of Yugoslavia’s
President Slobodan Milosevic as others hold
anti-NATO posters during a demonstration by
about 3,000 Serbs Saturday, March 27, 1999 in
Stuttgart, Germany against NATO air strikes in
Yugoslavia. The week’s NATO airstrikes came
after months of diplomacy failed to end fighting
that had killed more than 2000 people in the
Yugoslav providence of Kosovo. But Yugoslav
officials considered the attacks a war crime that
violated the United Nations charter. A child at
bottom left gives the three-fingered Serbian na-
tionalist salute.

At right, Yugoslavian President Slobodan
Milosevic addresses the nation from Belgrade
on Wednesday, March 24, 1999, in this image
taken from television. With NATO poised to
strike, Milosevic called on his people to be pre-
pared to defend the country “by all means.” The
Yugoslav president delivered the appeal ina
nationally televised address as it appeared that
NATO was poised to launch its first attack
against a sovereign country in its 50-year his-
tory. He reiterated his and the Serbian
Parliament’s rejection of a US-backed proposal
to end the fighting in Kosovo by giving a broad
autonomy to the province and allowing NATO
troops to deploy there.

At right, some thousand people stand
around a huge euro symbol in a park in
Frankfurt’s banking district in Germany, Fri-
day, January 1, 1999. For 11 European nations,
the New Year ushered in the era of the euro,
a single currency that promises to link the
continent’s economic fortunes and bolster
hopes for political unity.

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At left, Albanian refugee Bukuric Lalloshi rocks her
three-year-old daughter, Viona, to sleep while wait-
ing for shelter inside a NATO run refugee camp in
Stenkovac near Skopje, Macedonia, Wednesday, April
7, 1999. Lalloshi said she fled Kosovo two days prior
when she and her family were forced from their cars
by Serbian troops and ordered to walk five miles to
the Macedonia border. Macedonia was flooded with
more than 130,000 refugees within two weeks of the
NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.

University Police
Department of Public Safety

Public Safety Building
Albany, New York 12222

Director: 518/442-3130
Police: 518/442-3131
Parking: 518/442-3121
Fax: 518/442-3399

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

February 17, 1999

TO: UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY COMMUNITY

Last night, February 16, 1999, at approximately 7:30 pm a female resident student reported to the
University Police that she was assaulted in the Dutch Quad Parking Lot near the Alumni House. The
female resident student was grabbed from behind by an unknown male. The suspect had a sharp object,
possibly a knife, that he used to cut the student causing minor injuries. The student was transported by
Five Quad Volunteer Ambulance Service to the hospital, examined, and released.

The suspect is described as 5’8” to 5°10” with a small build. He was wearing dark, hooded sweat clothing.
He is described as dark complexioned, but not black. The motive for this attack is not known at this time,
but there is no indication that this was intended to be a robbery, sexual assault or abduction. University
Police is increasing its patrols in this general area using its Quality of Life Unit.

If anyone has any information about this or may have seen or heard something last night, please call UPD
at 442-3130.

The University at Albany remains perhaps the safest campus in the State University system. The safety of
the Campus can only be maintained, however, by an effective partnership between the University Police
and all members of our community. UPD offers many crime prevention and personal safety programs.
Among them are the Rape Aggression Defense System, Personal Safety and On-line Harassment. I
encourage you to visit our Web Page at http://www.albany.edu/public_safety/ for a comprehensive listing of
our services. I also encourage you to use the services of Don’t Walk Alone (442-5511) and the Student
Patrol (442-5676).

As part of our continuing community policing public awareness effort, the University will be sponsoring a
Personal Safety Fair on Friday, February 19"" between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm on the first floor of the
Campus Center. Participating in this fair will be the University Police Department, the President’s Task
Force on Women’s Safety, Residential Life, the University Counseling Center, and the Office of Personal
Safety and Off Campus Affairs.

>Frank Wiley
Chief, University Police Department

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University Police
Department of Public Safety

Public Safety Building
Albany, New York 12222

Director: 518/442-3130
Police: 518/442-3131

Parking 518/442-3121

Fax: 518/442-3399

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Feb. 20, 1999
TO: UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY COMMUNITY

This morning at approximately 3 a.m. a female resident student reported that while
she sat in her parked car at Colonial Quad archway an unknown male opened the
driver’s side door and attempted to pull her out. The student reported that she
resisted the attempt and kicked him, and that he slumped over and she drove away
and returned to her residence hall. She then called University police. She did not
sustain any injury that required medical attention.

The suspect is described as being 5-foot-10, 180 pounds, medium build, dark
complexion, possibly African-American or Hispanic with a heavy voice and a
strong cigarette odor. The student reported he was wearing a black baseball cap
and dark clothing and he did not display a weapon.

A motive for this reported incident is not known at this time.

At the time of the reported incident, the Colonial archway is generally a busy area
as many students return from social activities off-campus. We are hopeful,
therefore, that someone may have heard or seen something that might prove useful
in our investigation. If you have any information about this, please call University
police at 442-3131.

This incident and the alleged assault on Feb. 16 appear unrelated. There are
significant differences in the descriptions of the two suspects, particularly in
regards to size, voice and possible race.

At the time of the reported incident, the regularly assigned security services
assistant was on patrol in the immediate area and did not see anything unusual.
Additional security staff was also deployed in the general area. The student
reported she was parked at the archway because she was considering visiting her
boyfriend at Colonial with whom she had broken up earlier in the evening.

The University Police Department is continuing its investigation and community

notification is underway.
A tank Wiley

Chief, University Police Department

University Police
Department of Public Safety

Public Safety Building
Albany. New York 12222

Director: 518/442-3130
Police: §18/442-3131
Parking: 518/442-3121
Fax: 518/442-3399

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Feb. 25, 1999
TO: UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY COMMUNITY

The campus assault report of February 16 has been withdrawn by the female
student who made it. The student told campus police last evening her report was
false and that she made the report in the midst of difficulties in her life. The
student had alleged that she was assaulted in the Dutch Quad parking lot by an
unknown male who used a sharp object, possibly a knife, to cut her, causing minor
injuries.

This afternoon another female student withdrew her report of an attempt by an
unknown male to pull her out of her car at 3 a.m. on Feb. 20 at the Colonial Quad
archway. She told police today that there was no attempt to pull her out of the car
or hurt her and that she didn’t want this all “to go so far.”

The University has offered counseling and stands ready to help both women.

While making a false police report is a crime, University officials have decided
not to prosecute either student. Instead, we will look for constructive ways to help
these students. University police will be referring both to the campus judicial
system.

I would like to thank the New York State Police for use of their forensics
laboratory and investigative consultation.

While these reports have proven false, it is still important to observe reasonable
precautions. When traveling, be alert, aware of your surroundings and let friends
know of your whereabouts. Walk in well-lighted areas. Walk with someone else, if
possible, or use Don’t Walk Alone or Student Safety Patrol escort services. While
this is a safe campus, it, like all other places, is not without risk.

Best wishes for a safe spring break!

C/ ¥ Frank Wi
Chief, University Police Department

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Interview with
J» Frank Wiley
University Police Chief

On the force

We are a force that is at once, a police
force that has a police division and a security
division, has an investigation division, commu-
nications, etc.. It’s a full service organization and
we try to use our resources in a way that will
lessen the possibility of crime and support the
university’s mission.

Most of our encounters with our students
are very positive, overwhelmingly positive. I’ve
been here just under three years. I’m very proud
to be a part of this. This is a great team and I like
being a part of it.

The community has been extremely re-
ceptive of the things we have tried to accomplish, and
the efforts given. The relationship that I have when I com-
municate with the students, I really like that. I hope they
enjoy me as much as I enjoy them.

Suzanne Lyall

There’s no evidence that a crime occurred on this
campus related to the Lyall case. Whenever there is a
significant development the Lyalls and 1 talk about it
and if we’re going to do something, or they’re going to do
something and we talk pretty regularly, probably once a
week, sometimes more, sometimes a little bit less. Very
recently, Doug and Mary Lyall were on The Today Show
and Doug’s speculation is that he believes that Suzanne
left this campus with someone she knew, someone with
whom she was familiar, and then went off and whatever
happened, happened... something we don’t know. We
don’t even know if a crime was committed. Reality is that
his speculation and the information that every police
agency has who’s worked on this has said there’s no evi-
dence of a violent abduction. That has been miss-cast
by the media. Until we know exactly what happened, we
couldn’t rule out anything.

I’m pleased that we responded to the circum-
stances immediately. We would do that with every per-
son reported missing. Within 36 hours all major leads
that are known to this point about the Lyall case were
developed by this police department, and we had a task
force in place within the first 24 hours. I remain disap-
pointed that we’ve been unable to discover the where-
abouts of Suzanne.

This case is being handled completely by the State
Police so I can’t make any comments related to recent
leads but I will say to you that leads have diminished to
a trickle, significant decrease in leads and I am not cer-
tain of this but I think it’s probably true with the State
Police as well.

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False Attack Reports on Campus

Within the first few hours of the attacks there was
significant reason to believe that both reports were false
and the reason for that is the account given did not match
much of the physical evidence. And while we certainly
could not rule out the truthfulness or the veracity of the
reports, there were significant questions because the
accounts differed so dramatically from the evidence, so
those were reasons that we suspected that perhaps they
were all false. Was there some dramatic recollection of
the Lyall disappearance, in this case because of the cir-
cumstances that were unfolding in these two cases, there
wasn’t any.

Naturally, any time that occurs I’m disappointed
for the community, primarily because the media sensa-
tionalized those two reports. So I was disappointed for
the community because it was alarmed unnecessarily
so. I was disappointed for the institution because it was
maligned unnecessarily so, and I felt compassion for the
persons who made the reports, these false victims.

We ran into increased personnel protocol in ad-
dition to what we call the Decoy Package, and we did
community notification. Those things wouldn’t have been
necessary if there were not these reports. So sure, the
university did some things that would not have been
necessary had the reports not been made. But since we
couldn’t rule out those reports until you had virtually in-
controvertible evidence, we had to. We wanted to give
our community the benefit of the doubt and respond ap-
propriately. I’m not implying at all that the community
wasn’t calm, but a greater sense of calm in the commu-
nity... and presence and visibility does that. It was very
important to do that while we were investigating.

I have a professional staff. My officers don’t get
emotionally involved in anything. They investigate as
objectively and as thoroughly as they can and we go in
whatever direction the investigation takes us - the evi-
dence will take us places and the information will take

us places and my officers always do their jobs profes-
sionally so it wasn’t a very emotional experience for our
officers. They were very happy to know that there weren’t
assaults for the same reasons that I was. They wanted to
help to restore a sense of calm to the community.

We have indicated that we will not charge them
criminally. Instead we will want to look for more con-
structive ways to support them. Both will be subject to
the University’s judicial system and have already been
referred by this department.

We referred them and Mr. Murphy who is our judi-
cial affairs officer will take steps after that. Our responsi-
bility ends when we make the referral, in terms of how
we can effect the outcome to the extent that we can by
referral and appearing as witnesses to give testimony,
present evidence. After that it’s like going through the
court system, we can’t affect an outcome, we can just be
a constructive part of the process.

SUNY Albany Safety

Among SUNY schools we’re the very best in safety
and it’s incontrovertible. There’s a Times Union article
that clearly demonstrated - in fact it’s on the web page -
that we’re the safest campus in the system and we do
some things that nobody else does. In fact you can read
the entire article on campus safety, the data relative to
the University at Albany safety record is on the web page.

There are some initiatives that we’ve done over
the past year. We established a Quality of Life Unit which
is an additional squad of four officers, three officers are
supervisors, to work the shift 7:00 pm to 3:00 am. Their
job is primarily to respond to a high crime or change in
crime pattern, any historical crime patterns, any unusual
crime patterns, if there is a lot of high visibility, and at
lots of public education and special events. We are in
the process of reconverting 34 emergency blue-light
phones so if they’re blinking and you pick them up they
blink very brightly. We’ve asked that they be lowered
from the high placement so they’re a little bit lower in
normal view. We’ve enhanced
our Operation Nightlife Patrols
which is the process by which
we use a lot of lighting and
flashlights and reflective vests
to make officers more visible
at night. We’ve established a
permanent sixth post at
Collin’s Circle. We've ex-
panded our bike patrol to
complete our security divi-
sion. There are also one or two
additional bike patrol officers
available per shift. We do joint
patrol with the College of Saint
Rose on the Alumni Quad-
rangle and we’re in the pro-
cess of establishing two sub-
stations, one in the campus
center and one on Alumni

Quadrangle. We got our cost estimates and they’re go-
ing to be funded. All of these things are consistent with
the message and philosophies by which we run this de-
partment.

SUNY Albany #1 at partying?

I don’t know what’s meant by “the number one
party school”. First, if you ask me, there are lots of par-
ties that happen in the environment that I am required to
secure. I would tell you that very little of that occurs and
we recently have had more alcohol related incidents. But
in many cases that’s related to fake ID’s and other mat-
ters that take place off campus. Much of it is perhaps in
the city of Albany and sometimes it will spill over back
here but it’s reasonably rare. We don’t have ruckus un-
controlled parties and so forth, in fact most of our Cam-
pus Center parties in the almost three years that I’ve been
here have been absolutely problem free. Do we see an
increase in alcohol events? Yes. Increase in marijuana?
Yes. But every place in the country is experiencing the
same thing. Maybe too much is made out of that label,
particularly since even The Princeton Review said the
test was very unscientific. The survey message was re-
ally intended to be more of a joke than some real report
and I would think that maybe much too much is made
out of that. So I don’t know what “the number one party
school” means. The name just happened to come along.

We maintain our standing academic reputation,
and we maintain that in spite of any labeling and while I
don’t think this is occurring, if we can maintain outstand-
ing academic reputation, have students come away ex-
tremely well-educated and can have a good time, seems
to me that that’s a good experience.

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Suzanne by the small fountain following a press conference in the assembly room.

18k As of this publication, Suzanne Lyall remains missing. The Torch staff would like to express deep sympathy and best wishes and hopes to the Lyall family and all friends of Suzy.

To the person who took Suzanne:

I often wonder whether March 2 means anything to you. Do you remember the 19-year old
young woman that you took from us? Do you still have her with you? It has been nearly a year
since she vanished, but she is just as loved and dearly missed. Do you know the person you took?

Suzy is our third child and was born on April 6, 1978. I had the great privilege of witnessing her
birth, an event that was one of the most memorable of my life. Her older brother and sister
became very attached to her and during her younger years were almost a second set of parents.
She is a very creative person and is inspired to write poetry that seems to flow in from outside of
herself. She is a shy but a friendly person whose warm smile and an easy manner can cut
through others sadness and put those around her at ease. Her sense of fairness and loyalty to
her friends are well appreciated by those who know her well. You took away a wonderful person.
Someone who probably would have stood up for you if things weren’t fair. Did no one do nice
things for you?

[have found some comfort in picturing you not as a mean ugly bad person, but someone’s
child....someone deserving and needing love and acceptance who possibly misunderstood
Suzy’s friendship as a romantic interest. If love wasn’t shared in your family, I’m sorry. Every
person is entitled to the love and caring that family and friends provide.

If you still have Suzy, I wish for something good to happen to you, a success that makes you feel
satisfied and positive about yourself. Hopefully then you will treat her well. I hope you have
peaceful moments when you can walk in the woods or through the fields, content, not miserable
and vindictive.

[ have a hard time getting through anniversary dates. Still not knowing where Suzy is, I continue
to talk to her and ask for answers about her from my dreams. Birthdays, holidays, semesters
breaks, but especially now. Where are you Suzy? What next? I pray for Suzy and for my ability to
let go of anger toward you. If only I could talk to you.

I’m not sure what I would say, although after so much time, surprisingly, I don’t hate you. I know
nothing about you. I wonder if you were ever like Suzy. Did you love homemade chocolate chip
cookies? Did you go to RUSH concerts? Did you play jokes on April Fools day? Did you spend
time on the computer, oblivious to anything else going on around you? Suzy is more than a girl
on a poster. Her mom and dad, Steve and Sandy miss her daily. She has dreams, and hopes and
potential.

I still have positive dreams. For my own survival, I have had to let go of anger or I would be
consumed by it. But the questions persist. I pray that God will smile down on us all this year and
bring us some peace. All I’m asking for is your response; a call to allow me and all the people
whose lives Suzy touched to find peace and a sense of calm that disappeared on that night in
March. The peace that can’t return until the questions surrounding Suzy’s disappearance are
answered. You have held the answers for so long. You also hold the pain. Please talk to me.

Douglas Lyall
Ballston Spa, New York

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because you're a man and i’m a woman

and the sun is getting low

there are some places that i can’t go

as a woman ican’t go there

and as a person i don’t care

i don’t go for the hey baby what’s your name
and i’d like to go alone

thank you just the same

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What do you think caused your heterosexuality? When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?

Is it possible your heterosexuality is just
a phase you may grow out of?

Is it possible your heterosexuality
stems from a neurotic fear of others of
the same sex?

Isn’t it possible that all you need isa
good Gay lover?

Heterosexuals have histories of failures
in Gay relationships. Do you think you
may have turned heterosexual out of
fear of rejection?

If you’ve never slept with a person of
the same sex, how do you know you
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If heterosexuality is normal, why are a disproportionate number of mental patients heterosexual?
To whom have to disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react? Does your roommate know? Do your parents know?

Your heterosexuality doesn’t offend me as long as you don't try to force it on me.Why do you people feel compelled to seduce others into
your sexual orientation?

If you choose to nurture children, would you want them to be heterosexual, knowing the problems that they would face?
The great majority of child molesters are heterosexuals.Do you really consider it safe to expose your children to heterosexual teachers?

Why do you insist on being so obvious, and making a public spectacle of your heterosexuality? Can’t you just be what you are and keep it
quiet?

How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusive, heterosexual object choice, and remain
unwilling to explore and develop your normal, natural, healthy, God-given homosexual potential?

Heterosexuals are noted for assigning themselves and each
others to narrowly restricted, stereotyped sex-roles.Why do
you cling to such unhealthy role-playing?

How can you enjoy a fully satisfying sexual experience or
deep emotional rapport with a person of the opposite sex,
when the obvious physics, biological, and temperamental
differences between you are so vast? How can a man under-
stand what pleases a woman sexually or vice versa?

Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?

With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce
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How could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual like you, considering
the menace of overpopulation?

There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed with
which you might be able to change if you really want to. Have you considered trying
aversion therapy?

Do heterosexuals hate and/or distrust others of their own sex? Is that what makes them
heterosexual?

Why are heterosexuals so promiscuous?

Why do you make a point of attributing heterosexuality to famous people? Is it to justify your own heterosexuality?

Could you really trust a heterosexual therapist/counselor to be objective and unbi-
ased? Don’t you fear he/she might be inclined to influence you in the direction of his/
her learning?

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Sacred Heart
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Bridgeport
Mass-Lowell
Bridgeport
So-Connecticut State
Binghamton
New Haven
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At right, film director
Stanley Kubrick is seen

There’s a bomb going off in belfast. There’s a war in Vietnam. Theres a TV documentary to help you understand. But the in 1975 during produc-
other channel is better cos it doesn’t tax your mind. Relax in the ignorance of your home as man destroys mankind. tion of the film “Barry

Lyndon.” Kubrick died
March 7, 1999 at his rural
home in England. He was
70. At far right is New
York Yankee legend Joe
DiMaggio as he waves
his cap to the crowd af-
ter being introduced dur-
ing an Old Timer’s game
at Yankee Stadium in
New York, July 16, 1985

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At left, New York Yankees Scott
Brosius jumps for joy after the
Yankees swept the San Diego
Padres with a 3-0 victory in the
World Series at Qualcomm
Stadium in San Diego, Califor-
nia on Wednesday, October 21,
1998. Brosius was the series’
Most Valuable Player. At right,
New York Yankees team owner
George Steinbrenner and Joe
Torre get emotional after be-
ing presented with the trophy
after the World Series. The Yan-
kees swept the San Diego Pa-
dres in four straight games.

| Fireworks erupt behind the ball drop to mark
the New Year in Times Square on Friday, January
1, 1999 in New York City.

At bottom left, Patrick Rafter, of Australia, shows off his trophy after defeating Mark Philippoussis,
also of Australia, in the mens singles championship at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New
York on Sunday, September 13, 1998. Rafter won 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-0. At bottom center, Denver Broncos
quarterback John Elway points to the trophy following the Broncos’ 34-19 victory over the Atlanta
Falcons at Super Bowl XXXIII Sunday, January 31, 1999 in Miami, Florida. At bottom right, players
of the French national soccer team kiss the soccer World Cup trophy after the final of the soccer
World Cup 98 between Brazil and France at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, north of Raris,
Sunday, July 12, 1998. France beat Brazil with a 3-0 score.

Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio waves as he leaves the
Operations and Checkout Building the morning
of Thursday, October 29, 1998 at Kennedy Space
Center. Glenn, Commander Curt Brown, front,
and five other crew members were on their way
to Launch Pad 39-B for liftoff on the Space Shuttle
Discovery.

At right, Teletubbies from left, Laa

Laa, Dipsy, Tinky Winky, and Po sit —

on a shelf at the company’s cor-
porate office in New York. The Rev.

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“Teletubbies” character from the
popular children’s television
show is a homosexual role model.
Bottom right, part of the Taco Bell
advertisement featuring a Chi-
huahua professing his love for
tacos. Lovers of the little yappers,
the world’s smallest dogs, say they
are bracing for a surge in Chihua-
hua buying on the heels of the
successful Taco Bell ads.

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this year, and Exxon
agreed on December l,
1998 to buy Mobil for a
record $77.2 billion, a cor-
porate marriage that
would reunite two of the
biggest pieces of John D.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil
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Doctors Without Borders in Ajiep, Sudan within fam-
ine-torn Bahr el-Ghazal province in south Sudan. There
are 2.6 million people in need in all of Sudan. The
United Nations says that 700,000 are targeted to receive
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sing this song?

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across the dead-end streets...

...And the battle’s just begun. Theres many lost but tell
me who has won? The trenches dug within our hearts.
Mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart...

_.. And it’s true we are immune, when fact is fiction and
TV reality. And today the millions cry.We eat and drink
while tomorrow they die.

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AP
In the southern Iraqi village of Abu Al-Khasib, some 550
kilometers (341 miles) south of Baghdad, near Basra, two
Iraqi women walk by the remains of a U.S. missle which
landed on January 25th, 1999 killing 6 people and injuring
11 according to Iraqi authorities. A total of 11 people were
killed and 59 wounded in 5 separate missile attacks that
day.

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school, scattering students as gunshots ricocheted off lockers, wit-
nesses said.

Columbine High School
students kneel in front of
flowers left by mourners at
a park near the scholl in
Littleton, Colorado on
Wednesday, April 21, 1999.
Fifteen people died in the
shooting spree in the south-
west Denver suburb high
school on April 20.

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brary near Columbine High School
where students and faculty members
were evacuated after two students went
on a shooting rampage in the Littleton
Colorado suburb school, shooting at doz-
ens before turning the guns on them-
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Valley Falls, N.Y.

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Dix Hills, N-Y.

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Delanson, N.Y.

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It’s hard to put a whole year of experiences into one or two
paragraphs. I’ve been thinking about this page for longer than I can
remember. This has been the most emotional year of my life. For
months I thought this day would never come, and now it amazes me
how it sneaked up on me. I’ve learned more than I bargained for this
year, so much that if I knew then what I know now, I probably would
have done many things differently. Nonetheless, I am satisfied
knowing that I did the best I could without permanently losing my
sanity. For the past 13 months this book has been on my mind for
every second of every day, no matter what I did or where I went. I
could not escape it, nor did I want to. Somehow I loved every single
day of it, no matter what it seemed like on the outside. It was the
hardest thing I have ever even thought of doing. But its over and now
I’m looking forward to cooking my own decent meals, going to sleep at
a normal hour, paying bills on time, practicing personal hygiene, and
doing laundry much more frequently. I’m looking forward to hanging
out with my favorite people and not feeling guilty about it. I have a lot
of naps to catch up on. I think I will start right now.

To the Class of 1999, I wish the best of luck to you for a
successful future. I hope these photographs incite memories, emo-
tions and thought, even years down the road. They depict a year of my
life. I hope I was able to capture some of yours as well.

This book could not have been possible without the help of
many people. I owe a world of thanks to anyone that helped me in any
form. I will now name a few, and I’m sorry if I forget anyone.

Danny Avila
Editor-in-Chief
TORCH 1999

Gold: Thank you for your patience and for all those suggestions and
ideas that would have taken me years to come up with. No matter how
stressed I was or lazy I felt, I always felt better after talking to you.
Although most of the time I was probably right for feeling lazy. I
started freaking out one afternoon when I realized how far behind I
was. It’s a good thing you were in the studio that day. Without you,
there wouldn’t be a Torch. There also wouldn’t be any editors that
didn’t live in padded rooms, although I think I could have used one
this year anyway. You were a tremendous help in bringing this book to
reality. I’ll be talking to you soon. And thank you for letting me use your
studio.

Mike D: What you do for us is incredible. Your generosity has no end.
I always looked forward to our conversations over the phone. They
should bottle them as anti-depressants. Thank you for everything
you’ve done for me this year, to list them would take another book.
Thanks for sending Rick to us year after year. 1 owe you a beer and you
owe us a visit, I just thought I’d remind you.

Rick: Come back soon. You are a photo service member and a half.
Thanks for filling 40 pages with great portraits! As always, I’ll be
looking forward to the next time you come around. At least this time I
wont have to print all night. Look me up next time you're at St. John’s.
Stu: Thank you for the opportunity to do a Torch. You were wrong, I
never ended up hating you for it. I recall one phone call in March when
you said you thought I was kicking ass. That really meant a lot to me. I
will also never forget your words of encouragement at Pimp’s n Hoes.
You really helped me out tremendously over the summer. I seriously
don’t know what I would have done. Thank you. Congratulations on
your new job, i hope it works out for you. You can call me whenever
you need someone to slam a cold one with.

Heather: I will never forget the first time we met. I had a mohawk
when I walked into the office for the first time. You were sitting at your

desk and you had blue hair. Among the first words you said to me were
“no freaks allowed.” Little did I know the dynamics of this place. I have
always looked up to you since day one. If I were to have a mentor, I
guess it would be you. You showed me that I had talent, from that first
batch of negs that I turned in and every day since. You have given me
so much confidence and have helped me in so many ways. You’ve
opened countless doors for me. Somehow you ended up being one of
my best friends too. You’re probably the busiest person I know and
yet you’ve been there for me time after time. I owe you lots. I am proud
of you too and I hope you get to Ireland someday. Thank you for letting
me steal sips off your Mountain Dews and picking up the tabs, no
matter how small. I will always owe you a beer. Love you always.

Julie X: Congratulations to the new freak in charge. I hope the
situation is a lot better by the time you read this. I have no doubts that
you will take amazing pictures this year and put out a beautiful book, no
matter what. You have a wake-up call coming, maybe two, but don’t
worry, we all get through them. Just stay on top of things. Always
remember that it’s just a book. I will be around, of course, coming in for
the occasional office hour nap, just like old times. I always enjoyed your
company, and you threw some great parties at your place. Thanks for all
your help this year, especially the summer. And most of all, thank you
for bringing so many wonderful and talented people into this office. |
wouldn’t have found them without you.

Carlos: Hey dood. I think if it wasn’t for you and all those times that you
didn’t finish your Chinese food, I would have starved to death. Without
you I would also be short of some awesome shots. Thanks man. You
were always by my side this year, whatever I shot, wherever I went...
except in the darkroom... hmm.. NO rice for you! I gotta give you
credit for getting all those women to pose for you in the studio, a few of
them were actually somewhat attractive. It was really fun shooting with
you, and I definitely look forward to the spring when you come back.
Glad to hear your finding work. Congrats on the magazine shoot. I’m
positive you'll be a successful photographer. Try to stay away from
shooting smut. You’re better than that. I’ll be in the city often, and I'll
look you up. Now get your Peruvian ass back up here, I miss you
already!

Todd G: Thanks for being there to chat for a while, to complain to, and
to lay worries on. You always made me feel better. Somehow I always
ended up spending an extra hour or two in your store than originally
planned. Thanks for supplying us with all this cool photo stuff. You
rock. I wish you the best of luck in everything. See you very soon.
Jorge: Thank you for your visits, your shooting, your confidence and
your friendship. It was great seeing you those times. The advice that
you gave me in the beginning of the year has really gone a long way. I
am so glad that things are going your way too. I admire your work, even
the leather accessories, and I think you’re an amazing person. Come by
soon and hang out.

Kevin: Thank you for your advice and words of encouragement.
Congratulations on getting hitched, and on everything else. It would
be great to see you again, it’s been so long. Thanks for teaching me to
make contact sheets 3 years ago. Some of these things we never
forget. If I ever get a brain tumor, you’re someone I can trust.

Tania: You gave me some awesome stuff this year. You are extremely
talented. I am so glad that you came back. To think you turned down
SVA for us. So you better make that worth it and do a book before you
leave here. Shoot tons for Julie. I can’t wait to see what you bust out
next. You worked hard for me this year and I can’t thank you enough for
that. Congratulations on your show over the summer, I’m sorry I
couldn't be there. I promise I’ll make the next one.

Andreea: Hey Ange. You were one of the first people I met up here,
and we both know that we go further back than that. Weird. You had a
tough beginning this year and I’m glad I was able to be there for you,
even if just a bit. It was awesome watching you get over it so quickly.
Thanks for being a good friend and for busting your ass this year! |
might not have always showed it, but I really, really appreciated it. You
will do a good job as Chief Photographer and I will be around to help
you with anything you might need.

Andrew: You've been a best friend from the beginning. I’ve lost count
of all the years. I’ve never told you how glad I am that we still go to the
same school. You have always been there for me and I owe you a lot.
Thanks for the thousands of offers to hang out, go eat, etc., they were
always appreciated. I’m truly sorry that I had to turn most of those
down this year, 1 hope you can understand why. I plan to make it all up
to you this year and all the years to come. Thanks for doing the inter-
view for me. But on a serious note... I thought you were going out.
Brad: You were this year’s comic relief for me. You lightened my moods
and you took some nice photos too. Thank you for that and for all the
offers to come hang out. After my three years here, I have to say that
I’m very glad I met you. I think you have a really awesome head on your
shoulders, no matter what the doctors say.

Larry: Whuddup G. Thanks a million for shooting 101 days for me.
That was really a life saver. I guess I owe you a few good games of
darts. Congratulations on your internship and radio show. I hope I can
get on the air with you soon.

Mandy: It was nice flying over campus with you. Ha! There's really no
one else I can say that to. We did a lot of cool stuff this year, although I
think you should lay off the foreign accents for a while. It was fun
anyway. I’m glad I found you that day on Indian quad. I think you have
tons of potential. You did great work this year and you better go for a

book before you leave. I’ll track you down if you don’t.

Liza: One of the first friends I made up here, you ended up being one
of the nicest people I know. Thanks for everything. Thanks for taking
care of the bills for me. The shots you gave me were really awesome
too. I hope you pursue photography will full force. You are very good
at it. Good luck with everything.

Mary: You are a very cool person and I’m glad we got to talk a bit this
year. Whatever you decide to do in life, keep shooting. Congratula-
tions on getting out of here alive. Come visit us again.

Marah: It was always nice to see you in the office. Thanks for all your
help. Good luck in whatever you choose to do.

Natalia: I’m sorry I didn’t get to see much of you this year but I guess
it was fun for you to get away. Congratulations and thanks for the
hours of frustrating work you did for me. You gotta keep shooting.
Paul: We had a rough beginning this year and I’m truly sorry for
the misunderstandings. You are really dedicated and a good photogra-
pher. You offered your help more often than I asked. I hope you always
keep a camera with you. Thanks for letting me in on the risky stunt
idea even though it never happened. We always have next year. I’m
up for it.

Julia: Thank you for shooting crew. You did a great job. It was fun
shooting with you those times, and I look forward to the next. I’ve seen
you improve so much this year. I still think you should consider a book.
You definitely have it in you. Shoot your brains out, work hard and
you'll do nothing but improve. See you in class.

Sonia: What would I have done without you? You have a good eye for
stuff and you are good at shooting what you like. Thanks for all the
theater negs. You are bursting with potential. Blow Julie away.

Irene: You have such strong goals and I hope you stick to them.
Shooting like crazy, you will achieve them. Practice makes perfect, or at
least pretty close to it. 1 hope to see some great stuff from you next
year. Make Julie proud.

Katie: A million thanks. You busted your ass in the darkroom this year.
It did not go unnoticed. It was very cool to see you around so much in
the office over the summer. I definitely needed the company and we
had some great conversations. Thanks for being always willing to hear
me bitch about life. I’m glad it was entertaining to you. No, really. I am.
You have a great eye and I’m glad you're using it, and something tells
me you're not going to stop..

Charles: I was always scared to see what you would hang up on the
bulletin board next. Your mind will feel right at home here. Take it easy
on new members and try not to scare them away. I don’t know where
you get your ideas. Just keep them legal, at least till you graduate. I
want to see tons of stuff from you next year, especially sports. Hope
we're past the squirrel phase.

Wendy: Thanks for helping me get past the horrid cursed art history
classes. You made the torture of studying for the tests a little bit fun
with our alternating caffeine highs. Did we ever get any work done?
Who gives a shit, I passed! Thanks for all your help at photo service.
Shoot tons for Julie and stay strong.

Sheela: It was really cool seeing you shoot at Day in the Life. Now
every day can be just as fun. You have lots of potential. I hope you use
it and give Julie some amazing stuff. 1 know you can do it. And I’m truly
sorry I accidentally started to drive off without you that time on Lark St.
I still feel bad about it.

Brian: It always amazed me that you drove half way across the state
just to be at production nights. I know there’s something in you that
wants to bust out some kick ass shots for Julie.

Jess: Thank you for the cool shots. I like the way you see things. I also
know how much you hate being photographed. Isn’t the other side of
the camera better?

Lina: You have a very good eye and a very weird camera. Don’t worry,
they go fine together anyway. I’m glad you finally joined photo
service. Thanks for all your help.

Chris: You are gifted with a good eye and you were off to a good start
this year. Don’t ignore your talents. Don’t ever forget how much
potential you have. Good luck in whatever you decide to pursue.
Jenn: A very interesting person. I’m glad you don’t think I hate you
anymore. You were always happy, at least whenever I was around. How
the hell do you do it? Anyway, I wish you the best studying abroad
whatever semester you go. Good luck in everything.

Josh Fensterstock: Thanks for getting me started on the right track
this year and answering my stupid questions. You saved my ass and
eased my worries a number of times. It was a pleasure working with
you. Best wishes for a complete and successful future. Thanks for the
interview.

Tony, Maxine, Jen and all of Student Life: Thank you for always
making me feel welcome. An enormous thanks for your help with flyer
posting, answering questions, easing worries, understanding and your
extraordinary cooperation.

Julia St. Amour Glass: Any packages??? Thanks for all your help with
everything, this year would have been impossible without your help.
I’m sorry I was down there so often asking you to sift through boxes.
Photo Service South: Gigi, Teru, Andrew, Michael, Sean: Thanks
for your words of wisdom and for your hospitality the few of times I
visited. I admire all of you. I apologize for including sports but I just felt
that I had to do it. We would still love to have you for a slide show. Let
us know when you're not in Antarctica or Venus or something. Thanks
for the postcards. I’ll be talking to you soon.

224 Ontario lst floor: Kara, Liza, Quinn, (and sometimes Ian): It
was cool living with you guys this year, although It’s difficult for me to
say that I actually lived there. Seems like all I did was pay rent. Hope
you guys know it was nothing personal. I’m still shocked that Quinn got
that many people in the house that time. It was definitely an experience
getting woken up by two Albany cops standing in a puddle of beer
outside my bedroom door. We gotta do that again. And I swear I wasn’t
lying when I said those weren’t my dishes.

Queens Crew: The list is long and I’m afraid I’ll forget a couple. You
guys know who you are. “How’s the book coming?” It’s coming. In fact,
it’s fucking here! Thanks for being so supportive and letting me get
away with less e-mails and visits this year. I’m back. I love you all. I
know for a fact that I’ll never make friends like the ones I still have back
home.

Erik: Thanks for being a model. You have no idea how much it helped
me out. I guess I owe you some band photos for your next album. Good
luck with your fame in the 3% world. I’m definitely up for a trip down
there. I’m glad we had a chance to talk. See you soon.

Ney, Leo, Percy, and Jac: It was hard for us to keep in touch this year
and I apologize for that. But it’s finally done and I hope I have made my
brothers proud, even with normal colored hair. I love you all and I can’t
wait to see you again.

Allie: I find it incredible that after this year, we still as much as talk. You
are the only person who knows what I really experienced. I went
through so much of everything this year and I’m sorry I brought so
much of the bad stuff home to you. There were some truly magical
moments, but at the time my only companion was my camera. I wish I
could have brought home some of that. You never turned your back
and I don’t know how you put up with all my lunacy. Please my apolo-
gies. On top of all that, if it weren’t for you I’d have no clean clothes, no
food in my stomach, no senior section, and no smiles on my face. Thank
you for all of that. I could not have done this without you.I owe you so
much. I will start by cleaning up the mess in the living room. I can’t tell
the future at this point but I see one thing for certain. You will forever
have a permanent place in my heart. I love you.

Mom: I don’t know where to begin to thank you. I would be nowhere
without your support, both financially and emotionally. I have never
missed you as much as I have this year. I love you so much. I just want
you to know that I recognize everything that you’ve done for me, and
although I dedicate this book to you, I feel like that is not enough to
show my appreciation. I hope now you can see how much doing this
book meant to me, and how considering the circumstances, spending
one extra semester here is somewhat of a bargain. This year I promise
that I will come home for more than 5 hours at a time.

Dad: I could not have come to this point without your constant sup-
port. My schedule and your location this year has made communication
extremely difficult. I was so busy this year that I hardly had space in my
head to think. I missed not seeing you this year and we have a lot of
catching up to do. I am glad that you are happy and healthy and where
you want to be. You were always there for me, even if it was thousands
of miles away. I love you. I will do my best so that I can hand you this
book in person.

All photography by Danny Avila unless otherwise noted.

All material Copyright 1999 and may not be used without express
written consent of the editor.

Collage page photo credits are lettered from top to bottom and left to
right and are as follows:

Gary Gold: 326-327

Julie Xanthos: 110 C,D; 111 B; 317 B; 320E
Carlos Alayo: 192 I; 320 L

Sonia Kondratyeva: 111 C

Liza Salmon: 111 F

Tania Savayan: 192 M

Marah Hall: 317 E

Lina Kunimoto: 321 G

Heather Rohan: 322 A

All senior portrait photos pages 284-294 & 297-309 by Rick Pitetti of
Carl Wolf Studio, Sharon Hill, PA

All concept , layout, and design by Danny Avila except pages 18-19
and 222, concept by Heather Rohan.

The views expressed in the interviews are not necessarily those of the
editor. All other views expressed are not necessarily those of the SUNY
Albany Administration or the Student Association. The editor takes full
responsibility for all material included in Torch 1999 and ex-
presses sincere apology only for misrepresented facts.

Torch 1999 was funded by the Student Association of the State Univer-
sity of New York at Albany and printed by Herff Jones printing
company, Charlotte, NC

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