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“Are people getting stupider or is it just my feeling of every
waking moment of every day?”

Now after four years | think we need to be asking this ques-

tion again.”
-Folitically Incorrect

(May 22, 1997)

Stu Wolter

“Going abroad was an emotional rollercoaster.
| spent nights in tears; homesick, lonely, tired,
and angry. | also had the most amazing experi-
ence of my life.” -Rachel Sur

In the fall of 1996, | went on an
exchange program to Buenos Aires,
Argentina. For one semester, | attended
the small, private, Catholic University,
Universidad del Salvador. | took an
Argentine history class, an Argentine
economics class, and an Argentine liter-
ature class.

The university was completely disor-
ganized. Registering for classes took
over a month and was one of the most
vainful bureaucratic experiences yet. The
teachers and students were all at least

half hour late for classes, everybody
chain smoked in class, and getting text
books and class photocopy packets was
an adventure in itself. But the classes
were amazing in other ways. They were
conducted as conversations; not lec-
tures. The students and teachers feed
off each other’s comments and ideas.
The classes were intellectually stimulat-
ing and alive. Both student and teacher
were passionate about the class mate-
rial. Sometimes, after class was over,
the conversations would extend to cafes
and bars around the urban campus
where the teachers and students would
sit around drinking beers, sipping coffee,
debating the present Argentine eco-
nomic and political situation. | got to
know my teachers and classmates inti-
mately. | began to understand them
both as the people of a beautiful culture,
and the products of their national dilem-
ma.

During my stay abroad, | was very

lucky to obtain a job teaching English. |
saved every penny | earned, and after
finals ended, | spend six weeks back-
packing across South America with my
roommate from Buenos Aires. | saw
extremes of richness and poverty, beau-
ty and despair, modernism and tradi-
tionalism. | stood at Macchu Piccu, the
most famous Incan ruins located in the
mountains of Feru, and was in complete
awe at the intensity and magic of that
place. | crawled into the metal mines in
Potosi, Bolivia, where | walked out with
extreme nausea, disgust and sadness
at the subhuman conditions in which
people in this world still have to work in.
| lived in a city that had all the creature
comforts of any first world society. | vis-
ited small Indian villages where electric-
ity and running water were not even
words in the local language. | was treat-
ed with warmth, love, curiosity, and even
hostility. Here are some of my written
and photographic impressions ...

September 9, 1996

’'m in my bed in my apartment on
Riobamba St. I’m missing home. I’m very
homesick. | don’t know what exactly it is
that | miss, but whatever it is, | miss it.
Things like living in a country where
things are familiar, and | feel comfort-
able. There are things about Argentine
culture that | absolutely love. The friend-
liness for one. It sounds so cliche, but we
really underestimate the power of friend-

liness; living in a society where people are
warm and kind to each other. It’s the
general form of communication here. |
don’t know if it’s a cultural thing, but
when you're in close quarters with a per-
s0n that you haven't verbally communi-
cated with there’s an awkwardness that
takes over. The minute people speak to
each other by greeting each other that
wall breaks down, and it’s so nice to have
all these little walls breaking down on a
daily basis. Where | grew up in New York,
people are colder; less connected to
each other. | always accepted this as
normal, but | now realize how important
it is to live an open, friendly atmosphere.
| know the first step that | take in New
York will be hell. The social nastiness and
coldness is going to be the hardest thing
for me to get used to when | go back
home.

September 30, 1996
These people really know how to enjoy
themselves! The amount of time and
money that Argentines spend on going
out and having a good time is amazing.
On weekends, cafes and restaurants in
the city are packed. The markets in the
little towns outside the city are also
packed, but not with tourists, but with
native Argentines themselves, that
enjoy their country. They travel so much
within their own country (and Argentina
is huge!), which is something that Amer-
icans, in comparison, seem to do very lit-
tle of. The average American family
spends so much time locked up inside
their house. But the Argentines are
always out on weekends. Everybody from
the poor people who go to the local
plazas and parks to play soccer and
have picnics, to the rich ones who flee to
their “country clubs” in the suburbs
which are now en vogue in upper class
Argentine society.
October 10, 1996
| got this incredible job soon after get-
ting to Buenos Aires. I'm teaching
English to the businessmen of a huge
corporation that has many branches in
South America. Some of the guys are
great- | want to marry one of my stu-
dents. Some of them | hate.
| sort of have mixed feelings about the
people at the company. First of all, I'm
taking all these economics courses in
the university where I’m learning about

the present decaying and disastrous
Latin economy. However, these people
are not the working class or unemployed
poor that earn second and third world
salaries. All day | read these texts about
the Argentine unemployment crisis
(unemployment is officially 16% at pre-

Towns next to Macchu Piccu, the most
famous Incan Ruins in S. America, are
established, grow and thrive around rail-
road tracks, because of the money
brought in by tourists there.

sent, but any economics professor in the
country will laugh at this statistic, and
say it’s at least 25%), and | hear
enchanting tales of the poverty in the
neighborhoods of Buenos Aires called,
“Villas Miserias” (literally, town of misery,
or shantytown). Yet all | seem to hear
from my students is how they are plan-
ning their next vacation to Mar del Plata,
Punta del Este, the U.S., Europe, etc. |
hear about their new cars and houses.
And of course, they all belong to “coun-
try clubs”, which are these private neigh-
borhoods that are set up outside of the
city where the well-to-do Argentines go
on the weekends to relax, play tennis,
and have asados (barbecues) with their
neighbors.

The fact is, | live in Barrio Norte, which
is the richest part of the city. | spend my
days in the company of the rich people. |

The metal mines in Fotosi, Bolivia. These are some of the oldest mines in
the country. Working conditions are horrendous. Most of the mine work-
ers here die before the age of 40 from black lung disease.

The town of Auguas Calientes, Feru, next to Macchu, where the

oldest Incan ruins can be found.

world. It’s not
just a different
set of sounds or
symbols; it’s a
completely dif-
ferent way of
thinking; this
relates to the
culture, which
means it’s also
a means of
understanding

and connecting
with a different
culture. My con-
nection to my
culture and my

work with them, they invite me to their
homes where | hand the maid all my
dishes. And |’m glad that | live well
here, but | just feel that | haven't got-
ten to know the real Argentina. The
Argentina that doesn’t go shopping
every weekend for miniskirts and
leather boots. The Argentina where
you can see the 25% unemployment
rate. The Argentina that statistical-
ly is still a third world country and is
suffering from one of the worst eco-
nomic crisis to every hit Latin Ameri-
ca. But, instead, I’m surrounded by
wealth and squander.

Traditional Indigenous folkloric music
and dance at a cafe in LaFaz, Bolivia.
“Feria”

October 15, 1996

It’s So hard to study in a different
language. | have gained a newfound
respect for all the foreign students
that go straight into an American
college for 4 years. How do they man-
age to do it? Some of them never even
learned English before! | spent the
entire day studying for my Argentine
history midterm and | think | managed
to read 20 pages. | can’t take it any-
more! And | speak Spanish! But every
time | sit down and start studying, |
feel like a complete idiot! There is so
much sophisticated vocabulary that
is used and | find myself referring to
the dictionary constantly! It just
takes so much time and effort to get
through the reading. Its really
depressing. And the things that both-
ers me is that | know I’m going to lose
all of it when | get home.

I've met so many “international”
people down here that have travelled
the world and speak so many lan-
guages. | feel that speaking another
language opens up an entire new

parent's coun-
try has so much
to do with the fact that | speak the lan-
guage. When | got here, | felt comfort-
able because | could communicate with
my family and other people so I’m not
treated as an outsider. | truly believe
that if | came to Argentina as a travel-
er that didn't understand the language,
my experiences and perceptions would
have been superficial, because | would-
n't have been able to have long conver-
sations, friendships, and connections
with the Argentines and truly get to
know them.

October 19, 1996

| had such an incredible day today!
About 2 months ago, | met a nice cou-
ple who study at the university in the
Economics department. They overheard
me speaking English, and invited me to
have a cup of coffee with them. We
talked about the United States; the girl
had been to the States, but the guy
hadn't. They were really sweet, and we
exchanged phone numbers. Well, they
called me two weeks ago, gave me a
short tour of the city, and took me to
dinner in a local shopping mall. They
invited me to their “quinta” (country
house), which is where | spent this beau-
tiful Sunday. They are a very relaxed,
positive, smart, and laid back couple.
They are both 25 years old, and have

In a small town on the outskirts of
Buenos Aires, the owner of this “parila”,
an open place where the locals eat what-
ever has been parpared for the day, pre-
pares the Sunday afternoon meal.

been married for 3 years; they are total-
ly in love. They both study accounting at
the university and work for the Econom-
ic Ministry downtown. At the quinta,
Alejandro’s (the guy) aunt, uncle, and
sister were there. We had a traditional
Argentine asado (barbecue), and we
talked politics, relaxed, walked around,
played volleyball, and had a great time. It
wae in this small town outside the city.
There were a lot of poor people, no paved
streets and a lot of pretty summer
country houses. It was beautiful. Before
we arrived at their house, we stopped at
another small, poor town, and | took

During a two day excursion in the Amazon Basin, our guide, Don
Carmelito, stops at a house on the river to build a fire and cook

us rice.

their history, their culture, their roots.
Constantly. And | thought Americans
were fixated and consumed with them-
selves. They can’t stop bragging about
their tradition of agados, drinking mate
(a type of herb, like tea, indigenous to
the Southern Cone), their lunfardo
(Argentine slang that mixes words from
Spanish, Italian, French, Indian, and
other languages), their traditional
accent, how “diverse” and “ethnic” they
are, how beautiful their women are, and
how beautiful their city is. In the U.S.,
when | have a conversation about histo-
ry or culture with someone, 9 times out
of 10, we are
talking about
another coun-
try and cul-
ture that we
find interest-

ing. And when
we do. talk
about the

U.S., we are
usually criti-

cizing it.

But at the
same time,
they truly
enjoy each
other's com-
pany. At the
table, every-

one is talking
at once, joking
around, laugh-

some pictures. | love these small towns.
They are incredible; so different than the
city. For one, they are much poorer, less
developed, and everything is calm. There
is something So attractive about them.
It seems to have so much more charac-
ter than the city. | love to get out of the
city and see something different ...
something more humble, more tranquil,
more human. | feel like

ing, arguing. It’s
very alive, loose and stimulating.

Going abroad was an emotional roller-
coaster. | spent nights in tears; home-
sicks, lonely, tired, and angry. | also had
the most amazing experience of my life.

Studying abroad had its highs and
lows. The university was an interesting
experience, but it paled in comparison to

this is the real Argenti-
na. These are not the
people that shop all
day long on Santa Fe
Ave., but the simple
small town people that
work hard, eat in the
small parilla eateries,
and shop in a few local
stores on the main
street. | don’t know
why, but | just want to
Stay here. I’m so fed up
with all the fast-paced

Buenos Aires chaos. |
want to meet some of
the Argentines from
the interior, the criol-
los, the ones that have
indigenous blood; not

A street corner merchant in LaFaz, Bolivia. Most goods in
this country are bought and sold by masses of small
street merchants. Most of them are women, and are
forced to bring their children with them to work.

just the Spanish, Ital-
ians, and other Europeans of the city
that claimed to have discovered this
country.

| had a great time with their family.
But | sometimes feel that the Argen-
tines are like insecure children, that have
to be reassured about how great they
are in order to feel good about them-
selves. They are also so completely,
utterly, and totally obsessed with them-
selves. They constantly talk about them-
selves;

the personal experiences and connec-
tions that | formed with people | met
both in the university, in my neighbor-
hood, and especially while traveling. |
learned to accept, tolerate, and appre-
ciate so many things that were so alien
to me. | learned about myself. That was
my true education.

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out of politics.”
All issues are political issues, and politics
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Don’t give in without a fight.

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of 1996-1997

1996

July: 17th: TWA
flight &O00
crashes into
Atlantic Ocean,
killing all 230
passengers on
board

27th: Pipe
bomb explodes
at an Olympic
Games site in Atlanta, OA., killing one person.
29th: Michael Johnson of the U.S. wins the 400
meter run.

August: 3rd: Mary Thompson, age 120, daughter of
slaves, who was
een a to be the old-
est living American,
dies in Orlando, FI.

Ath: Michael Johnson
of the U.S. wins the
AA meter run in
world record time of,
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becomes the first
man in history to win
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Force repri-
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Agreement stops new
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towns in July. The
Chechens attacked
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9th: Chechen Rebels
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7,000 Russian troops
were trapped inside the
city ... Yeltsin sworn in
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for the first time ever, a
head of state was cho-
sen in a democratic
election, and was inaugurated as a leader of Russia.
10th: Jack Kemp announced as running mate for Dole
in "96 Presidential election.

loth: Dole and Kemp give their acceptance speeches
for Republican nomination for 96.

19th: Susan
McDougal is sen-
fenced to two
years in prison for
her role in the White
Water Scandal.
22nd: President
Clinton signs the
Welfare Reform Bill.
2/th: Three time
U.S. Amateur Golf
Champion, Tiger
Woodge, turns pro.
29th: Clinton gives
acceptance speech
for Democratic

nomination for 96.

Clinton Aide, political campaign advisor, Dick Morris,
resigns after being linked to a prostitute.

Dist: lragi forces seize, Abril, a city that the Kurds
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UN protection.

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running mate.
13th: Rapper, Tupac
Shakur, age 25, dies
from gunshot wounds
after a drive-by shoot-

ing in Las Vegas, Nevada.

14th: United States defeats Canada, two games to

recognition
same Sex
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John F. Ke

of
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nnedy

Jr, son of the

Sth pres

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Carolyn

2Oth: Astronaut,

Shannon
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Lucid,
the

one, to win the
first-ever World
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18th: World
arms control-
land mines
treaty adopt-
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21st: Pres. Clin-
ton signs legis-
lation that
denies federal

longest ever stay in
space by a woman
in her 168-day mis-
sion aboard the
space shuttle
Atlantis and the
Mir Space Station
(March 22-Sept.
20)

October: Oth Tiger
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protessional golf
tournament, the
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Z2Oth: Security
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bombing probe.
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Series after
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four games to two.

November: 3rd: MCI Corp.
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Oth: President Bill Clinton
reelected, defeating Republi-
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9th: Evander Holyfield
defeats Mike Tyson with a
technical knockout in the
11th round to win the World Boxing Association heavy-
weight title.
19th: The space shut-
tle Columbia (Nov. 19-
Dec. 7) carried out
the longest-ever
shuttle flight.
29th: U.S. research-
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might be present on
the Earth’s moon.

December: 1Oth:
Judge in Hawaii rules
that ban on same sex
marriages is uncon-
stitutional ... South African President Nelson Man-
dela signed a new constitution, marking the country’s
transition from white-minor-
ity rule to a_ nonracial
democracy.

17th: Kofi Annan of Ghana is
elected Secretary General of
me U.N. alter tae Uo.
blocked the reelection of his
predecessor, Boutros
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2Oth: Astronomer, Carl
Sagan dies at age ©2.

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January: 16th: Bill Cosby’s
only son, Ennis Cosby, age 27, is slain on the side of
an L.A. highway.
24th: Demo-
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years to sell its

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inside the lobby of the Capital Building, while chant-

Bombing Trial; sen-

19th: Chinese former leader, Deng Xiaoping, dies. 26th: Heaven's Gate ing things like, tenced to death.
Zot, Ee feeder eral “hey, hey, ho, ho, 7th: The Detroit Red-
Wilmut at — Applewhite, lured Fothooks budget wings defeated the

Roslin Institute
near Edinburgh,
Scoriava
announces the

seemingly sane adults
into a cult, and ulti-
mately, to death in

has got to go”.
24th: Opening
arguments for

Philadelphia Flyers (4-
O) to become this year's
otanley Cup Winners.

San Diego. (49 mem-
bers were found dead
in their home in Cali-

the Oklahoma
City Bombing
Trial gets under-

15th: Chicago Bulls win
the NBA Championship
(90-88) in game 5,

successtul
cloning of an

adult sheep. fornia, downed with way. The trialwas after Michael Jordan

poisoned applesauce moved from Okla- scored a total of 38
March: 9th: = and vodka in order to homa City to points, while suffering
Rapper Notori- break free of their Denver in hopes from the flu, help the
ous BI.G. dies bodily “containers” and catch a ride on a passing that Timothy McVeigh could get a fair trial. Bulls win the game.

SOth: Ellen DeGeneres,
who stars in the
series “Ellen” on ABC,
becomes the first
openly gay lead char-
acter in a television
series, as her “coming
out” episode airs.
(DeGeneres came out
to the public on the
14th)

in drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. Folice look for con-
nection be-tween Small’s and Shakur’s death six
months earlier.
11th: The comet
Hale-Bopp re-
turned 4,200
years after its
last Earthly
visit. Tne
comet was vis-
ible for néarly a
month on the
Sunya Campus.
The comet, dis-
covered in 1995, with an icy core about 25 miles wide,
was about 10 times larger than the average size

spaceship hidden behind the comet Hale-Bopp.

27th: Clinton/Faula Jones
sexual harassment suit
delay rejected. (citing
that the President is not

SOth: China regains con-
trol of Hong Kong after

5 | q Britain's contract runs-
May: 5th: Park- Out.

fest rocks down-
town Albany's
Lincoln Fark. The — join NATO.

crowd was sO 15th: Fashion designer, Versace, slain in front of his
rowdy, and so Miami home.
many fights Suspect in the
broke out that 18 case is later
people were sent found dead
with an appar-
ent self-inflict-
ed gunshot
wound.

1th: New York
Giants open
summer train-
ing camp at
the University at Albany. (signed for a 3 year deal).

July: Oth: Foland, Hungary, Czech Republic invited to

above the law).

Aist: Arizona Wildcats
defeat the Kentucky
Wildcats to win the
NCAA Basketball Championship.

comet, making it easy to see from nearly any city.
Moving at close to 100,000 miles per hour, the
comet made its closest approach to Earth, about 122
million miles, on March 22nd.

20th: Tobacco company ad-mits smoking is addic-

tive. The Liggett Group, Inc., the Sth largest U.S.
80

April: 4th: NYPIRG Student Action Conference
descends on Albany Campus with students from 2
over NY State. show, and the City of Albany may
13th: Tiger Woods becomes the first African -Amer cancel the event for next year.
can to win the Masters Tournament as well as the lth: Computer beats Chess World
youngest man ever to win the event. Champion, Kasparov, in match in

to the hospital. A Tribe Called
Quest threatened to stop their

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16th President on November 8, 1996.
Hitchcock is the first woman to receive
the Presidency in the over 150 years of
the University’s existence. The inaugu-
ration ceremony was the culmination
of a week of activities that included
academic symposia, a concert that
featured area college presidents, the
dedication of a new home for the Uni-
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“ It’s official: University at Albany
sports are going Division |,” said
the Times Union on May 6, 1997.

“Now is the time for the Univer-
sity to make the move,’ said Uni-
versity President Karen R. Hitch-
cock at a press conference
announcing the final decision in the
Spring.

Division | competition will not
officially start until the 1999-
2000 season. Even then, the UAI-
bany football team will compete at
a lower level Division |-AA, which
eliminates the need for costly
scholarships in that sport.

Despite that, the upgrade is
expected to raise the University's
public profile, and hopetully restore
a long-time basketball rivalry with
local Siena College.

The key events leading up to the
announcement were the University
Senate hearings where little oppo-
sition surfaced, followed by a 30-
10 favorable Senate vote; and a
non-binding referendum where stu-
dents voted by a 10-1 margin in
favor of financing most of the
upgrade cost through three annual
$15 increases in their mandatory
athletic fee.

“Students are ready and willing to
make the move to NCAA Division |,”
said Michael Castrilli, Student
Association President, while Vice
President for Student Affairs
James Doellefeld, said, Division |

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sports “will enrich campus life,
advance our connection with the
Capital-Saratoga Region and pro-
vide another rallying point for the
University’s students, alumni, facul-
ty and friends.”

Making the Move

The UAlbany sports programs

will be going from Division Il to

Division |

* Division | play begins the
1999-2000 season

* Upgrade to be financed
mostly through student
athletic fees increased

* The football program will
compete at Division I-AA

Programs expected to go Divi-
sion | are:

Men-basketball, baseball,
cross country, football,
lacrosse, indoor/outdoor track
and soccer

Women-basketball, cross coun-
try, field hockey, golf, indoor/out-
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Coming Out And Finding A Place At SUNYA

| transferred here in my sophomore
year. The school | was in before cost
$20,000, and | had gone to school with
money my grandma gave me. It ran out,
50 | had to come here because it’s cheap,
and | could commute from Bennington.
After about a year, | came out to my
mom, and she suggested it strongly
that | move out, because of my step-
father. My mom’s okay with it, but he’s
not. My real father and | don't really talk
much, but Jen (my girlfriend) and | have
stayed at his house. He's always been
civil to Jen and myself. We haven't really
told him, (Paul) but it’s pretty obvious.
She is the only one | ever bring home.

My folks and her folks live like 15 min-
utes away from each other. We met when
Jen was high school. We hung out for like
a year-and -a-half before anything hap-
pened. We started dating February of
her senior year of high school.

When | first came here | hated it

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because the school | came from it was so
small, and SUNYA is So big. It’s culture
shock. | lived in small town too, and
Albany is like a big city to me. There’s like
no grass. That’s one of the things | miss.
| really didn’t like it here cuz of the huge-
ness, and the people you meet are most-
ly acquaintances. | didn’t live on campus,
50 | would get up go to school, go to work,
and go home ... the 1st year | didn’t know
anyone except for acquaintances in my
classes ... and it wasn't really until | got
into Student Association that | made
friends. Actually that’s not true. My sec-
ond year at Albany, | met some people at
a LGBA (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual
Alliance) meeting, and 2nd semester |
became the lesbian co-chair of the
group. | hung out with Derek (gay co-
chair), and Chris (Derek’s boyfriend). We
all worked on the first conference with
Amy Purgy, SA LGBI Director before me,
so the four of us put the conference

together. It was the first annual LGBT
conference of Upper New York State.
About 75 people from 14 different
schools showed. We mostly had area
speakers Cuz we were running on a very
low budget.

The next year Derek, Chris, Jen and |
planned the 2nd annual LGBT confer-
ence, and invited every school in North
East, and over 300 people were in
attendance. We contacted each school
to see if they had a LGBA group, then
sent letters to them. Around 40
schools | think, maybe more. We had
some big name people that year; Nancy
Buermeyer from the human rights cam-
paign, Dr. Elias Jones Professor at
Brown University, who spoke about gen-
der issues, Michelle Crone, a big activist
from CA, who used to be local; she start-
ed gay and lesbian film festival at Faige
Hall.

So all this happened while | was SA

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be ashamed for lov-
ing who | love.”

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of my first senior year. No one had fillec

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week before parents weekend, and of
course they washed it off before all the
parents came.

The first year | didn’t like SA at alll. |
came in half-way through the year, and
everyone was behind each other's back,
at each other's throat. The environment
was really tense, so it kinda
sucked. This year | enjoyed every-
one | worked with, and | think we
worked really well together. |
thought we were really productive.
Oh, the Student Voice. How did |
get into that? | had been asked to
write an article about what my
office was doing and it just hap-
pened that | stayed for one ses-
sion of layout. | really enjoyed it, so
| kept coming back for more abuse
... lol. | did some layout and some
proofing. It got kinda crazy around
there sometimes. Dancing on
tables ... | dunno, but staying up
late + anything strange definitely.
We were shut down. I’m not sure
when, but the reason why is
because we ran out of funds. Greg
Coulon, SA Media Director, and
Mike Kustra Editor of the Student
Voice, didn’t have much time to
work with the groups, and that
was his main job, and he just
couldn't do it (Student Voice) any-
more.

er and lived together, so we were togeth-
er like 24 hrs a day. We got on each
other’s nerves, so | think if we were
together all the time we wouldn't have
lasted as long. Last year we had a big-
ger place and we worked at different
places, and it was much better. It was

Ellen’s Coming Out Episode: It was
a program from an RA on Indian
quad. | think around 15-20 people
came to watch that landmark event
of an open lesbian coming out on TY.
Ellen is the first openly gay main
character from any show. Definitely
a lot of cheering involved, we had
donuts and milk, and there was a lot

“A friend labeled me the
out character on cam-
pus.

—Dawn Schirmer

of laughter. Fun was had by all. Yeah,

| think if she came out any other way, it
wouldn't fit the show, and it wouldn't be
accepted by “main stream society”. |
think it’s ironic. | watched the Barbara
Walters show, and she (Ellen) said that
she didn’t want to be an activist, and
now she just gave a speech on gay
rights. When she first said it, | thought,
how could you not be when you have a
major TV show, and you come out on it?
| mean that’s major activism in itself. |
also find it really ironic it (the show) now
has a parental warning when there's a
kiss involved. There’s not even a parental
warning when a heterosexual show has a
straight couple having sex!

Societys double standard on
gay/straight: | think it's important that
gay relationships are visible to the pub-
lic, whether it’s holding hands, or
announcements of commitment cere-
monies. | don’t feel like | should be
ashamed for loving who | love. I've seen
straight couples totally pawing each
other on the street. | wouldn’t do that,
not cuz I’m ashamed of who | love, but |
it’s demeaning to what we have,

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and disrespectful to Jen and myself. |
can show affection to her without slob-
bering all over her in public.

ve been dating her (Jen) for four
years. We see each other a lot, but not
everyday. We used to see each other
every weekend, because she goes to
Skidmore in Saratoga. | think being
apart made it last longer. | had a studio

a
artment two summ

p ers ago, and she
ame to live with me. We worked togeth-

much more calm. Being apart makes the
time together much more meaningful.

| think | had known | was gay when |
was young, but there wasn’t a word for
it. | remember having crushes on girls
across the street from me, but | didn’t
really know what it meant. Then when |
got older | thought, it’s fine for other
people but it’s not me. But when | got to
college, my first year | kinda wanted to
go to LGBA meetings. | was embar-
rassed though, not knowing anyone,
going into a room with all those
strangers; it was very intimidating to
me, 50 | didn’t go. After Jen and | start-
ed seeing each other, | dragged a friend
of mine from home with me to a meeting,
and then | think it was like the first
meeting 2nd semester of my sophomore
year. | remember they had pizza, and, the
“get to know you” general interest meet-
ing. The first few meetings | still didn’t
really know anyone, cuz | spent all the
time with my friend, and we didn’t stay
after the meetings. Then | think after one
of the meetings, | went up to one of the
co-chairs and said, “| wanna get involved
and start doin’ some things.”, and | never
stopped ... laughing.

How did my mom find out? She actu-
ally asked me cuz she thought she saw
me and Jen kissing. She really didn’t but,
whatever. She said she wanted to talk to
me about something, and | kinda knew
what it was about. She asked what our
relationship was, but she already knew, |
guess she just wanted to see what |
would say. | still tried to say we were just

friends, but she knew. She said my step
dad wouldn't be ok with it, so u should
try to find another place to live. She was
ok with it, she said, but | still felt kind of
rejected, like she was taking sides or
something. It wasn’t like | love you, so 1'll
do anything for you. |t was like, | don’t
want to see two people | love fighting, so
leave. After she said that | was crying,
and | left. | spent the next three days at
my brother’s house cuz | was really
upset. Jen was just getting ready for a
trip to France, so | didn’t want to tell her
and ruin her trip, but | ended up telling
her anyway. It was ok | guess. So my
mom’s been good with that. At the
beginning, | don’t want to say it was a
forbidden topic, but if we (Jen and |) were
having problems, | talked to friend Jim.
He basically ended up calling my mom
and told her that | had something to
talk to her about. So he forced me to
talk to her, but when | actually tried, she
focused more on my getting an apart-
ment, and job, and kinda blew off what |
really wanted to talk about, like what |
thought was important (Jen). So it’s
kinda ok, but just don’t talk about it,
change the subject, ya know? Now she
asks about Jen, but we still can’t be
“together” at the house. Like at holidays,
we have to be “friends”. | feel like | worked
60 hard to get out of the closet, and
when | go home she shoves me back in,
which is really hard for me.

| didn’t even tell my dad. It just kinda
happened. We were at my brother's
house and my dad came to visit. He
walked in, and | was lounging in Jen’s lap,
and well ... he figured it out.

Before we dated we were friends for a
long time. We used to sleep over each
other's houses and stuff. The first time
she stayed at my house, | have a double
bed, | gave her the bed and | slept on the
floor. The next time she
slept over, we were laying
on the bed, and | really
didn’t want to sleep on
the floor again. She didn't
want to say anything, but
we both wanted to sleep
in the same bed | think.
Now looking back at it, we
really were in love with
each other long before we
went out, but we were
afraid of how the other
would react, so we never
said anything. Anyway, $0
that night we slept on
the bed sideways! It was
so uncomfortable! | bare-
ly slept, but we both were
there, so the next time
she stayed over we just
said screw it, and we
slept in the bed like nor-
mal. It was kinda funny
how it happened.

I've never actually been
gay bashed here in
Albany, but I’ve gotten
harassed on Broadway in
Saratoga before. |t was
the beginning of the semester and we
were walking to the store to get note-
books. We were holding hands, and we
walked past this outdoor restaurant. As
we walked past, this guy yelled, “All |
want to know is who's on top!” I’m not
sure that’s really gay bashing, and | did-

n't say anything. After we got down the
street | thought of something to say,
but it was too late. The second time we
walked down Broadway, down a side
street, and some 13 to 14-year-old kids
yelled, “Eww they're holding hands!”, so
we let go real fast. So then they said,
“Oh now you stop holding hands!” We
went into this store to get away, looked
out the window, and noticed they were
following us, 50 we kinda hid. Just in case
they wanted to do something to us, like
physical or whatever. It didn’t scare me
to the point | was afraid cuz they were
young, but it kinda freaked me out more
cuz they followed us. That would never
happen to a straight couple, they would-
n’t have even noticed us. Yeah, it both-
ered me a little, but it’s just the igno-
rance of some people.

A friend labeled me the out character
on campus. We were in the campus cen-
ter and | was with a (male) friend who is
also gay. We saw another friend who is
gay but isn’t out. We wanted to go over
and say hello to him, but he was talking
with classmates. He had told me before
that he didn’t want people to know, 50 we
(my friend and |) decided to hold hands.
| took off my freedom ring and put it in
my pocket, so we would look like a
straight couple, and my friend said,
“maybe we shouldn't bother cuz you are
the out person on campus” ... so we did-
n't even go over and Say hi.

Feople don’t choose to be gay. Who
would choose to be persecuted and
bashed, and in some instances kicked
out of your apartment, or lose a job or
even killed? | mean, who would choose
that, ya know? I’ve never wished | was
straight though. I've had too much of a
good time being gay that | don’t know
that | would’ve had if | was straight.

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Mike Castrilli
Vice President
Ashish Prabhakar
Comptroller
Jason Kass

Programming Director
Matt Kraut

Media Director
Greg Coulon

Central Council Chair
Steven Schawb

Central Council Vice Chair
Neil Freilich

LGBI Director
Dawn Schirmer

Multi-cultural Affairs Director
Maria Ferez

Women’s Issues Director
Samantha Heiotakis

Affirmative Action Director
Meghana Mude

Educational Affairs Director
Damian Sclasani

Transportation Director
Sotri Folydorou

Class of 1997 President
Barry Rubenstein

Heather L. Rohan

Homecoming

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Bonfires burning, cheerleaders cheering, and
Greeks guzzling proved to be the continued
tradition of homecoming this year. Although
the weekend brought fun and excitement for
most, it did not bring the undefeated record
the football team had hoped for. Homecoming
weekend delivered the Dane’s first loss of the
season. Still ranked no. 2 for defense in Divi-
gion ll, the team could not hold off powerhouse,
Union College, and fell to a 23-6 loss, and 4-1
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President of Dance Council

Nicole Faulo has been the driving force behind University Dance
Council. Under her leadership and guidance, it has grown into a high-
ly respected organization. She is proud of the accomplishments she
and her fellow students did to make Dance Council, and their year-
end production Footworks, the success it is.

Her love of dance began around age four at a school near her
home in Gosham under the direction of Marya Kennet. “She was a
tough lady who taught me any discipline | have.” Miss Kennet gave
her the disciple and motivation to make it in life.

She looked around at various dance schools but set-

school waste away her life from drugs. Despite her views, she
accepts others who do it. “I’m not against it, but it’s just not for
me.

“Social life follows me,” she said. “I don’t need to make one.” Most
of her friends have been the people she’s lived with and the people
from Dance Council. Her freshman year was a blast and her most
social year.

“I didn’t care about being welcomed as a freshman. | just was

tled on Albany because it could offer her something to
fall back on. She joined Dance Council in her freshman
year. It got off to a rough start because of a poor advi-
sor, but in time and with hard work, they mustered them-
selves and put on Footworks at the end of the year. “|
could not have done anything without Marcy, Janine, and
Eileen. We worked as a team.”

Nicole balanced her time between Dance Council, aca-

demics, the Student Voice, and SADD. She joined SADD
at the beginning and helped to get it going. She felt
SADD would provide a good alternative to those who felt
that there was more to do at SUNY than drink.

Nicole has never felt the need to drink or do drugs. She
knew by age 13 that drinking was lame. “| was raised with
a respect for the human body. | don’t like to put a lot of
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going to do my own thing.” When she was dropped off by her parents
the first day, she felt very sad and teary eyed. But when she went
into her new room and saw her roommate hanging a picture on the
wall, it all faded and she felt better.

Nicole’s involvement with the Student Voice emerged from her
friendship with Media Director Greg Coulon. She hadn't planned on
helping out, but stopped by a meeting one night and wound up with
a new job. She had a lot of fun with Tony, Marlin, Greg, and Harry.

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4 in the morning
One of her jobs was
writing the Melrose
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Nicole had a diffi-
cult relationship
with Ashish her
senior year. “I’m
assertive. | don’t give a shit what other people think of me. Feople in
general | find have a problem with me. | am a woman and | am out-
spoken.” She felt that “Ashish was self-serving and didn’t really care
about the student body. | wouldn't lie about that. He only cared
about how S.A. would serve him.” She felt he didn’t like her and “did
everything in his power not to have me working which included shut-
ting down the Student Voice.”

At an S.A. executive meeting, she related, Ashish had a temper
tantrum. He stood up and cleaned off the table, in the process hit-
ting Samatha Hiokotes in the face with a notebook. He then
stormed out. “That’s our Vice President of Student Association.
He's a total child.”

The Student Voice was begun as an alternative to the ASF. It was
an S.A. newspaper. They would cover little things but it was mostly
geared to promoting S.A. events. “I'm behind S.A. 100%. Sure you're
going to have people who are self-serving like Ashish, but you're also
going to have people like Mike Castrilli who want to do good for the
student body.” She feels that if it weren’t for S.A., there would be
little to do. “| am indebted to S.A. They've given so much.”

She said the official reason the Voice ended was that it couldn't
hire a full staff and internal problems in S.A. and the Voice.

Nicole felt the election was a fraud. “I know people voted twice.
Steve Schwab lost by two votes and Ashwani'’s cousin counted the
votes!” There was to be a nullification of the election, but it never
happened. She believes that the people involved wouldn't come for-
ward because they would get in trouble. The campaign process
involved was a sham. Ashwani ran for two separate positions “You
can only have one type of poster if you're running for an executive

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shit what other people
think of me.”

position. All his posters had little letters at the bottom for the
office he wanted, so it looked like he had twice as many. He did it by
the rules, but did it in a dishonest fashion. | noticed that Steve
Schwab's posters were ripped down. You know he (Ashwani) had
somebody rip them down. We (Dance Council) fliered twice a day and
somebody kept ripping them down.”

But she is happy the way the elections turned out. She feels that
Mimi and Rasheem are both excellent and Rasheem will make a good
President. “I think Steve Schwab would have made a great President
as well.”

On May 15 in the main theater of the PAC, Nicole danced her last
Footworks. The culmination of her four years of hard work came that
night. At the end of the performance, she was presented with a bou-
quet of flowers. She broke down and cried. “| was really upset that
we would never be together again.” She and the other members
stood back stage and cried.

This summer Nicole taught a dance camp at a dance studio in
Albany. She also worked at a nightclub called “The Launchpad” in
Troy. Next year she will return to Dance Council as their community
advisor. “l'll always be around.” She feels her major in Feychology was
not very useful. “Paych is a load of crap. There are a few useful things
but | feel like my major was totally a waste. Anything that | learned
was on my own.”

The night before she graduated she spent working. She went to
the ceremony without sleeping, a ceremony she felt was a waste of
her time. “How appropriate is that for SUNY to have their gradua-
tion at the Fepsi Arena! How commercial is that! SUNY is such a sell
out.” Her one highlight during the ceremony was when some stu-
dents turned their backs on Senator Bruno. She felt that was a
sign that not all students are apathetic and that they do care.

If she could go back four years she said that she would still come
here. “The positives outweigh the negatives. | feel like I’ve accom-
plished so much by being here. | learned a lot about myself. | grew up
a lot. I’ve done a lot of maturing. | think I’m ready for the big, bad
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INTERVIEW WITH NIR MENACHEMI

The Man Who Literally Did It All

| came to school completely by myself, not
like a lot of other kids. | lived on Dutch quad
freshman year, and mostly hung out in my
suite. | ended up joining a fraternity with my
roommate. We rushed and pledged TKE
sophomore year. It was kinda weird cuz we
lived on State sophomore year, so we all got
to see a part of campus we didn’t even know
existed. | felt more assimilated to state
lifestyle. A lot noisier people who aren't as
committed to school live there. Real life is

such an abstract thought at that point, ya

know? The natural thing to do at that point

was to check what all the action was about,

rush, and whatever. About half (10-20) of my

friends went to one fraternity, and the other
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group, another; all my friends from freshman
and sophomore year. That was what the best
part though, because we continued our
friendships through fraternities. | got into
the greek system so much, and friendships
grow and grow.

All sophomore year all | pretty much did
was hang out in the cafeteria. It was more a
social thing than an eating thing to go down
(to dinner). Before we knew it sophomore year
was over, and along came junior year. We all
moved off campus. Ya move downtown and it’s
a whole new school. Just when it starts to
get boring, something like that happens, and
everything changes. It gets even harder to
concentrate, but since the real world is even

closer, you have to.

My IFC (Inter Fraternity Council) position:
| have served every single semester in the
Greek System. One of my first was Judicial
Board Chair. It's kinda hard, because people’s
fraternities to them, they're so important.
It’s like 40-50 people with this common bona,
and they don't ever want to hear anything
bad about their group.

So Spring time comes along, and all this
hype is going on for SA elections. | didn’t even
know where the SA offices were at this point.
A friend said a lot of people wanted me to
run. I’m thinking this is not an option. | didn’t
even think about it. Then | went home for
Spring Break. | read some literature about

the position (Vice President). | read about the
parking pass, stipend, and throwing events
for campus. The ASP had to interview me
before elections. They asked me questions
about the position and | couldn't answer.
Running for SA is a complete popularity con-
test. Hey you know a lot of people, so. We

“| could have easily grad-
uated in the summer, but
| was in no hurry ... Now
it was time for a real
senior year.”

used to hang out at dinner for like three
hours every night, so we knew everyone. It’s
not what ya did, it’s who ya know. | kept think-
ing about it, and thinking about it, and so |
ended up doing it, and the rest is history. The
Ramone Parkfest was the ’96 one, and | was
in charge of that. Yeah | met them. What did
I think? ... ah ... they were old ... lol. During
that year | also revamped copies plus. |
worked with the school architects and
designed all of it. | supervised the project,
and by Spring time, we were open for busi-
ness. I’m kinda glad that this thing is still
gonna be there. | changed something for the
better, and it was really the only colorful spot
on campus. It makes me feel good. I'm gonna
remember that.

That was actually senior year. | got elect-
ed at the end of junior year; actually, | like to
call it Senior Year “A”. Oh yeah, Senior Year
“B”: | had sold icecream off an icecream truck
in the projects in Atlantic City over the sum-
mer. | come back, and | have it all figured out.
Right before summer, got elected IFC Vice
President. Last senior year, Senior Year “A”, |
joined Five Quad Ambulance Corps. | had a lot
of fun. A lot of my friends were there already.
It was a Social thing really, overnight trips
and stuff, and that was so much fun. After
studying I'd rather go to Five Quad and hang
out. | was a dispatcher first semester than |
took the EMT (Emergency Medical Techni-
cian) course my second semester. Also first
semester | joined Fi Sigma Epsilon, a Busi-
ness/Marketing Fraternity, and I’m a bio
major! | was T.A. for Hebrew during Senior
year “A” too, and that was pretty cool. | got
to teach the class once a week, and grade
homework and stuff. Last but not least, | was
on the school Judicial Board. | worked close-
ly with John Murphy on IFC, 50 he thought I'd
be good for it. | like debating and arguing with
people, even if | agree with therm, | still like to

argue cuz it’s fun. Sometimes I'll take the
opposite side and | even convince myself.

| could of easily graduated in the summer,
but | was in no hurry. | was no bum. My grades
were up to par, and | did a lot. Now it was time
for a real senior year; travel around, apply to
schools, hang out, and be off on my merry
way. | started applying to Graduate Schools
in June. | sent 20 plus applications out from
Atlantic City. There’s this one central place,
like a company that will take them all in and
distribute them to all the schools for you,
and then send you a confirmation letter. |
sent to a bunch of schools, and according to
statistics, I’m a good candidate. Everything's
looking good. | took the (DAT), the dental
exam. Things are looking good, and |’m ready.
Well I’m the kind of person who thinks things
happen for a reason. The company ended up
making a mistake with my applications, and |
couldn’t get into any schools. I’m thinking
now, well, | won’t want to go back to school
after I’m a doctor, so screw it. | like Albany, |’ll
come back for grad school, so that’s what I’m
gonna do. I’m going to get a masters in pub-
lic health with a concentration in heath
administration, so eventually | can combine it
with a doctorate and run a hospital. I'm going
next year or the year after that ... so it’s ok
... and | have to wait, but again, | think things
happen for a reason, 50 whatever good's
gonna come out of this is hopefully gonna
happen soon.

| was in charge of doing Kegs-n-Eggs at
Bogie’s this year. lt was probably my single
best collegiate experience, because | don’t

“It (Kegs-n-Eggs) was
probably my single great-
est collegiate experience,
because, because ... |
don’t remember (laugh-

ing).

remember. | got involved voluntarily | guess.
My most favorite Kegs-n-Eggs story ...
actually after it happened after it was all
over. There was this guy who was describing
it as one of the best experiences of his life!
He was going on all enthusiastically about
how he wag right next to the bar. He had such
a good spot, and he didn't want to lose it, but
he had to pee. He could see the bathroom
from where he was, it was like a mirage. He
kept looking over at it, and down at his
crotch. He didn’t want to fight the crowds, or
lose his spot. Then the only thing he could
think of that was local, was to pee in his

pants. So he pissed right there, didn’t move
an inch! Then he dumped a pitcher on his
crotch. | guess he thought, well, alcohol has
like an antiseptic effect. Well others saw it
and thought it was a great idea. | don't think
everyone started pissing their pants, but I'm
sure a few people did. Feople were 50 wet
already, who could tell?

Right after that | did Greek Week with
everyone, and that was a lot of fun. My
favorite thing about Greek week was proba-
bly bar golf. | think it’s awesome! Each team
has a guy and girl representatives. They run
from bar to bar, running against the clock.
They have to tag each other, and drink a beer
and a shot between the two of them. It does-
n't matter who does what ag long as they're
both gone. It pretty much runs the bar cir-
cuit. If you puke, it must be induced by your
partner. Teammates have to carry their part-
ner if they're too messed up to walk. It’s such
a good event. Greeks are out in force. Every
team gets a home bar, and ya cheer for your
team, and boo for the others. Bar staffs get
so happy, cuz it’s a Saturday afternoon, so
it’s at a time when theyd normally have no
business. They just hook us up. When you are
one of the organizers, it’s very hard to stay
sober. They just hook you to say the lest.
That’s definitely one of the advantages of
being staff at one of these. You don’t get
paid, but you get benefits like that, and a cool
Greek Week jacket ... lol.

| learned more that will probably help me
survive in the business, the real world, or
whatever you want to call it, out of the class-
room. That’s why college is a learning experi-
ence. Not by major. You won't use that when
you get out. Everything is interpersonal skills,
how to market something, how to survive in a
political arena, how to befriend people. I’m a
bio major. What did | learn? ... genetics ...
anthropology. Applying to grad schools |
won't use those things, I'll use my personal
skills, and life experience to get me in. My
undergraduate career at SUNYA was an
excellent, excellent experience.

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East Stroudsburg 68
Mass-Lowell 63
Bridgeport 57
Mass-Lowell 67
Keene State 62
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American International 81
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Keene State 76
Southern Conn. State 67
New Haven 62
Franklin Pierce 78
New Hampshire College 85
New Haven 70
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Richard “Doc” Sauers, one of the winningest head coaches in the
history of college basketball, ending his career with 702 victories,
retired on June 1, 1997, after more than four decades in the position.

Sauers, who joined UA in 1955, and turned 67 on April 3rd, finished his
career with a 702-330 record in 41 seasons as Albany's headcoach. He
stands alongside such legendary mentors as Kentucky's Adolph Rupp,
North Carolina’s Dean Smith, DeFaul’s Ray Meyer, and F.C. “Phog” Allen
of Kansas, as one of 11 coaches in national Collegiate Athletic Associa-
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“| was listening to Slayer, hanging out with crazy kids, constantly defying my curfew on school nights, putting holes in every
part of my body, and dying my hair these bizarre colors ... that’s not something an immigrant is going to understand as

part of American Culture.”

Rebeling Against A Culture She Has Now Learned To Embrace

To tell ya the truth when | saw what
the Albany students really looked like,
Well, going to a state school, | expected
to see a lot of people from the Island and
NYC. There wasn’t anything really for me
to be surprised at. | looked at the
statistics, so | knew. A lot of people that
go here all look the same, and it’s kind of
upsetting for the most part. | mean a lot
of people are contempo-casualties. |
coined that term to describe people
here. And all of the guys here are aber-
crombies, and they all have mall bought
clothes. | mean when you are from the
Island ... | guess that’s where ya go. You
Go to the mall ... lol. | came from
Yonkers and that is one giant series of
strip malls. Westchester is Long Island
with tree. | went to an all girls private
school. Its richer. It’s in a pretty good
area. It’s metropoltainish, | guess. Ok, 50
what happened at high school. | finished
a lot of my credit in high school, 50 mid -
year senior year. | decided | would just
take college credits ... so call it trans-
fer or call it high school. | came from
SUNY Purchase and | only took art
classes there. | didn’t want to stay
home, and | knew | had to go somewhere
else ... ya know get away from my par-
ents. | came from a strict Asian up
bringing. When | was 14 | was trying to
become independent, and that doesn't
happen in Asian household. They don’t
encourage that especially around
females. You see the typical Asian girls

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very dainty, annoyingly meticulous about
their appearance, very respectful of their
elders. I'm pretty damn crash about a lot
of things ... and I’m also pretty blatant
about a lot of things. My parents didn't
take that too well. They did everything
they could to suppress that. So in a way,
| left to get way. It’s not to say | don’t
appreciate what they've done for me, but
them coming from the Philippines, | did-
n't feel their rules applied to me. They are
both immigrants. | was born in the Bronx.
| grew up around a lot of Latino kids. That
pretty much dictated how | walked and
talked, etc. When my parents moved out
of the city to Yonkers, they didn’t want
to send me to public school, so they sent
me to a plaid, all-girls Catholic School
They didn’t think public school in Yonkers
was the place for me. They wanted to me
to grow up Catholic. | mean in the Philip-
pines, every Easter, they pick someone
and nail them to a cross in front of the
whole freakin’ town. It’s like a huge honor
there. So that’s how serious it is there.
It's a really hard place to grow up in, the
Philippines. So when you come to Ameri-
ca you get shell-shocked. My parents
had only been here for about 7 years
before they had me. Yes, my parents
knew | was trying to get away. | think
they kinda always expected it. Filipino
parents expect for their kids who grow
up in America to do well for themselves.
So the siblings can grow up and take
care of each other, so the parents can

go back to the Philippines to retire and
not worry.

They always kinda knew that | wanted
to be independent. If | didn’t make it obvi-
ous that | was listening to Slayer, hang-
ing out with crazy kids, constantly defy-
ing my curfew on school nights, putting
holes in my
nose and all
over every
part of my
body, and
dying my
hair all
these
bizarre col-
ors, ;
that’s not
something
that an
immigrant
is gonna
understand
as part of
American
culture
SO no, they
weren't Sur-
prised. They
wanna see
how I'm
gonna grow
up away from them, and if I’m gonna
stand on my feet before they go back,
and | expect them to go back, and I'm
expected to set my brother up on his

Glenda, now the radio station General Manager, listens nervo

feet too. You support your relatives no
matter what. That’s how the culture is.
When | was the president of Liga Fil-
ipino | became adjusted to Asian culture.
The way that Asian pop culture is going
especially in this country is very defiant
in many different ways, while sticking to

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with other members of WCDB during a Central Council hearing on S.A.
group budget cuts. WCDB lost $17,000 this year, after the Budget
Committee hacked the station budget down in the Spring.

the mainstream. They want to adjust,

don't know how into sticking to their

roots they are. For example, Sixteen
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real funny to someone from the suburbs,
like Samantha Baker, and you
encounter this really strange Chinese
student. It’s funny. A lot of Asians are
nerds ... They're good at math and sci-
ence ... ya whatever. But to tell ya the
truth ... | didn’t do very well on the
5.A.1.5, and when | compared myself to
the other kids at WCDB, | had the worst

“,.» When | looked again
... | saw the faces of all
16 of my uncles in the
faces of those men.”

scores. | don’t excel at math and science.
| actually try to do my best. | have
stayed tight with my culture, but I’ve
operated in the mainstream as a person
of color ... as a woman of color. The
major problem with Asian Americans in
general, is that people see them as
afraid of strangers. | think they stick
together because of commonality. They
don’t know where to place their culture
within the American culture. Largely
because American culture has dissed us
for the most part. For example, what
Asian American actors and actresses
have gone mainstream? Ya see a lot of
Latino and Black, but who do we have to
look up to? And models ... with the
exception of Jennie Schmezo, the Calvin
Klein model, the typical Asian model
standard is straight hair, slanty eyes,
thin as all hell, small breasts, ok ...
that’s for the most part. That’s every
Asian girl. For the young girls growing up
... and | found out if you don’t fit this
type, you tend to be outcast in the
Asian community.

Feople assume when you are an Asian
American, you got your life planned out
... doctor, Asian kids, mercedes ... etc
... but now kids are rebelling against
that. There’s a lot of gangs now, and
there's an Asian hip-hop scene. It’s kind
of hard fighting against what people
have known for so long. We don’t know
how to define ourselves, so we latch onto
other cultures, but what people forget
... most people have, at the most, three
generations of family here. The latinos go
pretty far back, the blacks go way back,
but we're like the new kids on the block.
We haven't been around that long. And
people think we all know kung-foo. (Jack-
ie Chan, John Woo) ... There are just a
lot of things that you have to take into
account when they look at you.

Feople always assume you're Chinese
or Japanese. It doesn’t matter what
Asian culture you are. Korean is always

the third assumption. lol. So | went to
that first Liga Filipina meeting and | was
like yeah, Filipino people! Like the only
other Filipino people | knew were friends
of my parents and my friends parents,
heck ... my first boyfriend was like half-
Italian, half-Filipino, and that was funny
... ya know ... | knew half of a Filipino. But
that’s the kind of environment | grew up
in. So when | got here | was like yeah,
bonafide Filipino people! It was great, and
then they tried to get me involved more.
| didn’t think of it too much, but | knew |
wanted something to do with leadership,
but | didn’t know what | could do. So the
president and vice-president at the
time, took a chance on me and gaid lets
get the freshman newbie to take over the
blank e-board position, and | said ok, “I'll
be your secretary.” There after came a
lot of Filipino events, etc, etc.

After that | ended up going to Bing-
hamton because the Binghamton Filipino
Student Association, which is called the
Philippine American League, they decia-

he was a doctor, and he is the president
of the National Filipino American His-
torical League, which is based out of
Roanoke Va. | watched him speak and
there was a slide presentation, and basi-
cally he presented the history of Filipino
Americans in the States. And one thing
| remember that touched me the most |
think wag, | was sitting in this dark room,
and this guy is talking, and | remember
one slide flashed on the screen ... it was
from California from the early 1900s,
and on this the door to this bar, or
saloon, or what ever it was, said, “Fosi-
tively No Filipinos Aloud”, ... and | looked
at it for really long time. And the speak-
er said ... in CA there were a lot of peo-
ple that didn’t want Filipinos to take
their jobs, and a lot of people were
scared that the Filipinos, because they
were good dancers or something like
that, lol, would take their women,
because they were a little more exotic,
and they kinda had like a Mexican tinge
to them. Ya know what | mean? So a lot

Glenda joined Sigma Fsi Zeta, as Asian sorority, her sophomore year. She became a
Pledge Educator, and tried to teach the new girls about Asian Women’s issues.

ed to bring us over from Albany and talk
to us. Basically what they wanted us to
do is network with them. | was kinda
there ya know, everyone else kinda talked
this up for me, cuz | was like | didn’t
grown up like you and I’m not good at
math and science, and | don’t intend to
become a doctor, and things like that ...
and that just put me off cuz | couldn't
find anybody that | could relate to. But
ya know | figured what the hell? Then all
the Binghamton kids said that there's a
national conference for Filipino Ameri-
cans, and it’s called the Filipino Intercol-
legiate Networking Dialogue, and for
short, because Asians like acronyms, it’s
F.I.N.D. So | went there, and what hap-
pened was, the more people talked to me
about it, the more | became interested
in it. So | ran for an executive board posi-
tion in Upper NYS. First off, | was the
Albany representative already, then | ran
against all these other Filipino kids from
NY and | finished in the top 2. So there
was a rep. from Binghamton, and me.
They said come to a conference at U.
Maryland, College Fark. | went to this
conference and it was a real long ride to
U.M. College Fark. | kinda sat there and |
knew | was on the board, but | didn’t know
what | was supposed to be doing.

| went to the conference and | saw the
key-note speaker. He was, Alan Burgano,

of people got Filipinos misconstrued with
Mexicans for some reason. Anyway the
point is, they didn’t want the Filipinos
who would work for really cheap to take
their jobs, so all around California at
that time were all these no Filipinos
Aloud signs around, and | was kinda sit-
ting around thinking, “I can’t fuckin
believe this.”
And then after
that | saw
another slide,
and it was this
slide of just a

bunch of
swank, dapper
Filipino men,
and they
looked like a Fil-
ipino ska band,
lol, and | kinda
laughed to
myself ... it
was really
funny, and

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| think I’m going to burst.” So when |
came back from Maryland which was a
really good time, | started to read a lot
of Asian American anthologies, paying
special attention to Filipino writers. And
| wag like wow, we have a lot of funny com-
monalities between us ... there are also
a lot of funny commonalities between
Asians. | mean, I’m sure that every Asian
girl liked Madonna at some point, and I’m
sure that every (for lack of a better
word) American girl, liked Madonna at
some point, so there’s a way to relate
that, that I’m not sure about right now.
But it’s like wow, we have a pretty short
history in this country, and it’s not even
at it’s not even reached a peak yet. |
mean there’s not explosion of Asian
media personalities right now. | mean
there’s Connie Chung ... Connie Chung is
Connie Chung ... it doesn’t mean | am
Connie Chung ... ya know?

One thing | remember when | came here
is that | wanted to be part of the radio
station, because | loved music. | see
myself functioning within this radio sta-
tion as a girl that happens to know a lot
of stupid trivial things about music,
talks about music a lot, plays music a
lot, performs music a lot, but ya know
what? ... strangely enough ... I’m also
Asian American, and I’m also a woman
of color. To tell ya truth not a lot of
Asians listen to rock music, it’s kinda
weird. The cool slant about it, is when my
friends walk up to me they don’t think
hey Glenda’s like this Asian American
girl, ya know? ... Although that was the
preconception when | first came here.
But I've just become one of the guys. | am
like raceless, and genderless right now
... It'S pretty cool. What ever | liked, did-
n't matter to me as long as | separated
myself from the Asian community, and
I've found my way back to it.

I've grown up significantly since I've
come to college. I’m slowly evening out to
the person my parents wanted me to be;
which makes me happy. I’m doing it for
myself, and strangely enough, | know my
parents know that, “Hey regardless of
the shit Glenda gave us when she was
younger, she did it her own way, and I’m
glad that she went away, because she
turned out to be a pretty good kid.” So
in essence, everything balances out. | did
it myself, and strangely enough it
matched up to the concept my parents
had for me when | was younger.

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Staten Island, NY
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Brooklyn, NY
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Loundonville, NY
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Rome, NY
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New Rochelle, NY
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Staten Island, NY
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Fearl River, NY
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Little Neck, NY
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White Plains, NY
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Lincolndale, NY
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Liverpool, NY
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Staten Island, NY
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Flushing, NY
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Bayside, NY
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Glendale, NY

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North Babylon, NY

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East Meadow, NY

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Hopewell Junction, NY

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Marisa Gitto
Albany, NY

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Wantagh, NY

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Brooklyn, NY

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Saugerties, NY
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White Plains, NY

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Great Neck, NY
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Garden City, NY

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Horseheads, NY

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New York, NY

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Jan Grossman
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Political Science Economics Business Human Biology English/Feychology

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Staten Island, NY Clinton, NY Syosset, NY Forest Hills, NY Albany, NY Michael A. Hoffman Wilson Hoffnagle Megan Holahan Joy Hollander Roger Hollingsworth
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Brooklyn, NY Hauppauge, NY Albany, NY Schenectady, NY Flushing, NY Scott Horner Lynn Howard Paula Huebner Brenda Hum Jason Hurwitt
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Closter, NJ New City, NY Stony Brook, NY Dix Hills, NY Johnson City, N) Wantagh, NY Jamacia Estates, NY Brooklyn, NY Camillus, NY Forest Hills, NY
Biology Marketing Criminal Justice English Business fants Sociology Feychology Social Welfare Mathematics

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Woodside, NY Nanuet, NY Long Beach, NY North Woodmere, NY Long Beach, N Jlingerlands, NY Jackson Heights, NY Queensbury, NY Jericho, NY Framingham, MA
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Staten Island, NY Woodsburgh, NY Warsaw, NY Syracuse, NY Brooklyn, NY Now Rochelle, NY New Rochelle, NY Seoul, Korea Woodside, NY Tenafly, NJ
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Bellerose Terrace, NY Flushing, NY phases: N e Brooklyn, NY New York, NY Oakland Gardens, NY Bayside, NY
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Albany, NY
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Valley Stream, NY
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Bayside, NY
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Bloomingburg, NY
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Briarwood, NY
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New Hyde Fark, NY
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New York, NY
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Fomona, NY
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Plainview, NY
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Fomona, NY
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Melville, NY
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Staten Island, NY
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New Rochelle, NY
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New York, NY
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Brooklyn, NY
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Kew Gardens, NY
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Hawthorne, NY
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Dix Hills, NY
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Albany, NY
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Staten Island, NY
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Huntington, NY
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Hewlett, NY
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Syosset, NY
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Bronx, NY
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Elmsford, NY
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Albany, NY
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Latham, NY
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Broadalbin, NY Hillsdale, NJ Jackson Heights, NY East Meadow, NY Catokill, NY a ee Foughkeepsie, NY Brooklyn, NY Bronx, NY Wappinger Falls, NY
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Roslyn Heights, NY

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Hewlett, NY

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Bronx, NY
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“Yesterday is history,
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Scott Gries

Vlad Kharitonov
Radik Kizhnerman
Minda Matz
Esperanza Vargas

Kara Brodfuehrer

Erik Tischler

Nat Schoen

Rachel Sur

Susie Carvalho

Valerie Weinstein

Well it’s finally over. | realize now is supposed to be the time for
me to say something profound about my experience, but the
truth is, | don’t know what to say. This is the hardest thing |
have ever done. The things I’ve seen, the things I've done, and
the feelings I’ve had this year are near impossible to put into
words. | am happy to say | learned a great deal about all dif-
ferent types of people, and about life in general. | came here as
a transfer student three years ago, thinking | would never like
SUNYA, but | leave now knowing you can love anywhere you go,
as long as you give it a chance. This year | gave it my all and
learned that it’s the people that make all the difference. | met
some wonderful people this year that helped me to both enjoy
my last year here, and help me create something for you to
remember yours. | hope you feel something when you look at
these pages. Whether it’s happiness or sadness, | hope | cap-
tured places and times that will make you stop, and remem-
ber your time here. In retrospect there are probably a lot of
things | would’ve done differently, but | did my best, and | hope
you like it. | know | will forget some names of the people who
have helped me this year, and | apologize for that now, but you
know who you are; thanks.

Good Luck in all your future adventures:

Heth A Rin

Heather L. Rohan
Editor-in-Chief
Torch 1997

Gold: Your patience and understanding has been unrelenting. For all the times |
came to you like a scared toddler who broke her mommie’s favorite vase, you
made me feel at ease and forgave me 100 times over. | always felt better
after | came to see you. Even when you knew how much | could handle when |
didn’t, you supported me when | opted for a summer job. If you hadn't | would-
n't be working today. Not only have you gotten me through this experience,
but you've pushed my career forward and nudged me toward the “real world”
a bit earlier than everyone expected, but | am doing well, and am stronger for
it. You had a way of putting thing into perspective for me and | thank you for
that.

Mike D: You were a huge stress-reducer for me this year. No matter what | need-
ed and how quickly, you always came through for me. Your generosity, con-
stant support and reassurance calmed my fraying nerves and sometimes
tears, turning them into laughter. It was a pleasure to work with Carl Wolf
Studio, not only for your wonderful work, but for the people on your staff that
always made the worst days brighter. Next time | race Nascar while drinking
a cold one, I'll save a spot for you.

Rick: Whenever | need a nice portrait, a partner in pool, or an occasional annoyance
removed (hmmm) ... | know the man to calll For all the scary sights you've
seen in this office, it amazes me you still come back! Now that we request
you by name, you must know that you're one of the family ... | couldn't imag-
ine anyone else knocking on that door at 10:30 with coffee and smile. Thanks
for the long talks, the smoke breaks, and beers that gave me such needed
breaks, and times to think, laugh, and occasionally get a look at the reality
that seemed so far out of grasp. I'll keep in touch.

Stu: You have been such a huge support to me this year. You've been a great part-
ner, and a great friend. You are probably the only one that knew what was

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really going on in my head this year, and somehow ... we're still friends ... go
figure. Our porch talks, and smoke breaks in the attic were both fun and ther-
apeutic. Any worries | had, have all faded away. You are 90 ready for this book.
Your photography has come so far, and | am proud of you. If you ever need me,
you know where to find me. Best of luck to you, now go and put out the book
the Torch Office has always wanted ... but just didn’t know it, and I'll save a
spot for you in the unemployment line!

Carlos: You were a blessing to me this year. Wherever | went you were always at my
side. You backed me up and covered me when | couldn't be there myself. | real-
ly appreciate all your hard work ... but next time you might want to print it
... hmmm. | have no doubt in your abilities ... now just go out there and show
the world.

Jorge: A million laughs, a thousand cries, and hundreds of rumbles after, it’s done.
| know | asked for it, so | can not hate you for what you gave to me, although
I've tried ... haha. This was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Thank you. | feel
me slowly returning to myself. Only you could know what that means. I’m so
ready to live again. You have taught me more than you know. (like how to dis-
arm a smoke detector at 3am in the dark, how to appreciate people that are
different than myself, and oh yeah, how to be an editor.) Jorge you were one
of my best friends at this school, who would have guessed? | know you will be
successful in any path you choose in life. Muchas gracias por todo tu ayu-
das. | will miss you.

Kevin: Everything | hated when | got here, you gave me the opportunity to love. You
have taught me so much about photography, and so much about life. You have
an amazing head on your shoulders, and | thank you for letting me borrow it
occasionally. Thank you for calling, and showing up right when | needed it
most. So you're smart, talented, an amazing shooter, and now in school work-
ing toward yet another goal. What's next? You never cease to amaze me. You
have proved to me that the only one that can stop a person is themself. | will
always remember that. When the picket fence arrives ... send me a picture.
:0)

Allen: You are an original. After they made you, they broke the mold ... and then
Ee to smash it, grind it, and burn it ... and | thank God he got at
east one of you out first! Thanks for putting up with my mess all year, ana
moving my car on alternate side night when | was too tired to do it myself.
Sorry for waking you up at all hours tripping over things in the dark, after
long nights of chemical inhalants in the office. Thanks for the long talks, the
music, the death rides, the dancing, the beer, and of course ... the flaming
couch (a fitting end to our time at SUNYA). Good luck with all. Thanks for
the memories.

Todd: “And stuff” ... You are probably the silliest person | have ever met! No mat-
ter how hard | tried to be mad about something, you got me laughing. You
taught me not to take things so seriously. And maybe now, | can actually do
it. You were my other morning angel. Thanks for saving me from giving the city
of Albany my first born. Do | owe you an anti-ticket fee? Good luck with your
store. | know you can do anything you put your mind to. | admire you more
than you know, and I'll save a spot for you on the couch next to Daddy.

Danny: You amaze me. You are very gifted, and as | use my psychic power ... | see
you as the next editor of the torch ... hmmm. Seriously, you really came
through for me this year. You were there for me when | needed it and gave me
some great pictures. I’m proud of you. You were like the little brother | never
had. | enjoyed seeing you stumble in drunkin stupors, and keeping watch dur-
ing mission impossible. | felt young and free, even if it was only for a short
while. You always made me laugh, and helped my stress melt away. Don't ever
stop shooting no matter what path you choose in life. | have no doubt you will
be a great photographer. You could be a great Torch 99 ... just think about
it.

Rachel: Bunny Foo Foo, world traveler, world renowned wonder chic ... ah ... it was
a pleasure. Thanks for the story ... even if it did break the last blood vessel
in my head. I’m sad to hear that you won't be taking a book, but | know you
are capable. You are a good photographer. Don't ever stop shooting, even if
you don't follow that path. | enjoyed our attic debates. | have learned a lot
from you. Hopefully | have returned some of that to you. Always keep in touch.

Larry: You were another star in the darkness of editor night. You worked really hard
and | want you to know it did not go unnoticed. | hope you consider going for
a book. You are talented and | hope you take the young new staff back to
where it should be.

Minda: You gave me some really nice photos this year. Thanks for steppin up and

helping me out. | appreciate the work you did in finding the news events for
me. Talking to you was always enlightening. Good luck with your graduate
studies.

Sue: Thanks for shooting graduation this year. It really helped me out. I’m glad you
decided to step up and be Chief this year. Keep those kids in line for Stu okay.

Brad: You are insane and | love you for it! You gave me some good photos this year.
Stay strong and shoot for Stu!

Leah: | was sad to see you leave, but | know you've gone to a better place. It was
nice to talk to someone with a good head on their shoulders. Good luck with
all you do.

Nancy: You were just the best darn treasurer a girl could ever ask for, and your pho-
tography ain't bad either. Thanks for keeping my stuff organized when | could-
n't.

Harry: You showed me some nice stuff this year. You always made me laugh, and |
was 9ad to see you go. The army? Gesh what next? You're a wild and crazy
kid! | have no doubt that you will do great things. No matter where you end
up, don't forget to send a postcard.

Scott: | got exactly what | expected from you this year. You are a great photogra-
pher, and | know no matter where you go, you will do well for yourself. Good
luck with everything.

Vlad: The world is a very small place. Congratulations on marrying one of the world’
brightest diamonds. You really helped me out with some gaps in the book. |
don’t know if | should be happy or scared for letting me get an intimate look
into your other side ... the personality you never showed in the office. As
quiet as you were ... | now know the saying is true ... but he was such a nice
boy, quiet, kept to himself ... be afraid ... be very afraid ... your drawings,
and t-shirt ideas were ... ah ... interesting. Keep in touch ... you big lug!

Valerie: What can | say other than | wish | had known you were there all along. You
were one of the coolest kids | knew at SUNYA. We are 50 much alike it’s scary!
| wish | had more time to hang with you this year, but ya know how it is. Thanks
for occasionally stealing me away from the work and reminding me what a
good time was like. Good luck with teaching, and keep in touch ya little freak!

Nat: If you gave me no photos, you gave a good laugh. | know you are having the time
of your life in Italy ... and the stop off in Amsterdam ... need | say? Thanks
for being a mellow presence of fun in the office.

Susie: You have to be the single most shock this year ... in a good way. You turned
around giving me a hundred percent, and gave me some great photos. You
were my new age friend. Day in the life was interesting to say the least.
Thanks for all the late-night ghost talks, scaring me So even in my most tired
states | was afraid to sleep. Good luck with everything.

Mike: The talks, the lunches, flyering and lets not forget the abuse; thanks for going
easy on me. Although you weren't around that much this year, | appreciated
the time we spent together. You were an important part of keeping the office
going in ways most people never saw. Thanks for helping me out. Good luck
with your job search, and take ’em for all they got!

Julie: Girl, come out of the fog. You were the one to make me laugh when | wanted
to cry, and helped when no one else would. | hope you at least think about tak-
ing a book ... it would be nice to see another woman in the mix. No matter
what you choose, keep in touch, and if you travel with Phish ... there will
always be a place for you to stay in my town.

Espi: Thanks for coming back. It was a pleasant surprise. Your eagerness, and
always upbeat personality really helped me through the second semester.
Greek Week wouldn't have been the same without you, and of course who else
would have dressed me up to go out? Thanks for making me look like a person
again, when editor syndrome kicked in.

Andreea: One of the fresh ones. You have such potential. | always liked seeing you
around the office. Keep working hard, and shoot a lot for Stu.

Liza: Although | didn’t get to know you too well this year, you gave me some good
stuff. Work hard and you'll keep improving. | expect to see lote of great images
from the Indian Quad Crew in Stu’s book.

Kara: You are one wacky woman. Thanks for always making me laugh. You have a
good eye, now go out and use the hell out of it for Stu!

Natalia: Glad to see a new face around. Thanks for the prints. You have a good eye
for the abstract. Keep shooting and help Stu out this year.

Radik: Oh, what could have been? Maybe I'd know if your crappy Russian camera ever
worked! ha ha ... Your presence was a nice pick-me-up. You always made me
laugh. Well even if you did not bring us photographic greatness ... you did
however put together one hell of a party! Thanks for helping to bring a “scene”
together in this god forsaken town!

Marah: | really missed you this year! Congrats on passing your EMT exam. You make
a mother proud! | hope you can come back and join us now ... if not ... don't
be a stranger! I'll leave my wherabouts ... keep in touch kid!

Adela: Thanks for helping me through that %2@$,6.7.$*% Com class! It was great to
actually get some girl talk time in too ... (hack, hack)!

Jay: You were the best controller in SUNYA history! ... ok ... |want my money now
... Seriously, you always found a way to help me whenever | needed it. You put
up with my stress attacks, demands, and crazy schedule, without a single
complaint. Thank you for everything.

Tardis: Although you have left, and caused me much sorrow, | know this book will
find it’s way to you. Thank you for putting up with me this year, and getting
the most unstampable flyers stamped. Out of all the people in this town, |
think | enjoyed your company the most. You made me feel right at home, and
| love you for that. Wherever | end up, | hope we can keep in touch.

Josh, Nir, Matt, ZBT, SA, Copies Plus: You guys were my eyes an ears this year.
Without you guys | would've missed a lot. Thank you for always going out of
your way for me; keeping me awake and on point. | really appreciate all you've
done. Thanks.

Matt: You were the one that brought me here. For better or for worse, | thank you.
Thanks for helping me out as a young lass. Maybe I'll catch up with you in the

future. | wish you and Elyse all the best.

Photo Service South: | guess that’s the coined term. You guys have all touched
me in different ways. Thanks for all the advice, for putting me up, and taking
me out, for all the inspiration, and the proof that people really can make
dreams come true. Your successes have never ceased to amaze me. | hope
to cross paths with each of you again.

Phyllis: Thanks for letting me go against the grain. Without knowing it, you helped
me get to where | wanted to go using the vias not often taken. | have
learned to appreciate so many other types of photography with your guiding
hand. Talking to you one on one was $0 much more educational than any class.
Now you can see what the fuss was about. | hope you are proud of me. Thanks
for putting up with me, even when you didn’t always agree. | really owe my
degree, and my job to you. Thank you.

Mom & Dad: Well it’s finally over. You got your degree ... hmmm ... | thought that
was for me. Thank you for helping me with the senior section when no one else
would. Thank you for all your patience and support throughout these past
few years. Thank you for supporting me with this book even when you dis-
agreed. Thank you for letting me make my own choices even when you weren't
sure they were the right ones. | hope now you can see what all the stress,
sweat, and tears were about. | can honestly say you are the best parents,

and my best friends. | dedicate this book to you. | love you both very much.

Mike, Brian & Mark: Now that we're all grown up ... hmmm ... things are still the
same. You still abuse me, and | still love you. Will this madness ever end? Ha
ha! Mike | will always remember the first time we really talked. Last summer
| felt closer to you than | ever have before. Thank you for all the love and sup-
port ... and “Little Baby Neck”. Brian ever since | was little | always wanted
to be like you. Well, | decided not to become the next lawyer in the family, but
| am happy, and | still hold the highest respect for you. Congratulations on
getting out on your own. | am so proud of you. | love you. Mark you have always
been my brother and my friend. Thanks for always making me laugh even when
| wanted to cry. I’m glad you have found something you're happy doing. | love
you.

Collage Page Photo Credits numbered from top-bottom and from left to right (pg. 58-59),
(pg. 510-311) ... (pg. 202-203) (pg. 310-311) L-R on each page

Heather L. Rohan: (pg.58)—2,3,4,5,6,7,)N, (pg. 59)—12,13,14,15,18,19,,21, (pg. 202) —1,2,3,4,9,10,15,

(p3. 203)—17,18,20,21,22,24,25,26, (pg. 316-317) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,15,17,18,19,20, (pg. 310-
1)—1,2,3,4.7,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,24

Stu Wolter: (pg. 202—14, (pg. 310)—®, (pg. 312-313)—3

Carlos Alayo: (pg. 58)—1, (pg. 59)—16,20, (pg. 202)—5,6,7,12, (pg. 203)—19,23, (pg.
311)—23, (pg. 312)—1,2, (pg. 317) —13,16,21

Nancy Mercado: (pg. 58)—8, (pg. 59)—17, (pg. 203)—27

Valerie Weinstein: (pg. 58)—9

Minda Matz: (pg. 58)—10, (pg. 202)—8, (pg. 317)—14

Kevin Lysaght: (pg. 202)—13

Allen Steigerwald: (pg. 203)—16, (pg. 310)—9, (pg. 317)—23

Harry Rubenstein: (pg. 316)—8

Brad Cantor: (pg. 317)—22

Sue Baiter: (pg. 310)—5

Scott Gries: (pg. 311)—16

Concept, Layout, and Design by Heather L. Rohan
Senior Portraits by Carl Wolf Studio, Sharon Hill, PA.
Torch 1997 Printed by Herff Jones Printing Company, Charlotte, NC.

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Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyl-
lic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that
spans the continent. We are traveling by train.
Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene
of cars on nearby highways, of children waving
at a crossing, or cattle grazing on a distant
hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant,
of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands
and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides,
of city skylines and village halls.

But uppermost in our minds is the final des-
tination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we
will pull into the station. Bands will be playing
and flags waving. Once we get there, s0 many
wonderful dreams will come true, and the
pieces of our lives will fit together like a com-
pleted jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace
the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering
— waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

“When we reach the station, that will be it!”

WE Cry.

“When I’m 18.”

“When | buy a new 450 SL Mercedes-Benze!”

“When | put the last kid through college.”

“When | have paid off the mortgage!”

“When | get a promotion!”

“When | reach the age of retirement, | shall

live happily ever after!”

Sooner or later we most realize there is no
station, no one place to arrive at once and for
all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is
only a dream. lt constantly outdistances us.

“Relish the moment” is a good motto. It isn't
the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is
the regrets over yesterday and the fear of
tomorrow. Regret and fear are the twin thieves
who rob us of today.

So stop pacing the aisles and counting the
miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more
icecream, go barefoot more often, swim more
rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry
less. Life must be lived as we go along. The sta-
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