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From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

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Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.
—J.R.R. Tolkien

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TO: Library Staff
FROM: Todd W. Ferrara
RE: Departure

DATE: 8/24/90

Now having completed my second summer of service to the library of Wilkie Farr & Gallagher I can
confidently say that I have learned much. How to open a jammed binder with foul language and that you never
really get used to the Funky smell over at 880, being cases in point. But I also feel that it is my duty, if not my
responsibility, to point out several glaring deficiencies in the management of Wilkie’s Library.

In this age of raw corporate aggression and rampant executive profittaking it is inexcusable, as I see it, to run
a Library as anything less than a money making machine for those who work there. Yet our Library seems to
run on a largely non-profit basis and certainly pays only average dividends to it’s employees. So while other
information services professionals are enjoying the “High Life” we (now just you) live the lives of mere honest
working people. Never in all my time here have I seen a Wilkie information retrieval scientist walk off with
valuable supplies to fence or charge a naive summer associate outrageously for an “overdue” book. But, in my
humble opinion, the Library of Wilkie Farr & Gallagher has the capacity to far and away surpass these simple
money making schemes. And if Ms. Huston ever wants to truly test her mettle she could take the 47th floor
straight to the fortune 500!

You all know what needs to be done, yes, I’m speaking of my oft rebuffed contention that the Library would
run more effectively without free access by lawyers. It’s true, if we could simply blockade the stairwells with
discarded CFRs and extra high-speed Lexis paper the rest would be easy.

We could order a bunch of letter openers from supply and have Dave teach us to defend ourselves. The
periphery Libraries on 46, 48 and 50 would have to be scrapped; there is just no way to cordon them off with only

16 people. (We can however send filers on sorties to the tax library through the ventilation ducts.)

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What about food? Simple. Allow delivery men in through the magnetic door on 48, we can eat
exclusively dunkin’ doughnuts and chinese plus Lexis toner for dessert. In the winter we can chop up
the reference desk for firewood and throw in a Martindale Hubble for a Christmas yule log.

All of this taken together will force those who want access to the information we possess to pay
through the nose.

Well, anyway, I’m trying to get a job at my University Library where, I would imagine, my plan

can be more readily implemented.

Thank you and take

care of yourselves

Love,

Todd W. Ferrara

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a child’s first trip
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Same set-up as home. Yes, same.

Secondary care far from
Primary thoughtful caring love.
Here books hold me hostage.
Never before did I swallow

Books as a wise bud swallow.

Books swallowing is my cross.

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Soaked and happy company they seem
When I and my books alone we lie.
Thursday Friday Saturday evenings
Singing ‘the grass is always green...’

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For prayers of strong teams such as
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Blue nile knickerbocker on central.

Oh! How sickly hangovers are?
Nostalgia is aids away from books.

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Like loneliness ne’er looks me in the face.

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Thursday Wellingdon Alumni carry
Me us non-subscribers and subscribers
To what has brought us all here home.

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from Freedom Indian Dutch Colonial
State to and fro mental panel beating.
The sun shines for podiators to burn.
For true freedom true happiness in
Desire for true education.

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Freely limits freedom from free . . .

‘Don’t walk alone.’ ‘Never dare

Invade my personal territory.’

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Lonely way up Western only one thing
Rings in mind and soul ... to get job done.
This is tragic, albatross round our neck.

Good grades unconsciously all

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From this home’s diverse community

Such a rich learning cultural center

Yes, is as rare as common sense.

‘Keep within and belong within for security.’

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To do freely what in our hearts deep-lies.
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And it is a bedrock value of civilization that knowledge is better than ignorance. We have
found out the hard way. Experience and wisdom gained in the great march of human-kind
must be shared and passed on if the march is to continue.

We will be tested and examined over the years to see if we understand what we have
learned.

—Robert Fulghum
All I Really Need To know I Learned

In Kindergarten

.. and I'll get all the sleep I need when I’m dead.
—Roadhouse

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To say what you feel is to make your own grave.

—Sinead O’Connor

Look at this world man created
people dependent on greed and hatred

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Adam Chaikel
1968-1991

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Susan Friedman
1968-1991

The following letter was written by one of
the brothers of Sigma Nu to Mr. and Mrs.
Chaikel, Adam’s parents. It depicts the feelings
that the brothers of Sigma Nu, Lambda Kappa

chapter have for Adam. He is greatly missed.

“Sigma Nu is a group of young men who
have come together to form a “fraternity”
founded on love, Truth, and Honor. Many
times, the outward image of a “fraternity” is
one of crazy parties and sick, wild outrageous

times. There is a reason for this . . . because it’s

true! But what many fail to see is that Sigma
Nu also represents a type of support group.
Always knowing you have your brothers be-
hind you. There is not one of the brothers who
would not be there for me if I needed assis-
tance, as | would do the same for them.

ral part of Sigma Nu. He
filled the role of a brother quite admirably. We

Adam was an inte

are proud to say that Adam will always be our
brother. It’s very easy for fraternities to share
good times, but the test of a true brotherhood
is making it through the sad times as well. We
drink together, we laugh together, and we cry
together, but most of all we always stand
together.

A tree has been planted on State quad in
loving memory of Adam. The special part of
Adam which we in our hearts, will now
always be at SUNY. Dear memories of Adam
Chaikel our brother Lambda Kappa #106
will be with us always.

—The Brotherhood
of Sigma Nu
Lambda Kappa Chptr.
Dear Sue,

I was at Ed Debevic’s 50s-style eatery that
weekend, discussing — of all things — the
meaning of life over the chicken club special
and pina colladas. My friend Drew argued that
we're here to suffer, that’s our purpose here,
that’s the only way we learn. I was not so sure
about that, though. I told him I’m here to feel
good. That might sound like a typical Ameri-
can bratty thing to say, but what makes me feel
good is making other people feel good. Doing
good things for people. Are you throwing up
yet? And why I’m about to cry right now I
really can’t say. It’s been a while since we last
spoke and I wonder how long it will be until
the next. I can barely see the keys on my
typewriter anymore and the Feelies are pound-
ing in the background. I wonder why. And I
don’t really know. Why are we here, what is
my purpose, where do we go and who even
knows. I don’t know do other people wonder
this? or do they go along with the plan — the
one that says you go to school, get a job, settle
down, and so on and so on. And what about
you? What do you make of all this? Are you
pissed you had to leave, or are you all peaceful
and floating like I imagine it would be? Or are
you anything? That's pretty depressing, huh? I
don’t know if I should even be asking these
kinds of things. But I do know that my friend
Drew wasn’t so far off. You do learn a lot
through suffering. You feel, really feel. My
perspective on things, has it changed? Can’t
say, but I know this much, this has taught me a
lot about life down here. That life is so fragile
and wonderful and make the best, and all that
load. But guess what, it’s true. And I don’t
know if you ever knew that or thought much
about it, but I think that you must have.
Because look at it all. Some people go through

the motions all along, don’t stop to wonder or
ask or think, but look what you did, every
week in the ASP you opened yourself up, your
whole little private Idaho, for the whole of
everybody to check out and maybe wonder, ask
or just think a little. That takes a lot to do,
laying things on the line like that. It’s a risk
that not too many are willing to take, but one I
think must be worth it. You can look back and
see where you’ve been and where maybe
you're going. And maybe help some people
along with you, too. And that’s a good feeling,
isn’t it? I hope we meet up again someday and
I’m not going to cry anymore I keep telling
myself because you wouldn’t want that, your
mom even told me that at the wake, but guess
what, that doesn’t help. Because I really m
you. And I want to go on an angry tirade right
now, and it’s not fair and all that. And it’s not,
but what is? You do your best and you keep
going and what more can you do. Keep asking
that, keep questioning, keep thinking, keep
wondering. I’ll try. Ok, I’m going now. I don’t
really know how to end this letter, Sue. And
I’m not really even sure who | wrote it for
(You? Me? Them out there?), but I guess
that’s not so important as that I did write it.
Not that that makes it some kind of final or
anything, because I know I'll be thinking
about you a great deal more and wondering
still. Maybe someday I’ll get an answer, but I
don’t even know if there is one or if the answer
part is as important as the questioning. See

you.

Love,
Your Friend, Ray

PS. I hope you are square dancing with the
Virgin Mary. You know that’s all I could think
about the whole car ride home.

With help and love and fresh comitment, we have all begun to

heal. We cannot erase the scars. We cannot rewrite the past. We

cannot forget. But we can get on with the rest of our lives.

—Deborah Spungen

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I decided after my first year at Albany that I would go study
overseas at some point. For me, $.U.N.Y.A. was not utopia,
and back then when I was young and foolish, (last semester), I
thought that utopia, or at least some reasonable facsimile must
exist somewhere on this planet. I didn’t know that the Capital
District wasn’t meeting my expectations.

I chose Europe for several reasons. Firstly as a sort of
homecoming, being of European descent myself. More impor-
tantly though, because the U.S. is a western nation, with roots
from a colonial past laid deep in Europe. Because of this, we’ve
always held a fairy-tale view of that continent, its people, and
its history. I wanted to see the place for myself, to judge, to see
if the culture we use as a model for our own was really that
fantastic. To see if the sacrifices we make in not honoring
other world cultures equally were really worth it. Besides, I
heard the place was cool.

A friend in Ireland shed light on it all. He said that in the
USS. there are punks, skinheads, homeboys, fratboys, preppies
children, pre-teens, teens, adults, and senior citizens. We have
African-Americans, European-Americans, Latino-Americans,
Asian-Americans, heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, fem-

inists, racists, traditionalists, communists, etc. In trying to
give everyone a group they could feel an association with,
we've forgotten the most important part: we're all people. I
went to Europe looking for answers; what I found were
people.

I spent countless hours in bars in the South of Spain, with
old drunk men, who, while trying to teach me Spanish, also
felt it their duty to warn me, (or enthuse me), about the wiles
of French women. Men in the north, fifty years younger,

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invited me to live with them in their flat, for no other reason
than that I needed a place and I could play 7 card draw better
than them.

I fought a bull one day with a cape lent to me by a man
named “La Guerra”, because I asked politely, was interviewed
on the radio afterward by a woman who wanted to know
what a kid from Brooklyn was doing bullfighting in Spain.

Late lunch with a French man in Madrid, because I needed
someone to eat with, and when I asked him what he thought
of Spanish women, he truthfully confessed ignorance, on the
basis that he preferred men. It made no difference though,
because he enjoyed his paella more than I, respected my dibbs
on the last glass of wine, and because his theories on European
socio-economics all seemed valid to me.

When I ran out of film at the Eiffel Tower, a man named
Jean, who I’d never met before, came through for me with a
roll of Kodak, because my name is John, too, and on the
condition that the day I meet a Californian who needs a hand,
I’ll help them, because his friends from California may one day
be in New York. I still keep my eyes open.

On the boat to Dublin I met a nerd from Australia and an
Irish-Sicilian film-maker, who I walked with when the boat
landed, three miles in the rain, to get to the Guiness brewery.
We talked about the E.E.C. as we drank our complimentary
half-pint of stout for breakfast, and then talked the bartender

into giving us another two pints each, on account of the
weather. He saw our reasoning and understandingly obliged.

In the same city, I gave a call to a guy I’d helped out in
Barcelona when he was robbed. He put me up for two weeks,
bought me all the Guiness I could stand, and then gave me
guilt for saying I had to go.

| visited an island off the west coast of Ireland famous for its
wild, rugged terrain and its hardy inhabitants. Regardless, I
ended up ina hostel run by a black gay parisien and ate nothing
but biscuits and quiche for five days straight.

I was arrested in Dover, England for intent to traffick
narcotics when the customs agents managed to find the gram
of hash in my suitcase that I couldn't find for the life of me.
They held me four hours while I was strip-searched, interro-
gated, and thoroughly terrified. Once they understood, how-
ever, that it was all just a big mistake, Nick, his partner Paul,
and J all shared a hearty laugh as they snuck me out to the
bank to cash my traveller's checks so I could pay the fine. Back

at the station, their supervisor showed up with the evening's
tea, which I was invited to share. We talked Reagan- Thatcher
politics, British unemployment and film (notably Midnight
Express), while we drank tea and I had a much needed smoke.
At the end of the hour, Paul rose triumphantly from his
paperwork and proclaimed loudly: “In the name of Her
Majesty’s royal customs and excise services, you are hereby un-
arrested and free to go, cheers!” To top it all off Nick was
gracious enough to explain to the woman at the bus station
why I had no money, and I was granted a complimentary

ticket, courtesy of the Parliament.

At a party in Dublin I was unanimously voted most able to
walk, and so elected to rent a video at the local store. Feeling a
need for mental stimulation, I got Bill and Ted’s Excellent
Adventure. Despite initial protest, the movie was shown in

the name of cultural exposure, though I don’t remember too
well how the party ended. I suspect it went over well, though,
because to this day, I still receive a random letter from Ireland
addressed to “a most excellent dude”, and ending with a plea
to “party on”. Rumour has it that the regulars at Toner’s Pub
still can’t leave without being ordered to “be excellent to one
another”.

To end a long story, I never found the Europe I left looking
for. I worked very hard to get there, to do my own personal
study of the society. Yet my true learning came from finding
Europe not as an institution, but by finding it as a place where
people live, people like you and me, and though their customs
and clothes and houses are different, people, no matter where
they're from, and no matter where they’re going, are still, and
will always be, people.

peace,

John Cienki,
Torch ’91 foreign correspondent

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. .. 200 foreigners killed in liberian civil war . . . u.s. ready to
send arms to Israel as a sign to iraq. . . carbon monoxide levels
in cities can induce fatal heart rhythms during exercise .. .
bronx D.A. killed in drug turf war . . . iraq begins to limit the
purchase of food ... 60,000 cambodian refugees moved to
. 20 mohawk indian militants
surround a detoxification center on indian land, stand off 400

thailand by khmer rouge ..

canadian troops, vow to fight . . . bread shelves in moscow go
bare . . . u.s. seizes freighter bound for iraq. . . in chile, allende
given dignified burial after 20 years . . . slavery builds a boom
town in the amazon, migrant workers used to clear forests. . .
civil rights observers ousted from yugoslavia ... u.s. unem-
ployment reaches highest point in two years . . . asian refugees
detained in jordan . . . liberian president samuel k. doe killed
by rebels. . . n.y.c. police force to increase by thousands to deal
with growing violence . . . top iranian cleric urges all muslims
to resist u.s. in gulf. . . supreme court nominee david h. souter
deflects questions about his views on abortion ... american
warship fires on an iraqi tanker . . . f.w. de klerk states that “a
hidden hand” was at work in the violence that resulted in the
deaths of nearly 800 south african blacks . . . number of n.y.
homeless rises sharply . . . israeli officer burned to death as 2
youths set car afire ... violent protests erupt among indian
students . . . systematic destruction of kuwait pressures u.s. to

act... 15 soldiers and 2 leftist guerrillas killed in peru...

October 1990:

. two germanies unite after 45 years ... judge souter
confirmed . . . ugandan refugees invade rwanda, ethnic differ-
ences fuel battle . . . romanians using secret police to maintain
order ... redsox, oakland, cincinnati and pittsburgh win
baseball divisions ... sudan facing famine but u.s. ignores
pleas from muslim fundamentalist government . . . jury aquits
in mapplethorpe trial . . . 2 live crew on trial for obscene lyrics
...ex klu klux klan leader, david duke, doing well in louisiana
senatorial campaign ... mutiny arises and is put down in
philippines ... japanese laborers riot over police corruption
... infant cousin of nelson mandela killed by grenade ... 19
arabs killed in battle with jerusalem police . . . brazil uncovers
military plan to build an atom bomb ... political violence
begins in guatemala before elections . . . guerillas in india burn
train, killing 47 . . . oakland takes pennant in american league
. .. gaping hole in ozone layer over antarctica opens again...

reds win national league pennant . . . guatamalen police slay

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40 children in anti-crime crackdown. . . leonard bernstein dies
at 72... syrians move into beruit, 16 die in power struggle

. mikhail gorbachev wins nobel peace prize ... student
protest in ukraine forces premier to resign . . . 750 die in syrian
led offensive into lebanon . . . reds win world series in 4 games
... 2 live crew found not guilty . . . palestinian stabs 3 israelis
. peru detains 8,000

new capitalism causes

to death citing revenge as his motive . .
citizens after terrorist bombing ...
growing homelessness in hungary .. . 7 killed in bomb attack
in northern ireland ... burmese opposition party crushed by
army ... evander holyfield defeats buster douglas to become
new champ ... hundreds of dolphins killed by polluted
mediteranean waters . . . 163,800 gallons of kerosene dumped
into hudson river 15 miles south of poughkeepsie . . .

November 1990:
... mcdonalds dropping plastic burger box . . . teens in n.y.c.
assault homeless on halloween ... ethnic violence flares in
liberia — six killed ... bombings disturb coronation of new
japanese emperor ... 70 saudi women demonstrate for the
right to drive and are stopped by police . . . rabbi meir kahane
assassinated by egyptian born muslim in new york city. . . two
killed in border clash between israel and jordan ... darryl
strawberry signs with l.a. dodgers . . . palestinians flee kuwait
fearing iraqi brutality . . . 20 die in rebel assault in el salvador
. attack by punjab gunman kills 13 in indian market .. .
curfew for teenagers in atlanta . .. michael milken sentenced
to 10 years for s.e.c. violations . . . margaret thatcher resigns
as british prime minister, replaced by john major ... sikh
separatists kill 15 hindus in india . . . hubble telescope proves
to be defective ... 50 dead in anti-government protests in
bangladesh ...
December 1990:
... 12 white men arrested in south africa for assaulting 100
black children in a newly desegregated playground .. . hun-
dreds of iraqi children die due to lack of food and medicine. . .
army mutiny put down in argentina, 13 are killed ... five
killed after hatian campaign rally ... students in albania
launch massive pro-democracy protest ... natural history
museum removing dinosaur exhibit ... starvation imminent
in the sudan ... albania tears down last statues of stalin in
eastern europe ... eduard sheverdnave resigns warns soviets
of upcoming dictatorship . . . israeli army kills 4 palestianians
in the gaza strip . . . memorial held for the battle of wounded

knee ... police bulldozers raze a protestors shanty town
outside moscow ...
January 1991:

... fierce fighting in somalia between rebels and government
troops ... military helicopter shot down in el salvador 3 u.s.
airmen killed ... albanian refugees flood greece ... press
rankings rate colorado, georgia tech and miami as co national
champs in college football . . . cost of mailing a letter will rise
from $.25 to $.29 ... seven protesters sentenced in first of
tiananmen square riot trials ... dispute in latvia intensifies,
opposition newspaper seized by soviets . . . hatian troops head
off coupe attempt . . . pan handler shot and killed in new york
subway . . . morality of the “suicide machine” debated in court
... rod carew, ferguson jenkins and gaylord perry elected to
the baseball hall of fame . .

limited basis in south africa . . . soviet troops attack lithuanian

. school integration begins on a

radio/television station citizens placed under martial law .. .
rev. al sharpton stabbed during bensonhurst march. . . two top
p.l.o. leaders assassinated in tunis ... u.s. initiates air war
against iraq; iraq retaliates with a barrage of s.c.u.d. missiles
... latvian interior minister arrested by soviet troops, 5 are
killed. . . protest in moscow over baltic bloodshed . . . iraq sets
fire to oil refineries .. . 3 die at ac/dc concert .. . giants win

superbowl over bills 20-19 ... u.s. wins gulf war over iraq,

100,000-325 ...

February 1991:

... brazilian union worker slain for work with amazon
peasant farmers ... mortar shells fired at 10 downing street
narrowly missing british prime minister and cabinet members,
ira. claims responsibility ... lithuanians vote 9 to | for
independence, soviets declare ballot invalid . .. nuclear acci-
dent in japan caused by poor management, a small amount of
radiation was released ... chinese democracy advocates
sentenced to 13 years . . . hundreds of iraqi civilians die as u.s.

stealth fighter bombs shelter .. .
March 1991:

. .. 150, mostly women and children drown as a boatful of
somalian refugees overturned . . . amateur home video shows
los angeles police savagely beating black motorist rodney king
... Albania declares martial law to stem the tide of refugees
and protest ... riots in england over new poll-tax . . . exxon
pleads guilty to a criminal charge arising from the valdez oil
spill ... lowfat hamburger to be sold by mcdonalds ...
kurdish rebels battle iraqi troops for control of the north...
soviet track star sergei bubka polevaulted a new world record

20 feet . . . 30 billion dollar s.n.1. bailout approved by congress

. . south african police clash with a.n.c. supporters, killing 12
. .. number of u.s. children who go hungry is discovered to be
about 5.5 million . . . ronald reagan backs limited gun control

April 1991:

... duke upsets u.n.l.v., eventually wins the n.c.a.a. basketball
crown from kansas ... thousands of starving kurds flee iraq
. .. ozone completion over u.s. will cause 12 million cases of
skin cancer over the next 50 years ... u.s. provides airlift
support to stricken kurds . . . a campaign of violence in bhuten
shatters the tranquility of nepal in a dispute over land ...
mujahadeen rebels in afghanistan revived their struggle
against the soviet backed government in kabul ... cholera
epidemic in south america kills 1,100... donald trump must
turn over some of his key assets in exchange for being let out of
some of his personally guaranteed loans .. . ethiopian rebels
pushing government troops toward addis ababa, nation near-
ing anarchy ...

May 1991:

... cyclone in bangladesh kills 40,000 . . . thousands battle
seoul riot forces in protest over human rights abuses ...
clashes between serbs and croats kill one more .. . president
bush hospitalized for a “fluttering heart” . . . sri lanka’s army
battering rebels, casualties high on both sides . . . young artist
killed in a fistfight with an off duty police officer .. . soviet
helicopter fires on an azerbaijani village — to calm ethnic
unrest . . . pollution cloud rains white power over mexico city
... Zulu workers attack a squatters village killing at least 27
people . .. winnie mandela sentenced to 6 years in prison for
the assault and kidnapping of a south african youth ... new
“hitler youth” troubling germany ..

These were some of the global events of the 1990-91
academic year, summer 1991 saw some improvement; most of
the oil fires are out, apartheid is falling in around the south
africans’ ears and President Bush’s heart stopped fluttering.
Strange, in light of the heart racing events in the Soviet Union,
the number of unemployed at home and the continuing
devastation of the Amazon jungle. When looking back on this
summer we will remember the Yankees providing a brief thrill
as the Mets faded and watching a new world evolve on our
television sets as 1 person died every 10 minutes from aids...

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HALLOWEEN
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Hell has no power over pagans.

—Rimbaud

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It just doesn’t get any better than this.
—Old Milwaukee

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There is no quiet place in the White
Man’s cities. No place to hear the leaves of
spring or the rustle of insect wings. But
perhaps because I am savage and do not

understand — the clatter seems only to

| i insult the ears. And what is there to life if
a man cannot hear the lovely cry of the

| ' whippoorwill or the arguments of the frog

around the pond at night?

The whites, too, shall pass — perhaps
sooner than the tribes. Continue to con-
taminate your bed and you will one night
suffocate in your own waste.

... We do not understand when the
buffalo are slaughtered, the wild horses
are tamed, the secret corners of the forest
heavy with the scent of many men, and the
view of the ripe hills blotted out by talking
wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where
is the Eagle? Gone. And what is it to say
goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt?
The end of living and the beginning of
survival.

—Chief Seattle, 1855

Ours is a time when we have the
opportunity to save this suffering planet.
Will we be able to look back on the 90’s
with pride and gratitude for the foresight
we had and the action we took? Or will

we be forced to look back in anger and

bewilderment at what we allowed to be

lost forever?

—Harvey Diamond

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There is only one way out of this mess.

It requires us all, no matter who we are, to
acknowledge that it exists.

Then it requires each of us to get involved with the
business of sorting it out.

In this new age, it is no longer enough to leave it to
others.

Each one of us determines the future of our planet

simply because the consequences of what we do today
are its future.

In this respect, we have no choice.

But in every other way, we do.

We can choose to see that what we do, how we
live and what we buy responds to a finite and

ailing planet.

Or we can choose not to.

This is what Greenpeace calls “The New Wave’

of freedom.

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We know a better world can exist. It already does, inside

I grew up in a working class family,
my father was a taxi driver, my mother
was a switchboard operator. I grew up
basically as a middle class, working
class Puerto Rican kid. I didn’t come
from a broken home, I came from a
middle class background. It never oc-
curred to me that I was somewhat of
lesser person, which is what happens to
Puerto Ricans in the United States.
They are called spics, they are belit-
tled, they are doubted and said to be
stupid. Even though I wasn’t a great
student and I wasn’t a remarkable
person, I was never doubted. As a
professional now, my abilities are con-
stantly questioned. No one is going to
call me a spic to my face, no one is
going to say that I’m not good enough
because I’m a Puerto Rican, but I have
to prove myself every day. Show that I
am worthy of my position. The world
is a tough place where you are always
going to be doubted and discriminated
against. You as a person will not make
a difference unless you form groups,
organize to fight racism ... I don’t
belong to a political party anymore, I
do believe I would be kind of a left of
center person, what ever that may
mean. I believe profoundly that I
shouldn't be preaching to people what
they should do. I believe in self deter-
mination, so what I strive to do is put
my skills to the service of those who
want to improve their lot in life and
doing it by themselves. Not in a pater-
nalistic manner, but in a way in which

we should all be equal. Basically my
philosophy is that we’re all equal, we
all have equal rights to the resources of
the world. That means we should all
have equal rights to food and recre-
ation and education and all that. Since
this is not a perfect world and we do
not have equal access, I want to help
people help themselves to have equal
access, basically what Jesse Jackson
would call “empowering people”. I am
into empowering people. I don’t see
myself as a leader, I see myself as part
of a group. Those are my points of
view these days, which are rather
bland compared to what they used to
be. I was more of an activist when I
was younger. I haven’t given up on the
idea that the world can be changed,
but I think I’m going about it a differ-
ent way. If I tell you I believe that
we're all equal, everyone should have
equal access, you'd probably be saying,
“gee, this is a nice guy”. If on the other
hand I was to tell you I was a commu-
nist or a socialist, you would be put off
by that, the majority of people would. I
can not tell people: “this is the way you
should think”, I quit that. People are
going to think what they are going to
think. Rather than simply telling them
they’re a bunch of ignorant people that
don’t know what's good for them,
what I say is maybe we can do it this
way. People have different views and
one has to respect them, but you have
to understand that everyone has a
different way of saying the same thing.

I have to be patient, achieve results
rather than show my commitment to a
particular cause. Maybe the problem is
that deep down I’m really a Christian
at heart. I guess that what I think are
basically Christian principles. To be a
good person you don’t have to be a
Christian, in that sense I don’t go to
church anymore, but the principles I
believe in are fairly similar to the
principles of Christianity. I don’t be-
lieve in everything, but the principles
are fairly good. I for example don’t
agree with the pope, I never was a
catholic. The pope doesn’t understand,
he’s a bureaucrat of the church. I don’t
go to church by the way, I don’t think
anyone does.

—Enmilio Pantojas-Garcia
Professor of Latin Caribbean Studies

a’s O.K., no matter what
anyone says. Fine, the world may be
going to shit. Your life may be going to
shit. But you’re here, and you've got a
roof over you head. Live. Fine, the
environment’s fucked up, the world’s
fucked up, our government’s fucked

Ameri

up. But if you have a job, a home,
friends, what more do you need? The
last time I was in Korea you had to shit
in a hole in the ground. America’s
O.K. We've got a lot of land, a lot of
space. People complain it’s over-
crowded in N.Y.C., they can move.
Other people in other countries don’t
have that choice ... I used to live in
New Orleans. We moved to N.Y.C.
when they burned a cross in our front
yard ... When I was in high school I
didn’t even go to classes, I hung out
and played volleyball in the park. If I
wasn’t doing that I was playing pool. I
got into the pool scene when it started.
When you play pool, you get the
greatest feeling, like you know you can
do it, once you learn. Once you strug-
gle through the English, the banks, the
breaks, and all the combinations, and
the throws, and the jumps, after you
know all technical stuff, your aim gets
better and better and you know what
you're doing, and you get this great
feeling when you're playing a game,
the coolest calmest feeling, like you
know what you're doing. And you
walk around the table, chalking your
cue, and you know exactly what you’re
going to do. It’s like total security. It
doesn’t matter if you look like shit, it
doesn’t matter if you’ve been hanging
out in that pool hall for the last three

days, and you have a toothbrush with
you, and you go to the bathroom to
brush your teeth and wash your face
and that’s about it, it doesn’t matter.
It’s total security, knowing what
you're doing, and that’s the only time I
ever felt like that in high school. I hung
out with a bunch of guys who were
just as big delinquents as I was. They
were 24-7 pool hall players like me. It
was a great time. I dropped out of
school junior year of high school. I
took my G.E.D. I knew a lot of people
in a lot of different gangs, ’cause they
were there in the pool halls. Fear,
that’s what they’re about, to have
people fear you. If you shot someone,
they gave you face, they gave you
respect. They'd pick on anyone, and
everyone. If they needed money, if they
were bored, if you gave them the
wrong glance, if they didn’t like the
way you looked. It wasn’t just guy
gangs, it was girl gangs, all the girls
who hung out with the Chinese and
Korean gangs. Almost all of them
were run aways. They housed each
other, hung out with each other, back-
ed each other up in absolutely any
situation. If you show them any fear,
they'll skin you. I have a friend who
was hospitalized, gunshot wound to
the jaw, another person who got
slashed and shot, we thought he was
dead until he showed up outside school
one day. A friend was murdered,
stabbed twelve times in her own

house. That was the first person I ever
knew who died. Then another time a
friend died in Five Star pool hall where
I hung out. Some guys just came in and
started shooting, and he got killed.
They came up right to him, when he
was playing a video game, put a gun to
his head and shot him, point blank. It
So after I
dropped out, I took my G.E.D., ap-
plied to Albany. It was the only place I
applied to, and I got in. After all that
stuff, Albany’s quiet. Here, I don’t do
anything. I don’t even do my work.
Everyone’s up on the bar life, the
LampPost. I never want to go to these

isn’t as bad anymore ...

places, you know? I’d rather just sit
and live, you know? It’s cool, I like it, I
like it a lot. I have fun doing nothing.
Before I had fun doing everything. The
people here are normal people. I can
hate fraternities, I hate so-
rorities”, but individually, they’re real-
ly nice people, really great people. . . I
have no idea what I want to do with
my life. That’s what’s great about
Albany. They offer absolutely nothing
... If you don’t like where you are,
leave. If you don’t like what you're
doing, leave if you can. If you're un-
happy, find something else to do, don’t
be stuck at a job you hate, don’t go toa
school you hate, don’t stay with friends
you dislike. Do what you feel is right.
Live the life you want to live, not the
life you have to live. So be it.

—Nani

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R.Z.A. is on cz

proud about their heritage, their cul-

npus to mak

ture. | know a lot of people on campus,
Jews on campus, are embarrassed
about it, or distance themselves from
it, try to run away from it. We want
people not to run away from Judaism

it to it. It’s always been within us.
What did our ancestors do the last two
thousand years that they didn’t have a
country, that they wandered? Wherev-
er they were, no matter how repressed
they, whether in Europe, or in the Arab
countries, they always worked within
the community to
help each other. And
that’s what we do on
campus, we believe
that activism is the
key to survival. If
Jews want to contin-
ue into the next cen-
tury, they have to be
within the
community. I don’t
think that Jews feel
together as one
united community
here, because there
are so many. You
look at the number
of people who are
active, and I don’t
mean people who come to events, but
the people who make the events. Or
even the people who come to the
events—some of the biggest events we
had this year were the rallies we had
outside, we got a couple of hundred
people. Like a rally for Israel and U.S.
troops we had at the beginning of the
semester, you get a lot of people, and
that’s good, you feel good, but you're
wondering: “there’s several thousand
Jews at this campus, where's the
bulk?” They're probably at W.T.’s or
the Post, or they’re in the fraternities
or sororities, they're not getting in-
volved in Jewish groups. On the other
hand, if there’s ever an issue where
there’s real anti-Semitism on campus,
something that threatens Jewish ex-
pression, then you'll see everyone get
together, and that’s good. But I don’t

active

like the idea that only at bad times do
we get together ... We exist on cam-
pus to offend people, because only
when you offend people are they going
to start thinking. Usually we don’t
make statements or do things that are
going to offend the general population
on campus, usually it’s the Jewish
community that gets offended the
most, and that’s the way we like it.
Because they have to get offended, they
have to think about the issues we feel
are important to them, and not just to
us. So we offend them. You know

Tere

you're doing a good job when a lot of
people don’t like you. I’ve heard people
say that R.Z.A. really stands for Radi-
cal Zionist Assholes. I like that. Again,
because I like the confrontation. This
job was never a popularity thing ...
The most hopeful goal I have is that
people will go to Israel, make Aliyah, I
hope’ to within eighteen months. It’s
exciting thinking about it. It’s also
scary; “what am I going to do as a job?
There’s about a million Russians com-
ing, there’s no work, I'll probably be
living in a tent,” all those worries. But
it is exciting. I don’t know what I'll be
doing, which means I could be doing
anything. I could stay here, be a stock-
broker, spend the next twenty years
working my ass off, building my finan-
cial empire, have a nice family, a big
house, I'll have an I.R.A., a great

portfolio ... You think about every-
thing in terms of what you're going t
own and what you're going to have
but you're not really getting ahead.
You're getting ahead financially, but
it’s limited. If I make Aliyah, and |!
move to Israel, I’m changing the direc-
tion of where my grandchildren will
be. I can be a pioneer, starting a
settlement that could someday become
a city. Rabbi Kahane talks about what
is the Jewish concept of Hell? To wake
up in the end of your life, you’re in your
seventies, eighties, and you look back
at a lifetime of
waste, and
see financial suc-
cess, and you see a
beautiful house,
but you haven't
made an impact.
You just contin-
ued along a life
that could have
become anything
when you were
young, but you
chose things like
money, over help-
ing people. You
could have been
Moses,
Hertzel,
Yabatinsky, but instead you waste
your life. You didn’t cause a stir, you
could have done such incredible things
and you didn’t. And what's the Jewish
concept of heaven? Moving to a settle-
ment in Judea, right next to the ruins
of a town where you ancestors used to
live. Start a new settlement, start it
with five, ten friends, and fifty years
later you grandchildren are asking how
you helped start this new city where
thousands of people now live. And at
the end of you life you can see trees
where there used be just sand. And a
the end of your life, you can see all this,
he said, “that’s Heaven”. And he’s
right, and that’s what I'd like to do.
—Lorne Newman
Revisionist Zionist Alternative

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I was a reactionary growing up. I
was an alter boy in the Catholic
Church. I was against Social Security
(my grandmother's main paycheck is
from Social Security), When I was
fifteen | read the Communist Mani-
festo and said: “Things have got to be
different.” I read all these right wing
books on Marxism and said “some-
thing’s right about this”. When I was
seventeen I joined the organization I’m
in now, the International So-
cialist Organization. We be-
lieve in workers’ power—the
workers are the ones who cre-
ate the wealth in society, but
the bougiousie takes it. And
internationalism, because the
working class has no coun-
try— All the oppressed groups
in society; blacks, Latinos, wo-
men, gays, etc. — we fight
against their oppression. Ba-
sically, we're for the revolu-
tionary overthrow of capital-
ism, and the self-emancipation
of the working class... ’ma
sociology major ... I was in-
volved with Palestinian rights,
abortion rights, anti-war stuff
... I've been involved with a
the budget
takeover in ’89, when we took
over the Library. That was a
great time. There was five
hundred of us $.O.B.’s, it was
brilliant ... It was May first,
May Day, the greatest holiday
... The war? It was a war for
the big oil corporations. It was a war
that had nothing in it for working class
peoples, for oppressed groups, for
blacks, for Latinos ... The American
bougeiosie wanted its little military

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lot of things ...

bases. It wanted a grasp on that area,
because the United States is losing
economic power, and I’ve never been
happier in my life. We grew up in the
biggest Imperialist power in the world,
and it still has its military power, but
it’s losing it, because it just doesn’t
have the economic power anymore. It
was a fucked-up war. I don’t support it.
I didn’t support it then. People have
called me anti-Semetic because I sup-

port the Palestinians. Fuck them. I’ve
never stopped anything because I have
enemies ... The system is fundamen-
tally fucked-up. It’s not just individu-
als, although people love to blame

individuals, its the system ... We get
rid of George Bush and we get some
“lesser evil”, quote unquote of the
Democrats which have the same basic
policies. The solution is the socialist
alternative. There’s no way in hell that
the Democrats are going to reform the
system, even if we get the most liberal
wing, and the most liberal wing of the
Democrats hardly has policies much
different than the most ring-wing of
the Republicans. It’s two wings
of the same class. The system
can’t be reformed. It can’t be
reformed. It’s not a question of
inside the system or outside the
system, it’s a question of above
the system, from the top, with the
ruling class, or from below. Ei-
ther people try to change it from
below or they mask if from above.
It gets changed when a majority
of the population, when the
working class, the people who
labor everyday, in the mines and
the factories, the mills, and the
hospitals, and the offices, decide
they’ve had enough. And its not
something that just happens over-
night, it happens over time ...
without workers’ revolution, wo-
men’s liberation, black liberation,
gay and lesbian liberation, and
everything else, is inconceivable.
And vice versa. Without wo-
men’s liberation, black liberation,
gay liberation, and whatever else,
socialism is inconceivable. And
today, the only audience for so-
cialist ideas is in the university.
—George Roseamund,
International Socialist
Organization

I came here as a freshman four years
ago and I came here and wanted to be
an accountant. I wanted to be an
investment banker. I used to wear a
suit and tie, I was an Alex P. Keaton
wanna be. Like Albany was the place
to go for business, and now, if you
threatened to kill me, put a gun to head
and said that I had to work in any job
like that I would say, “kill me.” When
I first came here I was a maniac. Like
when I first came to school wanting to
be an eco-major, I failed like three

your gig, I mean I respect anybody's
gig and what ever you want to do, God
I hope you do whatever you want to
do, but I just can’t see that having any
level of creativity. I mean the money
yeah, the money is fun but what good
is that money if your going to spend it
on the weekend on psychotherapy. If
you're going to go to work everyday
and be freaked out by the end of the
week, freaked when you want to go
home and kill your kids and you can’t
talk to your wife and you can’t make

courses my first semester, and I ended
up growing my hair long and drinking
every day. I was an eco-major for three
and a half years, and one day, I was
filling out those stupid like bubbles for
registration, and I realized: I hate
economics. I hate it. I never liked it.
Not once did I like it. Not from the
first class. And | had taken twelve eco
classes, and the only reason I was
doing it was: “I can get a good job, I
can get a good job... ” A good job
doing what? Being a stockbroker, or
being a investment banker? So right
then and there I switched my major. I
switched my major in my senior year to
English, and took about twenty
English classes in the last ten months.
And it’s so much better now, I like it.
My brother is a rock star, he’s a rock
and roll guy and we just laugh, we call
it sucking the devil’s dick. That's what
it is! It’s like giving the devil a big, fat
blow job. ‘Cause like even if that’s

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love to your girlfriend and stuff like
that. You can’t even draw pictures.
Like if you're an accountant, you can’t
even doodle. You can’t doodle on a
computer. God, I see my friends with
so much creativity absolutely pissing
their lives away. Like I see myself
when I get busy with stuff I enjoy
doing. I don’t understand how people
can really love that. Again, I respect
anybody’s opinion to do what they
want to do, but I think a lot of people
around here, specially around Albany
have their priorities really fucked up. I
have seen in the last four years, Albany
is a great place to be, the school, and
the opportunity here to be what ever
you want. I mean I found what I
wanted to be in four years. I came here
thinking, cause I had that ideal of what
I wanted to be. That ideal is stuck in
your head by society that you want to
be rich, you want to make money and I
said, “hey I’m going to come to Albany

and be just like that, so I’m going to come |

out with a degree and make as much money
as I can possibly make, more money than
any human being can make.” | found out in
this school that, that was not what I wanted
to do... Then again the friends I’ve made
here and the people here, I have such 2
diverse set of friends and I don’t know if you
would even notice that looking at me from
the outside like every other person looks at
you from face value. I don’t know what
people think of me personally, besides being
the man with no pants. I hate wear
pants, that really sucks. On rainy days you
walk around with wet pants all day, your
skin dries quickly, you know? That’s why
people should run around naked, ‘cause you
dry off ... The thing that upsets me most
about Albany is that this school does not
ignite the fire of individuality. Individuality
at Albany is lost. You're either part of that
crowd or you're different. And to be differ-
ent here is bad. The scariest thing around
here is to be different. That's just one thing
that I’ve seen in the four years that I’ve been
here that really bothers me. The total non-
cultivation of individuality.
—Paul Faulhaber
“The man with no trousers”

I would like to graduate from
SUNYA with an accounting degree,
work a couple of years at an account-
ing firm get my MBA and hopefully be
the CFO of some large company.
Why? For power, money and because I
really like business. My mom is a
teacher, my grandfather and aunt are
teachers, so I had no choice—I had to
come to college. My mother would
like me to be a lawyer, my dad likes
that I’ve chosen business . . . Yes, I’ma
Republican, the only one in the family.
My grandfather found out and yelled
at me. There are many reasons why |
chose not to follow my family’s Demo-
cratic tradition. I think there should be

a more conservative view of politics, as
the Republicans have. Meaning, I
don’t think a welfare state is going to
get the country any where, people are
going to have to work harder. I will
help people who work at McDonald’s
for a small salary but I get very upset
when people who do nothing get more
than people who do try to work and
don’t get anything. I think education is
very important, scholarships and extra
funding should be based on merit. |
just can’t see giving people money,

because they don’t make a lot, if they
don’t try hard in school. Now we can
go into Affirmative Action. I think the
system should be color blind. I don’t
think anyone should get ahead just
because of the group they are in, any-
thing like race, creed, color. We should
all be judged on the same level. I
believe in equal opportunity, but I
don’t believe in Affirmative Action. In
a color blind system I think there is
equal opportunity. There are preju-
diced people and discriminators up
there, and that might hurt the system
but I don’t think just because a group is
a minority and have been oppressed in
the past it should have any relevance
on if they get a job over someone who
is equally or better qualified in the
majority. You can go above these dis-
criminations. Since 1963 due to the
Civil Rights Act, you can’t not hire
someone because of their color, race.
For the most part yes, the Civil Right

Act has been successful, people have
been pushing it. In the beginning I
don’t know if it was, ’cause it was new.
Now I don’t think there are segregated
schools. The more you apply and push
yourself you can do better. I’m against
what Affirmative Action has turned
into. The idea of a quota system say-
ing, “we're going to have to hire this
guy because he’s a minority or this
woman because we need more women
there.” It’s not fair to other people.
The blacks that got into $.U.N.Y.

Albany, myself and all my white
friends, I think are on par, and once we
get out of this school I don’t think they
should get a job because they’re black
and I’m white. I never owned a slave.
I've never been in a place that discrimi-
nated and said: “you can’t have a job
because you're black.” I don’t think I
owe blacks, as a group, anything. I
think maybe they’ve been paid back a
few times over. I don’t find myself
being prejudiced. I don’t find myself
being racist ... I don’t like talking
about people as groups. Once you talk
about groups, that’s when you get into
stereotypes. I’m Jewish, I don’t want
to be stereotyped as a ruthless, greedy
bastard that doesn’t care about any-
body, ’cause it isn’t true. I don’t think
you should have to categorize blacks
according to their stereotypes .. .
—Matt Cohen
Pi Sigma Epsilon
business fraternity

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Ghana. Do you want me to spell it
out? G-H-A-N-A. You don’t know
where Ghana is? It’s on the west coast
of Africa. Well .. . It’s approximately
100,000 square miles, it’s on the coast.
There are about twenty two different
dialects, different languages are spo-
ken. I speak eleven of them. Do I like
Ghana? Of course, I’m going back! It’s
my home. For starters the people (in
Ghana) are more hospitable, I don’t
have to call somebody before I go to
their house, I don’t have to feel like I
have to ask for every little thing. We’re
very communal. In Ghana everyone is
friendly all the time, here not all the
time. If you go to New York, people
are not friendly there. If you come to
Albany, people are. But don’t write
that in the book, they’re going to
throw up and I’m coming back next
year... they'll look for me. . . African
Student Association was formed about
ten years ago to sort of be in a position
to take care of African students who
come here and face those things, all the
things I talked about. They need a
community to fall on in order not to
feel home sick and all that stuff. We
organize cultural events like Africa
night, which is still our main event. I
was a coordinator for the Student
Coalition Against Apartheid and Rac-
ism. I’m involved in the African Com-
munity of the Capital District, Capital
District Coalition against Apartheid
and Racism, member of A.S.U.B.A
and I was this school’s delegate to the
United States Junior Association. I
think it’s important to get involved and
fight all the injustices that still exist.
Racism is a basic thing on campus, an
issue that students of the non-cauca-
sian culture face at different levels.

Students will come to (SUNYA) think-

ing everything will be fine and dandy
because they are able to come to school
here, this doesn’t mean racism is out. It
is very much a part of our everyday
lives. Affirmative Action? If things
were as they should be, there would be
no need for a policy like that. Skin
color is a factor, men and women who
are not caucasian don’t get high in
places despite Affirmative Action poli-

cy today. I think it’s nonsense. The
public school system was set up so that
even the poor could get an education.
Now the rich people are sending their
kids to public institutions, so they’re
saving money, but look at what's hap-
pening. Poor kids, whether black or
white can’t come here because some-
body out there is prepared to pay cash,
when they have to go through pro-
grams such as federal funding. Dis-
crimination involves many points,
there are some more clear than others.
Before I came here, I had never experi-
enced racism before. In Ghana, the
majority of people are black. The situ-

ation here now is very, very bad. I
think it’s very clear cut when you have:
in politics a former Ku Klux Klan
member running for public office,
when you have a situation where big-
ots are starting to come out much more
easily than they used to and so many
black men are in jail. After twenty
years of the Civil Rights movement
what occurred then is still happening

now. Before, racism was obvious, now
it’s not as obvious. Years ago they
wouldn’t let you sit at a white man’s
table, now they'll let you sit there, but
the treatment they'll give you... Let
me talk about institutionalized racism.
They'll let you go to a white school
but what they'll teach you, you come
out thinking you're nobody. There are
only so many people who can stand up
and be proud of who they are. There
are only so many people ... You see
what I’m saying?
—Fredea Ofari-Atta
African Student Association

We pledged together. We pledged in
fall of ’88, first semester sophomore
year, and now we're graduating. We
wanted to meet people, get more in-
volved in school, meet more girls. It’s
hard to meet girls here. Being in a
sorority made it easier here, because
it’s so big. It gives you a lot of great
friends. It builds self-confidence. We
used to be really shy, not that you’d
realize it now... We're graduating in
two days, we’re very scared. For the
past two weeks we’ve been in a denial
stage—and an alcoholic stage. We've
been drinking heavily, and we’re deny-
ing the fact that we’re leaving, because

we don't want to leave, and we're
seared. ..S.U.N.Y.... It’s so big, and
it’s very sterile, lackadaisical, apathet-
ic. But we like it now. Figures, now
that we're leaving, we’re gonna miss

it. Don’t graduate, hang out, fail every
class, stay. All through high school,
you always know what you're going to
do next year, go to 11th grade, go to
college. Now, you've got no idea what
you're going to do next year, no idea
what you'll be doing at this time next
year... S.U.N.Y. men... Guys here
are scum. Their idea of a date is
meeting at a bar. Dating does not occur
at Albany. Buying drinks, forget it. It’s
the jappy S.U.N.Y. Albany tendency.
We're not japs at all. It’s just an
attitude, it can be a look, usually the
look goes with the attitude. Howe
you can’t nec
‘cause they look like a jap. And all
Jewish people are not japs. It’s an
attitude like: “All right, I need my
Gucci bag, what am I wearing, oh my
god...” It’s materialistic, very mate-

er,
sarily peg someone

rialistic. In DphiE, everyone is so dif-
ferent, everyone's not stereotyped. We
have japs in our sorority, but we’re all
so different, it doesn’t matter. It’s im-
portant, we wouldn't want to hang out
with a group of people that were all the
same. Everyone has one special bond,
one thing in common, but everyone's
different. You have your deadheads,
your jocks, your japs ... Everyone’s
different, but everyone really loves
each other. We’re a really close so-
rority. Do people look down on
Greeks? Honestly? Yeah, they do,
don’t they? But we do so many good
things. We do community service, phi-
lanthropy, a lot of fundraising, a lot of
positive things. It’s unfortunate that
people look down at Greeks and say:
“it’s just drinking, and partying, and
hooking up”. Because it really isn’t. It’s
a lot of good things. It makes it easier.
Especially when you're first here, it’s
hard, ‘cause you miss home and every-
thing, ‘cause it’s so big, and you don’t
know anybody, you never see the same
face twice. It helped a lot. We're really
going to miss it. It was a really good
experience. DphiE, and school itself, a
really good time, made a lot of good
friends, a lot of memories . . . The key
is to drink a Jot. A friend explained it,
she said: “the key is to drink your face
off the last two weeks. Get so stupid
drunk that you’re sick of it. It makes it
easier on yourself.” Take advantage of
it now. There’s so many things we're
so mad at ourselves for not doing, like
go down to the capital, go down to
egg, go here, go there. It goes by so
fast.

—Amber and Jill
Delta Phi Epsilon

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I started as Dean at the same time that this
graduating class came to campus as freshmen.
All the problems and joys I experienced, they
experienced also. After all, I lived and breathed
with them over the past four years. In that
sense the class of 1991 occupies a special place
in my heart. I think the class of 1991 would
agree with me that we have accomplished a
great deal in that period of time. I came to
America in 1960, and studied. I was broke,
even though I was sponsored by the United
States State Department. They gave me $120
a month, which was good enough to live on at
the time, but not enough to buy books or LP
records. Those were the two things I loved at
that time; books and music. Anything western,
I loved. When I first came here, I was lost. It
was not easy, particularly trying to study
American history. I couldn't speak English at
all. Just pidgeon English. I had trouble under-
standing professors’ oral lectures. But I
learned, eventually producing a master’s thesis,
eventually even a doctoral thesis. Just steady
application of your attention to studying. Read
as many books and articles as you can. It was a

very, very uphill battle. I think our students
here are lucky. They are not as hard working,
as literally minded as I was. Learning Ameri-
can history gave me enormous pleasure, so my
source of pleasure was different from many
students. Books and LP records, those were
my great sources of companionship. Of course,
I liked going out with girls, and boys, just like
anybody else, but I always felt that what you
are is what you learn. Learning is living, I
always say, not the other way around. You
need to create a community of learning, rather
than a community of indulgence in fun. I
sometimes think that the students somehow
think that university education is made up of
fifteen hours a week, attending classes, and the
moment they step off the podium, they turn
their backs on what happens in the classroom.
We don’t have to tell you what kind of living
you should have, you know better than old
fogeys like me, you see? That you can do on
your own. We just provide that environment,
all the residence halls close to the podium, to
create a cohesive organic entity. The residence
hall became a sort of sleepy suburban village,

where students go to sleep, and turn the T.V.
on, with a beer in one hand, watching the
year's crazy football games. That's the lifestyle
I found most ... repulsive. I don’t like that
notion. Students should take charge of their
own education, test their potential, and find
our exactly what they would like to do in life.
That’s an opportunity a lot of people don’t
have, and many students squander that oppor-
tunity. A beautiful opportunity. If the students
recognize that, okay, we are here for a special
reason, to get a good education, to make the
life here really extraordinary
then the University will become a special
place. They should think about reading, writ-
ing, speculating, and reading again. Day in and
day out— a constant preoccupation. That
doesn’t mean that our students shouldn’t have
a good time, I enjoy watching our students
having a good time, but having a good time
should not be the overruling preoccupation. By
and large our students are doing much better,
that the environment is improving. Someday I
think this school will be as good as any
expensive, Ivy Leave school . . . I would say if

extraordinary,

the students had really had good four years of
learning to cultivate their intellect, their mind,
probably its time now to pay a little attention
to the need of their heart, their emotional need,
that’s the way I look at it, the education. And
then you see, when you cultivate your heart,
and sensibility for others, I think you'd make a
better person, more compassionate, sort of
giving yourself to others. And now having
learned, having gotten something inside,
again, it’s time for them to think about others
as well. And in dealing with others, probably
the most important means of communicating
with others is through heart, caring. I would
like to see the class of 1991 think about their
good heart, and cultivate that heart, to serve
the needs of humanity, to nurture the sense of
fellowship will fellow human beings, caring
about the plight of others, helping those who
are less fortunate than you. That’s all I can say.
It sounds artificial, but that’s all this 120 credit -
hours is, this four years is a special time. You
take care.

—Sung Bok Kim
Dean of Undergraduate Students

... and now for something completely different
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You say they’re sick,
but the only sickness

I can see

is the cancer

of your bigotry.

—Oi Polloi

I could barely believe the irony of it all. There we were in our Sociology of
Gender class, debating and arguing back and forth from all ends of the
spectrum. The woman to my left, in response to a comment I made about the
class, started mocking me, in exaggerated fag fashion. Limp wrist and all. Ina
gender class, no less. I can’t be sure what she expected she was doing to me or
how I would react, but I doubt she thought I’d call her on it. Maybe she never
heard the expression “Silence = Death”, but I have. It means if you don’t
speak out, if you don’t address confrontation and your oppressor then they'll
kill you. They'll beat you in the streets. Dead.

The woman was shocked that I am openly gay and not ashamed to yell it in
front of a classroom full of a few hundred people. Maybe she thought I’d
cower, or sink down low in my seat out of embarrassment, but I am not
embarrassed, and have no reason to be. This is me, it’s innate, natural. It is
nothing I feel uncomfortable about.

But being teased or tormented for who you are is no joy. And it’s just a small
stepping stone away from being harassed, beaten, and even killed just for being
who you are. And I’m not going to stand for it. And neither are the millions of
others like me. We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous — get used to it!

This incident is not particularly outstanding (aside from it taking place in a
gender class). Homophobia rears its ugly head all the time. Being chased down
the road by five frat pledges jeering “Kill the fag!” is not an experience I wish
on anyone — not even on the scum who did just that to me one evening last
fall. And it’s not just Albany. I moved to New York after graduating in May,
and expected people down here to be a bit more open-minded, which they are,
but I’ve also been called faggot many more times than I ever heard while
walking down Central Avenue in Albany. And this bigotry comes from all
people, of all colors and creeds. Which really baffles me. The woman from my

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incinerated side by side with Jews. (Don’t worry, I reminded her). And how many
African Americans have called me faggot or queer. That people can be so blind to the
unity of oppression is really scary.

Perhaps you are thinking I’m some sort of “militant queer”, whatever that is. If that
means living your life openly and honestly, then yes, | am a militant queer.

This year I marched in the Gay Pride March in Manhattan. It’s held annually on
June 30th, the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, when gays fought back as the police
raided the gay tavern back in 1969. This was the first time I ever marched, and it was
really wonderful to see that many people out there. About 300,000 of us. I can’t help
but look back on my life now and see how much I’ve changed for the better. When I
was a teenager I used to make New Year's Resolutions not to be gay anymore, which
of course were impossible to keep anyway — being gay is nothing you turn on or off,
it’s sort of like being human, just the way you are. These days I don’t make any
resolutions I can’t keep. This year I’m starting my resolutions early: to make everyday

Gay Pride Day.

—Ray Rogers

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Educational access is the reason for the demonstrations,
rallies, and teach-ins, the building take-overs, marches and
arrests. The reason that 6,000 students converged on Governor
Cuomo’s steps on March 19th, the reason that thousands of
students across the state risked arrest and jeopardized academic
semesters—The pursuit of education. People say that we're a
generation following self-centered materialistic aspirations. In
1991 I saw that we are a generation of conscious intellectuals
with a commitment to the future, and demanding our right to
all of this nation’s fruits.

Public Higher Education was threatened this past year. In
January 1991, we faced a $300 tuition hike and a $100 Tuition
Assistance Program cut, and Governor Cuomo proposed that in
September 1991, we face an additional $500 tuition hike and
an additional $400 T-A.P. cut. This would include the
elimination of the Liberty scholarship program, the Science and
Technology Entry program, and the Regents scholarship pro-
gram. The effect that this would have on Public Higher
Education would be devastating to the working and middle
classes. Public education would be a cheap ride for the rich and
an impossible road for students of modest means. These budget
cuts would turn away the traditionally disadvantaged students;
African-American, Latinos, Asians, single parents, disabled and
returning students. These groups were at the forefront of the
student movement, sacrificing for those who couldn't (or
wouldn’t). These are the students who have the most to lose
and know best the importance of keeping the door forced open
in order to achieve the future we all look towards. Education
should be the #1 policy priority in any advanced society—we
are just asking for the state and nation to be conscious of that

responsibility.

THE STUDENTS UNITED
WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED

—Kahina Van Dyke

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Office of Student Accounts

Business Administration B19
Albany, New York 12222

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

June 27, 1991
Dear Undergraduate Student:

As you review your financial plans to attend the University this
academic year, President Swygert has asked that I advise you of
recent budgetary developments that will affect your budget
planning. Unfortunately, the full consequences of the State
budget actions are still not known -- particularly those
affecting financial aid packaging. However, we can provide
specific information on regular cost items.

I'm sure that you are familiar with the fiscal plight of New York
State and the late passage of the 1991-92 State budget. With the
endorsement of both the Governor and the Legislature, the SUNY
Board of Trustees acted on June 14 to increase tuition for full-
time undergraduate students by $250 per semester bringing it to
$1,075 per semester. At Albany, the dormitory room cost for
normal occupancy has been increased by $92.50 to $1,220 per
semester. The board rate for the 20-meal plan has been increased
by 5 percent to $613 per semester.

The campus operating budget has been substantially reduced in the
State budget. While the President has preserved instructional
program support, other areas are being reduced significantly. As
a result, we have had to introduce some revenue options which are
described below:

- The SUNY Board of Trustees has approved a mandatory Health
Fee at a cost of $40 per semester for full-time students
(pro-rated for part-timers). The mandatory Health Fee
replaces the Triple H program formerly offered as an
optional charge.

- A parking fee of $60 for an academic year (plus $4.20 sales
tax) will be instituted for all students who park vehicles
On campus in addition to the usual $10 vehicle registration
fee (plus $.70 sales tax). You will receive a separate
mailing in July to enable you to apply for both the
registration decal and parking tag by mail rather than
having to wait in line when school starts in September. As
before, freshman students are generally prohibited from
registering and parking vehicles on campus.

In addition, the University's Student Association through a
student referendum has approved an increase in the Student
Activity Fee from $55 to $61 per semester for full-time students
(pro-rated for part-timers), and has extended the fee to include
non-matriculated as well as matriculated students.

The unresolved State budget has also affected financial aid
processing. At this time, it is still impossible for the New
York State Higher Education Services Corporation to generate
Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) awards and, consequently, for
the Office of Financial Aid to determine accurate financial aid
packages. However, it appears now that TAP awards will probably
be reduced and that Regents College Scholarships will be
eliminated, at least for 1991-92. In any event, the University's
Office of Financial Aid plans to begin issuing aid award notices
in the next several weeks to all students who have filed
complete, accurate, and timely applications. If the budget
picture is still not complete, those aid award notices will be
based on the best estimates available to us.

Except for the vehicle parking and registration fees mentioned
above, all University charges will be included on invoices sent
to you by my office. Normally, we would mail bills to pre-
registered students in mid-July. Because of the delays in the
State budget process, with the concomitant inability of the
Financial Aid Office to determine final financial aid awards, we
anticipate a delay in sending out bills until perhaps late July
or early August. Please be assured that we will provide adequate
time for you to pay your Fall bill by return mail. If a follow
up invoice is necessary, it will be issued in early October.

We have listed typical Fall 1991 semester charges on the attached
sheet. We hope this information helps you in your financial
planning for next year. It is the best we are able to provide at
this time.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience. Best
wishes for a good summer and a productive academic year.

Sincerel
Lia Catalano
Director

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PHOTOSERVICE 1991:

(listed in no logical order)

Adam “Miami” Pratomo, Chief Photographer
John “No-good-whitey” Cienki, Minister of War
Lorna “Pepsi” Faverey, Troublemaker
Micheal “Sweet Daddy” Ackerman, Lunatic
Gigi “Space” Cohen, also a lunatic

Sean “Mad Dog” Sime, Surf-Punk

Roberto “Arrico Suave” Juarbe, Rude Guy
Brad “A.C.” Kolodny, Token Frat-boy

Ho Young “Young Ho” Lee, Auto-focus
Susan “Doth Sue” Gaus (Copenheaver)

Jen “Sister Theodore” Salerno

Armando “El Boracho” Vargas

Raquel “Rocky” Moller

Randi “Schwandi” Panich

Micheal “The Quiet One” Brown

Micheal “The Not So Quiet One” Lettera
Krystyn “Formula 1” Kohler

Jeff “Pretty-Boy” Levine

Jeremy “Convict” Armstrong

Jane “couldn’t think of a smart-ass name for you” Chiang

Alicia “same story” Haberski

8:00 A.M. sometime in 1991:

Somehow I’ve been thinking about this page
from day one. The irony is, one year, 3,000 camel
| lights, 2,000 gallons of coffee, and about 12 solid
meals later, I still don’t know what to say. As Ron
Simmon’s said: “Strange, I
would end this way.” I can’t remember the last

never thought it

time I slept, but I look forward to it someday. I’ve
got enough caffeine and nicotine in my
kill a small army, and the reality is catching up
with me. I don’t know what else to say, except
that it’s been an amazing experience, although in

tem to

retrospect, one I would only recommend to the
terminally ill. I gave it a year of my life, I hope
you like it. I take full responsibility, and aside
from wishing it had been finished a long time ago,
I make no apologies.

Take care of yourselves,

BX as.,

Charles Teru Kuwayama
T91 Editor-in-Chief

“My life fades, the vision dims. All that remains
are memories. They take me back . . . | remem-

ber a time of chaos...

—The Road Warrior

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but
cancer will probably kill me. It’s been a wonder-
ful year.”

Sheer Terror

“History will absolve me.”
Fidel Castro

I'd better get to the thank-you’s now, there’s a lot of
them. Sorry to all the people I know I'll forget, given
my state of delirium.

GARY GOLD, MARTIN BENJAMIN, and RON
SIMMONS: I’ve read your books like bibles, probably
more times than you have. I wish I was coherent
enough to fully express my debt to you all. MARTIN
BENJAMIN, thanks for the great photos. RON
SIMMONS, it was great to finally meet you, I'd
assumed that you'd been assassinated long ago. GOLD, I’m sure you're
used to hearing this by now, but thanks for all your patience, generosity,
and advice. I know I’ve put you through hell, and I’m sorry. I'll try to
make it up to you, at least in part on the 92. Thanks again, for
everything. No thanks for using all those Cat’s Cradle quotes twenty
years before I thought I discovered them.

JOE D.: Thanks for all your help. Apparently nice guys sometimes do
get ahead. And of course thanks and hello to MIKE-E, KAREN, CAS,
NICK, PAT, VALERIE and the whole posse over at Carl Wolf Studios.
DEAN: Like everyone else at photoservice, I’m sorry we didn’t get a
chance to see you this year. You were a high point of the photoservice
experience, and your visits were always “educational”, to say the least.
Congratulations to you, JODI, and SHELBY on your new, expanded
family. Good luck with your studio. I hope you aren’t too successful to
come see us in ’92.

GIGI:
Notice that unlike some editors, I take the time to make personal thank

Thanks for taking a chance on a scruffy degenerate like me.

you’s to my loyal staff members. I had a great time hanging out with you
last summer. The “slumber parties” and the weird conversations were a
lot of fun. Sorry my book’s so much better than yours.

MIKE A.: Hey Sweet Daddy. Thanks to you, I’m the person I am now.

An obnoxious, unbathed, malnourished, camera-wielding maniac, with a
new found appreciation for Woody Allen movies. Thanks for teaching
me just about everything I know about photography. Save a space in the
gutter for me.

SEAN: Ah, my youthful protege. As you once said to me: “Whadd-
ayacallit. I’m not into the sentimental bullshit, but thanks for every-
thing. You were an editor's wet dream. I look forward to working for you
in a year or two.

ADAM: By the time you read this, half of France will be drunk and
pregnant. It was a hell of a year. The reign of the semi-asians will be long
remembered.

J.C.: We go way back. I enjoyed all those 3:00 A.M. debates. Don’t give
up that Cyco/Squad bloodlust. We haven’t met an organization we
couldn’t conquer yet. Hang in there, keep the faith, Carpe Diem, No
confies en el gringo.

JEN: I'll always remember hanging out in front of Dutch freshmen year,
Nurse Ratchet, and of course Tom Waits. Sorry for my occasional
buffoonery.

JANE, NANI, and HELEN: Thanks for taking care of me over the
summer, and teaching me how to play cards and smoke Newports.
NANI, thanks for keeping me company at ungodly hours and for the
pump of the volume tape.

ROB: “Vegan Pizza”. Smell ya!

ARMANDO: Thanks for throwing pieces of tomato at me in the
kitchen at El Loco. Thanks for all the Dos Equis, and the tequila too. Hi
Leslie!

SUE: I'm still a little annoyed at you for running off and marrying
someone else, before I could ask, but that Ron seems like a pretty decent
sort, as whiteys go.

HO: I know we don’t agree on much concerning religion, politics, or just
about anything else, but you’re a good person, and good photographer,
and I respect you (I feel a little queasy). Anyway, good luck on the ’92.
Take it easy on Gold, he’s been through a lot already.

LORNA: You owe me about fifty dollars for pepsis.

JEFF: Sorry I almost killed you in that car accident.

KRYSTYN: Stick to walking.

BRAD: You're a pretty cool guy, considering your “questionable”
affiliations.

RANDI: Thanks for always offering to help, even when I was too
disorganized to take you up on it. Great rugby shots.

MIKE B. and MIKE L.: You two should spend more time together.
You'd learn valuable communication skills.

TODD: Some business manager. You didn’t even bother to collect your
own paycheck. Thanks for your writing and research.

RAY: Living with you was truly enlightening. Thanks for the writing.
ROSA: Thanks for more than I can say. I probably would have starved to
death long ago, if it wasn’t for you. You take better care of me than I do. I
still don’t know why you put up with me. Thanks for all the wake up
calls, and of course for the interviews. Yo te amo.

Special thanks and a big schwa! to everyone who contributed their
photographs, writing, and time to this book, to everyone who has
endured working with me, living with me (Schwa-Jerkies-Prosthesis!).
To everyone one who helped, or kept me company through all night
layouts, and to all my friends for generous use of their showers, beds,
mealcards, and cigarettes. See you all in hell. Peace.

Photographs by TERU KUWAYAMA

except:

Photo credits lettered A-Z, left to right,
and top to bottom.

SEAN SIME: 4, 5, 85B, 92C, 116,
180C, 205A, 208A, 258-259

GIGI COHEN: 10, 11, 50, 51, 68, 69,
93, 148, 162A, 180A, 209, 228, 229,
242, 245, 252.

MICHAEL ACKERMAN: 36C, 39A,
43A, 47B, 56F, 59A,G, 64C, 85A, 93B,
122C,D, 124, 125E, 156A,B, 157A,
225A, 233, 242B, 243A,D, 290D,
Z91A;C, 330,391:

ADAM PRATOMO: 38A,B, 39B,C,
591, 70, 123E, 126B,E,G, 127C,F,
136B, 128B, 243B.

HO YOUNG LEE: 203B, 204, 205C,
206; 207, 212; 213

JEFF LEVINE: 54A,B,C,D,E, 59C
JANE CHIANG: 59E

JOHN CIENKI: 92A, 110, 111
LORNA FAVERY: 104A

JEN SALERNO: 123D

ROB JUARBE: 129, 202, 203A
BRAD KOLODNY: 157B
ARMANDO VARGAS: 208B
RANDI PANICH: 55D, 210
MICHAEL LETTERA: 252B
PHOTOSERVICE/CARL WOLF
STUDIOS: 324, 325

MARTIN E. BENJAMIN: 182, 183

Concept, Layout, and Design by EDI-
TOR-IN-CHIEF except pgs. 50, 51—
concept and design by GIGI COHEN.
pgs. 234, 235, 240, 241—concept by
MARTIN E. BENJAMIN

Writing Credits:

JOHN CIENKI: 110,111

THABO MASHEANE: 44, 45
TODD FERRARA: 18, 19, 114, 115
| SIGMA NU: 98

RAY ROGERS: 99, 160, 161
KAHINA VAN DYKE: 269

Interviews by TERU KUWAYAMA
and ROSA CABANILLAS

Senior Portraits by CARL WOLF
STUDIO

Torch 1991 printed by Delmar Printing

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“Home I have none. Flock I have none. I am Outcast. And we fly now at the
peak of the great Mountain Wind. Beyond a few hundred feet, I can lift this old
body no higher.”

“But you can, Jonathan. For you have learned. One school is finished, and the
time has come for another to begin.” i

As it had shined across him all his life, so understanding lighted that moment
on Jonathan Seagull. They were right, he could fly higher, and it was time to go
home.

He gave one last look across the sky, across that magnificent silver land where
he had learned so much.

“I’m ready,” he said at last.

And Jonathan Livingston Seagull rose with the two star-bright gulls to

disappear into a perfect dark sky.
—Richard Bach

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