Albany Student Press, Volume 74, Number 39, 1987 December 4

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December 4, 1987

NUMBER 39

CIA recruitment supported
Senate report backs free speech policy

By John Malitzis

A University Senate committee has recommend-
ed that the CIA be allowed to recruit on campus,
and University President Vincent O’Leary is ex-
pected to make a final decision on the matter early
next week.

A three-page report by the Council on Academic
Freedom and Ethics (CAFE) outlines the freedom of

ring firms because of ideological objections violates
the University’s commitment of encouraging “‘the
free exchange of ideas.”

*«fRecruitment] is still an excercise of free speech
when employers attempt to persuade someone of
desirablity of working for a firm or to present infor-
mation about a firm or industry,’’ the report con-
cluded. Selectivity barring a group from recruiting

Retired Col. Charles W. Scott

Former Iranian hostage
warns of going abroad

By Greg Vitoulis

An ex-Iranian hostage re-
counted the horrors of terrorism
in the Campus Center Ballroom
Wednesday night.

Retired Army Colonel Charles
W. Scott discussed current ter-
rorism issues and the inner work-
ings of the Middle East to about
20 students in his presentation
“Terrorism: The War the West
Must Win.”

“Tt has been said that one
man’s terrorist is another man’s
freedom fighter. Nothing could
be farther from the truth,’’ Scott
said, defining guerilla or freedom
fighter as irregular forces to fight
regular forces in order to force
political change. Terrorists, he
continued, attack defenseless
people, men, women, and
children.

According to Scott, there are
two types of terrorism — local
regional terrorism and _state-
sponsored terrorism. This latter
form is supported by a govern-
ment as a viable foreign policy.

“Countries like Iran and Libya
use state-sponsored terrorism for
three reasons: low risk, little ex-
pense, and it is a very effective
tool. To stop terrorism, we’ve got
to change these conditions,”
Scott aid.

When one student asked how
these factors could be changed,
Scott replied we should be more
firm. ‘‘If we give in to terrorists
or let them think they can walk
away with impunity, then we will
be opening floodgates to more

HOFFMAN UPS

Expression Policy in relation to
campus recruitment.

O'Leary will comment on the
recommendation at Monday’s
University Senate meeting at
which time the report will be
discussed.

The committee was requested
to review the policy after a Peace
Project demonstration at the
Delta Sigma Phi Career Day Oct.
7. The protestors maintained that
the University should not supp-
port the CIA, contending that the
CIA is an illegal organization
systematically performing crimes
against humanity.

The protest led to judicial refer-
rals on five Peace Project
members for violating University
regulation set forth in the Student
Guidelines.

Vice President of Student Af-
fairs Mitchel Livingston caution-
ed against combining the two ac-
tions, the judicial hearing and the
policy review. One has ‘‘absolute-
ly no relation to the other,” he

would deny the firm an oppor-
tunity to present themselves to
students.

Contrarily, Peace Project
argues the CIA commits crimes
and is therefore not a legitimate
employer. Although the group
denounces recruitement, it en-
courages representatives from all
groups participating in an open
on-campus debate.

Delta Sigma Phi also argues that
recruitment does not occur until
the student makes an individual
appointment with the firm. ‘This
was not the case on career day.”

CAFE also reasoned that barr-
ing the CIA might lead to banning
other groups from campus also.

“Firms that manufacture
weapons, hospitals where abor-
tions are performed, and
laboratories that use animals in
experiments should not be
precluded from recruiting because
some object to views goals or ac-
tivities of these institutions,” the
report stated.

said.

terrorist attacks,” he said.

Scott began to speak then
about being a hostage.

“Tt always amazes me that all
the colleges I lecture at never
teach Surrender 101,” Scott said.
““One should never try to be a
hero.”’ He then gave tips on how

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“It’s important to keep these two issues
separate . . .
alleged disruptive behavior,”

Delta Sigma Phi’s case against the five Peace Pro-
ject members is scheduled to be heard Tuesday at
5:30. Peace Project is planning a simultaneous
demonstration.

The council report addresses both the issue of
recruitment as a form of free speech and employer
legitimacy.

CAFE deems that recruiting falls, within the
statement of freedom issued in 1986. Therefore bar-

University rules on free speech and
Livingston said.

The report also claims that

although the university should not exclude certain
groups from campus recruitment,
ideological ground, Delta Sigma Phi may choose to
not invite the CIA to SUNYA. Therefore, limiting
recruitment by the university might constitute
censorship.

CAFE was not persuaded by the Peace Project
contention that the CIA is a illegitimate firm. Cur-
rently, only bonafide employers — with jobs for

because of

students — are permitted to recruit on campus.

The report also stated that the committee is not

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Neighborhood watch forms on State

By Colleen Cross
STAFF WRITER

Forty State Quad students have banded
together recently and are calling for student
foot patrol.

According to James Lamb, State Quad
resident and Central Council Student Com-
munity Committee chair, the group organized
after hearing about two sexual assaults,one
physical assault and an attack on a Resident
Assistant within the last month.

“Students were upset and scared to hear
that this sort of thing was happening in their
home.” Lamb said.

The proposal calls for the quad to be mann-
ed by 12 students from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. on
weeknights and 18 students from 9 p.m. to 3
a.m. on weekends. Students will work in
teams of two for two-hour shifts.

“The student watch is a short term solution
with two main goals: to promote awareness
and act as a deterrent to crime’? Lamb said.

In addition to the proposal students are
also passing around a petition for a longer-
term solution calling for a public safety of-
ficer to patrol the quad during the evenings.

John Henighan, Assistant Director of
Public Safety said he was unaware of the
State Quad group but added, ‘‘it certainly is a

good idea. Neighborhood watch is always
effective.”

“Officers are assigned to each quad com-
plex and on opening day they spoke to [Resi-
dent Assistants] and other members of the
professional staff about safety. Three addi-
tional times this semester our quad liaison
staff has been to speak to the directors and
RA’s.”” Henighan said.

Many students simply didn’t know what
was happening, Lamb said. ‘‘The University
normally doesn’t want to alarm students but
now this group has gotten together and has
shown that the time has come for students to
be aware of the situation.” he added. “‘Only
through awareness and education can this be
accomplished.””

The students on the patrol would not do
anything except report problems to Public
Safety, Lamb said. ‘‘We don’t want students
to be heroes, just to be the eyes and ears,”’
Lamb said.

Lamb stressed, ‘‘Yes, students are a big
part of the problem, but we want the Univer-
sity to see we can be part of the solution too.’”

Through an extensive recruitment drive
Lamb said the group hopes to obtain and take
measures to retain volunteers.

The recruitment drive will begin at 10 p.m.

Tuesday Dec. 8, Lamb said, adding that din-
ner lines will also be manned for additional
sign-up. a>

Two to five inches of snow will blanket
the Capital Region today with flurries en-
ding early this evening. Tonight will be
cold, but clouds will stay till Saturday,
when more flurries are possible with highs
25-30. Skies will clear by early Sunday.

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INSIDE: Robert Sexton, winner of
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into the limelight with his “Letters to
Costillo.”

See ASPects centerfold

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Korean plane crashes

Bangkok, Thailand
(AP) A South Korean airliner with 115
people aboard plunged into the thick
jungle along the Thai-Burmese border and
Tescue teams were attempting Thursday to
reach the crash site, Thai officials said.

Air Vice Marshal Sommot Sundaravej,
spokesman for the Thai Air Force, said
confirmation of the site of Sunday’s crash
was based on reports early Thursday from
the Burmese border province of
Kanchanaburi.

In South Korea, KAL and government
Officials were investigating the possibility
that a bomb, a hijacking, or freak at-
mospheric conditions caused KAL flight
58 to crash.

Haiti youth missing

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
(AP) Young men and women who defend-
ed their neighborhoods from guerrilla at-
tacks before Sunday’s canceled election
have disappeared or are being held by
police, human rights groups said.

The organizations made the claim in a
letter sent Wednesday to foreign embassies
in the capital. The letter appealed for
Amnesty International, the London based
human rights organization, to intervene
with Haitian military authorities on behalf
of the youths.

It was signed by the Center for the Pro-
motion of Human Rights, the League for
Defense of Children and the Women’s
League Against Torture.

The Nation

Pact fate.up to Nunn

Washington D.C.
(AP) The betting is that the arms control
pact President Reagan is to sign next week
will face a tough fight in the Senate, and
the odd-makers are keeping their eyes on
one law maker, Sam Nunn of Georgia.

The soft spoken chairman of the Armed
Services Committee says he hasn’t made
up his mind how to vote. But what he
does, he could sway enough fence-sitters to
guarantee ratification or defeat.

“Nunn’s is the most important vote,’”’
said. the. Democratic “Whip; Sen. Alan
Cranston of California, a leader of the
drive to ratify the treaty to be signed by
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.

Reagan gives replies

Washington D.C.
(AP) President Reagan has submitted writ-
ten answers to questions submitted in the
Iran-Contra investigation by independant

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

“y | counsel Lawrence Walsh, the White House

said Thursday.

While confirming that the replies had
been delivered, White House spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater refused to discuss the
material, saying it was all covered by the
grand jury secrecy rules.

Walsh is investigating the role of former
White House aides Oliver North and John
Poindexter and others in the diversion of
profits from the Iran armes sale to the
Contra rebels in Nicarauga.

Falwell case debated

Washington D.C.
(AP) The Supreme Court’s ruling in a case
pitting the Rev. Jerry Falwell against sex
magazine publisher Larry Flynt will hinge
on the balance between free-speech rights
and legal protections against offensive
attacks.

Both of the pricipals were debated in the
courtroom Wednesday as the justices
heard arguments in the case. At issue is
whether individuals can collect damages

for publishing material that causes them
“emotional distress” even if the courts
have ruled that no libel occured.

In deciding the issue, the court will
determine the validity of a $200,000 award
won by Falwell for an advertising parody
published by Flynt’s magazine, Hustler.

The phony ad purportedly quoted
Falwell, a Baptist minister who until
recently led an organization called the
Moral Majority, discussing a sexual en-
counter with his mother in a Virginia
outhouse and a habit of getting drunk
before giving sermons.

The State

Trial filming begins
Albany
(AP) An 18-month experiment that will
allow television cameras, still
photography, and radio equipment in
some of New York’s trial courts begins this
week, and some judges say they don’t

The Alarm appeared in the Palace Wednesday night

‘TYGAR UPS

know if the plan will be good or bad.

“T think it’s going to have an effect on
the way things are done in the court,”’ said
Onondaga County Court Judge William
Burke, whose court will admit audio-visual
equipment for an upcoming murder trail,

Onondaga County is one of four upstate
counties that will be part of the experiment
starting Tuesday, along with the five New
York City boroughs. The other counties
are Monroe, Chemung and Erie.

The experimental program was approv-
ed last summer by the state Legislature and
signed into law by Gov. Mario Cuomo
after years of lobbying by news organiza-
tions, good government groupings, New
York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler and the
State Office of Court Administration,
which oversees the state court system.

Erosion fells bridge

Albany
(AP) The collapse of a New York Thruway
bridge was caused by extensive erosion
under the bridges supports, according to a
final state report issued Thursday.

The report by the state Disaster
Preparedness Commission was consistant
with earlier preliminary theories that
pointed to erosion, also known as scour-
ing, as the cause of the collapse.

But it also identified contributing fac-
tors to the collapseover the Schoharie
Creek that killed 10 people on April 5.

Contributing factors included the
bridges design. confusion over the con-
struction records, the state’s inspection
process, lack of adequate “‘rip-rap” or
stone supports to protect the bridges
footing, and the vulnerability of the bridge
supports to erosion during flooding.

Hutton to be bought

New York
(AP) Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. will
buy ailing E.F. Hutton Group Inc. in a $1
billion deal that will create the nations
largest investment firm, the companies
formally announced Thursday.

The merger, which came after
widespread anticipation and a daylong
meeting Wednesday of Hutton’s board,
marked the first major Wall Street con-
solidation following the stock market
crash Oct. 19.

For Hutton, the merger marks the end .
of an 84-year history tainted in the past
few years by scandal, financial loss, and
widespread demoralization within the
firm. Thousands of layoffs of Hutton
employees are expected.

—— Correction ———

In the Nov. 13 issue of the Albany Stu-
dent Press, Phi Kappa Sigma member Lou
Vetrone was interviewed in an story on
grafitti. The article did not intend to link
Vetrone or the group to any grafitti in-
cidents on campus.

Free Listings

THURSDAY, DEC. 3

The Internal Affairs Commit-
tee will hold its regular weekly
meeting at 7 p.m. in the SA
office.

The Finance Committee will
hold its regular weekly
meeting at 3-p.m. in the SA
office.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4
Conservative Services will be
held in the CC 373 at 6 p.m. All
are welcomed.

Acoustic Rock by Spirit is be-

ing sponsored by Slapshots at
10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Russell Sage College will be
showing 101 Dalmations in
the Schacht Fine Arts Center
at 7 p.m. Admission is $1.
The RPI Music Organization is
sponsoring the Chorale
Chamber Singers, A Brass
Quintet and a Clarinet Choir at
8 p.m. in the Chapel and
Cultural Center at RPI. Free
Admission.

SATURDAY, DEC. 5
The JSC and the RZA are
speaking out for the Soviet
Jewry and will rally with

thousands of people in
Washington D.C. A bus will be
leaving tonight at 6:30 p.m.
from the circle. Call 442-5670
for reservations and more
information.

RPI Music Organization will be
sponsoring a Jazz Ensemble
at 8 p.m. in the McNeil Room.
Free admission.

Russell Sage College is spon-
soring Christmas cartoons.
Andy Panda, Woody
Woodpecker and-more in the
Schacht Fine Arts Center at
1:15 p.m. Free admission.
The Peace Offerings Holiday
Store will present a

demonstration of weaving by a
native Guatemalan at 2:30
p.m. The store is located at 33
Central Avenue. All are invited
to attend.

The US-China Peoples Friend-
ship Association’s Annual
Bazaar will be held at 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. in the Friends
Meeting House, 727 Madison
Avenue.

SUNDAY, DEC. 6
The Class Council of 1988 will
hold..its regular weekly
meeting at 9 p.m. in the SA
lounge.
The Off-Campus Association

will hold its regular weekly
meeting at 2 p.m. in the
Washington Tavern.
SASU will hold its regular
weekly meeting at 4 p.m. in
the SA lounge.
The Class of 1989 will hoid its
regular weekly meeting at 6
p.m. in the SA lounge. New
members welcomed.
MONDAY, DEC. 7
The Central Council Safety
Committee will hold its
regular weekly meeting at 9
p.m. in the SA lounge.
Peace Project will hold its
regular weekly meeting at 7:30
p.m. in the CC 361.

“FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1987 1) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Sorry, game over

The game room in the Campus Center
closed at midnight Thursday due to the
expiration of the contract which leased
the machines there. A new contract is be-
ing sought to reopen the game room at
the earliest possible date.

University Auxiliary Services General
Manager E. Norbert Zahm reported that
the company which previously had a five-
year contract with UAS was sold. This
nullified the contract, as it was
nontransferable.

“‘The new owners were offered a new
contract with the terms coming verbatim
from the old. They expressed interest,
but would not sign a new contract, nor
would they issue a performance bond, or
liability insurance. We are therefore forc-
ed to take our business elsewhere,”’ said
Zahm.

A new company to contract the enter-
tainment machines is being sought. Zahm
hopes to reopen the game room by early
next week.

Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi!

A Pepsi vending machine was recently
installed in the SUNYA Performing Arts
Center, making the library the only
podium building without a University
Auxiliary Service (UAS) soda machine.

“We try to respond to the needs of the
University” said UAS General Manager
E. Norbert Zahm. “‘If a building requests
a vending service, we follow a general
procedure,” Zahm said.

That procedure includes obtaining in-
formation as to whether the power re-
quirements for such a machine can be
met, if the machine would violate any fire
codes, and if the need for such a machine
is genuine.

“The Performing Arts Center met
these requirements, and so got their
machine”, Zahm said. The entire pro-
cedure from request to installment took
two weeks, he added.

Fraternity regroups

Tau Epison Phi is scheduled to be
revived at SUNYA tonight with the pinn-
ing of a new chapter’s pledges.

Representatives from the national
fraternity are scheduled to officiate the
ceremony, initiating about 30 founding
fathers, according to freshman Brooks
DeBow, voted chancellor Wednesday
night.

The fraternity had folded earlier this
semester after a pledge drive, leaving a
group of pledges without a fraternity.
Cost and internal apathy were cited as;
causes for the close of the chapter.

“The brothers didn’t seem to care,’’
said John Geller, a founding father of the|
new chapter.

The new chapter will be distinguished
from the old — whose members may now]
be alums — by its name being ‘‘TEPhi’’
as opposed to ‘‘TEP.””

Dancers budgeted

Central Council restructured Dance
Council’s budget Wednesday, raising the
group’s funds by $1650.

Council Finance Committee Chair
Lerod Randolph said the increase ‘‘was
basically given to fund the annual Foot-
works performance.’ Footworks is a
performing dance troupe at SUNYA.

Funding for student production cost as
well as technical cost were increased,
while Student Association Services and
travel money was cut.

Randolph also said, ‘‘Central Council
looks foward towards another semester
of thriving artistic expression at
SUNYA.”

— Compiled by Eric Lehrfeld

SUNY research

By Davis Merran
STAFF WRITER

A SUNY-Buffalo student has accused
the University of having performed
classified research in violation of board of
trustees guidelines.

Eric Goldhagen claimed that research
for the Department of Defense has the
potential for being classified, a clear viola-
tion of research guidelines.

John Buckhoff, executive vice president
of the SUNY Research Foundation,
clarified the policy and explained that the
research being conducted at Buffalo is not
in violation of the guidelines.

“The board will not accept a contract
that prohibits the publication of results,”
Buckhoff said, adding that ‘‘sponsors
from the Defense Department have stated
that their intention with these projects is to
avoid classification.”

The policy of the board of trustees states
that “‘any research or research-related pro-
grams conducted by the personnel of the
University . . . shall be unrestricted as to
the dissemination publicly of
the... progress and result of such
research.””

The work being done at Buffalo is in
conjunction with the Department of
Defense Strategic Defense Initiative Pro-
gram (SDJ), otherwise known as “‘Star
Wars.” According to Goldhagen, part of
the project involves the development of
“tadiation hard electrical capacitors,”
which he feels the government intends to
classify.

Buckhoff explained that if a research
project seemed to be heading in a direction
where the results might be classified, “‘we
would stop [it].’’ In addition, the resear-
cher is always in contact with the Depart-
ment of Defense to prevent the project
from taking such a turn. ‘‘We don’t have a
problem having sponsors accept SUNY
policy,”’ Buckhoff said.

Goldhagen did not accept that.

“] was told that too,’’ he said, referring
to Buckhoff’s statement that the project
would be stopped if it appeared to be pro-

ducing classified results, “‘do you believe.

that?”
Goldhagen said that of the five research
projects contracted by the Department of

Students may
vote Republican
in ’88 elections

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — A year before
the 1988 elections, political analysts say
they think college students are more likely
to support the Republican presidential
candidate than the Democratic candidate.

The same analysts, however, caution
that if the stock market continues to falter,
or if conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Cen-
tral America escalate, college students may
turn against the Republicans.

Barring that, Jesse Jackson seems to be
the only Democrat with any measureable
support on campus, while all the
Republican candidates legitimately can
claim pockets of college support.

It’s heartening news for the
Republicans, who are trying to translate
Ronald Reagan’s collegiate popularity in
1980 and 1984 into long-term voting
patterns.

Young voters may have already begun
identifying themselves as life-long
Republicans, said Catherine Rudder of the
American Political Science Association.

Young Americans tended to vote
Republican more than the rest of the elec-
torate in the 1980 and 1984 presidential
elections. Young people, moreover, con-
tinue to be President Reagan’s biggest sup-
porters, according to the American Enter-
prise Institute (AEI), a Washington, NC?
think tank.

Although the number of Americans who
approved of Reagan’s job performance
dropped as a result of the Iran-Contra
scandal, his rating held steady among

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Frank DiSanto ‘DAVE MORRELL UPS

Defense to the University of Buffalo, one
of them, the ‘‘radiation hard capacitor’
project, has strictly defense applications.

“Tt is actually weapons development,”’
Goldhagen said. ‘‘The only application for
radiation hard capacitors is for a weapons
system.’’ He explained that a clause in the
contract allows for prior review of the
results by the Department of Defense,
which could lead to classification.

Section E of the contract states that the
representative of the Department of
Defense will ‘‘review the [results] and
return it... with his comments and
recommendations including any security
classification.”

Buckhoff felt that Goldhagen’s com-
plaints were unfounded. ‘He’s off-base,”’
Buckhoff said. ‘“‘He hasn’t got the proper
detail.’? He explained that there is a great
distinction between prior review and

contract under fire

outright classification.

Prior review “‘merely affects timing of
publication [of research results],”’
Buckhoff said.

Goldhagen maintained that there was
“*still the potential that [the researchers]
will come up with real interesting results
that the government won’t want to give
anyone else.””

The prior review clause in the contract
“points to the government’s intent to
classify results,” Goldhagen said.

SUNYA receives about $25 million per
year in research grants from the federal
governmenty, according to Associate Vice
President for Research and Development
Frank DiSanto. Of that amount, only
about four percent comes specifically from
the Department of Defense, he said.

Most of that research is in the fields of
biology and atmospheric science, accor-
ding to DiSanto, and is not very different
than research conducted for the National
Institute of Health or the National Science
Foundation.

“The results have to be able to be
published freely,’’ DiSanto said.

In Goldhagen’s presentation at the
board of trustees Public Hearing last
month, he requested ‘‘the immediate ter-
mination or renegotiation of [the contract
at SUNY-Buffalo], and an immediate in-
vestigation into all Defense Department-
funded research within SUNY.”’

Buckhoff maintained that ‘‘there will
not result classified information from this
research.” Oo

By Colleen Deslaurier
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The first Footworks informal perfor-
mance took place Wednesday and Thurs-
day night in the Dance Studio.

At least 100 people attended each per-
formance, according to Kathleen Lee,
faculty adviser to Dance Council, and ar-
tistic director of Footworks. Lee added
that a greater attendance was expected
for Thursday’s performance.

Twenty-three different dances, com-
binations of ballet, modern, jazz,
African and Caribbean, were performed,
Lee said.

Lee said she was pleased with the per-
formance. “‘It went really well. Somehow
it came through.”’ In September, approx-
imately 60 dancers and choreographers
were chosen from the 100 who audition-
ed, Lee said. Rehearsals then began in
October.

Footworks kicks off season

JOHN RYAN UPS

This year, approximately 10 male
dancers performed, which, according to
Lee, is the most men that Footworks has
had in three years.

Footworks was sponsored by Dance
Council, a Student Association funded
group. Nov. 19 Dance Council did a
benefit show to try to raise money for
Dance Council which ‘‘turned out
great’, Lee said.

“It’s one of the few clubs where they
really perform.’’ Lee said.

Two dances in the show were
choreographed by Lee herself. One, per-
formed by Dance Council president Julia
Sibert, is an ‘‘avant-garde modern solo”
which tries to show what movement is,
Lee said. The second piece includes a
mixture of jazz techniques.

Footworks is scheduled to perform its
formal show Feb. 10 to 12 in the Perfor-
ming Arts Center mainstage. oO

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SUNYA Soviets discuss academic differences

By Bryan Sierra
STAFF WRITER

“Dobray utra!’’ is not a phrase
normally heard in an English
class, except when greeted by one
of the Soviet students studying
here at SUNYA.

Part of the University’s Foreign
Exchange Students Program, the
nine students came from Moscow
State Institute of Foreign
Language. They are all majoring
in English at SUNYA, and are
taking a specially designed set of
courses involving American
History, English, a third or
fourth foreign language, and also
are enrolled in a special speech
composition class with other
students.

The students recounted that
there are some differences bet-
ween their home Universities and
SUNYA. One student, Maria
Novikova, explained that classes
in the Soviet Union are ‘‘much
more personal’ because the
teachers are more involved,
whereas SUNYA students have to
work more for themselves to at-
tain their grades.

Novikova also added that in the
Soviet Union, once a student has
chosen a major program of study,
all classes are already set whereas
SUNYA students can choose
among their classes.

Classes are also prepared
specially for the Soviets while
they’re studying here, but in
Moscow, they take a larger varie-
ty of courses, including
philosophy, history, and
literature. The students agreed
that they studied harder in
Moscow than at Albany,
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similar academically.

Novikova added that campus
life is very different. There are no
campuses or dorms in Moscow,
and most students live at home.

Only one student, Michael
Burkin, lived at school in
Moscow.

The most surprising aspect of
campus life at SUNY A was the in-
formality of dress here. Novikova
said that ‘Soviet students are
more conservative” in their at-
titudes about what to wear to
school.

The students were also puzzled
by the presence of fraternities on
campus. Igor Evlanov explained
that there were no fraternities or
social organizations of that kind
at Moscow universities.

Andrew Skutin pointed out

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places they’ve seen in the United
States. He said that ‘‘propaganda
of violence on Soviet television is
prohibited by law.’’ Skutin
observed that Soviet television
also had more educational pro-
grams for children than American
television does.

News programs are also
covered very differently in the
Soviet Union. One student, Yuri
Patchco, said that Soviet news is
not as sensational as American
news, but more inclined to prove
facts than mention rumors.

Another student, Andrei
Lavrenenkov, agreed, but said he
liked American news broadcasts
because it’s ‘more personal’’
when presented by an anchor-
man, and this makes it more in-
teresting. All the students agreed,

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however, that Soviet news con-
centrated much more on interna-
tional news than does the press in
the United States.

Students in Moscow are more
heavily exposed to theatres,
museums, and exhibitions than
are students in Albany,
Lavrenenkov said adding that be-
ing from as large a city as
Moscow, he wasn’t used to the
small city atmosphere of Albany.

Students travelled to Boston,
New York City, Washington, and
several small New England towns,
and agreed that they missed the
big-city atmosphere of Moscow.

Novikova also observed dif-
ferences in family life. ‘‘It’s rare
for students in Moscow to borrow
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said she felt that Soviet families
may be a little closer than
American families based on her
observations of the families she’s
stayed with in the United States.

The attitudes about alcohol
and drugs are basicaly the same in
both countries, according to An-
drew Skutin. The Soviet Union
also has a drinkng age of 21, but
drinking is not a large problem
there, he said. He added that a
negative attitude towards the use
of drugs was shared by both
countries.

The students also talked about
the Soviet policy of glasnost.
Lavrenenkov explained that
glasnost is a program introduced
to ‘‘promote reforms in
economic, cultural, and social
aspects of Soviet life.”” He said it
is a change so that the Soviet
Union could create more open
relationships with the democratic
nations of the world, and also to
democratize, to an extent, the
Soviet Union.

A new “openness to criticism’’
encourages everyone to ‘“‘express
their views and suggest new
ideas,” Lavrenenkov said.

Skutin said that glasnost was
important ‘‘so that the American
people can better understand the
Soviet people.”

But Ekaterina Petrova, another
Soviet student, disagreed. She
maintained that glasnost was im-
portant for the Soviets so that
they could change conditions
there. All agreed that glasnost
was not primarily intended to
change foreign relations with the
Soviet Union, but rather to im-
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Proposed bill geared to decrease loan defaults

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Only
freshmen and sophomores could
get Pell Grants and only juniors
and seniors could get Guaranteed
Student Loans in the future if
Congress approves a bill in-
troduced mid-November by an in-
fluential legislator from
Michigan.

Rep. Bill Ford (D-Mi), a very
influential member of the House
education committee, explained
he thought the bill, introduced
Nov. 3, would help minimize stu-
dent loan defaults and help low-
income students finance college.

“The bill is an attempt to kill
two birds with one stone,”’ said
Tom Wolanin, a Ford aide. “‘It
deals with both the problems of
equality and defaults.””

Ford’s measure, if passed,
would prohibit first and second
year college students from receiv-
ing GSLs. Those students,
however, would be eligible to
receive Pell Grants, federal en-
dowments that students don’t
have to repay.

If passed, the bill would let
students get Pell Grants of up to
$4,000 a year, up from the current
$2,100 limit.

Pell Grants may only be used to
pay for 60 percent of education
costs, and although Ford’s bill
does not seek to change that
policy, Wolanin said, ‘‘we’re
open to change.”’

GSLs would be limited to up-
perclassmen and graduate
students, and the maximum
amount a student could borrow
would be increased from $4,000
to $7,000 a year.

Community college and voca-
tional school students would

benefit most from the bill,
Wolanin said, because they could

complete their two-year educa-
tions without incurring loan
debts,

Existing federal student aid
programs discourage low-income
students from enrolling in col-
leges, Wolanin said, because
many are reluctant to go into debt
to do so.

Giving such students Pell
Grants instead of loaning them
money through the GSL pro-
gram, Wolanin said, would ‘help
them get started. Many students
don’t know what direction they
want to go in when they first at-
tend school.”

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Col-
leges aren’t sure what the stock
market crash of Oct. 19 will mean
to their long-term health.

Campuses, of course, typically
own portfolios full of stocks, and
use the profits to pay for new
buildings and other bid-money
construction projects.

Schools with large endowments
and portfolios, moreover, have in
recent years been using their stock
profits to provide financial aid to
students frozen out of federal aid
programs by budget cuts.

While some officials worried
wealthy contributors might
become less generous, no one was
predicting the collapse — which
in percentage terms was worse
than the great crash of 1929 that

ushered in the economic depres-

The proposed legislation would
reduce loan defaults, Wolanin
reasoned, because many
defaulters are underclassmen
from low-income backgrounds
who drop out of school when they
don’t find their niche.

“The problem is we lend
money to people who are too high
a risk,” he said. Upperclassmen
and graduate students, who
presumably after two years of
school know what they want to
do with their college educations,
are better credit risks, he said.

Wolanin doesn’t believe the bill
would require greater funding for
education programs, since the
federal government would save

sion of the 1930s — would hurt
students or campuses in the near
future.

“The university will wait for
the market to settle down before
making any conclusion,’ said
Stanford University Provost
James Rosse in a_ statement
typical of most colleges’ attitude.

When the Dow Jones Industrial
Average plummeted 508 points
Oct. 19, though, the value of
many stock portfolios held by
schools across the nation also fell
precipitously.

Stanford’s $1.5 billion endow-
ment “took a $200 million hit” as
a result of the crash, said
spokesman Bob Byers. The
University of Texas system’s en-
dowment fell from $2.9 billion to
$2.6 billion, executive vice

money from decreasing loan
defaults and subsidies. Additional
funds would be available since
juniors and seniors would not be
eligible for Pell Grants.

“According to my figures, it
would be a wash. We would need
no new money. We would just use
what we already have available
more effectively.””

But Bill Jamroz, a Department
of Education spokesman, said the
plan would bring additional costs.
Another problem, he said, is that
the bill calls for ‘a literal
shooting of money into schools
with no ties to the quality of
education”’ provided.

Other observers, while suppor-

chancellor for asset management
Michael Patrick said.

But because colleges play the
stock market carefully and con-
servatively, said Jack Cox of the
National Association of College
and University Business Officers
(NACUBO), the impact was less
than other investors suffered.

“J don’t see an appreciable im-
pact on endowments,’’ Cox said.

Colleges, Cox added, invest in
real estate, trust funds and bonds
as well as stocks.

“With endowments so widely
diversified, the stock market
should not have much of an im-
pact on institutions,’’ he said.

Things might be different for
faculty members, who regularly
pay part of their current salaries
to a pension fund, which in turn

' tive of the bill’s goals, are reserv-
ing judgement until further study
can be done.

“Ford is a very big student ad-
vocate and the bill comes with the
best intentions,’ said Mary
Preston of the United States Stu-
dent Association. But ‘“‘we’re go-
ing to study it and make some
recommendations.””

“We have no position on it
yet,”’ explained Dr. A. Dallas
Martin of the National Associa-
tion of Student Financial Aid Ad-
ministrators. Martin called the
proposal a “‘positive step away
from the heavy reliance on
loans,”’ but said the bill ‘needs
some refinements.” Q

Stock market crash may harm colleges

invests stock
market.

The fund uses the profits from
its investments to make monthly
pension payments to retired facul-
ty members.

A long-term market crash
theoretically could endanger the
payments.

But Claire Sheahan of the fund
— called the Teachers Insurance
and Annuity Association-College
Retirement Fund (TIAA-CREF)
— said ‘‘it’s too soon to call the
long-term or short-term
impacts.’’

TIAA-CREF, criticized in re-
cent years as too conservative,
didn’t believe the “‘sustained rise
in the stock market over the last
few years could be sustained,”
Sheahan said. Qj

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EDITORIAL gam

In the limelight

It looks as though SUNYA’s Great CIA Debate of
1987 is coming to a close.

Throughout the semester, Peace Project — with
scattered support from other campus student groups
— has been trying to convince the University and its
students that the CIA is a criminal organization and
therefore should not be allowed to recruit on campus.

Trying to convince us that as individuals we
shouldn’t support the CIA is one thing. But trying to
have the University prevent us from making our own
decision is another.

In early October, the group formally asked the
University to ban CIA recruitment on campus. The
Student Affairs office responded by asking University
Senate’s Council on Academic Freedom and Ethics to
consider the matter. The results are in. The report,
currently being reviewed by University President
Vincent O’Leary — who ultimately has the final say -
goes a long way to defend the University’s role in
promoting free speech and expression.

It says that firms can’t be discriminated against
because of presumed ideological positions.

It says that the University is not in a position to
judge whether or not the CIA is an “‘illegal’’
organization.

It says that a state university is a public institution

» and can’t make flipant decisions as if it were privately
§ owned.

Above all, it Says that the CIA should be allowed on
campus and objectors should have the right to object
by speaking, picketing or demonstrating against the
CIA. |

And that’s the way it should be.

Indeed, the CIA’s worldwide range of activities is an
issue of merit. But driving them off campus is not a
solution.

The way to bring about change is not by limiting
expression and free speech and putting things under a
carpet. Change is brought about by changing people’s

minds — by bringing important issues into the
limelight.
i In that Peace Project has succeeded?

! Let’s hope O’Leary supports CAFE’s defense of

freedom of expression. It’s the same freedom of
expression which let Peace project put the CIA in the
limelight in the first place.

Good neighbors

When people move into a new neighborhood, safety
is usually a priority. They lock doors, take in the

call) the police if they“notice’any suspicious-looking
© persons lurking about.

But that’s the real world, and unfortunately this is
college. And here many students take the childish
attitude that their dorm room is a bastion of safety,
that no one would ever hurt them and that the
University alone is resposible for their protection.

| » Butasin any community, dorms do present a degree
of danger. Several serious attacks on State Quad
recently caused a group of 40 students to become so
concerned that they were willing to patrol the quad in
two-person teams seven nights a week to keep an eye
on things. These students are working in cooperation
with Residential Life and University Police
Department to make sure they and their neighbors are
safe.

This group must be applauded for its active concern.
But 40 people should not have to look after their
thousand-or-so residents. Everybody on every quad
should be responsible for keeping the neighborhood
safe. That means checking IDs of unfamiliar people,
locking doors and keeping an eye on out-of-town
visitors and/or partygoers. Alhough the group’s
request for a UPD officer to be stationed on each quad
every night is unfeasible and probably unnecessary,
UPD should also help out by becoming more visible
and patrolling the quads more frequently, especially
on nights and weekends.

Credit should also be given to James Lamb, who as
chair of Council’ safety sub-committee turned the
group into Council’s most visible and productive
committee. And in a year when Student Association as
a whole is sorely lacking in any pushes for student
tights, Lamb’s Safety Comimittee really stands out.

But the only truly effective method for students to
ensure safety, is to take a mature, civic-minded

‘approach to their community. Because college is the
real world and real crimes can happen here, too.

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It is with great interest that I read the New York Times
article regarding forced care of the unborn in the Nov. 23
edition. I would like to share some of my thoughts with
you and your readers on this matter.

Joseph R. Carragner

For those unfamiliar with the article,it deals with a
legal case in Washington D.C., in which a woman, after
eighteen hours of labor, refused to allow Caesarean Sec-
tion to be performed in spite of the steadily rising risk of a
fatal infection. The doctors would not accept her deci-
sion, for fear of the child’s life, and obtained a court
order to authorize the surgery. Judge Richard A. Levie of
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia wrote, “It
is one thing for an adult to gamble with nature regarding
his or her own life;it is quite another when the gamble in-
volves the life or death of an unborn infant.’’ He said that
the doctors could not ‘‘indulge the desires of the parent””
when there is “‘substantial risk to the unborn infant.”

Thus I come to the point of my letter, in that court
system of our great nation may step in to protect the life
of an unborn child from inadvertant danger posed by his
or her mother but the courts will allow the purposeful
destruction and murder of those unborn children who
face abortion by their respective mothers.

In other words, a mother may murder outright her
child, but she may not threaten the child’s life with
natural childbirth.

It is not my intention to take the position that Judge
Levie was wrong in his finding, but quite the contrary. It
is my belief that the protection of unborn life is an essen-
tial part of our “‘right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness” in this country, and that protection should
come before inadvertant threats and purposeful exter-
mination of such life.

With this I pose the question are not ‘‘all men created
equal? ’’ All men are created equal, but all men are also
created within his or her mothers womb. Is it not also
true, then, that all men are created equal within his or her

“In other words, a mother
may murder outright her
child, but she may not
threaten the child’s life with
natural childbirth. ’’

mothers womb?

In this country, we have always strove to make real
those words of Thomas Jefferson, and to deny rights toa
person based upon physical development, physical loca-
tion, or dependency is both wrong and destructive. Judge
Levie has made a step in the right direction, but to fulfill
those ideals held by our founding fathers, requires the ut-
most protection of our unborn.

Furthermore, the issue of abortion should in no way be

_construed as one of a church and state conflict. Abortion

is clearly a human rights issue which demands the most
liberal protection of rights, which is what our country has
been founded upon.

In conclusion, our society has a right and necessity to
protect the lives of our children from harmful actions by
their parents since our children represent our future socie-
ty. By our actions today, abortions are killing America’s
seeds for tomorrow.

For these reasons and others too numerous to specify, I
would ask all those readers who support abortion to
reconsider their position and not to base their decision to
support abortion on the notion of self-convenience and
protection from unwanted pregnancy because the basic
right of life should clearly take precedence over personal,
economic, and social interests. oO

The writer is a sophmore at SUNYA.

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New York, New York.

The trip began on the Sunday before Thanksgiving with us getting up almost
before the sun did. (Yuk!) Ill admit that there's a beautiful sense of stillness found
early in a fog-filled morning while the dew still dampens the grass (even if it is
growing on the Albany State campus). But this was 8 o'clock in the morning! For a
die-hard night person like myself, being up, dressed, and walking toward the Circle
to meet my ride at that ungodly hour is enough to categorize the entire day as ‘a
living hell.

Our plan seemed simple enough: the five of us would drive down to Brewster (2!2)
and take a MetroNorth train from the station there. Jodi picked us up, in her two-
door Mustang, at our appointed meeting spots. Deirdre and Sarah were New York
City virgins, — c'mon, I only meant that they'd never been there before! I don’t
know that much about their personal lives — and Matt was our ‘token’ male.

Looking back, I wonder if we would have continued on if we'd known what kind
of an insane trip it was going to be,

The trip down was uneventful enough. We kept up a steady stream of chatter to
make up for the broken radio. And, with five people, in a pretty tight space, it
wasn’t too difficult.

In beautiful downtown Brewster, we had a hell of a time finding a parking space
— every spot had a “By Permit Only — All Others Towed” sign. Once we finally
found one, we entered the Brewster Zone (that's the train station). It all would have
been fine if any of us had been math majors. However, I think all of us were
declared or leaning toward some type of performing arts or english-type major and
had a hell of a time figuring out who got how much after ‘Token’ (that was Matt's
new nickname) decided to ask for five round-trip tickets, instead of everyone buying
their own.

Finally, after everyone was satisfied with their respective financial situation, we
went outside to wait for the train. Trying to think of ways to keep warm while we
waited, Deirdre suggest a quick game of freeze tag. That would have been fine,
except we were all pretty much frozen to the spot already.

At last the train arrived, and we settled in, making sure to wave at Mt. Kisco (the
next town over from the hometown of one of my best friends) as we passed
through town. Before we knew it, we were there.

Grand Central itself would have been worth the trip. After a brief, but nerve-
wracking, separation during which | feared for Sarah and Deirdre’s lives, we reunited
to walk to Broadway. (The only reason we actually went was to see Derek Jacobi in
Breaking the Code.)

‘Apparently, everyone thought everyone else’ had gotten directions, We walked
about two and a half blocks in the wrong direction before we realized it. They
wanted to keep walking, up to the corner to cross. the street and then head back. It

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only seemed logical to me to turn around right there and save ourselves time and
energy. So I told them. And, though no one listened, that’s exactly what I did. For
fear of losing each other again, they all followed.

We got to Broadway in one piece (group) and continued on to see exactly where
the theatre was located. Next, it was off to (of all places!) Beefsteak Charlie's.
Optimistically hoping for somewhere not too expensive, we... well. we. . suffice
it to say that we basically made a meal out of appetizers and unlimited beer. wine,
or sangria, (Okay, okay. We all got Coke® . Sorry.)

That ‘meal’ (and I use the term loosely) left us all a little hungry, but very pleased
that we had bought round-trip tickets in Brewster. Onward to the theatre, we were a
bit surprised by our very mezzanine seats, but enjoyed the show just the same

Heading back down Broadway, we stopped in at the Marriott Marquis because
‘Token’ wanted to check it out. Well, our ultimate goal, once we discovered the
glass elevators (!!!), was to ride them up to the restaurant that he'd told us was at the
top. The problem was, we couldn’t seem to find the right one — not all of them
went all the way up to the top. Su, we just kept riding and riding and riding until
eventually we'd attracted attention to ourselves(remember, we were a group of
five), and the Maxriott security people asked us (nicely) to please leave. And left we
did,

Just in time, we thought, to make the 6:30 MetroNorth back to beautiful
Brewster. Well, we thought wrong. Of course, it wasn’t until we walked in the front
doors of G.C. (Grand Central, of course) that I'd remembered the sage advice of the
same friend whose hometown we'd kinda waved at: “If it says 11:02, that's when it'll
leave. The MetroNorth trains are really good about that. So make sure you're early.”

We spent an hour and a half in G.C. waiting for the next train, suffering through
another separetion ordeal, cold pretzels (this wasn’t Philly, remember!), and general
symptoms of fatigue and boredom. You might be asking yourself, ‘How boring
could it have been?’ Well, we seriously considered singing Christmas carols at
passers-by just to see if they’d throw us money. That's how boring.

The trip home was pretty uneventful) though...

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December 4, 1987

Marsalis brothers stand alone

urrently, Wynton and Branford
Marsalis are, together or separate-
ly, top selling acts on the jazz
scene. To the delight of their many fans,
they have simultaneously released solo ef-
forts: Wynton’s Marsalis Standard Time
Vc!.1 and Branford’s Renaissance.
Throughout the history of jazz, there
have been brother combinations at the
forefront of the jazz scene. In the early
days, there were Jack and Charlie
Teagarden. With the Swing Era came Tom-
my and Jimmy Dorsey. The fifties and six-
ties brought The Boppers (Julian “Cannon-
ball” Adderley and his brother Nat), as
well as the Heath Brothers (jimmy, Albert,
and Percey), the Montgomery Brothers
(Wes, Monk, and Buddy), and the Jones
Brothers (Hank, Elvin, and Jimmy). During
the 70's the Brecker Brothers, Randy and
Michael, rose to fame.

Bill McCann

The above list is by no means all-
inclusive. There are many more, All these
aside, in the we:ld of jazz today, one pair
of brothers stands alone: Wynton and
Branford Marsalis.

This pair, Wynton more so than Bran-
ford, has received many accolades during
the past few years \Vynton has won
numerous Grammys tor his jazz releases as
well as for his classical albums. He has
developed a reputation as a consummate
musician. Some would argue that he is to-
day's master of jazz and classical trumpet.
His popularity is clearly evidenced in that
he consistently plays to standing-toom-
only crowds and his albums (both jazz. and
classical) have achieved great commercial
success,

Branford has, by no means, taken a back
seat to his elder brothe:. He and his sax-
opinone have gained popularity through his
own releases, Scenes in the City and Royal
Garden Blues, as well as through his ap-
pearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live
and by his taking part in Sting’s Dream of
the Blue Turtles world tour. Together, the
Marsalis brothers have done well in mak-
ing a name for themselves.

For Wynton, Standard Time marks a
“return” to “traditional” jazz. His last few

releases, particularly Black Codes from the
Underground and J-Mood, placed Marsalis
in what could be called his “hard
bop”-Miles Davis style. His selections and
performance on these albums are quite in-
tense. This style was also evidenced in his
performance last year at Albany's Egg. This
style, as is the case with any “innovational”
music, isa little tough to swallow until you
get used to it. Standard Time Vol.1, though
just as intense, brings Marsalis back a little
from this style and gives us his fresh inter-
pretations of many fine jazz standards.

The album starts off with “Caravan,”
trombonist Juan Tizol’s tune made famous
by the Duke Ellington Band. This cut gives
us our introduction to the Marsalis Quartet
of Wynton, pianist Marcus Roberts, bassist
Bob Hurst, and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts.
This group has been together for a few
years, and they show a familiarity one
would expect from a group that has been
together on a steady basis.

“April in Paris,’ a song which can be
associated with the Count Basie Orchestra,
is next, reminiscent of the scene in Mel
Brooks’ Blazing Saddles where Basie and
Company appear out of nowhere in the
desert, playing this tune as Gene Wilder
and Cleavon Little ride by on their horses.

Then comes the Ray Nobie classic
“Cherokee.” Many trumpeters have played
this tune, though none as well as the late,
great Clifford Brown. Marsalis does some
nice improvisation on this as Roberts
reminds us of the theme in the
background. The next tune is “Goodbye,”
a Gordon Jenkins tune played as a theme
by Benny Goodman. This is the first taste
of Marsalis in a slow tempo and mellow
style on this album. The Miles Davis in his
blood becomes clearly evident. Side one
ends with Hoagy Carmichaels’s “New
Orleans” and a Marsalis original “Soon All
Will Know.”

Side two begins with a favorite Ger-
shwin tune, “Foggy Days.” Marsalis gives
sis a soft, sweet improvisation, maintaining
the integrity of Gershwin’s genius.

“The Song is You,” written by Kern and
Hammerstein, is brought to us in a truly
unique form. The time signature of all the
players is in constant change. What is im-
pressive is that the group manages a clear

Wynton
Marsalis

es

—

swing throughout the tough arrangement.

As Marsalis put it, “Every instrument is
allowed the freedom to interpret the form
from a differeni metric vantage point. This
frees Marcus, Bob, and Jeff from having to
keep a shict basic time, but gives the
responsibility of resolving superimposed
meters correctly in the original form.
Though we are approaching the form with
thythmic and metric freedom, everyone
has to work with the flow of the im-
provisation. The last thing I'm interested in
is freedom that can only justify itself by its
existence. {'m interested in freedom that
encompasses the fundimentals of music,
allowing for inspiration rather that
desperation.”

This is the whole approach of the album.
“Memories of You,” written by endeared
Eubie Blake, is a solo number by pianist
Marcus Roberts, who is one of the finest
young players today. His work on this
number is truly lovely, and though it is
Wynton’s release, it could easily be
thought of as the high point of the album.

Another Marsalis. original, “In the
Afterglow,” gives us Wynton in another
soft setting. This is preferable; the style is
more becoming and is one which he can
truly express his tonal quality. During the
Newport Jazz Festival at S.P.A.C this past
summer, he played in this style more so
than in his hard-bop style.

Johnny Mercer's “Autumn Leaves”
receives fine treatment, with a very unique
metric arrangement, The arrangment, writ-
ten by Jeff Watts, changes meter every bar
up to the release by adding a beat (1, 1-2,
1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4-5, etc.) This ex-
tremely innovative form shows us the fine
talent Watts possesses as a drummer. The
album concludes with another version of
“Caravan.”

All in all, the album is pretty good. If
are a true Wynton Marsalis fan, then it will
be a ‘must-have.’ For others, it is not a bad
addition to any record collection, though
nothing to rough a blizzard to get a copy
of,

Renaissance is Branford’s third indepen-
dent endeavor. It displays a truly mature
Branford, who plays in a style stepped in

Coltrane. Branford plays both tenor and
soprano saxophone.on -the -LP,.He-gets
some fine accompanyment from Kenny,
Kirkland on piano, Bob Hurst on bass, and
Tony Williams on drums. Herbie Hancock
even sits in on some of the tunes — get
away from his “Rock it” B.S., and Hancock
is a fine jazz pianist, which is easily seen
when listening to some of his early work.

Branford’s album is more appealing than
his brother's new release. It has a nice way
about it in the traditional jazz style. The
first cut, Cole Porter's “Just One of Those
Things,” hints of vintage Coltrane and has
a taste of Dexter Gordon. It takes off in a
groove from the start and: never looks
back. This hard groove is vastly different
from the groove laid down by Wynton.
These grooves fly a la Sonny Stitt.

JJ. Johnson's “Lament” gives us a total
change of moods. Branford, on tenor, plays
this ballad in a style which beholds the ti-
tle; it is very solemn and somber, with
Branford showing us a clear and rich tonal
quality. Kenny Kirkland has an extended
lay-down where he shows us that he is
definitely in the peer group of Marcus
Roberts and Mulgrew Miller. “The
Peacocks” is a 15-minute expansion of
peacefull. maods! Brantord gels very oc
pressive using his soprano on this cut.

Side two gives us two very different
Tony Williams tunes, one by Marsalis, and
a Sonny Rollins classic. The first number,
“Love Stone,” lays.down a.nice- groove:
Midtempo “Citadel,” like “Love Stone,” is
similar in style to the pop-style being ex-
panded upon by Wynton Marsalis, Donald
Harrison, Terrence Blanchard, Mulgrew
Miller, and many of the young musicians
in the vanguard of today's jazz. “The
Wrath,” featuring Branford on soprano, is
an uptempo piece with excellent im-
provisation by Kenny Kirkland (who is
superb throughout the album) and the rest
of the group. This piece is most similar of
the bunch to the hard groove played by
the elder Marsalis.

“St. Thomas,” made famous and written
by teed man Sonny Rollins, is done as a
fine effort by Marsalis on this LP.

Renaissance is Branford’s best effort yet.
If all turns out well, we can expect more
fine work from him in the future. Qo

December 4, 198

On the witness stand

by John

Malitzi

ell Mr. Higgins, that is astounding news, Are
Wie sure beyond a reasonable doubt?” ques-
tioned Judge O'Sullivan.

“Absolutely,” retorted Mr. Higgins. “I will prove
my case through a preponderance of the following
evidence. 1 begin by calling Jim Walker to the
stand.”

A delicate boy seated at the rear of the courtroom
lifted his body out of his seat. He approached the
bench and was sworn in.

“Tell me, Jim Walker, how did this whole incident
begin? When did you first notice a change in your
mother's cooking habits?’ inquired a stern old man
who was called Mr. Higgins

The fourteen-year-old boy quivered in his seat.
He nervously lifted his small hand and wiped his
brow, which was damp with perspiration,

“| guess it was about a year ago. Yes. yes it will be
thirteen months this January, on the twenty-fifth,”
answered a frail and pale jim.

‘The little young man’s eyes gazed out the frost-
covered window at the back of the courtroom. His
eyes were focused on a wintery scene. Oh, how he
remembered that cold January when all of this had
started, This horror would always be impressed in
his mind. He would carry these painful memories
with him forever.

“J don’t remember all the details,” began Jim, “but
I will try to recall all the details and events that [
can.

“My father was going through a difficult time,
because he had tried a case and was nearly disbarred
for some illegal procedure. Nothing ever came of
it.”

“He always exerted a great deal of pressure on the
entire family, especially my mother. He liked
everything neat and tidy, and demanded a warm

dinner when ‘he’ returned from work. That was ”

imperative.

“My younger brother and I had'to go to a private
prep school for ‘Public schools were not good
enough.’ This is what he always said. I loved him.
He was a good father.”

The boy dropped his head and started to sob. His
life had been changed drastically and abruptly.

“Every evening my father would come through
the front door and demanded éverything to stop. He
expected all of us to be in our assigned places at the
dinner table and the food to be ready.”

“About a year ago, Father started to complain
about the quality of my mother’s cooking. He did
not like the dishes she cooked. My father demanded
she cook only specific meals. The recipes would be
supplied by my grandmother, my father’s mother.

“Father's business started to decline. He lost a
large portion of his clientele. This added an extra
strain to my father, which was passed on to my
mother.

“Mother offered to seek employment, and my
younger brother, Corry, and I offered to go toa
public school to relieve the financial burden. Father
struck down the idea and replied, ‘A’'woman’s place
is in the home and that is where you will stay!’

“Again my father would complain about
Mother's cooking. He ridiculed and tormented her.
He often asked, ‘Hey, Martha what are we eating,
poison?’

“My mother could not deal with his remarks. She
often cried. This would anger my father, and they
would argue to no end.”

The boy broke down again. Terror was in his eyes
as tears flowed down his milky cheeks. He loved his
mother and father so.

“Are we eating poison? That is what he used to |

ask,” said Jim.

“Things got a bit better. My father’s business pick-
ed up again. He gained respect as a professional
lawyer, and his clientele grew larger. My father
merged his business with three reputable lawyers:
Taylor, Andrews, and McKort.

“Father planned a dinner party at our house to
celebrate the event. He invited top executives from
his firm, as well as prosepctive clients.

“Mother had prepared an exquisite meal. She slav-
ed hours upon hours in the kitchen. The meal was
magnificent, and the decorations were spectacular.
Everything seemed to be going as planned.

“Then my mother served dessert and sorne exotic
coffees. It was summer, and she served dessert out
on the veranda. That was such a beautiful night,” ex-
plained Jim,

“Pather took one bite of the strawberry shortcake,
calmly walked over to my mother, and said, ‘How
could you do this to me, you miserable wretch? This
cake tastes like poison.’

“My father slapped her. She sank to her knees,
and buried her face in her hards, She wept like a
helpless child, as all the guests looked on in utter
awe.

“How could he do this to her, how could he?’
wondered little Jimmy.

The snow outside touched the ground, as the
wind tossed it around. Jim paused, gazed out the
window, and began once more.

“From then on things became worse. Father's fits
of violence continued. He persistently complained
about my mother’s cccking.

“Mother seemed to wither away. Her skin
became wrinkled and aged, as my father periodical-
ly beat her. Her body was covered with scars. I
remember one incident where my father beat
Mother so badly she bled. The blood became caked
in her hair. My father was ruthless,” Jim paused.

“Go on, Jim, go on!” exclaimed Mr. Higgins. “Tt is
imperative you tell me all the facts.”

The court looked on in horror. How could Mr.
Higgins force the little man to relive that experience
again?

Jim Walker sank in the big chair, as Mr. Higgins
continued to cross-examine him. There was a slight
draft seeping through the window located to the left
of jim.

“My father kept complaining, ‘Martha, what are
we eating? It tastes like poison.’

“T think it was about this time my mother started
getting bad. Her beatings came more frequently.
She always claimed she loved my father, but love
was not strong enough to endure the way Father
treated her.

“Father asked my mother to maké a meal he en-
joyed the most. Again, Mother made an all-out ef-
fort to make my father happy and to make a good
meal. Everything was perfect. As usual, Father com-
plained the food tasted like poison. What was
Mother to do?”

The boy could hardly move in his chair. He stared
out the window. Oh, how cold it was.

“Come on, Jim. Just a little bit more,” said Mr.
Higgins.

“There is not much more to tell. You see, my
father died in his sleep that night. Apparently, Mr.
Higgins, my father was eating poison. Mother could
not stand the torture any longer. She had no other
choice.”

There was silence in the courtroom. . The gavei
fell, and the verdict was apparent.

Short Story Contes

typical Carolina summer afternoon. The

temperature hovered in the 90's while the
sun preyed on all living matter, bleaching the greens
of grass into brown, and the browns of hair into
blonde. The air hung thick with humidity and was
laced with. the amell of pine which grows
everywhere in North Carolina. No breeze offered
respite from the swelter, and the cool dark evening
seemed hours away.

I was a paratrooper at Fort Bragg and served as a
stenographer to the Commander of the 82nd Air-
borne Division. Since the Commander was away
from the ‘astallation on military business, | had
retreated to the air-condition dormitory that served
as my company’s barracks. I was sitting at the front
desk chatting with the Sergeant in Charge of
Quarters and thumbing through a military magazine
when the front door crashed open, breaking the
tranquility of the building. A young private entered,
sheving one large travel bag in ahead of his body,
and pulling another behind him. His camoflage
uniform, unpressed and drenched with sweat, clung
to his body in lumps while his red beret was creased
wrong and barely fit his large, shaved head. His eyes
looked red and tired. Beads of sweat ran along the
bridge to the tip of his nose and fell to the floor after
accumulating in a drop.

The private eyed the sergeant and dropped his
bags to the floor, pulled the beret off his head, and
came to attention in front of the CQ desk barking,
“Private Costillo reporting to Headquarter's Com-
pany, Sergeant!” I watched the newcomer and smil-
ed. Every soldier r-nember the day he reported to
his first unit — the uncertainty, the anticipation, the
eagerness to make a gocd impression and begin the
work that he had treined for. The CQ Sergeant also
smiled.

“Welcome aboard Costillo,” the Sergeant said,
looking to the floor where a small pool of sweat had
already accumulated from Costillo’s nose. “And pull
that stick out of your butt and relax, would you?’

"Yes, Sergeant!” was Costillo’s reply, and his body
eased into a more comfortable stance. | offered him
my hand and he shook it firmly. “Welcome to Head-
quarter's Company, Greg, It’s not much but we like

to call it hell,”’ I said, rolling my eyes for effect. The
three of us engaged in light conversation for a few
minutes. Costillo told us that he was trained by the
‘Amy as a mechanic and that he was originally from
Texas. The CQ Sergeant then took him away to be
in-processed.

The next time that I saw Costillo was a few weeks
later, and I struck him. On that night, a group of
mechanics and cooks had a keg party and returned
to the barracks drunk and disorderly. Their noise
woke me up, and went out in the hallway with my
roommate to investigate. My. roommate confronted
the revelers and demanded peace. His eyes were
serious, and I thought the group the group was go-
ing to comply, but one of them spit at our feet. My
roommate slugged the offender, and before he
could recoil from the punch, Costillo decked my
roommate. I punched Costillo at the same time he
hit me with a defensive glancing blow. His blow
shattered my lower lip, but he didn’t get up.
Everyone drifted away.

The next morning Costillo was walking out of the
shower as I was walking. He looked up and winked
at me with a black, swollen eye. I smiled at him with
a fat lip. At that moment I knew I liked him.

The next time that I saw Costillo was at
Thanksgiving when we both shared guard duty. I
hadn't planned on going home for the holiday and
knew the volunteeing for such drudgery would give
me immunity for Christmas and the summer
holidays. Costillo volunteered because he was a
legitimately good soldier.

Fifteen minutes before we were due to report to
guard duty, I stopped by Costillo’s room to see if he
was ready. He pulled on his web gear and helmet,
and together we journied towards the motor pool
where we would guard Jeeps and trucks against
mankind. It was raining hard, and our gear provided
little defense against the elements. 7

On duty, Costillo and I warmed our hands over a
portable kerosene stove while we talked. We
discussed football, military gossip, and then swap-
ped hunting stories that grew longer with every
passing hour.

At about 9:00 p.m., I wondered aloud what my
family might be doing at that particular moment in
upstate New York. Costillo laughed and told me
that his grandparents, who he lived with all of his
life, had been in bed for hours. The lived on a small
farm, “quaint” by Texas standards, and retired early
in the evening because of morning demands, He
talked of his love for that farm, its subtle rolling

a he day that I met Greg Costillo, it was a

acres spotted with cattle, the s
hay waning from the barn, ar
wrinkled brow that representec
weathering. He described long |
hay in the afternoon sun, spitt
horse flies, and gulping mouitl
from an old jar that he kept on
hours on the farm were peacef
often sat on the front porch slig
and planning chores for the ne
would disappear behind the to
would stare at the first few stars
sky before retiring like his gra
hours ago. He missed square da
fire department on Saturday
never danced. He spent thos

somebody's pickup truck in the
beer and talking with friends. N
his grandparents whom he love

In spite of the inclement w
thoroughly enjoyed Costillo’s
to the barracks early the next m
nose and a new friendship with
was far from home.

Soon Costillo started comir
watch television, or just to te
laughing or smiling. His gentle
with a competitive instinct was’
day loves were football, fishing
cars, and telling lies about Tes
tivities could be performed with
his mouth, and a beer imhis ha

Greg started joining us on the
water-skiied the cyprus lakes t
North Carolina. It was.a brutal j
to actually ski, but once he h
more content to just sit in the t
spot other skiiers. At night, we |
country bar for a few minutes bi
arock club for the rest of the nis
down our cheeks as we watchec
step to the Hank Williams’ son
lizard.

Costillo was a serious; soldie
sional in appearance and condi
moted through the ranks at a gi
peers, Everyone admired him. 1
leave the military upon the com
ment, Costillo had sights on a
and was destined for great succ

A month before I was due t
opened a letter to the Gener:
woman. It was my duty to sort
mon communications, and draft
the General's signature. The wo
letter that as a young mother sh
and when the responsibility of
too much to handle, she farmec
relatives and friends, then fled a
tact with them to begin her life
had passed since she severec
children. Six months ago she lea
cember 4, 1987

Aspects 5a

itest Winner: Letters to Costillo

th cattle, the smells of freshly cut
m the barn, and his grandfather's
hat represented years of work and
lescribed long hours tossing bales of
noon sun, spitting tobacco juice at
gulping mouthfuls of cool water
hat he kept on the tractor. Evening
m were peaceful. Greg said that he
front porch slipping Lone Star Beer
ores for the next day. The red sun
behind the tool shed, and then he
e first few stars that appeared in the
ng like his grandparents had done,
issed square dances at the volunteer

on Saturday nights thought he
He spent those nights leaning on

and, faced with mortality, she located all of her eight
children with the exception of one, Gregory
Castillo. Her ex-husband’s parents reluctantly told
her that he was a paratrooper at Fort Bragg, but that
was all that they would tell her.

The letter pleaded with the General to assist her
in this search so that she could explain to Gregory,
before the cancer ran its course, why she abandoned
him long ago. I started the letter in disbelief, and
slowly put it back in the envelope and separated it
from the other correspondence. Costillo had never
told me anything about his mother. In fact, he only
spoke of his grandparents. I was going to reply with
the standard draft to parents whose sons don’t write
I believed Greg deserved a look at this letter before I
acted.

Iran a standard reply through the General, and he
signed it. Costillo also wrote as he had promised.
The night he finished the letter he came into my
room, and I asked him now he was doing.
“Everything was fine in my life,” He said, spitting
tabacco juice into a cup he carried just for that pur-
pose. “Until that woman came along to screw my
life up.”

“She's your mother.”

“The hell she’s my mother! It isn’t that she had
problems problem raising us, it’s that she abandoned
us. Christ — we're talking about a card on birthdays
and Christmas, we're talking nothing — absolutely
fucking nothin,

“You're right, it must have been tough.”

“Tough? Are you kidding ‘tough’ Tough is not

up truck in the parking lot, sipping
with friends. Most of all, he missed
whom he loved dearly.
e inclement weather that night, I
yed Costillo’s company. I returned
arly the next morning with a runny
friendship with a country boy who
me.
started coming by our room to
, or just to talk. He was always
ing. His gentle personality coupled
ve instinct was welcome. His day to
football, fishing, hunting, repairing
lies about Texas. All of these ac-
performed with a wad of tobacco in
1 beer invhis hand.
ining us. on the weekends when we
cyprus lakes that are abundant in
It was'a brutal process teaching him
but once he had it licked he was
just sit in the back ot rhe boat and
. Atnight, we had to t ike Greg toa
‘few minutes before he w suld go to
ie rest of the night. Tears would roll
; as we watched him dance the two-
< Williams’ songs in boots made of

| serious; soldier. He was a profes-
ance and conduct and he was pro-
he ranks at a greater speed than his
admired him. Though I intended to
y upon the completion of my enlist-
ad sights on a career in the Army
1 for great success.
re | was due to leave the Army, I
to the General from a desperate
ny duty to sort through these com-
tions, and draft standard replies for
nature. The woman admitted in the
sung mother she had eight children,
sponsibility of raising them became
die, she farmed the children out to
nds, then fled and broke off all con-
> begin her life anew. Sixteen years
e she severed contact with her
aths ago she learned she had cancer,

That night, as Costillo read the letter, tears stream-
ed from his eyes. I had never seen him cry nor
thought it was possible — he was rock solid and
demonstrated few sentiments. My own eyes cloud-
ed as | watched him cry. When our eyes finally did
meet, neither one of us made an effort to wipe or
hide the tears.

“Believe me,” Costillo said, staring indifferently
out the window at a fixed object, “I will never talk
with this woman as long as I live. I don’t care if I
have a direct order from that goddamn two-star
general!”

“Greg, I can’t sit here and say that I understand
what you're feeling because I don’t. But as you this
sort, I think you should remember that the woman
who brought you into this world, who toted you
around for nine months inside of her body, is dying
and wants to speak with you before she is really
gone for good.”

He looked at me for a long time and then back
‘out window. It was dark: now, and the noise of dis-
tant traffic and a television in someone‘s room down
the hall were the only sounds in the room. I left him
alone.

At 3:30 a.m., there was a gentle tap on my door
and I got out of a bed to answer it. It was Costillo.
His normally dark complexion was pale, and his
breathe smelled of vomit and whiskey. Somehow he
was standing straight and looked sober despite his
coloring.

“What can we do about the letter?” he asked.

“I can reply to her like. the General normally does
to parents. But I still have to indicate in the letter
what you plan to do.”

“Til write her a letter this week if it will get her
out of my life,” he said, in a surprisingly gentle tone.

“That's good enough, Greg. I'll take care of the
General’s part. Now go to bed — you smell like
shit,” I said, hoping to lighten the mood of the
evening.

Costillo didn’t smile. “Thanks,” he:said, turning in
the doorway to leave, He stopped and turned to me
again and said, “Hey — thanks...” He thrust his
hand to me and I grabbed it, pumped it once, and
pushed him out into the hallway so that I could close
the door.

even close. I have absolutely no idea who my father
is, and until this week the only thing I knew of my
mother was that she used to drink herself into fuck-
ing oblivion while my older brothers didn’t have a
damn thing to eat in the whole house. There isn’t
room for both of us on this planet — it’s a good-
damn blessing that she is dying.”

“Greg, that’s pretty severe. Listen to yourself.”

“No, you listen!” he said, jumping up the chair. “I
hate everything about that woman. | hate what's
she's done and I sure as hell hate her. I hate knowing
that she’s alive somewhere in the same country as
me. I hate that I had to sit down and write a letter to
her, and I hate that I couldn't say all the terrible
things that I wanted to. I hope cancer gives her as
much pain as I felt as a kid, not knowing who or
what I was. And you know what? I hope that bitch
dies very, very soon so that I can get on wit my own
life.”

He stormed out of the room. It was hard to im-
agine that deep in the recesses of Greg’s good heart
so much hatred and anger had settled in the
shadows. He had suffered greatly, and I suspect that
such wounds would never fully heal.

Costillo was silent and withdrawn for a few
weeks. At times he seemed a little more
philisophical than usual, and sometimes I noticed
him staring for long periods of time. We didn’t
speak of his mother after that even though I initiated
the subject several times. Before I left the Army, I
was confident that he had returned to his former
SelES. 35

My last week in the barracks was one of parties,
late night reminiscing, and pledge with the men to
stay in touch after I left. On one of those nights,
Greg and I were sitting on the front steps drinking
beer and watching a Carolina sunset. The sun was
gone, but the glow remained on the horizon and the
clouds that once looked orange were now purple.
We talked of the good times we had together, the
misadventures, and how our friendship began witha
black eye and a fat lip. Greg asked me about my
plans and ultimate ambitions, and told me that he
wanted tb spend the next 20 years being as good a
soldier as he could be, but I already knew that.

At one point in the conversation, after I told him

by Robert Sexton

that I planned to retire at the age of 55 so that I
would be young enough to enjoy retirement, he ask-
ed: “Someday when you do die, how do you want
to go?”

“Hell, [hope I'm 95 years old and die at the hands
of a jealous husband!” I said, laughing and taking a
sip of beer. “How about you?”

“Guess it really doesn’t matter as long as I have a
chew of tobacco in my mouth, and a beer in my
hand.” he said, pointing to the lump in his mouth
where he had a wad of tobacco jammed into his
cheek. We laughed, drank more beer and told more
stories,

1 lett in May that year after promising Costillo
and the gang that I would come back in late summer
to water ski with them before continuing on down
the coast to Georgia, where 1 would be going to
school. That August, as I crashed through the front
doors as Costillo once did, I immedaitely noticed a
subdued atmosphere in the building. | walked down
the hall and knocked on Costillo's door, and when
neither he or his roommate Douglass answered, I
continued down the hall to my old room. My room-
mate, Gilbert, answered the door with a forced
smile and handshake. Inside the room he handed me
a soda, took a deep breath, and told me that he had
some terrible news about Costillo.

An icy panic swept the length of my spine, and
immediately I started breathing harder anticipating
the next words.

“Costillo killed himself four days ago,” Gilbert
said, looking away and then back to me. “Carbon
monoxide poisoning. The way he did it was profes-
sional. Late Sunday night in the motor pool, win-
dows of the truck sealed tight, and enough gas in the
vehicle that it was running when they found him.”

I was angry and dazed. I sat there for some time
because I didn’t know if I could move. “Why did he
do it? Any message?’ I asked, looking back to
Gilbert.

“Nothing, man. He seemed in good spirits lately,
too.” I thanked Gilbert for breaking the news to me,
and I wandered back into the hallway, brushing one
wall as I walked. | drifted by Costillo’s room absent-
ly, but Douglass had returned and flagged me down.
We talked for a minute, but I couldn't stand to be in
that room, as_many of Costillo’s personal effects
were still there. We got in Douglass’ car and went to
an Irish pub that we had frequented.

The beer flowed, and the conversion lightened.
Soon we spoke of other things besides Greg and
death. Later Douglass stopped in mid-sentence as he
talked about the softball team and abruptly said,
“You know, that crazy Costillo had a wad of tobac-
co the size of a golf ball in his mouth when I found
him that morning, and there was a bottle of that
pissy Lone Star Beer on the floor of the truck.
Doesn't that beat all?”

I swallowed a lump in my throat and said, “I
would believe anything that the bastard did.”

“Sexton, man, he just killed himself. He didn’t
have a problem in the world. You ready to get out
here?”

I nodded, and we left.

That night I did go back into Costillo’s room with
Douglass, and he got undressed and went to bed.I
sat at Costillo’s desk looking at old photographs. On
the corner of the desk there was bundle of letters
held together by a rubber band that hadn’t been sent
to his grandparents as personal effects. I picked them
up and leafed through the pile. Most of them were
his grandmother back in Texas, a brother in New
Mexico, and a few from the bank. Near the back of
the pile I saw the letter to the General from
Costillo’s mother. | felt angry as I started at her hand-
writing. In a way, I couldn’t help but to place some
blame on her for Costillo’s suicide,

When I did flip the letter over, my heart almost
stopped. There was another letter from her, and
another. My fingers shook as I pulled the most re-
cent letter from the dated envelope, one Castillo
must have received a few days before his death. In
the letter, his mother told him that her cancer had
gone into remission and that she was thrilled with
her new lease of life. She indicated that she was
planning a trip to North Carolina, whether he
wanted her to or not.

I felt dizzy and staggered into the bathroom and
vomitted. I sat on a toilet and hyperventilated,
unable to catch my breath. | composed myself and
returned to Costillo's room and grabbed some
photographs of him and the letters from his mother
and walked out of the building. I got into my car
and started driving towards Georgia. I shredded the
letters at a rest stop in South Carolina, dropped them
ina trash bin, and kicked the bin as hard as I could. I
leaned against my car and cried for a few minutes,
wiped my eyes, and continued driving. a

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Aspects 7a

Harrison takes music to Cloud Nine

that I really can do it,” sings George

Harrison on his latest hit single, “I
Got My Mind Set On You.” And if staging
a comeback is what he has his mind set on,
then it's probable that his optimism is
prophetic.

Stef McDonald

After a five-year hiatus from recording,
Harrison has released his latest album,
Cloud Nine, just in time to try to reclaim
his prominent position in the music world.

Nostalgia is in, reminiscence is hip, and
this year happens to mark the twentieth an-
niversary of The Beatles’ revolutionary
classic album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band. The timing couldn't be better
for an ex-Beatle to release a solo album.

But, for argument’s sake, let it be forgot-
ten that George Harrison was one of The
Beatles. Cloud Nine, then, independently
stands on its own as a fresh and bright, if
not ambitious, work.

As talented a songwriter and musician as
Harrison undoubtedly is, it cannot be
denied that all those years ago he was one
of the Fab Four, and to hear Cloud Nine is
to hear the subtle influences of those
historic years. Richly layered with all of
those elements that made The Beatles,
well, The Beatles, and with his own in:
famous signature leading on guitar, Cloud
Nine is by no means revolutionary. It does,
however, successfully stand on its own,
allowing the now middle-aged Harrison to
step back into the world of rock-n-ro'l.

In the catchy, up-lifting “Wreck of the
Hesparus,” Harrison declares, “I’m not the
wreck of the Hesparaus/feel more like the

Lost in the

ear Lana.
This letter is coming to you live
from what couid possibly be the
most boring class ever to have slipped into
academia. I understand the theory behind
general education, that you should get a
variety of learning experiences; that’s just
fine. But take a class that you've signed up
for, not because you're interested in the
subject, but because you are required to
learn something in the zeneral area, and
now add a teacher. Not just any teacher,
mind you, but a teacher who is able to take
even the most admirable attention span,
crumple it up, and toss it in the garbage
like used newspaper.

é I know if I put my mind to it/l know

Eric Berlin

This letter is coming to you from such a
class.

When I was last paying attention, she
was talking about the eating habits of the
Yuriguri tribe. Well, she wasn't talking
about them as much as babbling about
them. She doesn’t believe in punctuation. I
don’t think she breathes. She just goes on
and on and on and on. Somebody behind:
me, desperately trying to take notes, mut-
tered, “Christ! Unplug her!”

Or and on and on. What's more, she
doesn’t stick to one subject. She could be
talking about the Yuriguri one moment,
and you can look away and look back
again, and she'll be talking about cross-
country skiing. Really. That's happening
right now, she’s talking about skiing.
Makes me kind of wish I was paying atten-
tion so I could see how she managed this
train of thought.

The woman is a verbal pinball machine.
A broken verbal pinball machine. Unplug
her, indeed.

The fact that I'm in a Lecture Center
makes letter-writing all the more tempting.
There's a certain anonymity in an LC. A
glance around makes it obvious:

A girl two rows up and over a little is
sleeping. Somehow, she has managed to
look studiously attentive; her head is
resting in her cupped hand and, if her eyes

Nostalgia is in, reminiscence
is hip .. .the timing couldn't
be better for an ex-Beatle to

release a solo album.

Wall of China/....Getting old as my
mother/but I tell you } got some com-
pany...” while the always-echoing back-
up vocalists reassure, “It's alright, it’s
alright.”

It is alright, too, because with a little help
from his friends Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr,
Elton John, and a new producer, Jeff
Lynne, Harrison has managed to cleverly
utilize his unforgettable past, rather than
try to deny it, and, in doing so, he has
assembled 11 catchy, poppy, and light
tracks. ?

Harrison's songwriting formula takes a
base of his sweet guitar acoustics and a
steady backbeat, with background
vocalists harmonizing and echoing the
chorus while also supplying some oohs,
ahhs, and yeahs. Then, laced throughout,
there is a subtle thoughtfulness, sometimes
serious but most often light and easy-
moving, and on top of it all there is the
singing of the solo guitar.

Peppiness dominates the album with
singles like “This is Love,” perhaps as
Beatlesque as Harrison gets without actual-
ly referring to the band: “This is love/This

is la la la la love.” It’s cute, simple, catchy,
and refreshing like the remaining pop
iewels, “Fish on Sand” and “Got My Mind
Set On You.”

Remember how the press hounded The
Beatles? Well, on “Devil's Radio,” Harrison
makes his stab at gossipy journalism in yet
another catchy spoof. it’s more comical
than pervasive, and so it works, “Can creep
up in the dark/make us hide behind
shades,” sings Harrison, while the vocalists
behind him plug through their respective
chorus of “Gossip/Oh yeah/Gossip.”

Cloud Nine, however, is not without the
seriousness and spiritualness that Harrison
is best known for. “Breath Away From
Heaven” is as mystical as they come, and
“Just For Today” is an uncomplicated, cap-
tivating, sad plea (“Just for today/l could
try to live through this day only/not deal
with all life’s problems’) featuring Elton
Joha's gentle piano accompaniment with a
multitude of hollow background humming
to compliment Harrison's tender voice and
guitar.

That Harrison's guitar shines and carries
the weight of Cloud Nine is less apparent

m the catchy tunes, but the acoustic
strumming is found throughout. On the
ballads like “Just For Today,” “Breath
Away From Heaven,” and “Someplace
Else,” the solo guitar speaks as expressively
as the voice.

Middle ground between the light and
the heavy is “If That's What It Takes,”
which, while still equipped with the
acoustic sweetness, is thoughtfully en-
couraging and not quite as catchy. “If that’s
what it takes/then I've got to be
sure/....And now that it’s shining
through/and you see all this world/Don’t
let it stop/never fade away.” The song
winds down with a guitar solo that sings
more powerfully than any of the earlier
lyrics.

Refuting the argument that it's unfair to
compare Harrison to The Beatles, Harrison
himself draws the parallel between then
and now most obviously on “When We
Was Fab.” Without being self-indulgent ot
unwieldy, it rather brightly recalls those
years as a Beatle in his most blatant tribute
to the time.

“And we did it all/long time ago when
we was fab,” Harrison sings with a cello
playing behind him — sounding very
similar to The Beatles’ “| am the Walrus” —
and with Ringo himself on drums. But
what's most interesting is the line, “And
you've really got a hold on me.”

Sure, Harrison is still influenced by those
Beatle years — how could he not be? The
success of Cloud Nine, though, comes
because Harrison uses his past without ex-
ploiting it. And if setting his mind on suc-
cess means dabbing nostalgically into his
past and building upon it, then Cloud Nine
should be allowed to reach the sky. Oo

General Education World

were open, which they're not, she'd be
looking right at the lectern. She looks more
collegiate asleep than others in the class do
awake.

A guy almost directly in front of me has
found something immensely. funny. But
you can’t burst out laughing in a class of
300 unless everybody else does, too. So
he’s trying to keep it in, with mixed results.

~ A giggle bubbles out, but he strategically

turns it into a coughing fit, He settles back,
grinning goofily. You can tel! he’s trying
not to think about the thing he found fun-
ny, but you know what happens when
you're determined not to think of
something? The thought trumpets louder
than ever, of course. His smile warps, he
licks his lips. There’s this giant laugh

Maybe its punishment. For rotten teachers.
Yeah. So far (and, admittedly, my ‘so far’
hasn’t been a real long time), the teachers
of my introductory courses have
been .. . strange.

My Psych teacher last year was a guy
named Smedley. (Can you imagine a guy
named Smedley? Gary Smedley. Say that
ten times fast.) The man must have been a
horrible student himself, because he
thought we all were. The man was out to
get us. On the tests, he put all these trick
questions. Not designed to make you
think, but designed to kill you. You know
Pavlov? The guy who made dogs salivate
with a ringing bell? Classical conditioning. I
found it pretty interesting, and I knew that
area of Psych fairly well.

The Dollhouse geccgons
‘City Series

building inside of him like a belch, and if
he doesn’t release it, he’s going to explode.
If the teacher doesn’t shut up soon, there's
going to be a mess.

The girl who was sleeping almost just
broke her nose; her head slipped off her

_ hand. Gravity took over, sending her head

crashing for the desk. She woke up with
next to nothing to spare, and snapped her
head back up again. Close call. She blinks,
surprised, and looks around the room.
Nothing much has changed, of course. The
teacher is talking about rabbits, having got-
ten to that subject via forestry. She puts her
head back in her hand and closes her eyes

again.

At least letter-writing looks like note-
taking. A girl in the front of the room —
almost directly in front of the teacher — is
experimenting in origami. Japanese paper
folding. Chinese? Whatever. Oriental
paper folding. Doesn't the teacher notice
things like this? Doesn’t she care? I wonder
if students are the only ones who hate
general education Introduction to Such-
and-Such. Teachers probably hate teaching
classes that the students hate taking.

The question on the test was:

For what did Pavlov win his Nobel
Prize?

a. digestion

be IQ tests

¢. classical conditioning

d. operative conditioning

e. none of the above

l answered C. It’s not. It’s A. There's one
sentence in the Psych book, three
-sentences down from the opening
paragraph about Pavlov. It says something
like, “After Pavlov won his Nobel Prize in
digestion, he moved on to other fields of
blah blah blah . . . ” The rest of the chapter,
the whole twenty pages of it, dealt with
classical conditioning.

Tm sorry, but bullshit. This is a
Psychology final, not Trivial Pursuit.

This wasn't a Bio test. It was a Psych test.
Ask me what you would about salivating
dogs, hopefully I'll get it right, but if I
don't, I won't say a word, because it’s my
own stupid fault. But when a question on a
test has nothing to do with the subject,
then it’s time to start wondering whether

the teacher has all the dots on his dice. ©
As far as being a teacher was concerned,

Gary Smedley could only roll snake-eyes.

Another question from the same test:

Which is the: best example of negative
reinforcement?

a. a batter hitting a baseball

b. a kicker going for a field goal

c. a foul in basketball

d. a strike in bowling

e. a goal in hockey

My first reaction when I saw this was,
WHAT?

My second reaction was, now that I was
obviously dealing with a lunatic, figure
him out. But you know me, Lana, I don’t
know anything about sports. I know how
to hit a baseball, fine, and 1 know what a
strike in bowling is, hurrah, but what's a
foul in basketball? Damned if I know. | still
don’t know what the answer to this dumb
question is.

Back in today’s class, with my babbling:
brook teacher. When the class started, we
were talking about the Yuriguri,
remember? Well, don’t ask me how but the
woman is talking about Neil Armstrong
and the walk on the moon. Good Lord.
Maybe the Yuriguri are planning some
space exploration sometime soon. They
don’t wear anything other than deerskin
bikinis, but hey, they might be more ad-
vanced in other areas, right? Clothing just
isn’t their forte.

Oh my God, I’m beginning to babble,
too.

It's a disease. Some horrific babbling
disease. You better hope you can’t catch it
by reading.

Listen, I'm gonna go. I really should see
if I can make some connections here. I've
got a test coming up soon. Multiple choice.
If she’s friends with Gary Smedley, I'm go-
ing to need all the help I can get.

Write back soon.
Love,
Eric

8a Aspects

December 4, 1987

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YES The Tour, Tuesday, December 15.

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Fetchin Bones, Tuesday, December 8, Big Dipper with Green,
Wednesday, December 9, Dirty Face, Thursday, December 10.
Bogies (482-4368)

Strange Arrangement, every Monday.

September's (459-8440)

Starburst, thru December 6, Reunion, December 7 thru December 73,
Half Moon Cafe (436-0329)

Open Acoustic Jam, Every Tuesday evening.

5. Nuts (R) 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:15, Fri, Sat, 12:35
»6,'Fatal Attraction (R) 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:45, Fri, Sat, 12:15
“7eRlowers'in the Attic (PG-13) 1:15, 3:45, 6:55, 9:35, Fri, Sat, 11:45]
8Cindetella (G) 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:25 S
9. Suspect (R) 9:25, Fri, Sat, 11:55

10. The Running Man (R) 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05, Fri, Sat, 11:20
11. Three Men and a Baby (PG) 1, 4, 6:40, 9:20, Fri, Sat, 11:40
12. Hello Again (PG) 12:35, 3:35, 6:25, 8:55, Fri, Sat, 11:15

13. Dirty Dancing (PG-13) 12:40, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10, Fri, Sat, 11:25
Spectrum (449-8995)

1, Hope and Glory (PG-13) 6:45, 9:20, Sat, Sun, 1:30, 4:10

2. Maurice (R) 6:55, 9:40, Sat, Sun, 1:20, 4

3. Wolf at the Door (R) 7:05, 9:10, Sat, Sun, 2, 4:30

4. My Life as a Dog (PG-13) 7:20, 9:30, Sat, Sun, 1:45, 4:20

UA Hellman (459-5322)

The Hellmart Theatre will be closed the week of December 7
University Cinemas (442-5571)

1. Blazing Saddles 7:30, 10:00, LC7

2. Lethal Weapon 7:30, 10:00, LC18

Albany Institute of History and Art (463-4478)

Albany's Families: 350° Years of Growth and Change, an exploration
of the history of ethnic groups in Albany, Art Wear at the Harmanus
Art Wear, thru December 12, Greetings: Holiday and Greeting Cards,
thru May 1, Miniature Houses from the collection of natalie Buchman,
thru April 2.

Bleecker Center, thru December 12.

New York State Museum (474-5842:

Dinosaurs Alive! Return to the age of Reptiles thru December 18,
Snakes Alivel, Live Reptile Show, December 5 and December 13, Fan-
tasy Dinosaurs of the Movies, Saturday, December 5, The Ice Age:
realistic exhibitions of life in North American ice age, Blacks in
America: A Photographic Record, thru January 3.

Schenectady Museum and Planetarium (382-7890)

Planetarium shows for adults and children.

Albany Center Galleries (462-4775)

William Ramage, Installations and Graphite Drawing thru January 1.

THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

Biter Universe bres Sjpercaie

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122.

To Ernie’s horror, and the ultimate disaster of all,
one more elephant tried to squeeze on.

“Oh my God! It’s from Connie! She's
written me a ‘John deer’ letter!”

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LETTERS

Trashy dream

To the Editor:

Once again I am extremely grateful to all my devoted
supporters who, in their infinite wisdom, re-elected me to
office. Along with re-affirming your faith in my
bureaucratic expertise, you have, as I am sure you already
know, issued me a mandate to continue my simple plat-
form’s policies. Fortunately, it seems my opponent’s
complicated and confusing proposals did not fool you.
Indeed, you easily saw through her facade of
righteousness and rezlized just how out of touch she is
with student concerns aud needs. For instance, she pro-
posed cleaning the tunnels. Absurd! Who the hell does
she think she is trying to deprive us of our university right
to walk to class in filthy, putrid tunnels? Does she not
realize yet that students love to scribble their names atop
the dirty water pipes on their way to class? In addition,
my adversary had the bright idea to remove the trash
from the tunnels. Ha, she must think this is Amherst Col-
lege or something. Here, students are not too proud to in-
hale nauseating fumes on their way to class. Afterall, we
are humble like the rat aren’t we?

Then “Miss Clean” had the audacity to propose to
somehow monitor and regulate the motor cars in the tun-
nel. Although she agreed they have a necessary purpose
(‘‘for removing that ghastly garbage’’), she could not
understand why the drivers of those vehicles drive so
recklessly. C’mon not, she’s not even a true red-blooded
American! Doesn’t she realize we Americans love to
almost be run over by these motor cars? Students love the
thrill of near tragedy, especially on the way to or from
class. In fact, my fondest memory in the tunnels was
when a real speed demon came within inches of changing
my shoe size permanently. Incidents like this are why we
all come to this school. To put it simply, we, as a student
body, love the danger and disgusting filth in the tunnels.

Thanks to you, my fellow supporters, I will continue to
lead my office in the direction you have chosen. No one,
including presidents O’Leary and Doddo, will I permit to
interfere with our destiny. Vogether, we are on the cause
of greatness and I shall forever strive to maintain the ex-

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isting sanctity and honor of our University’s tunnels.
Someday, all our collective efforts to shun tunnel ‘‘im-
provements”’ will be re-paid hundredfold. Perhaps, if we
pray long enough, we will someday permanently discon-
tinue all cleaning and trash removal in the tunnels. In-
deed, that is a most holy dream, yet its day is a tomorrow
yet to come. Until then, I am but your faithful, humble
servent.
— Timothy P. Bulman
Fictitious President of the Fictitious Committee on
Keeping the Tunnels Filthy and Dangerous

UPD to the rescue

To The Editor:

University Police Department (UPD) was a part of the
University that I never paid much attention to last year
(until I got a parking ticket). Being an RA this year, I’ve
had several opportunities to deal with UPD in the past
few months alone. The following are just a few of the ser-
vices that UPD can perform, that I’ve needed and used.
1) UPD responded in 5 minutes when I called them with a
hit and run accident.

2) UPD responded in 10 minutes when I stupidly locked
my keys in my car.

3) UPD responded in 5-7 minutes when I reported a
burglary in my residence hall.

4) Most recently, UPD put identification numbers on a
lot of valuables in my residence hall for free.

5) and last, but not least, UPD came to talk to my
residents on crime prevention and safety.

The whole point of showing you this is to inform
everyone of the usefulness of the University Police. They
are a wonderful department and they deserve a lot of
credit for a job well done. The only negative thing is that I
still get parking tickets (Oh well, I guess I deserve them).

— Mary A.S. Gowan
Resident Assistant

Silencing speech

To the Editor:

Charges have been filed against five SUNYA students.
These charges, sought by a group of students from Delta
Sigma Pi, are actually the request of some SUNYA ad-
ministrators. The claims against these five are in response
to a student protest on Career Day, in which the members
of the SUNYA Peace Project demonstrated against the
presence of the CIA recruiters on our campus. While the
subversive activities of the CIA are recognized as brutal
and terroristic, it is the five students who face the charges
of ‘abusive behavior, and unauthorized disruption.”
This demonstration was a peaceful attempt to expose the
CIA for its judicial murders. As students, we must public-
ly support these five. They are facing possible suspension
or even expulsion from school.

Our fight of free speech is on trial at SUNYA, and
members of the administration would like to have us
silenced. I question the motiviation of these charges, and
call upon the members of Delta Sigma Pi, to refuse to be
a pawn in this administration’s attempt to pit student
groups against one another. This is our University, we
have chosen to study here, and we must be the ones who
oversee its activites. As students, as members of campus
organizations, our strength is in unity. These five students
acted within all legal guidelines, and they should be ap-
plauded for their moral courage. We have the right and
the duty to initiate and partcipate in discussion about the
policies and tactics of the administration. We must be ac-
tive in fighting on behalf of our fellow students, and we
must expose the wider implications of this trial.

— Jannine Walton

No due process

To The Editor:

In response-to Paul K. Miller’s column ‘“‘Students sur-
render freedom’’, I wish to make two comments. First, I
am in total agreement with his criticism of the Univer-
sity’s ‘‘ Judicial’ system. As one of the five students now
being accuses of disrupting Career Day, I have become
familiar with the illegal practices the University employs.
In our case, no evidence was presented to indicate our
guilt, merely the word of two individuals. We have been
denied the right to legal representation. We have been
told that only the witnesses the Judiciary Board approves
of will be able to testify on our behalf. We are threatened
with the fact that anyone who testifies on our behalf may
be charged. There is no double jeopardy if we’re found
innocent. In addition, the charges filed were vague,
unspecific in regards to time and participants, and a clear

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example of selective prosecution. After discussing this
matter with several attorneys all of whom were appalled
by the school’s regulations (one of which included a pro-
sectuer in labor disputes for the State of New York), I
have decided to pursue this matter in a civil court by filing
charges against the two individuals aforementioned.

I personally would like to take the whole University to
court for its clear disregard for due process. Secondly,
and I realize this issue has been rehashed far too many
times already, as a member of the gay community, Mr.
Miller should be familiar with the New York State law
that prohibits organizations which discriminate on the
basis of sexual preference from recruiting on college cam-
puses. The CIA is such an organization. Be they
legitimate in his eyes or not, the University has an obliga-
tion to adhere to the law. Much criticism has come from
the right on the issue of recruitment, but none has per-
tained to what seems to me to be the only pertinent
argument. Again I am in total agreement with his
criticism and can only hope more students will take a
stand.

— Amy M. Abdou

Washington rally

To The Editor:

On Sunday, Dec. 6, 1987, a rally is taking place in
Washington, D.C., for Soviet Jewry. This is going to be
one of the most important events in American history.
Jews from all over the country will be participating. It is
our own responsibility to show Ronald Reagan that
Soviet Jewry is a top priority when he talks to Mikhail
bachev this Monday.

Through the past weeks the Jewish Students Coalition
(J.S.C.) and the Revisionist Zionists Alternative (R.Z-A.)
have actively promoted SUNYA students to attend. This |
important worldwide event is one we should all attend, |
not only for Jews, but as humanitarians!

We have seen first hand the overwhelming apathy of
SUNY Albany students. Finals and social obligations are
just not good enough excuses when hundreds of
thousands of Soviet Jews are struggling to obtain their
freedom. There is no excuse for the fact that Jewish
students at SUNY Albany are not aware, and do not even
want to. be aware of this world around them.

This same ignorance is what caused 6 million to be kill-
ed by a world that simply stood by. But this time we can’t
use the excuse, ‘We didn’t know.””

-+Dina Berger ;
(61-09) oA, oct Heidi Klopfer!
—=Robert'Springer |
A clarification
To the Editor:

I must clarify one statement in my “‘Column” of Nov.
24. My sentence re students rights should’ve read ‘‘...J’m
not saying that students charged with violations of
SUNYA’s rules should be ‘Mirandized’...’’ i.e. as in the
infamous ‘‘Miranda Warnings,’’ you have the right to re-
main, silent etc.’’ Maybe I’ve. been watching too. many
Cagney & Lacey episodes but that'seems to be fairly fon}
mon police jargon. ‘aly i all ohd .

I must also make two’ other disclaimers. 1 Have’ NO’
knowledge of any pressure on SUNYA. by: the CIA or
anyone. But the advantage of being an adult in the “‘real
world” and a now permanent member of Albany com-
munity is 1 have several close friends very active in the
area Peace Movements and I’m aware of subtle but
powerful pressures brought to bear on local police agen-
cies by various governmental powers that be when there
are demonstrations etc. The University isn’t the only
violator of peoples’ rights.

1 would also iterate that Alice Corbin, Director of
Judicial Services, is a very fair minded, decent individual.
But that neither alters nor ameliorates the fact that there’s
a shocking lack of due process and not even lip service to
constitutional rights. I also do not know the young man
involved in the Colonial Quad fire. (I barely know where
Colonial Quad is!), But if the young man in question was
such a grave danger to the University community that he
warranted immediate suspension and banishment from
the Campus, he should have been turned over to civil
authorities. This is why I’m so vehemently critical of the
Judicial System at SUNYA: Considering the ultimate
penalities of expulsion and/or suspension the rights of the
Accused must be guaranteed from beginning to end.

— Paul K. Miller

Ban it on campus

To the Editor:

I’m all in favor of protesting the use of styrofoam
packaging at places like McDonald’s. But, for SUNYA
students to have a real effect I think they must practice
what they preach. How about protesting the large number
of styrofoam trays, plates, hot cups etc. used right here
on campus in our own eating facilities?

— Betsy Liljeberg

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Alpha Epsilon Phi,
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Love those black pants!! Still
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HEY ASPIES!

The annual ASP end-of-year bash
will be held at the sprawling residence
of Managing Editor Pam Conway: 960
Madison Ave. (between Main and
Partridge), first floor, Saturday, Dec.
12 around 9 p.m. All ASPies are
sincerely invited to attend this gala
event. Please feel free to bring
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Note: No pets, bare feet allowed.
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sleep.

Mike Brewster would like to ex-
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everyone for a joyous holiday
season.

Mitch, look out for the truck!

Happy Birthday Colleen
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among the best of folk!

My dearest S:

Happy First Anniversary on
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You're number 2 now. Sorry!

Huomo!
Suomi on paras maa maailmassa,
eiko niin?
Benjamin,
Happy birthday in advance. Maybe
when you turn 9, M and P will tet
you come to Albany. Let’s hope!
Jenny
P.S. You aren’t forgetting to remind
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NEWS EDITOR

Sam Murray’s position as general
manager of WCDB may be surprising to
childhood friends. His father, a lover of
classical music, had deemed jazz not really
proper or suitable as family music. Mur-
Tay’s attempt to play the trumpet was “‘so
bad [that] my father made me give it up.”

But he conquered his rather inauspicious
musical beginning to manage and operate
SUNYA’s 100-watt radio station full-time.
“To me, SUNYA is the
third floor of Campus
Center, room 316. Every
college student finds a
little niche, and this is
mine.”

Although the perks of his job may not
be material — he does get a special parking
permit — Murray said it’s “‘not a 9 to 5
grind...I’m working with people whose
company I enjoy and who I share a com-
mon interest with.

“And if I was doing it to become a
millionnaire, I’d be stupid,” he added.

“’m involved in something that I can
do something about. In my position, I can
help people note decisions and create
ideas .. . I have some autonomy,’’ Mur-
tay said.

His manner of administrating the sta-
tion gives much responsibility to the staff.
“J let people do basically whatever they
feel is right...they are the most
knowledgeable in the aspect of radio,”
Murray said. ‘‘If you allow people to be
creative, whether scientific, humanistic, or
practical, then you’re there.”

The driving force keeping WCDB going
strong is a genuine concern for the music,
Murray explained. The difference between
college and commezcial stations is that the
latter concentraie on assuring advertisers
they reach a certain share of the Capital
District audience, while the former con-
centrate on getting the music they care

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about across the airwaves.

Working with a “‘pretty rigid format,”
— rock, jazz and contemporary soul —
Murray still found flexibility to institute
the popular Blues and Reggae programs.

Another very successful programming
innovation this year is University Club, a
project’ shared by WCDB, Student
Association, and University Auxiliary Ser-
vices to bring small scale live entertain-
ment to campus.

Murray places a high value on attaining
the shorter term goals such as pulling off a
University Club Night. Once such goals
are attained ‘you have people who are
winners.”’ Although ‘‘not working for one
big blowout may be a little more cautious,
in the end it is the best.”

That philosophy also relates to Murray’s
view of SUNY’a Mayfest, traditionally a
very big-name concert. Last year’s was a
failure because of bad press and poor plan-
ning Murray said, but this year’s Mayfest
“‘can still go off. It can be really good.”’

The key to successful events is university
wide support, Murray said. Everyone
should rally behind the idea, ‘“‘like a good
football team,’’ including professors and
administrators. ‘‘If Vincent O’Leary is
president of this campus and has a staff of
thousands, he should be a little more of a
driving force. He’s sitting in the right
chair.””

SUNYA’s notorious student apathy is
presenting no problems for Murray or
WCDB. Although the increasingly popular
Greek life has taken students’ time away
from campus activities, Murray believes
“people are going to find a medium bet-
ween fraternities and sororities and other
groups on campus.””

The staff this year, for instance, has
gone through the ‘most difficult’ period
of learning to work with one another, as
the majority are returning from last year.
“Once you get past that,” Murray said,
you're free and clear.””

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18-to-24 year olds, the institute
reported recently.

Analysts say that momentum
gives Republicans a slight advan-
tage in wooing the youth vote —
but that advantage is tenuous.
The AEI’s Karlyn Keene asserts
college students find the
Republican Party more appealing
not because of its policies, but
because of President Reagan.

The only two presidents most
students are old enough to
remember are Jimmy Carter and
Ronald Reagan, Keene noted, ad-
ding that ‘‘the Carter administra-
tion is seen as incompetent, while
Reagan is seen as providing
leadership.”’

“Reagan offered more hope
than the Democrats,”’ said Curtis
Gans, the director of the Commit-
tee for the Study of the American
Electorate.

“But on other issues, students
don’t agree with the Republican
administration. The 1988
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one-sided Republican as the
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Athens or Rome airports.

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airlines whose security is not as
good as others, such as Iraqi or
Israel airlines.

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hostage situation should arise.

Should a situation arise, Scott
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and do not ‘‘be a hero’.

“Terrorists like to single out
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Commenting on his own ex-
perience, Scott said he had
discovered strengths within him
and learned the indomitability of
the human spirit.

Scott also addressed the current
Persian Gulf affair. ‘“We have an
interest there; 60 percent of the
world’s oil is shipped from there.
It must be kept.open,”’ Scott said.

Scott went on to say that the
Iranian revolution believed over
by some is still going on, working
to spread Islamic fundamentalism
throughout the Moslem world.

One of the results of this
revolution is the war in Iraq. “A
popular rumor is that Iraq started
the war. Though they were the
first to send military equipment
across the border in 1980, Iran
had started it. There had been 270
Iranian military flyovers, 287
border incidents and Iran had
been sending propaganda
Iraq calling for the overthrow of
the current government.’’

Scott said the war has been go-
ing on so long because Khomeini
never consolidated his power
before beginning: Should Iran
manage to win though, Scott said,
then Islamic fundamentalism will
start to “‘spread like crazy.”

Scott also said that the Islamic
Jihad and the Hezbollah (the Par-
ty of God) are merely surrogates
of Iran, ‘‘These groups in
Lebanon exist to spread the
Islamic fundamentalism in Iran.””

and the rest of the electorate, will
want a change.”’

“‘An Iranian war would be un-
popular with young voters,”’ said
Rudder. ‘‘The American public
does not want to be involved in
foreign interventions.””

Last week, for instance, posters
decrying U.S. policy in the Per-
sian Gulf surfaced at the Univer-
sity of Missouri at Columbia.

Still, Republican presidential
aspirants enjoy greater name
recognition among young voters,
the analysts say, but that may bea
temporary advantage. A
Democrat may break from the
current pack of presidential
aspirants and distinguish himself,
Rudder said.

A Democratic front-runner will
definitely emerge after the lowa
and New Hampshire primaries,
Rudder said. ‘That candidate
will look credible and start receiv-
ing support.’”

Although the analysts say it is
too early to predict which can-
didates have the most appeal to
young voters, several, they con-
cede, do have an advantage.

New York Congressman Jack
Kemp, said Rudder, offers ‘‘clear
and strong positions,” a neat
ideological base that could appeal
to students. The former football
player, she said, also has a

‘‘youthful
appearance.”

Vice President George Bush,
added Keene, could benefit from
his association with the Reagan
administration.

But Rudder feels Bush will
falter because his campaign
organization is seen by conser-
vative student activists as
bureaucratic and unexciting.
And, she adds, his connection
with the Reagan administration
could hurt his candidacy if
Reagan’s last year is marked by
war and a weakened economy.

“Kemp,’’ said Gans, ‘“‘has too
many inconsistencies. He'll get
beaten by the fact that he’s a Buf-
falo, New Yorker running as a
conservative.””

Gans predicts New York Gov.
Mario Cuomo, if he announced
his candidacy, would gain student
support because he is a “‘fan-
tastically eloquent speaker who
can put values into his
programs,’’

The announced Democratic
field, however, has not inspired
student, though Rudder feels
Massachussetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis will emerge as a
“‘pragmatic’’ choice. Tennessee
Sen. Albert Gore could appeal to
conservative Southern
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By Arie Wollenberg

STAFF WRITER

Coming off a defeat to SUNY
tival New Paltz last week, the
Albany State men’s swimming
and diving team won a decisive
victory over the Middlebury Pan-
thers of Vermont by a 120-80
margin.

With strong efforts from the
entire team, the Danes dominated
Middlebury by taking first place
in 11 events and raised their dual
meet record to 2-1.

The Danes were led by the div-
ing of Greg Stowe, who won the
one-meter and three-meter events
and was named the men’s ‘‘Swim-
mer of the Meet”’ for the second
consecutive home meet. Stowe
also participated in the 200-yard
free relay, swimming the lead leg.
His team, however, was
disqualified.

Disqualification did seem to be
the early and only problem for the
men in the meet. In the 50-yard
freestyle, Jeff Luks and Steve
Pagoda were disqualified for false
starts. This left co-captain Mike
Koutelis as the only Albany swim-
mer and the only person who
could take points in the event.
Koutelis finished second in a very
close race, being touched out by
only two one-hundredths of a
second.

Due to the disqualification, the
men found themselves trailing
Middlebury by two points going
into the first diving event, won by
Pagoda.

An outstanding performance
was given by Ed Burton, who won
the 200-yard backstroke event
handily, Mike Jackson, who was
victorious in the 200-yard in-
dividual medley and the 500-yard
freestyle.

Also outstanding for the Danes
was Pete McElerney, who took
the 100-yard butterfly in a time of
55:72.

Burton. and McElerney were
also part of both winning relay
teams. They teamed up with
Koutelis and Steve Stern to win in
the 400-yard medley relay and
with Jackson and Chris Handy in
the 200-yard freestyle relay.

Giving solid performances for
the Danes were Rick Van Brunt,
who was a double winner in the
1000-yard freestyle, with co-
captain Pete Farman taking se-
cond place.

In the 100-yard freestyle, Van
Brunt was just beaten out by Mid-
dlebury’s Gask for the wine
Koutelis also turned in another
solid job in winning the 200-yard
breaststroke.

Handy, a freshman, and Mark
Potash also contributed. o

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1987 (1) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS Sports 15

Albany swim teams take two from Middlebury
Great Dane men stage

Dane women stay undefeated with win

By Arie Wollenberg
STAFF WRITER

Taking 12 of 13 events, the
Albany State women’s swimming
and diving team soundly defeated
Middlebury College of Vermont
125-90 at the University Gym
pool on Tuesday.

The Danes came up with many
fine performances from all the
swimmers in taking their second
dual meet victory of the young
season. They scored key points
throughout the meet from third,
fourth and fifth place finishes to
give them the margin of victory
against the Panthers.

The women started off the
meet with the 400-yard medley
relay, taking first and third place.
The winning team of Jacque
Courtney, Robin Roche, Andrea
Caporuscio and Audrey Olsen
never looked back as they won
the relay going away.

In fact, the women never had
to look back the entire meet as In-
grid Muller and co-captain Chris
Cawley would go first and second
in the 1000-yard freestyle, and
Oslon and Roche would take the
50-yard freestyle and the 200-yard
individual medley, respectively.

The Danes took comfortable
21-point lead going into the div-
ing. Albany’s only diver com-
peting was Brenda Braun, who
took the one meter event with a

score of 187.80.

_ Ex-champion Larry Holmes is
_ ready for showdown with Tyson

New York
(AP) For those worried about
Larry Holmes’ financial condi-
tion — the thinking being that if
he’s fighting at age 38, he must
need the money the ex-
heavyweight champion has a pro-
spectus for Riverside Plaza.

It is modestly described as “‘the
most dramatic business oppor-
tunity in the Lehigh
Valley . .. . Easton, Pa.”

It includes Larry Holmes Com-
modore Inn, Larry Holmes Park-
ing Authority, Larry Holmes
Training Center, a restaurant and
lounge, a night club and a profes-
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Holmes is the squire of Easton,
a successful businessman and en-
trepreneur who says, ‘I keep
looking forward, looking for
something different, something
new and more challenging.”

You want something new? Say
hello to Mike Tyson. He is also
something different.

Tyson, who holds the title
Holmes owned for 7 and a half
years, will defend that crown
against the ex-champ on Jan. 22
at Atlantic City. He showed up at
a press conference Tuesday an-

Bo Jackson

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of the league. His 221-yard per-
formance before a national televi-
sion audience last Monday night
is still being talked about. The on-
ly thing bad about Bo’s short
gridiron career is that he does

nouncing the fight wearing a
policeman’s hat.

Why, Tyson was asked, had he
selected that particular accessory?
“Because,” he said, “‘it’s my
hat.’”

No further explanation was
necessary. Tyson is the un-
disputed champion of a division
that often has been divided. He
gets things his way. When Holmes
expressed unhappiness that the
champion had snubbed him,
Tyson was asked why he had
refused to shake the ex-champ’s
hand.

“Because I didn’t want to.”’

There is the matter of why
Holmes is fighting again after be-
ing away for one and a half years.

“7m not fighting because I
want to fight for $3 million,” he
said. ‘‘The money sounds good.
But I have $3 million,’’ he said.
The proof is in the prospectus.

“There’s a lot of pride in me.
I’m nobody’s pushover. I don’t
lay down for anybody. I’m not
Tyrell Biggs or Bonecrusher
Smith or Pinklon Thomas. I’m
Larry Holmes.’’

Those three and Tony Tucker
have been Tyson’s victims in

fumble a bit too much for the
Raiders liking. Yet, you can’t

“complain with the former

Heisman winner’s NFL debut.

If Bo is smart, he’ll stay with
football. He can do better on the
football field than on a baseball

defenses of the crown he won a
year ago in November when he
completed the HBO unification
series. Holmes lost his title to
Michael Spinks in the series but
Spinks was stripped of the crown
when he dropped out to fight
Gerry Cooney. Tyson-Spinks
looms as the next big-money fight
but until the parties can agree to
terms, Holmes will do for a mar-
quee bout.

Tyson and his people seem to
feel that the former champion will
be no pushover.

“We feel Larry Holmes is the
best contender out there,’’ trainer
Kevin Tooney said. ‘‘He hasn’t
fought for two years. He’s renew-
ed his body.””

“Larry Holmes was a great
boxing champion, right up there
with the greatest heavyweights of
all time,” Bill Cayton, Tyson’s
co-manager, said.

“Cus D’Amato (who directed
Tyson’s early career) said a great
fighter in the twilight of his career
on any night.can recapture his
greatness. We don’t take him
lightly. It will be the toughest and
biggest fight of Mike’s career.”*1)

diamond. His chance for injury is
greater, but it’s worth the tisk.
J’m sure even Bo knows that he
can’t keep up this pace

When he does choose one
sport, whatever it is, I’m sure he
will be fun to watch. a

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There was no let up for the
Danes in the second half of the
meet. Courtney and Caporuscio
finished first and second in the
100-yard freestyle and Muller
gained her second victory in the
200-yard backstroke with team-
mate Cawley taking second. Lisa
Braun swam a strong race in tak-
ing the 500-yard freestyle, leading
up to the three meter diving.

Once again the diving was
taken by Braun as she clearly
dominated the Panther divers
with a score of 209.90, creating a
46-point difference between her
and the second place diver.

The Danes would finish out the
meet with Roche’s second in-
dividual victory and her third
overall. victory in the 200-yard
breast stroke and a great perfor-
mance in the 400-yard free relay,

swam by Cusse, Cawley, Olson
and Caporuscio.

“‘We did a really good job, but
the pressure wasn’t on us like it is
this weekend,’’ Cawley said.

Head Coach Dave Turnage
said, ‘‘We’re still trying to see
where our personnel fit into the
events.””

Turnage added, ‘“‘We’re very
lucky we have a couple of multi-
talented swimmers who can swim
in a lot of events.”

The women will swim this week
in an invitational at Stony Brook.
The meet should clearly be a
challenge for the 2-0 Danes.

“This weekend will be the first
test, we'll be going against some
Division I teams,’’ said Turnage.

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Balanced attack carries Danes over New Paltz

By Mike Brewster
SPORTS EDITOR

A win over New Paltz — a team that, in-
cidentally, showed during their 85-68 loss
to the Danes on Wednesday night that like
Hawks’ teams of the past, they will work
as hard as anybody for a good clean one
on four break — is usually not cause for
hardcore celebration. But, seeing as

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Time for Bo to

stop being jock
of all trades

By Chris Sciria
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Topps Gum Company can save}
money on their cards next year. They can
conserve paper, and put out just one card
for Bo Jackson; football on one side, and
baseball on the other.

Jackson, for those of you that have
been hibernating since last spring, is
employed by two professional sports
teams. From March until October, his.
services are utilized by the Kansas City
Royals baseball organization. From Oc-
tober until January, he collects his
paychecks from the NFL Los Angeles
Raiders.

Don’t, however, feel sorry for Bo’s
lack of rest. The money he’s earning
from K.C. and L.A, will keep him in high
spirits for years to come.

Should an athlete divide his time bet-
ween two sports? More importantly, can
an athlete successfully divide that time?

The best thing Jackson has going for
him is his youth. It’s easy to take the
tedious day to day rigors that baseball
calls for and still be able to carry a foot-
bal 30 times a game when you’re only 25
years old.

But, as we all know, we all get old
someday. I can picture Bo in 1997, at the’
age of 35, hobbling through a defense, or
limping around the bases.

Playing pro sports is serious business,
and a year round one at that. Even when
the season’s over, athletes are in training
and preparation. It’s this extra prepara-
ition that makes an athlete a champion.
Jackson is going to have only one month
ja year to rest and prepare.

Will he be able to learn new strategies?
The football team needs its players all
year, too. Since he is playing baseball
when training camp takes place, how will
Bo learn those new plays? He will most
likely be considerably behind the rest of
his teammates. With a teammate such as
Marcus Allen, he’s going to have to be
sharp to earn a starting job.

So, to answer the first question, I say
no. If you can only do a job halfway, you
shouldn’t do it at all. It’s not fair to
either employer. For the money he is be-
‘ing payed, Bo has no excuses for not giv-
ing 100 percent. Playing two sports, he
can’t do that.

Can an athlete divide his time suc-
cessfully? Well, in the past, athletes have
competed in more than one sport, but
they’ve been only average players in each
sport, not superstars. Jackson, I admit,
so far, is doing well. He can hit for
power, but he strikes out a lot and it
lowers his batting average. If he had a
longer off-season, he could have more in-
struction time to cut down on his
mistakes. In addition, his fielding leaves’
a bit to be desired.

In football, Jackson has been the talk

15>.

Wednesday’s win featured the transforma-
tion of the Albany offensive scheme from
theory to reality, Great Dane Head Coach
Barry Cavanaugh considered the victory a
needed shot in the arm for his team.

“We made a huge step tonight,”
Cavanaugh said. ‘‘We still have a long way
to go, but tonight, we showed the kind of
play I’ve been talking about. Team ball,
with nobody being selfish.””

The blueprint for success that
Cavanaugh outlined before the season
began — a harassing defense and an of-

fense that relies on contribution from
many players — was followed to the detail
as the Danes shot lay-ups all night,
resulting in five players hitting double
figure scoring, including a career-high 28
points from Russ Teague. The game was
interestingly the only game Teague hadn’t
started since the beginning of his
sophomore year.

“Russ was really into the game
tonight,”” Cavanaugh said. ‘‘To rebound
against a team like that is tough.”

Albany, now 2-1 on the campaign, was

Brett Axelrod scored 10 points in Wednesday’s win over New Paltz.

coming off a disappointing Capital
District Tournament in which sloppy play
and poor shooting resulted in a loss to
Union, and a lackluster victory over
Skidmore.

“It’s been a long week and a half since
the Capital District Tournament,’’
Cavanaugh said. ‘‘The guys were much
more relaxed tonight. We hit shots tonight
that we weren’t even coming close to the
rim on in the Capital District.””

In what was expected to be a tight game
(New Paltz beat Stony Brook in the final
of their own tournament last weekend),
the Danes led from start to finish. Teague
dominated the paint against his taller op-
ponents as Albany took their biggest lead
of the half, 35-19, with 6:36 left in the first
half. However, the three-point shooting of
Potsdam State transfer Derek Mitchell,
senior guards Greg Candolfo and Danny
Perry repeatedly brought New Paltz back
to within striking distance. When Lan-
dolfo and Mitchell hit consecutive treys
with 9:40 left in the game, the score was
57-53, the closest the Hawks would get.
Cavanaugh explained that getting a lead
and holding onto it had not been a situa-
tion that the Great Danes had been in.

“This was the first time this year that we
have been in position to deliver the knock-
out punch,” Cavanaugh explained. ““You
try to go from a 10 point lead to 15 and
then 20, step by step.”

New Paltz, however, sealed their own
fate with blown lay-up opportunities,
missed free throws, and inexcusable shot
selection.

“If we had made just half of our lay-
ups, it would have been a close game,”
lamented Landolfo.

“They have some fine athletes,”
Cavanaugh said. ‘They could have folded
but they just kept coming at us. They have
some guys who can really play the game. I
was worried until there was only about a
minute left.”

Cavanaugh could have relaxed a bit
earlier, however. You could have closed
the books on this when a guard Zerik
Wynn glided in for an uncontested lay-up,
tried to dunk it, but bounced it off the
back of the rim.

“That’s kind of the way things went all
night,” Landolfo said.

Besides his 28 points, Teague had 10 re-
bounds. John Carmello added 15 points,
Matt McClure had 11, Brett Axelrod
scored 10, and Andy Goodemote con-
nected for 14. Qo

Women cagers crush Eastern Conn.

By Christopher Sciria
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Before they headed home for
Thanksgiving, the Albany State women’s
basketball team feasted on Eastern Con-
necticut, winning easily, 62-38.

The key to the victory was rebounding
as the Danes grabbed an impressive 41
balls off the boards.

Coach Mari Warner knew from the start
what it would take to win.

“We know that if we kept [Eastern Con-
necticut] off the boards, it would be our
game,” Warner said. ‘The players really
did well on the boards. We knew we had to
do it, and we did.”’

Warner singled out the efforts of Gina
Richardson, Cindy Jensen, and Donna
Hughes for their rebounding skills.

Hughes led the Danes in rebounding and
scoring with 14 points and seven rebounds.
Lisa Parrish also had 14 points, the second

time in three games that she has reached
double figures. Jensen and Richardson
both added eight points each.

The only negative side for the women
was their anemic 39 percent shooting from
the field. Warner isn’t worrying too much
about it, though. “I’m more concerned
that they are good shots. We had good in-
side. and outside work,” Warner said.

Now that the break is over, the Danes
face a herculean task of five games in
seven days.

Luckily, four of them are at home,
which will be a big plus when the Danes get
into the season.

Are the women ready to play that many
games in that short of a span?

“No team is ready to play five games in
a week, no matter how good a shape you
are in mentally,”’ said Warner. “‘I let the
team know the seriousness of it. I don’t
want them being exhausted; we’re well

prepared to play a lot of people, to save a
lot of bodies,”’ she added.

The first of this quintuplet is tonight at
University Gym, at 7 p.m. against the
Ithaca Bombers.

“Ithaca has a lot of guards, no true post
players. They’re a scrappy team,’’ Warner
said. ‘‘We’ll play a lot of man to man on
them; they’ll be doing it to us.””

The women then come up against Stony
Brook on Sunday, R.P.I. on Monday,
Manhattansville on Wednesday, and final-
ly Hartwick next Friday.

Does Warner think the Danes can sweep
all five?

“Yes, we can win all of them,’ she
stated.

If the newly independent Danes have a
chance to make the N.C.A.A.’s, this will
probably be as good an indicator as any.
This kind of pace tells how good a feng

Teally is. sie