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VOLUME LXXVII

ALBANY
STUDENT
PRESS

October 9, 1990

NUMBER 32

Community fights back against students

‘Stream of urine on residents property.

‘Shelia DeMartino,

By Marlon Dorn
STAFF WRITER

Community pressures have forced the
Albany Police Department (Albany P.D.)
to start arresting students for urinating in
public, said Lt. Robert Wolfgang of the
Albany P.D.

“The community is very upset at what
they are witnessing,” Wolfgang said.
“Public urination, trespassing and noise
disturbances have all increased greatly.”

Residents of the downtown area
tecently sent a petition with more than
500 signatures to Mayor Thomas Whalen,
University officials and the State Liquor
Authority, protesting the disturbances
around downtown bars frequented by
SUNYA students,

In the last two weeks, four people have
been arrested, including 19-year-old
SUNYA student Sean Rooney. Rooney
was arrested on September 28, when he

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Anti-semitic graffiti found on Dutch Quad

By Jillian Risberg

An anti-semitic statement which read
“Jew Bitch” was found written on a Dutch
Quad residents door on September 30.

The word “Jew” was written on the
Students message board and “bitch” was
scratched on the board in pen.

There is a great deal of concern
regarding ethnic issues facing this
university, Genera-Walker-Johnson,

director of Residential Life, said, adding
the concern was not just among the
educators and administrators, but the
students as well.

Walker-Johnson also said reactions to
the anti-semitic statement weren’t limited
to Dutch Quad residents, the whole
campus felt angry.

According to Walker-Johnson, “Albany
is attempting to be a just community,

where people respect and understand one
another,” These kinds of incidents don’t
help to encourage equity among people,
she said.

Kelsel Thompson, Dutch Quad
coordinator, sent letters to all residents
explaining the situation, which Walker-
Johnson said, emphasized the increase in
ethnic insensitivity at Albany.

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Two SUNYA
students arrested at
on-campus party

By Tom Murnane

Two SUNYA students were arrested
late Saturday night by Public Safety
officers after an on-campus sorority party,
erupted into several fights.

The Public Safety Department
identified the students as Ronald Jones,
18, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Julius Henery,|
19, of Rockland County, N.Y.

Jones was charged with disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest, and second
degree inciting to riot forallegedly trying
to encourage onlookers to join in in the
fray. Albany City Court Judge Larry
Rosen ordered Jones held on $2500 bail
at the Albany County Jail.

Henery was charged with disorderly,
conduct and second degree assault, and
held at the Albany one Jail on $3500
bail,

According | to Public Safety reports, | two}
people had been ejected at midnight for
trying to “‘crash” the party, sponsored by
(Omega Phi Beta sorority, and the two
managed to sneak back in.

In an Albany Times Union interview,
Vice President for Student Affairs,
Mitchel Livingston said the two were

“intent on disrupting the event by
picking on people.”

By 12:45 am, Public Safety officers,
were breaking up several fights outside!
the Campus Center building between the

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Notre Dame still undefeated despite big Guinness Day crowd

By Mary Kelly

Over 1,000 SUNYA students attended
Guinness Day 6 this Saturday in an
attempt to play the world’s largest game
of Simon Sez.

Bob Schaffer, “Mr. Simon Sez,” led the
crowd and members of Alpha Phi and
Delta Omicron Tau judged the event.

After over an hour of competition,
Schaffer narrowed the competitors down
to winner, Junior Cheryl Altabet.

“I’m really excited,” Altabet said. “I
had no idea I would win.” Altabet was
awarded a trophy and a cash prize of $200
provided by the Lamp Post.

Johnson Hall of Colonial Quad won the
spirit prize of $200, also courtesy of the
Lamp Post. The prize will go towards
Wellness House.

Despite the turnout, Albany was unable
to beat the record held by Notre Dame.

Accordingly to Guinness Day staff
member Bill Weitz, “It (Guinness Day)
was an absolute success. There was a
decent turn out and everyone had fun!”

Paul Faulhaber, SA programming
director, agreed.

“With all the problems in the world, a
game like this brings diverse people
together to have fun,” he said. “We need
to play more games.”

Raquel Moller UPS

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1990

NEWS BRIEFS

Garrisons seized
Manila, Philippines
(AP) Military mutineers proclaimed
independence for the nation’s second-
largest island Thursday after seizing
garrisons in at least two cities in another
challenge to President Corazon Aquino.

Mrs. Aquino, who has survived six coup
attempts during her four years in office,
promised to crush this revolt, which broke
out before dawn on Mindanao island.

The Armed Forces said it would not
permit the country to be “dismembered,”
and the nation’s leading Roman Catholic
churchmen called on Filipinos “to close
ranks once again” to defend the
government.

Local religious leaders in Mindanao
offered to negotiate with the rebel leader,
Col. Alexander Noble, to end the takeover
peacefully. Dissidents seized the garrisons
without firing a shot.

Restrictions relaxed

Kuwait
(AP) Hundreds of Kuwaitis crossed into
Saudi Arabia on Sunday after Iraq
suddenly relaxed restrictions on Kuwaitis
leaving the occupied emirate. Some
refugees said it was the latest move in an
Iraqi campaign to depopulate Kuwait,
isolate the resistance movement and
prepare for war.

World leaders kept up diplomatic efforts
to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis
that arose with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
on Aug. 2.

Japan’s Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu
visited with King Faud in Saudi Arabia.

PLO leader Yasser Arafat met King
Hussein in Jordan. Egyptian Foreign
Minister Ismat Abdul-Maaguid arrived in
Damascus for talks with Syrian President
Hafez Assad. He indicated he was making
talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad.
He indicated he was making the visit to
increase cooperation in forcing Iraq out of
Kuwait. ;

The Nation We

Oil prices soar

Los Angeles, California
(AP) Persistent uncertainly about possible
war in the Persian Gulf and fear of crude
oil shortages sent retail gas prices upward
an average 6 cents per gallon over the past

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two weeks, an industry analyst says.

Since the Iraqi invasion of oil-rich
Kuwait in early August, the average price
of gasoline nationwide has jumped 26 1/2
cents a gallon at the pump. Since the
crisis began, an international embargo has
blocked all Iraqi oil exports.

The sale of Kuwaiti oil also was banned
to prevent Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
from making money on appropriated
crude oil reserves. Increases in oil market
prices were passed on to consumers
quickly.

“The cause, of course, is the continued
pass-through of higher crude oil prices,
which is driven by fears of shortages due
to confrontation in the Middle East,”
analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday in a
telephone interview.

Convicts help church

Houston, Texas
(AP) At a time when many residents are
rallying against housing prisoners in their
neighborhoods, a Houston church
congregation opened its homes to four
federal prisoners armed with hammers
and nails.

“I was scared to death,” said Matthew
Criswell, construction manager for
Houston Habitat for Humanity, which
helps provide homes for poor people.

“When I got the word they were
sending us four prisoners, I automatically
started asking questions: ‘Are we going to

have to keep an armed guard here? Are
they going to do what I say? Am I going
to have to keep them away from
telephones?’

“Now I just wish they were back, doing
more work,” he said. Last week, three
convicted drug dealers and an income tax
evader all members of a Christian prison
program - helped build a four-bedroom
house for a needy family in an
impoverished Houston neighborhood.

The State al

Indians mourn

Syracuse
(AP) While Americans commemorated
Christopher Columbus’ spirit of discovery
on Monday, a lone Mohawk lamented an
event he said was the beginning of the end
for American Indians.

“It is a time of mourning,” Tom
Sullivan, a Mohawk from Syracuse, said
as he watched the city’s Columbus Day
observance next to a statue and fountain
honoring the Italian explorer.

“This was the beginning of their
destruction,” Sullivan said of his
ancestors.

Sullivan did not interfere with
Monday’s ceremony in Columbus Circle,
which was attended by local dignitaries
including the region’s congressman,

James Walsh.

Sullivan, his only visible sign of
protest a black armband, stood away
from the wreath-laying ceremony talking
with reporters and passersby. Later, he
was invited to a Columbus Day luncheon
by Richard Damiano, president of the
Columbus Monument and Memorial
Association.

March is scheduled

Albany
(AP) The Rev. Al Sharpton said last
week that he is organizing an anti-racism
march for Oct. 13 in the tiny upstate
community of Schuylerville, where Ku
Klux Klan paraded last week.

The announcement by the New York
City-based activist came in response to a
published report that the KKK had
launched a statewide recruiting drive.
The Klan’s march in Schuylerville, about
35 miles north of Albany, was its first in
New York in 60 years.

Sharpton spokeswoman Madelyn
Chapman said Schuylerville was chosen
for the civil rights march because the
Klan “announced their campaign to
increase recruitment from that town.”

She said there was nothing otherwise
about Schuylerville that made it ripe for
an anti-racism march. Chapman said she
hoped thousands of demonstrators could
be recruited from across the state for the
protest.

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Free listings

TUESDAY, October 9

RZA/Tagar holds weekly
meetings in CC 361 at 7:30
pm. All are welcome.

The New York State
Writers Institute presents
author and journalist
LeAnne Schreiber at 8 pm in
the PAC Recital Hall.

Sukkot, the Harvest Festival
on the podium today. Stop by
and eat a piece of honey cake
while shaking the Lulav and
Etrog.

WEDNESDAY, October 10

Albany State Tae Kwon Do
Association is offering co-ed
classes for self defense,
discipline and physical
fitness. Advanced classes
begin at 7p.m. and the
beginner classes begin at
8p.m. The classes are held in

the downtown campus. For
more info call Pamela Grant
at 465-3169, Rainer Feyer at
346-7746 or Danny Yau at
482-0525.

The Interpersonal Relation-
ship Group meets at 6pm at
the Health services building
in room 202.

The Albany Outing Club
meets every Wednesday at
8p.m. in Lecture Center 5.
All who are interested are
welcome to come.

SA Lounge in Campus
Center.

Robyn Hitchcock will
Perform in the CCBallroom at
8 pm. Tickets are $5 for

students and can be
purchased through
Ticketmaster.

THURSDAY, October 11

The brothers of Alpha Phi
Alpha presentAssemblyman
Albert Vann who will speak at
the forum in the CC Assembly
Hall at 8:30pm.

Sigma Chi and Alpha Tau
Omega, from 8:30-10p.m. on
the downtown campus.

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7:30 pm in the Health
Services Building in room|
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Alpha Phi Alpha to hold forum

Assemblyman will speak on the African-American Male

By Paul C. Webster
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Assemblyman Albert Vann,
chairman of the New York State
Black and Puerto Rican
Legislative Caucus, Inc., will be
the keynote speaker at a
forum on the Endangered.
African-American Male
in the Campus Center
Assembly Hall at 8:30
pm on Thursday night.

Sponsored by Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc., the 90 minute foram
will focus on the plight
of the African-American
Male, and how the
increased incarceration
tates of young black men —
is destroying the fabric
of the African-American
family.

“With the devastating
numbers of young men
being incarcerated in our
state and the country, we
felt that it would be
important to hold a
forum on what is being,

Jenkins said.

The Alpha fraternity is
heeding the call of
Assemblyman Vann who has
challenged greek-letter and other
organizations to take the lead in

would normally watch the
“Cosby Show” and “A Different
World” on Thursday nights, the
fraternity will tape the top-rated
television programs and will
show them after the forum.

“I am pleased to see

groups of young men
coming together to
address the problem of
| the
African-American
_male...We
_ begin to move forward
unless our community
can begin to work
together.”

endangered

cannot

— Assemblyman
Albert Vann

done to reverse the trend,” said
John Jenkins, president of the
SUNYA chapter of the nation’s
oldest and largest predominantly
African-American fraternity.
“Having Assemblyman Vann
speak at our campus will be a
conscious-raising experience
and will help recruit more people
to volunteer as mentors for our
endangered African-American

saving black youth.

“T am pleased to see groups of
young men coming together to
address the problem of the
endangered African-American
male,” said Vann (D-Bedford-
Stuyvesant). “We cannot begin
to move forward unless our
community can begin to work
together.”

To accommodate students who

“We really want to see people
come out and support this
important event,” said Jenkins,
who sent out a letter informing
students of the forum and the
taping of the shows. “By
showing the TV shows
afterwards, people can still
support the efforts to save
African-American men, and
watch two positive African-

IFC passes resolution to
deal with off-campus tension

By Kerri Lewis
NEWS EDITOR

Both the Inter-Fraternity
Council(IFC) and the Off
Campus Association (OCA)
have recently taken action to
promote better relations
between the community and
students.

“No matter how much
community service we do, it
will never negate the adverse
effects of illegal and
unacceptable behavior by
SUNYA students,” said OCA
President, Mike Farkas.

Last Tuesday, by unanimous
decision, the IFC passed a
resolution to enforce a Student
Policing Plan in an effort to
deal with the recent tension.

“The IFC amendment is an
important first step to fostering
greater cooperation and better
relations with the community.”
Farkas said.

“The amendment,” Farkas
said, “calls upon members of
fraternities to limit if not
eliminate these behaviors off
campus.”

Craig Snyder, IFC president
»said, “IFC realizes we’re not in
a vacuum; we’re responsive to
the environment around us
now.” He added, “We will no
longer wait for issues to
become explosive before we
deal with them.”

“The response to the
proposal has been positive.”

said,

Tom Eileris, IFC Rush Chair,
said, “The proposal has brought
more attention to the problem.”

Farkas said that the OCA has
taken solid steps in easing
tensions also.

“Although there has been a
lot of publicity, no one from the
student community has actually
gone and talked to the
community and that’s what
we've done.” Farkas said.

He also said that
Tepresentatives from the OCA
have attended meetings with
local neighborhood groups such
as the Beverwick Association,
the Pine Hills Association and
The Council of Albany
Neighborhood Association in
the last two to three weeks.

“We have a good idea of
what needs to be done.” Farkas
said. “We know how the
residents feel and it reassures
them (the residents) that
students are working to be an
upstanding part of the
community.”

Farkas also said that OCA
talked about Dry Rush at the
neighborhood meetings.

“The community was happy
to know there will be no more
parties involving alcohol at
Rush.” he said.

Henry Madej, Executive Vice
President of Pine Hills, noted
the recent improvement in the

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youth around the country,”

American tv programs,

Buffalo student found
dead near bicycle path

By Eric Coppolino
STAFF WRITER

The body of a University at Buffalo
student was found dead just off the
University’s Amherst campus on
September 30, the apparent victim of
murder and sexual assault that police
have linked to as many as four other
rapes in the past three years.

The body of Linda Yalem, 22, was
found Sunday at 5:20 pm by Town of
‘Amherst police about 50 feet from an
isolated bicycle path police considered so
dangerous, special bicycle patrols have
been assigned to it since before it was
officially open.

There are no suspects in the killing.

Yalem, a California resident, had
transferred to Buffalo from the College
jat Old Westbury this semester.

Yalem was reported missing by her

mmate Saturday ay 9:30 pm after she
went jogging that afternoon at about
12:30. Police said she was probably
lattacked some time around 2:30 pm,
during a time when bicycle patrols were
ion duty along the 5.2 mile bicycle path.

Police said Yalem had been sexually
assaulted and then strangled with a cord
lor wire. Police could not confirm
whether she had been raped until results
iof the autopsy are returned, She was
found with her clothing pulled over her
head.

The Amherst Police and Public Safety
began an extensive search of the bicycle

ath area at about 10:30 Sunday
morning. According to Askey, three

hes of woods were searched by 20 to
officers from both departments.

“We searched all day long and
checked waterways, lakes, dumpsters - it
was quite an operation,” said Amherst
Police Chief John Askey. “But we didn’t
find her until an officer stumbled across}
the body in the third patch of woods we|
searched.”

The search also involved bloodhounds
and a helicopter.

In the past 2 1/2 years, four previous
attacks on women have taken place near
the bicycle path or in the city of Buffalo,
which police said fit a pattern leading
them to expect the assailant to attack
again. The attacks in Buffalo were near
Buffalo State College, a large SUNY
campus.

Police said all of these attacks
involved women who were attacked in a
similar manner - approached from
behind and choked with rope or wire.|
Some of the victims were gagged with
duct tape.

One, a 15-year-old junior high school
woman attacked in 1989 near the bicycle
path, was able to provide police with a
description after she was attacked in
1989. This description matches one)
released Monday by Town of Amherst
police.

“We can only expect this to happen
again,” warned Director of Public Safety
Lee Griffin. “This attacker is obviously
going to strike two or three more times.”

Police have not officially labeled the
attacks as serial sexual assaults, b ut have.
noted that the same methods were used
in all of the attacks. A police!
spokesperson said that in the case of
serial attacks, the attacker usually
continues until he is caught or scared off.

GALA looks

for support

during Coming Out Day

By Katie Meech

The Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Alliance (GALA) said it hopes the
campus will consider the many issues
facing Gay and Lesbian students on the
Third National Coming Out Day on
Thursday October 11.

Coming out, members of GALA said,
can be a frightening experience. “You
don’t know how people are going to
react,” Philip said (Last names have been
withheld by request).

John agreed. “Suddenly you may find
that your best friend is no longer your
best friend,” he said.

Yet they both agree that coming out is
less painful than trying to hide one’s
homosexuality. “If you’re gay and closet
yourself, life can be a constant hell,” John

said. “You feel that you are the only
person in the world like that.”

“Friendships are one-sided,” Philip
said. “You know your friends, but they
don’t know you.”

The stress caused by this isolation and
need for pretense may lead to a loss of
self-esteem, depression, drinking or even
suicide, John said.

According to a recent Health and
Human Services Department report on
youth suicide, homosexuals between the
ages of 15 and 24 are three times more
likely to kill themselves than
heterosexuals of the same age.

Nancy, co-chair of GALA said coming
out also benefits the gay and lesbian
movement. “Many people don’t realize

Continued on page 21

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Third National Coming Out Day to be held on October 11.

4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, OCTOBBR:951990

Early dete

By Dave Jenkins
Director of Middle Earth Program

Research now shows it is important to
detect the HIV virus early because new
treatment, started early, can help you live
longer, new drugs can prevent disease
which attack those who have HIV, and
treatment works best it started early while
still healthy. .

Any of us who have Middle
engaged in any risk
behavior may be infected, Ea rth
and research now
suggests that infection Roots
among college students is higher than
projected.

Everyone who is or has been sexually
active at any time during the past six
years (except with an exclusively mutual
monogamous partner) or has used a
shared needle for injecting a drug, is
encouraged to get a free confidential
blood test for HIV now. Until recently,
there was reluctance to encourage
widespread testing of people while no
treatment was available, for fear it might
lead to widespread discrimination.

Within the past two years, we have seen
three dramatic changes which now make

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testing for early detection imperative. The
first of these changes was the passage of
confidentiality and non-discrimination
legislation by the New York State
Legislature. Education has also decreased
the incidence of discrimination.

The second dramatic change has been
the growing body of evidence that early
medical intervention is the best way to
maintain immune system functioning.
Early treatment will significantly delay
the onset of HIV-resulting illness or
opportunistic infection.

Research has also proved that self-care,
including good nutrition, adequate rest,
and exercise are critically important for
maintaining a healthy immune system.
Since testing is the only way a person can
know their status and thus begin
preventative treatment, testing is strongly
encouraged for all who have engaged in
tisk behavior.

The third change has been the
development of new drugs and medical
treatments.

New medications, both for general and
also for experimental use, have
dramatically improved immune system
response, delaying the onset of

opportunistic infections and especially the
most common, which is a particular form
of pneumonia. This pneumonia has been
the most frequent cause of death resulting
from HIV infection, so preventing it is
critically important. And as other new
medical interventions are developed, they
will work best for those who have the
healthiest immune systems,

It is also important for all of us to know
our own HIV status because when HIV is
present, even common infections such as
acold or yeast infection may need quite
different forms of treatment. Since only
you can tell the physician your HIV status
when you come for treatment, you need to
be tested in order to have that
information.

Early testing for those who are HIV
positive but free of symptoms (this is the
majority, by the way) greatly increases
their opportunity to live well and much
longer without symptoms. Even those
with symptoms are living longer and
healthier provided they are receiving
preventive medication and living a
healthy lifestyle.

But if you are not tested, then there is

Ction of HIV virus may increase life span

nO way you can know that you need this
preventive care.

So everyone who has engaged in
unprotected sex at any time during the
past six years (other than with an
exclusively mutual monogamous partner)
or shared needles for injecting drugs is
encouraged to get tested now.

Also remember that a negative test does
not mean you can go out and do whatever
you please - continued protection is the
key to prevention, just as early testing is
the key to treatment,

In order to insure that your test results
will be confidential, the free testing
available at Albany Medical Center under
provisions of the State Health Department
is the recommended procedure. Don’t
take the chance that this fall’s sore throat
is just another cold.

If you could have been exposed to HIV,
get tested, and continued living well. Call
486-1595 for a test appointment, or if you
are outside the 518 area, call 1-800-962-
5065.

For additional information about AIDS
or the testing procedure, contact the AIDS
Council of Northeast New York at 434-
4686, or their hotline at 445-AIDS (445-
2437).

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By Leanne Warshauer
NEWS EDITOR

Now there is a place for
students to come after classes to
“hear some good live music,”
said Amy Bennett, vice
president of University Concert
Board (UCB).

Concert Series,” held in the
Campus Center Assembly Hall,
offers acoustic sets showcasing
various types of music, Bennett
said. Bands range from local
favorites such as Private Plain,
who appeared last week, to John
Smales, who appeared at this
year’s Fallfest and will perform

“UCB is committed to a mix
of music,” Bennett said, adding
they would like to make
themselves more accessible to
the campus.

According to Bennett, the
concerts are intended to be more
informal than the shows UCB

Center Ballroom,
“It’s a more
atmosphere,” she said.

Bennett also said United
Auxiliary Services (UAS)
provides an alcoholic bar,
making it like a “happy hour”
for those over 21,

UCB charges a $1 admission

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Community Panel to be held

“Neighbors and Neighborhood Bars” will be the topic of a panel
discussion by the Pine Hills Neighborhood Association next
Thursday at the Vincentian Community Center, Madison Avenue,
and Ontario street.

The panel of bar owners, neighborhood representatives, the Pine
Hills student community and police representatives will discuss
“key matters of concer and proposals for solution,” the association
announced.

The 7:30 p.m. meeting is open to the public.

Pre-Rush orientation coming up

The SUNYA Pan-hellenic Council will hold an interest meeting
on October 11 at 9:30p.m.

The meeting will be a pre-rush orientation for spring semester
tush, according to Patricia Keogh, Pan-hellenic public relations
chairperson.

All sororities will be represented at the informational session.
There will be time for a question and answer session as well as an
opportunity for students to pre-register for the spring rush.

“Anyone interested in joining a sorority should attend," Keogh
said.

Environmental series to begin

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences is sponsoring an
evening series entitled "The Adirondack Canoe Waterways"
beginning on October 16.

The twenty first bond issue will be discussed among several other
environmental issues.

There will also be a photographic exhibit and discussion on the
Canadian Rockies.

The series will take place in LC 7 at 8:00 and will run through
November 13,

Ozone problem not going away

By SamAtwood
Washington

This year’s hole in the ozone
layer above Antarctica is
approaching record levels and is
expected to peak Tuesday,
scientists say.

The hole, actually a thinning of
the layer, is believed to be
caused by chlorofluorocarbons;
it forms yearly in late August
and breaks up by December.
Scientists are concerned about
the global loss of ozone because
it protects humans from
ultraviolet rays, which can cause
skin cancer and cataracts.

NASA will release satellite
data soon on the exact size of the
hole. Preliminary measurements
from weather balloons above the
South Pole indicate ozone
depletion this year will be as bad
as 1987, the worst year on
record, said Walt Komhyr, a
physicist at the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric
Administration’s climate
monitoring laboratory in

Boulder, Colo.

“It’s certainly a reconfirmation
that the process in the Antarctic
forming the ozone hole is here to
stay,” said Arlin Krueger, a
research scientist at NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md.

Studies show that loss of ozone
over Antarctica may be affecting
plankton
and marine life near the
continent. But the effect may be

much broader.

“There’s a general feeling that
the Antarctic ozone hole is
diluting Southern Hemisphere
ozone,” said David Hofmann,
chief scientist of NOAA’s
climate monitoring laboratory. ~

In December 1987, large
masses of ozone-depleted air
from the Antarctic drifted across
southern New Zealand, southern
Australia, southern Africa and
South America.

Ozone also has thinned 5
percent to 8 percent in the
Northern Hemisphere in the past
10 years, and ozone depletion
occurs in the Arctic during
winter.

This year, the ozone hole over
Antarctica started forming in
early September and formed
faster than in previous years,
Krueger said. How long the hole
lasts will determine how much
ozone is destroyed. Global
weather patterns may cause the
hole to persist into December, as
it did in 1987, Komhyr said.

Scientists found that by Oct. 2,
ozone at the South Pole was
down to 151 Dobson units, a
common measure of atmospheric
density. That figure is about half
the normal amount and similar to
the level at that time in 1987.

The protective ozone layer is
thinned when chlorine atoms,
broken free of
chlorofluorocarbons by
ultraviolet light, destroy ozone

molecules.

Chlorofluorocarbons are used
as industrial solvents as well as
tefrigerants in vehicles,
buildings and homes.

Ozone destruction occurs in
the Antarctic when a strong
vortex of stratospheric winds
encircles the region, isolating it
from air at other latitudes.
Particles inside stratospheric
clouds also play a key role in the
Process,

Ozone is present from an
altitude of six to 19 miles; the
greatest depletion occurs in a
band between eight and 14 miles
above Earth.

This summer, in an attempt to
stop ozone destruction,
representatives of 53 nations
agreed to ban
chlorofluorocarbons and other
ozone-depleting chemicals by
2000.

“It’s clear (the ozone hole) is
Not going to go away, probably
until the fluorocarbons go away
from the atmosphere,” Krueger
said.

That, at best, will not happen
until well into the 21st century.
A study by NASA researchers
showed that even if
chlorofluorocarbon emissions
stop by 2000, another 70 years
will be needed for chlorine levels
to return to benign levels.

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Former.Albany student makes mark as an author

By Brigitte Foland

Bruce Clement, a former
SUNYA graduate student,
recently published a children’s
book entitled, Tom Loves Anna
Loves Tom.

In addition to writing,
Clement teaches freshmen
English at Eastern Connecticut
State College.

“Originally I attended
Columbia as as economics
major, but I completed my
masters in English and did
casework in the Phd program at
Albany,” Clement said.

An author of over five

published pieces, Clement spoke
about what inspired him to write
children’s books.

“Well- there’s nothing really
important that children don’t
understand, (so) if you can
address people in a certain way
(you should) do it.” he said.

Quoting Hemingway, Clement
said “Essentially people see the
same thing, (we) are all retelling
the same story.”

Tom Loves Ann: ves Tom,
Clement’s most recently
published novel, “explores and
celebrates the special kind of
friendship and love between two

sixteen-year-olds- the kind that
happens once in a lifetime and is
never forgotten,” according to
the book’s cover jacket.

The message encompassed by
the novel is “(first love) is a
connection both happy and an
ongoing romance, a happy
memory,” Clement said.

The book is dedicated to his
wife Hanna stating, “who makes
love come very easily,” he said.

1 Tell a Lie Every So Often (a
National Book Award finalist),

the Ti and The
Tr f Plunderell Manor are
three other books Clement

published. All range in topic
diversity including adventure,
fantasy and Gothic novel.

Two of Clement’s books have
circulated outside of the United
States: Coming Home to a Place
I've Never Been Before
underwent both an adult and
Swedish translation, and Two
Against the Tide was translated
into German in 1967.

Although Clement has been
unable to visit SUNYA, he said
he remembers his studies here,
“Albany was a welcoming place
to be-I admired the English
Department’

Clement specifically
mentioned former SUNYA
Professor Ted Adams. “He
taught American Novel, (he was)
marvelous-both a professor and
a friend.”

Clement said he began writing
after graduate school. “After
leaving Albany I remember
entering my home (in
Connecticut) with a review in
the New Yorker of Two Against
the Tide.” Two Against the Tide
was Clement’s first published
piece.

Clement said he plans to
continue writing in the future.

Washington tourists sound off about Congress

By Judi Hasson
Washington

There was only one show in town
Saturday for tourists and politicians alike
— the Capitol.

Lawmakers — frustrated in their efforts
to rev up a government that ground to a
halt when the money ran out — once
again were pointing fingers, wondering
who to blame for the budget crisis.

Sightseers roamed the marble halls to
see what was going on.

“We're working very hard,” House
Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., told
reporters as he popped Tums and returned
to work on a budget deal.

Camera-toting tourists disagreed.

“They’re gutless,” William French of
Richmond, Va., said of Congress as he
toured the marble halls of the Capitol, one
of the few monuments in town left open
when money to run the government dried
up at midnight Friday

“They are too busy worrying about
getting re-elected,” said John Parker of
Jacksonville, Fla. “There is absolute
gridlock.”

Their remarks were typical of frustrated
tourists who waited in line for up to three
hours to see the Capitol, which only
Congress can decide to close.

With a budget impasse hanging over
lawmakers, President Bush vetoed a one-
week stopgap budget and talked tough.

He told lawmakers to work harder at
coming up with a deal to cut the budget
deficit by $500 billion over the next five
years or face a government-wide
shutdown. Because of the long Columbus
Day weekend, the full effects of the crisis
won’t begin to be felt until Tuesday.

“T want to see this system disciplined,”
Bush said. “The Congress has continued
to kick this can down the road.”

Bush vowed that until Congress comes
up with a budget deal, “We’re going to

cancel everything that has to do with
government.”

In only one week, lawmakers went from
trying to hammer out a budget agreement
to running away from the deal which
increases taxes on alcoholic beverages,
tobacco products and gasoline, and would
make senior citizens pay more for
Medicare.

The budget pact was overwhelmingly
defeated early Friday and Congress
rushed to get a temporary spending bill
approved to keep the government from
closing down for a week while it worked
out a new deal.

“It’s like watching a car crash,” said
Peggy Larrabee of the American,
Association of Retired Persons which is
trying to roll back $60 billion in Medicare
cuts for seniors.

Why is it so hard to do anything?
With election day only weeks away,

lawmakers are gun-shy about taking any
action that would come back to haunt
them at the polls. Special interest groups
have geared up to defeat proposals that
will affect ordinary Americans.

Outside the Beltway, the eight-lane
highway that surrounds the capital city
and its suburbs, the congressional
paralysis is beginning to have an effect on
close political races in November and
increasing the cynicism of an American
public which has lost faith in its political
system.

“We're from Philadelphia. We’ve seen
this before,” said Kathy Demara, whose

hometown is facing fiscal woes as bad as

the federal government.

In Washington, no one, it seems, can
agree on a single proposal to deal with the
debt.

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In the shadow of the public
health clinic, a health peril
stalked the boys’ baseball teams
of Harlan and Knox Central high
schools.

Bulging cheeks, spitting, and
puck-shaped cans in hip pockets
were the telltale signs that many
were using smokeless tobacco.

Knox Central coach Darris
Broughton, a wad of tobacco in
his own cheek, estimated 20 of
his 24 players chewed tobacco or
used snuff.

Tim Noe, a Harlan coach, said

dipped snuff.

These youthful users are part
of a national epidemic, said
industry critic Dr. Joseph R.
DiFranza of the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center.

The surge has been fed by
advertising that makes the young
believe smokeless tobacco is a
safe alternative to cigarettes,
health and school officials say.

In fact, experts say, chewing
and dipping are as addictive as
smoking and can cause gum
disease and cancer,

“With prolonged use, the oral
cancer rate will no doubt
increase dramatically,” said
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Compared with the assault on
cigarettes, little has been done to
encourage young people to quit
— or never start — using
smokeless tobacco.

Until recently, research, public
education and government
advertising restrictions
essentially ignored snuff and
chewing tobacco.

But in a 1989 report, then-
Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop said smokeless tobacco’s
health hazards are well-
documented. He urged efforts
help users quit the tobacco habit

Smokeless tobacco products becoming a national epidemic

— and prevent others from
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Smokeless tobacco use has
grown dramatically in recent
years, in part fueled by
youngsters, The Agriculture
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million pounds of snuff were
consumed in 1989, almost twice
as much as in 1970.

Chewing tobacco consumption
also rose — by one-third
between 1970 and 1980 —before
its sales declined in the early to
mid-1980s.

Between 1970 and 1985, the
percentage of adults using
smokeless tobacco remained
constant, but the percentage of

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year-olds, use of moist snuff
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chewing tobacco more than
doubled.

Two federal panels estimated
in 1986 that 10 million to 12
million Americans had used
smokeless tobacco in 1985 —
including 1.7 million boys under
age 18.

To attract customers, critics
contend, the smokeless tobacco
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are young.

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Patricia Lopez Baden
and Lew Morres
Cincinnati

Members of the nation’s arts
community rejoiced in the acquittal of the
first U.S. arts center to be tried on
obscenity charges, while some legal
experts feared the case may lead to self-
censorship.

A jury here Friday acquitted
Contemporary Arts Center and its
director, Dennis Barrie, after a two-week
trial that resulted from the gallery’s
exhibit of photography entitled “Robert
Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment.”

“The artistic community wasn’t at risk;
America was at risk,” said Anne Murphy,
executive director of the American Arts
Alliance. “What was at stake was the
concept of free expression, and that is the
very cornerstone of the American
system.”

The decision to prosecute “has had
some chilling effect, said Robert O’Neil,
director of the Thomas Jefferson Center
for the Protection of Free Expression at

issues, said that “while an acquittal
certainly does mitigate the scope of the

chilling effect,” the risk now is self-
censorship by the arts community.

“The issue now is, to what degree will
artists and those who exhibit now be
more cautious simply because this
possibility exists?” O’Neil said.

Barrie was instrumental in the decision
to exhibit the Mapplethorpe retrospective
of 175 photographs in April. Included in
the exhibit were five pictures that
portrayed men in a variety of homoerotic
poses and two that showed children with
their genitals exposed.

Three jurors in the case said Saturday
that expert witnesses convinced them the
photographs had artistic value and could
not under Ohio law be judged obscene.

“The pictures were not pretty. No doubt
about it,” juror James Jones said. “But, as
it was brought up in the trial, to be art it
doesn’t have to be pretty.”

Jennifer Loesing said she found the
photographs lewd. But, she said, in the
back of her mind was a comment made
by the defense about an apple pie: If all
the ingredients aren’t there, it is not an

Jury forewoman Stacey Burton said, “I
think they could have called in a

sociologist or psychologist — somebody
who could have said this is not art
because ...

“T think there’s something to be learned
by these pictures,” Burton said. “I don’t
think the average person enjoys it, but it’s
out there.”

Prosecution of the gallery is one of a
series of cases involving censorship that
have reached America’s courtrooms in
recent months.

— Three members of the Miami rap
music group 2 Live Crew face trial Oct. 9
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on obscenity
charges stemming from a performance of
songs from their recording, “As Nasty as
They Wanna Be.” Lyrics to the songs
were previously ruled obscene by a
federal judge.

— Charles Freeman, owner of a Fort
Lauderdale record store, E-C Records,
was convicted Wednesday on an
obscenity charge for selling a copy of the
2 Live Crew recording to undercover
police. He faces a year in jail and $1,000

families of two young men who shot
themselves after listening to one of the

group’s records. One of the youths died
instantly, the other months later. A district
judge rejected the families’ claim that the
group had deliberately placed subliminal
messages encouraging suicide on the
record.

The Mapplethorpe exhibit originally
gained notoriety when the Corcoran
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
canceled it in 1989 after Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., sought to have funding
for the National Endowment for the Arts
canceled. An NEA grant was to have
funded the Corcoran exhibit, later shown
without incident at the Washington
Project for the Arts.

“Everyone has to look over their
shoulders now, and that will continue as
long as some people find the arts to be an
easy target to attack to promote their own
political issues and fund-raising
ambitions,” said Bruce Cohen of the
American Council for the Arts in New
York.

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faunting and Deep, Thy Name is Alive

Warren Defever, the creative core of
His Name is Alive, is sitting in the
Rough Trade Records conference
room. Wearing a pair of worn-out All
Stars, jeans, and a t-shirt, he’s sort of
nervous. He fidgets a bit and keeps
looking at the floor through the glass
table, as if he’s embarrassed or self-
conscious. Quite a different picture
from the one that his dark music
paints so vividly. We find some
common ground discussing our
parents and Sonic Youth shows we've
seen recently.

Jodi Shapiro

Warren started making tapes in his
basement when he was 12. He’s 21
now, but the first proper His Name is
Alive tape came out in 1987,
distributed by the band themselves.
Tt garnered some favorable reviews,
but it took their third home-grown
tape, I Had Sex With God, to catch the
ears of 4AD Records proprietor Ivo
Watts-Russell. Indeed, the first mass-
distributed release from His Name is
Alive , Livonia (named after their
hometown of Livonia, Michigan), is a
darkly haunting work steeped in the
supernatural that might make one
wonder if Warren’s got his senses
about him. It was music created out
of anger, sadness, and frustration.
“It’s an upset record,” he comments.
“If I was never upset, then I would
never record. If I was never in that
mood, it would never have
happened.” When he tries to explain
the results of these mood frenzies, he
arrives at this conclusion: “It doesn’t
have more things that are weird, it
just has less things that are normal.”
When I ask him to tell me the history
of His Name is Alive, he prefaces the

answers with tongue planted firmly
in cheek: “It’s all lies, every word of
aC

The music of His Name is Alive
creates a feeling of intimacy, an
almost warm coziness at first, but
leaves you with a lasting chill
afterward. So it’s not surprising
when Warren tells me his music is
recorded primarily at home. It does
surprise me when he tells me that the
live shows will include animals and
home furnishings on stage. “To us,
music is real homemade. We like to

record in my house, so we like to
bring that on stage with us —
couches, pets, the whole bit. Mom
too,” he laughs. “No, not really. My
mom will not be touring with us. We
might cook, though. We’ll feed the
audience.” One thing the band
doesn’t want to do is play to a bar full
of drunken would-be rock critics.
“We want to play in a place where
people come to see us, not to get
drunk with music as an extra added
attraction.”

When you listen to Livonia carefully,
it sounds like a great deal of time was
spent on getting the sounds just right,
the voices timed perfectly, and the

His Name is Alive's Warren Defever

songs recorded and re-recorded.
According to Warren, this isn’t
actually the case. “Karyn and Angie
(the two vocalists) are allowed at the
most one half-hour per song. Usually,
they get it in the first take. If they
don’t, there’s a good chance that the
song’s going to be an instrumental, or
scrapped totally. It seems to me that
if it’s going to be good, it'll come out
right immediately.”

The sound of Livonia is similar to a
few other bands on the 4AD label.
The most common comparison is to

This Mortal Coil, but Warren sees
these comparisons as a sort of
pigeonhole. “People just
automatically assume because of the
way music sounds that we’re
obviously not an American band,” he
says. “If we had drums, it would
sound like ‘American’ music. I think
that we sound like Mazzy Star
without drums, except they’re
country. [That’s] not to say that we
don’t like country music.”

He says that even though the music
is very layered and delicate, he’s a big
fan of guitar-grunge bands like
Husker Du and Dinosaur Jr. He can’t
understand why people are surprised

that he likes those bands. “It doesn’t
show up in the music, but those
bands are a big guitar influence on
us,” he says. “Sometimes I think we
should be just a rock band, make the
guitar sound like it’s broken, make it
sound like this (he makes a static-y
kind of noise).” He discusses the
effects of food on his artistic processes
thus: “Tl eat a bowl of ice cream , a
couple of candy bars and maybe
pizza or spaghetti for dinner, go into
a hypoglycemic fit and record. It all
boils down to what I eat.”

Perhaps the most interesting part of
listening to the CD is the wide
assortment of sounds incorporated
into the songs. Choirs, winds, things
falling, steam escaping and countless
other samples pepper the
soundscapes. “There’s a lot of sounds
that I can’t remember where I got
them from. One of them is my
neighbor shoveling dirt. It’s the
rhythm for ‘You And I Have
Seizures.’ There's my mom doing
stuff, there’s some squeaking, a lot of
slowed down stuff.”

What's next for His Name Is Alive?
The follow-up to Livonia is already
recorded and ready to be released by
any label that chooses to pick up.
Warren hopes it will not have to be
self-distributed like their first few
tapes since it is an extremely difficult
task. The band is also working on a
film to accompany a soundtrack they
did a while ago. The band, expanded
to five members, will probably begin
a tour of the states in October “If
everything works in our favor”
according to Warren. They’ve already
played several shows in the Detroit
area to a good response. Seeing the
band live should be as interesting as
listening to their music.

The Eye'S on Hit choeoek

First things first. Robyn Hitchcock, singer/songwriter extraordinaire, wants
to know what kind of place he’ll be playing his all acoustic show in on
Wednesday. He'll be at the Campus Center Ballroom, at 8pmin support of his
latest release, Eye. He's glad it exists, but is a little troubled about the seating
arrangements. “It doesn’t have seats? Are the people just gonna hover in mid-air
or what?” he wonders. Not such an unusual ponderance from a guy who sings
mostly about frogs, dead wives, fish and the netherworld.

“J haven’t been booked into some sort of phantom place?,” he continues. Te
happens to a lot of people — they go along to a place and it isn’t there. It’s one
of the big things in showbiz, going to nonexistent gigs. It doesn’t happen the
further up the ladder you get, I mean it doesn’t happen to Frank Sinatra much.
He doesn’t sort of get out of a van somewhere in Billings, Montana and find that
he’s been booked into the wrong youth club or something like that.”

Right now, Hitchcock is his usual loopy self, at home in the South of Britain. I
ask him what all the racket in the background is and he duly explains: “People
are just discovering this place and whenever something's discovered people tap
ita lot. We're also finding things. I’m in a kind of time capsule, but it hasn’t been
buried yet, that’s the best way of defining it. People are investigating it. It’s
already beginning to fall apart, there are big cracks in it.”

Hitchcock, who sees the world through kaleidoscope eyes, takes special note
of the sublime and the surreal, but never takes things too seriously. Beatles,
Byrds, Frogs, Fish, and other fun stuff, too.

“A Swedish guy once said ‘Well those are all little boy fascinations...insects
and trains, and frogs.’ Maybe they’re all in a legacy of being six.”

He points out that he’s certainly not the only one in rock roll to use an
imagination. Check out Michael Stipe or David Byrne, he suggests. He does
agree that they aren’t quite so abstract as he is, “but they’re certainly
incomprehensible.”

Who knows. Who cares. It’s a hodge-podge world after all. As Hitchcock
himself puts it, “my songs aren’t about anything. They just are.”

And besides, he’s got better things to worry about. “I have to go buy some
chairs. See you...”

—RR

Hitchcock will be in the Campus Ballroom tomorrow night at
8 p.m., with Jodigrind as the opener

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Weinberger admits past U.S. support for Iraq

By John Hanchette
Washington, D.C.
Former Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger admitted Friday that U.S.
policy in the Middle East was tilted
toward Iraq for much of the previous
decade, but said that stance did not lead to
the current tinderbox situation on the
Arabian Peninsula.

Weinberger, in an exclusive interview
with Gannett News Service, said the
eight-year Iran-Iraq war forced the United
States to give some support to Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein in his fight
against No, 1 U.S. enemy Ayatollah
Khomeini.

“T think to some extent there was a tilt,
but we based it on the old maxim that the
enemy of our enemy is our friend,” he
said. “Iran had taken a very vitriolic
policy position, and anybody fighting
them was not totally unwelcome.”

The former Secretary of Defense said
he was warned by some in government,
including his 1987-88 secretary of the
navy, James Webb, about America’s
edging toward Iraq. In 1987, Webb wrote
his boss a trio of strong and previously
unpublished memos, warning against
military involvement in the Persian Gulf
without clearly stated political goals, and

against tilting toward Iraq.

“T kept specifically warning that we had
become a de facto ally of Iraq and that it
was not in our interest to continue tilting
toward them,” Webb told GNS. “It was a
situation in which we should have
remained obsessively neutral.”

In his Aug. 7, 1987, memo to
Weinberger, Webb warned that the recent
policy of reflagging Kuwaiti tankers with
the U.S. emblem and then escorting them
to protect against Iranian attack might
trap us as a “brown-water navy.” A
“brown-water navy” refers to getting
naval forces bottled up in a gulf or inland
waterway because of a cloudy, long-term
political situation.

Webb wrote the “optimum scenario”
would be “a multinational naval force of
reduced size, dedicated to a mission of
preserving international waterways for
commercial use and committed to using
force to defend against the Iranians or
anyone else who resumes attacks on
shipping. This of course means the Iraqis
as well, who as you recall have gained
the most in this endeavor previously.”

Such a force, Webb wrote, would
“comport with your earlier comment that
our commitment is to the free transit of
all ships — an anti-Soviet commitment
and in the long term one designed to

contain Iran — and not simply to tilt
toward the Iraqis.”

Webb, this week, remembered that he
was trying to justify in his memos what
he was saying in speeches: “Iran is not
our enemy except to the extent it affects
those interests we have in the region, and
Traq is not our friend, except to the extent
(that they) accept those interests.”

Webb told GNS “there was a clear and
overt tilt toward Iraq from the State
Department as early as 1984. We were
protecting Iraq, ironically, at the behest
of the Kuwaitis and Saudis.” He said at
one point in 1988 U.S. military forces
were providing naval and air cover for
Traqi air missions against Iran,

Webb, who believes “it’s a horrible
mistake having American ground forces
in the desert,” said he is “at once, the
biggest hawk and the biggest dove” on the
Persian Gulf question, counseling against
long-term involvement with vague goals,
but in favor of pre-emptive strikes once
we decide military action is in our
interests.

“We must selfishly define our
international interests, then act upon
them,” Webb said. “Just three months
ago, we thought Hafez Assad (Syrian
president) was a murderer, a guy who
wiped out one of his own villages because

it showed him disrespect. Now he’s our
ally.”

Weinberger said he interpreted the
Webb memos “not so much as against
tilting toward Iraq as against convoying
Kuwaiti tankers out of the Persian Gulf.
He opposed it. I’m very glad we did it. He
asked how we’d know when we won. I
told him everytime we got a ship through,
we'd have won. His was an honest
objection. I have great admiration for him
and respect for his making them.”

Weinberger — quoting Churchill’s
famous remark that he “would rise and
welcome Satan” if he were against Hitler
— recalled that in Defense Department
meetings in the 1980s “everyone I was
associated with was delighted if Iran was
soundly defeated in its war with Iraq. I
Suppose some of it was personal feeling,

but we were all quite exasperated with
Tran,”

“We're doing what we should be doing.
We should squeeze as tightly as possible.
Iraq imports 85 percent of its food.
They'll start feeling it very soon.”

Gohn Hanchette writes for Gannett News
Service in Washington.)

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and proceeded to urinate on the
side of the house, Wolfgang said.

“Local residents have started
taking pictures of these students
and they include girls squatting
down in the alley by the Long
Branch on Lake Street,”
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He also said, “What students
must realize is that off-campus
housing is mixed in with local
family residences, so the greatest
care must be taken in being a
responsible neighbor.”

According to Wolfgang, there
has also been a significant
increase in noise complaints,
mostly from at house parties.

The parties are sometimes
attended by over 300 people.
According to Wolfgang, “The
houses here were not build to
support the weight of that many
people, and such parties are
serious fire hazards.”

Wolfgang said a comparison
was made recently between the
floor plan of a house on Hudson
Ave, where a party had been
held on the second floor and the
Happy Land Social Club in The
Bronx, where a fire ended the
lives of more than 80 people.
“The Social Club had one
advantage,” Wolfgang said, “it
had two exits, the party on
Hudson had one, and there were
over 200 people on the second
floor.”

“The end result would have
been worse,” he said. “It is
disappointing that people don’t
think of the potential for
tragedy.”

Albany P.D. Chief of Police,
John Dale, said the problems
have increased in the last few
years because of the rise in the
drinking age to 21. “We expect
the students to be good citizens
when they come to Albany, and
abide by all laws and ordinances
of the city,” Dale said.

Other colleges are dealing
with similar problems. Dale said
the Oswego Police Department
informed him they have hired
three full-time police officers to
enforce the laws concerning
students, including enforcing the
drinking age in area bars and
responding to noise complaints.

Wolfgang said the Albany P.D.
is not going to search for
offenders in order to arrest them,
but instead they will try to
educate the students as to what
the local laws are. “We are not
saying that the students can’t
have any parties, but instead we
want to make them aware of the
safety issues,” he said.

“We give all parties one
warning. If we have to come
back a second time, someone
will get arrested,” Wolfgnag
said. He also said if students are
caught with fake or altered ID,
they will be arrested.

John Henighan, assistant
director of the Department of
Public Safety said it appears that
most of the problems occur
downtown. “The crime rate on
campus, compared to last year, is
down 20 percent. That includes
vandalism, assaults, aggravated
harassment and criminal
trespassing,” he said. “We don’t
have the number of students
drinking on campus because

there are no bars,” Henighan
said.

According to Wolfgang, not
all students are undesirable
neighbors. “The fraternity Sigma
Chi is sending people to help
with the Police Athletic League
Field Day; an event for the
children of Albany,” he said.

On Wednesday, October 24, at
2 and 7 pm, the Albany P.D. is
sponsoring a presentation
covering street and home
security. The event, called the
Student Safety Program, will be
held at the community center on
the corner of Madison Avenue
and Ontario Street.

All students who live off
campus are urged to attend.

Arrests

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building between the small
fountain and the steps leading to
the large fountain, a Public
Safety source said.

After four more officers
arrived, Henery allegedly fought
with three of officers, knocking
one. down, That officer, Robert
Kritchbaum, was treated for an
injured knee at St. Peters
Hospital in Albany and was later
released,

Albany Police were called in
to assist the UPD, and the crowd
was eventually dispersed.

Also treated and released at St.
Peters Hospital for bruises
resulting from the altercation
were officers Randy Fine and
Carmen Pantalone of U.P.D.

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many incidents which have
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“No one saw who committed
this act, nor has anyone come
forward ‘admitting their guilt,”
Walker-Johnson said. “We don’t
even have a lead to track down,”
she said.

“This is a cowardly act,
committed by someone who
can’t even face up to it,” she
said. “This doesn’t just hurt the
person who it was done to, it
hurts many more.”

Everyone is quite aware of
the rise of problems on campus,
Walker-Johnson said. Random
meetings will be held by the
faculty to discuss ways to
alleviate the tension, she said.

According to Walker-Johnson,
a teleconference will be
conducted to try and understand
where this insensitivity and
hostility stems from.

If the culprit of this problem is
found, Walker-Johnson said, he

will be judged by a hearing ¥f

among his peers who will decide
a proper punishment. No formal
prosecution will occur, she said.

unless the student decides to ;

press charges.

Walker-Johnson stressed that
all students should watch what is
going on around them, and if
anyone leams the identity of this
person, they should notify
university officials immediately.

“Tt is important to the well
being of the school that these
incidents don’t continue to
occur,” Walker-Johnson said.

IFC

Continued from page 3
conduct of students who attend
off-campus parties, Farkas said.

OCA plans to pass out flyers
to the entire off campus area
where students reside which will
promote good community
telations.

Farkas said, “We’re hoping
the effects of this will spread to
all off-campus students.”

GALA

Continued from page 3
the incredible diversity in the
gay and lesbian community. The
more people who come out, the
more we can break down the
stereotyped images of
homosexuals,” she said.

“At present we tend to be
labelled by our sexuality,” Philip
added, “but if everyone came
out, people would realize that
we exist in all spheres of life.”

“It would be a shock to this
school if it knew the full number
of gays and lesbians here,”
GALA member Kim said,
adding, “A hundred people out
is better for us than a
thousand in the closet.”

University life provides a
good environment for coming
out,” GALA members said:
“You are on new territory and
away from the set roles and
relationship you had at homé,”
John said. “You don’t lose
friends here by coming out, but
make them,” he said.

“It’s also a perfect time in
ee life to come out,” Nancy

said. “You are becoming
independent, coming into your
own as a person and becoming
more confident with your
sexuality, whether you’re
heterosexual or homosexual.”
However, GALA members
said homophobia still thrives on
the campus. According to John
it is “one of the last socially
acceptable prejudices.”

In response to these claims,
Vice President for Student
Affairs Mitchel Livingston
reiterated the university’s
opposition to any expression of
homophobia. “We will not
tolerate people acting out any
form of discrimination, whether
it is racism, sexism, homophobia
or whatever,” he said. “If gay or

lesbian students are verbally
harassed or physically assaulted,
the institution will take the
fullest action possible against
the perpetrators of these
attacks.”

Livingston said any student
who is questioning their
sexuality or contemplating
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How long can the Athletics maintain a dynasty ?

By John Shea
OAKLAND — Nobody within the organization has gone
on record with this, but the Oakland Athletics have built
a dynasty.

They’ve been the best team in the majors for the last
three years, and they fit the definition.

And there appears little on the horizon to prevent them
from dominating the baseball world in 1991. But how
about 1992? Or 1993?

Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire are scheduled to be
around in ’93, but will Dave Stewart? Bob Welch?
Dennis Eckersley? Carney Lansford? Stewart, Welch
and Lansford will be 36. Eckersley, arguably the
franchise’a most important player, will be 38.

There are others who are sure to be gone well before
then.

And who’s to say the Stewarts, Welches, Eckersleys
and Lansfords will be as effective even if they remain in
the game three more years?

How long can the dynasty last?

“T’ve thought about that a lot,” said shortstop Walter
Weiss, 26, who is younger than any A’s starter except
Canseco. “You look around the clubhouse and wonder
how long we can be competitive.”

Sandy Alderson, Oakland’s general manager, said he’s
got the future in mind even now as the A’s relish as
baseball’s No. 1 franchise.

To be sure, the A’s featured many of the same stars the
past three years, but the rosters were always changing.

Remember, Glenn Hubbard was the second baseman in
1988. Rickey Henderson didn’t come along until mid-
1989. And late 1990 featured the acquisitions of Harold
Baines and Willie McGee. Don’t expect the changes to
stop.

If not because of trades, players will be bumped
because of financial constraints, old age or just plain lack
of success.

Age could be the biggest factor. Catcher Ron Hassey
will be 38 next season. Second baseman Willie
Randolph will be 37. So will Rick Honeycutt. None are
franchise players, but each play an important role in the

franchise players, but each play an important role in the
overall scheme of things.

As for Stewart, Welch and Eckersley, that’s another
story. Take them away, and the Chicago White Sox
would be preparing for the post-season.

Most of the A’s marquee players are still in their
prime, and practically all are tied into long-term
contracts. An exception is Welch, who is eligible for free
agency and, as the game’s winningest pitcher, will likely
ask for the moon, or at least a planet or two. Stewart’s
contract extends through the ’92 season.

Eckersley could be leaving at that time. “There isn’t
anybody else in his caliber,” Alderson said.

Enter the draft. It wasn’t a coincidence Oakland’s first
five picks in the June draft were pitchers. Four of the
pitchers were from college, and the fifth was high
schooler Todd Van Poppel, perhaps the most highly
publicized prospect in history.

Three consecutive division titles had been considered
nearly impossible because championship teams have
tended to dismantle with free agency. But the A’s have
proven they’re blind to the free-agent market.

Last winter, they lost their leading RBI man (Dave
Parker), a 19-game winner (Storm Davis) and their best
utility player (Tony Phillips).

Now, with a 2-0 lead over Boston, the A’s are
attempting to become the first back-to-back World Series
winners since the 1977-78 New York Yankees.

The Yankees haven’t won a World Series since, and
they may be the most troubled franchise in the majors.

“What happened to the Yankees was George
Steinbrenner dealt into the free-agent market very
heavily, and it didn’t work,” said Randolph, a former
Yankee who witnessed the demise of the once-proud
franchise.

“Guys like Ken Griffey, Steve Kemp and Dave Collins
came in from other teams and weren’t happy because
they weren’t playing. We had a team of All-Stars, but
half of the guys were unhappy.

half of the guys were unhappy.

“People weren’t accepting their new roles, and there
was also the pressure of putting up the big numbers to
correspond with their big salaries. They couldn’t do it
They had to deal with the fact they had big contracts and
were a flop.”

How do the A’s of the 90s compare with the Yankees
off the ’70s?

“Here, they’re more selective and cauiious on how to
put the team
together,” Randolph said. “They know what they’re
doing with their future. Like the Yankees, you also have
a lot of All-Stars here, but they all know their
roles. Tony La Russa runs things his way, Once you
understand your role, it’s easier to accept.”

Alderson cited another, perhaps more significant,
difference between the A’s and Yankees.

“Something we don’t have is owner instability, front-
office instability and manager instability,” he said. “But
is that only because we’ve had success? It’s a case of the
chicken or the egg coming first. My sense is, it’s the egg.
We’ ve been stable even in bad years.”

Rarely has an Alderson trade come back to haunt him.
He acquired Eckersley from the Chicago Cubs for three
minor-leaguers who never reached the majors; he got
Welch (along with Matt Young) for Alfredo Griffin and
Jay Howell; he got Rickey Henderson for Luis Polonia
and two mediocre pitchers; he got Gene Nelson for
Donnie Hill.

And, of course, he got McGee and Baines for Feliz
Jose and four minor-leaguers.

He also signed as free agents Mike Moore, Dave
Henderson, Scott Sanderson and Hassey.

“What we try to do is remain good in the present
without totally ignoring the future,” Alderson said.

(John Shea writes for the Marin Independent Journal).
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Football team comes up short once again
Albany offense shutout for second straight week; defense holds own

By Jerry Kahn
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The Albany football team (1-
4) was defeated 14-0 on
Saturday by Western
Connecticut (1-4).

The Great Danes have been
hampered by injuries, many of
which have been off of the field.
For examples, starting
quarterback Martin Gordon has
missed the last two games with
the chicken pox, and defensive
lineman Tony Gambino was hurt
in a car accident.

“Every time we turn around,
we're getting these non-football
type things (injuries),” Albany
head coach Bob Ford said.

Nevertheless, the Danes’
defense, which has suffered
most of the injuries, has risen to
the occasion in almost every
game. Once again, they held
their opponents scoreless in the
first half.

The same can not be said of
the Albany offense which for the
second straight week was shut
out by their opponent.

In this game, Albany launched
some impressive drives, but
turned the ball over too many
times. They lost three fumbles
and were intercepted once. By
contrast, Western Connecticut
lost no fumbles and were
intercepted once.

In the first half, the Great
Danes threatened to score three
times. Albany drove to Western
Connecticut’s 30 and fumbled,
drove to the 30 again, but kicker
Mike Malvin’s 47 yard field
goal attempt hit the crossbar,
and drove to the West.
Connecticut 29, but lost two
yards on fourth and one.

In the first drive, split end
Larry Marin gained 23 yards on
a reverse. “Larry Marin’s was a
key gain,” Ford said.

At the beginning of the
second half, Albany started off
in great position. Benny Alston
returned the kickoff 31 yards to

the Albany 38. During the play,
Western Connecticut committed
a personal foul, giving Albany
the ball on the Western
Connecticut 47  yardline.
Unfortunately for the Danes,
quarterback Dom DeMatteo
fumbled on third and four; West
Connecticut recovered the ball

gain. Fullback Jimmy Fraguela
ran for five yards on the next
play. On first and ten, freshman
fullback Eddie Lemon ran for
two yards. After an incomplete
pass, DeMatteo threw to Marin
for ten yards and a first down.
DeMatteo ran with the ball on
the next two plays. First, he

Fraguela fumbled the ball and
West. Connecticut recovered.
The Danes drove to Western
Connecticut’s 19 yardline in
Albany’s next drive. The key
plays were a roughing the passer
penalty, and a 16 yard pass to
Lemon, which gave Albany first
and ten on the 19 yardline.

File

The Danes defense has held up despite injuries but the offense has stalled since the injury of quarterback Martin Gordon

ten yards behind the line of
scrimmage.

Later in the third, Albany
came closer to Western
Connecticut’s end zone than at
any other point in the game.
After West Connecticut’s first
kickoff went out of bounds, their
second kickoff, which was from
the 30 yardline was caught by
Alston at the 13. He returned it
30 yards to the 43 yardline.

On first and ten, DeMatteo
tuns with the ball for a six yard

gained only a yard, but in the
second play he gained carried
the ball for 16 for another first
down, taking the ball to Western
Connecticut’s 17 yardline.

After Fraguela was stopped at
the line of scrimmage, Alston
ran seven yards with the ball. A
face mask penalty, which was
assessed on Western Connecticut
put the ball on the five yardline,
and Albany received a first
down. On first and goal,

However, from the 19, Albany
was sacked three times and
suffered a delay of game penalty
to push them back to fourth and
27 from the 36 yardline. The
Danes had to punt.

Later, the Danes drove to
West. Connecicut's 36, but lost
the ball on downs.

In the final 10 1/2 minutes, the
ball was never in the Western
Connecticut territory.

Western Connecticut scored its
first ten points on a touchdown,

an extra point, and a field goal in
the first six minutes of the third
quarter. They added another
field goal with three minutes left
in the game.

Linebacker Tom Courtney led
Albany’s defense with 13
tackles, one of which was for a
four yard loss. Kenny Breland
led the team with seven
unassisted tackles, two of which
were for losses.

Ford cited defensive back Tim
Dieter, defensive end Bruce
Kinisky, and defensive tackle
Ricky Seidenstein as having
played well in the game.

Offensively, Fraguela led the
team in rushing yardage, He had
59 yards. The Danes were
terrible in the air, though.
DeMatteo and third-string
quarterback Jaan Laap combined
for 27 attempts, but only four
were completed.

“Jimmy Fraguela ran the ball
fairly well inside,” Ford said. On
special teams, Alston was the
star. A 31 yard kickoff return
was his longest as he returned
four kickoffs for a total of 87
yards. He has about 22 yards on
the average for the season.
Jeremy Klimow averaged 30.8
yards on four punts.

Although Albany’s passing
was below par, Western
Connecticut’s five for 16 was
not much better. What really
hurt Albany were the yards lost
tushing, 62 to West
Connecticut’s 13, fumbles lost, 3
to 0, time of possession, 25:12 to
34:48, and sacks against (six for
47 yards to one for eight yards).
“We’re playing pretty solid
defensively,” Ford said.
“(However) every time we get a
chance to capitalize and score,
we fail to. We’ve got to continue
to work hard and get squared
away.”

Albany will play its
homecoming this Saturday
against Cortland at 1:00 pm.

Danes capture Stony Brook title for second consecutive year

By Andrew Schotz
STAFF WRITER

The Albany men’s soccer team (8-J-1) showed its
resolve this weekend by capturing the tightly contested
Stony Brook Student Life Invitational, as the Danes
defeated host Stony Brook 3-2 in overtime for their
second straight tournament championship.

To reach the final, Albany first had to take care of the
Hobart Statemen(2-6) 3-2, also in overtime. In the fifth
minute, Albany got on the scoreboard on Yves Limage’s
unassisted goal. Hobart’s Elliot Calinose evened the
score twenty minutes later.

Albany went up 2-1 on an unassisted goal from senior

Lee Tschantret in the 53rd minute, by Eric Schnure
knotted it again from Hobart 22 minutes later. The first
overtime period was scoreless, but two minutes into the
second period, Limage knocked in his fifth goal, off an
assist from Marty Hearney, for the clincher.

Stony Brook(3-6) also needed overtime to advance to
the finals and then some. The Patriots and William
Paterson finished 120 minutes of play still tied at 1, so
the teams were forced into a shootout. Thirteen players
from each side, including both goalies, took penalty
kicks before Stony Brook emerged victorious, 2-1.

In Sunday’s final, Stony Brook opened the scoring on
Louis Palermo’s goal 37 minutes into the match.

Tschantret answered with his eleventh goal of the season
in the 63rd minute. Then, it was on to extra time for the
time in as many games in the tournament. Albany
managed its first lead of the game. Hearney fed
Tschantret to complete the hat trick and send the Danes
home as champs. Tschantret now has 13 goals in ten
games.

Albany goalkeeper Curt Mundorff was credited with
ten saves in the final, after making nine saves in the
semi-finals.

The next game for the danes will be today at 4:00
against Castleton University.