Albany Student Press, Volume 74, Number 13, 1987 March 20

PUBLISHED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY BY THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION

Friday

March 20, 1987

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Silent protest held for Soviet Jewry

By Pam Conway
NEWS EDITOR

A small group of students staged a pro-
test Wednesday against the treatment of
Jews imprisoned in the Soviet Union
because of their religious beliefs.

But they did not raise their voices or
chant loud slogans.

In fact, the six members of the Revi-
sionist Zionist Alternative (RZA) gathered
at a table in the Campus Center Commuter
Cafeteria remained silent throughout the
day to symbolize the suppression of
Judaism by the Soviet government.

The group surrounded themselves with
signs bearing information about Soviet
Jewry.

According to RZA President Robin
Berloff, Jews are imprisoned and tortured
in the Soviet Union for actively practicing
their faith, teaching Hebrew or asking to
join their families in Israel.

There are currently 2.5 million Jews in
the Soviet Jews, according to Berloff, and
400,000 are known to want to leave the
country.

Those Jews denied permission to leave
because of their religious beliefs —
“tefuseniks’’ — are often sent to prison,
where they run a high risk of being tor-
tured, Berloff said.

Each of the six students portrayed a par-
ticular imprisoned Soviet Jew — complete
with makeup and costume reflecting that
person’s particular condition.

Berloff wore a patch on her left eye to
symbolize refusenik Yosef Berenstein, who
was 90 percent blinded when attacked with

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GIGI COHEN UPS

RZA President Robin Berloff protesting the imprisonment of Soviet Jews.

glass shards in a Soviet prison. ‘‘His wife
was told he cut himself peeling potatoes,”
she said.

Once a Soviet Jew is labelled a
refusenik, they become ostracized from
their community, friends and family who

fear associating wih a ‘‘fugitive,”’ Berloff
said.

**Jews in the Soviet Union are ostraciz-
ed. We were ostracized from the campus
community for a day to make a point

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Bias charged in standardized tests

By Robert Wieland

Standardized tests such as
the SATs and LSATs are bias-
ed towards upper-middle class
white males, according to a re-
cent survey.

The study, conducted by the
New York Public Interest
Research Group (NYPIRG)
and the National Center for
Fair and Open Testing, claims

The last days of winter will
have the slightest touch of spr-
ing with temperatures bet-
ween 35 and 40 on Friday.
Partly cloudy skies are ex-
pected Saturday and should
clear by’ Sunday. Possible
snow flurries are expected
Saturday night so if you plana
night at the bars the weather-
man reccomends a shot of
cognac to keep warm.

Beyond the Majority
Classified

Digest

Entertainment Listings.
cael & Opinion

INSIDE: A sexologist and his
‘horny’ stuffed companion,
Roxanne Ribbit, have decreed
March 21-28 National Orgasm
week. Read all about their racy
relationship.

See ASPects centerfold

that even though women make
up 52 percent of the test takers.
in New York state, they only
receive 27 percent of the
scholarships awarded by the
state.

These scholarships are based
solely on a student’s perfor-
mance on Scholastic Aptitude
Tests (SATs) and do not take
class rank, high school average
or Regents tests scores into
consideration.

The study has shown that a
good number of questions
center around the white-male
experience normally un-
familiar to women and
minorities.

“The deck is stacked against
the girls of New York state,”
said Blair Horner, NYPIRG’s
legislative analyst.

According to Horner, girls
score 61 points lower national-
ly than boys on the SATs.
However, freshman college
grades, which the SAT claims
to predict, are higher for
women than for men.

Both the Empire State
Scholarship and the Regents
Scholarship, which offer
awards up to $10,000 and
$1,250 over four years, respec-
tively, are awarded solely on
SAT and American College
Test (ACT) performance.

Because of the claims, ac-
tion has been taken in the State
Senate to study the amount of
bias in testing.

A bill sponsored by Sen.

A question from
the 1985
Stanford-Binet
1Q test. The
subjective
question was
later removed.

Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jef-
ferson) and Deputy Speaker of
the Assembly Arthur Eve (D-
Buffalo) would set up an eight-
person committee to study the
issue.

The long-term purpose of
this bill, according to Horner,
is to examine the questions of

comparable difficulty to both
men and women, and to
“weed out’? those questions
that may have a bias in them.
However, Windsor Lott,
director of Educational
Testing for the State Educa-
tion Department labelled the
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Union College rejects SAT

Schenectady
(AP) The Scholastic Ap-
titude Test, a rite of passage
for high school seniors for
decades, is no-longer.a worry
for prospective Union College
students. 5
Officials of this liberal arts
college in Schenectady an-
nounced Thursday that the
SAT will not be required for
admission into the school.
College President John S.
Morris said he’s disturbed that
the SAT is no longer a reliable
measure of a student’s perfor-
mance in college. He said he is
disturbed about the ‘‘emo-
tional energy’’ spent by. high
school students in preparing

for the exam and about ac-
cusations the test handicaps
women and minority students.

“The students have tended
to train themselves to take the
SAT, which is used to measure
aptitude,’’ Morris said.

The SAT, which is spon-
sored by the College Board
and administered by the
Educational Testing Service of
Princeton, N.J., tests students
in verbal and mathematic
skills. About one million
students take the test each
year. ;

Union, a college of 2,050
students founded in 1795, has
required the SAT for admis-

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H
Colleges admit

slow reaction
to bigotry trend

(AP) An apparent wave of bigotry
against blacks, women, Jews and other
minorities on college campuses stems
from changes in the ‘‘national mood”’
and from schools’ slow reaction to
changing values, higher education of-
ficials say.
Shocked by increasingly frequent
reports of racial slurs, sexism, and
physical attacks against minority
students, at least some college leaders
have begun to confess that they were slow
to recognize the problem and act on it.
“I don’t think there’s been a great deal
of leadership on the part of university
presidents,’’ said Reginald Wilson, head
of the office of minority concerns of the
American Council on Education, higher
education’s chief Washington lobby.
“*There’s no question about it: not on-
ly were colleges slow to react, but I
suspect that a number of things are hap-'
pening on campus that would tend to
give students the idea that minority in-
terests are of diminishing value,”” Wilson
said.
Wilson said the 40-member board of|
the council was so concerned about
bigotry on campuses that it agreed at its
most recent meeting last month to make
it the main subject of its next two-day
meeting scheduled for May.
Three incidents, in particular, brought
the issue of campus racism to the fore.
Last October at The Citadel, a military
academy in Charleston, S.C., five cadets
dressed like Klansmen broke into a black
freshman cadet’s room, shouted
obscenities and left a burned paper cross.
Weeks later, white students at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst
attacked ten black students in a brawl
somehow related to the New York Mets’
World Series victory over the Boston Red
Sox.
This month, racial tensions at the
University of Michigan prompted a hear-
ing on that campus’s problems. Among
the incidents: fliers declaring ‘‘open
season’’ on blacks, racist graffiti, and a
‘student disc jockey who broadcast racist
jokes.
A check of campuses across the coun-
try suggests a more extensive problem.
Some say blame properly lies with
campuses themselves for letting commit-
ment to minority issues wane.
“It seems to me that we have a rever-
sal, that we’re going backwards,”’ said
Mackie Faye Hill, director of learning
support services and minority programm-
ling at Linfield College in Forest Grove,
Ore. ‘‘In the ’60’s, there was quite an in-
terest in the recruitment of minority
faculty, administration and students and
that interest doesn’t seem to be alive
anymore.””
“T think it’s clearly part of a national
mood,’’ said Robert Johnson, director of
minority studies at St. Cloud State
University in Minnesota, where Japanese
and other foreign students have received
hate mail. “‘I just think the Reagan ad-
Iministration has made it safer and more:
permissible to express these sentiments.’
The administration denies that it has
|backed down on a commitment to civil
irights. Last month Assistant Attorney
General William Bradford Reynolds
said: ‘‘We have had for the last six years
the most active and energetic law en-
[forecment program in the field of civil

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (1 FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1987

NEWS BRIEFS

The World * ‘i

Israel bans sales

Jerusalem
(AP) A group of top officials in Israel,
believed to be one of South Africa’s
leading arms suppliers, has agreed to ban
new military sales contracts with the white-
controlled nation and approved curbs on
cultural and trade exchanges, Israeli televi-
sion said.

A government official confirmed the
10-member inner Cabinet considered the
measures Wednesday but said no official
decision was announced.

Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was ex-
pected to report on the measures Thursday
in a speech to Parliament, the official said, |
speaking on condition of anonymity.

Under the new measures, the govern-
ment would not sign any new military con-
tracts but apparently would not nullify ex-
isting contracts, the television said.

Union eyes change

Johannesburg, South Africa
(AP) In the most sweeping demand of its
five-year history, South Africa’s main
black miners’ union has called for an end
to the migrant labor system on which the
mining industry depends.
Under the system, which the National
Union of Mineworkers terms ‘‘a crime
against humanity,’”’ miners are recruited

black homelands to live away from their
families in single-sex mine hostels for at
least 11 months each year.

The union, which claims to represent
360,000 of the country’s 600,000 black
miners, demanded that mine owners
pledge by March 30 to negotiate an end to
the migrant system and provide family
housing for all miners who want it.
Without such a pledge, the union said, the
miners will prepare for a national strike.

The ultimatum, accompanied by a de-
mand for a 55 percent wage increase,
signaled the union’s growing confidence in
its bargaining power with an industry that
generates about 15 percent of South
Africa’s gross domestic product and 60
percent of its export earnings.

The Nation gy

65 mph in jeopardy

Washington, D. C.

(AP) A 65 mph speed limit for many rural

highways and an $88.6 billion highway

bill, both approved by the House, face a

minor hurdle in the Senate, but a possible
brick wall at the White House.

The House approved a measure

Wednesday that would allow states to in-
crease speed limits to 65 mph on interstate
highways outside urban areas with popula-
tions of at least 50,000.

The 217-206 vote was seen as the final
meaningful congressional test of the speed
limit proposal because the Senate has none

on record repeatedly as overwhelmingly
favoring it.

That tally came shortly after the
lawmakers passed 407-17, the highway
measure which will distribute assistance to
states and communities for road and
bridge projects and for mass transit
systems.

It said the measures are subject to ap-
proval by the full 25-member Cabinet,
which meets Sunday.

Reagan rained on

Toronto
(AP) President Reagan’s decision to seek
$2.5 billion to combat acid rain won
government praise as a sign he recognizes
Canadian concerns, but environmentalists
called it an empty promise from a lame
duck president.

Reagan said he would seek the $2.5
billion over five years to hasten the com-
mercialization of new technologies for
fighting acid rain — rain with a high con-
centration of acids produced by sulfur
dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.

“For a lame duck president to be pro-
mising money over five years hasn’t been
missed by us,”’ said Adele Hurley of the
Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain. ‘The
technology exists right now to clean up
acid rain.”’

Canada says 50 percent to 70 percent of
the acid rain killing its lakes and damaging
its forests comes from emissions in the
United States, especially the Ohio Valley.
It wants transboundary emissions reduced
by 50 percent from current levels of 3.2
million tons of fallout a year.

GIGI COHEN UPS

Podiating between classes will become a more common sight as spring approaches.

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

SUNDAY, MARCH 22

The State

FBI warns Mafia

New York
(AP) The head of the FBI’s New York of-
fice says putting mobsters in jail won’t
break the Mafia’s power unless ‘‘we take

back for society those unions and
businesses they’ve corrupted.””

Toward that end,. federal officials an-
nounced Wednesday that two construction
unions allegedly controlled by the Mafia
will now be run by a court-appointed
trustee.

Thomas Sheer, chief of the FBI New
York office, and U.S. Attorney Rudolph
Giuliani told a news conference the trustee
will oversee the 4,000-member District
Council. of the Cement and Concrete
Workers and one of its four locals, Local
6A, for nearly four years.

As part of U.S. District Judge Vincent
Broderick’s order, to which the unions
consented, 16 current or former local and
District Council officials cannot hold
union office until at least 1990, including
the sons of two alleged mob leaders con-
victed last year in the Mafia ‘‘commis-
sion”? trial.

All but three of the 16 officials were bar-
red permanently from holding office in
Local 6A or the District Council.

New gene found

New York
(AP) A newly discovered gene may cause a
third of all cases of manic-depressive
disorder, the second such genetic link
reported in three weeks, and there is
evidence that several genes may produce
the illness, scientists said Thursday.

Last month, scientists studying an
Amish family in Pennsylvania reported
they had linked a different gene to cases of
manic-depressive disorder. The announce-
ment was hailed as the first firm
demonstration of a gene’s involvement in a
psychiatric disorder.

Miron Baron, co-author of Thursday’s
announcement, said it would take years to
isolate and’ study the newly found gene,
but the finding eventually should help
scientists distinguish between different
genetic types of the illness and help them
tailor therapy.

Dr. David Housman of the
Massachusettes Institute of Technology,
co-author of the earlier report, said he
would not be, surprised if five genes
responsible for the disease eventually were
identified.

—— Correction

In the March 17 issue of the Albany Stu-
dent Press in the “Preview of Events’? sec-
tion we incorrectly predicted the end of the
world. Fortunately, our sources were
misinformed.

We regret the error.

Free listings

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

An Experimental Theatre pro-
duction of “Fefu and Her
Friends” will be performed
tonight and tomorrow night at
8 p.m. in the Performing Arts
Center. A $1 donation is
requested.

An Ometz Conservative Shab-
baton will be sponsored by
Jewish Students’ Coalition
tonight and tomorrow. Call the

JSC office at 442-5670

The Honest Weight Food Co-
op is having a party to
celebrate the first day of spr-
ing at 8:30 p.m. in St. Patrick’s
Parish Center on 283 Central
Avenue. Admission is $2 for
Co-op members and $3. for
non-members.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21
Nadir Benefit Party for
SUNYA‘s literary-arts
magazine at Halfmoon Cafe.,
154 Madison Ave. Live music,
réading, dancing. Admission
is $2.50.

Class of 1987 Class Council
meets every Sunday at 5:30
p.m. outside the SA office.
Class of 1988 Class Council
meets every Sunday at 9 p.m.
in the SA Lounge.

Class of 1989 Class Council
meets every Sunday at 10 p.m.
in the SA Lounge.

Class of 1990 Class Council
meets every Sunday at 8 p.m.
in the SA Lounge.

Colonial Quad Board meets
every Sunday at 7 p.m. in back
of C.Q. cafe.

Dutch Quad Board meets

every Sunday at 7 p.m. in the
Dutch flagroom.

Tenants Association meets
every Sunday at 4 p.m. in the
SA Lounge (behind cash
machines).

Bach the Musician, featuring
the play Capelimeister, depic-

ting Bach’s interview with
Frederick the Great of
Prussia, and lecture by

Leonard Kastle will be held at
3 p.m. at the New. York
Museum. Admission is free.
MONDAY, MARCH 23
University Concert Board

meets at 8 p.m. in CC 375.
TUESDAY, MARCH 24
“Is Baby M Kosher?”, a jec-
ture on Surrogate mothering
from the Jewish perspective,
will be presented at 8:30 p.m.
in CC 361.
A blood drive, sponsored by
Phi Sigma Sigma and Mohawk
Estates, will be held at 10 am.
to 4 p.m. in the CC Ballroom.

Racism and Violence: Albany-
Howard Beach-South Africa
will be discussed at 7 p.m. at
the Arbor Hill Community
Center, Lark and Thirg Street.

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1987 (1) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Three quit Council

Three members of Central Council
resigned last week, each citing separate
reasons for their actions.

Larry Fox, who also serves as president
of University Conceft Board, resigned
‘March 10, citing his involvement with
UCB as the major reason. Fox, who had
already missed the maximum allowable
number of Central Council meetings,
said that ‘‘it would be in the best interests
of council” for him to withdraw.
Colonial Quad representative Regina
Ackley also resigned on March 10, saying
that ‘‘she wasn’t getting out of [her
Council position] what she wanted”’ and
that she felt that she “‘couldn’t do
enough for her Quad.”

Also resigning from council last week
was Michael Berman, who currently
serves as President of the Speakers’
Forum.

Signing up for ASL

The University of Minnesota last week
approved a proposal that will recognize
American Sign Language (ASL) as a
“complete, natural language’’that would
fulfill the foreign-language requirements
lof students in its liberal-arts college.
The plan, the first of its kind at a ma-
jor university, will permit any student,
whether hearing-impaired or not, to
satisfy the college’s foreign language re-
quirements with ASL courses.
Accorcing to an article in The Chroni-
cle of Higher Education, Stephen
Wilbers, chairman of the college’s
Scholastic Standing Committtee, said
that ASL is ‘“‘comparable in complexity
and expressiveness’’ to other languages.
|ASL is utilized by an estimated 20 million
Americans who are deaf or hearing
_ |impaired.

Chabad celebrates

If you’ve noticed candlelight and cakes
gracing the tables in the Campus Center
this week, you’re probably wondering
what ‘all the fuss is about. Well, courtesy
lof Chabad Womens’ Group, it’s the
third annual Jewish Women’s Week.

According to Esther Chanowitz, the|
co-coordinator of the event, Jewish
Womens’ Week is ‘‘a celebration
highlighting Jewish Women’s awareness
and celebrating the role that they’ve|
played in history.

The week is designed to roughly coin-
cide with the celebration of the Jewish
holiday Purim, which commemorates the
role that the Biblical heroine Esther|
played in rescuing the Jewish people
from an evil tyrant.

Bye bye Berg

The Board of Trustees of Rensselaer]
Polytechnic Institute voted recently to
remove RPI President Daniel Berg and
replace him with the former chairman of
a local corporation.

E.E. Hood, Jr., chairman of the
board, announced on March 5 that
Stanley Landgraf, amember of the board
and former chairman of the Mohasco
Corporation, would serve as acting
president.

In a press statement, Hood said that
the decision reflected “‘strong differences
of opinion and judgement between Dr.
Berg and the board as to the guidance
and administration of the institute, but
not as to its course and goals.’”

Rick Hart, Director of the RPI Stu-
dent Union, said that ‘‘the feeling was
that [Berg] was a good businessman but
that his relationship with students on
campus was not good.’”

— compiled by Michael Reisman

STAFF poster controversy lingers

By Joshua Drucker
‘STAFF WRITER

Posters asking “‘Mayfest or NYPIRG?”’
remain a common sight on campus,
although Central Council resolved two
weeks ago to demand the posters’ removal.

The posters were created by Students
Against Forced Funding (STAFF), who
claim that if the New York Public Interest

Research Group were to lose its upcoming
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NEW GYM EQUIP

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SA GROUPS

D. NYPIRG'S

$56,000 PAY FOR?

referendum, Student Association could
reallocate that $56,000 to Sa groups and
events, such as Mayfest.

However, SA officials deny that the
funds could be used for such a pupose and
charged STAFF with intentionally
misleading students.

Central Council Internal Affairs Com-
mittee Chair Sara Meyer introduced the
resolution to remove the posters because

‘ACKERMAN UPS

Signs of the times — many of the STAFF posters (left) termed ‘misleading’ are still

posted despite a Central

ouncil resolution that they be removed.

she felt ‘‘a responsibility to see students get
correct information.”

According to STAFF President Ed
Priola, the group has not taken down its
posters because “we have not yet received
formal notice from the Central Council
that we are to remove the posters.””

Meyer labelled the posters “‘misleading
and slanderous to NYPIRG.”’ There is no
connection’’ between money-allocated for
Mayfest and NYPIRG‘S funding, she said.

“The SA does not budget for NYPIRG-
it is not a funded group. Mayfest is a zero
appropriation event, and all SA money
must be made back’’ Meyer said.

Every two years, SUNYA students vote
in a referendum to decide whether $6 of
the yearly mandatory activity fee should be
earmarked for NYPIRG, which won in
1985 with 69 percent of the vote.

Another referendum will appear on the
SA election ballot April 7 and 8.

Priola believes information provided on
the posters is correct and that Council’s
resolution is a violation of the First
Amendment right to free expression.

Although ‘‘aware of the referendum’s
passage, Priola said he is ‘‘not sure at this
time how the group is going.to handle the
matters.”

Priola said that SA supporters of
NYPIRG are ‘‘abusing their Bore

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SA leaders attend USSA conference

By Hillary Fink
‘STAFF WRITER

Student Association officials took a
road trip to Washington, D.C. this
weekend to confer on national issues.

Over 500 student leaders from across the
country met in the nation’s capitol for the
United States Student Association (USSA)
Annual Legislative conference and Lobby
Day.

The conference-which was held from
March 13 to 16 at the Washington Plaza
Hotel in Washington, D.C. focused on
proposed higher education budget cuts, af-
firmative action, and other issues affecting
students.

At Lobby Day, students lobbied their
respective state representatives’ offices.

Several caucuses and regional meetings
were held to discuss strategies students
were going to take at Lobby Day.

Student Association of the State Univer-
sity (SASU) President Everette Joseph said
“‘one thing we proposed was a total in-
crease in the education budget. Reagan
proposed a 46 to 50 percent cut in federal
aid. So we’re lobbying congress to restore
cuts fully. I am optimistic that Congress
will not support the president’s cuts.””

SUNYA’s SA President Paco Duarte
said he asked the staff their position on
specific issues and how they would vote
with respect to higher education.

‘Some people were on our side, others
were not. Students have to go back to their
campuses and tell them what they need to
do in the future,”” Duarte said.

Students also held a rally outside the
Capitol Building and performed a skit on
the budget cuts where Reagan, Nancy
Reagan, and the Secretary of Ecucation
were represented.

Joseph said that the general purpose of
the conference was ‘‘to bring students
from across the country to Washington,
D.C. to meet particularly on budget issues
that affect students.”

According to Joseph, many of the con-
ference’s workshops had to do with pro-
tecting higher education and educating
students on budget issues; such as Presi-
dent Reagan’s plans to cut $6.5 billion
from federal financial aid. There are also
cuts in the College Work-Study Program
and childcare programs.

Workshops were also held on how the
new tax reform measures impact students,
how to maintain strong state Student
Associations, and on issues such as racism

and sexism.

“The federal budget process,” a
workshop about the complex budget pro-
cess was led by Kathy Ausley, budget staff-
person of Rep. William Gray, chair of the
House Budget Committee.

Duarte said that “‘it taught students and

-leaders how the budget process works and

why it’s so complex, and it taught students
how public officials like Ronald Reagan
use the budget as a political tool to ad-
vance their partisan goals.“‘

“Part of it was to learn how to lobby to
congresspeople and how students can
develop skills to effectively change and
challenge the budget process to enhance
the quality of education to students,”
Duarte said.

Duarte and Steve Ganny of University
of California-Berkeley ran a workshop on
student control of fees focusing on
strategies and reasons for students to gain
control of their own fees and funding
resources.

There are several schools across the na-
tion, community colleges in particular,
whese the university doesn’t recognize the
right for students to“c@ntrol ‘their own
money, Duarte said, adding, “‘one fun-
damental basis.yof, control and power
students have is gaining control of fees.”

SUNYA Central Council member

George Serrano, who also attended the
conference said, ‘‘Public relations are very
important because it is important for the
student government to make its image ap-
pealing to students.”’ He said that he wants
to work on a videotape of SA to be shown
at the SA’s Summer Planning Conference,

TRACY RATTNER UPS
SA President Paco Duarte.

in the Rathskellar, and possibly before
University Cinemas movies.

A workshop on racism and sexism on
campus and how to develop a campus
without these prejudices was run by Alycee
Lane from the National Third World ae

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Chemistry bldg!

evacuated due
to implosion

By Jennifer McCormick
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

An implosion of a 55 gallon drum,
Tuesday caused a 20 to 25 minute evacua-
tion of the Chemistry Building while
University staff searched for the cause of,
the disturbance.

An atmospheric science graduate stu-
dent was experimenting with extreme
changes in air pressure and had been
working with a reservoir vacuum created
in the drum.

The force of the vacuum was great
enough to cause the barrel to implode, or
collapse.

The noise the implosion created
“shook the building” enough to warrant
an evacuation and calling for emergency
help, according to Bernard Vonnegut, of
the Atmospheric Science Research
Center.

The two rooms on either side of the
research lab sent in alarms after hearing
the boom, according to Vinceni Fran-
conere, director of Environmental
Health and Safety.

“They didn’t even bother to look in,’’
before pulling the alarms, said Vonnegut.

The student peforming the experiment
didn’t know the cause for the alarm, but
‘gradually became aware”’ that it was his
own experiment that caused it, Vonnegut
said.

Members of the departments of Public
Safety, Physical Plant, and Environmen-
tal Health and Safety examined the
building to ensure that it was safe for
faculty and students to return.

The need for such a reaction to a pull-
ed alarm is because of the nature of the
materials stored in the building. Any ac-
cident involving either fire or solvent
chemicals requires immediate attention,
/Franconere said. oO

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Tenants’ rights prime concern at
Consumer Awareness Day tables

By Lisa Rizzolo
STAFF WRITER
About 100 students took ad-
vantage of some free advice about
their rights as consumers Wednes-
day in the Campus Center lobby.
Sponsored by the SUNYA
chapter of the New York Public
Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG), Consumer Awareness
Day provided an opportunity for

students to ask questions of
various consumer protection
groups.

Consumer Awareness Day was
“a way for students to get an idea
of what their rights are as
tenants,”” said Joe Rosenblum the
coordinator of the event.

Participating in the event were
the Office of Off-Campus Hous-
ing, Tenants Association, Student
Association (SA) Legal Services,
the Attorney General’s office-the
Bureau of Consumer Fraud,

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NYPIRG’s Small Claims Action
Center, and the Consumer Pro-
tection Board.

According to Rosenblum, all of
the groups have one thing in com-
mon. “They all relate to tenants’
rights.””

“T know that tenant rights is a
concern of a majority of
students,” said Rosenblum. “At
some time the majority of
students think of moving off
{campus].’”

One of the most popular tables,
said Tracey Tudor, local chair of
NYPIRG, was the attorney
generals office bureau of Con-
sumer Fraud “and Protection,
which specializes in dealing with
situations like dishonest auto
repair businesses rights and pur-
chase of defective equipment.

Students were also able to fill
out and send complaint cards to
New York State Attorney General

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Robert Abrams’ office.
Rosenblum said that Abrams’ of-
fice will investigate some topics
brought up at Consumer
Awareness Day.

One common question con-
cerned New York State’s lemon
law, protecting consumers from
purchasing defective used cars,
said NYPIRG Project coor-
dinator Angela Ledford.

One Business Law professor
gave his students an assignment to
find out about the lemon law,”’ so
students from that class swarmed
around that table,”’ said Ledford.

Although the Campus Center

was “‘slower than a normal
Wednesday,’’ according to
Rosenblum, there was ‘‘a

favorable response.”

Tom Schurr, a consumer af-
fairs specialist for the Consumer
Protection Board agreed. “‘There
weren’t many people there asking
questions,”’ he said. “‘Most peo-
ple were picking up pamphlets
and walking on.”

According to Ledford, Con-
sumer Awareness Day is impor-
tant because, ‘“‘students have
questions but don’t know where
to get the answer.’”? She added
that ‘‘a lot of. people were able to
get information~ that [they]
wouldn’t normally have access
to.”

Tudor said that Consumer
Awareness Bay is also important
to the groups involved because
“4t’s a good chance for them to
get response to what they’re do-
ing, [to] be central, and [to] give
answers.””

“Consumer Awareness Day
will definitely be annual, maybe
even a semi-annual event,’’ said
Rosenblum, “‘depending on fur-
ther response.””

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rights in our history.”

A check of campuses nation-
wide found that:

>On Jan. 26, a cross was burn-
ed in front of Purdue University’s
Black Cultural Center. On Feb.
11, the words “Death Nigger”
were found carved into the door
of a counselor’s office.

> At Northern Illinois Univer-
sity, 11 students face possible
suspension for racial harassment,
and the university is offering a
$500 reward for the identification
of those responsible for
distributing racially offensive
Posters and fliers.

Bates College in Lewiston,
Maine, cancelled classes March 4
and held an all-day teach-in on
sexism after two male students
pinned condoms and a computer-
printed picture of a penis on a
female biology professor’s door.

University of Chicago of-
ficials are investigating a stream
of anti-homosexual mail to
homosexual students, their
neighbors and families, including
Christmas cards wishing
homosexuals dead.

A University of Colorado
fraternity faces sanctions for
distributing a poster on Martin
Luter King’s birthday of a black
woman with the caption, “Come
Play With Me.”

A Wellesley College trustee
resigned in February after
students protested her remark
that black employees at her firm
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Council ‘overrides’ Duarte veto of Elections Act

By Angelina Wang
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Debate over Student Associa-
tion’s election policy continued
Wednesday night when Central
Council voted to override the veto
of SA President Paco Duarte.

Revised and passed by Council
last Wednesday, the Election
Regulation Act was vetoed by
Duarte Friday ‘‘because of
various points — but particularly
because of the [issue of] recall.’’

In the new policy, signatures
from 51 percent of the constituen-
cy are now required in order for
any campus-wide position to be
recalled. The* previous require-
ment was set at five percent of
student signatures,

“T had big problems with that
[five percent figure] because it
allows a very small minority of
students to recall,” said Duarte,
adding that 51 percent is fairer
and ‘‘the way it should be.””

“In a democratic process,’’ he
said, “power should be with the
majority of the people.”

According to Central Council
Vice-Chair Bill McCann, the SA
Executive Branch was concerned
over the relative ease with which a
small percentage of students,

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dent coalition, and Debbie
Kalzowitz of SASU.

“This conference opened up
my whole perspective of student
government,’’ said Central Coun-
cil member James Lamb.

Lamb, Duarte, and Serrano,
who say they learned the impor-
tance of uniting with other
schools on issues such as racism,
are organizing a ‘‘Scream Out
Against Racism,’’ a nationwide
project scheduled for March 30.

Lamb said that major problems
on campuses vary depending on
the type of school.

For example, SUNYA has
housing problems, community
colleges have transportation pro-
blems, and private schools have
financial aid problems.

“Tt was a valuable learning ex-
perience. I learned a lot about stu-
dent government as a whole, and
on the state and national level...1
learned it is important for cam-
pus, state and national SAs to
work together,’’ Serrano said. O1

displeased with any elected of-
ficial, could have the power to
recall that person’s position. ‘‘I
agreed with their apprehension,’’
McCann said.

However, some confusion re-
mains whether the policy passed
by Council Wednesday is a
“‘working”’ one.

Duarte said that he has the
power to veto the Election

policy — either overrule Duarte’s
veto, or let the veto stand and
resubmit a revised bill that would
have been open to debate all over
again.

“Larry and I decided to allow
only those issues that had been
debated last week’ be brought
back for new discussion, said
McCann.

ple didn’t vote to override the
chair,’’ said Bernstein. She added
that there was nothing against
Hartman personally, but ‘‘I mo-
tioned [to override] just because
last week I don’t know if Council
was right to vote so fast.’”
Bernstein felt that the five to
ten people who had been waiting
to ask questions on the bill at

President Doug Tuttle’s idea to
have Council bye-elections run by
quad boards ‘‘might save SA
some money and get more people
into it,” but that, too, was never
discussed.

“The basic problems that the
executive branch had with it
should have been discussed last
week when they. had the oppor-
tunity,” said McCann, adding
that ‘‘seeing as members. of the

Regulation Act once again ‘“
because it is a newly proposed Pa
bill.

“T will read it over again,” he
said, adding that, “‘right now, I
feel comfortable with the policy.’’

However, according to Internal

. right now, I feel comfortable
with the policy.’’

executive branch did not show up
[last week] to voice their concerns
over a policy that they could have
seen prior to the meeting.’ Ac-

— Paco Duarte cording to Meyers, Internal Af-

All discussion of the bill as a
whole, or any motions to amend
portions of the policy not
previously brought up at last
week’s meeting were prohibited.

There existed ‘fa gentleman’s
agreement not to bring back [any
discussion of] the old bill,”’ added
McCann.

Academic Affairs Co-Chair
Jaclyn Bernstein called this move
the ‘discretion of the chair’.

During the meeting a motion by
Bernstein to override the chair
was defeated by a majority vote.

“T was kind of upset that peo-

Affairs Chair Sara Meyer, whose
committee first introduced the
revised policy, once the presi-
dent’s veto is overridden, ‘‘then it
is over.’’ Meyer said that Council
passed ‘‘the new and improved”’
policy Wednesday evening.

This confusion stems from a
decision by Central Council Chair
Larry Hartman and McCann to
limit debate on the entire policy as
a whole.

In an unusual move, Council
actually both vetoed and revised
the bill. Central Council had only
two options according to SAX

discussion in question occurred a
week before and Hartman said he

fairs brought up the policy

Wednesday’s meeting should because “we wanted to make a
have been able to do so. much more comprehensive policy
According to Meyer, the that any student running for of-

fice could pick up and
understand.’”

Bernstein said, ‘‘I’m kind of in-
different to it [the policy],” ad-
ding that ‘‘we’ll only learn from
ite,

The [present] proposed policy
is much more organized,”’ said
Meyer. *‘‘The legislative process
ended up with a more comprehen-
sive policy.’’ She added that the
pieces could only have improved

felt Council would only be
“rehashing” the same issues.
Duarte said other concerns that
played a role in the veto ‘‘were
not as pressing’ as the recall
issue. For instance, a suggestion
to minimize the number of
posters used in a campaign was
never addressed because it was
never debated on last Wednesday.
Bernstein said that SA Vice

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Soviet Jewry

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about how serious it is,”” Berloff
i ‘' ochester said.
University of R Four of the six student pro-
testors attended classes during the
day, and handed a statement to
their professors explaining their
silence and unusual appearance.
The statement began, ‘Dear
Professor: Before you ask, know
that I can’t answer. . .I am dress-
ed this way to symbolize the
Jewish prisoners in the Soviet
Union. They can’t leave, and they
can’t speak out.’”

Graduate School of Education & Human Development

variety of graduate programs are offered leading to The statement also said that
A of one year has passed since the
Masters and Doctoral degrees release of Jewish dissident Anato-
Certification programs are also offered ly Shcharansky from the Soviet

Union and ‘‘we must not forget
the hundreds of thousands of *
others who still wish to leave.”
For more information consult your Career Placement Office The protestors also ate nothing
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Berloff explained that the

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Extended to JUNE 1 the country, with 800 visas given

out last year as opposed to 51,000
in 1979.

Although some students ap-
peared puzzled by the protesters’
appearance, Berloff said response
to the effort was ‘‘pretty good”

STAFF posters
“43

through censorship,’ and “‘have
prevented the truth from getting
out.“ “It is a real scandal for the
SA to censor groups it disagrees
with,” Priola said.

Meyer said that the resolution
is not meant to supress a point of
view.

“It is important to have two
sides of an issue presented,’’ she
said, but “this is a black-and-
white matter.”

Because Meyer has ‘‘a blatant

bias in favor of NYPIRG”’ which
“thas blinded her ability to be a
just legislator,” Priola said he is
calling for her resignation based
on what he called her ‘‘abuse of
power.””
The referendum passed by ac-
claimation March 4 also stated
“Gf [STAFF] does not adhere to
this resolution [SA] resolves the
Tight to revoke the group’s
Tecognition.”’

However, Meyer said,‘‘If
STAFF can cooperate, there is no
reason to think about revoking of
recognition,’’ adding,“‘I just
hope we can come to an
understanding with STAFF on
this issue.’’ Meyer said that her
goal is ‘“‘to make sure students
aren’t lied to through
“‘misleading’’ posters.

Though Priola labels the poster
controversy a First Amendment
issue, Meyer does:not believe she
is supressing Priola’s right to ‘‘ex-
press and say freely what he
believes in.””

Meyer said, “‘Our request of
STAFF to remove posters does
not interfere with their First Am-
mendment fight to have par-
ticular views and to try and con-
vince people of their views.””

Because the posters are ‘‘ab-
solutely not misleading,’’ accor-
ding to Priola, he said he intends
to consider every action to protect
STAFF’s legal and constitutional
tights.

Having already contacted an
attorney, he said, “if SA thinks
we are wrong or incorrect, they
should take us to court and prove
it,? oO

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_ Sloan recounts tales of year-long stay in Japan

STAFF WRITER

By Sandie Weitzman

Political Science Professor

Sloan was in Japan doing
research on Japan’s relations with
its Northeast Asian neighbors,

Anne Sloan, who spent a year do- and concentrating on the United

ing research in Japan, has come States’ request for Japan to in-
back with changed perspectives crease its Asian allied defense

on women as professors and on burden.

university students in general.
“The status of women in Japan in Japan are much more respected

is not as good as in the United than in the United States.

States,” said Sloan.

Sloan said she felt that teachers

“I was treated somewhat dif-

‘Feminism hasn’t yet taken as ferently,”’ she said. ‘‘I was what

strong a hold
there as it has in
the West. Most
women do not
aspire to
CAT eens;

the Japanese call a ‘sensei’”’—
which in English means
‘master.’

Sloan said she believed that “‘if
I had just been a female and had
not been a university professor, I

although that’s changing,’ she would not have been treated as

said.

well.””

“T think I was included in do-
ing social things that I [otherwise]
would not have been invited to,
because the Japanese women
wouldn’t have,’’ she said,

Overall, it’s hard to generalize
Japanese views of the American
people, according to Sloan,
While some opinions are very
favorable, it seems that many
Japanese still harbor hostile feel-
ings towards the United States
because of World: War II, she
said.

However, Japanese people still
see themselves diferently, expec-
ting others to be ‘“‘cloddish,”
Sloan said.

For example, she explained that
she and her husband had a

Japanese friend living in a
western-style home outside
Tokyo, who was appalled by a
mutual friend who “wore shoes in
their house.””

Sloan said she felt the Japanese
see the western world as doing
things their own way, or ‘“‘not
paying attention to anyone else’s
cultures.”’

Sloan; who grew up in Ten-
nessee and graduated from Mid-
die Tennessee State and Ohio
State Universities, also noted dif-
ferences in schooling and
discipline during her stay in
Japan.

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much more disciplined, Sloan

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Homophobic
menace

There was an act of vandalism committed
recently that has ramifications that go far
beyond simply scrawling a rude phrase on
University property.

The perpitrator, a student marshal who was
consequently fired for his deed, decided it was
his duty to vent his paranoid homophobic beliefs
via a crude message written on the office door of
the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.

Calling it a ‘‘spontaneous act of frustration,””
this misguided individual has not only insulted

the gay community here, but the entire
University population.
According to the ex-marshal, he was

personally revolted that GALA has an office in
“our Campus Center.””

Perhaps if this person just took a closer look
around our Campus Center he might see the vast
diversity of organizations and ideas that
constitute SUNYA’s unique population.

Our University is here for everyone to enjoy
and benefit from regardless of their sexual
preference. Anyone who cannot accept this fact
is not only infringing on the rights of others, but
also living hopelessly in the past.

Unfortunately, there are still too many people
who share the beliefs of the misguided marshal.
These homophobics are betrayed by the same
language common to all bigots. They take
pleasure in ridiculing what they don’t
understand and what they are too fearful to
address.

The folks at GALA do not seek anything that
in anyway threatens the misguided marshal.
What they. want and what they deserve is the
simple level of human dignity accorded by law to
all members of our society.

Unfortunately, the civil rights guaranteed by
law are not enough. There is no law on the
books that can stop blind hatred. Discrimination
against homosexuals will continue until people
free their minds of prejudice and hatred.

A good start for the misguided marshal would
be to go up to the GALA office in the daylight
hours and meet face-to-face some of the people
he so rudely insulted. They won’t expect him to
embrace the gay lifestyle, but rather to accept
their right to pursue their life as they desire to do
so. 2.

Is that too much for a person to ask?

And to anyone else who agrees with the
misguided marshal, give this idea some thought:
What would life be like if everyone thought,
lived, dressed and acted exactly the same way?

Probably pretty damn dull.

Big ‘O’ week

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Nowhere are the differences between men and women
more pronounced than in the field of medicine. The
medical industry exploits and profits from ‘these dif-
ferences through the introduction and suppression of new
drugs and procedures. Women have been victimized by
these drugs and procedures suggesting that the sexism we
see in our society permeates the ‘‘ivory towers of
healing.””

Angelica Lewis

Evidence of this can be seen in the introduction of the
Pill, an oral contraceptive method of birth control for
women. The Food and Drug Administration approved
the Pill for marketing in 1960 without adequate testing or
research. A study done in Puerto Rico, upon which the
FDA based its original approval, included only 132 sub-
jects — a study so small it was later deemed a “‘scientific
scandal.’ In addition, at least three deaths among this
study group of women were never autopsied or explained
to the FDA. An interesting footnote: although the oral
contraceptive designed for women was released with little
research within two years after its discovery, the ‘‘male”
version has been in the testing process for at least ten
years and has not yet been released.

Another example of the inadequacies in women’s
healthcare is in the marketing of Diethylstilbestrol, or
DES, a synthetic estrogen. Despite the fact that studies as
early as the 1930’s showed estrogens to be carcinogenic in
lab animals, the FDA approved DES in 1942 for
breastmilk suppression and the treatment-of menopausal
symptoms and vaginitis. By 1947 the FDA had extended
its approval of DES to higher doses during pregnancy to
“protect” against miscarriage even though there had
been no studies to examine the potential effect on the
fetus or extensive studies done for pregnant women.
Although studies showed conclusively by 1953 that DES
was ineffective in preventing miscarriages, the FDA did
not warn against using it during pregnancy until 1971, on-
ly after a significant number of cases linking DES with
cancer in the offspring of mothers who had taken the
drug were reported. DES is still being prescribed in com-
bination with other drugs as a ‘‘morning after’’ birth con-
trol pill.

Yet a further example of the negligence in the protec-
tion of women’s healthcare is the introduction of the In-
trauterine Device (IUD) as a method of birth control.
From 1971-1974 the A.H. Robins company marketed the
Dalkon Shield IUD. It was soon implicated in a high
number of cases of Pelvic Inflamatory Disease and spon-
taneous septic abortions. Despite the preponderance of
the evidence against it, the Dalkon Shield was taken off
the market only after it caused the death of 17 women
from spontaneous septic abortions. One wonders how
different the situation might be had the subjects of this
crime had been men: would it have taken 17 deaths and
hundreds of painful operations on male genitalia before a
new variety of condom was taken off the market?

Women have for too long now been ‘‘guinea pigs’’ for
science in medical technology. The willingness to expose
women to untested drugs and unnecessary procedures

reflects a lack of respect for women by the medical com-
munity. An estimated one-third to one-half of all hysterc-
tomies (surgical removal of the uterus) done in the United
States are unnecessary. Evidence suggests that many
hysterectomies are performed for profit and to give prac-
tice to hospital interns. There is no statistically com-
parable example of unnecessary surgery performed on
men in the United States.

Another example of unnecessary surgery for women is
reflected in the rising rate of cesarean sections has almost
doubled in upstate New York area hospitals. The feelings
of ‘failure’ in mothers delivered by this procedure aside, a
cesarean section is a major operation which may add as
much as $3000 to the cost of labor. Also, sometimes in-
fants delivered by cesarean section are preterm and re-
quire neo-natal intensive care adding another $1000 per
day to the hospital bill. The rising costs of healthcare for
women are consequently creating barriers in access to it.
The United States is the only modern industrial nation
without a universal health service or national health in-
surance program. Poor women are increasingly being
turned away from health facilities. In the United States
these financial barriers‘ have prevented women from
receiving adequate prenatal healthcare. As a result, the
U.S. lags behind almost all European and many third
world countries in infant mortality rates, according to the
latest reports. This problem is highly concentrated in New
York State evidenced by the fact that it ranks forty-eighth
out of fifty states in the country in providing prenatal
care.

The current Prenatal Care and Nurtrition Program
(PCNP) in NYS has no local programs in 17 counties,
leaving approximately 22 million women without accessi-
ble prenatal healthcare according to the New York State
Department of Health estimates. The primary reason for
this inadequacy is that the PCNP currently is a “‘line-
jtem’’ in the Department of Health’s budget. It is not law
and is therefore subject to the funding whims of the
legislature. Oftentimes not enough money is received.

There are two proposals before the legislature this
April that would make PCNP into law. One bill, in-
troduced by Member of the Assembly James Tallon (D-
Binghamton) provides a stabilized funding base for the
PCNP, while the second bill, proposed by Governor
Cuomo, would expand coverage to include not only
prenatal care but delivery, and post partum infant care
costs. The importance of both pieces is that they
recognize the “‘universal entitlement’’ of all women to
high quality, affordable healthcare.

Our society is plagued with discrimination and pre-
judice against its different members. In the past 20 years
we have at last become more aware of our bias against
women in the workplace but the surface has only been
scratched. This bias becomes shockingly apparent in the
politics of women’s healthcare, and it’s about time for
this country to halt the introduction of dangerous and
untested pharmaceuticals, the rising rate of unnecessary
surgery, and the other problems that exist in the field of
of women’s medicine. Oo

The writer is NYPIRG’s Women’s Issues Coordinator

cAsp

ectS

Friday, March 20, 1987

Celebrating National
Orgasm Week with
Dr. Roger Libby

March 20, 1987

cAspectfully Yours

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“That's disgusting,” is my mother’s retort to that sort of advice. “Women
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1 am just a product of confusion. After reading this month’s issues of
Cosmo and Ms, magazines, | am convinced that I am a throwback to the
50’s. Aside from the fact that bobby socks make my ankles look fat, there is
something about those traditional values that is very appealing. The guy was
expected to approach the girl, lay his entire ego and self image on the line,
and ask her out. The girl had to live up to her share of the responsiblity,
too. She could either be overwhelmed with joy and: accept, or make up a
ridiculous, unbelievable excuse and refuse.

This is a variation on an original theme, The Caveman with the Club
method of approach. Neanderthal man approaches female counterpart
(although probably not to ask her to a movie), heavy stick in hand.
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excuse, or runs fast enough to dodge the swing of the club.

Some people still adhere to this pattern, but it has become ever so
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when she is being asked out, since both club and bobby socks are lacking to
make it obvious. “A bunch of my friends are having a party, and I just
wanted to know if you'd like to hang out.”

Hang out? Shall I wear a clingy skirt and heels, or should I wear sweats
and bring a six pack? Should I brush my teeth for the fourth time before I
go, or should I not bother worrying about it?”

These are problems that arise only if this is a romantic possibility. But
what if Joe Grotesque calls, and his proposition is overt. “Hi, Evelyn? This is
Joe Grotesque from your Soc. 386 class. Would you like to go to a party
with me Saturday night?”

Traditional option: fabricate a silly excuse and feel like slime for the next
two weeks: “Sorry. I've got to wash my hair tomorrow night.” Now, trying
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See you in Soc.”

What does “that way” mean, anyway? Translation: “Joe, I find you
physically repulsive. See you in Soc.” It really has nothing to do with
respect, just the ability to be cruel.

To further complicate matters, now Helen Gurley Brown (Cosmo's editor)
is telling me to get out there and put my ego on the line, and subject myself
to such cruelty, or “respect” as it’s now called. I just got used to holding my
tennis racket the right way, and now I'm expected to swing a club.

“Hi John. This is Evelyn, from your Soc. 386 class. A bunch of my friends
are having a party Saturday night. I was wondering if you'd like to go with
me?”

“Qh, sorry. Saturday night I have to work out and then wash my hair.
Maybe some other time.”

Well, I have not yet given up on becoming a full-fledged woman of the
80’s, like Ms. Virginia Slims. Someday when I'm not such a wimp I'll be the
one to initiate a relationship. That's right, with sweaty palms and palpitating
heart I'll swagger up to that man of my dreams and —

But not today. I’ve got to wash my bobby sacks. a

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March 20, 1987

Aspects 3a

Jupiter orbits a bit off course

comedy-drama by Gram Slaton

and premiering at the Capital Rep,
isn't quite finished yet. What is there is
good, mind you:

J upiter and Elsewhere, a new

Eric Berlin

Ina run-down bowling alley deep in the
heart of Fendal, Ohio lives Linus, an old
man who considers the alleys to be his
legacy. He has two sons, one of whom he
considers a failure, because he dropped out
of college to become a rock star, and one
he considers successful, for this second son
is a Marine (“He's actually touched every
dollar he’s made!” bellows Linus at Phil, the
rock star). The conflicts between father and
sons, as well as between the brothers, con-
sistently create an almost hypnotic tension,
especially later in the play, when the actors
seem more warmed up.

a TE

It almost seems that we are
watching a performance of a
second-draft play.

The actors appearing unprepared is a
problem in the beginning of the play,
especially for Russ Jolly, the young actor
who plays rock star Phil. The play begins
with a difficult soliloquy for him, and he
has trouble stepping right into his
character. This is resolved, however, by
the second act, not just for Jolly but for the
cast in general. By the time the conflicts

Stephanie Saft and Doug Wert as the young lovers in Jupiter and Elsewhere

between characters get really heated up,
the whole cast is well enough into their
roles to handle anything.

Outshining everybody, though, is Arch
Johnson, who is great as old Linus. Conniv-
ing and angry and refusing to be defeated,
Johnson is the most convincing character in
the show. Linus is a semi-tragic character,
believing only what he wants, discarding
anything that would pop his bubble. A

comparison to Willy Loman is inevitable,
but inappropriate. Johnson may play a
mean Linus, but he remains a limited
character. Good as Johnson might be, he
can’t bring Gram Slaton’s Linus up to par
with Arthur Miller's classic character.

The whole play, in fact, is weak. It
almost seems that we are watching a per-
formance of a second-draft play. For one
thing, some of the dialogue seems to be in

a foreign language. Yes, the play takes
place in the mid-1960’s, but how different
could the language have been? In this play,
people use such terms as “’Zip-doo-wap” (or
something like that) in everyday conversa-
tion, Such dialogue actually sounds like it is
from Jupiter (or elsewhere). Secondly,
there are a whole bunch of sub-plots runn-
ing around the tiny stage. The rock star's
best friend is getting married in the midst
of the bowling alley getting sold at an auc-
tion, the Marine’s on-again/off-again girl-
friend just discovered that Jack was killed
by a car bomb.

‘And who's Jack, you may ask? Well,
frankly, this critic doesn’t really know.
There are a couple of allusions to a dentist,
and that may be Jack. Maybe.

Some of the sub-plots are necessary,
some are a luxury, and when considered as
a whole, everything resembles a hopelessly
tangled knot of string, which the
playwright desperately tries to sort out by
the end and only half succeeds. He is ob-
viously trying to lead us, step by step, to
his final point, but we all get lost along the
way.

In the Credit Where Credit Is Due
Department is Robert Thayer for his
magnificently detailed set. He had a very
tiny stage to work with, but he didn’t seem
to have any problems at all: he simply built
up. The Bowl-A-Rama sign, in fact, is
almost out of sight, as an example of
Thayer's packing in the details. But sets are

‘only backdrops to the important stuff like

action. Playwright Slaton may have great
ideas, but translating them to the stage is,
for the most part, a thought ee
confusion that almost works.

Heat simmers slowly, never boils

very bloodied woman gets pushed
A out of a car and manages to stum-

ble to a hospital emergency room,
Heat begins.

Roni Ginsberg

The scene suddenly changes to a bar-
room, where Burt Reynolds (Mex) plays
pool. A meek ‘young woman. enters,
waiting for her boyfriend. Macho Mex in-
tercepts her with a pool cue, and makes a
rude pass. Her wimpy boyfriend Osgood
enters and he and Mex fight it out for the
girl. Osgood wins, making the bully Mex
look foolish and “bite the dirt.” The young
woman is scared, yet impressed, and the
couple drives off happily into the night.
Later Osgood pays Mex for the privilege
of beating him up.

Burt Reynolds’ pictures are not noted for
complexity of plot, and low expectations
for this picture were correct.

Mex is a professional tough guy, and the
victim at the beginning, Holly, is a friend
of his. Mex is her way of getting revenge
on her attackers. And so it goes from there.

This is not a movie of subtlety, and it
moves rather slowly. Details are done and
overdone. When Mex wants to go to
Venice, we get lingering shots of a wall full
of Venice travel posters at least half a
dozen times. Heat takes place in Las Vegas,
and while Mex wins at “21”, we are sub-
jected to watching game after countless
card game. After a while, even the little
suspense there is in that angle fails, as in-
terest turns to apathy. When at last he
compiles $100,000 and loses it in one
game, we are indifferent. And so is Mex,
who is too macho to express concern.

There are many slow motion shots of
the endless ways Mex can terminate the
“bad guys,” with the violence more tedious
than offensive. Only the opening scene is
truly disturbing, while all the other
violence is so overdone and contrived that
it fails to make the audience so much as
flinch.

Single-handedly, Reynolds kills off 5
mafia men, including 4 huge brutes.

Burt Reynolds’ pictures are
not noted for the complexity
of plot, and low expectations

for this picture were correct.

ae apparently still in great shape,
has opportunity after opportunity to show
off his biceps. However, he is neither agile
nor strong enough to convince that he can
outdo and outwit 5 trained killers (even in
slow motion).

The writer, William Goldman, deserves
credit for dreaming up Mex’s killing

methods. Mex never uses a gun, but in-
stead harpoons one thug with a well-
thrown steel rod.Another villian is burned
alive in a gas fire, another crushed under a
pile of cinder blocks. Unfortunately, the
blocks had a particularly hollow sound to
chem, which rendered the scene unconvin-
cing, but amusing.

Mex eventually talks Danny DeMarco

(Neil Barry), Holly’s attacker, into commit-
fing suicide, after killing off DeMatco’s
bodyguards. DeMarco is an intense, high
strung aspiring thug. Mex hides in
DeMarco’s suite and disconnects the
power. The pathetic DeMarco realizes
Mex. has won. and pulls the trigger'on
himself, Though an interesting twist, the
set-up has little suspense to it. The camera
moves slowly and the audience quickly
grows bored. If not for Neil Barry's ex-
cellent acting, this scene would not have
maintained our interest for a moment.

Reynolds as Mex was just mediocre,
though not altogether bad. At times, he is
charming and almost convincing. This Eype
of movie doesn’t really allow for any
outstanding acting, although Barry
manages to rise above the average, Expect
to see a lot more of him in the future.

Peter MacNicol is fine as Cyrus Kinnick,
the wimp who follows Mex around to
emulate him and “learn how to be tough.”
His role is inherently stupid, but he does a
good job with it. MacNicol manages to put
some life into an otherwise hopeless role.

The relationship betweeen Mex and
Holly is quite shallow. Mex claims to have
known her since she had braces, but we
don’t know much else about their friend-
ship. Nor do we ever find out why he
would risk his life for her.

Holly (Karen Young) is not very convin-
cing. She waits until the day after she's
been raped and beaten by DeMarco and
his bodyguards to call Mex for help.
Young's portrayal of Holly needs some
depth, as well. The character seeks
vengence, but Young's portrayal lacks the
rage and helplessness that a victim would
feel. Mex is too callous in talking to her.
The macho, silent tyoe doesn’t work well
here.

The portrayal of women in this film is
pathetic; stereotypes are everywhere. Men
are stereotyped, too, but at least some of
the male characters are somewhat rounded
and minimally interesting. Oo

ASP rating

March 20, 1

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March 20, 1987

Aspects 5a

; according to Roger Libby

ist Dr. Roger Libby has declared the
reek of spring (March 21-28) “Na-
Orgasm Week,” a week he would
come an outright celebration of the
rge.
certainly doesn’t wait for the onset
sjoice in the carnal pleasures. As an
cher, and long-time professor, Libby
1 to lecturing year-round on college
ut sex and sexuality, always stress-
erful aspects of sexual indulgence.
wever, compare Libby’s approach to
ion of sexual issues to that of his
vative contemporary, Dr. Ruth
whom Libby views as too analytical
The distinction is immediately: ap-
company Libby chooses to keep.
not to travel solo, frequently tour-
s companion, a five foot soft-
)g-woman whom he calls Roxanne
ane is Libby's ideal date, “she’s an
pendent, sexy female who doesn’t
le to initiate pleasure.” As the sym-
s Ribbit Productions (run out of his
nne is quickly becoming ‘Libby's

soft-sculpture artist Timmi Skinner,
» doubt Libby's idea of the woman
1e often shares Libby’s lectern, with
ypening his college lectures by in-
s friend, colleague, and frog,

srovided his companion with a full
h which to travel. When Roxanne is
ilarly sexy, she wears a slinky black
ports a pair of fishnet stockings. On
>ge rounds, however, she dresses in
jeans andthe tee-shirt of the school
vherever Roxanne goes, she always
rsonal pack, “where she carries her
foam and her massage lotion, her
ly and her vibrator.”
mood and the opportunity happen
xanne Ribbitt is prepared. “She's
Libby of his stuffed friend. “Rox-
y toad. When she's interested, she
and if she doesn’t find anybody
ed, she’s still got her vibrator.”
9g business makes Libby sound a bit
hat’s because it is not necessarily to
ously. Roxanne is indeed the out-
tation of Libby’s offbeat, but good-
of humor. “Women have given me
my toads over the years because
s one. I have a whole house full of
ings that are frogs, frogs with erec-
vall, watercolors of frogs in bikinis,
have gone out with over the years
ne. [My home] is like a little art
women who visit me go through it
t everything and laugh a lot. Well,
lace. That's the way I see life, and
funny place.”
rves amuch more practical purpose,
- is a method to Libby's madness.
z is, admittedly, Libby's gimmick, a
to break the ice when beginning a
out sex. “Some people think I'm
joke when they see her [Roxanne].
pression might be ‘this guy is really
they see this frog. But once they
realize that Roxanne is just a means
to laugh about themselves and their
ons and anxieties, to loosen up so
“my message.”
nessage that Libby is proclaiming
to campus, from radio to television
this: sex can be safe; sex is fun; sex
at should be a welcome message for
totally consumed with the fear of
» knowledge of its sexual transmit-
atop the tidal wave of fear, Libby
fuses to be grim. “How can it be
9e caring toward someone, whether
r not? Sex is one expression of car-

. language, just like talking is a

language, only it's more enjoyable (for most of
us). . . Sex is a healthy life force.”

Alas, there is a serious side to this frog-loving
man. He believes American society has been un-
necessarily swept up in a “media-fueled paranoia”
about AIDS, and he is antagonized by this. “The
media is telling us ‘don’t be single.’ We'd better
get married and be monogamous if we want to be
sexual. Well I’ve got news for the media: that’s
not the only way to be sexual and responsible.

“1 don't think that we have a rapid spread of
AIDS in the heterosexual population, and I think
that’s going to be borne out in the future with
wide-spread blood testing. And I think that’s go-
ing to be particularly true of people who use safe-
sex techniques. It seems the proportion of cases
hasn't grown, only the numbers have. So what
the media do, and I think irresponsibly, is play
with the numbers and say there has been a two
hundred percent increase in the numbers of
heterosexual cases of AIDS, even though they are
still only 2-4 percent of the total. ..It sounds
much bigger than it is. | am concerned about that
kind of biased reporting. The general media have
not always been responsible.”

Neither has the government, according to Lib-
by. He comes down hard on the Reagan ad-
ministration, which he views as irresponsible and
ineffectual in its handling of the AIDS prevention
issue. The President's minimal amount of atten-
tion to the issue has, in Libby’s view, offered the
American public’ dissatisfying and frustrating
options.

“The Reagan administration is pushing sexual
restraint as the only way to be sexually responsi-
ble, which means no sex until marriage, and then
monogamy [one sexual partner]. That leaves out
gays, that leaves out people who are not

sixties era, during which he attended college. He
is about as open-minded as possible, neither con-
demning nor frowning upon any lifestyle or sex-
ual alternative, provided it is accompanied by this
essential sense of social responsibility. “I'm really
not that extreme, I'm just saying that there are dif-
ferent strokes for different folks, that there are
different ways to be sexual or not sexual and cer-
tainly different ways to be responsible about it.”

Libby has been advocating and applauding
“different strokes” for quite a few years now, pro-
moting the idea that there are a variety of sexual
lifestyles from which to choose. His first book,
entitled Renovating Marriage examined the op-
tion of the ‘open marriage,’ and was published in
1973. “I've been on the forefront of looking at
open relationships. I’m the founding editor of the
journal called Alternate Lifestyles. I did several
books on open marriage and alternative lifestyles,
for people who are not monogamous.”

The ‘sexual friendship’ is an alternative that Lib-
by believes is exceptionally beneficial. “Sex is a
normal natural part of being, and to think you're
going to wait until you're married or in the ‘in
love’ state is just ridiculous. If you can have a sex-
ual friendship, that’s nice. Personally, I'm not into
the ‘one night stand’ thing, but I mean a friend-
ship. What's wrong with having several such
friendships? Friends in different states — wouldn't
that be nice?”

While an anxiety-ridden population of former-
ly swinging singles has decided to stop swinging
so heartily, Libby remains undaunted. In a sense,
he is still swinging, just more cautiously, and cer-
tainly in an ever-thinning playground. “Since the
AIDS thing, people are much more reticent about
my ideas. They are drawing conclusions that I
think are unwarranted, that you're going to get

“Trust, fidelity and responsibility don’t reside between the
legs; they reside between our ears.”

— Roger Libby

monogamous. Now that just doesn’t make sense.
It isn’t going to work. . . That's just not the real
world. Regarding suggestions of celibacy and
abstinence as “unrealistic, and even impossible for
many,” Libby’s motto remains “Abstinence does
not make the heart grow fonder.”

“For those who choose abstinence, | think that’s
OK, but to foist that on all of us is not right, and
that’s what the Reagan administration is trying to
do.” Instead Libby whole-heartedly supports
methods of ‘safe sex,’ particularly the use of con-
doms and foam for protection. Thinking about
consequences and taking precautions, says Libby,
“doesn't have to take the fun out of it. Once you
deal with the potential problems you can be more
carefree in a sense, because you're not going to
have to worry. And if you don’t have to worry,
you can enjoy it more.”

One of Libby’s most highly recommended safe
sex practices is the ‘pre-sex interview,’ an informal
discussion about concerns, particular desires. and
preferences, and contraception, between two
potential partners. In the Libby tradition, this
should be carried out in a light-hearted, humorous
context whenever possible. “For instance, you can
ask, ‘What medications do you take for orgasms
that don’t end?’ And then you can say ‘What posi-
tions can you not choreograph on recommenda-
tions of your chiropractor?’ You should be
optimistic.”

Libby believes this interview is also an affirma-
tion of social responsibility; “largely, that means
getting to know people first, talking about issues
like diseases and contraception,” but not forget-
ting to laugh in the process. He had originally
termed this procedure the ‘mutual erotic intake
interview,’ but this “sounded too formal.” Libby
claims his own pre-sex questionnaire at one time
consisted of 105 questions, and “that’s too long.”

As a self-proclaimed “responsible liberal” and
“sexual enthusiast,” Libby bears the mark of the

AIDS or diseases if you're not monogamous. That
just doesn’t follow. You have to be careful and be
selective, and it doesn’t mean you have to be in
bed with a different person every day.

“Whenever you talk about non-monogamy
[meaning more than one sexual partner],
everybody has visions of promiscuity, and that's
not what I'm talking about. I think that both
monogamy and promiscuity are extremes. I'd like
to see a more balanced perspective, where some
people are selective, but not monogamous. Pro-
miscuity is a word that is misused and abused. It’s
a barb. People throw it at somebody else because
someone else is having more sex than they are.
They're saying, ‘you're promiscuous, cut it out.”

Libby sees much danger on the horizon for to-
day's American society, approaching Puritanical
repression and attempted sexual monogamy.
“We're moving toward a very repressed time,
where we see any kind of indication of love as
need and commitment, meaning sexual exclusivi-
ty. Trust, fidelity and responsibility don’t reside
between the legs, they reside between our ears.
It's what sex means. And sex means different
things in various relationships.”

The status quo of American society is less than
satisfying for Libby, who believes the traditional
family structure “has never worked well — it's
too isolated as a unit.” He cites the current
divorce rate as evidence that monogamous mar-
riage may not be the ideal. “People who expect all
their needs to be met by one person either change
their expectations, get out [of the relationship], or
remain miserable,” claims Libby. “We have to
have stronger individuals, and not so much em-
phasis on the couple.”

Apparently our society is hurting in its rigid
assignation of sex roles, as well, though we are
struggling to change. Libby is eager to see women
as more assertive in sexual relationships, a change
that he feels the 80’s man is ready for. “If women

took more initiative, calling guys up, approaching
men, secure men could deal with it. Not only
could they deal with it, but I see that as the best
turn-on there is. When a woman takes the in-
itiative with me, I mean, that is arousing.”

Libby resents the malicious labeling of asser-
tive, very sexually active women. “Why
shouldn't women be as sexually active as men?
Women are very sexual beings, maybe even
more so than men.” When asked if Roxanne, in
all her ‘ready and willing-ness,’ isn’t just a bit ‘slut-
ty,’ Libby quickly defends her honor. “No, Rox-
anne is a very sexy, sexually active frog.”

If he had his way, Libby would dwell in his
idea of a sexual utopia, “where we were all loving
toward each other, and not all so needy and
possessive, where we would see women sharing
the sexual initiative in terms of asking'a guy out
and asking for sex. We would have virtually no
rape, or forced sex, or people being too ag-
gressive or dishonest. It'd be an honest, open,
very sensual and very sexual society. You'd have
times when you'd have ‘responsible orgies.”

So what's on the horizon for the footloose
Roger Libby and his web-footed friend? Well, he
and Roxanne are travelling to Daytona Beach,
Florida on March 24 to celebrate National
Orgasm Week in style. That's where he and the
frog will be beach-bumming, catching some rays,
and hopefully some publicity. Various condom
companies have provided Libby with free give-
aways for his endeavor (“a one week supply for
Roxanne”), and he will hand out buttons, as well,
proclaiming “Safe Sex - N.O.W.” (National
Orgasm Week). Libby is now shopping for a
bikini to fit Roxanne.

As far as addressing a more mature population,
Libby recently spoke at a Washington D.C. con-
ference on human sexuality. He does occasionally
perform as an entertainer/comedian at Jerry
Farber’s Jazz and Comedy Club in Atlanta, and
will continue to do so periodically. He and pal
Farber have visions of creating their own televi-
sion show, combining their talents to form
“something like the Sexy Jazz and Comedy
Show.” But that is mere speculation at this point.

Libby does hope to attract national attention in
the near future, and make the jump from CNN
television (on which he has already appeared) to a
major network program like The David Letter-
man Show, or Late Night With Joan Rivers.

The twosome’s most recent appearance was at
Ball State University in Ohio (“what a name,
huh?’), and Libby and Roxanne will undoubtedly
continue college-hopping. The university is a set-
ting in which Libby feels very much at home.
“I've been a professor most of my life. I know col-
lege students. I know what they're all about. I
know what their sexual patterns are like and I
feel more familiar with college students.”

He seems to have a certain rapport with the
young, liberal community. Libby's humor
borders on sophomoric and riske; it is the kind ap-
preciated by the open-minded, but easily
misunderstood by the stuffy, conservative, cor-
porate grown-up world. Libby typically ends his
“Caring Sex” presentation with the warmest of
regards to the audience: “I wish you lots of
pleasure to come,” he says. “And I hope you all
come a lot in your lives.” Pun intended.

So now, along with the usual benefits of spr-
ing’s arrival (warmer weather, longer days), Libby
has in addition given us National Orgasm Week
— A Sexual Rite of Spring. This week is both an
incentive and an excuse to celebrate our lust, the
universal drive to “be fruitful and multiply.” Re-
joice in the sexual appetite that we all experience,
prescribes Dr. Libby, and indulge in the diversity
among us.

The world, according to Libby, is filled with
mangos, papayas, tangerines and kiwis, so why
restrict yourself, especially this week, to the same
old navel orange? Libby's advice is to just be sure
and check for worms first, and then ‘bon ap-
petite.” Oo

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SA FUNDED

March 20, 1987

Aspects 7a

Kansas carries on at the Palace

power last Tuesday night while

Kansas rock ‘n’ rolled, The veteran
group opened with a hard hitting in-
strumental and soon played their famous
“Point of No Return,” proving the band’s
old spirit still exists.

T.R. McNeil

‘A sense of regeneration was evident
throughout Kansas’ performance. The
band has added two new members and
heralds the triumphant return of lead
singer Steve Walsh. Together they have
managed to lift the band up from the
doldrums it recently experienced,

Billy Greer, one of Kansas’ new
members and the band’s bassist, com-
mented upon the group's rejuvenation say-
ing, “With the new album Power we have
fresh blood in the band, with Steve Morse
and myself. Of course, Steve Walsh is back
singing vocals and so we've really revitaliz-
ed the band. I feel the band is a little more
in touch with the people and more intimate
than before. We've got a good tour going,
the album is selling and we're just really
having a good time out here.”

The Power tour is still pretty. young hav-
ing started on February 14 and as of yet, no
end date for the tour is in sight. Kansas is
enjoying new popularity and has
discovered an entire generation that barely
knows them — at least not yet. The band is
excited about being on a new label, MCA,
and the prospect of reaching a wider
audience.

“The new album is doing pretty well.
We've already had one top 20 single off it,
“All | Wanted”, It is our first video,” Greer

4: he Palace Theater was aglow with

said, “and it made it into MTV's top 10,
that gave us a lot of exposure. Our new
video is coming out this Friday for a world
premier on MTV, a song called “Can’t Cry
Anymore”, Greer revealed. “That will be
our next single felease. We used over a
hundred extras and filmed it in L.A.. You
have to watch it. It’s pretty funny. Things
are looking for it.”

The group got their start in Topeka,
Kansas back in the early seventies. Don

Kirschner discovered and signed them.

They released their first album ap-
propriatley entitled Kansas in 1974 and
continued producing albums through the
early stages of the band. “Well we still
have (some) original members left in the
band now. Rich Williams. is on guitar, Phil
Ehart is our drummer and Steve Walsh is
the lead singer and keyboardist. Kerry
Liugrin was originally in the band as a
guitarist and keyboardist, Dave Hogan was

Rusty Tin Men just
squeaks by

ith his sleeper hit Diner, screen-
W writer/director Barry Levinson cap-
tured a special quality of the
phenomenon known as male bonding. He
explored the coricept again in the highly
enjoyable work Young Sherlock Holmes.
Attempting to achieve success within the
same framework at yet another genera-
tional level, Levinson’s latest, Tin Men,
somehow misses its mark.

April S. Anastasi

It begins in 1963 in Baltimore as the
story of two aluminum siding salesmen
(‘tin men”) on their way to work. Both
spend their morning giving someone the
runaround before heading out in the world
to hustle other customers. As Bill Babowski
(Richard Dreyfuss) later notes, “I have a lot
of training in deceit. . .it's an occupational
hazard.”

The untimely, confrontation of B.B, and
Ernest Tilley (Danny DeVito), the result of
a car accident, forms the basis for the rest
of the film. Each believes the other to be at
fault and vows revenge. In the sequence
which follows, the work quickly moves
from a life-style type movie to one overly
concerned with two adults acting lke
children at the expense of others.

The one most hurt by it all is Tilley’s
wife, Nora (Barbara Hershey). After a
“chance” meeting in the frozen food sec-
tion of the local grocery store, the
excitement-hungry Nora takes B.B. up on
his date offer. Unknowingly, she plays
right into his hands and enables him to
fulfill part of his master plan of vengeance.

Then, B.B. callously informs Tilley of his
wife's whereabouts. Angered, Tilley
prepares for Nora’s return home by “clean-
ing house.” In one of the film’s most com-
ical, though bittersweet, scenes, he throws
most of his wife's belongings out the
bedroom onto the front lawn.

The result of this power play with Nora

as a pawn is that somewhat more human
sides of the tin men are revealed.
However, the over-bearing constancy of
their childlike games grows tiring,

The strongest comedic scenes reflect
Levinson’s background, for they occur in
the local diner. He relies heavily on the
natural comedy resulting from the interac-
tion of a small group of men who know
each other almost too well. This
naturalness lends itself to other ensemble
scenes featuring such familiar faces as that
of Michael Tucker (L.A. Law). Having
picked up on the Maryland regional

dialect, its implementation adds realism to ©

DeVito's portrait of a working-class stiff
trying to make a living. The bittersweet
tinge he sometimes lends to his character
draws sympathy where there otherwise
would not have been any.

Dreyfuss stresses the point that
Babowski is a lousy S.O.B., but the
character is too easily second-guessed. Any
feelings of comraderie he may provoke are
quickly dampened by B.B.'s base and
dispicable nature.

As Nora, Barbara Hershey pours herself
into the character. She makes you want to
sit down with Nora and give her some
good advice. Hershey's transformation
from dowdy housewife to desirable dream
date expresses Nora's stagnation in her
marriage while showcasing Hershey's
vetsatility.

Jackie Gayle shines in his role as Sam
Tilley’s partner. His skill in the delivery of
comedic material makes Sam stand out
above other supporting roles.

Levinson attempts to reinforce his theme
at the end of the film. However, the
predictable ending is weak, and even the
strong performances cannot save the Tin
Men from needing to be_ oiled.

ASP rating é bj

on bass and Robbie Steinhardt played
violin. That's the original line-up.”

“We have a five man line up now but
we added a keyboard player, Greg
Roberts, for the tour..He takes on the
board responsibilities so Walsh can be up
front. But don't worry Steve still plays
some keyboards on almost every song, It
just frees him up more. It would be kind of
a boring show if everyone was tied down
to their instrument.”

This proved to be true for Tuesday's
show. Walsh hardly stood still for five
seconds at a time. He occupied center
stage, and beat on two keyboards and op-
posite sides of the drum riser. At times it
seemed as though he was on keyboards
‘one second, and in the blink of an eye he
was on center stage.

“Steve works out all the time. He's very
energetic and sweats more than all of us
put together,” Greer admits. “Steve is truly

a show to watch in himself. He's possibly
more energetic than he ever was.”

“Steve is incredible. It’s just
amazing to watch this man play guitar. He
really does things that you aren't supposed
to do on the guitar,” Greer testified as to
Morse’s abilities.

Morse held up his end of the guitar play-
ing throughout the show. He performed
one song entitled “Up In The Air” from his
Dreggs past. It was an acoustic number and
he was accompanied by Rich Williams.
Morse also proved himself on the violin
during “Dust in the Wind” with a little
back up help from Roberts on the boards.
There was some question early in the tour
whether Morse could pull it off but Greer
assured, “Steve does just fine on the violin.
I think he could play just about any instru-
ment he set his mind to.”

Morse’s solos were a bit of a let down, *
although the crowd seemed to enjoy them.
I was expecting a guitar explosion, but
Morse seemed content to stay in one posi-
tion and rely heavily on effects. Some peo-
ple consider too many effects a crutch for
guitar players. Overall, Morse was ade-
quate, but far from awe inspiring.

Kansas delivered five or six songs from
their current album. They also included
several old Kansas standards like “Carry on
Wayward Son,” the last number of the set.
Their encore, “Portrait,” left the audience
feeling content.

“We usually play for about an hour and
a half with an additional encore,” Greer ex-
plained. “We figure you should leave the
people wanting just a little bit more. If you
leave them completely satisfied and drain-
ed no one will come see you the next
time.”

Sr ee

easons|=

a quickly carrying the dead away,
$2] down to their windless ocean.

On rainy Wednesdays

when the paperboy, waterlogged,
won't brave the black waves
rolling in the village streets,

I might consider the trees,

budding in pinprick green,
fy and the bark, again black,

shining wet and slick,

and I may think of something
blue, just beyond tensed
mountains, ready to spill
across the river into my eyes.

The dead bob wearily by.

The rains come and then go,

stripping away dark Monday's mad sno
as that pitted marble the moon

fades into its silent sea:

The dead don’t walk on Fridays.

ws

=

March 20, 1987

‘| Film

Cine 1-10 (459-8300)

1. Outrageous Fortune (R) 1:30, 4, 6:55, 9:10, Fri, Sat, 11:15

2. Nightmare on Elmstreet 3 (R) 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55, Fri, Sat, 12
midnight

3. Hoosiers (PG) 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25, Fri, Sat, 11:45

4. Evil Dead 2 (NR) 4:45, 7:35, 10, Fri, Sat, 12 midnight

5. Lady and the Tramp (G) 2:00 only

6. Platoon (R) 1, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35, Fri, Sat, 11:50

7. Crocodile Dundee (PG-13) 2:15, 4:20, 6:40, 8:50, Fri, Sat, 11:00
8. Some Kind of Wonderful (PG-13) 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45, Fri, Sat,
11:50

9. Mannequin (PG) 1:20, 3:30, 7:10, 9:15, Fri, Sat, 11:05

10. Black Widow (R) 1:40, 4:10, 7:05, 9:20, Fri, Sat, 11:20

11. Radio Days (PG).2, 4:15, 7, 9, Fri, Sat, 11:10

Colonie Center (459-2170)

1. Burglar (R) 7:30, 9:40. Sat, Sun, 2, 3:45, 5:30, 7:30, 9:40. Midnight
showings on Fri, Sat.

2. Tin Men (R) 7:45, 9:50. Sat, Sun, 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45, 9:50

Fri, Sat, midnight showing of Rocky Horror

Crossgates 1-12 (456-5678)

1. Nightmare on Elmstreet 3 (R).2:15, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30, Fri, Sat, 12:30]
2. Heat (R) 12:50, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25, Fri, Sat, 11:30

3. Tin Men (R) 12:55, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55, Fri, Sat, 12:15

4. Hoosiers (PG) 1, 3:55, 6:40, 9:10, Fri, Sat, 11:35

5. Some Kind of Wonderful (PG-13) 12:40, 3:15, 6:35, 9:15, Fri, Sat,
11:25

6. Lethal Weapon (R) 12:20, 3:15, 6:40, 9:35, Fri, Sat, 12 midnight
7. Platoon (R) 12:30, 3:50, 7, 9:45, Fri, Sat, 12:05

8. Mannequin (PG) 1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 8:55, Fri, Sat, 10:50

9. Burglar (R) 1:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:20, Fri, Sat, 12:25

10. Angel Heart (R) 12:25, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30, Fri, Sat, 11:55

11, Outrageous Fortune (R) 2:20, , 7:25, 10, Fri, Sat, 12:05

12. Evil Dead 2 (NR) 1:30, 4, 6:25, , Fri, Sat, 11:05

Madison (489-5431)

Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (PG) 7, 9:10

Spectrum 1-3 (449-8995)

1. Round Midnight (R) 7, 9:40. Sat, Sun, 4:15, 7, 9:40

2. A Room With a View (PG) 6:45, 9:15, Sat, Sun, 4, 6:45, 9:15

3. Sullivan's Pavillion (PG) 7:25, 9:25. Sat, Sun, 4:30, 7:25, 9:25

UA Hellman (459-5322)

1. Angel Heart (R) 7:15, 9:45. Sat, Sun, 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:45.
Midnight showings on Fri, Sat.

2. Lethal Weapon (R) 7:30, 9:45. Sat, Sun, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:45.
Midnight showings on Fri, Sat.

University Cinemas

1. Nothing in Common, Fri, Sat, 7:30, 10 in LC7

2. Silent Movie, Fri, Sat, 7:30, 10 in LC1

3. Kiss of the Spider Woman (R) Sun, 2:30, 7:30, 10 and Mon,-7:30, 10
jin LC7

QE2

Blacksmith, Sat. matinee, 5-7pm. The Lyres with Full Fathom Five, Sat.
night, March 21. PJ and the Magic Bus with Other Bright Colors,
Mon, March 23. Open Mic. night featuring Bob Dylan’ songs only,
Tues, March 24. The Last Stand with Cacophonous Votive, Wed,
March 25. Chefs of the Future with E Plemnista, Thurs, March 26.
Pauly’s Hotel

Kilimanjaro, Fri, March 20. Freedom of Expression, Sat, March 21.
Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys, Sun, March 22.

Club 288

Wallmen with One Death Two and Carrion Fowl, Sun, March 22.
Bogies

Strange Arrangement every Monday. The Newports every
Wednesday.

Meghan’s Place

The Stomplistics, Fri, March 20. The Newports every Thursday.
September's

Private Eyes, through Sun, March 22. New Friends, Mon, March 23)
through Sun, March 29.

SUNYA Performing Arts Center

Fefu and Her Friends, Fri-Sat, March 20-21 at 8pm in the Arena|
Theatre.

Capital Rep

World premiere of Jupiter and Elsewhere, through April 12.
Cohoes

Working, March 29 through April 19; previews begin March 26.
ESIPA at the EGG

Amadeus, March 21-29.

Palace Theatre

Doug Henning, Fri, March 20 at 8pm. Anita Baker with Durell Col-
eman, presented by UCB and WFLY, Wed, March 25 at 8pm.

RPI

Bon Jovi with Cinderella, April 10.

Proctor’s

On the 20th Century, March 20-22.

Church of the Covenant

Murder in the Magnolias, presented by the Circle Theatre Players,
March 20-22, 27-28.

Theatre
| Music

Albany Institute of History and Art
Savory Suppers and Fasionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America,
through April 5. Five Person Exhibition featuring sculpture and
photography by Brickman, Giorgini, Natalini, Noyes and Scialo,
through April 21. Institute panel presentations every Thursday at
noon. j
New York State Museum
Se) Northeastern Wildlife Exposition, Fri- Sun, March 20-22. Johann!
Sebastian Bach: The World Within and Without the Artist, March 22,
3, and 29; free admission. Black Art in the 20th Century: Film series,
P Sundays at 2pm through March 22 and Tuesdays at 12:10 through
March 24. Tradition and Conflict: Images of a turbulent decade, 1963
to 1973, through April 26. The Product of Design, through June 7.
The Ice Age Returns
Schenectady Museum and Planetarium
Edison Hall of History, Out of the Ordinary, Horizons Under the Sea.
Exhibition by the National Association of Women’s Artists. Children’s

il

dinosaur exhibit.

THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

The Hendersons of the Jungle

(©1967 mares rn sine

“For heaven's sake, Roger —
stop dragging that one leg.”

Theatrical games

To the Editor:

If I wasn’t so concerned that the student body might
actually believe Joe Sammon’s letter of this past Friday, 1
might actually think it funny. Mr. Sammons calls me a
liar, when in fact it is he who bends the truth. In the cases
where he does not do such, he ignores the intent of my
words to focus on details which have little or no bearing
on what I have to say. I can only believe that he does this
in the dim hopes the students will be foolish enough to do
the same.

He is correct in that I was selected as temporary co-
chair in the spring of 1985, however, he expects your
readers to overlook two facts -- that I was selected as co-
chair (albeit temporarily), and that I had worked with
NYPIRG long enough and in such capacity to be taken in
their confidence and named to the post. That was the
point I made, though I admit the technical error of my be-
ing temporary.

Secondly, Mr. Sammons states that I stayed with
NYPIRG only a week into the fall semester of 1985. In
this case, besides his facts being incorrect, he again
overlooks the point if what I -was saying -- that I left
NYPIRG quite soon into the semester because of their
considerations of an anti-pornography campaign.

As Mr. Sammons states, that plan was never carried
out, but my point (which obviously escaped Mr. Sam-
mons) was that such a plan was considered: I never claim-
ed that it got beyond the planning stages.

Mr. Sammons continues to consider the student body
of this school a group of fools. He argues vehemently that
NYPIRG never took sides on the issue of abortion, as if I
ever said they did. I didn’t. My exact words were: ‘‘...but
they could have...’’, and if his mind worked as fast as his
typewriter, Mr. Sammons would have seen that the words
were quite nicely italicized. Joe Sammons is playing
theatrical games with his letters in a desperate attempt to
salvage his -- and NYPIRG’s -- extremely weak position,

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and he insults every student when he does so.

One last thing the student body should be aware of:
Mr. Sammons obviously had time to think about what he
would say before writing his letter, yet he never once
denied NYPIRG’s belief, as I stated it, that ‘it doesn’t
matter what the students think,’ because policy decisions
are up to the State Board in New York. I take that, as
should the students on this campus, as an admission of
guilt. NYPIRG does not care what students want, they
simply want the money to fund their (NYPIRG’s)
politics.

I understand that anyone reading the exchange that
Mr. Sammons and myself have had on these pages will
most likely be unsure whom to believe. I ask then, that
they only believe the points we agree upon: that I was, in
fact, Local Board Chair (though temporary), and that
NYPIRG cares not at all for student opinion. This plus
what common sense should tell any reasonable person
about their funding, which the Albany Times-Union ac-
curately calls a ‘‘forced donation,’’ should make my
point better than I ever could.

I apologize to the readers who find this exchange
tiresome, and simply remind them that a NO vote will
eliminate both sides of the issue from this paper, and
from this campus.

— Andrew Kantor

Track or treat

To the Editor:

In response to Todd Fernbach’s letter ‘‘Run, run
away”’ that appeared in the March 6 edition of the ASP I
would like to suggest a solution. While I do not agree with
Mr. Fernbach’s belief that all joggers are “‘annoying sub-
creatures’’ I do believe he has raised a valid concern. I
suggest that the University build a running track
alongside Perimeter road.

SUNY-Stony Brook had a similar problem with joggers
last year, the only place to run was in the road. This past
summer they paved a path alongside their Perimeter road.
Needless to say it solved the problem of both joggers and
motorists using the same roads. Being both a jogger and
a motorist on this campus I believe that this would
alleviate the danger of running on Perimeter road,
especially at night. As for the cost of making such a track,
my only question is if Mayfest is cancelled what’s SA go-
ing to do with the money they set aside for Mayfest?

— Steven Pines

Keystone cops

To the Editor:

Our organization does not necessarily insinuate that
NYPIRG’s supporters are liars. However we will
demonstrate in this letter that they simply can not get
their story straight on the way they collect or spend your
$56,000. We suggest that NYPIRG’s supporters, like the
Keystone Cops,.are organizationally screwed up and,
because of their own lack of internal controls, they are
tripping over their own language. Unfortunately, their
lack of organizational accountability is not the only pro-
blem. The other problem is of a far more serious nature.
The problem is that they have chosen to attempt to censor
or condemn their opponents based on their own bad in-
formation. To this point NYPIRG’s supporters on the
Student Association (SA) have passed Bill number
8687-93R. This Bill orders the censorship of any literature
that discusses the NYPIRG/SA financial arrangement by
their opponents. This kind of makes you wonder what
they have to hide doesn’t it?

The difference between our organization and the cam-
paign run by NYPIRG’s supporters is that we will
substantiate our claims. Take for example the statement
by NYPIRG supporter Paco Duarte, that if NYPIRG
were to lose this year’s referendum the mandatory activity
fee would drop from $103 to $97. Both the ASP, and SA
spokesman Duarte, have supported NYPIRG in recent
statements on this point. For example, the ASP, March
10th editorial stated that ‘‘If students were to vote
against NYPIRG, they would pay $6 less per year.’’ The
past propaganda of these groups however contradicts
their current rhetoric. For example, during the last
NYPIRG referendum campaign in April, 1985, NYPIRG
distributed. a flyer entitled ‘‘Don’t Be Fooled By
NYPIRG’s Opponents” in which they stated, “‘the [man-
datory] activity fee will remain the same regardless of the
vote.””

The ASP, in its April 1985 endorsement of NYPIRG’s
funding, entitled ‘‘Clearing The Air”’ also stated students
would not get their $6 back and ‘“‘the money would be
reallocated by SA”’ to other SA funded groups. So for ex-
ample, Mayfest could receive the $56,000 that is allocated
to NYPIRG’s mandatory political funding system. The
very issue that SA has chosen to censor the opponents of
NYPIRG?’s forced political funding from speaking about.

It’s clear that NYPIRG’s supporters prefer to change
their position on NYPIRG’s fulnding as they see fit.
They’re making up the rules as they play the game. The
question to be asked is this: What gives NYPIRG and its
supporters the right to censor anyone who disagrees with
them or to ban the display of any poster that criticizes
NYPIRG’s relationship with the SA budget? This is the
same budget, the same money, from which all SA funded

groups receive their appropriations. Even NYPIRG tells
us that its funding “‘is [from] the same student activity fee
that funds all SA funded groups like the Concert Board,
Student Action, WCDB, and the Outing Club.” in their
most recent poster. There is, of course, one marked dif-
ference though. NYPIRG receives a guaranteed $56,000 a
year while other SA funded groups have had their budgets
frozen or slashed. It seems as if all SA funded groups are
equal, while NYPIRG is more equal than others.
Another example of the lack of organizational control
by the supporters of NYPIRG is their claim that
NYPIRG funding referendum is guaranteed to be con-
ducted every two years. This claim is completely con-
tradictory to student legislation currently in force. Again,

. unlike NYPIRG and its supporters, we choosr to cite

facts. Section 817.4 of the SA Constitution states that the
next referendum on NYPIRG’s funding system is not
guaranteed to occur until four years after this coming
referendum. This means if NYPIRG’s funding passes this
semester, next fall’s incoming freshman class will not be
able to vote on paying NYPIRGs political fee until they
are seniors. We are voting on whether or not to make next
year’s freshman class pay NYPIRG’s political fee for the
next four years. NYPIRG’s supporters continue their
disinformation, despite documentation to the contrary,
in a deliberate attempt to keep the student body in the
dark. NYPIRG and its supporters sidestep the facts by
claiming that SA may choose to bring NYPIRG’s funding
to a referendum any time they see fit. The truth of the
matter is there is no guarantee this will ever occur. The
fact that NYPIRG’s supporters have shamelessly coerced
SA into taking the unprecedented position of censoring
NYPIRG?’s student opponents attests to this.

By censoring opponents, NYPIRG’s supporters have
shown their contempt for student rights, the First
Amendment, and for anyone who would dare to disagree
with NYPIRG. So much for the ‘‘public interest’’ as far
as NYPIRG’s supporters are concerned.

— Edward Priola
Chairman of Students Against Forced (Political) Funding

Sixteen candles

To the Editor:

In response to ‘‘Maybefest”’ in Tuesday’s March 10th
issue of the ASP, it’s ironic that when the minority
students expressed their concern about the loss of
ASUBA fest, their laments fell on deaf ears. As a concern-
ed Black student at SUNYA, I am also interested in the
preservation of ASUBAfest. Unfortunately, Central
Council ruled that the entire ASUBA budget ($15,000) be
used toward expenses for the Anita Baker concert. That
decision was made in total-absence of and without ap-
proval from ASUBA executive members.

As stated by the author of ‘“‘Maybefest,’”’ Mayfest is as
believed by all SUNYA students, the most fun and impor-

tant social event of the school year.”” ASUBAfest is «

equally as important to the Black student community as
Mayfest is to the student community at large.

ASUBAfest has been a tradition at SUNY A for sixteen
years, a tradition which I strongly believe should not be
broken nor usurped. I, as a Black student on campus, ap-
preciate ASUBAfest. I look forward to it each year and
would resent seeing ‘‘our’’ tradition die. If the fifteen-
year tradition of Mayfest is to be maintained, then the
sixteen-year tradition of ASUBAfest should also be main-
tained. It is the desire of members of Albany State
University Black Alliance (ASUBA) that the $15,000 be
restored for an ASUBAfest in April to maintain the
sixteen-year tradition of that event.

Food fight

fo the Editor:

In response to ‘‘where’s the beef,”’ a letter written by a
supposed UAS worker with a gripe against ZBT, I would
like to make a few points. Firstly, 1 find it reprehensible
that the ASP would print such a letter. The writer of this
letter is directly affecting the reputation of upwards of
eighty people without the ‘‘beef”’ to back up his or her
claims without a name. I also have serious doubts about
whether the brothers of ZBT have any worse table man-
ners than anyone else. I have dined with many of them,
and although there is more than a healthy rivalry between
our fraternities, I have not yet had food or anything else
thrown at me and they do take up their trays.

It is unfair to blame the indiscriminate action of one or
two people on an entire fraternity. The writer mistakenly
stated that most of the brothers of ZBT live and eat on
State Quad, when in actuality more than half the fraterni-

— Laurence Patten

ty lives and eats off Campus. Let us not lose sight of the -

fact that ZBT and all fraternities have enhanced an other-
wise stagnant social life for all of us while helping to
make these college years the best of times for its
members. I would encourage the writer to think twice
before he drags the name of so many good people down
due to his frustrations and misinformation. I would also

encourage the ASP to print letters with merit or nothing 53

at all.

— Allen Weinberg
President-elect, Sigma Nu Fraternity

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because high school students
study history and sciénce.

“What we are advocating,’’
Lott said, ‘‘is an achievement test
that reflects the education of the
New York student.”

In defense of the SAT, Lott
said that the College Board ‘‘uses
every method available’ to
eliminate any bias in tests.

One example of a possible bias-
ed question is one referring to
polo or golf — sports dominated
by white males. Women and
minority students might not
understand questions referring to
“polo boards” or “‘tees.””

Tests results of students who
have taken the LSAT show that
there is a difference between
whites and minority law ap-
plicants who have comparable
grades, majors, and
undergraduate institutions.

A 1980 study by Joseph Gan-
non for the National Conference
of Black Lawyers provided
evidence of bias in the LSAT. He
found numerous items extremely
distractive to minority test takers.

Union

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sion for more than 50 years.

The college will continue to re-
quire the submission of scores on
the College Board’s achievement
tests or the score on the American

College Testing examination.

» Morris also said he wanted to
encourage students to submit ex-

amples of their creative works or ,

talent, such as a paper written for
high school.

“We feel strongly that the at-
tributes a student needs to suc-
ceed in college — critical think-
ing, effective writing, strong
analytical skills, intellectual
curiousity — can best be judged
by a close review of the student’s
overall achievements,’’ Morris
said.

Morris said average SAT scores
for recent classes at Union have
been in the top ten percent of
SAT scores nationally. oOo

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By Duncan Shaw
STAFF WRITER

Ben Franklin — a charming, witty,
Founding Father or a cynical contemp-
tuous pessimist?

Ron Bosco, a SUNYA English pro-
fessor, attempted to answer that question
Wednesday afternoon in a lecture

The presentation was entitled ‘Benjamin
Franklin-Quintessential Optimist or
Pessimist.’ Sponsored by the Center for
Humanities, the event was a part of their
‘works-in-progress’ series.

“This was a chance to talk to and
enlighten students and colleagues,”’ said
Bosco.

Bosco began his discussion centering on
Franklin’s dark, pessimistic side, and
acknowledged that he might be ‘‘chipping
away” at the benevolent. image Franklin
often represents.

“Tn examining him thoroughly, one in-
variably comes up with his dark side, a side
which clearly shows pessimism,’’ Bosco
said, adding that ‘the had a contempt for
mankind and human pride, as well as a dis-

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dain for human nature.”’

According to Bosco, one of Franklin’s
major lifelong complaints against man was
his belief that ‘‘virtue usually fails to pro-
vide any lasting impression in the hearts of
men, and it does not influence the condi-
tion of their lives.”’

Continuing on this theme, Bosco again
quoted Franklin’s belief that ‘‘although
there are many opportunities for virtue
and knowledge, men instinctively remain
fools, dunces, and blockheads.’’ Overall,
Bosco agreed that Franklin displayed some
optimism, but disagreed that he was an op-
timist in the ultimate sense.

However, Bosco did not overlook the
qualities that have come to ‘‘characterize
the Franklin we all know and love.”

Citing quotations from Ezman Wright’s
Franklin in Philadelphia, Bosco described
Franklin as ‘“‘being successful in business,
having a many-faceted public career, being
renowned for his blended prose and world-
ly wisdom, and being a dedicated public
servant for the good of mankind.”

Popular interpretations of Franklin’s
life often underscore his positive, op-

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timistic qualities as well as his ac-
complishments, according to Bosco. ‘‘We
may have been conditioned to doubt-
certainly to resist-his dark side.” said
Bosco.

Franklin amassed a number of com-
plaints against man over the years, said
Bosco, who added that Franklin often
wrote of individuals in an attempt to repre-
sent man in general.

The expression that ‘the [Franklin] ap-
peals to modern temper’’ has often been
used by readers of Franklin’s biography,
: Bosco said, adding ‘‘it has most likely been
used since [roughly] 1820-1986 the dates of
his pubications.””

Bosco summarized that ‘‘with the
satirical Franklin, one finds a tone that
ranges from bitter irony to outright
pessimism, and disgust with human
nature.”

Bosco said he was ‘“‘pleased to par-
ticipate”’ in the works-in-progress series
and that ‘‘it is a very worthwhile project.’”
He added, ‘“‘something worthwhile does
come out of this, which receives the final
stamp of approval-scholarship.”” Oo

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Unique barber shop offers more than just haircuts

By Roderick M. Williams
MINORITY AFFAIRS EDITOR

Through this column, I’ve tried
to address the issues and concerns
of the minority community.

Today, in light of this being
Albany State University Black
Alliance’s Black Men’s Week, I'd
like to address a lighter dilemma
facing black males on this cam-
pus — the problem of attaining
adequate hair care, or finding so-

te it
the ‘dome Beyond
iece.””
TM aay ne
brothers on Majority
campus have

opted to get their hair cut only in
‘‘the city.’”

Thus, due to infrequent trips
home they end up sporting an
afro.

Those who dare to try an
Albany barber venture down to
Stancil’s, where they find half of
Albany crammed into the shop.

But few students know about a
fine little shop that’s guaranteed
to lift the spirits, make you laugh,
and do justice to your ‘‘fade.””

The shop — considered a land-
mark by people in the South End
— is called the Three Star
Barbershop.

Three Star is located on the
corner of South Pearl Street and
Waterloo Avenue. But Three
Star’s landmark status is~ not
derived from either its location or
its architecture, but is found in
the person of its sole proprietor,
Herman Cockfield.

Cockfield, who diplomatically
evades questions about his age,
but puts it ‘‘somewhere in his fif-
ties”’ by patrons, has been cutting
hair since 1950. Back then, he had
a shop on Arch Street, in the
South End.

He was there for three’ years
before moving to a place less than
two blocks from his present loca-
tion at 193 S. Pearl.

Inside the store, pictures of
sports figures, ripped from
magazines and held in place by
yellowing tape, adorn the walls.

Sloan
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said. Uniforms are worn for
school and for work. Her hus-
band had to wear a company-
supplied uniform for corporate
meetings, which consisted of gray
pants, a blue blazer bearing the
company crest, a white shirt, and
a red tie, she said.

Also, at daily morning
meetings, each worker wears a
white headband with the com-
pany slogan of the year on it.

Sloan said that while Japanese
students have to work much
harder to get into universities, the
workload is much easier.

“The study at universities in
Japan is much less directed than it
is here. Students, in fact, openly
admit that they don’t have to
work in the universities.””

Sloan also explained that one’s
job is determined by. the universi-
ty attended and not how well one
did in school.

Sloan said that it is Japanese
custom not to talk about oneself.
However, she said one of the
easiest ways to draw them into
conversation is to ask about their
children’s progress in school.

Returning to Japan this sum-
mer to finish her research, Sloan
said she will ‘probably do some
sort of presentation to the depart-
ment, and probably will teach
some sort of course on Japan.” 0)

There are also wallet-size pictures
of customers and relatives.

Cockfield proudly recalled the
early days at 193 S. Pearl.

“The shop was a lot bigger
then. We did hair styling and had
a shoe shine stand,’’ said
Cockfield, as he pointed to the
area that takes up nearly one-
third of the present shop.

In 1983, an urban renewal pro-
ject cut his shop to half its
original size, and a beauty parlor
moved into the newly created
space next door.

Throughout his years of
barbering, Cockfield has
established a large and loyal
clientele, many of whom followed
him from his original Arch Street
shop.

“Children whose hair I’ve cut
are now bringing their children to
me,’’ said Cockfield. ‘‘That’s
why I like to think of Three Star
as a generational barbershop.”

According to Cockfield, his
clientele includes lawyers, doc-
tors, clergy, students and those
“financially depressed,’’ such as
senior citizens, and the children
of welfare mothers.

“The doors are open to all,’’

proclaimed Cockfield. ‘‘No one is
turned away.”’

“We provide cut rate prices for
those unable to pay the regular
prices,” Cockfield said.

According to one patron,
Cockfield once gave a drunk man
bus fare to get home and even
flagged down a bus on South
Pearl for him.

Cockfield’s message to his
customers is one of hope. ‘‘Peo-
ple come here and forget about
their problems,”’ he said. “I’m
just trying to help people achieve
in this trying world...I’d like to
think God is using this shop as a
vehicle to help people.’’

The only complaint Cockfield
customers have is that they can’t
tell who is waiting for haircuts,
and who’s there just to shoot the
breeze.

Three Star would probably be
considered more of a social club if
not for the high marks Cockfield
receives for his hair-cutting skills.

“This haircut’s with it, even if
nobody will admit it.” said a
young man named Sporty after
getting a cut by Cockfield.

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Cockfield’s role in the shop is
more than that of a barber. Three
Star, like many barber shops, is a
forum for debates, which
Cockfield plays mediator, lec-
turer and instigator.

The topics of discussion are as
varied as Cockfield’s patrons.
Politics and religion are popular.
But arguments related to sports
are most frequent, with boxing a
particular favorite.

One of Cockfield’s most
cherished memories is the time
when boxing great Muhammed
Ali stopped in the shop.

The year was 1967, and Ali was
in the area preaching the religion
of Islam.

“Ali was a true people’s cham-
pion,”’ said Cockfield. ‘‘He came
in and made everybody feel
good.”’

Absent from the pictures of
sports figures on the walls is Cat-
skill native and current boxing
champ Mike Tyson.

“He [Tyson] was outside the
shop, his gitl was getting her hair
done next door and I opened the
door and’ asked him before he
left to say Hi to the fellas.“‘You
know, he never came in. It’s a
shame when you get that big that
you can’t make time for your peo-
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Yanks in’87- too good for AL East division foes?

By Mark Lubelsky

It pains me very greatly to have to in-
form the Mets and their vast array of
bandwagon fans that the Mets will lose the
1987 World Series in six games to the New
York Yankees. Laugh at the Yankee’s pit-
ching staff if you want to, but I’ve got two
downers for every Met fan. First, no mat-
ter who the Yankees have pitching, Gary
Carter, the most overrated player in
baseball, and Darryl Strawberry, baseballs
most talented .250 hitter,
will provide the crucial

Crh nie cuit ce OPOltS
cond, the Yankees staff Column

could very well turn out

to be one of the

American Leagues’ better rotations.
Following are my predictions for the
American League. Other predictions will
appear next week.

The Yankees attended to
their only two real weaknesses from the ’86
season with the acquisitions of 15 game
winner Rick Rhoden and the right-handed

much needed assistance in facing left
handed pitchers, ending the Yankees
vulnerability to lefties.

Their pitching problems are not nearly
as bad as the public has been led to believe-
Yankee scam. They have two quality
starters in Rick Rhoden and Dennis
Rasmussen, both of whom are very
capable of winning 20 games this year. If
Ron Guidry can rebound from last year’s
disaster he would be the Yankees third
quality, proven starter. If Rob Tewksbury
can return from his minor arm problems
he’s a potential 15 game winner. The
Yankees have many other pitchers in camp
and will have an adequate fifth starter and

middle relief men. They have Dave Righet-
ti, the best reliever in baseball to preserve
any lead that makes it to the eight or ninth
inning. If there are any injuries to the
staff, watch for minor league pitcher Al
Lefer to make an impact.

The Yankees outfield is one of
baseballs’ best, both offensively and

any pitchers nightmare.It consists of
Ricky Henderson, baseball’s best leadoff
hitter, perennial performer Willie Ran-
dolph, baseball’s best player, Don Mat-
tingly, Dave Winfield (who’s off year was
superior to Gary Carter’s great year), and
excellent hitters Gary Ward, Dan Pasqua,
Mike Pagliarulo, Tolleran or Meacham,
and then the weak link, Joel Skinner.

If the Yankees pitching staff has the
year that I feel they’re capable of, the
Yankees will win the AL East.

No stupid Cleveland Indian jokes. They
are good enough to be considered con-
tenders. Unless the Yankees self-destruct
they can’t win it this year, but over the
next couple of seasons they are the team to
watch.

The Indians have a powerful of-
fense led by Joe Carter and they play
quality defense. Their problem is pitching,
both starting and relief. They will be good
enough to tease Cleveland fans this year,
but wait two seasons. The Indians will
jump to respectability with a second place

Don’t look for the Bosox to repeat as
the AL East champions. After the seventh
game of the world series, the Red Sox
players engaged in ugly arts of finger pain-
ting and blame seeking. Add the loss of
Tom Seaver and the holdout of Cy Young
and MVP winner Roger Clemens, and you
are presented with a team far too troubled
to win a pennant race. They will finish
third.

The Blue Jays? No serious contender
here, and they’ll probably drop to fifth
place despite having one of baseball’s best
outfields, George Bell, Jose Barfield and
Lloyd Moseby. Their inconsistent in-
fielding will only compound last year’s pit-
ching woes and the bullpen should cherish
every save opportunity. The Blue Jays will
just barely surpass the Tigers for a fourth
place finish.

The rest of the AL East looks like this.
After losing catcher Lance Parrish, the
Tigers should be happy with a fifth place
finish. The Brewers and Orioles, each in a

hitting Gary Ward. Ward gives Winfield

defensively. The Yankees batting lineup is

finish.

rebuilding year, will battle for the cellar.

Albany lacrosse team prepared for tough season

By Stef McDonald
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

It’s Spring again. The snow on the soccer field is finally
gone. And the Albany State lacrosse team — without All-
American Dave Cerny — is ready. So ready, in fact, that
yesterday they opened the season with a scrimmage
against Hudson Valley.

“‘We played very well together,”’ said sophomore star-
ting attacker Rich Spadaro. ‘“We’re a good club.”

And they are a different club. “It’s a lot different
without Cerny,” said co-captain Jim Hennessy of the
Dane who tops the all-time scoring list.

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Albany opens its lacrosse schedule on April 1.

“Tt was a big loss for us,”
coach Tom Fogerty.

But Fogerty is not worried. ‘‘We are in essence the
same club without Cerny.”

“*We’re very talented on defense,” said Fogerty.
“We're young, yet most of our guys played and started as
freshmen.””

Hennessy calls the defense ‘‘stable.’’ Led by senior An-
dre Dattero, sophomores Mike Gordon, Ben Riccardi,
Fred Ackerman, and goalie Tony Danzi, they should
carry the team through a tough season. Furthermore,
Fogerty calls senior Gary Collins ‘one of the best sticks
on the team.””

“They have a good size and very good sticks,” said
Fogerty of Dattero, Gordon and Riccardi, who all
measure in at over six feet and weigh 200 pounds each.

“The defense is big, strong, quick and should be the
strength of the team,”’ said Fogerty.

On offense, senior mid-fielder Hennessy says, ‘‘We’ll
have to diversify our offense to be strong.”’

Filling in the void left by Cerny is co-captain and
graduate student Tim Vottis and sophomore Rich
Spadaro, who scored 26 points last season.

Two other strong seniors, Lloyd Haymes and Chris
Wyland, non-starters last year, will this year assist on
attack,

“Chris is one of the best face-off men. He’s as good as
any we’ll face this year,’’ said Fogerty.

As for the mid-field, one made up mostly of freshmen,
Hennessy said, “‘it was a great recruiting year.”’

“We're blessed with a very good frshman class of
players,’ said Fogerty. ‘‘The freshmen are expected to
see a lot of playing time.”

To assist veteran Danny Baker the mid-fielders will

conceded first year head

have to mature to meet the more crafty teams they will
face.

“Experience is better than talent,”’ conceded Spadaro,
“but they’re a good group of freshmen.”

And Coach Fogerty is confident. “This year, as oppos-
ed to last year, we have a solid group of midfielders.’’

Yesterday’s scrimmage, so low-key that a score was not
even attempted, gave the team’ an Coach Fogerty an in-
dication of what is expected:

The Danes’ season begins next weekend with the first
of five games on the road, against Lehigh, a team they
have yet to face.

“The scrimmage really encouraged us,’’ said Fogerty.
“If we play well in our first game and pick up momen-
tum, we’ll do well.”” :

“It’s gonna be a lot tougher than in the past,” said
Hennessy.

In the SUNYAC, the Danes will face Cortland and
Geneseo, teams that finished first and second in the
SUNYAC last year, respectively.

“Based on the skill level, we’ll have a tough time,”’ said
Spadaro.

In the conference, the face-off with Cortland, who is
ranked third in the nation, will be determinate of how the
squad will fair.

“If we play well against Cortland, we’ll have a good
chance,”’ said Spadaro.

But to beat Cortland, Geneseo and perennial power
RIT, Coach Fogerty feels the team must play their best
games.

“*We can beat them if we play well, but we have te
develop consistency and put the ball in the cage ars,
said Fogerty.

Effectiveness of NCAA ‘death penalty’ doubted

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — The
NCAA’s (National Collegiate
Athletic Association) sentencing

In a joint investigation, the
NCAA and SMU found football

scholarships and coaches than its

competitors. Lude,

of the penalties,’
athletic director at the

said Mike occur),’’ he added.

Washington’s Lude contended,

of Southern Methodist Univer-
sity’s football program to a
“death penalty”’ has left a mixed
impression on athletic directors
around the country — some call it
long overdue, some overly harsh
— but they aren’t sure it will deter
others from breaking NCAA
recruiting rules.

“T think pressure’s put on a lot
of coaches,”’ said Fr. Robert
Sunderland, athletic director of
the University of San Francisco.
“There’s often a feeling among
coaches that they’d be fired
sooner for losing than for
cheating.”

But the NCAA hoped the
severe penalties it imposed on
SMU would have ‘‘some deter-
rent value,” the NCAA’s David
Berst said in announcing the sanc-
tions Feb. 25.

players were being paid anywhere
from $50 to $750 a month to play
for the school.

More cash — totaling about
$61,000 in 1986 — and free cars,
travel and apartments were pro-
vided to players by SMU sports
boosters, also in direct violation
of NCAA.

And because the NCAA had
disciplined SMU’s athletic pro-
grams six times since 1958, the
NCAA issued its harshest sanc-
tions yet.

Under the sanctions —
observers call them the ‘death
penalty’? because they could kill
an athletic program — SMU can’t
field a football team for the fall,
1987 season. It can play only
seven games, all away from
home, in 1988. It cannot appear
on live television or in bow! games
until at least 1989, and even then
will have to operate with fewer

The impact on SMU was
immediate.

Thanks to lost football ticket
sales, the school can expect to lose
a full one percent of its overall
budget — about $1.2 million — in
1988, a SMU financial officer
estimates.

Acting SMU President William
B. Stallcup added there is “a
possibility’’ the SMU: Board of
Governors might simply drop its
football programs.

The impact on college athletics
in general was less clear, sports
officials around the country said.

Some think the death penalty
will force schools that regularly
break NCAA recruiting rules to
go straight.

“Any people who were temp-
ted (to cheat), if they have any in-
telligence at all, would not want
to risk their reputations or their
institutions’ reputations because

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“You don’t have to cheat to
win,” added San Francisco’s
Sunderland, whose school shut
down its own scandal-plagued
basketball program in 1982.

But USF resuscitated its basket-
ball team in 1985 under strict new
tules, and promptly had a suc-
cessful 16-11 season. Tarkanian
has jousted frequently with the
NCAA — Athletic Director Brad
Rothermel says, “the NCAA
acted according to its commit-
ment, as its policy suggests it
must.’”

Yet, some don’t believe there’s
much cheating anyway.

Fo think itis not
(widespread),”” said UNLV’s
Rothermel.

“Most institutions with which
I’m familiar don’t engage in
recruitment violations. It’s com-
monly known (when violations

“The Pac-10 Conference is a very
clean conference.””

“Rumors about violations are
usually greater than actual viola-
tions,”’ he observed.

“I know a lot of fine univer-
sities who do not subscribe to
violations and who have good
football and good basketball pro-
grams. I don’t think there’s any
place for circumvention (of
NCAA rules) or cheating. I tell
my coaches that if they think
otherwise, they can find a job
someplace else,’’ Lude said.
“Teams perceived to be on the
cutting edge — if violations have
occurred at those schools — it’s
not the only reason they’ve reach-
ed success.”

USF, Sunderland reported,
moved its booster clubs “‘inside
the university. We know where
the money is and what it’s used
for, It’s under our control.”

Sports Friday

The Dane lacrosse team
sees youth as an
advantage.

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MARCH 20, 1987

Tironi confident entering Division | competition

By Al Baker
‘STAFF WRITER

The heavyweight wrestler for Albany
State, senior Chris Tironi left for College
Park, Maryland last Wednesday to com-
pete in the NCAA Division I Wrestling
Championships held at the University of

” Maryland on March 19, 20 and 21.

He won the NCAA Div. II] Champion-
ship in the heavyweight class for the se-
cond year in a row only a few weeks ago,
and is now taking on the Division I
competition.

“Td like to win it, everyone wants to
win. Right now I feel very good. If I wres-
tle well I feel I can place in the top four,
but you never know,” said Tironi before
he departed for Maryland.

Tironi, whose name is already spoken
along with such Albany standouts as War-
ren Crew, Cleon Crew, and Larry Mims,
has the chance to win a National Cham-
pionship in two divisions.

Warren Crew, who wrestled under then
head coach Joe Garcia, won college cham-
pionships in 1967 and 68. He was twice an
All-American in the college division and
has the outstanding wrestler of the 68 tour-
nament held at Cato, Minnesota. That was
back in the days when all wrestling in the
United States was broken up into either the
“college” or ‘‘university” division. In
1961 and 62, only ten years after Garcia
started the wrestling team at Albany State
Teacher’s College (S.U.N.Y.’s original
name), another Crew, this one named
Cleon, won the IC4A Championships.
This would be comparable to todays Divi-
sion III Championship. He was

‘TYGAR UPS

Chris Tironi, Division Il! National Champion heavyweight, will test Division | waters

this season.

the National AAV-Greco-Roman Cham-
pionships in San Fransisco, California.

Larry Mims, a native of Utica N.Y., was
also an Albany champion, winning NCAA
College ' Division All-American Honors
two years in a row. He placed third and
fourth in the Division Championships.

When Joe DeMeo took over the job as
head wrestling coach, he continued and, in
fact, upgraded the Albany tradition.

Seras, Ike Anderson, Jeff Blatnick of At-
wa, a gold medal winner in the 1984 Olym-

Pics, DeMeo’s most promising wrestler

ever may be Tironi.

“Chris has got all the tools to go
anywhere he wants to go. He could be a
Division I champion or an olympic champ.
He’s got youth on his side, he’s got great
skills, he’s a good technician and he’s got
the right mental attitude,” said Garcia,

since he left eight years ago.

“The two national championships I’ve
won are mine. But they’re also a part of
the guys who helped me train. If it weren’t

| for Matty Ryan, Marty Pidel, Ivan Katz

and of course, Jeff Blatnick and Coach
DeMeo, I wouldn’t be so successful,”’ said
Tironi.

“Coach DeMeo and Jeff Blatnick have
helped me prepare for the Nationals. And

1 the training has been a lot more intense.

Jeff helps me with a lot of little things, and
a lot of techniques. Working out with him
has given me more desire,”’ added Tironi.

Tironi has faced some of the athletes at
this tournament previously. The North
Carolina State wrestler who eliminated
him 3-2 in the first round of competition
has gone on to graduate.

But Tironi has faced the sixth ranked
wrestler from Iowa at the Pennsylvania
Wilkes Open Tournament and defeated him
11-2.

“I was happy I beat him,” said Tironi.

He’s also had close matches with
Rutger’s number 10 ranked wrestler in the
nation, Lee Goetz. And Tironi has also
defeated the number two ranked wrestler
in the nation, from Arizona, in Greco-
Roman stylea few years back.

The collegiate ‘‘folkstyle,” although
different than Greco-Roman, has not stop-
ped Tironi from, dominating at all.

As Coach DeMeo will explain to you,
there is a difference between a champion
wrestler and any other wrestler. Chris
Tironi is already a champion, but now, in
College Park, Maryland, he will try to pro-

undefeated that year and went on to win

Coaching such champions as Andy

who has been following Albany wrestling

ve he is a champion of champions. oO

Season ends for Albany gymnasts at ECAC meet

By Sandie Weitzman
STAFF WRITER

This past weekend’s Division III ECAC Women’s
Gymnastics Championships at University gym was not
quite what the Danes had hoped for, as they finished
fourth out of five teams.

Albany’s greatest competition, the sixth-ranked Ithaca
Bombers, took first at the meet with 167.55 points.

This was their fourth consecutive ECAC title. The win
secured their NCAA Division II regional bid over the
seventh-ranked Danes.

Second in the meet was Trenton State (165.40), follow-
ed in order by Salem State (161.05), Albany (154.30), and
Montclair State (145.50) rounding out the group.

earn All-American
honors for relay

By Mike Brewster
SPORTS EDITOR

Brilliant individual performances by Vernon Miller and|
‘Winsome Foderingham were not the only highlights for
the Albany State runners this weekend at the Division
Ill National Championships in Chicago.

In a performance women’s Head Coach Ron White
described as one of the top performances by any team in
any sport this winter at Albany, the relay team of Foder-
ingham, Mary Lou Webster, Patti Barret and Cathy
Bellantoni took home a fifth place finish. Even more
impressive was that each of these athletes were recogniz-
ed as All-Americans.

Foderingham finished with the fastest time of the
telay with a time of 58.4. Webster had a time of 63.5
and Barret registered a 62.3. Bellantoni, running the an-
chor leg, finished with a time of 59.6. The relay’s final
overall time was 4:03.9 ‘

Both the men’s and the women’s track teams have
completed their winter indoor season and will soon be

LE ET RE eS EI,
Dane women runners

starting their outdoor schedules. Oo

Although coach Tom Fiumarello said that he was
pleased with the way the meet went,and that it ran well,
he also added that he was disappointed with a few aspects
of the competition.

He first explained that the team had to “‘lead off” at
their two best events. In actuality, they were the first team
out on floor and second on vault.

Fiumarello said that it is preferable to go last, because,
the “judges don’t want to start out scoring too high,
because it leaves them nowhere to go.

Of the floor exercise, Fiumarello said, “I thought the
kids turned in some really nice sets, and yet their scores
weren’t as good as some of the later routines which were
equally as good.”

While he still felt that the performers may have still
been underscored, Fiumarello said the vault was a dif-
ferent story because the ‘Kids weren’t sharp.

The vault has been the Danes’ best event all year. At
the state meet on March 6, the team swept all six places.
At the ECACs, they did not place at all.

Where the team usually scores a 42 or more on vault,
they only received a 40.5 on Saturday.

Overall, he felt that ‘‘The most disappointing part of
the meet was the vault.”

Fiumarello, however, stressed that he wasn’t displeased
with the team. ‘‘I had expected better, being at home, but
our score was average for the year.’”

While the Danes had an average meet, the Bombers liv-
ed up to their name by winning both the beam and the
floor. In fact, the Ithaca team swept all three places in the
floor exercise.

Ithaca coach Rich Suddaby was quoted by the TIMES
UNION as saying, “‘Starting from the first meet, we’re up
by 15 points. We had a 166.9 a week ago, and I thought
we’d peaked then. I’m really suprised that we held
together this well.’’

Fiumarello put it simply, “Ithaca was on the money.”

Trenton State, who finished in the cellar at last year’s
championships, also had an outstanding meet, helped
greatly by having the meet’s individual all-around winner.

Trenton’s Lisa Terlicki not only won the all-around,
but was second on vault (8.95), bars (8.5), and was first
on beam (8.8).

Fiumarello said that while they finished no different in
the final standings from last year, Albany’s performance
this year was greatly improved.

Last year’s score was 147.9, a 6.4 point difference from
this year. This has been the same throughout the entire
season. They were a consistent mid-140 team where they
are now a consistent mid-150.

Fiumarello hopes that next year will be even better. O