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March
Tuesday
22, 1988
NUMBER 14
Protestors rally downtown against Contra aid
Bryan Sierra
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Chanting ‘‘Hell no, we wont
go-no more Viet Nam’’, a group
protested U.S. involvement in
Nicaragua outside the Albany Ar-
mory on the corner of
Washington Avenue and Lark
Street.
The protest, which took place
on March 18, was organized by
Pledge of Resistance, a peace-
oriented group. Organizer
Kathryn Shea, a social worker .
from Berlin, New York, said the
protest was a ‘“‘direct reaction to
Reasgan’s deployment of 3200
troops into Honduras’’
Shea explained that. Pledge of
Resistance began putting the
event together after it was an-
nounced that- troops would be
sent to Nicaragua. Shea utilized
Pledge of Resistance’s phone tree
to contact over 300 people and
also distributed flyers on the
SUNYA campus to attract
students to the event.
Protestors stood in a line along
the curb carrying baqnners and
signs. Some of the banners read
‘Let Nicaragua Live’’, ‘‘Stop
Funding Contra Terror’, and
‘‘Contras Kill Kids’’. A young
child carried a banner that show-
ed a baby holding a bottle, with a
caption that read ‘‘Nicaraguan
killed by Contras’’.
One banner, which read
‘‘Honk to remove U.S. Troops’’,
drew the attention of traffic, as
motorists honked repeatedly.
.shea called the large turnout
“‘very encouraging’ and was “‘
surprised by the differnt age
groups’’ represented in the
crowd. Children, students,
adults, and senior citizans were all
in attendance at the protest.
Several member of SUNYA’s
chapter of Peace Project came to
demonstrate. Junior Adrian
Leighton said he saw posters
advertising the event and heard it
through Peace Project. He said
the 10 to 15 members of Peace
member, Lynne Sims,
Project came to the
demonstration.
**T feel very strongly about the
event’’,Leighton said, adding it
was a ‘‘concrete event that
reflects the whole mentality of
(the U.S.) Government.”’
Another Peace Project
said ‘‘I
came because I’m protesting
what’s happening down there.”’
She added thsat giving aid to the
Contras ‘‘doesn’t make
sense...why are we putting all this
money into something. ss s kill-
ing people?’’
The rejection of the Contra aid
package a few months ago was “‘a
good sign’’, but there is another
bill coming up for vote and the
money could still get there, Sims
said.
Sean Lewis, a SUNYA
graduate student, said he felt the
Sandinistas had a_ legitemate
gevernment, democratically
elected. He added: that Honduras
is in violation . ae Central
Students demonstrated at the Armory on Friday.
ACIA ruling overturned in court
Colleen Deslaurier
NEWS EDITOR
- A recent Student Association
Supreme Court decision overturn-
ded a suspension issued agaist an
Albany Co-Ed Internmural
Association.
According to writ of oa
peals filed by Thomas Parisi,
player in the ACIA Sikes
league, during play of one of the
games, Parisi was bumped in the
head by an opponednt and, in
turn, Parisi pushed him away.
Two other players were peneliz-
ed and told to appear before the
ACIA Review Board the next
night.
During this hearing, Parisi’s
name was brought up and he was
required to testify about his ac-
tions. Afterwards, the board.
suspended Parusu fir twi games
and he was placed on the miscon-
duct list.
Parisi’s case was reviwed by the
SA Supremem Court on March 14
in which it was decided that a
“‘person cannot be convicted
under the same evidence rule,”’
according to Supremem Court
Chief Justice David Ettinger.
“It’s setting a precedent,”’ Et-
tinger said, adding that this is the
first ACIA case to be heard in the
SA court for a few years.
However, according to ACIA
president Howard Elman, Parisi
would have been suspended at the
next meeting anyway.
‘“We felt he [Parisi] was the in-
stigator of the whole thing,”’
American Peace Plan by harbor-
ing Contras, and the U.S. should
not be involved in Central
America.
Lewis, a member of Student
Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism [SCAAR], contended
that ‘‘Reagan is only interested in
money and power in Nicaragua.
-.,.to escalate war, the U.S.
Government has no regard for the
sanctity of human life’ in
Nicaragua.
The crowd protested peacefully
for an hour and a half, and then
there was little opposition to their
protest. The protestors marched
in a circle in front of the Armory,
while some stayed in a line across
the curb.
Using a ladder, protestors cane
a sign that read ‘‘Reagan Stop the
Lies”? on a billboard in front of
Students p
against pro
By Lori Hament
|| EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
HARTFORD UPS
Elman said.
“It’s not a question of right or
wrong, but a question of law,’ Et- .
tinger said. ‘‘Particularly a viola-
tion of the due process clause of
the 14th Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution,’’ Ettinger said.
‘‘Now it’s opened a can of
worms,’ Elman siad, explaing
that another ACIA case is being
appealed to the Supreme Court.
‘‘We [ACIA] didn’t get a fair
shake from the SA Supreme
- Court,’’ Elman siad, adding “‘SA
Supremem Court should learn
more about the intermurals
before thy start ruling on us.”’
Two years ago, the ACIA
hockey league was cancelled
because of fighting, Elman said.
O
In response to governor
Cuomo’s proposed budget cuts,
many SUNYA students with the
help of the Student Association
of the State University [SASU]
are holding a Lobby Day
Tuesday.
Two sessions are scheduled for
Tuesday, one in the morning and
one in the afternoon, according
to Allan Rafterman, and have ap-
pointments with members of the
State Assembly and Higher
Education Committees.
About 15 to 20 students are ex-
pected to participate Central
Council Academic Affairs Chair
‘Eric Lieberman said.
Rafterman said the reason for
‘Lobby Day is that students can
| explain the effects of the cuts to
the assemblymen.
‘‘They [the assemblymen] can’t
be aware of everything,’’ Lieber-
man said, adding that the
students can ‘‘make them
aware’’.
One of the big issues being op-
posed is the hidden faculty and
staff cuts. Cuomo has proposed
to save $22 million is personell
savings next year. SASU
estimated that to save this am-
mount of money, about 766
faculty and staff positions would
not be filled, according to Jeff
Zellan, Central Council legislative
affairs coordinator.
Many of. the staff reductions
will be coming from the areas of
financial aid, accounts, and the
registrar, Liberman said.
“It’s an easy way to save
money . . . It’s one thing to lay
people off, but when people leave
and positins aren’t replaced,[no
one sees what’s going on]’’ said
Zellan.
The support staff, such as
secretaries, maintainance and
security in the administative of-
Zellan said.
|_This staf is unlike the pro-
fices cannot afford these cuts, |
the Armory, next to a sign that
said ‘‘Best paid, best trained
soldiers in the world’’. The sign
drew cheers from the crowd.
Organizer Donna DiMaria call-
ed the group of protestors around
and urged them to warn the ad-
ministrators about protests. She
said that Senator Moynihan’s of-
fice received over 750 calls in one
day in response to troop deploy-
ment in Central America.
DeMaria said the new Contra
Aid bill talks in Congress have
stalled.‘‘The members of Con-
gress are not buying it...the public
is not buying it’’,DeMaria told
the protestors.
Carolyn Mow, an Albany resi-
dent affiliated with the Central
American Solidarity Alliance,
then told the protestors that ao
lan to lobby
posed cuts
fessors since they are not as visi-
ble. -‘‘If you were to cut the pro-
fessors, then you increase the
student-faculty ratio and it
wouldn’t.be noticed,’said Zellan.
‘Nobody realizes it, but those
are the cuts that are affecting
students the most. Students are
already complaining about the
lines at financial aid and its going
to get infinately worse,’’said
Rafterman.
“President O’Leary has told us
that he’s aware of the hidden
faculty and staff cuts and that
he’d try to the best of his ability
to make sure that financial aid
was one Office that wasn’t cut in
any way... ,’” Zellan said.
The hard dollar subsidy for the
debt service on payment on dor-
mitory rehabilitaion is another
issue that is scheduled to be
addressed.
An appropriation ‘of $60
million in bonds has been asked
for by Cuomo for rehabilitation
on various SUNY campuses for]
repair and upkeep, said Zellan.
Three million dollars to cover
the debt service payments on the
program would then have to be
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NEWS BRIEFS
The World _
Compromises ohuced
Beonk South Korea
(AP) Negotiations to reunite South
Korea’s bitterly divided opposition col-
lapsed again Monday with both sides
refusing to compromise over sharing
power and party posts.
The Reunification Democratic Party an-
nounced it had pulled out of talks with the
smaller Party for Peace and Democracy
and said there was no hope of uniting the
two parties. It denounced Party for Peace
and Democracy supporters for staging a
violent protest that broke up talks.
“‘The party concluded it would be mean-
ingless and impossibile to continue merger
talks because the positions between the
parties are so wide apart,’’ said a
Reunification Democratic. Party
spokesman, Kim Pae-ryong.
Party for Peace and Democracy leaders
said they wanted to continue unification
talks, but they recognized negotiations had
stalled. They charged the Reunification
Democratic Party wanted to destroy rival
opposition groups.
Oil tankers bombed
Nicosia, Cyprus
(AP) As many as 54 crewmen are missing
and presumed dead after Iraqi jets attack-
ed two Iranian-owned oil tankers,
Norwegian government and shiping of-
ficials said Monday.
bone. Sores Foreign Ministry
‘reported the men were presumed to have
died in the attack Saturday on Iran’s
| Kharg Island oil terminal. Most of the
crew were Iranians or Asians, although a
Swedish officer was among the missing.
If the report is correct, it would be the
worst death toll from an Iraqi raid on Ira-
nian vessels since the so-called ‘‘tanker
war’’ erupted in 1984, an offshoot of the
7\%-year-old Iran Iraq war.
Iraq, meanwhile, said it fired a ine
range missile into Tehran today, the 105th
in three weeks, and that Iranian gunners
pounded its southern port city of Basra in
an 18-hour artillery and rocket barrage.
Opposition strikes
Panama City, Panama.
(AP) Panamanians stocked up on food
and flashlights as they prepared for a
general strike called by opposition groups
hoping to drive strongman Gen. Manuel
’ Antonio Noriega from power.
Aurelio Barria, head of the opposition
National Civic Crusade, said Sunday the
government may try to use an emergency
decree to forcibly open industries and
businesses that close during the strike,
planned for today.
The indefinite work stoppage was called
after Noriega, commander of the Defense
Forces and the force behind the civilian
government, rejected a U.S. plan for his
removal as ‘‘unacceptable, illogical and
anti-Panamanian.’’
Noriega, who has been indicted in the
United States on drug trafficking charges,
reportedly told William Walker, a U.S.
deputy assistant secretary of state, he
wanted to remain in Panama and help
form a transitional government.
Inquiry continues
Washington, D.C.
(AP) After 10 months, one of the many
unanswered questions in the criminal in-
vestigation of Attorney General Edwin
Meese III is whether he benefited finan-
cially from his efforts on behalf of an Iraqi
oil pipeline project or scandal-plagued.
Wedtech Corp., sources familiar with the
probe say.
Last May 11, independent counsel
James McKay launched his inquiry of
| Meese’s assistance to Wedtech and the
probe has spread to the attorney general’s
involvement with the pipeline.
In both instances, McKay’s investigators
have been examining stock trades made on
Meese’s behalf by his investment manager,
W. Franklyn Chinn. Chinn and Meese
were brought together by Meese’s longtime
friend E. Robert Wallach, a central figure
in both the Wedtech scandal and the
pipeline project.
Overall, Meese invested $50,000 and
came away 18 months later with $95,000,
almost all of it gained through a total of 23
one-day stock trades. Eighteen of the
trades were profitable.
North to retire
Washington, D.C.
(AP) Lt. Col. Oliver North’s request to
Warmer temperatures many soon bring this hot dog vendor outside.
STEELE UPS
retire from the Marine Corps later this spr-
ing has received final approval from the
Navy, Pentagon officials said Monday.
North,the fired national security aide
who was indicted last week in connection
with the Iran-Contra affair, also has
received permission to start using up his
accumulated leave and will no longer have
to report for work at Marine Corps
headquarters.
“Lt. Col. North began his terminal
| leave today,”’ said Lt. Col. John Shotwell,
a Marine Corps spokesman. ‘‘He had suf-
ficient leave on the books to cover the
period from now until his retirement on
May 1,’’
North announced Friday that he had
decided to retire from active duty, saying
the step was necessary because he would
likely have to subpoena ‘‘the highest rank-
ing Officials in our government’’ to defend
himself against the Iran-Contra charge.
Dole presses on.
Milwaukee
(AP) Leaning back in his chair at a hotel
suite as he waited for his next campaign
| appearance, Sen. Bob Dole reflected on his
‘reasons for remaining in the race for the
Republican presidential nomination.
While some have begun to speak of con-
cerns about splitting the GOP, Dole spoke
Sunday about responsibility and
confidence.
“It’s about the best thing that could
happen to the party,’’ Dole said of his
decision to stay in the race even though he
has not won a primary since he captured
the GOP caucuses in Iowa.
“It’s the responsible thing to do. We’ve
| had a dozen Republicans either look at this
or formerly run as candidates. Now we’re
down to two and we can get down to
business.”’
The State
Photos upset Abrams
Albany
(AP) Attorney General Robert: Abrams
said Monday he was appalled at the
telecast of photos of Tawan Brawley short-
ly after her allege attack and is in-
vestigating how a television station got the
pictures.
Abrams said no one in his office
authorized the release of the photos, which
were shown Thursday night on WNBC in
New York City and nationally on the
NBC’s network news.
“I was indeed quite upset son its
release and feel it’s a serious invasion of
the privacy of the victim,’’ Abrams said at
a state Capitol press conference. ‘‘I really
was appalled at the fact that this kind of
material was released to the public.”’
One of the photos shows the word ‘‘nig-
ger’? written on Brawley’s stomach and
another shows her lying in her hospital bed
‘with monitoring devices attached to her
upper torso. Brawley, 16, said she was ab-
ducted and sexually assaulted by a group
of.white men, including one who flashed a
badge, last November.
PREVIEW OF EVENTS”
F ree Listings
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
The CC Safety Committee
will meet in the SA Lounge at
9 p.m.
At 7:30 p.m. in LC3, the
pledge class of Delta Sigma
Pi wil sponsor two speakers
speaking about Drug Abuse
in the Professional World.
In CC 361 Peace Project will
hold its weekly meeting at
7:30 p.m.
GALA will meet in CC 375 at
8:30. |
At 5:30 p.m. The Feminist
Alliance will meet in 1 the SA
lounge.
AA will con gregate in CC 357,
at noon.
WENESDAY, MARCH 23
The Outing Club will assem-—
ble in LC 22 at 8 p.m.
in HU 110 at 7:30 p.m. the
Italian American Studies
Association will meet.
Great Decisions ’88 will pre-
sent a program about US
trade at the downtown
history,
branch of the Albany Public
Library.
At 7 p.m. in the Fireside
Lounge, SCAAR.
The Intercollegiate Athletic
Committee will meet at 3:30
p.m. in the Gym conference
room. .
At 3:30 in the dinning area by
the Bowling Alley the Stu-
dent Community Committee
will hold its weekly meeting.
Chi Delta, SUNYA’s chapter
of Phi Alpha Theta, the in-
terantional honor society in
will sponsor a
speaker about Russia, Marc
Raeff, at 4 p.m. in the CC
Assembly Hall. |
The Academic Affairs Com-
mittee will hold its weekly
meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the
SA office.
In CC 375 Central Council
will hold its weekly meeting
at 7:30 p.m.
At 7:30 p.m. the Revolu-
tionist Zionist Alternative
will hold a meeting in CC
373.
Amnesty International will
hold its first meeting at
SUNYA at 7:30 in CC 361.
Delta Sigma Pi will sponsor a
showing of The Charge in In-
Surance Companies to
Financial Institutions at 7:30
in BA 213.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
The Internal Affairs Commit-
tee will meet at 7 p.m. in the
SA office.
At 3 p.m., the Finance Com-
mittee will meet in the SA
office.
The Criminal Justice Club
will meet at 7:15 p.m. in SS
133.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988 (1 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3
DIGEST
Awards announced
has issued a memorandum to Campus
administrators and members of the
for Collins Awards.
According to the memo ‘‘the award
recognizes a faculty member each year,
who, over a sustained period of time, has
established extraordinary devotion to the
University and the people in it.’’
Those individuals who are selected to
recieve the the awards are honored ar
Commencement ceremonies and rea
designated Collins Fellows. Fellows
tive medal.
The award is named for Evan R. Col-
lins, who was the institutions president
leading its transformation from college
to university during that period.
The deadline for nominations is April
1. Anyone from the campus community
is allowed to offer nominations.
Guinness Day info.
Saturday, April 16 is Guinness Day,
the day that SUNYA students will at-
tempt to regain the world’s record for the
largest game of musical chairs. The cur-
rent record of 5,051-participants is held
by Notre Dame University which recently
took the title from SUNYA.
Because at least one more than 5,051
participants is needed to retake the
record, the 5,052nd person to register will
receive a gift certificate from Anaconda
Bay Sporting Goods valued at $50. In ad-
dition, the first 5,000 to register will
receive free T-shirts. The registration fee
is $3.
Other attractions that day will include
a performance by Black and Gold,
ASUBA’s dance company, a fashion
show sponsored by Benetton, a six-foot
sub-eating contest, and a ‘‘Best Legs
Contest’’ sponsored by Smart Food Pop-
corn. Telethon will sponsor a carnival
featuring games of physical prowess.
According to a Guinness Day
organizer,
George Bush and, or, Jesse Jackson will
appear on campus that day to meet, and
speak, with students.
Wanna chew?
Campus tobacco-chewers may be sorry
to hear that they missed a chance to pick
up a free sample of Skoal brand
Smokeless Tobacco on Dutch Quad last
Friday.
According to a Dutch Quad resident,
someone was standing in the quad’s ar-
chway that afternoon distributing free
tins of Skoal Bandits to passersby from a
big shoulder bag chock-full of the addic-
tive weed.
' Bandits are small. packets of tobacco
that ‘‘chewers’’ place in their mouths in
lieu of loose tobacco which some thinks
is too messy.
Amnesty at SUNYA
The SUNYA chapter of Amnesty in-
ternational has announced that it is
holding its first organizational meeting
on Wednesday, March 23 at 7:30 pm in
the Campus Center. All are welcome.
Tom Abernethy, a senior and one of
the groups organizers, said that this years
activities will likely be limited to the cir-
culation of petitions, possiable
demonstrations at the state capital, and
the drafting of letters to foreign govern-
ments to protest the holding of political
prisoners.
— Com piled by Peter Jones
-SUNYA president Vincent O’Leary
University Senate calling for nominations |
receive an increase in salary and a distinc-
from 1949 to 1969 and creditied with}.
there is a possibility that|
| the 21st Century’, will
Dancer hopes for world unification
By Tracy Zamot
Natalie Sats, creator of the fairy tale
Peter and the Wolf and founder of the
world’s first dramatic theater for children,
led her Russian Theater troupe in perfor-
-mance Monday.
The perfromance marked the acceptance
of the SUNYA Excelsior Award given to
an individual who has made distinguished
contributions nationally or internationally
in the form of scholarship or public leader-
ship in. those areas that are of special in-
terest to the University.
Sats was born in 1903 to composer and
conducter Ilya Sats. Influenced by her easy
friendships with many of the Soviet
Union’s most distinguished artists, Sats
founded the world’s first theater for young
people at the age of 16, quickly becoming a
leader in the development of theater and
artistic education.
The fairy tale Peter and the Wolf was
based on this very premise.
Sats said she sought to create a story for
children introducing then to the various in-
struments which make up a symphony
orchestra.
In 1936, with the help of Sergi Pro-
kolier, Peter and the Wolf was created.
Sats created 1965’s Moscow Musical
Theater for children, the first of its kind.
No stranger to awards, Sats also holds
the title of People’s Artists of the USSR
and Hero of Socialist harbor; and has been
recipient of the Lenin and USSR state
prizes.
“‘T have many awards, but this award is
very special to me. Albany is very special
to:me,’’ Sats said.
In 1986, Sats’ company completed the
first US-USSR theater exchange wae the
decade, playing a standing-room-only
engagement at the Egg.
The performance offered a variety of
what Sat’s repertory house performs.
Beginning the show was a performance
of a familiar song — The Seaseme St.
Theme Song — with a Russian flair. Other
renditions of American Songs such as
“Sing a Song,’’ Striesand’s ‘‘The Way we
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Soviet dancer Valery Siminaev in “Dolls”, choreographed by Voinonen.
Were,”’ and show tunes ‘‘I’m Pretty’? and
“‘Mississippi’’ were also performed.
Of the Russians’s perception of
American popular music, SUNYA pro-
fessor Dr. Findlay Cockrell explained that
the Russians are now listening to what was
popular in the US decades ago and that the
performance offered the audience a good
“look at our own past.”’ L)
Freshman orientation is redesigned,
By Matthew DiTomasso
STAFF WRITER
As part of the continuing effort to im-
prove the orientation program, next
semester’s incoming freshmen will have an
orientation program that will be somewhat
different than the one offered to freshmen
in the past.
According to Dean of Undergraduate
Studies, Sung Bok Kim, a series of five lec-
tures will be given to freshmen students
during an orientation period that will
begin at the summer planning conference
and continue until the middle of the fall
semester.
The new lecture program was organized —
as part of a joint effort of the Academic
Affairs department and Department of
Student Affairs, Kim said.
Topics covered in the lectures will be
higher education; students as active
learners, the United States in the 21st cen-
tury, diversity and American pluralism,
and Study Skills. The lectures are designed
to ‘“‘enrich and improve’’ the orientation
experience and to help students make the
transition to pester life, Kim
explained.
The first two lectures — higher educa-
tion and students as active learners, will
stress the fact that SUNYA is mainly a
place for higher learning and not ‘““merely
an extension of their high school educa-
tion’’, Kim said.
These first two lectures will be offered
during the summer planning conference,
‘Kim added.
The third lecture, ‘‘The United States in
discuss the
‘“‘challenge and ncoeteinty of the future’’,
and will try to give ideas on what the
future will hold, Kim said. This lecture will
be given during the convocation period in
September before registration.
The last two lectures will be given to
freshmen in small groups at their respec-
tive dormitories, before the end of the first
quarter, Kim said. The ‘‘diversity and
American pluralism’’ lecture will discuss
the understanding of gender, race and
class, he added.
The study skill lecture will be a ail
survival guide for students, and will in-
clude basic ideas on note-taking, test-
taking, and time management, according
By Jennifer McCormick
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Analogized by some to the making of
fine wine, Kevin Byrne’s election as
WCDB’s new General Manager is the apt
product of four years involvement with
SUNYA’s student run FM radio station.
Appointed by the staff Sunday night,
Byrne will assume graduating General
Manager Sam Murray’s position May 1.
Byrne’s extensive experience working
at the station has afforded him a realistic
view of his new job. ‘‘Having aspirin is
top priority,’’ he said. ‘‘It is work, but
it’s enjoyable work.”
_ As the station’s chief spokesperson,
with Student Association, the University
Administration, the communuty-at-
large, and with the. various station
departments themselves.
Of equal importance is the duty of set-
ting the tone for the year-long tenure.
| One of Byrne’s goals is to remove any in-
timidation felt by interested students at
the station for the first time.‘‘When I
first joined I was very nervous,’’ Byrne
said.‘‘I’d like to se that broken down.”
Students’ image of WCDB is of con-
cern. “‘The average perspective (of
students) is that alot are not really sure,
even aside from WCDB, what college
radio is about.’
Targeting freshman during summer
orientation planning conferences is one
way Byrne plans to address this. Recruit-
ment is a high priority for the year
because of ‘decreasing membership
numbers.
much of his time will be spent in meetings —
to Kim.
Attendance at these lectures will not be
mandatory, but freshmen will be ‘‘stongly
urged to attend’’, Kim said. O
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Byrne appointed manager
following WCDB election
Another of Byrne’s long-range goals is- .
to augment the station’s promotion off
campus through such means as WCDB
presented bands in local clubs, working
more closely with music stores, and by
reserving. ad time before Spectrum movie
showings
While Byrne adjusts to his new role
and meets SA,SUNYA, and community
members he will be meeting with, the
selection of a new executive staff is the
most pressing resonsibility on hand.
Byrne’s management theories seem to
be conducive kto running the station and
its staff smoothly: he said it’s important
to remmember both that some station
members are still serious students-that —
WCDB is a cool place to hangout, but
not their main vocation, but also that col-
lege is not only school, but includes a
just-as-important social aspect as well.
As for fitting his position, Byrne
described himself as one who likes to take
advice and to find out how everyone
feels, ‘‘everyone’’ defined as all station
members, not just the executive staff. ‘‘I
don’t want to bring forth the feeling that.
I’m in control.’’ he said.
Murray said he is confident Byrne will
do justice to the job of general manager.
Bewcause Byrne knows the station from
‘many different: angles, Murray. said, this
will transition month will be spent
“showing him the subtleties of the
job... if there are any.’
Byrne has the support of the WCDB
staff, as exemplified by Music Director
Josh Rosenthal, who gave Byrne his first
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SUNYA students are getting
ready to pack their bags and
forget their books, as spring
break draws near.
Many students are not spending
the usual spring break partying in
Ft. Lauderdale or Myrtle
Beach.Those who want to travel
are going farther south down to
the Bahamas or the Virgin
Islands, if affordable.
Junior Mike Jaffe said he will
treat his girlfriend to a taste of
sun and sand for a week. Jaffe is
one of many ‘‘spring breakers’’
who will be going to Montego
Bay, Jamaica.
Senior Matt Gallo said he
wants to ‘‘get a tan and get
drunk’’, while spending time in
St. Maarten.
‘IT plan to bake in the sun’’,
junior Steve Wishner said.
Wishner will be spending his first
time in the Bahamas.
Sophomore Debra Bach said
she is going home. ‘‘I’ll be work-
ing at a diner. I need the cash.”’
Bach is not the only one who
will be spending time at home. In
fact, many students this year will
be at home relaxing with family
and friends.
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Spring brings a much-needed break for many
Although Lisanne Lange has no
plans yet, ‘‘I’m maybe going to
take a road trip.’’ Lange said. A
similar attitude was expressed by
many students who want to take it
easy, perhaps live on the edge a
little, do some exploring, or just
get away and blow off some
“I plan to bake in the sun.”
— Steve Wishner
“*T need the time to relax.’’
— Joanne Jackson
“I think I’m going to spend the
break playing golf.’’ senior Scott
Spindel said. Spindel stressed the
need to ease tension.
“T’m going to go home and
look for a job’’, freshman Andy
Mintz said.
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start on things.
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Spencer, adding that he is going
home to do some running and
find a job as well.
Sophomore Joanne Jacobson
said,‘‘I need the time to relax.
Also finals are coming up real
soon so I need to spend a large
‘amount _ of time studying” students can’t wait to leave.
iIROTC programs face
problems due to cuts
COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Dire
warnings that budget cuts may
force many campus Reserve Of-
ficer Training Corps (ROTC) pro-
grams to shut down have come
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anounced it will soon close ROTC
programs on 30 campuses, affec-
ting 4,448 students, and merge
seven other college programs into
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“I’m going to stay here and
stick to my academic work,’’said
John Fulmer, a Resident Director
on Indian Quad.
Whether it will be homeward
bound or beachward gam
While Navy ROTC programs
appear safe for the moment, Ar-
my officials concede they also are
considering dramatic cuts like the
Air Force’s.
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Seniors look to Career Development for job tips
terviewing has increased.
Currently living statistics give
cause for optimism — DeSantis
By Jackie Silver
STAFF WRITER
For SUNYA students seeking
post-graduation employment in
the Albany area and elsewhere,
1988 is proving to be a good year.
According to Vic DeSantis, Ac-
ting Director of the Career
Development Center, the job
outlook for seniors is improving
in the Albany area.
Although the biggest employ-
ment is in New York City, DeSan-
tis said, Albany is becoming more
popular with graduates. Com-
puter science, service occupation,
retailing, banking and teaching
are some of the more popular oc-
cupations while Jobs in Invest-
ment banking, and manufactur-
ing are not as highly sought, ac-
cording to DeSantis.
“The overall job outlook for
According to DeSantis, during
the months of February and
March 108 companies came to
“It was good to know that
somebody was available, when I
_ needed more support with ied
resume. ’
— Shari Wilgrad
said this past fall 98 percent of
SUNYA‘s accounting majors
found jobs.
this year is that more seniors are
getting positions,’ DeSantis said,
and the number of companies in-
SUNYA in which 2000 students
had job interviews.
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is a very significant increase,”’
DeSantis said.
One way in which these
students receive interviews is
through the Career Development
Center. ‘‘I feel that the Career
Development Center definitely
made it easier for me to get inter-
views instead of having to send
out letters on my own, I was able
to get my foot in the door by
simply. submitting my resume to
the appropriate company,”’
senior Helene Masnick said.
Many graduating SUNYA
seniors said the Career Develp-
ment Center has been very helpful
in the search for employment.
Another senior, Shari Wilgrad,
said the Career Development
Center has helped her organize
and get her resume started. ‘‘It
was good to know that somebody
was available, when I needed
more support with my resume,”’
Wilgrad said.
The Career Development
Center provides a service but is
not a placement center DeSantis
said.
He indicated that at the center,
students are taught in individual
or group workshops how to do
career planning and job research.
“It’s a whole on-campus
recruitment center,’? DeSantis
said.
The Career Development
- Center also has a career library
where students can obtain infor-
mation on specific companies.
Shary Marx, a senior at
SUNYA, is highly satisfied with
the Career library and, commen-
ting on the library’s video tapes
on interviewing skills, said ‘‘it’s a
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charity on Saturday, as SUNYA students
participated in Special Olympics basket-
ball competition held at Troy High School.
The afternoon went along smoothly
with a very larfe turnout. Volunteers and
participants ranged in age from 8 to 30
years old.
Delta Psi Chi, Theata Chi, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon [SAE] and students from
SUNYA’s Special Olympics Committee,
which allowa the mentally disabled to par-
ticipate in athletic competition, coor-
dinated the event.
The events included field goal shooting,
speed passing, basketball dribbling and re-
bounding, as well as team competitions.
Team competitions were six minutes
long and different teams competing
against each other. In the skills activities,
there were three peopel to a sheet [or team]
with 19 sheets, all competing against each
other.
Gold, silver, bronze and Fourth place
ribbons were given out for each event. All
contestants were given awards for their
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“There is nothing more rewarding than
helping out people who are less fortuante
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Delta Psi Shi and a member of the SUNYA
Special Olympics Committee. Berger said
she organized the contributions made by
the Greek society.
Monica Hardy, head of the Special
Olympics Committee, said she ‘‘was happy
with the turnout’’ but also stress the need
for volunteers for such a worthwhile
cause. ;
Hardy further stressed that Special
Olympics is an on going process with many
events requiring a lot of dedication. ‘‘With
many of our executives graduating this
year we really need volunteers for next
year or the suny chapter will disintergrate
and that would be very sad,’’ Hardy said.
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March 22, 1988
The Debate For Arts’ Sake
p.m., Ken Johnson squared off
against Ron Jones in the Fine Arts
building at Albany State. Joanne Carson of
the Art Department moderated the debate
entitled “Art: What is its Purpose.” The
department anticipated an_ intellectual
blood bath.
Michael Dermansky
Ken Johnson is a visiting critic teaching
_ contemporary Art History. He writes for
Metroland, a local arts paper.
Ron Jones is a visiting artist and critic.
He writes for Artscribe and shows at
Metro pictures, a New York City gallery.
Dr. Jones has a Ph.D. in Art History.
Carson, a painter and professor, opened
the debate by questioning the role of the
critic. Jones said the role of the critic is a
creative role, just as that of the artist. He is
selective in the work he chooses, using the
works as vehicles to substantiate his social
theories.
Johnson feels his role as critic is to react
to art stimuli in a poetic way, as though he
were writing a short novel spurred by the
work before him. He did not feel that the
effects his critique have is his responsibility
and he had no social agenda in mind.
3 ast Tuesday night, March 17 at 6
The audience, comprised of graduate
and undergraduate art students and art pro-
fessors, then harped on Dr. Jones, deman-
ding he clarify his position, how he feels
art relates to politics, and how he feels
about traditional art and art training. Mr.
Jones’ reaction to the seige, “I feel as
though I'm in a job interview.”
Jones stated that the middle class, the
bourgeoise, was the most over bearing,
dominating class in history and that he and
everyone in the room was part of the mid-
dle class, this evidenced by their university
educations.. He added that this over- .
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from happening by continually consuming
change into the mainstream; there is the ap-
- pearence of change while no change is ac-
tually occurring. He concluded by stating
the desire to be a part of the avante-guarde
— the off to the left — by the heroic artist
is fully anticipated by the culture and its
media forces.
As examples, Jones cited advertisements
for art schools to make your child into the
next Picasso, which in his eyes is
undesirable, as well as the punk rock
movement, which once showed _ the
rebellion of a lower urban strata, but is
now represented amongst popular fashion
trends. He also mentioned singer Laurie
Anderson, who has recently been embrac-
ed by the media, the very vehicle which
her work once protested. Jones again em-
phasized that we are told change is occurr-
ing when its not.
So what is the program? The agenda for
change?
Jones expressed firstly a plan to go
against the illusion of change by not chang-
ing. He sighted Sheri Levine, whose gallery
shows each year are visually the same ex-
cept for small changes. He refers to this
movement as Huverism. By not making
great changes when they are not necessary,
the path for great change is being cleared.
When questioned as to what changes
these artists: are heading toward, and if
they have a subversive plot, Jones would
not reveal his secrets, for once the middle
class gets hold of it, he said, it can no
longer be subversive.
Johnson found all of this political em-
phasis oppressive. Art has nothing to do
with politics and intellect, he stressed, but
rather is a personal, aesthetic experience.
He feels that art should be entertaining and
was greatly concerned that the artistic
development of sight and experience was
being overshadowed by dragging politics
into it.
Johnson takes a very idealistic approach
to art: he believes that it simply exists and
the social circus surrounding it is ultimately
unimportant. This is a functionless view.
Jones thoroughly embraces the artistic
process, something which is immediately
evident in his art classes at the University.
They are very thorough and rigorous in
developing visual backbone. It is his drive
which makes art exciting, giving the pro-
duct, and its process, meaning.
In Ronald Jones’ classes, you will never
hear, “Well, it’s just art.” His critical visions
spark the potential for individual energy,
which is of the greatest importance. Ld
_ Fall, 1988 Employment Opportunities
Department of Campus Life invites applications for the following student assistant positions:
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Information Desk Assistant -
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Campus Center Maintenance Assistant - —
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Audio-Visual Assistant -
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Student Marshall -
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Podium Tour Guide -
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Wising up to the direction of film
hile the name Robert Wise may not
be immediately recognizable to the
majority of young moviegoers to-
day, the names of some of his classic films
most certainly are. The man responsible
for the direction of such films as West Side
Story, The Sound of Music, The Day The
Earth Stood Still, and The Haunting spoke
last Friday night (March 18) about his work
to the sizable audience which filled ESIPA’s
Studio Theatre. His appearance in Albany
was sponsored by the New York State
Writers Institute, and an introduction was
given by William Kennedy, the Institute's
director and one of Albany’s favorite sons.
April S. Anastasi
Wise, who was born in Indiana in 1914,
stood as an example of his own advice to
people desiring a career in the film in-
dustry. “Get your foot in the door any way
you can,” he said. He got his own “foot in
the door” through a messenger job with
RKO studio’s film-editing department.
Working his way up the movieland lad-
der, Wise rose from messenger to appren-
tice sound effects editor to music editor to
film editor. His occupation of this rung af-
forded him an opportunity to work with
writer/actor/director Orson Welles. Wise
edited both the infamous Citizen Kane and
The Magnificent Ambersons.
In regard to the on-going controversy
concerning who actually deserved the
screen credit for Citizen Kane, Wise had
this to say: “To me it’s almost academic as
to who should get the major credit for the
script. It’s Orson’s film.” While credit was
given to both Welles and Herman J.
Mankiewicz, some critics like Pauline Kael
argue that Mankiewicz was more
deserving.
In 1943, Wise got his big break when he
took over direction on the film Curse of
the Cat People. This was the first in his
long string of 38 films which he worked on
as a director.
Wise’s motion pictures have earned 67
Academy Award nominations and 19 ac-
tual Oscars. Therefore, it only seems
natural that he presently serves as the presi-
dent of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences. In addition, he has
received the 1967 Irving G. Thalberg
Award from the Academy and was
presented with the Life Achievement
Award of the Directors Guild of America
on March 12.
Calling a question concerning the
Academy’s treatment of Steven Speilberg
“dicey,” Wise mentioned the popular
theory but then discredited it. Many
believe the Oscar snubs stem from “resent-
ment because of his success and youth,” he
. said. “I don’t really think that’s true... 1
don’t really, honestly think it has anything
to do with what I first said.” Wise conclud-
ed with a prediction of Speilberg’s con-
tinued success in the industry.
Along these lines, Wise commented,
“I'm sure to an extent that an emotional
vote goes on. By and large, I think people
do vote with their conscience and their
judgement.”
As Academy president, he refused to
make any predictions for..this year’s
awards. He did praise the high number of
well-made films in this year’s race and
related his difficulty in voting for best —
director. (In addition to his presidential
position, Wise is also a member of the
director’s branch within the Academy). “I'd
like to have put ten down — pictures the
same way,” he smiled. ;
Wise’s presentation came on the heels of
his trip to Washington, D.C., earlier in the
week, during which he spoke to several |
Senators and Representatives, lobbying for | _
legislation which would protect the artistic . | —
integrity of films and filmmakers. Pro-
blems lie in “how to attack it because of
where they’re (congressmen) coming from
with copyright laws,” Wise explained.
However, he sounded optimistic, and said
of those he spoke with, “They seemed
‘sympathetic. Many of them were film
buffs . .
A. writers’
. (who) quoted films.”
director, Wise cited
screenplay writing as “the simplest way to
get into the business.” He noted that today,
“Better films are being made in terms of
better stories and scripts — that’s really
where it is.”
Discussing the hoped for legislature, he
lamented, “It’s a weak area in terms of
writers’ involvement.” Wise went on to-ex-
plain, “Very rarely is the screenwriter
around during the shooting of the film.”
Wise turned to Kennedy for reinforce-
ment. “If you take a strong stand, chances
are you won't sell it,” Kennedy explained
concerning scripts and ideas. “You have a™
choice of selling it or not. We have no
choice,” he said, referring to those whose
films have already been made.
-Colorization was also a well-discussed
topic. Adamantly against it, Wise rebuffed
the weak argument that even if black and
white classics are colored, they can still be
<* those’ ‘done - before® the -
“ development’ of color on film’ — quite a”
_ few motion pictures were made this way in
seen in their original form by turning off
the television set’s color knob. This does —
not leave viewers with the professed
original, he explained. The computerized
color used in the process of colorization is
not done on original black and white
negatives. As flat a copy as possible (all .
grey) is first made from these negatives, .
and then the color is added to that.
Therefore, the too wide-spread colored -
prints are nothing like the originals as far as
the nuances of the art of black and white
filmmaking are concerned.
Regardless of the ares ene: of Ais
that had to be made in black and white, —
technological
accordance with the director's artistic
choice. Citing his own work, Wise said of :
the colorization of Somebody Up There
Likes Me, a film whose harsh realities are
reinforced by the lack of color, “I hate that
film to have that pretty stuff added to it.
It’s wrong.”
Wise said, “I understand many labs dog t
even know how to process black and white
Danielle,
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saa the ASPects family:
April, Gary, Eric, Matt, Stef, Brian,
and Peter
films.” He listed that as one of the reasons ~
*
why black and white films, for the most _
part, are no longer made. “Unless we can
get our legislation that will stop coloriza-
tion, then I think it will be color all the
way.”
A vice-chairman of the Board ob the
American Film Institute, Wise is a strong
supporter of film schools, citing those at
New York -University, University of
Southern California, and University of
‘California at Los Angeles as the best. He
-.also noted A.F.I.’s Center for Advanced
Film Studies in Los Angeles, of which he is
the chairman.
_ “I believe in film school as long as they |
“*. (students) don’t think it’s going to be ‘Open -
Wise became nostalgic as he took a look
back at the studio system of yesteryear, as
was great — regardless of the kind of
roughness they exhibited, they loved film
— that was their life.” And in that way,
they are very similar to Robert Wise
himself. 0
Sesamé” ‘when’ “they leave with that ©
diploma — as long as they go into it
realistically.”
well as the studio mogols of those days. “It-
Complaint
Directory
This editorial was first printed in the fall of 1985,
being the brainchild of former Editor-in-Chief and
ASP legend Heidi Gralla. It has since acquired
somewhat of a cult following among those too lazy to-
open a telephone directory, too bored to not read it,
and too busy to research a real editorial topic.
Ask an administrator why a particular problem has
never been addressed and he or she is almost sure to
say ‘‘I wasn’t aware the problem existed.’’ Chances
are that’s the truth. Administrators don’t live on
campus and they don’t attend classes. They see very
little of what really goes on here.
So the next time you start to tell your friend what’s
wrong with this school, take a few extra steps to the
nearest phone and tell your gripe (or praise) to
someone who can do something about it. Listed
below are some key names and numbers of people
you can call, along with some examples of what you
might speak to them about. This is, of course, only a
sampling of the people you may want to contact. For
additional names and numbers, call the Campus
Center informataion desk at 442-5571.
Bus Service — When you get tired of watching full
buses pass you on many mornings, making you late
for your classes, and you’ve stood there so long that
your legs can’t support you anymore, crawl over to ©
the nearest phone and call Physical Plant director
Dennis Stevens at 442-3400.
University Auxillary Services — When you look at
this week’s menu and marvel at how UAS has once
again managed to serve its three worst entrees on one
night and its three most bearable ones on another, or
you’ve found something large and disgusting in your
Colonial Burger and you’d like it identified, call UAS
general manager E. Norbert Zahm at 442-5950. He’s
told us many times that he ecuuels appreciates
_ Student input.
Tuition Rates — If you’ve noticed that your tuition
bill has gone up while the quality of service and
education at this University is going down, and you’d
like to put a stop to this, call 474-1041 and ask for
Mario. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t get
through right away; the govenor only like students
when elections are approaching.
Alcohol — The next time you and your suitemates
decide to have a party but realize that school alcohol
policy says you can’t have any kegs or beerballs in
either your room or your suite, call Vice President
for Student Affairs Mitchel Livingston at 442-5500
and tell him what you think about the ban on bulk
eS oe is Se ee ee ee
Grades — If your transcript looks like a bowl of
alphabet soup with some extra ‘W’s thrown in, and
you wish you’d had just a little more time to drop
your course wthout a ‘W’, call University President
Vincent O’Leary at 442-5400.
Academic issues - When you need an interpreter to
understand your foreign instructor’s feeble at-
tempts at speaking English or your professor is so
wrapped up in his or her own research that teaching
seems to be little more than an annoying distrac-
tion, call Vice President for Academic Affairs Sung
Bok Kim at 442-4803.
Student Accounts — If a hold had been slagad on
your account, preventing you from registering, and
you know you’ve paid all your bills and returned
your library books, call Student Accounts director
Lia Catalano at 442-3200 and remind her that even
computers can make mistakes.
Dorm Maintenance and Cleaning — When the
carpet in your room hasn’t been vacuumed in a
week and you can’t describe the things growing in
your bathroom, bring it to the attention of your
RA. If your don’t get results, go to the Residence
_ Director and then the Area Coordinator. If the pro-_
blem still hasn’t been rectified, call Karl Scharl,
Systems Director of Physical Plant for Building and
Institutional Services, at’ 442-3410.
Getting Results — If you call any of these people
and you don’t get results, call us, the Albany Stu-
dent Press at 442-5660 and we’ll look into it. After
all, no one likes uninvited publicity.
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Salvage sanity
Something is happening here on our campus that
students should know about, that we have a right to know
about, and which the administration is trying to prevent
us from knowing about. I am referring to research for the
Strategic Defense Iniative (SDI, Star Wars).
Brian Obach
The inquiry into this subject began last year when
students were assured by the administration that no such
research was taking place at SUNYA. When evidence
turned up this year members of Peace Project renewed
_ their investigation. Again, the administration denied the
allegations. From the research director right up to Presi-
dent O’Leary the answer was the same — there’s no Star
Wars research. However, the Federation’ of American
Scientists told a different story. This group of researchers
who monitor the SDI program sent us a list of six contacts
dating back to 1983 that totalled over one million worth.
of research at SUNYA. In the face of this evidence, the
administration pleaded ignorance and asked for time to
check it out. Days later, they admitted to one of the six
contacts.
SUNY Buffalo has also uncovered SDI eee at their
school, research which is in direct violation of SUNY
guidelines. The problem with SDI and other military
research contracts at SUNY is that they often contain
provisions which allow the research results to be
classified? We aren’t certain that it is, as the ASP incor-
rectly reported on March 11th. However, the reason we
don’t know is because the administration refuses to pro-
vide access to the contacts. Frank DiSanto, the director of
research, claimed that there is no classified research at
Albany, however he refused to substantiate this claim.
‘*You’ll have to take my word for it,’’ he said. This is the
word of a man who had denied that the research was even
being done just days before. What is going on here? We
have a right to know. SUNY guidelines say we have a
right to know. As students we comang to know. What do
they have to hide? |
The administration claims that we should not get upset
because this is really only ‘‘basic’’ research; it has many
applications. So what if it’s being paid for by the
military? So what if it is being done under a program call-
ed ‘‘Surveillance, Acquisition, Tracking, and Kill Assess-
ment’’? Well, there are several dangers in SUNYA’s in-
volvement in military research. President Eisenhower was
first to warn us of the military industrial complex. The
military and the defense contractors (those private cor-
porations which manufacture all of our weapons and
bombs) created very close ties during the war economy of
the 1940’s. They entered into'a mutually beneficial rela-
tionship. Military leaders claim a need for an expensive
increase in military equipment and then defense contrac-
tors eagerly supply them at hefty profits. Many generals
and ranking military officials then receive high paying
jobs on corporation payrolls after years of loyal service.
Of course, there are many under the table payoffs (i.e.
Wedtech) which further strengthen this bond.
The Strategic Defense Iniative is the largest military
program in the history of the world. It will cost over half
a trillion dollars and billions more to maintain. That’s.
enough to pay half of our national debt and to give every
American 2,000 dollars. There is Jots of money to be
made in this program and the military industrial complex
is all for it. With the authority of the military and the
power of the corporations behind it, the public has
nowhere to turn for accurate information on our real
defense needs and options. Anyone in a position to know
not SDI
what these needs are have a ready made answer — more,
more, more! While people go homeless, the military is —
devouring more and more of our tax dollars, lining their
pockets, and pushing us ever closer to the brink of
destruction. The university should not be drawn into this
evil alliance. Can we expect objective, accurate informa-
tion from our professors when our university is being
paid large sums of money from the defense department?
Will the university risk a position of favor and hire a pro-
fessor who is willing to tell the truth about the military
and its spending practices?
But this is not the only drawback to this situation. Most
researchers and military strategists who have no vested in-
terest in the SDI program say the defense system is a
hopeless waste of time. However, when challenged with
this, Mr. Reagan can simply answer, ‘‘If it’s such a waste,
why would the distinguished researchers at Yale, MIT,
and SUNY put time into it?’? This may just be ‘‘basic’’
research, but in doing it we are selling out the people of
America and lending support to this dangerous escapade.
Ron probably has a cruel laugh about cutting education
funding while hé turns the university into the testing
ground for the ever-expanding, ever-wasteful, military
industry.
But what about the Star Wars program itself? Why
should we be opposed to SDI? Isn’t it a defensive pro-
gram which will protect us from nuclear attack? There is
no technological fix for national security. Even if we
develop the technology to defend ourselves today, we will
surely develop new technology to destroy ourselves again
tomorrow. Technology does not end. When it comes to
the military, technology grows like a cancer. It absorbs
our limited resources in its endless quest for a better
means of destruction.
The Star Wars system, even if it were possible to create,
‘will not save this world from nuclear annihilation. Even
SDI advocates admit that it will not be able to stop every
missile. But their deranged little minds can cope with the
concept of the acceptable loss of millions of lives while
calmly ignoring the ecological destruction that — make -
this planet uninhabitable.
This is only one minor flaw in their feeble attempt to
justify this financial vaccuum. The SDI system is design-
ed to block only one class of missiles — ICBMs. The
Soviets, if they had any real interest in destroying the:
world, would still be fully capable of doing so. Cruise
missiles fired from submarines off the U.S. coast or
bombers can easily devestate our entire nation, even if not
one single ICBM was launched. But even this is
unrealistic. If we were capable of creating and deploying
a star wars system, the Soviets could easily overwhelm it
with cheap missile decoys. They could even place a small
space mine in orbit next to our satellite to be detonated
just prior to an attack leaving us just as defenseless as
before we wasted billions of our tax dollars. And if the
Soviets are as evil and blood thirsty as some lead us to
believe, deploying SDI would only provoke an attack
before it was put into use.
The SDI program is senseless all around. It will waste
billions of dollars which could be used to feed the hungry
and house the homeless. This money could be put to
positive causes but instead it will be used to escalate the
arms race and push us closer to the precipous of nuclear
annihilation. Hope for peace cannot be found in building
more weapons of war. Don’t let our campus join in this
destructive crusade. Stop the madness. Stop SDI. =
The writer
is: a<“Seeptor “2r SIN YA]
Time to back off
To the Editor:
In the Friday, March 11th issue of the ASP, the sisters |
of Pi Sigma Chi sorority expressed concern that they
might be mistakenly thought of as the sorority in Jeanne
Murgavero’s letter which appeared March 4th, entitled
‘‘No Date at All’’. Murgavero’s letter, a misguided attack
base on extremely concrete and irrefutable evidence
(rumor had absolutely nothing to do with it), is not the
reason I am writing this letter. Rather, its purpose is to -
find out the goals and aspirations of Pi Sigma Chi, here at
Albany.
In their letter, Pi Sigma Chi lists several deterrants to
the promotion of a healthy Greek image at SUNYA. I
would like to add a deterrant to their thought provoking
list. My addition is a lack of unity within the Greek
system itself.
Only through unity are the Greeks able to promote a
healthy image of themselves. Unity is planning social
events for the whole campus to enjoy. Unity is Greek
sponsored fund raisers for such causes as the life of Brian
Crounse. Unity is working together, as a team, for the
benefit of all involved.
When a member of my team falls down, - help the
member stand up. When members are subject to vicious
rumors which may or may not be true, I stand by them
and vouch for their credibility, until the truth is un-
covered. And if the rumors are true, I look them in the
eye and tell them they let the team down. Further punish-
ment may or may not be necessary.
I do not turn the other way and pretend not to see my
teammates in trouble. Nor do I abandon the team and
clear my own name, implicate others, and put myself on a
righteous pedastool leaving the rest of the team to face its
problems alone. This is not unity. This is not what we
Greeks are about.
Sisters of Pi Sigma Chi sorority, you let the team down.
oe Baer
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Legal murder
To the Editor:
I have read, with interest, the letters regarding abortion
and the pro-choice viewpoint. As a pro-lifer, I believe
abortion is murder..
To address but a few of the pro-choice agruments:
1)Contrary to popular belief, most abortions are per-
formed on upper middle class women who don’t want to
be inconvenienced by a child or the woman believes her
child is the wrong sex. It isn’t the poor ghetto women.
2)Abortion is chosing to kill. 50 percent of the people go-
ing into abortion chambers don’t come out alive. A
woman has a right to control her body, but abortion
murders another person. Does the child have the right to
kill the mother because she is bringing harm to him or
her? I think not.
3)Pro-choice is pro- -abortion. The right to choose i is the
right to kill the baby. ©
I would recommend reading Abortion: the Silent
Holocaust by John Powell, S.J. for more information of
the Pro-Life stand.
As a side note, over 20 million lives have been lost
through abortion, the entire population of 12 western
states. Who knows, some of those people could have been
our future doctors, artists, teachers, athletes, or even
presidents.
— Simone N. Havasy
Blinded for years
To the Editor:
If Congress can’t balance the a in good times,
pleace picture the financial crisis bad times would
produce.
For 144 years, the regulation of lives and providing was
wisely left to the states, as intended by our founding
fathers. Following such policy today could solve our
awful debt problem. President Jackson called it, ‘‘Protec-
tion for all, favors for none.’’
In 1933, Congress switched to, ‘‘Provide, regulate,
spend, borrow, tax.’’ Now, blinded for years by federal
handouts, we face colossal debt, high taxes, giant
bureaucracy (1200 overlapping agencies), many
duplicating work of the states, endangering our freedoms
and nation’s credit, and there are no reserves for rainy
days or debt payments. Thomas Paine would ask, ‘‘Did
your ancestors come to America and did men die on bat-
tlefields for that?”’
George Washington warned Congress, ‘‘Continued
deficit spending must ultimately endanger all govern-
ments.’’ Is Congress endangering our government cs ig-
noring his warning?
Needed is a constitutional amendment requiring
balanced budgets. Has your state requested it? We could
pay the debt. in 50 years by reducing it two percent per
year. Great interest saving would result.
Now’s the time for all of us to write Congress to stop
pussyfooting and get our federal financial house in order
so we can save our G-d-given freedom for ourselves, our
children, and our grandchildren.
—Harold Lindemann
Two faces of S.A.
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to all of the negative letters
that have been written about the Student Association this
year. While I do realize that, as a former Central Council
Chair and member, I am presently far removed from the —
organization, there are some things that never change but
are always overlooked.
People in S.A. dedicate many hours a week to serve ina
group that offers them very little in way of rewards. They
put in time and effort going to various meetings, planning
events, and organizing activities for which their sole
renumeration is the satisfaction of being able to create a
better environment for students. It’s not an easy job, but
these civic minded individuals take their tasks very ©
seriously and are there, doing day in and day out, doing
their best to represent you — their constituency.
Taking a position in the public eye invariably leaves
one open to alot of negative publicity because there will
always be people who will disagree with your opinion.
_ There have been a lot of citics this year, some whose com-
plaints have been warranted and some not, but it is
generally the apathetic who do more than their share of
complaining. It’s very easy to criticize but it’s not a very
respectable position to be in when you’re not willing to
get up and do something about the problem yourself.
SA, beyond all of its obvious programming events, is
fighting behind the scenes for students’ concerns every
day. They’re meeting with deans to protect students’
rights in the university judicial process, doing battle with
the administration over such issues as the alcohol policy
and the proposed podium passout party, and generally
trying to nip problems in the bud before they become ac-
tual problems. Next time you’re about to shoot your
mouth off about S.A. please just take the time to think to .
yourself about what these people are doing for you.
While all their actions may not be visible and the ASP
may only choose to write about S.A.’s negative aspects, —
just remember they’re out there for you, the student, and
you are always welcome to do the more respectable thing
of coming in and helping out, instead of sitting on your .
butt and running off at the mouth.
—Larry Hartman
Rationing rolls
To the Editor: -
' As students residing on Dutch Quad, we find the new
bathroom policy ridiculous. Last semester we were in-
formed that the maxiumum amount of toilet paper rolls
we would be given was three! These three rolls are sup-
posed to last us one week until the cleaning woman comes
again. The fact is that during the past year, we have had
numerous cleaning women and each one has come on a
different day. For this reason, at times the rolls have had
to last us longer than one week.
Don’t the policy makers realize that three rolls of toilet
paper is nowhere near enough to last one week, especially
in a suite of four girls? A number of times during this
semester we have gone to the Quad Office for toilet paper
and we have been given a hard time. We also had to go to
other suites in search of paper. Our quest for toilet paper
has also led us to Grand Union where we spent our hard-
earned money to purchase more toilet paper. We pay
room and board at this University and are entitled to
food, a bed, a lamp, furniture and toilet paper. Someone
should re-evaluate this paper policy — hopefully before
this week’s ration runs out.
— Shelly Rebhun
— Jackie Mylie
— Rosalba J. DeRobertis
: — Michele McCarthy
Facts first, not lies
To the Editor:
In response to the March 14th letter entitled, ‘‘No Date
at All,’’ I feel the ASP exercised little journalistic respon-
sibiltiy in printing unsubstantiated accusations without
further investigating that which it was publishing. The
alleged incident to which that letter refers to, is as of this
writing, unproven. By printing that letter, the ASP staff,
served only in perpetuating and further distorting ;
rumors. In the process, many people have been greatly of-
fended and innocent people have suffered.
Greek life i is steadily growing on campus and is becom-.
ing integral for the school as a whole, not just Greeks. If
there was, in fact, an incident, those responsible will be
dealt with by the University in a just manner. Let’s not
punish the whole Greek system by printing letters filled
with half-truths and malicious lies.
_—Robert Brett
Perpetually proud
To the Editor:
I am one of many to say that I am Pro-Israel and pro-
ud! I feel no reason to explain myself to anyone for any
reason to condone nor condemn the state. I sympathize
with the average Israeli soldier who faces a barrage of fly-
_ing rocks and has priority orders to hold his fire unless his
own life is threatened. I cannot sympathize with Arabs
who run-in the streets screaming ‘‘slaughter the Jew’’. I
do not admire those who are quick to condemn the state
relying solely on the currently biased media. I am proud
of my Israeli brothers and sisters who are fighting for
their own survival. I hope that peace will return to the na-
tion soon, as many lives have already been wasted. My
pride in my homeland will never diminish.
—Lorne Newman
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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988 (| ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 1 3
Albany Bowl-a-thon raises
$106,500 for local kids
By Howard Fox
STAFF WRITER
Area bowlers took to the lanes Sunday
to raise money for Big Brothers/Big Sisters
in the seventh annual ‘‘Bowl for Kids’
Sake’’ bowlathon.
‘‘Bowl for Kids’ Sake’’ raises money
needed to operate Big Brothers/Big Sisters
of Albany, Schenectady, and Rensselaer
counties.
Some of the programs supported by the
event are Project Challenge, a weekly
tutorial program with Siena College and
the summer camp at Siena, Cathedral
Academy, and Project Help, which spon-
sors weekly recreational events with
SUNYA students.
‘‘Thirty counselors [students] get on a
bus Saturday morning and pick up 30
children from single-parent families. These
children are on waiting lists for actual big
brothers and sisters,’’ said Daniel Myers,
SUNYA Director for Big Brothers/Big
ST
‘‘Fyveryone could help
out. We had a great
ale epee
— Elyssa Danels
According to Myers, children are match-
ed one-on-one. ‘‘“This semester we went ice
skating, roller skating, [held a] Winter
Carnival, and had a movie marathon,”
Myers said.
Future programs for the 7-13 year olds
will include Guinness Day and maybe Par-
ty on the Podium,’’ Myers continued.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters matches a
mature volunteer adult with a child from a
single-parent home. The organization
hopes to reinforce the family life of these
children by having a Big Brother or Big
Sister provide guidance, stability, and
companionship, Myers said.
The Albany Student Press is
desperately seeking material for its
“BEYOND THE MAJORITY”
column. Reserved exclusively for
the minority voice on the SUNYA
~ campus, the column is a regular
feature in Tuesday editions
Because of the publicity of the weekly
feature, ‘‘Monday’s Child,’? — which
shows Chris Kapostasy of WNYT-TV
spending time with a child in need of a Big
Brother or Big Sister — more people have
come forward to volunteer, Myers said.
The organization has strict guidelines for | .
the recruitment and screening of
volunteers, and for the placement and
supervision of matches.
Some of the money raised Sunday will
be used to hire another case worker, who
conducts interviews, home assessments,
monitors matches, and makes matches,
Myers said.
Bowlers were asked to solicit monetary
pledges for each pin. A pledge of five cents
and a score of 100 resulted in a donation of
$5.00, for example.
From 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., WNYT
broadcasted the event from Tri-City Lanes
in Menands. ‘‘Bowl for Kids’ Sake’’ also
took place at Boulevard Bowl in Schenec-
tady, at Troy Bowl in Troy, and at other
bowling establishments in the tri-city area.
Viewers were asked to contribute to Big
Brothers/Big Sisters. One caller agreed to
contribute $1 for every gutter-ball thrown
by WNYT’s Joe Moskowitz. Moskowitz
unofficially threw seven gutter-balls. _
Big Brother of the Year, Big Sister of the
Year, Honorary Big Brother of the Year,
and Honorary Big Sister of the Year
awards were presented during the
broadcast.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters case worker
Tina Nisch said the event ‘‘went very
well.’? $106,500 was raised for Albany
County, according to Nisch.
‘‘There were 1500 people at Tri-City
Lanes. We did the best we’ve ever done —
$20,000 more,’’ added Nisch.
Sophomore Elyssa Danels said her
sorority, Kappa. Zeta Tau, was one of
many sororities and fraternities that
‘“‘chose this as one of our ways of pro-
viding community service. Everyone could
help out. We had a great time.’’ The
sorority raised about $500 during the
event, Danels said. .
Some of the representatives from the
community participating were Capital
Newspapers, the Polish-American
Association, and Chase Lincoln First.
Local banks, accounting firms, and
Burger King restaurants competed among
themselves to see which firm, bank and
store could raise the most money. _ C
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HALF A STORY
SAY ‘NO’
TO CHAMETZ
, 9
On Passover night we begin the Seder by
breaking the middle Matza. This important
symbol, called “Yachatz,’ precedes the saying of the
Hagaddah. Half of this Matza is hidden for the
Afikoman, which is then eaten at the end of the Seder.
All the other important parts of the Seder and the blessings
: are conducted with a broken Matza.
But why do we take a good whole Matza and intentionally
break it apart? Is it appropriate to use a damaged and broken
Matza as the Seder’s centerpiece?
This unusual breaking of bread symbolizes the pain and poverty of our ancestor
under Egyptian oppression. They ate crumbs, and had to carefully ration their food.
Our forefathers were so poor that they had to divide and break up their meals, eat a lit-
tle bit now and save the rest for later. The broken Matza reminds us of the poverty at
hunger in those difficult times. \
But that was back in Egypt under the Pharohs. What about the Jewish poor today?
And | don’t mean the leterally destitute and penniless — but specifically the rich and af-
fluent. Thank G-d, we don’t have to eat morsels or ration our food today. In fact, we *
are spoiled to the point that we want and expect to get everything. Yet amid all this,
abundance we also suffer a heartbreaking pain and poverty.
Like our broken Matza, we are divided, incomplete, and only half of what ae
should be. Let's visualize the Matza as part of a circular graph, illustrating the
breakdown of the contemporary Jewish family. Demographics show that Jews who ,
identify as such comprise only about half of the whole. The other part of the communi-
ty seems to be hiding, never :» be seen at a Seder or any other Jewish function.
Assimilation is taking quite a bit out of us. Even as we sit comfortably at the Seder, \
surrounded by family and traditions, we must remember how the other half lives. We|
should remember, that statistically, fifty. percent, of our people remain:-outside;;
uninterested and unaffiliated. ee IID RO obiue-lutiinedd
Even the affiliated Jews are further divded between the halves and the halve-nots. }
There are those Jews who think wholly of themselves, who selfishly look inward only
to save ‘their own’. Then there are the halves, those of us who love and care for all our ,.
brethren, affiliated or not. The Torah teaches that we are all part of the whole and
responsible for each other. \
It hurts to talk about our poverty, but knowing the problem is half the solution. We
are spiritually impoverished. Assimilation is caused by poor Jewish education, poor
Jewish upbringing, poor communal planning, and poor Jewish self esteem.
It was only half a century ago, when Jewish identity was taken for granted. A :
general feeling of family and ‘Mishpoche’ kept the community together with a
minimum of observance and commitment. But that is no longer so.
Today we fully realize that it takes much more than bagels and
lox or Temple attendance to remain Jewish. Fiddler-on-the-Roof
nostalgia doesn’t keep up the tradition. A halfhearted interest is in-
_ sufficient to withstand the external pressures of an open society.
Only personal involvement, a fulfilling Torah education and
dynamic Mitzva observance will carry the future.
“ On the other hand, we shouldn't despair. Optimistically, the
Maiza is half full, not half empty,-for each individual person
is a full world.(Talmud). We must do our best to strengthen
wholesome Jewish education, involvement and identity to
prevent the Matza from crumbling any further.
\
We may be segmented and fragmented, but we
must work hard to pick up the pieces.
We should reach out and keep in touch.
We must welcome our unknowing brethren in,
to enjoy the beauty and fulfillment of our com-
mon heritage.We have to search, and look high
and low, until we find the missing pieces, the
hiding Afikoman, which brings the whole Seder
together!
Best wishes for a happy
and Kosher Passover,
Festival of Freedom, and
may we merit the full and
complete Redemption,
speedily in our days.
HAVE A GREAT PASSOVER, Rabbi Moishe Chanowitz
Looking for a Seder in Albany? Call 458-9329 or
Chabad Center of the Capital District
482-5781
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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988 (1) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 15
Womens’ issues focus of closing breakfast
By Connie White
STAFF WRITER
Women’s Awareness Week
came to a close Friday with an
open buffet held in the Snack
Bar.
About 75 students, faculty
members, and school ad-
ministrators attended.
Women’s Issues Coordinator,
Donna Friedman, arranged the
breakfast, as well as initial plann-
ing for Women’s Week. One of
Friedman’s goals in having the
breakfast was to ‘‘encourage
dialogue and publicity about
women’s issues.”
Another goal in holding the
breakfast was ‘‘so people could
look for Women’s Week next
year’’, according to Friedman.
Information about the pro-
grams available to SUNYA
women was one of the topics
discussed at the breakfast.
Friedman noted the new Stu-
dent Association office which is
specifically geared to campus
females. She also discussed S.A.’s
recent allotment of an individual
budget to the Women’s Issues
Office.
‘‘T think it has a long way to go,
but we’re taking a step in the right
direction,’’ Friedman said.
Friedman said her office is
working with the Feminist
Alliance in these new efforts.
During Women’s Week, possi-
ble solutions for campus safety
and the possibility of a Planned
Parenthood chapter on campus
were discussed.
Some other events held during
Women’s Week included films
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Potluck Dinner featuring
photographs of women from
many countries.
Friedman said she regards
‘“‘safety against attack’’ as the
number one concern for women
at SUNYA. She said she views the
Women’s Issues Office as
something to ‘‘prepare women
for the real world.”’
Several on-campus organiza-
tions bring women’s concerns to
light. One is the President’s Task
Force on Women’s Safety, head-
ed by Lisa Donahue and Heidi
Volk. It meets once a month to
discuss such things as safety and
also campus problems that
women face. The Task Force
started eight years ago and con-
ducts an annual campus lighting
survey.
Another on-campus organiza-
tion, Middle Earth, refers troubl-
ed women to programs like
Families in Crisis, which deals
with abused women and teens,
and Mercy House, an emergency
_ Shelter.
A UPD official said most pro-
blems concerning women on cam-
pus are ‘‘interpersonal’’ and that
there are few reports of actual
attack. .
SUNYA women offered
various views about programs
available to them.
‘*I wish I could have gone to
some of the events of Women’s
Week, but I just didn’t have the
time,’’ sophomore Gina Crow on
Alumni Quad, said.
Alumni Quad resident Heidi
Cohen said that she ‘‘read a sign
about Women’s Week but the
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A women’s breakfast Friday marked the end of Women’s Week.
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know about programs for safety
on campus, like Don’t Walk
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Sophomore Earl Gordo com-
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Many women did not know
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Senior Michele Zaransky, said
“‘1’m on campus all the time but I
didn’t. see any notice about
Women’s Week. I’m definitely in-
terested about programs like it.”’
Many women said they believe
a woman is safe at SUNYA. One
female student suggested that ‘‘at
night they should have buses run
more frequently.”’
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Junior Jill Aldrich said she is
glad that there are ‘‘a lot of
female professors I can turn to’’
on campus. Aldrich ‘‘didn’t
know about Women’s Week’’ or
the relatively new SA office that
deals with women’s issues.
“‘We should have programs like
this more often to get campus
women more involved,’’ one stu-
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16 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (] TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988
Mighty Mouse revived on campuses nationwide
COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Jim-
my Daniels has a secret.
The 34-year-old University of
Mississippi journalism instructor
gets up early on Saturday morn-
ings to watch Mighty Mouse.
‘*It’s the only reason I get up on
Saturdays,’ said Daniels. ‘‘I
watch Mighty Mouse and then go
back to bed.”’
“IT never talk about it here,”’
Daniels said in the office of The
Mississippian, Ole Miss’s campus
paper. His colleagues wouldn’t
understand.
“It’s something you keep to
yourself until you find someone
else who’s a fan. Then you get
together and ask which episodes
are their favorites. I’m correspon-
ding with some students at the
University of Missouri about the
show.”’
Daniels shouldn’t be all that
lonely: ‘‘Mighty Mouse: The New
Adventures,’’ created by adult
cartoon veteran Ralph Bakshi and
a staff just out of the California
Institute of Art, is becoming a hit
on many college campuses.
This, mind you, is a very dif-
ferent Mighty Mouse than the
weenie do-gooder who sang opera
while dispatching evil on the small
screen 20 and 30 years ago.
‘*The humor is almost political.
The satire is wonderful,’’ said
University of Nebraska senior
Peggy Brown, an animal science
major. ‘‘It’s aimed more at adults
than children.”’
‘It’s hilarious,’’ said Daniels,
who calls Mighty a ‘Saturday
morning David Letterman. It’s
the best thing on Saturday morn-
ing television, much better than
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the robo-tech stuff. Like Letter-.-
man, he’s hip and irreverent.”’
These days, for instance, Mike
Mouse — Mighty’s alter ego —
works on an assembly line with
other rodents, coping with ’80’s
nihilism and sober careerism.
‘‘Another day, another
discharge of duties demanded,”’
the boss tells the factory rats,
‘‘and let’s take delight in it, shall
we? Just remember, we have
schedules to meet, orders to fill,
productivity to produce. I know
you’ll all do your best, as usual,
and as usual, feel free to do even
better.”’
Mighty’s emerging campus
popularity doesn’t surprise
Bakshi, who began as an
animator in the late 1950’s for the
original Mighty Mouse and co-
features like ‘‘Deputy Dawg’’ and
“‘Hekyll and Jekyll,’? and who
later made his name on a series of
x-rated cartoon tales of sex, dope,
racial bigotry and violence: ‘‘Fritz
ae t(Mighty Mouse) is
hilarious...Like Letterman, he’s hip
and irreverent’’
— Jimmy Daniels
When today’s Mighty Mouse
saves an orphanage from demoli-
tion by balancing it on an adja-
cent lot not slated for redevelop-
ment, he’s apt to observe, ‘“Too
bad they’ll have to pay twice the
property tax, but at least I saved
the day!”’
Or when Cat Paw the Merciless
lands in a space ship to conquer
Mouseville, there’s no victorious
armed resistance. There’s only
apathetic shoulder-shrugging
from the citizenry, which lets Cat
Paw atrophy by his own boredom
while porking out on bad pizza
and bad television.
It occurs, moreover, amid
often psychedelic, eye-scraping
animation, in a disjointed, zig-
zagging cartoon ‘‘city’’ reminis-
cent of an M.C. Escher design.
“TY think every art student
should watch it,’’ suggested Terri
Tabor, a Nebraska art history and
French major.
the Cat’? (1972), ‘‘Heavy Traf-
fic’? (1973) and ‘‘Coonskin’’
(1975).
Today’s collegians, said
Bakshi, an occasional lecturer on
the campus circuit, are ‘‘getting
crazy again.’’
“The kind of greed that
dominated the ’70’s and ’80’s was
frightening. Students seem to be
moving away from that.’’
Now, he asserted, they ‘‘have a
hunger for cartoons, something
they can relate to.’’
In a chowder-thick Brooklyn |
accent, Bakshi maintained
younger kids like the show, too.
“*Kids are a lot smarter than most
animators give them credit for.
Kids might not understand every
gag, but they get the basic
premise. They know it’s funny.’’
Bakshi returned to Saturday
morning TV after a five-year stint
of painting in the woods in New
York, where he’d fled after con-
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troversy that ‘‘Coonskin’’ — in-
tended as a blast at prejudice —
actually perpetuated racial
stereotypes, and after sevral other
features flopped. .
‘But after five years (of pain-
ting) I ran out of money,’’ he
continued. He headed for the
“one business that is always
booming, where I knew I could
step in right away: Saturday mor-
ning cartoons.”’
Bakshi credits the success of his
new show to his staff, a young,
enthusiastic, unjaded bunch of
rookies. When he returned to
relevision, he enlisted seasoned
vets who tried to hell him what he
could and couldn’t sell the net-
works. He dumped the vets and
hired the newcomers — average
age 23 — just graduated from the
California Institute of the Arts.
‘After I got my young guys
together and we put together
some stories, we sent them over to
_ CBS for approval,’’ said Bakshi.
“They laughed their heads off.
Writers who claim they know the
networks cut their own throats.”’
“‘These guys run me ragged,’’
Bakshi said of his staff. ‘‘They’re -
all very funny because they didn’t
know what they could or couldn’t
do. Their stuff is good because
it’s fresh and they love what
they’re doing.”’
He thinks they — along with
that other subversive CBS show,
‘“Pee-Wee’s Playhouse’? — have
opened ‘‘a crack’’ in the other-
wise dull monolith of Saturday
morning programming, but he’s
confident ‘‘in the end we’ll lose,
and Hanna-Barbera will step in to
fill our place with more garbage.”’
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that Byrne ‘‘has all the
Guilderland streetsmarts to han-
dle any and all crisis, and that his
affable character will spread joy
throughout the station, com-
munity, and campus,” although
he did note that Byrne’s four-year
association with WCDB ‘‘is
longer than certain wines are
good.”’
In evaluating WCDB’s prefor-
mance, two areas stand out to
Byrne as exceptional: the improv-
ed relationship with SA, and the
success of University Club. He
also commended Campus Life’s
Scott Birge for his workings with
the station this year.
So far, Byrne is happy with his
new post. ‘‘I just enjoy this place
immensely .. . but I say that now
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_ tominorities
on the decline
COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE —
Despite intense college efforts to
recruit minority students, 27 per-
cent fewer black students got doc-
toral degrees in 1986 than 10 years
earlier, the National Research
Council reported Feb. 15.
Only 820 black students earned
Ph.d.s in 1986, down from 1,116
in 1977, the council said.
In a written statement accom-
Panying the report, council
Members predicted the decline
would lead to ‘‘severe shortages’’
of minority faculty members dur-
ing the 1990’s, and further
frustrate campus efforts to in- .
tegrate their faculties.
American Council on Educa-
tion (ACE) President Robert
Atwell called the report ‘‘evidence
of a disaster,’’ adding the ACE
found undergrad minority enroll- .
ment nationwide fell 3 percent
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paid for out of a dormitory fund,
which comes ffrom money
students pay for room rates, ac-
cording to Zellan.
‘It shouldn’t be dumped on
the students laps;the state should
have the responsibility of paying
for the interest on the bonds,”’
Zellan said.
A third issue to be covered is
the tuition freeze. ‘‘We commend
the govenor for not requesting a
tuition hike this. yer.’’ However,
Zellan said, we’d like the govern-
ment to freeze tuition for the next
five to ten years.
‘**A tuition freeze would work
out to a tuition decrease over a
very long period of time,’’ Zellan
said.
The last issue to deal with is
minority programs.
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988 (1 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 17
Protestors
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over the country, there’s a strong
sense of public outcry’’. Mow
mentioned that protests in San
Francisco, Beverly Hills, Min-
neapolis, Boston, and
Washington D.C. showed that
‘fsomething is happening
everywhere’’ in response to the
situation in Central America.
Shea adderssed the crowd
again, claiming that ‘‘what
Reagan calls military victory’’ is
actully ‘‘bombing raids on farms
and villages’’. Afterwards, Shea
called for a moment of silence ‘‘to
send out our heartfelt wish for
peace in Nicaragua’’.
Shea called for a round of ap-
plause for ‘‘ourselves and others
around the country for taking the
time, care, and committment to
be-here’’.
The protest closed after Shea
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ned civil disobedience on March
24 at the Federal Building.
Angela Winners, an 18 year old
from Transylvania University in
Lexington, Kentucky said she
came to Albany to protest
because her parents were actively
involved with the cause in
Nicaragua.
‘I’ve never been to a protest
before...this is impressive,’’. Win-
ners said, adding that the varity
of groups represented in the
crowd showed how strongly peo-
ple feel about American involve-
ment in Central America.
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| 18 Sports ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (| TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988
Rumors about Taggart’s death proved false
(AP) As a policeman familiar
with drug users and as a parent
familiar with his child, William
Taggart never connected his son
Jeff with drugs before the
Canisius College Basketball
player died after sufferring a
seizure and heart attack during a
game two weeks ago.
When questions about possible
drug use came up almost im-
mediately after the March~- 5
death, Taggart was surprised.
““We never even thought about
that,’’ said the elder Taggart
Monday following a campus
memorial for Jeff Taggart, who
died three days why of his 21st
birthday. ‘“There was never any
doubt in our minds.’’
Taggart remembered discussing
the cocaine related deaths of col-
lege basketball star Len Bias and
pro football player Don Rogers
with the second of his three sons.
‘‘We talked about what caused
it,”’ he said. ‘‘He was pretty proud
of the thought that he had not done
any of that.’’
Yet the deaths of Bias and
Rogers had an impact on the
deaths of Taggart, if only because
the sudden drug-induced deaths of
those two athletes in June 1986 cast
suspicions on any athlete who dies
unexpectedly due to. heart
problems.
In Taggart’s case, the questions
began the day after his death when
areporter asked Coach Mary Mar-
bach if there was ever any indica-
tion of drug use by Taggart.
Marbach and Taggart’s
teamates quickly and emphaticlly
said Taggart was not involved with
drugs, but talk continued when a
television station played a tape of
the conversation between the
hospital emergency room Taggart
was taken and the ambulance at-
tendants, one of whom was heard
to say the seizure was ‘‘possibly
drug-induced.”’
The Erie County Medical Ex-
aminer’s office subsequently
found no trace of drugs in Taggart
and said he died from hypertrophic
cardiomypathy, a disease common
to athletes that causes the heart to
become larger than normal.
It was the same condition that
caused the sudden death of former
college and pro basketball star
» Pete Maravich several months ago.
Although the medical ex-
aminer’s report put to rest the drug
talk, the elder Taggert, Marbach
and the Taggart family minister all
_ questioned the media’ s role in link-
ing Taggart with drugs.
“*I think it’s just bad press,’’ said
the Rev. R. L. Williams.
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“‘Unless you really have the
facts and figures, I don’t know
why you automaticallly have to
deal with it in a_ negative
aspect.’’ Williams also said the
fact Taggart, like Bias and
Rogers, was black and_ the
media covering the story over-
whelmingly white may have had
something to do with it.
“T hate to think that every
time a black athlete has a sud-
den death that it’s always nec-
cessary to try tomakeit seem like
it’s related to drugs,’’ he said.
‘‘Maybe it’s a sterotype of some
sort, that automatically when
blacks die an early death that
they have had to have been do-
ing something wrong.”’
Taggart’s father said his son’s
celebrity status probably made
the questions inevitable.
“‘If you put it it perspective, if
it was one of my _ other
sons . . . who’d have died from
a heart attack, it probably
wouldn’t have even made the
paper, plus there wouldn’t have
been any thoughts about
drugs,’ he said.
Marbach said Bias and
Roger’s deaths have people
thinking drugs are involved in
-any heart related death of an
athlete.
‘‘Lenny Bias’ death has caus-
ed a much increased public
awareness of drug use in
athletics,’’ he said. ‘‘Because of
Softball
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an outfield which consists of
freshmen, entirely.
Chimenti is a first baseman
who can backup up; at catcher,
also.
The starting catcher, Laura
Dugo, made last year’s All-
SUNYAC Championship Team.
She batted an incredible .390 in
the SUNYAC’s.
Her best batterymate is pitcher
Karen Smiley. Farrell
acknowledges that ‘‘She’s our
ace, she looks really good, really
Lenny’’s death, I think any time
you have a you ng athlete that
all of a sudden has a heart
seizure, a lot of people sub-
consciously say, ‘‘Oh, maybe
it’s the same thing.’’
Marbach said he understands
that the drug issue ‘‘becomes
one of those quesiotns that has
to.be asked,’’ but notes the toll
those questions — lacking any
factual bases — take on Tag-
gart’s friends and families.
“‘What’s: sad is the family
have to go through added pain
that’s not necessarily needed
until you have all the facts,’’ he
said ‘‘Here’s a situation (with)
a great kid, great family, they
can’t believe they’ve just lost
their son and all of a sudden
peole are asking them about
drug use.”’
As a parent and policeman,
Taggart didn’t
believe his son was involved
with drugs because Jeff, unlike
many popular collegians, didn’t
have an entourage fawning all
over him.
‘“‘We need to talk about
phony people and having people
accept them,’’ siad William
Taggart. “‘He didn’t have a
bunch: of people following
behind him. You can spot them
~‘when they’re coming around
1 your house (and) we didn’t have
‘any of those people coming
' around the house.’’ C]
At second base is the quick
Theresa Ferretti. Coach Rhenish
says that ‘‘She’s going to steal
some bases.’’
Rhenish feels that Albany State
is ‘‘strong up the middle.”’
The Great Danes’ softball team
is looking forward to what can be
rewarding season. They did not
lose anybody from last year, and
they have many freshmen to
Strengthen the team. Their
‘primary goals are to improve
upon last year’s record to qualify
_ for the NCAA regionals. CL]
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Make this the best Spring Break
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By Steven Silberglied
STAFF WRITER
The 1987-1988 mens indoor track season
can be divided into three segments. An ex-
plosive December in which many records
were broken, a lackluster January and ear-
ly February where injuries and other
dismissals kept the team from performing
at their best, and an outstanding late
February and March as the team was runn-
ing at its peak with many personal bests at
the end of the year.
The team started off the season at the .
Syracuse relays with a flair. Practically
every relay team placing in the Division I.
dominated field. The most spectacular
race was the distance medly relay. In that
event juniors David Reinhardt, Bruce
Gaynor, and Vernan Miller, along with
senior Trevor Hash beat the favored host
team and Cornell to top the field in a
school record 10:13. Also setting a record
was the four mile relay of sophomore
Charles Bohrer, freshman Eric Gush, and
sophomores Chris Kranick and David
Spencer in 18:23.
The next week the team performed well
at the Cornell relays. The mile relay
- qualified for the Division I Nationals as
Reinhardt, Gaynor, freshman Joaquin
Morales, and Miller ran a time of 3:20.8.
Also running well was Bush in the 5000
meters with a time of 15:22.
Two more school records fell later in the
week at the Collegiate Track conference
relay meet. The spirit medly mark fell with
Reinhardt, freshman Jose Maymi, and
Miller doing the honors in 3:33. Also con- _
tributing in a new school record was the
shuttle hurdle relay of freshman Juan San-
chez, senior Mike Bizovi, and junior Mike
Wasserman in 23.4.
After winter break, a disturbing turn in
events found seven key athletes forced out ©
of the lineup for various reasons. As a
result, the teams fortune sence The
_ TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988 (1 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS Sports 19
Albany men’s track : the season in review
team was mediocre at best during a 3-3
dual meet season. Victories were against
Williams, Siena, and Hudson Valley while
they lost to R.P.I. twice and Union.
In the Capital District Championships in
which the Danes finished third, the team
performed better than it had in previous
weeks. In fact the Danes probably would
aban runner Trevor Hash.
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have won the meet if they did not have the
four top middle distance runners at the
Milrose Games. This would have made up
the 8 points between third and first.
Albany coach Roberto Vives saw this as
the first step in the right direction for the
team.
Meanwhile at the Milrose Games the
4x880 relay competed for the second con-
secutive year. Reinhardt, Hash,
sophomore Jim Clancy, and Gaynor rana
time of 8:12 with Gaynor not yet recovered
form an injury. A week later the relay did
better finishing in 7:59 at the U.S. Olympic
Invitational at the Brendon Byrne Arena.
Finally, at the meet the team looked to
peak at all season long the Great Danes did
just that as 14 of 18 (78 percent) Dane
athletes turned in personal or seasonal
bests. The Danes would wind up being
sixth of the 15 teams despite the fact that
they didn’t have any athletes competing in
5 events.
Starring for the team as Bizovi, a tri cap-
tain, who placed second in the pentathalon
with 3.28 points. Earlier in the year with a
different scoring system used Bizovi broke
his own pentathalon school record by scor-
ing points.
Other second place finishers for Albany
at the State Meet were Sanchez in the 55
meter hurdles in 792, and Spencer in the
5000 meter run with a time of 15:21
Finishing fourth for the Danes in the 500
meter run was Reinhardt in 1:07.4. Earlier
in the day, Reinhardt ran a time of 1:06.36
in the trials to break the school record.
Fellow tri captain Hash, like Reinhardt,
also placed fourth. Hash’s was in the 1500
meters as he ran a time of 3:59.8.
The Danes also received outstanding
outings from their 3 relay teams. The two
mile relay finished second as freshman
Steve Murray (2.02),
sophomore Steve Collins (2:01), and Clan-
cy (1:57) all ran very solid. .
Kranick (2:02),
Their effort was matched by the distance
medly which also finished second.
Sophomore Chris Longo (2:03 800
meters), sophomore Michael King (52 400
meters), freshman John Casey (3:14 1200
meters) and senior Pat Paul (4:28 1600), all
ran personal or seasonal bests in that
event.
The mile relay also ran well placing
third. Maymi, freshman Mike Salmon,
Bizari, and Reinhard ran a time of 3:27
Maymi (51.6) and Salmon (51.5) turned in
personal bests in that relay.
Coach Vives, in his third season noted
that the majority of the team was very
young. Nine of the eleven athletes that
placed second at the State Meet were either —
freshmen or sophomores. ‘‘These guys
form the future of the team. Down the
road you have to say they have an excellent
chance to become state champions. ”? Vives
stated.
Summing up the season, although the
team did not meet much of its lofty expec-
tations, the season ended on a high note
there was a slow, steady progression with
much more expected to take place this
spring.
Another encouraging note for the out- -
_ door season is the return of Gaynor and
junior Alfred Williams from _ injuries.
Gaynor will focus primarily on the 400 in-
termediate hurdles. Where he ran 54.1 last
year. Williams solidifies the horizontal
jumps. He had personal best marks of
26’11”’ in the triple jump, and 23’2”’ in the
long jump.
With sophomore Carlos Brunet leading
the weight events the team looks solid in
just about every area, as they have put
their earlier problems behind them. ‘‘We
look to start the outdoor season right
where we left off indoors’? Coach Vives
said. oO
How to survive the NCAA hoops tournament
(AP) A little bit of giddy-up with a
touch of slow-down, a lot of defense, and
some luck along the way: That’s what it
takes once you’ve survived college basket-
ball’s long, hard winter with a decent
enough record to reach the NCAA
tournament.
That’s what it takes to get from the first
weekend’s minefield, when 64 schools are
running and gunning their way of basket-
ball’s version of Russian roulette, to the
final weekend when just four teams are
still playing.
“It takes a team that doesn’t play a gid-
dyup style, and it takes a team that doesn’t
play a funeral style,’’ said NBC broad-
caster Al McGuire, who coached Mar-
quette to the national championship in
1977. “It takes a team with a style
somewhere in the middle.
“If you’re a coast-to-coast team, you’ll
be frustrated by a team that makes seven
passes before taking a shot and melts the
clock on you. If you’re a slowdown team —
and one of those giddyup teams gets out in
front of you, you can’t make it up. You
need to be a team in the middle.”’
And it takes defense.
‘Nobody wins the national champion-
ship without an ‘outstanding defensive
team,”’ said Louisville Coach Denny
Crum, who has won two of them in this
decade, in 1980 and 1986.
If you’re smart, McGuire said, you’ll
make that defense a man-to-man, not a
zone. .
‘“A team that plays a zone will have
serious problems because a zone is
stronger when you’re ahead,” he said. “‘If
you get eee it gets tough to play zone.
And you won’t lead every game.”’ :
Of course, a little bit of luck helps, too.
_ £*¥ou have to be lucky once or twice in
the tournament to win,’’ said Jud
Heathcote, who coached Michigan ae to
the 1979 title.
“Last year, Indiana got lucky against
LSU to win by one after being behind.
Then it went on to win the championship.
There is so much parity and you have to
win six games. Anyone who wins is going
to get a scare or two along the way.”’ -
The 64-team field has eliminated byes.
Everybody plays, right from the start.
“It’s better that way,’’ Heathcote said.
“You have to come up with your best
game against the best team. That’s not
necessarily in the finals. It might be in the
round of 16 or the round of eight. That’s
what Villanova did when it beat
Georgetown in 1985.”’
“‘There’s no question that winning six in
a row at that level is tough,’’ Crum said.
‘“But somebody does it every year.
‘“You need outstanding players who are ~
well-coached. They’ve got to be playing
their best at tournament time, and they
have to have played a tough schedule all
year. That’s our game plan.’’
Crum refuses to load up his schedule
with humpty-dumpty’s to fatten up
Louisville’s wonloss record and impress
the selectors. Last year, the defending
champion Cardinals went 18-14 and were
not invited, leaving their coach livid
because he felt the committee had ignored
strength of schedule. C
Tulane to name Gladchuck athletic director
(AP) Tulane University called a press
conference today, apparently to an-
nounce the hiring of an athletic director
to replace the departed Mack Brown.
Brown, athletic director and football
coach during his tenure at Tulane, resign-
ed in December to become head coach at
North Carolina. Wright Waters, who ac-
tually ran the sports department for
- Brown at Tulane, has been serving as in-
terim director since Dec. 18, two. days.
after Brown’s resignation.
Waters said he was glad that Tulane
‘finally made a decision, although his
disappointment was obvious. He cleaned
out his desk on Saturday.
‘‘T was told late Friday that the univer-
sity had decided to hire Chet Gladchuck,
and I congratulate him,” Waters said.
Waters was backed by several major |
contributors to Tulane’s athletic
_ program.
But in running the athletic program for
- Brown, he antagonized a number of peo-
. ple, including Kelly.
But reports published in the Tinex
Picayune say University President
Eamon Kelly passed over Waters to hire
Chet Gladchuck, associate athletic direc-
_ tor at Syracuse since 1985.
It was Waters who devised an end-run
around Kelly with a five-year plan
designed to make Tulane nationally pro-
minent in athletics.
Although Tulane’s board approved the
plan, it originated in Waters’ office,
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Also opposed to the naming of Waters
were coaches of minor sports, who felt
Waters was unduly harsh in budget
matters.
‘His peers in the Tulane athletic family
described Waters as an able ad-
ministrator with the unfortunate role of
~ having to be Brown’s diatchict man. But,
as one of them put it, ‘‘He didn’t have to
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Albany lacrosse season to Start
By Frank Calderon
STAFF WRITER
With the arrival of spring, is a new
beginning and a new season is
started. The same can be said for the
Albany State Men’s Lacrosse team.
They have a fresh start with a new
coach and an abundance of youth.
The 1986-87 spring season was not
the most successful of years. The
Danes finished with an_ overall
record of 5-8. This may be deceiving
as Albany had lost a number of close
games in which only a single goal
was the difference.
The number of close losses was
not the only problem that plagued
the Great Danes. In the past, a
number of coaches came and went,
often staying for just a year or so.
This presented a grave dilemma to
the whole team. Where one coach
would come in and institute his plan
for the program, another would
come in the following season, and
change it. This affected the direction
of the program.
However, new coach Steven
O’Sheah brings stability to a team
once in disarray.
‘In my four years here, I’ve had
four coaches. Coach O’Sheah is real-
ly a blessing for the team. He spends
a lot of time concentrating on our
problems,’’ said senior co-captain
Tom Ott.
Coach O’Sheah is a Siena
graduate; he played from 1976 to
1979. At his attack position he led
the team in scoring and was voted
captain and MVP twice. In 1986, he
was later inducted into the Hall of
Fame.
“We have a very young team with
some good players. We want to a
a transition game with one of our
goals being to win the Capital Cup,”
said Coach O’Sheah.
The youth on the team consists of
lone senior goaltender Ott, ten
juniors, ten sophomores and thirteen
freshmen.
‘‘Our team is geared towards of-
fense. We want to have a long clear
pass to the attack. Our speed at the -
midfield positions should help,”’ said
Ott.
With an Oe ee schedule, the
Danes are looking to play better
teams. The type of play should be
exciting for Albany fans. According
to Ott, the two problems for the
Danes are man-up and man-down
situations. So with a rookie coach, a
new season and exciting style of
play, the fastest game on land looks
bright.
Softball team goes
to South Carolina
for spring training
By Jerry Kahn
STAFF WRITER
The SUNY Albany women’s softball team is almost
ready to get its 1988 season underway. First, it will go to
Myrtle Beach for spring training, while we are relaxing
during spring break. The season opener will be on
Thursday April 7 at home against Union College.
They finished fifth in the NYSWCAA last season:
their overall record was 12-7. —
Looking upon this season, coach Lee Rhenish feels
that the Great Danes will reach the NCAA régionals ‘‘If
our hitting backs up our defense, like I think (that) it
should.’ Also, she said ‘‘I think (that) we can do it if we
have better concentration and better consistency.’’
Co-captain Erin Monahan, a senior, said that ‘‘We
must work together... we work well as a team.”’
Monahan is the shortstop and bats second.
Rhenish concurs by saying ‘‘One plus about this team
is their ability to get along together.”’
Rhenish, Monahan, and co-captain Patty Farrell
agree that the Cortland tournament will be the most im-
portant part of the season. Farrell, a junior, thinks that
The Great Dane lacrosse team is preparing for the spring season.
Maine hockey coach talks tough
(AP) Coach Shawn Walsh has attracted |
nationally competitive players and created
excitement for the University of Maine
hockey program with the same irrepressive
personality that has brought him some un-
savory recognition.
Shawn Walsh the promoter sends
Christmas cards to players’ parents, writes
posccards to high school recruits after im-
portant Maine victories, and explains
hockey strategy to the boosters’ club.
Shawn Walsh the brash, young coach
publicly accuses another team of doing a
premediated hatchet job on his goalie.
And between periods of a game, he yells
at an official . talking with the oppos-
ing coach, not to be intimidated because
it’s not a referee’s fault that the other team
cannot score with a two-man advantage.
““My greatest strength is my greatest
weekness,’’ Walsh admits. ‘‘My verbal
ability gets me into trouble sometimes.”’
The 32-year-old bachelor is, as he says,
*‘a people person.’’ After a game he is in
the players’ lounge mingling with parents
and boosters or at The Bounty, a Bangor
-nightspot not far from campus where fans
often gravitate after hockey games.
With tie loosened and a Miller Lite in
hand, the coach leans back and chatters
about that night’s game and the ones
ahead, and lauds his players, sometimes
excessively.
He is the quintessential hockey
salesman, who graciously talks to a
reporter who wakes him from a nap on the
afternoon of a playoff game, and who will
spend Monday nights showing game films
and explaining team tactics to the Friends
of Maine Hockey booserters’ club so fans —
can broaden their knowledge of the game.
At team meetings, where players discuss
their individual mistakes in the previous
game, Walsh is candid enough to admit his
own.
“My verbal ability
gets me into trouble.’’
— Maine Coach Shawn
Walsh
But when something occurs that he does —
not think is good for the sport, whether it
concerns actions in a game, recruiting, or
any other activity, he is not reluctant to
stand ar a league meeting and criticize the
coach or team he feels is responsible.
‘‘My honesty and bluntness, those traits
that I think are great traits to have, I still
need to be careful’’ in speaking, Walsh
said.
‘Sometimes I say too much for a young
guy who hasn’t been around too much.”’
perience...
players.”’
player.’’
quick.
BARNETT UPS
_ He respects those who control their
emotions with class and dignity, ‘‘but I
can’t, unfortunately. That’s not in my
Irish blood. I wish it was, I wish I was a lit-
tle bit smoother,’’ he said. ‘‘Maybe I need
a wife to tell me, ‘You shut up.’ ”’
Walsh’s deportment may be the only
detail that needs polish after four years at
Orono.
“I don’t think there’s any question he’s
done a hell of a job,’’ said Boston Univer-
sity coach Jack Parker. ‘‘He’s a good
organizer, he’s.a good recruiter, his kids
work hard and he doesn’t cheat.’’
‘Maine assistant coach Jay Leach, the
first person Walsh hired in 1984, noted
Walsh’s improvement in game situations
‘*recognizing what the other team is do-
ing and making an adjustment in the mid-
dle of the period and handling the adversi-
ty of being down a goal or two early’’ in an
important game.
A major reason why Maine became the
top-ranked team in the country for most of
the season and why it enters the NCAA
quarterfinals next week as the No. 1 seed is
Walsh’s painstaking attention to detail.
After a big upset, the gleeful Walsh
wanted a high school player he was
recruiting to know about the victory, so he
wrote the boy a postcard duzing the bus
ride home.
To give the coaching staff and players
more insight on their opponents from
across the country, Walsh had a satellite |
dish installed so they could watch other
teams on television. O
the tournament ‘‘will determine our season.”’
All of them agree that their goal is to qualify for the ©
NCAA’s. Farrell, who is currently nursing a sprained
ankle, is the team’s centerfielder.
Rhenish, Monahan, and Farrell previewed the up-
coming season:
Monahan feels that the team will receive ‘‘Good ex-
in spring break, expecially for the new
Coach Rhenish reveals that their power comes from
their first four batters: Zoraida Diaz, Monahan, Cassie
Weaver, and Jennifer Chimienti, respectively.
Diaz is a sophomore third baseman, who, according
to Farrell, is an ‘‘excellent hitter (and the) fastest
Farrell says that the number two hitter, Monahan, is
Weaver is filling in centerfield for Farrell, who is in-
jured, but may win her own position in the outfield.
However, until Farrell comes back, the Danes will have
18
|Rugby team
dominates
(Villanova
By Connie White
| STAFF WRITER
Dane Captain Tim Walsh led the
Rugby team to a 30-0 victory against
Villanova. The Wildcats were ‘“‘totally
dominanted from the start of the game.”’
Scoring machines Dan Kammer, Mike
Brown and Ted Borsky, contributed to
the Rugby team’s outstanding perfor-
mance last Saturday. Dan Krammer
broke loose by scoring twice and showing
strong defensive aggression.
The. backfield was apparently the
Stronghold in the victory. The scrum,
guided by Adam Shaw, is physically
smaller against both Villanova and other
opposeing teams, but they always have
dominated.
The scrum made its strongest impact
by knocking people out of the game. -
Scrum member Joe Farley said, ‘‘From
the minute we got on the field we didn’t
let up. I don’t think they were expecting
the beating they got.”’
Farley said, ‘“We’re still playing with
injuries and people rookies, like Greg,
help pick up the slack.”
The Albany State B-side was also vic-
torious, led by B-captain Neill
“‘Blockhead”’ Fenton.
Said one Rugby player, ‘‘We’re play-
ing well adn in the planning stages of our
April home tournament when we’ll be
facing Union College and Southern Con-
necticut.” _
