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NUMBER 14

Vegetarians claim who you eat matters

Speaker discusses positive aspects to a healthier way of life

By Tasha EMMONS
Staff Writer

The president of The North

American Vegetarian Society
and senior editor of the magazine
Vegetarian Voice blamed meat
consumption for the two leading
causes of death in the United
States tod heart disease and
cancer, at a lecture Thursday
night in Lecture Center 19.

Jennie Collura’s topic for the
evening was “Choices for a
Healthy Humanity: Who You
Eat Matters.”

The discussion was scheduled
to precede “The Great American
Meatout” on Saturday, an annual
event begun by the Farm Animal
Reform Movement to encourage
people to stop cating meat.

Collura said half of American
men die of heart attacks. She
said that figure goes down to 15
percent in lacto-ovo vegetarians

[people who eat eggs and dairy
products, but no animal flesh],
and down to four percent in veg-
ans [people who eat no animal
products, including eggs and
dairy].

“If you decrease [meat con-
sumption] by 10 percent, that’s
eating nine hamburgers a week
instead of 10, your risk [of heart
disease] goes down by nine per-
cent. If you get rid of meat com-
pletely, it goes down by 90%,”
Collura said.

She said one-sixth of this
country’s health insurance funds
goes to treat cardiovascular dis-
ease.

“There goes your health-care
money for something we don’t
have to choose to do,” Collura
said,

Collura pointed out three-peo-
ple in California who died of
food poisoning from bad meat at
a fast-food restaurant. It was

important news.

That was tragic, but “mean-
while thousands of people are
dying from animal causes, more
slowly, every day and it doesn’t
make headlines,” she said.

She drew a chart on the black-
board illustrating the compara-
tive nutrition of a one-quarter
pound hamburger and a meal
consisting of rice, beans, broc-
coli, lettuce and tomato,

The calories were about the
same, but the hamburger had
2,782 more grams of fat. It also
had 96 milligrams of cholesterol,
the vegan meal had none.

Fat and cholesterol are the two
leading causes of heart disease,
she said.

Tofu, a soybean product often
used to replace meat in dishes, is
50 percent fat-and-also-high in
protein, Collura said.

“From a purely nutritional
point of view it doesn’t have

Recycling is a serious matter

Students taking over i

Staff Photo by Mike Femenella
Recycling bins often go unused by students.

By PaM RESNICK
News Editor

A coalition of 25 campus student groups has
banded together to alert SUNYA administration to
the wasteful practices taking place on campus.

The SUNY Recycling Coalition was created in
response to the weakly—structured recycling pro-
gram attempted by the administration,

Michelle Borowski, SRC’s coordinator, said,
“lacking financial support and a clear directive
from President Swygert’s office, the Physical Plant
Department has implemented a recycling program
that doesn’t work.”

The SRC calls for a task force, comprised of
University administrators, faculty, students, and
waste reduction and recycling experts.

SA President Diego Munoz said, “The
University’s current attempt at recycling has left

n fight against waste

most students confused about where, when, and
how to recycle. President Swygert needs to invest
wisely in a recycling program that saves money
and ends the confusion.”

A press release from the coalition states the Task
Force must be formed by mid-April “if the
University expects to implement its recommenda-
tions by the beginning of the Fall 1993 semester,”

David Rosenthal, of the Outing Club, said there
is “no reason for [the administration] to drag out
the process.” He suggests working over the sum-
mer,

The Coalition has distributed letters to students
and faculty to be given to President Swygert, urg-
ing him to improve the recycling facilities on cam-
pus.

Rosenthal said waste reduction would eliminate
non-essential costs for waste disposal and purchas-
es of wasteful packaging. He suggests certain tac-
tics to save money for the University such as using
double sided photo copies.

NYPIRG Project Coordinator Sean Fitzgerald
said, “At a time when the University is experienc-
ing a genuine budget crunch, President Swygert
should be looking for ways to cut all non-essential
costs. Waste reduction holds great promise as a
way of reducing waste disposal ‘costs and saving
money for academics.”

Fitzgerald said there is a “lack of any system [on
this campus] for recycling...no consistency leads to
confusion.”

Rosenthal said, “the task force would set a
precedent to spread recycling for the whole cam-
pus.”

Fitzgerald said, “The University should act as a
role model for the rest of the community.”

Earthbound, a campus environment group, is

Continued on page 13

much of an advantage over meat.
Of course it is better for the envi-
ronment,” she said, adding cho-
lesterol doesn’t exist in plants;
it’s made in animal bodies.

Fiber and carbohydrates, two
substances the body needs, are
not present in animal foods.

Nutritionists say 75 to 80 per-
cent of our calorie intake should
be complex carbohydrates.

Collura cited studies which
discovered that in societies that
don’t eat animal products, there
are no incidents of the bone dis-
ease osteoporosis.

Collura said the dairy industry
is misleading consumers by
claiming dairy products reduce
the risk of osteoporosis.

“They [the dairy industry]
want you to believe it’s [osteo-
porosis} caused:by: lack of calci<
um, It’s caused by excessive pro-
tein — it blocks the absorption of
calcium.”

She also refuted worries of
malnutrition caused by a vegan
diet.

Some people think if you don’t
eat meat, you won't get enough
iron, Collura said, adding the
more your body stores iron, the
greater the risk of heart attack.

She said the small amount of
iron needed in your diet can be
obtained in plant foods.

“So don’t let anyone tell you
not to be a vegetarian because
you won't get enough iron.”

“It’s very easy to get enough
protein, hard not.” Health orga-
nizations recommend Americans
get 30 to 40 grams of protein a
day.

“There is no disease from lack
of protein in this country.”

Vitamins D and B12 deficien-
eies-are’a concern, she said, but
you can obtain all of the vitamin
D you need by standing in the

Continued on page 7

By TasHa Emmons
Staff Writer

American Express is sponsor-
ing a “Millions Meals” hunger
relief campaign where their stu-
dent customers provide hungry
people in the United States with
a meal each time a student card-
member uses their American
Express card between March
15th and April 20th.

American Express is teaming
up with the non-profit hunger
telief organization “Share Our
Strength” [SOS] out of
Washington D.C. to provide the
meals. American Express’s goal
is to provide one million needy
people with meals by donating
a total of $90,000 to SOS, said
Andrew Siebart, a senior mar-
keting manager for American
Express.

The purchase could be any-
thing, said Seibert, but the meal
is provided for each use, not
each item or service bought.

Siebert, who helped come up
with the plan, said, “We knew
that students were concerned
about certain issues, and hunger
is one of them,” which is why
they called SOS.

“T thought this would be a
terrific way to get students to
start fighting hunger. We think

Using charge cards
helps benefit charity

SOS is a terrific organization _

and student card members will
feel good about getting
involved,” Siebert said.

Siebert said one reason they
picked SOS is because “we
made sure it [the aid] won't be
concentrated in one area.” He
said they plan on advertising
the program on over 300 col-
lege campuses nationwide.

Christine Parker, an intern in
the communications department
at SOS, said they are working
with American Express because
of their “high profileness” and
because American Express
wanted to do something for a
good cause.

Parker said SOS is a
non-profit hunger relief organi-
zation that asks “creative pro-
fessionals to donate their time
and work to raise money for
homeless shelters, food banks,
and prepared and perishable
food programs.”

She said that the group was
formed in 1984 by a man
named Bill Shore in response to
the famine in Ethiopia, but 80
percent of their aid goes to
domestic problems.

American Express picked
SOS because they are efficient
and because they are non-profit,
so they haye no money to
advertise, Parker said, __

_ Continued on page 13

2 _ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1993

NEWS BRIEFS

Socialists ousted

Paris, France
(AP) Voters, fed up with political scandal
and high unemployment, thrashed the
governing Socialists in parliamentary
elections Sunday and voted in high
numbers for the conservatives, according
to early projections.

Television exit polls projected the
Socialists would win just 19 percent of the
vote and lose control of the National
Assembly.

The likely conservative majority means
President Francois Mitterrand, a Socialist,
will govern the final two years of his
second seven-year term with a hostile
premier and Cabinet.

The president must choose the prime
minister from the National Assembly
majority, and the premier then picks the
Cabinet.

The Socialists are expected to lose up to
160 of the 273 seats they hold now and be
reduced to a token opposition.

“The Socialist Party’s mistake is that
they promised us the moon in 1981 and
haven’t delivered,” said William
Vanseveren, 18, a firefighter who voted
Socialist at a polling station in Conflans-
Sainte-Honorine outside Paris.

Hostages traded

Baku, Azerbaijan
(AP) Onig Gregorian never strays too far
from the small house in Baku where he
occupies a room with a bed, table and
chair. Although he wears no shackles or
blindfold, the 62-year-old Armenian grape
grower is a hostage.

Gregorian is one of the hundreds of
civilians being held by Azerbaijan and
Armenia, as the two countries battle over
the disputed territory of Nagorno-
Karabakh,

During five years of fighting, a lively
trade in hostages has been taking place,
with civilians and soldiers traded for large
sums of money, fueb or even corpses.

Last June, while Gregorian was
carrying a load of grapes from Armenia to
Russia, he was pulled off a train and
thrown in an Azerbaijani prison.

In early January, retired Baku firefighter
Saadullah Nasirov took him from the
prison and has held him since.

Nasirov hopes to trade Gregorian for
his son, Ilham, who was wounded and
captured by the Armenians near the town
of Akdere in Nagorno-Karabak.

-~PREVIEW OF EVENTS

NATION &™

Clinton reworks gov't

Washington D.C.
(AP) Every new administration puts its
efficiency experts to work on remodeling
government, vowing to

Powell’s lawyer, Michael Stone.

Stone was seeking to suggest that
Powell, who struck the most blows
against King, could not have caused
extreme fractures of King’s face. The
defense claims King smashed his
cheekbone and eye socket in a fall to the
pavement.

Powell, Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officers
Theodore Briseno and Timothy Wind are

and started a stampede of the exciting
crowd. Fights broke out as people shoved
into the street.

The seven police officers assigned to
the Landmark called for backup and about
20 officers responded, using Mace and
nightsticks to subdue the crowd. Five
people were charged with assaulting
police.

Six people filed complaints with the

end waste and make
Washington work better
than before.

But while they’ve
been at it on and off for
more than 40 years,
American confidence in
the federal government
has slumped to the point
that most people think it
creates more problems
than it solves.

President Clinton’s
team is renewing the
mission, assigned not
only to improve but
actually to reinvent
government.

Now, if they can just
get around the dinosaur
bureaucracy that’s
always been in the way
before.

CAPITAL DISTRICT:

S BES

The image and the

appraisal come from the

US. comptroller general, They broke so many CD's that they had to resort to live entertainment.

who said that the structure of government
is outdated, set up to deal with the needs
of another era.

Vice President Al Gore is directing the
administration effort, beginning with a
six-month review of each agency and
department. He is seeking, in Clinton’s
words, ways to redesign, reinvent and
reinvigorate the entire government.

Changing those would take years. A
more traditional campaign against waste
and mismanagement is now under way;
newly installed Democrats complain of
perks and problems they say the
Republicans left them.

King was not hit hard

Los Angelos, California
(AP) Only hours before taking part in the
Rodney King beating, Officer Laurence
Powell was reprimanded for not striking
hard enough with his baton, a police
sergeant testified.

Sgt. Richard Di Stefano, who conducted
roll call training at the Foothill Division
station just before the March 3, 1991
beating of the black motorist, recalled
Thursday that Powell “wasn't putting
enough power into his blows.”

“The angles of his blows were steep and
glancing. He wasn’t putting his body into
it,” Di Stefano said under questioning by

accused of violating King’s civil rights.
They could get 10 years in prison and
$250,000 in fines.

In contrast to Powell, Di Stefano said,
Wind, only a few months out of the Police
Academy, performed such baton
maneuvers as “the pool cue jab” and “the
chop” with precision.

After more instruction, Di Stefano said,
Powell managed to “put some more power
into the blows.”

STATE af

Police act correctly

Syracuse
(AP) An internal report says that Syracuse
police acted properly in dispersing a
crowd of more than 1,000 people which
engaged in a melee outside a downtown
theater, Police Chief Frank Sardino said,

Five people were arrested after the
brawl March 3 outside the Landmark
Theater. Two officers, a firefighter and at
least two other people were injured in the
fracas.

Sardino blamed the fight in part on
alcohol and marijuana that were being
consumed by people who attended a
youth talent show.

Someone yelled that a man had a gun

Staff photo by Edwil Fontanilla

police department’s Internal Affairs
section the day after the incident.

Rescuer was robbed

Rochester
(AP) A woman is accused of stealing
credit cards from a man who died last
summer trying to save her life.

Frank Pipes, 35, drowned on Sept. 6.
He had been giving a boat ride to six
people he met on a Lake Ontario beach
when one of them, 29-year-old Christine
Antos, fell overboard.

Pipes jumped in after her, but drowned
in his attempt to save her. She was pulled
out of the water by another boater.

Police believe two department-store
credit cards and a bank card disappeared
from Pipes’ wallet or boat that day.

Two of the cards were used three
months later to purchase more than
$1,000 worth of merchandise at two
nearby department stores. Pipes’ family
learned of the theft in late December,
when one of the stores called.

Antos was charged with possession of
three stolen credit cards, said Sgt. Joseph
E. Marhatta of the sheriff's office.

An acquaintance, James E. Nowatchik,
35, was charged with four counts of
second-degree forgery and fourth-degree
grand larceny,

FREE LISTINGS

Tues., March 23

Omega Nu Epsilon, the
coed environmental service
order, will be holding a
Generat interest meeting
today and Thursday from
7:30-9:30p.m. in the CC West
Lounge.

LINK will be holding an
interest meeting in the West
Lounge at 7:30p.m. All those
interested in applying for the
fall semester should pick up

an application in CC110 and
attend.

The Rho Rhoses of Sigma
Phi Rho Fraternity, Inc. will
present a forum, “Women of
Color Unite” at 7p.m. in
CC373.

Wed., March 24

The Haitian Student
Association general
meetings are held every
Wednesday in CC370 at
7p.m.

The student chapter of The
Association for Computing
Machinery will be holding a
general interest/elections
meeting at 6:30p.m. in LI98
(outside door will be open).

Thurs., March 25

Jesus Christ Superstar will
be performed in LC18 at
8p.m. tonight, Fri., and Sat.

B.A.S.I.C._ will be showing a
film at 7p.m. entitled “Did
Jesus Christ really rise from
the dead: evidences for the

resurrection” in CC375, All
are welcome.

ASUBA presents a bake
sale in the CC lobby from
10a.m. to 4p.m.

The Financial Management
Association will meet at
6p.m. in BA216. All those
who are interested are
welcome to attend.

The International Socialist
Organization will hold its
meetings in CC361 at 7p.m.

NWROC meets every)
Thursday at 8:30p.m. in the!
S.A. lounge.

A lecture and recital for the’
Big BACH Bash will take
place at 7p.m. in the PAC
Recital Hall. This will be al
free performance.

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Students Off Drugs and’
Alcohol (SODA) is presently
forming. If you are currently
in recovery or if you would}
like to live drug and alcohol!
free, call Randy at 442-6416.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1993 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 8

Drivers face invisible enemy

Staff Photo by Tom Murnane

People driving on the Perimeter Road Monday night were in
for a scare when they suddenly came across an invisible

enemy: black ice.

Black ice is a thin, clear sheet of ice which is particularly
dangerous because it blends with the asphalt and cannot be

seen, according to an area weather center.

But while it can’t be seen, a sure sign of black ice — caused
when moisture on the road freezes without notice — is the
sight of cars sliding out of control.

One such car belonged to graduate student Liz Welnoffer,
who had the bad fortune of discovering a patch of black ice
near State Quad at about 10:00 p.m.

Weinhoffer was uninjured and her car only sustained a flat

left front tire.

Because black ice appears without warning, it's impossible
for public works crews and police to know where it is until
someone calls it in, area police said Monday.

By 11:00 p.m. Perimeter Road was heavily salted — unfortu-
nately an hour too late for Welnhoffer.

By ELIZABETH ANN BALL
Staff Writer

SUNYA Assistant Professor

of Sociology Nancy A. Denton
is the co-author of an important
new book which has just been
released by the Harvard
University Press.

This book, titled, American
Apartheid: Segregation and the
Making of the Underclass, was
co-authored by Douglas S.
Massey, a leading racial segre-
gation researcher at the
University of Chicago.

“Better than any other book,
American Apartheid explains the
origins, persistence, and conse-
quences of racial segregation in
American housing,” said
Micheal Katz of the University
of Pennsylvania.

Denton has been accumulat-
ing research for the last decade.
In a press release written by
University Relations, she said,
“In my mind the thing that is
most important is how segrega-
tion is such a fundamental cause
of poverty that we see, particu-
larly among African Americans.
There are problems in these
communities — job loss, drugs
and crime — but when you look
at poor people of other races in
other neighborhoods across the
country, the distinctive pattern
of African American neighbor-

hoods is the high level of segre-
gation.”

In a statement sent to urban
affairs reporters by William
Harms of the University of
Chicago News Office, the two
authors are described as having
“pioneered research on the
topic.” It also states Massey and
Denton “coined the term ‘hyper-
segregation’ in 1989 to describe
the extreme isolation from
whites that African Americans
experience in major American
cities...They argue that the
African American ghetto has
been created by the persistence
of racial prejudice and by dis-
criminatory real estate’ practices
designed to insulate whites
from blacks; it is perpetuated by
public housing policies and by
law enforcement of federal open
housing laws.”

The statement went on to dis-
cuss the “dissimilarity index”
Massey and Denton use to
describe segregation and report
new figures using 1990 U.S.
Census Data.

“Under the index, Chicago
and other northern metropolitan
areas are the most residentially
segregated areas in the country.
Chicago has a score of 86,
meaning that 86 percent of the
blacks would have to move out
of their neighborhoods in order
for the Chicago metropolitan

Professor writes book about apartheid

area to be evenly integrated.”

“Other.cities with high scores
were the Gary — Hammond East
Chicago Area, 90; Detroit, 88;
Cleveland, 85; Milwaukee, 83;
New York, 82; and Buffalo, 82.”

According to an article in
SUNYA’s Update [by Greta
Petry], “Nancy Denton has been
studying the racial segregation
of cities since 1984, when she
earned a Ph.D in demography
from the University of
Pennsylvania. Prior to her
arrival at the University of
Albany two years ago, Denton
was a research associate at the
Population Research Center of
the National Opinion Research
Center at the University of
Chicago.”

Denton’s research reveals that
African Americans, especially
those who live in major cities,
are almost as segregated today
as they were in 1968 when the
summary to the Kerner
Commission report warned that
the United States was “moving
toward two societies, one black,
one white — separate and
unequal.”

The calculation of segrega-
tion, reported for the first time in
this book, has stirred national
interest. The findings of this pro-
ject are considered “ground-
breaking.”

Aggravated Harassment

health facility.

referral.

Criminal Mischief

False Report

fume spray.

Harassment

Petit Larceny

room.

machine.

in LC short time.

r_ GRIME BLOTTER

3/17 Freedom Quad — Threatening phone call to student from
her ex-boyfriend, who had escaped from a downstate mental

Podium— Male threatened by known male - to make judicial

3/17-18 Brubacher — \tems missing from kitchen storage room.

3/13-16 Freedom Quad — Mailboxes damaged.

3/17 Alden — Dryer in laundry room damaged.

3/18 Brubacher — Vending machine overturned.

3/18-19 Eastman — Cover broken off circuit breaker box.

3/16 Eastman — Fire alarm-sensor activated, apparently by per-

3/17 Campus — Bomb threat called into TV station and later
another call made to University Police.
3/18 Lecture Center — Call to Univ. Police that there was a fire.

3/15 State Quad — Anti-lesbian harassment.

3/10-11 Alden — Computer equipment missing from computer

3/16 Stuyvesant — Textbook left in laundry room.

3/17 Stuyvesant — Walkman left in lounge few minutes.
3/16-17 Tuscarora — Coat missing from lounge.

3/16-17 Ten Eyck — Product and cash stolen from vending

3/16 Waterbury — Coat stolen from laundry room.

3/16 Mohawk - Necklace missing.

3/15-17 Brubacher Mailroom — Package missing.

3/18 Lecture Center — Cash and meal card stolen from wallet left

By ALLISON KRaMPF
News Editor

Further attempts by Albany
Police Department and the New
York State Liquor Authority to
prevent underage drinking
resulted in three more arrests
Friday night. —

_ Two underage students were
arrested for altered licenses, and
a third student was arrested for

said Lt. Robert Wolfgang of the
Albany Police Dept.

approximately 8:30 p.m. at the
Towne Tavern, 497 Washington
Aveti : a

Me and one other student
was arrested for altered licenses.
We siven appearance tick-

the next day,”
eshman Eric

loesn’t serve

ny purpose at all.
‘There were 35 people
at the bar, and they

charged with posses-
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Happy hour turns sad
for 3 SUNYA students

2 : Towne Tavern, had no comment.
illegal sale of alcohol to minors, ~

_ The arrests were made at

_ licenses and three arrests where

chasing alcohol with an altered
license.”

Marin said he also doesn’t
think making arrests are a deter-
rent, since it was the second
time he was arrested.

“We like to encourage people
not to alter licenses,” Wolfgang
said. :

_ The third man arrested, Robert
Dapaah, a bartender from the

This is the second time since
January SUNYA students have
been arrested in attempts by
APD to control the problem of
underage drinking. 3

The first wave occurred Jan.
29 and resulted in nine underage
students arrested for altered

violators were charged with the
illegal sale of alcohol to minors.

” Te Towne
®avern

4 —s ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1993

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ability to perform sexually.
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tary to give the restaurant
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Albany, N.Y.
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She pointed to the United
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The (hopefully) imminent arrival of warmer
weather is both a blessing and a curse to
SUNYA students who live in the Pine Hills
area.

With this weather, students will be able to
enjoy a great UAS picnic, the mud of
Washington Park, the aroma left behind
through Pine Hills by students after binge
drinking or the beauty of the homes on Quail
Street.

Unfortunately, this means that an unsavory
element will now be out in force in the Pine
Hills area. Though some worry about the
Jehovah’s Witness, the true threat to students
downtown is crime.

When it’s warm in Albany (which luckily is
almost never), the criminal element decides to
cut loose on the students of SUNYA. In the
last year the number of sexual assaults and
burglaries in the “student ghetto” reached epic
proportions; it's the time for students to
remember to be vigilant.

Last week, while Albany’s finest swept the
Towne Tavern for underage drinkers, the
Department of Residential Life and Housing
prepared a new campaign to alert students to
crime in Pine Hills.

One effort will be the “Safe Spring Safety
Seminar,” a program to educate student
leaders of the necessary precautions to help
protect homes. Though it would be admirable
if such a program were offered for all
students, it seems that last time students had
such a program; in a sign of ultimate
brilliance, no one went.

Student leaders should invest the time to go
to the seminar, and spread the word to the rest
of their organizations. Before: the semester
ends they should spread this information to
the rest of their organizations, it will be an
investment in the future.

This time of year is the “perfect” time for
windows to be pinned. It’s also the last chance
for students who haven’t signed their lease for
next year to instruct their landlord to bring
their apartment up to to proper safety
standards.

A larger problem...

Another event that students across SUNYA
should take notice of is Wednesday’s Campus
Forum on Violence Against Women.
Scheduled for the Campus Center, this
program: will educate students on a problem
that is epidemic on college campuses across
the country.

For years, men have been told that “no”
means just that, but society is in a sad state of
affairs, because many still don’t understand.

It’s time for many to learn. Students, faculty
or leaders of students organization should take
the time to attend at least part of the day’s
activities, from the morning panels to later
videos. If they can’t, they can urge others too.

This spring; and this spring break, students
should remember to be vigilant, take care and
remember “no” means exactly that.

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Learning To Love Our Blackness

I would like to address the fear of ASUBA being a
racist organization. My question is: on what grounds do
you deem this organization racist? After all, racism isn’t a
term that should be flung around loosely,

So far the two reasons that ASUBA has been labeled
racist are that they invited Kwame Toure to the school
even though the administration forbade it, and they
supposedly believe that, somehow, the African race (I
don’t like the term Negroid) is superior to its Caucasian
brother. The first reason is hardly grounds for being a
racist, and the second is untrue. What could make anyone
believe that ASUBA or Spike Lee, believe themselves to

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be biologically superior to Caucasian peoples?

ASUBA doesn’t scream about “Black Pride” because
they believe themselves to be the biological superior, but
because they finally appreciate their Blackness after being
systematically taught, by American society, there was
little good about being Black. The appreciation of our
Blackness is an AWAKENING, not some Nazi belief as
Mr. Jay Allen would have us believe. Yes, we wear our
Blackness like a “badge of honor,” because for so long it
was thought of as a mark of shame. The term Black Pride
is used because we have learned to love our Blackness,
not because we believe ourselves to be better than our
Gaucasian equals. Therefore, it is obvious on this ground
there is no way ASUBA can be considered racist.

Unfortunately, Mr. Jay Allen and people like him
confuse the love of our Blackness for the hatred of his
Whiteness (he should be more secure). Another reason
ASUBA is considered racist is because they welcomed
Kwame Toure to our school against the wishes of the
administration. For this they can be considered rebels, but
they can hardly be considered racist. Kwame Toure was
an important cog in the civil rights movement (he headed
the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee). This
is a man students should admire, and a man who should
hardly be banned from speaking at an institution of higher
education.

Anyone who doesn’t believe-a man of Toure’s stature
should speak, should check their own racist tendencies.
What makes Kwame Toure controversial, is that he has
referred to whites as “White Devils.” This simply means
that he hates certain whites and the things certain whites
do. However, this hate is not racism or “logically
unjustifiable.” Toure and others such as Sista Souljah
could be considered “the hate that hate created.” Whites,
speaking generally, hate and have proven to hate Blacks
over the course of hundreds of years; therefore, it could be
called natural for a Kwame Toure or Sista Souljah to hate
Whites. However, even if Kwame Toure does hate Whites
it does not follow that this reflects the feelings of
ASUBA. I believe that ASUBA is taking a step towards
racial harmony by learning to love themselves. After all, it
is well known that you have to love yourself, before you
can love others.

Here We Go Again: A Senseless Trial

Here we go again. It’s Rodney King vs. the L.A.P.D.
batting club round two. Although this trial really
shouldn’t be taking place at all, I do have a few overviews
on it that I wish to share. Before I start, I would like to
concede that based on the partial videotape that I have
séen, the officers involved used excessive force in
retaining the suspect. I also feel that the jury in the King
case may have made an error in their decision.
Nonetheless, the retrial of these officers is an absolute
farce based on a technical loophole in the system. These
men are being tried a second time in the hope that a jury
will come up with a politically popular decision. This
proceeding violates the spirit of rulings prohibiting retrial
-for the same crime once acquitted. In addition, it sets a

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terrible precedent for future controversial cases. In
addition to the question of legality of this proceeding, I
am also somewhat edgy about the lopsided media
coverage. The fact is that the press universally
condemned these officers before the original trial ever
took place. They were tried and convicted in the New
York Times before the case ever reached the courthouse.
By doing this the press completely accepted one side of
the story without ever reporting on the contrasting view. I
still haven't seen the entire videotape, and only now are
some news sources televising the part in which King
charged the police officers. This selective reporting only
showed a number of white men with nightsticks beating
on a helpless body on the ground. The media failed to
convey to the public what must have been going on in the

cops’ minds when, after being pulled over at a speed

exceeding one hundred miles per hour, King rushed at
them. Another question that has remained unanswered is
why the police would react the way they did. We have
heard time and again of the deplorable conditions in
South Central Los Angeles. Yet has anyone come forward
to say what these conditions must do to a police officer
who attempts to work in them. The cops were simply
dismissed as being racist, not frustrated. Keep in mind
that the same surroundings, the gangs, violence and
poverty, that infect South Central also beat down upon the
officers who work there. The people of L.A. had been
classified as a ticking bomb. Should it surprise anyone
that the police were just as close to the brink as the
inhabitants?

My last thought goes to the riots, Recently Adam
Lerman of the C.A.A.R.V, had the audacity to call this
senseless outbreak of violence a rebellion. To dignify
what happened there a year ago with a term that implies
any semblance of organization or a political goal is an
Outrage. Over fifty innocent people were killed in your
little rebellion. It wasn’t a rebellion. It was an excuse t0
lash out. You honestly think that those pieces of trash who
yanked an innocent truck driver out of his vehicle and
beat him to death are worthy of the term “rebels?” YOU
think they did that in response to the King verdict? 1
Suppose the looting was a symbol of political protest
against the court decision. Listen.Adam, what happened
there is very simple. A group of people living in poor
economic and social conditions used the result of a trial as
an excuse to act and behave like animals. That is not
Tebellion, it’s chaos, And there is no place for that in any
Society. The participants in the riots destroyed businesses

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The Old System The Silver Dish

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adapted by

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Joanne Koch

“Old tales from old times” of immigrant relatives
in Albany and Chicago

Saturday, March 27, 1993, 8:00p.m.
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Since my 2Ist birthday, way back when in October, my housemates
and I have been impatiently waiting for my roommate to finally become
legal. It was becoming quite the large pain in the ass to keep having to
put him on a different line at Price Chopper every time we wanted to
buy beer since they card everyone within a 10 square mile radius of
anyone attempting to buy so much as a six pack.

But, at long dear last, it happened. Which meant we had to do the
only honorable thing—take him to a bar for-his first legal drink (not
that he nor I ever had an illegal one, of course). Naturally, being the
lucky one, his birthday falls on St. Patrick’s Day, which caused much
dismay to my housemate.

“We can always buy beer at the, store and take him tomorrow,” he
continually whined. Oh, bullshit. He’d only have a 21st birthday once,
and it just happened to come at a real crappy time. We were
determined to get him in somewhere.

But first, the traditional card and gift giving had to be taken care of.
We gave my roommate a couple of birthday buttons to wear, one with a
teddy bear on it saying “Happy Birthday,” and the other a huge button
saying “Look Who’s 21!” in big party letters. Presents took a while
because he locked himself in the bathroom upon receiving the first two
movies in the Hellraiser series from his girlfriend. Such simple
pleasures in presents and women, lemme tell you.

Next, a birthday dinner had to be furnished. So what better place for
cheapskates to take the birthday boy than Denny’s, right? Free food for
anyone on their birthday. Perfect.

So out. we trekked, the gunkie still wearing that idiotic bear button
(he absolutely refused to wear the other one in public, and to tell ya
the truth, I couldn’t really blame him. 4 out of 5 psychiatrists say, ‘it
leads to suicidal tendencies).

Upon arriving at our table, my housemate decided to wait for me to
get into the circular booth first so that I would have to sit next to my
roommate’s girlfriend instead of him. (Why do I suspect. that he had
something against her? Call it a hunch...) Now it.was time to-order
drinks. While the other three of us could wait for the bar to have beer,
my housemate figured he'd get a head start.

“What kind of beer you got?” he asked. Given the choice of Miller Lite
or Budweiser (two fine choices, I might add), he opted for Budweiser.
“Can I see some I.D.?” the waitress‘asked. My housemate quigkly
reached for his wallet, taking out his license.

Just as he was about to hand over his L.D., doing my bes Tony
Montana/Scarface imitation, I said, “Take out your real license.” With
this, he froze. The other three of us. nearly fell out of our chairs
laughing at him. However, the 22 year old shook it off and proudly
presented his mug shot to the waitress for inspection.

{All right, I’m sick of calling everyone “my this,” or “his that.” From
now on, everyone will be referred to by their corresponding Scarface
name—my roommate is Manny, his woman is Elvira, and my housemate
is Sosa (by the way, I damn near ordered my meal as Tony Montana,
but there was no way in hell I was’ever gonna keep a straight face
while doing it),]

Anyway, after surviving dinner and my Cuban accent, it was now
time to find a place to get Manny his birthday drink. Driving down
Madison Avenue for seemingly forever, we found a place with no line
out to Rotterdam. Once inside, Manny got his first beverage—a Molson.
And boy, did he ever nurse it. I’m shocked he even opened the damn
thing—I wondered for a while if he’d just take the bottle home for
posterity.

The evening ended with a trip to the Golden Cue for an hour of pool
and a combined four trips to the bathroom. As promised to Sosa, we got
home before midnight so he wouldn’t stay up past his bedtime.

And such was Manny’s 2lst birthday. Feliz cumpleafios, hombre.

ivi

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Vesta Seah acbeisian des
March 23, 1993

3a Aspects

Curtain call is just around the
corner for Andrew Lloyd Weber
ind Tim Rice’s exciting story of
SA Programming funded
production.

A ‘Superstar’ Is Approaching

Karen Stein

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock
| opera which depicts the last seven
days of Jesus's life as told by the main
character, Judas. Predestiny and
extreme circumstances play starring
roles in this familiar biblical story as
Judas explains how and why he betrays
Christ. The inner-struggles that Judas went
through in the last days of Christ suggest
man has no control over his own destiny.

Derek Reyes, the play’s director, is
looking . forward to three fantastic
performances, and hopes to be able to make the
audience connect with the show.

“This play has certain meanings you can play
around with, and has a lot of potential,” said Reyes.
_/ Because it is a rock opera, all the characters sing their

lines. Most of the characters are interchangeable so
either a male or female could play their roles. Reyes
said he cast both leading roles, Jesus and Judas, with
men but some other parts were given to females.

Reyes seemed pleased with the way the show was coming
together. “We were doing well from the start,” said Reyes.
Perhaps the only thing that isn’t smooth about the

Jesus Christ Superstar, this-year’s— production is that it will take place in Lecture Center 18.

“We have no definite stage,’ said Mike Edwards, a member
of the chorus. Edwards described the hassles of setting up and
taking down the set every night to work around the class
schedules in the lecture center,

“I would like to have an actual theater,” said Edwards. “We
could rehearse whenever we please.”

Reyes described the last two weeks before the play as hectic.
This last week before the production will be the “tech week”
where all the lighting, sound and orchestration will be
combined with the actors.

Many talented students auditioned for Jesus Christ Superstar.
The play starts with Mark Smith as Jesus, Jeff Nicholas as Judas
and Mary Connery as Mary Magdalene.

This is Reyes’ fifth student production but his first as a
director.

“Everything is done by the students,” Reyes said. He said he
enjoyed the “blood and guts” productions where everything
from funding or publicity was done by the students. Reyes
was also in the cast of Chorus Line and Guys and Dolls and was
the choreographer for Hair and Pippin.

The curtain goes up for Jesus Christ Superstar on March 25-27
in LC 18. Tickets are currently being sold in the Campus Center
and are $7.00 for students and $8.00 for the general (and
specific) public. All tickets are general seating.

If the opening night of
Ladyhouse Blues had been a dress
tehearsal, I would have been
sufficiently impressed with the prospect
of a fine play that could be even better.
But this was, in fact, opening night, and
the latest Performing Arts Center
production was like silverware in need of
a good polish.

Adam Meyer

The all-female cast (except for the
“Evangelist,” who is heard but not
seen) has.a wealth of talent. The play
| is at its most interesting when the

'\ five women are on stage together,
teasing, and attacking and loving
each other, creating a sense of
camaraderie which never seems
_\ theatrical. The mixed caring and
\ cruelty which characterized
sibling relationships is evident
in the way the four daughters
‘\ address each other, while their
mother stands somewhat
outside the group, both
authority figure and child to
them all.

The audience is frequently
reminded about how hot it
is, the heat serving as
metaphor for the oppressive
forces which controls this
family’s life. Ladyhouse Blues
itself is like a summer day:
slow-moving and drawn
Jout. The first act starts
1 quickly but the action soon
begins to dwindle. If one
were watching this on the
VCR, one would want to
fast forward to the good
parts. And there are good
parts, lots of them, but
director Rebecca Fishel lets
| the pace flag too often and
loses our attention in the
|) process.

Patrick A. Ferlo’s sparsely decorated
set—basic wooden furniture, a simple
crucifix on the wall, flowered
wallpaper—evokes atmosphere without
being overbearing. Ronald G. Bernt’s
costumes reflect the characters in similarly
subtle fashion. Beautiful as the play is to
watch, one wishes that lighting designer
Andi Lyons had kept the stage in shadows
more often, instead of drowning every scene,
including the night ones, in illumination.

The play is situated in 1919, at the brink of
the era following the first World War, as this
family awaits the return of brother Bud.
Males have a precarious role in this story,
creatures to be either desired or feared—or
perhaps both. The simpleminded Helen
(Lara Evangelista) has unwillingly left her
husband and son to return to her mother’s
home, and while ‘she misses the males she
left behind, she remarks that “I was so
strong. I was so healthy...until I got
pregnant.” The statement is more than a fact,
it’s an accusation, and author Kevin
O’Morrison loads the dialogue with similar
jabs at the missing sex, as when matriarch
Liz (Rosemary Irvin) tells God, “I can’t help
feelin’ as if you were a woman you woulda
done it different.”

For Eylie (Kimberly Sidden), the youngest,
all men are like her Greek boxer—wonderful.
It's implied that her sisters, too, once felt as
she does, but that experience make them
realize the truth. Even Terry (Shalem
Hughes), the active feminist, is aware of the
futility of fighting against a male
government. The urbane Dot, who has come
from sophisticated New York to this small
town for reasons which are never clear, is the
only one who seems truly regretful that
“there’s not a man left in any of these
houses.”

Like the heat, the seductive but dangerous
potential of men permeates every scene. The
mother, who outlived her husband and went
on to raise five children herself, represents
the superior female will. In Ladyhouse Blues,
women are the survivors. Yet these
characters seem incomplete at times, as if a

This ‘House’ in Need of Repair

part of their soul had been amputated. As
Helen tells one of her sisters, “We'll see how
you act when Bud gets home,” for he is the
acknowledged master of the house. Yet
perhaps the outspoken Eylie puts into words
what are in the others’ hearts when she says
simply, “I miss him but I don’t.”

The quality of O’Morrison’s writing is
superb, but part of the play’s imbalance
between first and second act may come from
the source. Ladyhouse Blues smoothly
integrates the comic and tragic but never
inspires the emotional impact it should. Part
of the problem may be a result of the rough
production; every time an actress noticeably
flubbed her lines (and each did it at least
once), the mood was disrupted.

I won't even dare to single out one
performer, for they were all excellent, but
Irvin as the mother has impeccable comic
timing. For example, when Dot is learning
French, her delivery makes a good
response—“In my house? I won’t stand for
it!”’—hilarious. Coury’s Dot is both
obnoxious and sympathetic, making it a
tricky role to negotiate; when the action
wanes, her presence keeps you interested.
Evangelista has brilliant moments but overall
her part does not allow her to stand out as
markedly as she might have.

Some of the recent PAC productions have
been of questionable worth. Others have
been quite good. Ladyhouse Blues is a
frustrating example of what falls in between,
plays which aren’t the equal of what they
could or should be.

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Driving School by Kevin Bisch

“Are you sure you don’t want it?”
Greg asked, gesturing towards the
roach in the ashtray of his car. “Five
hours is a long time.”

It really wasn’t fair to call it a
roach as it was about the size of the
last digit on my pinky finger. While
I was certain that it would make my
five hour pre-licensing course more
exciting, if not downright enjoyable,
I recalled my bouts with hilarity
and paranoia last time I smoked
and declined from fear of embar-
rassment and/or persecution anxi-

“See you at ten,” I said, slipping
out of the car.

It is safe to say I have not aged
gracefully, for at twenty, I had still
not made that big step towards
independence and necking in the
old man’s Ford: the acquisition of a
driver's license. I was still bumming
rides off parents, friends, strangers,
rednecks with pick-ups, and poten-
tial psychotics with vans. This
might have gone on until I was thir-
ty or until I was sodomized and
beaten by the van driver, had not
my girlfriend, justifiably angry
about carting my ass around for a
year, really let me have it one night
as she was driving me home. As I
sat like a censured and sullen child
in the passenger seat, I saw how not
driving was seriously affecting my
interpersonal relationships and real-
ized that it was time to grow up. I
could have taken solace in the fact
that I was still in the front seat of
the car, but I decided not to press
my luck.

Now, with my somewhat embar-
rassing past behind me and the
Hampton Bays Driving School in
front of me, I was a man with a mis-
sion; I was ready to take the first
step toward being another safe and
happy motorist on our nation’s
highways, just like every other six-
teen year old. I assumed that as my
penance for waiting so long, I
would have to endure five hours of
sitting among a group of the afore-
mentioned sixteen year olds who
would think I was either A) retard-
ed B) a repeat DWI offender or C)
really cool and lost my license for
speeding too much, But upon enter-
ing the Driving School, I counte-
nanced a group so varied, the likes
of which has never been assembled
save in movies where a ragtag but
stalwart bunch overcomes the odds
to win the championship/pass the
final/save the town from alien
invasion/save the town from corpo-
rate invasion, etc. This was the Bad
News Bears of driving education.

Now you may be thinking, was it
just like the movies? Did it happen
in those short...yet intense...yet ten-
der five hours we all banded
together, shared some of our deep-
est secrets with strangers who
would become our best friends dnd
all went forth into the world to
become the best (pause to wipe a
tear) drivers in the whole darn
world?

Hell no.

Rather, during these terribly long
five hours, people who obviously
had no one to listen to them in their
private lives shared with a group of
strangers stories and anecdotes
which, though designed to make a

flattering and strikingly interesting
and/or humorous first impression
on said strangers, serve only to
incriminate them as lonely, grabby
boobs. I’m sure you are all familiar
with the breed. They seem to con-
gregate in Vegas, bus stations, or
virtually anywhere free coffee and
donuts are served. (In order to
heighten the “YOU ARE THERE”
quality of this piece, I’ve decided to
incorporate you, the reader, into my
personal driving school hell. When
you see this mark * in the text, fur-
row you brow, open you mouth
slightly, put out your hands like
Christ in DaVinci’s “Last Supper”
and say “Do I care? I mean, do I
really want to know this?” Practice
in the mirror a few times before
reading further. Nope, not
quite... There you go.)

Julie, our driving instructor, was
a shortish, fattish, oldish, generally
nondescript woman. She was wear-
ing black spandex/lycra leggings
which left a vast expanse of flesh
from her knees down exposed.
Looking at her meaty calves, I
thought “these are the things that
vicious dobermans dream of.” I fol-
lowed one of these calves down to a
gnarled foot, barely contained in a
white woven sandal. Her adventur-
ous pinky had slipped out of the
weave and was peeking at me, its
chipped nail polish Iris winking at
me from its daring and triumphant
place outside the weave. Mercifully,
her long shirt covered her buttocks.
I say mercifully because she
dropped her chalk often during the
five hours, and always seemed to be
facing away from me when she bent
over to retrieve it.

I already had seen more of Julie
than I wanted, so I was quite appre-
hensive when the first words out of
her mouth were, “Let me tell you a
little about myself.”* Although her
opening monologue was tame, it
was a bit grandiose concerning her-
self and that noble group of profes-
sionals, Driving School Instructors.
Most interesting, though, was her
laugh, a not unsinister little “Heh,
heh” which sounded strange com-
ing out of such a mild looking per-
son. For the next five hours, hearing
that laugh punctuating her tales of
seat belt decapitations, head-on col-
lisions and school buses full of
Catholic school children caught on
the railroad tracks, I began to
regard Julie warily. Her “Dark and
stormy night” descriptions of apoc-
alyptic car wrecks had a folklorish
component to them, and she
seemed to relish building to a gory,
hot twisted metal, amputee packed
climax. She was — heh, heh — defi-
nitely enjoying herself.

“Anyway, now that you all know
a little about me,” Julie proceeded,
“why don’t we go around the room
and get to know a little bit about
each other. (**!) Tell us your name,
age, and how long you have been
driving.”

Even with these clear instructions,
these set parameters, people began
to elaborate. The very first girl to
speak introduced us to her
boyfriend who had come to keep
her company.* Two girls who
entered together, Lorraine and
Theresa, answered with the help of
one another, and it came to light

that Lorraine had been driving “like
since I was a kid, ‘cause my Dad’s a
truck driver. I can drive stick, too.”*
A fellow with a fabulously hooked
nose told us that he was from
Ireland-in case the accent failed to
clue anyone in-and that it was
much harder to get a license there.

Those who were kind enough not
to elaborate were equally interest-
ing. There was Ramon, who “No
hablo Ingles,” Azam, who didn’t
speak English either, but damned if
he wasn’t giving it the old Baghdad
try, and two fifteen year old girls,
Vanessa and Angela, who had been
driving for five and eight years,
respectively.

Before starting the first of many
videotapes featuring the crash test
dummies, Jules, not wanting any-
one to be ignorant about the physics
of flying through a windshield,
opened up the floor to anyone who
could tell her Newton’s first law of
motion. Lorraine immediately
seized this opportunity to display
her intellect by placing one hand on
her forehead and saying, “I know
this.” She extended her other arm,
palm out, as if to tell everyone else,
“Relax, I got this one.” After a few
seconds, during which her face
grew more and more contorted, she
turned to Theresa and they began a
faltering colloquy best likened to
contestants on the Twenty Thousand
Dollar Pyramid. “It's got something
to do with hydroplaning, right?”
(I'm sorry Lorraine, but we have
some lovely parting gifts for you.)

Seated on my right was Mike, an
extremely fat, round man with a
handle-bar moustache. Mike was
not handling the July heat very
well, evidenced by his sweat
soaked, virtually transparent white
shirt and labored breathing.
Though even talking was aerobical-
ly straining to him in this heat, he
did quite a lot of it. He possessed a
vast knowledge of the driving laws
throughout the United States and
interrupted Jules frequently to point
out the more “interesting” nuances
and subtle differences between our
state and others across the country.*

“Did you know that in New
Orleans (wheeze) it is illegal
(wheeze) to drive during Mardi
(wheeze) Gras without a float per-
mit (wheeze)?”*

The desire to know more and to
say more than everyone else was
contagious. It wasn’t long before
the Irish fellow was interjecting
with information on driving laws
throughout Europe.*

By the second hour, Julie had lost
a good deal of control and patience.
I must say, she brought much of it
on herself by foolishly opening dis-
cussions with questions.

“Can anyone tell me the leading
cause of highway deaths in the
United States?”

“Hydroplaning?”

“No Lorraine,” responded Jules
with her eyes closed, “not
hydroplaning. It’s driving under the
influence of drugs or alcohol.”

“In Oregon, the state immediately
(wheeze) impounds the car and the
(wheeze) person can’t get it back
until (wheeze) he is proven inno-
cent (wheeze).”*

“If you're caught drunk driving

in Italy, you lose you license for
good.”*

“I see, very, um, interesting. Now,
there are three classes of drugs that
we are concerned with: barbitu-
rates, amphetamines and hallucino-
gens. Can anyone give me an exam-
ple of an amphetamine?” (Oh, Julie,
when will you learn?)

Lorraine immediately began a
litany of drugs, furnishing the way-
cool “street names” to make plain
that she was a way—cool street girl.

“Coke, crack, smack, crystal meth,
X...XTC has cocaine in it right?” She
asked this question of Theresa, who
was sitting open—mouthed and
dazed and didn’t look up to a pop
pharmacology quiz at the moment.
Unfortunately, Mike was.

“Actually (wheeze), XTC is a syn-
thetic drug known in medical
(wheeze) circles as M.D.M.A. It
causes random (wheeze) firing of
the neurons to stimulate..........’"*
Still going, and going, and going.

“Mike?” Julie asked weakly after
he had finished his discourse on
M.D.M.A. “What do you do?”

I actually wanted to know this.
Who was this fellow who went
from state to state? Was he a drug
dealer? An assassin whose weapons
were not guns but drugs? Or was it
far less intriguing.

“Ym a Chef (wheeze).”

It was.

Mike the itinerant Chef. Mike the
pharmacy buff. Mike, the man who
could whip up a batch of hash
brownies before you could get The
Wall into the VCR.

We eventually got out of drugs,
but not without Mike telling us
about the percentages of alcohol in
cough syrups and mouth washes.
And the five hours did come toa
close, but not without Lorraine say-
ing “hydroplaning” about ten more
times.

After the class we all lined up to
get our receipts that would allow us
to take our road test. I passed mine,
the first try too, and I am now
another volatile and unhappy
motorist, just like everyone else in
the United States. From the bottom
of my heart, I'd like to say thanks to
Julie, Mike, Lorraine and everyone
else who made my driving educa-
tion so memorable. From the bot-
tom of my heart, I’d like to say that
I hope I never see any of those
wackos again.

POST SCRIPT

I didn’t think it was right to
include anything about the smartest
man I have met in recent memory
alongside Lorraine. And although
this piece is fueled by a universal
disdain for everyone present at the
time, I must give credit where credit
is due.

I was on line behind Ramon to get
my receipt from Julie. Upon receiv-
ing his, he uttered a sincere “gra-
cias” and walked out of the build-
ing. I was close behind him on my
way out and we were walking in
the same direction across the park-
ing lot towards two cars, one of
which being Greg’s. Upon entering
the car that was waiting for him, I
clearly heard him say to the woman
driving, “Hi, honey, how are you
doing?” in perfect Ingles.

4

Song of the

5a Aspects

Lifelike by Adam Meyer

My wife, who died six years ago, is sitting in a
living room chair, staring at the vid-screen.
Allison watches a lot of vid, now that she’s dead.
I don’t know if she understands any of what she
sees, but she seems to like the color, the move-
ment, the false life of the images. A young girl
appears in three-dimensions on the monitor
before her, who with her dirty blond hair and
chocolate brown eyes looks a bit like our daugh-
ter had as a child. Allison smiles, reaching out
toward the illusion as if she could touch it.

I lift a small device from the coffee table, touch
a button, and the vid-screen goes blank. Allison
keeps staring, waiting for the picture to reap-
pear. Disappointed, she finally stands, looks
blankly at me, and heads toward the back of the
house.

My relationship with Allison has not been
good for a long time now. It started when she
became sick. Simon’s Disease, they called it, after
a famous astronaut who’d died from it at the
turn of the century. The illness affects a person’s
lungs, making it increasingly difficult-and ulti-
mately impossible—for them to breathe. As far as
the doctors knew, it could not be cured.

Allison and I refused to give up hope until the
very end, but ultimately fate was stronger than
faith. The last few weeks were very painful for
her; it was as if someone were strangling her,
but very slowly, relishing the torture she
endured. How could I sleep at night when I
heard the sound of her coughing and gasping
beside me?

I was devastated by my wife’s death. I was
glad that her suffering was over, but the horror
of it was that mine had just begun. I loyed her
very much, but I missed her more. The very
thought of going on without her was almost
unbearable.

The day before the funeral was scheduled, my
daughter, Kara, asked me how badly I wanted
Allison to be alive again.

“What do you mean?” I asked her.

“J mean,” Kara said, “that there’s a way to
bring her back.”

I forced a smile. “I think you've been watching
too many old moyies on the vid.”

“No, I'm serious,” she said, and sounded it.
“There’s a company...they take the skin of

A Dream Within a
Dream

YD awake from my slumber

To a Galvanic shy that koats with thunder
The gephyr through the leaves.
incites my m
a dheam.

which 9 can bi

corpses, remove the organs, and install mechani-
cal parts and stuff. It’s very expensive of course,
and the person isn’t really the same, but...”

“Can they really do that ?”

“Oh sure. A friend of mine, he did it with his
father. Says the old man’s just like he was when
he was alive.”

I considered. “I’m not sure...”

“Look,” Kara said, “I shouldn’t have men-
tioned it. I’m sorry, dad, forget it.”

“No, I'm just thinking. I’d have to get more
information. Do you have the number of the
place?”

“No. But I can get it.”

The entire process took two weeks. A couple
of men in white uniforms unloaded a crate from
the back of an unmarked truck and carried it
into my living room, They opened it. My wife
was inside.

My first reaction was amazement. This was
too good to be true. What technology was capa-
ble of these days astounded me.

Allison’s skin, through chemical treatments,
had been made to appear as vibrant and feel as
soft as it had been before she’d died. She hadn’t
looked this good since she’d become ill. Of
course, under that skin were robotic parts and
microchips, but for a while I was content to fool
myself.

My initial excitement soon turned to distress.
Yes, Allison was with me, physically, but that
was all. I tried to make our life the same as it
was before she died, but couldn't. Regardless of
the fact that Allison was a corpse, I was no less
attracted to her than before; I tried to make love
to her, but her body didn’t respond to mine, and
she seemed utterly baffled by the act of sex.
Conversation was virtually impossible: Allison’s
vocabulary had been reduced to a few meaning-
less grunts, and when I talked to her she didn’t
seem to understand me. I attempted to take her
out for a walk in the park, but she refused to
leave the house. The only thing she liked to do
was sit and stare at the vid-screen. Otherwise
she was content to just slump in a corner and
stare at the ceiling for hours on end.

I sigh and enter the bedroom. Allison is not

~The dream resides in my heart
and of my soul becomes a part

G felt suddendy inside of me
the genesis of fuminosity
With such tenacity tt elevates

“ime to a highen place
: Emaneipated from my tomb

Unto the stars and BHera’s womb

= 9 bopt. mine

there. I find her in the bathroom, looking at the
mirror. She seems fascinated by the reflection of
herself in the glass.

Admiring her beauty, remembering the past, I
wonder how I can be so lonely when the woman
Tlove is here with me.

The answer is simple: this is not her. It is her
shell, her body, but her soul, her mind, the part
of her that is truly her is gone. Forever. Not even
technology can bring that back to me.

My sense of loss soon turns to anger. I can feel
the rage building, feeding upon itself and grow-
ing stronger day after day. Today it is very
strong; I don’t know if I can control it much
longer.

Allison continues to stare at the reverse image
of herself in the mirror. Suddenly I find myself
hating her.

She turns, meets my gaze. In her eyes I see
nothing, an absolute void. I look away. She
heads for the bedroom without blinking.

I follow her into the living room. She’s in the
chair, watching the vid again. I’m furious at her.
I'm this close to losing all self-control.

“Allison?” She doesn’t respond. Even a dog
responds to its own name, I think. “Allison?”

Something inside me snaps, I feel it. I pick up
a glass vase from the coffee table, lift it high over
my head, and bring it crashing down on my
wife's head.

Allison doesn’t make a sound. Her neck jerks
backward from the force of the vase’s impact.
Finally she emits a low squeal.

I close my eyes, afraid to look.

I wonder if I have killed her.

Compelled by curiosity, I open my eyes.

Several small gashes are torn in the once flaw-
less skin of her face. No blood flows. Through
the tears in the flesh, I can see the glint of metal.
Tlaugh. How can I kill her, she’s not even alive!

Our gazes lock for a brief second. I expect to
See pain or confusion or hate, but there is noth-
ing. Right now I would give everything I have
just to glimpse a flicker of emotion.

Allison turns back to the vid-screen, oblivious
to the tears in her face.

I shake my head, sadly, helplessly. I geta
broom from the kitchen and start to Sweep up
the broken pieces of glass from the floor.

Like winged Baryshnibovs
They dance from Polaris to Southern Cross

We joined hands around the sun
The Gods and 9 danced as. one

Surely there i no clear sign
Of what in me may be divine
A deeam, it seems

6a Aspects

March 23, 1993

“Two midnights gone!” sang the evil witch, and
with that, another rehearsal for the Colonial Quad
Production of Into The Woods began.

Robert Tiger

Actually, it's more like two months gone. And
only one month left until April 22, better known as
opening night.

The evening began with Musical Director Gerard
Micera teaching a new piece of music to several
members of the cast. He began by letting each
character sing his/her line one at a time, and then
slowly incorporated them afterwards.

“I find this technique to be the most effective
one,” Micera said. I wasn’t about to argue, as I was
amazed by how quickly and how well the actors

Next were the acting exercises led by Director
Eric Posmantier. According to Micera, the exercises
are designed to get the actors into character, as well
as get them warmed up. “They're building up their
characters,” he said. “They’re becoming their
characters. It gets them loosened up.”

After warmups, the cast did an entire run
through of the first act (no, I’m not gonna tell you
what happens, so relax), They had not rehearsed
this act in approximately three and a half weeks.
Again, I was very impressed with how well the cast
seemed to have learned the “hellish” music.

And now that Micera had taught them a new
song, it was time for Posmantier to block it. “We
usually do the music first, then the blocking,” said
Micera, noting that this worked better for them
than blocking first and then music. “Sometimes we
do only music for big numbers, but we never do

Behind ‘The Woods

only blocking,” he added.

This part was the last in Act I to be learned. At
one point during this time, in sheer frustration,
Posmantier yelled out, “Sondheim screwed up!”

“He says that every time something goes wrong
in the play,” Micera explained. “It’s like saying
“Beethoven screwed up.’”

While the show is coming along very nicely, it is
still, as expected, not there yet. “There's still tons of
fine tuning to do,” Posmantier said. “This was a
low energy night. It needs to move about 25
percent faster.” He also added that Act II still
needed to be finished up.

Nevertheless, with four weeks to go, Posmantier
believes they'll be ready. “They're a good group.
They concentrate and come to work every night.
It’s scary to think what this show will look like a
few weeks from now.”

seemed to pick up the most difficult tune.

oe Music Reviews

On Thursday night The Shmooz gave it up and turned it loose on a crowd
down at Bailey’s Pub on Madison. It was a great time, as the five members of
The Shmooz worked it tight and hard all night, spilling intricate jazz onto
funk, and even further into some serious rock. But, if you’ve seen the Shmooz

’ before, youre not surprised, since they’ve been shooting funk into the veins of
Albany for some months now. The question is, where have they been, and
what have they been doing?

Sheel Sawhney

The Shmooz has been working on a demo in New York City, and just
finished re-mixing it some weeks ago. They crafted three of their better songs
“skillfully, and put them together, in hopes of getting some real dates. Well, it
seems as if The Shmooz are getting what they want. Oscar Bautista, one of the
band’s two guitarists adds that they are hoping to replant this band in the city
when they all graduate at the end of the year. Believe it or not, it looks good
for the guys. “We'll let our music do the talking for us,” states Rob, their other
guitarist. “That's what really matters.” Rob was not kidding either, since the

The Shmooz Wants to Funk You Up

sweet rhetoric of their music reverberated through Bailey’s all night.

Rob and Bautista intertwined their heavy guitar sound with some elaborate
jazz introductions and bridges, backed up by Brian on bass. Alex is the other
half of the band’s rhythm section, who accompanies Brian’s hard funk sound
with some tight drumming. For example, one of their songs, “Cheshire Cat
Smile,” begins with some Steely Dan type soft guitar, which sounds very
refreshing in these “thrash” metal days. But as soon as you're eased by the
intro, the song quickly erupts into frightening rock and roll. The sound is
completed when the band’s vocalist, Kurt, starts wailing away behind his
mike. The five members of The Shmooz become as one, spinning the crowd
into frenzy, but really just having some fun, in this otherwise “crap college.”

The Shmooz does only original material, but did grace the audience with
some of their favorite covers on Thursday, including some James Brown, and
some Frank Zappa. There are so many different influences in the band itself,
it’s a wonder they aren’t all jumbled in their music, but as you can see for
yourself, the music is what makes The Shmooz a good time. They will be
playing again soon at Pauly’s Hotel on April 21st, and have already landed
themselves some air time here, and in Saratoga, which they hope to attack
soon as well.

Enuff Z Nuff
Animals With Human Intelligence
Arista Records

God damn, I’d love to see these wastes of
humanity featured ih a Znuff film. Unbelievably,
this is the third album put out by these tuneless
cretins. Whoever thought that a band that mixes
cheesy glam metal with cheesy 60’s hippie-dippy
bullshit would survive three albums? It’s like a
Siamese crack baby growing up to be President.

You gotta give these guys credit, though. A few
years ago they were featured on a Howard Stern
Bikini n’ Babes TV Special. Hmmmm.

This mutant ear-turd was helped by the
producer of such great non-talents as Cheap Trick
and the Cult, and mixed by the same devil that
takes care of such popular trivia like Def Leppard
and Bryan Adams. The liner notes to this album
should say, “Warning: May cause involuntary

puking in those with taste,” or at least thank Spinal
Tap for spiritual guidance. Animals With Human
Intelligence? More like Humans With No
Intelligence.

If you like these guys, please think again. You've
made a mistake.

L.A. Style
James Brown Is Dead
Arista

I can see how techno ‘band’ LA Style could feel
that James Brown is dead. L.A. Style has absolutely
no soul whatsoever. The title track is an
international hit that’s being played in all the clubs
that follow trends more than what is good. All the
music on the album is high intensity synthesized
dance music that sounds like it was programmed
for a Cindy Crawford aerobic workout commercial.

Sure, it may sound pumping and ees ina
club, but it sounds ridiculous in a person’s room
with a stereo with normal wattage. Maybe I should
have taken some drugs before listening. The PMRC
should sticker this biscuit “Warning: If you are not
stoned out of your mind, this album will sound
like dogshit.”

If you are a techno fan, you'll probably find this
disc a treasure-trove. Then again, by Rave
standards, this music is about as old as the crust in
your grandma’s underwear, and if you were to
think this is the ‘latest’ in techno, you'd look like
an ignorant doo-doo head.

If you‘re a James Brown fan like me, then you
already know that JB will still be the Godfather
long after these bratty techno-slobs and their
trendy pap long disappear.

— Noah Wildman.

Sting
Ten Summoner's Tales
A&M Records

Sting’s latest album moves away from the soulful
t introspection of his last album (or his attempt at it) and
if back to a more upbeat album. Much like....Nothing Like
the Sun, this album contains songs that range from a
pseudo-jazz sound to a few ballads.

The album ppens with the first single “If I Ever Lose
My Faith,” a song that is as close as Sting is going to get
to Police music. From there, he offers a few light hearted
songs, including “Love Is Stronger Than Justice” and
“Seven Days.” The remainder of the album is pretty laid
back, including the ballad “Fields of Gold.”

Unlike Sting’s last album, which seemed to
concentrate less on the music and more on the message,

this album does not really explore much at all. Several
songs sound eerily like older ones. “Heavy Cloud No
Rain” sounds like it could have been right off an earlier
album. This is not to say there is nothing new on the
album. The co-written Clapton/Sting song “It’s
Probably Me” is good and the epilogue,
“Nothing ‘Bout Me,” also offers something
new. What that is, I’m not saying. i
But Ten Summoner’s Tales does rely on old
tricks and material. “Saint Augustine in

(reminding me of Andy Summer’s s “Sally”)
and the last lines of “Seven Days” are
something Police fans will be sure to
recognize.

Sting’s fourth album is a solid piece of

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‘March 23, 1993

Nice Guys Finisn Part | by Timothy Coleman

She’s late, Neil
Goodman told himself. If
there was one thing Karlin
could be counted on for, it
was her promptness. This
was no longer the case.

Neil twitched his bony

neck to the antique
grandfather’s clock hiding
behind the dining room-
long salad bar, in the
middle of Floyd’s Place.
Karlin La Pierre was
already thirteen minutes
late. He removed today’s
New York Times from his
weathered briefcase and
pretended to read through
his mean stare. His
passion for this special day
was quickly dissipating.

A comforting breeze of
outside air blew against
Neil’s dimpled chin. He
shot up and saw her
walking hurriedly to his
padded booth. Her hands
rose palm-out to him.

“I know. I’m late, and I
apologize,“ she burst. A
sigh exhaled, sending the
bangs of her rose-colored
hair dancing at the ceiling.

“Oh, don’t worry. I
didn’t even realize. I’m just
sitting here reading the
paper. Sit, sit.” A fresh
smile curved between his
plump lips. “I bet you’re
hungry.”

“No,” she said, picking
her fingers at her purse.
“Um, are you hungry,
Neil?”

“Who me? Not a? all.
Nope,” he replied, “But
how ‘bout some wine?” He
scratched his leg as his
stomach grumbled. Please,
please, find something to
connect with her, he
coached.

“Nah. I could go for
some ice water.”

“Sounds good.” Neil
motioned to the brunette
behind the bar, who put
out her cigarette and filled
two beer glasses with her
gun-like water tap. The
barmaid brought the two
drinks over and returned
to light a new smoke.

Immediately, Karlin
dove into ‘her water,
draining about a third of
the contents in a quick sip.
“There’s somethi—”

“T’ve heen meaning—”
Neil interrupted.

Both of them stared at

one another and laughed.
“You first,” she insisted.
“No you.”
“All right.” She paused,
taking a second mouthful,
“There’s

something I
wanted to tell you...”
“’'m
added,
“Well, you know that

y I’ve been seeing for

listening,

rinning.

about three weeks?”

“No. You  haven’t

good-for-nothing bitch.
“Listen, Neil, I’ve got to
get back to work. I’m
already late. I had lunch
with Pat at the Shepherd’s
Inn. I'll give you a call
She kissed
him on the forehead and

soon, okay?”

rushed out the door, the
comforting
following, escorting her to

breeze

the street.
Somehow his body rose

slouched in his soothing
leather chair, some scant
feet from a hearty fire. He
watched it
occasionally turning back

burn,

to the television set. A

the past hour and a half.

His eyes wandered about
the amber rafters twenty
feet above his head.

‘I knew you d find somebody,
Karly. And before you reached
thirty.” Bitch. You deceptive, take-
me-for-granted, scheming, good-
for-nothing bitch.

introduced him to me,
Karly. Besides, hasn’t it
been more like five weeks?”

“No. Um, Neil-I’m
kinda nervous—so bear
with me, will ya?”

“I’m bearing, I’m
bearing. What is it?”

“Neil. He wants to
marry me, Neil.” She
picked up her glass of
water, stealthily waiting
and watching for her old
friend’s reaction.

This cannot be. It simply
will not do. Here I am, he
seethed, considering myself
to be this beautiful
woman’s so-called best
friend—and I’m being put
on ice. A fucking stiff.
The breakfasts, the
lunches, the dinners.
Driving to some hole at
“four in the morning that’s
open so they could get
coffee. The wonderfully
elongated conversation
about everything, under
and above the sun and
beyond. How could she
possess such black venom
in her cold heart?

“I’m happy for you.”

“Oh, Neil,” she -cried,
joyous tears running down
her chéeks to embrace her
smiling lips. She jumped
out from behind her side
of the table to hug him.

“I knew you'd find
somebody, Karly. And
before you reached thirty.”
Bitch. You deceptive, take-
me-for-granted, scheming,

from the booth, feeling the
pins-and-needles sensation
of a neglected limb that
had fallen asleep. The
untouched glass of water
remained in his hand. It
began to shake steadily,
quietly. A drop escaped
and splashed the red-and-
white checkered table, just
before Neil set it down.
The path to the men’s
room appeared hazy, but
he plodded toward it, if
only from memory.

Clammily, he set foot on
the speck-studded white
tile of the bathroom floor.
The reflection in the
mirror seemed a mere ghost
of his former self. At
twenty-nine years, his
graying hair didn’t help. In
fact, no feature of his face
or figure gave him a
smidgen of security: the
half-inch deep dimple in
his chin, the heavily inset
eyes, the fat Mick Jagger
lips, the crinkled forehead,
the generally skeletal look
of his frame. He retreated
to a stall.

“How, how? .Especially
on this day,” he muttered,
unsure if his thoughts had
even made the leap to
become words. As carefully
as he could, he took out
the velvet case, opened it
and held the engagement
ring. He let it drop,
causing a small ripple in
the toilet water.

About a week later, Neil

What did all of this shit
mean anyway? His fine
oak chairs sitting lonely in
his modernized kitchen;
his gray Audi beneath the
shadows of the night
outside; the in-ground pool
reaching a dead calm in
the backyard—and
everything else, too. None
of it had any significance,
he gathered, unless it
could be shared. The
neighborhood kids used to
drop by in the past
summers for a swim,
maybe a little barbecue.
Now most of them were
well into high school, and
it was no longer “cool” to
be around anybody outside
a two or three year radius.

Sipping, allowing the
sweet brandy time to fire
up a path between his
mouth and throat, he lay
back in the chair. The
cushioned foot-rest snapped
up to catch the dangling
slippers. Age, Neil
reasoned, really should not
have much bearing on
these issues, He was only
twenty-nine. Also,
everybody loved him down
at Sheel & Sawnwells, the
real estate office where he
had worked the past seven
years. Not only had he sold
some wealthy property
down in Westchester and
up in Hyde Park, but the
people of Croton knew him
well, as he was born and
bred in the small town.

Neil had effectively
garnered most of the leads,
both inside and outside
Croton. Possibly the people
in the office just wore

pretty ma whenever

they needed him. Come to

think of it, none of them
1 interested
in his personal life. Maybe
that was the case because

had really

of Karlin.

He drank his brandy.

Of course it wasn’t the
co-workers, secretaries,
and district
manager of the firm. It
was undoubtedly Karlin
and her ever-present smile,
the dark-red mane atop her
cherubic head, the
preciously imperfect nose
with it pronounced arch—a
small but important detail
which, if corrected, could
have made her some empty
girl-next-door beauty
queen, but actually
accentuated her marvelous
disposition... Karlin was
everything. Laughs,
smarts, empathy and
overall appeal. The woman
even cried well: a gentle
sniffling sound bathed in
dew.

Neil gulped some of the
snifter. A harsh excess of
the liquor torched his
tongue. He gargled a bit to
ease the flow down his
esophagus. But his further
intoxication made the
gargling both choke him
and drizzle out of him. He
sprung up, swallowing,
forcing the brandy down.
For a moment it cut his air
short, but soon the path
was clear. He floated
back, putting the drink on
the fluffy white carpet.

“Hu-huh,” he yelped. His
fingers clutched the lock of
skin between his eyes. He
sneezed and _ cried
repeatedly, quickly and
dryly. If Karlin was a good
crier, Neil was not. He
made the “Hu-huh”
sounds in a stop-and-go

manager

manner. No tears came, °

but the irritating sneezes
and severe pain above his
nose sufficed for weeping.
And the same blurting
noises, “Hu-huh, hu-huh,”
over and over like a series
of nervous chuckles.

To be continued next week

LETTERS —

Camp Out For A Cure

To the Editor:

In my two years at Albany I have noticed a definite
lack of unity amongst the entire community. It seems
that this detachment from one another can not continue
when the social struggles of the world continually
increase and become directly relevant to more and more
of our population. It is never too soon to decide to work
together for the causes that we are called upon to
confront daily. I have seen great philanthropic efforts by
many of the organizations on campus but it seems that
everyone simply does their own thing and worries little
about other initiatives being taken. It is my belief that if
we join together we can do a great deal for the betterment
of our campus and community. This is why I’ve initiated
a “Camp Out For A Cure,” with the support of the
Presidential Honor Society and Phi Alpha Delta Pre-
Law Fraternity. This twelve hour event will benefit the
Pediatric AIDS Ward at Albany Medical Center. I chose
to concentrate my energies on this epidemic because it
effects us all in that it does not discriminate against our
campus, our communities, nor our future. I’ve elected to
have the money going toward these babies to signify that
we will not pass on this disease for the next generations
to take care of; rather we will recognize our
responsibility to find a cure ASAP. The success of the
event will necessarily depend on us, as students, to
understand that it is time to take hold of our futures and
not let apathy become the incurable disease that prevents

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us from having healthy lives.

There will be food, DJ’s, volleyball, a campfire and a
candlelight vigil sponsored by campus groups along with
educational information and other surprises from the
health center and Middle Earth. Thanks for your
anticipated involvement! Sponsor sheets will be available
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Myths of Civilization

To the Editor:

There has to be a better way to dispel a myth than to
replace it with another one. It is of course true that not all
ancestors of today’s African-Americans were
“primitives,” Songhay was but one of several sub-
Saharan civilizations. But some of Norreida Reyes’
remarks are wrong, even ridiculous, and racist to boot.

At no time was the Songhay Empire “larger than
Europe” (Europe is about 3 million square miles), nor
was it even the largest in Africa (Kanem-Bornu was
larger). Ms. Reyes compares this kingdom favorably to
what she erroneously takes to be its contemporary, the
Pilgrims of “primitive Plymouth Rock.” She refers to
Askia Mohammed of Songhay as the contemporary of
the Pilgrims, but he reigned from 1493 to 1528; the
Pilgrims landed in 1620. She says the empire fell in the
17th century, whereas its rapid decline in fact dates from
the Moroccan invasion of 1591, which was in the 16th
century

Ms. Reyes is, at best, confusing in attempting to
explain the decline of these godlike beings. She suggests
they were “unprepared for the righteous trumpets of the
Islamic and Christian religions.” Perhaps she thinks their
downfall was brought about by trumpeting, as Gideon’s
trumpet brought down the walls of Jericho. But historians
attribute the Moroccan victory to their muskets, not their
trumpets. They would not have been Christian trumpets
anyway, in the unlikely event the invaders played on any.
Even Ms. Reyes must have noticed she was contradicting
herself when she hailed Songhay as a brilliant Islamic
civilization, then blamed its downfall on “the wrath of
gods that were not there own.” For some Songhay,
especially the urban elite, Allah was their own god.

One does not have to know even these few
fragmentary facts about Songhay, easily obtained by a
few minutes in the library, to notice that Reyes must be
babbling bullshit. “People from all over the world,” she
says, travelled to Timbuktu. Really? From Japan? From
North America? From Australia? From Switzerland?
Not! Does anybody think Reyes could possibly know
that the “huge libraries” of this city helped make it an
“intellectual paradise,” that it produced “many brilliant
authors?” Can Reyes name even one of these brilliant
authors? Does she know how many libraries there were
and how many books they contained?

Although she claims to have derived much of her essay
from it, to me it looks like the only thing she got out of
Bennett's “Before the Mayflower” is that the title moved
her to compare the Pilgrims to the Songhay Empire.
Bennett, who is a serious black scholar, not a Leonard
Jeffries, wouldn’t do any such thing. It’s pointless.
Naturally the several hundred Pilgrims, scrambling to
survive in an unfamiliar land, weren’t walking around
“heavily jewelled with golg,” they set up no library, no
university, etc. For a proper comparison (which is still
unfair to the Pilgrims), compare their colony to any
randomly selected square block of Arbor Hill or
Harlem—it would be more populous than their colony
started out to be—and see if it contains any libraries,
schools, etc. It probably won’t. But should it? That block
is part of a larger society which does have these
amenities. Plymouth was likewise part of a
society—English society—which enjoyed these
amenities.

Very few people in Songhay or anywhere else, past or
present, walk around heavily jewelled with gold, except
pimps. I fail to see why Reyes, in denigrating the
primitive and exalting the civilized, is doing American
blacks or anybody else a favor. There is much to be said
for primitivism and much to be said against civilization. I
don’t regard government (especially a despotic
government, as in Songhay), organized religion, a class
system (especially in its worst form, important in
Songhay but not Plymouth: slavery), war and
imperialism as any improvement on primitivism.

I was taken aback by Reyes with her ignorant racist
abuse of the people she calls “hillbillies.” Can she be
unaware that “hillbilly” is the same sort of racial epithet

as “nigger” or “spic” or
“kike” or “wetback?”

Anyway, “hillbillies” are not “primitives” in Reyes’
sense of the word. The rural population of the mountain
areas of the American South has always been part, if
hardly an exalted part, of civilization, not a tribal or band
society. They should be compared to their counterparts in
Songhay—the illiterate, non-Muslim peasants whose
taxes financed the Muslim urban elite—not to our
Rockefellers or their Askia Muhammeds.

“Many Africans,” fantasizes Reyes, “who arrived in
America were noblemen, merchants and priests.” Tell me
another one. There has never existed a society where
these elements formed any large part of the population.
The blacks who were sold to Europeans by other blacks
were mostly prisoners of war or condemned criminals.
These “proud men,” she assures us, thought “beautiful
thoughts.” Could Ms. Reyes recount to us, please, two or
three of their beautiful thoughts? Just one maybe?

There is nothing shameful about descent from
primitives. Go back just a few thousand years of the
million or more of human existence and you will find
that we are all the descendents of primitives, i.e. of pre-
industrial, pre-agricultural peoples, hunter-gatherers, who
were without government and class systems. Civilization
arose late—and later in Africa than elsewhere—and is
not self-evidently an improvement. “Dispelling the
Primitive Myth” is, no doubt, worth doing. spelling the
civilization myth is much more important for it is a far
more widespread delusion.

“wop” or “wog” or “redneck” or

Asians Speak Out

To the Editor:

There is a huge problem happening among us at
SUNY-Albany. Asians here and elsewhere are getting
the reputation of being PASSIVE and APATHETIC.
And coming from a school that’s been known as
“SUNY-Apathy,” that’s a bad reputation to have. It is
widely assumed (wrongly, I hope) that Asian Americans
are, as a group, the least threatening and visible of people
of color in America. And I mean non-threatening as in
the group least likely to speak up whenever an injustice
is committed against them, the type of people who ignore
all the prejudice committed against themselves and
against ALL OTHER oppressed peoples out there. As
such, Asians are the least likely to be allies or
beneficiaries of politicians. And as we are viewed as a
“model minority,” we are LESS likely to get financial aid
and MORE likely to be discriminated against with
affirmative action programs. In short, we can be
penalized for being Asians! In fact, we're not even listed
under “minority” by SUNYA classification though
we're one of the smallest groups on campus! And if you
look at the scholarships being offered, not ONE is
offered to Asian Americans as a category. It is perceived
that Asians are less “needy” than other groups. That, of
course, is false. Remember, we’re viewed as a “model
minority” because of BOTH our perceived “superiority”
in math and sciences (but NOT other fields) AND our
“passiveness” in college and national affairs. As a result,
this has led to the SEPARATION of Asian Americans
from both the majority and minority groups in this
nation, both of which distrust and envy us as shown by
the burning of Koreatown in 1992 and the death of a
Vietnamese student at a party in Florida. This has got to
stop! Asians, like all other groups that face
discrimination in the U.S. have got to unite and speak out
against any act of violence and racism directed against
us. We’re a small group at SUNYA, so technically
speaking, how hard should it be to get us all together?
But that doesn’t happen. You hear about groups like
ASUBA and NWROC always speaking out against
racism on and off campus, but how often is the voice of
CSA heard, or KSA, or just about ANY Asian on
campus, for that matter. And why are the few of us who
DO speak .out always appear to be the exception rather
than the norm? SURELY there CAN’T be any truth to
the stereotype of Asians being apathetic and passive, is
there? I’m sure that most of us feel such stereotypes are
wrong, and if we do, why don’t we go out there and
DISPROVE it in as loud a way as possible. And the
ONLY way we can do that is to get together, know each
other better, air out our grievances, speak of our
problems, and not be afraid of taking a stand. We need a
REVIVAL, if I may say so. An awakening in thought,
behavior, and ACTION. It has NO need to be violent
(only a fool could think we could win), but it must be

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Orlando 30 33 476 15 i si Washington 36 28 7 79
Miami 29 34 .460 16 New Jerse 35 31 6 76
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Cleveland 41 24 631 4 x-Montreal 44 23 6 94
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Indiana 32 32 500 125 || Women's Skidmore Smith x-Sabres 34 27 10 78
Detroit 29 35 453 15.5 |ILacrosse 1 p.m. Hartford 21°44 5 47
Milwaukee 25-40 385 20 2 p.m. Ottawa 9 58 4 22
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Houston 42 23 646 - WoL T Pts
SanAntonio 40 23 635 1 Chicago 40 23 10 90
Utah 37 28 569 5
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Miami at Orlando 7:30 p.m. Johnson, Char 64 1438 22.5 | Hershey 23 38 10 56 | Sakic, Que 45 47 92 | Islanders at Detroit, 7:40 p.m.
Houston at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m. Hardaway, G.S. 58 1233 21.3 Hamilton = 23 _39 6 52 Janney, StL 18 73 91 | Quebec at Washington, 7:40 p.m.
Dallas at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Miller, Ind 63 1333 21.2 Atlantic Division Stevens, Pitt 48 42 90 | Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 7:40 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Lewis, Bos 59 1206 20.4 | x-St. John's 87 22 12 86 | Sundin, Que 36 54 90 | San Jose at Pittsburgh, 7:40 p.m.
Denver at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. Daugherty, Clev 53 081 20.4 | Fredericton 35 26 11 81 | Juneau, Bos 27 63 90 _| Toronto at Winnipeg, 8:40 p.m.
San Antonio at Cleveland, 8 p.m. Hawkins, Phil 58 1174 20.2 | Cape Breton 32 27 10 74 | Trivia Question: In what year did|
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closest contested ones in quite some time.

Here is who I believe will win each
division, pennant and the World Series:

NL East: New York Mets — This
division is up for grabs; it is by far the
weakest of the four. Whoever wants it can
have it, and no team has more to prove
than New York after an abysmal 1992
campaign.

Montreal should provide a healthy
challenge for the Mets and could even win
it if the Mets suffer from the same injury
plague that decimated them a year ago.

NL West: Atlanta Braves — This
divisional race will probably be.a lot
closer than many people think, with
Cincinnati making some big time moves to
improve their team.

However, the Reds simply don’t have
the horses to overtake that dominating
starting foursome of Glavine, Maddux,
Avery and Smoltz. Only one team in
baseball history had four 20-game winners
in one year — the 1993 Braves may be the
second.

AL East: Baltimore Orioles - Every
year, one team seems to surprise everyone
and win the division, and this year it’ll be
the O's.

They have the best pitching in the
division headed by Ben McDonald and
Mike Mussina. They will probably get
overtaken by Toronto if Glenn Davis
doesn’t return to, or at least approach, his
All-Star days in Houston.

AL West: Kansas City Royals - Did the
most in the off-season to improve their
team, adding three All-Stars to their roster.
Oakland will fade away as Dennis
Eckersley’s save opportunities diminish.

Look for the Chicago White Sox to
make a big challenge if they get any kind

of pitching whatsoever beyond Jack
McDowell.

NL Pennant: Atlanta — If 90% of
baseball is truly pitching, then this team
should win 90% of their games this
season.

AL Pennant: Kansas City - The AL’s
best has come from the West in six of the
last seven years. Make it seven out of
eight.

World Series: Atlanta — No way this
team pulls the baseball version of the
Buffalo Bills. No excuse for the Braves
not to win it all this year.

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because they made the NFC title game last
season and the league’s final four can’t
compete in free agency.

Policy said the way things are going, his
team could be about $15 million over the
salary cap of between $31 million and $34
million that will probably take effect next
year. The cap is effective if player
revenues reach 67 percent of league gross
revenues.

The Niners are now in the position of
having to match an offer of $7.5 million
over three years to defensive end Pierce
Holt. “We have to study it,” said Policy,
who has until Wednesday to decide.

“One of the problems is the salary cap.”

During its meeting, the owners agreed
that next year’s schedule will cover 16
games in 18 weeks, with the regular
season ending on Jan. 2, 1994.

There will be just a one-week break
between the league title games and the
Super Bowl, which will be played in
Atlanta on Jan. 30th.

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Albany hockey ends season on a good note

By Hat Moss
Staff Writer

The Albany hockey club ended the season on a roll,
defeating Fordham, 13-5, in New York City.

After trailing 2-0 after the opening period, the Great
Danes dominated the rest of the game.

Leading scorer Dave Tuchman scored seven goals to
teach the 50-goal mark for the season. Freshman goalie
Adam Warshowsky was the beneficiary of an
outstanding all-around effort by his team. He started for
injured starter Brad Topper.

Albany pulled away late in the second period. Leading
5-3, Tim Fox scored to stretch the lead to 6-3. After
Tuchman won the faceoff back to Ryan McDonald,
McDonald faked the slapshot and made a perfect pass to
a wide open Fox who, after skating around the
defenseman, put it in the open net.

Albany’s six consecutive goals stretched their lead to
10-3, Senior Bill Geary scored his first goal of the night
in his last game at Albany. Geary picked up a loose puck,
after Fox warded off the defenseman, beating the goalie
between the pads on a wristshot to give Albany a 12-4
lead in the third period.

Tuchman scored three in the second period and four in
the third period. After scoring two goals in his first two
shifts of the third period, he knew it was within reach.

Tuchman scored his 50th goal of the season (7th of the
game) with six minutes to go in the third period. He
scored 28 goals last season.

“I was shooting with much confidence, it was a matter
of time,” Tuchman said.

The team played outstanding in the finale, offensively
and defensively. The season was filled with many highs

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Albany skated to eight victories this season.

and lows as they finished with an 8-12-1 record.

Albany started off the season really strong, defeating
Hofstra 7-5 at the Nassau Coliseum. It was starting
goalie Brad Topper’s first collegiate game.

The team then went on a tough stretch, losing seven in
a row. The low points were losing 12-4 to C.W. Post and
8-2 to Siena College, both at home in the first two weeks
of November, They then lost 11-1 the next week at home
to Stony Brook State.

Albany pulled out of the dry spell, tying a tough Siena
team, 4-4, on December Sth. On December 9th, Albany
destroyed New Paltz State, 8-3, at the Mid-Hudson

Baseball ‘93 — An overview

Arena.

The Danes finished 5-5-0 in the second half of the
season after compiling a 3-7-1 record in the first half.
Their season was a “Jeckyl and Hyde” season, according
to Tuchman. After losing to Syracuse 12-4 in the first
half, Albany beat them 7-4 in the second half.

Tuchman and McDonald were selected to play in the
Metro League All-Star game on April 3rd (Division TH).

Senior captain Phil Merges will be leaving the team
after the season. He is a great skater and a hard-working
defensive-minded forward.

“I wish we had 20 Phils on our team due to his
tenacious play,” Tuchman said.

Drew Clark was known for his “great shot.” Ben
Domingo was the clown on the team, keeping the team
loose through the tough times. Goalies Brad Topper and
Adam Warshowsky were both excellent, facing an
average of over 50 shots per game.

Clark, Geary and Domingo will be graduating along
with Merges. Next year McDonald, Chuck Weber and
Fox will all be returning for next season.

“The team meshed well in the second half, the players
became accustomed to each others different styles,”
Tuchman said.

Albany played in the Empire Division, the best
division. Power teams like Marist and Siena set the tone.

The team is anticipating next season with much
optimism. More depth and many returning players are
some of the reasons.

“Next season I hope we play with consistency — on
team level and individual basis, We have one of the
league’s best goalies (Topper),” Tuchman said.

agency as trades abound

By Dave GOLDBERG

Palm Desert, California
(AP) Phoenix finally is getting its
Super Bowl.

Five years after the Cardinals
moved to Arizona and two years after
NFL owners took its ultimate game
away from the state, they will yote to
give it back. The reason: a decision’
by Arizona voters last November to
institute a holiday to celebrate Martin
Luther King’s birthday.

Phoenix originally was scheduled
to be host of last January’s Super
Bowl. But two years ago, the owners
took it away after the state’s voters
turned down the holiday, with the
provision Phoenix would get the 1996
game if voters approved a holiday.

Next year’s game will be in Atlanta
and the following year it will be in
Miami. Then will come Phoenix —
there is no opposition and by May,
the owners may have sites for the
game through the end of the century.

The meetings started Sunday — very
slowly, with a power failure holding
things up for half an hour.

And while the owners got an
overview of the week’s activity, that
wasn’t the major topic of discussion.
Instead, almost everyone was talking
about the first month of free agency
in the NFL, with the widespread
conclusion that it will set up a wide
disparity between rich players and
poor ones.

“There are going to be a lot of
millionaires, a few guys in the middle
and a lot of spear carriers,” said Art
Modell, owner of the Cleveland
Browns.

Modell already has made a
millionaire of one of the many
non-stars who have commanded big
bucks in the first month of NFL free
agency. He signed defensive back
Najee Mustafaa (the former Reggie
Rutland) for $3.6 million over three
years, although Mustafaa missed last
season with Minnesota with a knee
injury.

Others who have signed big
contracts include Jumpy Geathers,
now with Atlanta; Bryan Habib, now
with Denver; and Ferrell Edmunds,
signed by Seattle. Linebacker Carlton
Bailey is the latest — he signed for
$5.1 million over three years with the
New York Giants, an average greater
than the $1.6 million Lawrence
Taylor made last season.

“We needed a linebacker and there
were two linebackers people wanted,”
said George Young, general manager
of the Giants. “He was one of the two
and we had to pay the going price for
him. If that means that other people
who deserve more will get less, that’s
the way the system works.”

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sick,” said Carmen Policy, president
of the San Francisco 49ers, who can’t
sign a free agent unless they lose one

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By Ros TIGER
Aspects Editor

Spring training is once again upon us, and
for the first time ever, 27 teams instead of 25
will try to knock off the defending world
champions, the Toronto Blue Jays. Players
from around the league changed addresses
due to trades, free agency and the expansion
draft.

Here are some of the teams who go into
1993 with an improved squad as a result:

Kansas City: Bolstered their pitching with
signing of ace David Cone, and added pop to
their lineup with Felix Jose. Adding Jose Lind
at second and sending Gregg Jefferies to St.
Louis can’t help but improve their defense,
even if only by accident.

Houston: Doug Drabek and Greg Swindell
put this year’s Astros starting rotation way
ahead of last year’s. Jose Uribe gives them
veteran stability on the infield.

Cincinnati: Kevin Mitchell makes up for
lost offense in Paul O'Neill, and Roberto
Kelly should fill in nicely for the departed
Dave Martinez. Deepened starting rotation
with signing of John Smiley.

Yankees: Made more moves than Madonna
in the Vogue video. Added badly needed
pitching with Jim Abbott and Jimmy Key.
Added left-handed hitting threats in Paul
O'Neill and Wade Boggs. Spike Owen only
adds to infield log jam, and he’s getting way
overpaid. If only he could throw base stealers
out...

Atlanta: Tack on Cy Young Award winner
Greg Maddux to a starting rotation which was
already the best in baseball, and you’ve got a
third straight division title, barring injury.
Believe me, this team could live without

David Nied.

Now for the teams who suffered the most
from off-season wheeling and dealing:

San Francisco: Barry Bonds improves any
team. However, S.F. would have been better
off spending their bucks on pitchers. All the
Giants did was buy themselves $43 million
worth of fifth place in the NL West.

San Diego: Lost Randy Myers, and literally
gift wrapped all-star shortstop Tony
Fernandez to the Mets. Only Colorado's
ineptitude keeps the Padres out of the cellar.

Pittsburgh: Perhaps the closest thing to an
expansion team without actually being one.
Lost Bonds and Drabek to free agency and
simply gave away Jose Lind. No four-peat in
the Steel City in 1993.

Oakland: It could have been much worse
than it turned out to be for the A’s, having 13
free agents at the end of 1992. Nevertheless,
the loss of Dave Stewart and Mike Moore
makes their pitching staff highly questionable.

Chicago Cubs: Don’t tell me Jose Guzman
fills even half the hole left in the rotation by
the defection of Greg Maddux.

There were a select few teams which, for
the most part, remained stagnant during the
winter chills. They are:

Mets: They stole Tony Fernandez from San
Diego, and signed ageless Frank Tanana.
That's it. Met fans are praying that this same
team will not do an encore performance of the
1992 comedy The Flushing Flops: The Worst
Team Ever Bought.

Cleveland: The Tribe’s hoping that their
youth movement led by Carlos Baerga and
Albert Belle will take them to new heights in
1993 — like a winning record.

This year’s four divisional races may be the

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