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NUMBER 1

Semester gets off to a snowy start

By Nick Schneir

A storm which dumped over 16 inches
of snow on the campus gave students an
unexpected holiday Friday.

But the snowfall was anything but a
holiday for those responsible for snow
removal.

Classes were suspended last Thursday at
4:30 p.m. and were cancelled Friday due to
the inclement conditions.

Dennis Stevens, assistant vice president
of the Physical Plant, said that he ‘“‘would
like a breather for five or six days,’’ but
preparations for snow predicted to fall to-
day have already begun.

“Those preparations include vehicle
overhaul, equipment overhaul —
everything from snowblowers to trucks,”’

in addition to getting ready additional sup-.

plies such as salt and repairing small things
such as broken snow shovels, said Stevens.

Stevens said Friday’s snowfall was par-
ticularly bad because there was already
snow on the ground, resulting in ‘taround
22 inches”’ covering the campus.

That was enough to convince University
President Vincent O’Leary to cancel
classes for the day.

According to O’Leary, deciding when to
cancel classes ‘‘is not a science — it’s an
art.”

“There are three basic considerations
that’are taken into account when you make
a decision as to cancelling classes,’’ he
said.

The first consideration is ‘‘the expected
problem that off-campus students and
faculty will experience in trying to get to
the campus,’”’ O’Leary said, adding that
“at some point the [weather] situation gets
so dangerous that people can’t get here.’”

“Our bus system up and down
Washington Avenue, the safety of that bus
system”? was a second consideration, said

Bubble closed after Dec.

By Jennifer McCormick
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The Bubbie collapsed Dec. 19 because of
an unusually heavy and wet snowfall and
remains closed pending repairs.

It has not been determined when the
temporary sports facility will reopen.

A large.amount of snow slid off the top
of the structure onto the north exit door,
breaking the door frame and causing much

Expect an accumulation of 2 to 4 in-
ches thourghout the day continuing into}
the early evening, highs 30 to 35. Over-
night low near 20. Saturday will be}
cloudy with a chance of flurries, highs|
near 30. Fair on Sunday. Monday and|
Tuesday snow likely. Lows near zero.

Beyond the Majority 9}
Classified 4
Digest. 3
Entertainment Listings a
Letters & Opinion. 3
Sports 20-24
The Far Side 8a
Upcoming Events. 2

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DENNIS DEHLER UPS.

Last week’s snowfall made moving cars a more strenuous activity.

O'Leary.

A third consideration was ‘‘campus con-
ditions’’ because there is no sense in hav-
ing classes‘‘if there is no place to park.””

When there is a half-foot or less of
fallen snow, administrators presume
classes will not be suspended and if there is
over a foot, which is rare, it is presumed
classes will be suspended, O’Leary said.

Between eight and twelve inches of
snow, weather conditions and added fac-
tors such as when the snowfall occurs and
how icy it is must also be considered,
O'Leary said.

The University has “a long-standing
snow removal plan and a series of snow.
emergency procedures that are put into ef<
fect -with any snowfall’? that ‘‘relies
primarily on the University’s Grounds

internal damage, according to Assistant
Vice President of the Physical Plant Den-
nis Stevens.

Because the University has not made the
final payment to the contractor, the
building has not yet been officially ‘‘ac-
cepted,’’ said Stevens,

The legal owner is, therefore, still the
contractor, who is responsible for all
financial reparations.

Stevens said the contractor, Air Struc-
tures International, was “‘very prompt
about effecting initial repairs.’’ The com-
pany. arrived the next morning after the
damage occurred to repair the outer lining
enough to reinflate the Bubble.

The Bubble needed to be reinflated im-
mediately to protect the floor from
wetness from the snow and rain, said
Stevens.

Actual damage to the structure occurred
when the door frame broke, said Stevens,
because the tension caused a gash about 60
feet long on both the inner and outer layers
of fabric. Other damages include many
bent or broken light fixtures, a backboard
which tipped over, and damage to the
floor surface.

Although the Bubble is reinflated, it is
completely off limits to all sports-related
activities. Everything has been left as it
was found, after sharp objects, such as
light fixtures, were covered to prevent fur-
ther damage to the Bubble in case it were
to deflate again, Stevens said.

Dennis Elkin, physical education

Department,”’ he said.

The Snow Emergency plan calls for fire
lanes and certain other absolutely
necessary access points such as the
quadrangle docks through which food is
brought to the cafeterias, the infirmary,
Perimeter Road, and certain parking areas
to receive priority in being cleared of
snow, Stevens said.

Assistance in removing snow is received
from the University’s Motor Pool for plow
repairs, the downtown campus operation
on Western Avenue, and the custodial
staff who clear the podium and walkways
on the quads.

An “efficient system of snow removal,
better equipment, and the finest group of
supervisors and employees that we [the

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19 deflation

facilities coordinator, said he was in-
structed to ‘‘keep people out”’ of the Bub-
ble. Stevens explained that for safety
reasons, lack of lighting, and sufficient ex-
its, the facility can not be used at all.

Elkin said the situation is ‘‘a major pro-
blem for many reasons,’’ citing four ac-
tivities adversely affected by the facility’s
closing.

All spring sports had intended on using
the Bubble for practices, the indoor track
team is practicing in the tunnels again, and
the intramural program is out some space.

Elkin explained that it’s not even merely
an issue of reshuffling all the groups back
to their previous times and spaces —
equipment such as the universal gym and
nautilus has been moved and is now occu-
pying different areas that might be in the
way of other athletes.

Other groups are also at a loss, he said.
All Student Association clubs such as
volleyball and karate must be relocated
and some groups have to use the Page Hall
gym on the downtown campus.

The University is now waiting for the
manufacturer to send replacement doors,
frames and light fixtures to the contractor.
Elkin said some special devices may be
needed, such as a Genie lift to lift
repairmen to the top of the Bubble to
repair rips in the fabric.

Although it is unknown when the Bub-
ble will reopen, Stevens said, ‘‘the impetus
here is to get the building back in operating
condition as soon as possible.’’ i)

ES ae SE
Salary debate

stalls search for
new chancellor

By Tom Bergen

STAFF WRITER

The SUNY Board of Trustees said
goodbye to Chancellor Clifton R. Whar-
ton, Jr. Thursday after announcing they)
would suspend their search for his suc-
cessor until the State Legislature gives
them authority to raise the chancellor’s
salary.

At a Wednesday meeting of the!
trustees’ search committee Chairman!
Donald Blinken said that until the
trustees can offer ‘‘a salary that is com-
petitive on the national market’’ they will
not begin interviews for the post.

Wharton will leave his position Satur-
day to take a private-sector job with a
reported salary of $500,000.

SUNY Executive Vice Chancellor
Jerome B. Komisar will take over as ac-
ting chancellor until a permanent suc-
cesor is found.

The SUNY chancellor’s salary is cur-
rently set by state law at $89,250, a figure
which Blinken feels is too low, consider-
ing other public university systems, such
as those in Texas and California, pay
their chancellors more than $150,000 a
year.

A bill that would give the trustees

power to raise the salary passed the State
Senate last year, but was rejected by
former Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink
because it would have also given the
Board of Regents power to set the educa-
tion commissioner’s salary.
This week the Senate Higher Educa-
tion committee passed a similar bill
which is expected to be voted on by the
entire Senate next week.

Geoffrey Taylor, spokesman for the
new Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, said
“the reasoning with Stanley Fink last
year was that the Regents are elected by
the legislature and the commissioner
heads a state agency.’’

Taylor added that although Miller has
taken no position on the bill, ‘‘it is
negotiable.’’

At a farewell party Wednesday night,
the trustees honored Wharton and his
wife by naming a SUNY building at 411
State Street “‘The Clifton and Dolores
Wharton Research Center.”

The building houses the Rockefeller
Institute of Government and other
research offices.

At Thursday’s meeting, the trustees
passed a ‘‘Resolution of Appreciation”
for Wharton, and he responded by
noting that he has been SUNY
‘Chancellor for ‘‘nine years and one day
exactly, and it’s been a great nine years.”
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KIM COTTER UPS
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (] FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987

NEWS BRIEFS

The World $9

Iran ready to bargain

Tehran, Iran
(AP) Parliament Speaker Hashemi Raf=
sanjani said Iran is prepared to work for
the release of American hostages in
Lebanon if Washington shows its good
will, but defended the hostage-takers as
having some justification.

* Rafsanjani said Iran’s main concern is
for the United States to release $507
million in Iranian assets frozen by Presi-
dent Carter after the seizure of the US Em-
bassy in Tehran, and that ‘‘The Americans
must release our assets and when they give
the orders for their release, we are
prepared to help them.”

But the Iranian speaker also offered a
justification for terrorism, saying people
in Lebanon take hostages because they
have no other way of exerting pressure,
unlike Western industrial powers.

“They have to aim their attack at your
airplanes, your embassies or officials,’ he
said. ‘Therefore, do not be oppressive if
you want terrorism to be ended.”” Oo

Police arrest third

San Juan, Puerto Rico
(AP) Police arrested a third suspect Thurs-
day in connection with the New Year’s Eve
fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel that killed
91 people, District Attorney Ismael Betan-
court reported.

Betancourt said Jose Francisco Rivera,
30, was arrested this morning and would
be charged later today with first-degree
murder, arson and malicious damage in
the fire, which also injured 140 people.

A fourth man, Luis Vega Rios, also was
arrested, and Betancourt said he would be
charged with arson in connection with a
small fire set’ Dec. 28 at the hotel.

Earlier this month, Puerto Rican
authorities arrested Hector Escudero
Aponte and Armando Jimenez Rivera and
charged them with murder, arson and
malicious damage in the Dec. 31 blaze. O

The Nation iy

Beirut travel banned

Washington, DC
(AP) The Reagan administration declared
Lebanon off-limits to Americans because
of the threat of kidnappings, and iden-
tified publicly for the first time the radical
group that may be responsible for the re-
cent abductions of foreigners.
Announcing the imposition of passport
restrictions, State Department spokesman
| Charles E. Redman said Wednesday: “The
situation in Lebanon, in West Beirut in
particular, is so chaotic that we do not
believe that any American citizens can be
considered safe from terrorist acts.’”
Violators could face up to five years
in prison, he warned. The estimated 1,500
US citizens in Lebanon will be given 30
days to leave before their US passports
become invalid.

Shuttle remembered

(AP) Schoolchildren fired rockets,
balloons were sent aloft and monuments
were dedicated as the nation set aside time
to remember the seven Challenger
astronauts on the anniversary of their
death.

Seven chimes rang at Marshall Space

Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., which is
in charge of developing the population
systems for the nation’s space efforts. The
accident ‘‘is a black eye you never get
over,’’ said Judson Lovingood, associate
director for propulsion.

Thousands of workers at the nine other
National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration centers on Wednesday also
observed 73 seconds of silence, the length
of Challenger’s final flight, at 11:38 a.m.,
the time the shuttle roared off an icicle-
draped launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

Killed in the space shuttle accident were
Cmdr. Dick Scobee, Pilot Michael Smith,
schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe and crew
members Judy Resnik, Ronald McNair,
Ellsion Onizuka and Greg Jarvis.

Hall’s cover blown

Miami
(AP) Self-styled soldier of fortune Sam
Nesley Hall says he has given up his anti-
communist commando. activities because
his imprisonment by the leftist Nicaraguan
government on spying charges has blown
his cover.

Hall returned Wednesday to the United
States after spending 49 days in a
Nicaraguan jail. Snadinista officials said
they released him because he was mentally
unstable and a suicide risk and then volun-
tarily checked into a Veterans Administra-
tion hospital.

Hall was arrested Dec. 12 in a restricted
military area near the Nicaraguan capital.
Authorities said they found maps and sket-
ches of military targets, crudely drawn on
hotel stationery, stuffed in his socks, and
threatened to try him for espionage.

The FBI and the US State Department
said Wednesday they have no interest in
Hall, and don’t want to question him.

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CIE STROUD UPS:

The State
LIRR strike ends

New York
(AP) The Long Island Rail Road, idled
since Jan. 18 by a strike, will resume ser-
vice Saturday morning and should be near-
ly back to normal for the Monday morning
tush hour after President Reagan signed
an emergency back-to-work law.

The law, passed by Congress Tuesday,
ordered striking LIRR employees back to
work for a 60-day cooling off period. It
directs the National Mediation Board to
recommend a settlement to Congress
March 7, ten days before the cooling off
period ends.

LIRR President Bruce Melver said he
hoped ticket windows would be staffed at
12:01 a.m. Saturday and that trains would
roll shortly thereafter. He said he hoped
for normal Saturday service — ‘‘But-I
can’t make any promises.””

Chrysler ad dropped

New York
(AP) ABC, with a fresh commitment from
two advertisers,says its mini-series
“Amerika” is on track regardless of
economic pressure and loss of Chrysler as
a sponsor, reportedly at a cost of $5
million,

General Foods Corp. and Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Co. said Wednes-
day they were standing by plans to adver-
tise on the 14-hour program that depicts
a Soviet takeover of the United States, ac-
complished with cooperation of an inter-
national peacekeeping force.

Chrysler Corp., the single largest spon-
sor of the week-long miniseries, scheduled
for next month, said Tuesday it would pull
its ads. because it felt the program didn’t
mesh with its commercial theme ‘The
Pride Is Back — Born in America.”

Rally held at capitol

Albany
(AP) The union representing the state’s
white-collar workers rallied at the Capitol
Thrusday against proposed cuts in the
state Department of Labor, arguing that
the cuts would reduce much neededservice
to the unemployed.

New York plans to lay off about 700
workers from the 53,000-member New
York State Public Employees Federation
in March — the result of a $30 million cut
in federal aid to the state.

PEF wants the state to make up the fun-
ding cuts by tapping various state acounts,
including the Unemployment Insurance
Penalty and Interest Fund, which is col-
lected from businesses that don’t pay
unemployment insurance taxes on time.

One effect of the cuts will be the closing
of state unemployment offices in several
upstate communities. Rand Condell,
President of PEF, said that in some cases,
people who receive unemployment checks
will have to drive up to a hundred miles to
pick up their checks.

“That adds humiliation to hardship,”’
he said.

PREVIEW OF EVENTS————_———_.

Free listings

FRIDAY, JAN. 30
Conservative Shabbat Ser-
vices, sponsored by Ometz of
JSC-Hillel, will be held at 6:30
p.m. in CC 370.

SUNDAY, FEB. 1
Dutch Quad Board will meet at
7 p.m. in the Flag Room. All
are welcome.

The Pre-Health Association

presents Sarah Cremer, Head
of Admissions of Albany
Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. in
LC 24. All students interested
in the medical profession are
urged to attend.

Jaci Toffano, Brazilian pianist,
will play music by Villa-Lobos
at 3 p.m. in the PAC Recital
Hall. Admission is free.
Friendship Across Borders,
sponsored by the Women’s In-
ternational Committee, is
hosting a reception for inter-

national and American
students at 3 p.m. in the PAC
lounge.

An evening of poetry, jazz and
fellowship with the editors of
Mildred will be held from 7 to
10 p.m. at the First Unitarian
Society, 1221 Wendell Ave.,
Schenectady.

Class of 89 Class Council
meets at 10 p.m. in the SA
lounge.

Class of 88 Class Council
meets at 9 p.m. in the SA

lounge.

Class of 87 Class Council will
meet. Time and Place are
posted in Campus Center.

i. MONDAY, FEB. 2
University Concert Board
meets at 8 p.m. in CC 375.
Beverly Hills Cop will be
shown at 7 p.m. in Schacht
Fine Arts Center at Russell
Sage’s Troy campus. Admis-
sion is $1.

Senior yearbook sitting sign-
ups for December and May

graduates are underway now
at CC 305. Your picture should
be in your yearbook.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4

The Albany Student Press will
hold a general interest
meeting at 8 p.m. in LC 19.
Positions are available in
news and sports
writing,ASPects,advertis-
ing,ad production,layout and
typing. Those who are looking
for a challenge outside of the

classroom are urged to attend.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987 1) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Deadline extended

Students got a break this week when
the deadline for adding ‘‘open’’ classes
was extended until Thursday because of
last Friday’s snow storm, ‘which forced
University officials to cancel classes for
the day, according to Thomas O’Brien,
director of Records and Registration.

“‘We thought it would be more conve-
nient for students to go to the Assembly
Hall.”

Beginning Friday, however, students
wishing to add a class must obtain a
closed-section card from the instructor,
said O’Brien. These cards must be turned
in at the Registrar’s Office (AD-B5).

The last day to add a semester course
with a closed-section card and the Ist day
to drop classes without receiving a ‘““W’’
is Feb. 3.

O’Brien said that this date was unaf-
fected by the snow storm.

No cussing, please

A recent U.S. District Court decision
tuled that a college has the right to fire a
teacher for ‘‘cussing out”’ students, ac-
cording to The Chronicle of Higher
Education.

The court ruled that Midland College
was within its rights to fire an economics
instructor after warnings from college

administrators to ‘‘clean up his
janguage.””
Fired in 1984, J.D. Martin had

originally sued college administrators,
saying that he was ‘‘only trying to
motivate his students.”’

Martin was awarded $28,000 in 1985
when a six-member jury decided that the
firing was unjustified.

However,an overruling by the U.S. ~
District Court judge reversed the jury’s
decision and was supported by the
federal appeals court last month.

Calling all geniuses

Mensa, the international high-IQ
society, has recently changed its member-
ship policy, no longer requiring prospec-
tive members to take a Mensa-sponsored
supervised test, according to a statement
released by the organization.

Individuals who have achieved high
American College Test (ACT) or
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores
are now being offered automatic
membership.

Students who have scored a 29 or bet-
ter on the ACT or a combined score of
1250 or better on the SAT, are now eligi-
ble to become members of this “‘genius
club.”

According to the release the change
was implemented because SAT and ACT
scores are now being related to actual 1Q
scores.

ASPies promoted

David Spalding was elected editor
in chief of the Albany Student Press Dec.
14.

Spalding ran unopposed for the one-
year position and was approved by a
unanimous vote of the editorial board,
which is comprised of ASP editors and
managers.

The editor in chief oversees editorial
policy and serves as liaison to the Univer-
sity community.

Also, at a Jan. 26 meeting, the
editorial board approved Bill Jacob as
managing editor and Loren Ginsberg and
Brenda Schaeffer as assistant managing
editors. Managing editors oversee per-
sonnel and production of the paper.

Spalding formerly held the position of,
managing editor and Jacob served as a
news editor. Both Ginsberg and Schaef-
fer are former Aspects editors.

— compiled by Colleen Destaurier |

Three quit posts as Council chairs
Botwinik, Bower cite personal factors

By Hillary Fink
STAFF WRITER

Central Council committee chairs Phil
Botwinik and Melissa Bower resigned
from their positions and have been replac-
ed by their committees’ vice-chairs.

Botwinik stepped down as Student Ac-
tion Committee chair, although he plans
on remaining a member of Council, while
Bower stepped down as Finance Commit-
tee chair, resigning from Council entirely.

Both cited personal reasons as factors in
their decisions, which they announced at
Council’s Jan. 21 meeting.

“My priorities now are on academics,
personal obligations, and my other com-
mitments to SA,”’ said Botwinik.

Bower said she resigned because she
wants to do other things with her time,
such as writing for the Albany Student
Press and possibly being a disc jockey gor
WCDB.

Eric Lieberman and David Jarashow
took over as Student Action Committee
chairs and Marty Gloven took over as
Finance Committee chair.

Lieberman said that Botwinik’s resigna-
tion ‘‘hit me as a surprise at first, but I’m
glad to take the position for next year, so
I’m just starting a semester early.””,

Jarashow and Gloven were unavailable
for comment.

SA President Paco Duarte said there are
always a number of resignations that take
place during the spring semester, and that
this just happens to be a part of the
realities of Central Council and any other
oganization. ‘It is important to move on
to other things,”’ he said. :

“J feel my committment to the Student
Action committee will be even greater this
semester,’ Botwinik said, ‘‘but my efforts
will be focused toward developing and ad-
vising the leadership.”

Botwinik plans to continue his efforts
on Central Council, SUNYA’s Alcohol
Committee, and his other interests. “‘I see
my commitment on Central Council for
the off-campus students just as important
as ever. I deginitely will be involved in SA
next year,”’ Botwinik said.

Bower said, “I think that I can still be
beneficial to SA by writing for the ASP. 1
feel that I can make things clearer and ex~
plain things [about SA] better to the
readers. I really liked working with the
people but I have to move on.’’ Bower
said.

“1 didn’t geel like anybody in SA is
making an effort to do anything to make
the school more exciting or make anything

JOHN CURRY UPS:
Former Student Action Committee chair
Phil Botwinik (above) and former
Finance Committee chair Melissa
Bower (below) both resign their posts
Wednesday.

JUWON PARK UPS,

interesting,’ said Bower. Bower added,
“T’m not trying to downplay SA. I have
lots of friends there and I had fun last
year. I felt I personally wasn’t getting
anything out of it.””

Although he stepped down a chair, Bot-
winik said the student action committee is
“very special because it works on some of
the most important issues that any campus
will face and my work on the committee
has been personally fulfilling and
enlightening.’” e

“At this point in time,’’ he said, “‘I see
the need for more growth in SA and I feel
my resignation will allow other leaders to
test themselves and make SA an even bet-
ter place.’” oO

Feinblum: Council
is ‘an inert body’

By Angelina Wang
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Brian Feinblum, Central Council Inter-
nal Affairs co-chair resigned last Wednes-
day but not before giving his opinions
about the state of Student Association.

At the end of last semester, Council
voted to begin impeachment proceedings
against Feinblum for alleged violations of
elections policy.

“SA Supreme Court has not yet met to
hear the Feinblum case, but according to
Bill McCann, Central Council vice-chair,
there is some confusion as to whether the
case still needs to be heard in light of
Feinblum’s resignation. ?

Matt Doddo, a representative from In-
dian Quad, read Feinblum’s statement
‘Wednesday to Council which said, “I
didn’t join the stagnation of Central
Council and now must leave for an un-
motivated member is the essence of the
corruption that pervades SA.”’

According to McCann, SA is far from
gorrupt. ‘Central Council was in a sense
less active this year because there was no
major issue for SA to rally around,”’ he
said.

Feinblum’s resignation will not affect
Central Council in any way, said SA Presi-
dent Paco Duarte.

‘‘Byerybody in Student Association is
expendable and will be replaced at some
point or another,”” he added.

According to Feinblum, his resignation
already has had an effect on SA.
“Hopefully, they will re-evaluate why they
are there and get new people interested in
SA,”’ he said.

As a result of Feinblum’s resignation,
Sara Meyer is presently the sole Internal
Affairs chair, unless Council Chair Larry
Hartman decides to appoint another co-
chair.

“In the position Feinblum was in, he
could not serve in an effective manner,’’
said Meyer, adding that the resignation
will give Council a new member who will
be more productive.

Feinblum criticized this year’s Council
as being ‘‘an inert body.’’

Jaclyn Bernstein, off-campus represen-
tative, described Council members as ‘“‘not
slacking off, but resting.”

“I don’t want to leave and crawl in a
corner,”’ said Feinblum indicating that he
intends to remain involved in student
government in the future. oO

Classrooms shut to after-hours study

By Roderick M. Williams
MINORITY AFFAIRS EDITOR

In a’ move intended to tighten podium
security, students may no longer study in
academic buildings after class hours.

Previously, academic buildings remain-
ed open after hours but are now locked
after the last class in the building lets out.

Anyone wishing to enter the buildings
must’ now contact University Police who,
according to Assistant Director John
Henighan, will only open buildings for
students to ‘‘attend a class or seminar.’

Doors will not be opened for students
wishing to study in the building, he said.

According to Public Safety Director
James Williams, the new policy “‘was
created with input from administration as
well as university police. . .because of the
problems resulting from having an open
campus.”’

In the past, podium buildings have been
vandalized and burglarized, and last
semester a pair of deliberately set fires
plagued the podium.

Two fires set simultaneously Nov. 2 in
the Fine Arts building caused an estimated
$90,000 in damages, while a fire set in the

Performing Arts Center Dec. 4 resulted in
estimated damages close to $80,000, accor-
ding to Assistant Vice President of the
Physical Plant Dennis Stevens.

No arrests have been made in connec-
tion with the two fires, Williams said.
However, investigations are continuing as
Public Safety officials work with the New
York State Police Bureau of Criminat
Investigation.

While stating that ‘‘the Fine Arts and
Performing Arts Center fires are
related. . .and_ both cases_of_arson,’’

Williams maintains the revised policy is
— ‘just a general tightening up of security.”
John Henighan, assistant director of
Public Safety, added ‘“‘the policy is no
great departure from before.” Building
doors will be locked after the last class
and, as usual, on weekends.

Persons who want to get into a locked
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By Elisa Brenman

Students living on campus
usually have a few comments
about cafeteria food service.

Now those students are being
given the opportunity to com-
municate their questions and
comments directly to University
Auxiliary Services (UAS) board
members. :

“UAS Question-and-Answer
Boards’’ were placed last week in.
the five quad cafeterias for
students to discuss aspects of
food service such as menu selec-
tions or food quality.

Questions placed on the board
will be answered personally by
UAS administrators who will be
visiting each quad regularly.

The boards were created to
establish better communication
between UAS administrators and
students.

According to UAS General
Manager E. Norbert Zahm, UAS
has “‘been anxious to com-
municate with a larger number of
students,”’ he said.

“The boards will serve to pin-
point likes and dislikes the
students have in a simple and ac-
cessible way,’’ he said.

The UAS Food Advisory Com-
mittee initiated the idea to create
these boards, which are funded
through money mandated for
special projects.

“We decided on this method of
communication because we felt it
would reach a larger amount of
students in a short amount of
time,”’ said Zahm.

Ronald Clough,Director of
Contract Food Service,said he.
feels the boards will be a
valuable tool in improving food
service. ‘‘The board will help to
locate specific problems and
many of the major problems can
be worked out.””

over a week, the boards have
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Jim Tarullo, manager of Indian
Quad cafeteria, said he felt the
idea has worked out well so far.
“The students are using it daily
and in effect this will help us to
determine the specific wants and
needs of the students.””

However, several diners who
made use of the boards do not
feel they are as worthwhile as
intended.

Melinda Cohen, a sophomore
on Alumni Quad, said she thinks
the boards are not being taken
seriously.

“They are not going to be ef-
fective yet because many of the
students are asking ridiculous
questions which need no explana-
tions,”’ she said.

Ravit Ben-Joseph, a
sophomore on State Quad,
agreed. ‘‘As I look on the board I
see questions which really cannot
serve a purpose in helping to im-
prove the food quality.””

“I wish all students would take
more time to make serious sugges-
tions,’? she commented.

Many students agreed that it is

necessary to use the boards in a
serious manner to obtain useful
answers and results.

Paul Barnes, president of UAS”
Board of Directors and a senior
living downtown; said that the
boards, if used intelligently, could
be a positive and effective line of
communication.

“It is impossible to lease
everyone but hopefully if the
students use the boards to their
advantage we can please some
students,’’ he said.

Zahm said he feels that
students are the key element in
the success of the boards. ‘‘We
need students to inform us about
the things they like as well as their
gripes so that we can continue to
serve the food that students
enjoy.”

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Mishler set to vacate SA attorney post July 1

By Colleen Deslaurier
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Student Association Legal Ser-
vices attorney Mark Mishler
resigned earlier this month and a
search committee has been
organized to find a replacement.

The committee, headed by
Central Council members Reggie
Easton and Matt Doddo, will
limit its search to the northeast
and will advertise in several
newspapers and law journals.

Mishler, citing personal reasons
for his resignation, said it wasn’t
an easy decision to make.

“T’ve learned a lot from this

that in my growth as an attorney,
it’s time to move on,”’ he said.

Mishler said cases currently be-
ing handled by the office, such as
SA’s anti-grouper law suit, will
not be affected by his resignation.

If necessary, said Mishler, ‘‘we
can work out an arrangement, so
that I can come back and handle a
particular case.””

A University committee formed
last semester by University Presi-
dent Vincent O’Leary is currently
investigating whether it is ap-
propriate for SA to fund the
Legal Services Office through the
student activity fee.

resign and that his resignation will
not affect any decision the com-
mittee may make.

Easton said the search commit-
tee will ‘‘do the best job we can
do to get someone who’s good for
the students of Albany.” ©

The committee’s priority is to
find someone ‘“‘very similar to
Mark — someone not interested
in just the monetary value, but
also in the welfare of the
students,’ said SA President
Paco Duarte.

O’Leary said Mishler ‘thas
done a splendid job, and is a very
reliable person. I’m sorry to see

committee will find a replacement ]
with the ‘‘same competence that
Mark worked on.””

“I feel that I’ve earned the
respect of students, ad-
ministrators, and the court system
of Albany, which I think is a ma-
jor accomplishment,’’ said
Mishler. ‘How the office runs
has also become much more
efficient.””

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On Martin Luther King Day,
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dress the topic of racism in 1987.

During the show, panelists
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society and touched upon racial
incidents in their day-to-day lives
as well as recent racial incidents
receiving media attention.

The panel was led by Dr. Na’im
Akkbar, a clinical professor at the
University of Florida and also in-
cluded Patrick Henry, a student
from Hobart College, and
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst student Dwaine Warren.

According to. Rooks, Phil
Donahue came in 15 minutes
before air time ‘‘to tell us what to
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show depends on audience
participation.”

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racism is still a prevalent issue in

the 1980s.””

Warren used as an example an
incident that occurred in Boston
after the fourth game of the
World Series in which a black stu-
dent from. the~ University. of
Massachusetts was accosted by a .
group of white individuals.

Although most of the people
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Queens was blown out of propor-
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racism would only be encouraged.

As a result of a recommenda-
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“They were probably looking
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was willing to speak out against
racism,” she said.

Appearing on the show was ex-
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Rooks said.

Associated with the Albany
State University Black Alliance
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Chinese celebrating 4685, ‘Year of the Rabbit’
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Good wishes and good fortunes

By Cassandre Kao
Traditional Chinese families
celebrate the Lunar New Year
much like Americans celebrate
Christmas. There is an interval of
15 days, all free for feasts,

pleasure and festive spirits.
It starts on the New Year’s Eve
of the Lunar
calendar when Beyond
all the family
members The
assemble to en- iori
jova fullcourse Majority
dinner — with the exception of
fish dishes. Fish is excluded
because the word ‘“‘fish’? in
Chinese is ‘‘Yu,’’ which also
means ‘‘abundant.’’ Not eating
fish dishes symbolizes abundancy

for the upcoming year.

As the new year dawns,
children (including unmarried
“old”? teenagers) anxiously wait
for red envelopes containing
*‘lucky’’? money. The story

behind this practice is that the col-.
or red denotes ‘‘fortune,”’ and
symbolizes
meanings.

money
monetary/material

Where is the
BAGEL SHOP?

Thus by having it on the New
Year indicates that this child will
have a successful material year.
In addition, the Chinese wear-
ing colorful new clothes exchange
greetings with each other by say-
ing ‘‘Kung-hsi_ fa-tsai’’ (Good
wishes and good fortunes’’) and,
frequent their relatives and
friends, who offer lots of sweets.

Repetitively, this holiday celebra-
tion lasts for a period of 15 days,
climaxed by a lantern parade, tc
illuminate not only the night, but
also the year to come.

Here at SUNYA, the chilly
weather does not lessen the holi-
day spirit of Chinese students and
the surrounding Chinese com-
munity. This is’ mainly because
yesterday was the Lunar Chinese
New Year 4685, the Year of the
Hare (Rabbit).

Although the Gregorian calen-
dar has been in official use since
1911, most Chineses still observe
the lunar calendar as well.

The Year of the Hare is based
on the ancient twelve-year cyclical
dating system of lunar years. The

Chinese astrological system has
been used for centuries
throughout neighboring Asian
countries.

Take the Year of Hare tor ex-
ample. The traditional Chinese
believe that those who were born
under this sign usually exhibit the
following characteristics: they are
gifted, ambitious and not risk
takers. They are security and
stability-oriented with good taste,
and proper restraint. Emotional-
ly, they are introverted, placid
and not easily entangled roman-
tically with the opposite sex. They
are ideal business partners.
The writer is- director of
SUNYA’s~ Chinese. Studies
Department.

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SUNYA student describes pageant as a tiring trip

By Nicole Nogid
STAFF WRITER

Imagine being accepted in a nationwide
pageant, skipping classes, and flying to
Florida to spend 11 days sunbathing, wear-
ing beautiful clothes, and rubbing elbows
with celebrities.

Sound like fun ?

But SUNYA senior
Paula Perpall believes
being a beauty pageant
contestant is more hard
work than glamour and
not what she expected at
all.

Perpall and her mother, Leona Bart,
represented New York State in the national
Mother/Daughter pageant, which aired
last week on WOR-TV in New York.

Friday
Profile

Contestants were flown to Ft. Lauder-
dale and stayed at the Diplomat Hotel,
where Perpall said ‘‘There were a lot of
beautiful contestants and there was a lot of
competition.””

While the pair did not place in the com-
petition, Perpall said she “‘felt special that
we were chosen to represent our region.””
She did not feel disappointed because
‘there were other people more deserving.’””

Perpall, a native of Bethpage, N.Y., isa
senior economics major. She is also a
member of SUNY A’s ski team and softball
team.

Perpall and her mother decided to enter
the Mother/Daughter pageant last June
and were chosen from applicants across
the country. The selection was done by
mail and was based on an interview on

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paper, an essay and a photograph.

Entering the pageant was Bart’s idea,
who said she “‘caught the ad on TV and
thought it would be a nice way for Paula
and I to spend time together.’

However, the two had little time to relax
together because of the rigorous schedule
contestants were required to keep.

“During the day, we’d wake up at 6:30
[a.m.], have breakfast, go to aerobics, and
then rehearse all day. The rehearsals were
long and boring,’’ Perpall said.

“We had no time for ourselves. We only
had one hour for lunch,’’ she said.

During the evenings, contestants went to
the racetrack, to Burt Reynolds’
restaurant, or had makeup sessions.

“°We would finish [rehearsals] at five
and then they would say ‘be ready in an
hour.” We would have to run upstairs,
shower and change,” said Perpall.

However, Perpall said she did get to
meet ‘‘a lot of nice girls. Of course, there
were also a lot of snobs, but I madea lot of
good friends from all across the country.’’

Perpall said that she and her mom ‘‘got

along well, it brought us closer together.
We did everything together from
breakfast, lunch to dinner.”

The contestants also got to meet Bert
Parks, who hosted the pageant, and per-
former Frankie Avalon. Perpall said,
“Frankie Avalon is so cute. Bert Parks has
the nicest legs.’”

For the competition, Perpall and her
mother had to buy evening gowns and
bathing suits, and they ‘“‘had to spend a lot
of money on clothes because you always
want to look nice. You never know who
the judges are or where they are,”’ she said.

There was also a fee of $200 to enter the
contest, and Perpall was sponsored by the
Lamp Post and Holden’s market.

Perpall said she lost a lot of time at
school because of the pageant. She became
a part-time student in order to have time
for the pageant and missed three straight
weeks of school.

“7 fell behind in one class, but it was my
best semester because I really worked hard
when I was at school,’ she said.

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SUNYA senior Paula Pe

Welcomes Back All Freshmen
Freshman Class Council Meets
Every Sunday — 8:00-—S.A. Lounge

Congratulations to all members

Andy DiPalma-— President
Phil Smith — Vice President

Traci Robinson — Secretary

Pam Milstein
Stu Nachbar
John Nagle
Denise O’Hanlon
Nancy Olsen

Brian Voronkov — Treasurer

Bill Ormiston
Ann Marie Popp
Brenda Thornton
llyse Tublisky
Maureen Williams
Sandra Weitzman

all (right) and her mother Leona Bart pose with Bert Parks,
who hosted the Mother/Daughter pageant in which the two competed.

“You say you can just be an

average reporter? I say that’s better
than being a king.”
—Damon Runyon

Realize your potential. Come to the

ASP Interest Meeting
Wednesday, February
4 at 8:00 p.m. in LC

+9,

All interested students are welcome. No
experience is necessary, and positions are open
for news writers, Aspects writers, sports
writers, production assistants, copy editors,
advertising salespeople and more.

Questions? Call the ASP at 442-5660 or stop
by CC 329.

Jason Acevedo
Allen Ackerman
Laurel Adams
Barbara Ademec
Joseph Bardes
Gary Barnett
Theresa Bartoldus
Bart Baum
Jennifer Bell
William Bennett
Dina Berger
Michael Bodik
Bonnie Bogert
Neil Breiberg
Rachel Brunstein
Dan Bryant
Wayne Cambell
Alfred Campos
Florence Cannata
Tracy Carr

Nan Carroll
Deborah Collins
Christopher Condon
Cathi Conway
Forest Cotten
Mark Crosson
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Lia D’angelo
Dawn Dantowitz
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Jacqueline Donaldson
Scott Epstein

Jodi Esben
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Jeffrey Flynn
Allison Foggo
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Paul Friedman
Suzanne Friedman
Tracy Gaetz
Monique Gedenk
Bob Golden
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Tonia Green
Lauren Grey
Bonnie Gross
Kenneth Grunsky
Debbie Hamilton

DON’T WALK ALONE WOULD LIKE TO THANK
THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE FOR THEIR
COMMITMENT AND SERVICE TO DON’T WALK ALONE:

Lloyd Harmetz
Audrea Hautman
Stacey Hautman
Michael Hawxhurst
Christine Hemmerick
Michael Herman
John Holmes

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Kimberly Irby
Craig Jacobs

Steve Jacobson
Andrea Karsch
Larry Keller
Audrey Kingsley
Jill Kinkade

Adam Kinory

Pam Klein

Laurel Knight
Jody Langley
Suzanne Lauto
Patricia Lavelle
Kathleen Layng
Jim Lechmanski
Jeffery LeClaire

Jo Ann Licenziato
Kristine Longshore
Kendal Ludden

Mariz. Maglione
Rich Maisel
Rosibel Maldonado
John Malitzis
Evan Maltese
Merlin Mendoza
Jo Ann Messa
Mike Miller

Lisa Mitchell
Mitch Nessler
Samantha Oddo
Donald Osborne
Donna O’Shea
Dawn O’Rourke
Barbara Palm
Laura Patruno
Kervens Pinthieve
Yvonne Pitt
Libby Post

Terri Probeck
Neil Schaier

Lori Schick

Elisa Schwager
Rosa Serrata

Sue Sharkey
David Shankman
Andy Sholomon

Eileen Siciliano
Sigma Nu Fraternity
Sandi Silbera

Glen Sloat

Gregory Smalls
Dathy Sorbie
Linnae Sperling
Aliza Spiegel
Wendy Starman
Carol Stenger
Mike Stock

Lisa Stoles

Karen St-Pierre
Marc Strauss

Dave Sullivan
Mary Teetsel

Dave Teitelbaum
Karla Testini
Audrey Thomas
Alex Voivodich
Mary Vossler

Dale Wadsworth
Lynn Ware
Katherine Webster
Jill Weisbrod
Colby Wilk

Students in
Bond-age

In his recent State of the State address,
Governor Mario Cuomo urgently called for a
renewed commitment to education in New
York State, and to emphasize that
commitment, he made education his
administration’s top priority.

The Governor’s proposed budget for
1987-88, however, raises an eyebrow of
skepticism about this so-called commitment to
education. Strangely enough, this proposed
budget ignores the interests of a large bloc of
persons to be directly affected by his decisions.
Those ignored persons are the students.

By maintaining present tuition costs Cuomo
prudently avoided the student protests and
negative publicity that undoubtably would have
followed any proposed increase. It certainly is
not in the best interests of any politician, who
might one day be seeking higher office, to
pursue such an unpopular proposal when
he/she may soon be looking for votes.

While the Governor’s recommended budget
maintains current tuition levels, a newly
proposed funding program could lead to
substantial dorm rate hikes and also steer
Cuomo relatively clear of any negative political
fallout. The most serious implication of this
new program could be that SUNY.’s accessiblity
to students from lower income backgrounds
might be in jeopardy.

In the past, funding for dorm construction
and rehabilitation was provided by the state
with tax revenues or “hard dollars’ as the
financial wizards call it. Now that the self-
sufficiency program for the dorms has been
established, the state has generously offered to
loan. or ‘“‘bond’’ the funds for dorm
rehabilitation and construction costs to the
Dormitory Authority. Under the $60 million
Bonded Dormitory Rehabilitation proposed by
Cuomo, the debt service on these bonds are
likely to be ‘‘dumped on the students’’ in the
form of dorm rate hikes according to a member
of the SUNY Board of Trustees.

Of course, the state could offer to pay the
debt service on such bonds, but, please don’t
hold your breath waiting. The average debt
service of a SUNY student is $450, the highest
in the nation, and tuition and dorm rates are
used to pay it off.

If the $60 million bond is approved, even
students dependent on financial aid will have to
absorb an increase with little or no federal help
thanks to the Reagan Administration’s slashing
of aid programs. One SASU official estimates
that dorm rates could increase by several
hundred dollars in the next few years if the
proposal is accepted. This would certainly
dampen SUNY’s attempt to make the system
accesible to all New Yorkers.

One astounding proposal in the Cuomo
budget calls for $7 million bonding for asbestos
removal. It is conceivable that if your dorm
required asbestos removal, you would pay for
that removal visa-vis higher dorm rates to meet
the debt service. It’s comforting to know that

_this budget is prepared for asbestos
contamination on SUNY campuses.

The Governor has a few weeks to gauge
public opinion-to his budget proposals and
hopefully make some positive changes before
he introduces it to the state legislature. Students
have the responsibility to inform the Governor
how they feel about the proposals or they can
simply live with the consequences.

While there are no guarantees that the
Governor will be swayed by student opinion,
remember that he may come looking for your
vote in the near future. f

The November 4, 1986, election victory of Democrats,
resulting in control of both houses of the Congress, is at-
tributable in part to Democratic candidates embracing
many of the domestic policy positions of President
Ronald Reagan. As a consequence, there will be no
counter-revolution to what can be termed the ‘‘Reagan
Revolution.””

Joseph F. Zimmerman

Witnessing the success of the President in tapping
Americans’ longing for traditional values and fiscal
responsibility, Democratic candidates for seats in the
Congress generally espoused positions on many issues
similar to the positions of Reagan Republicans, thereby
resulting in what appeared to be a largely issue-less
campaign.

With the Democrats’ election victory came two new
leaders—Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia has
resumed his former position as Majority Leader and
Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill has been replaced by Jim
Wright of Texas who has close ties to the oil and gas in-
dustries. Mr. Wright will not have the high media visibili-
ty that Mr. O’Neill had since Mr. Wright will have to
share the opposition spotlight with Senator Byrd. Both
leaders will experience difficulties in keeping in line the
continually growing number of individualistic
Democratic members.

The President will recieve an increased number of un-
palatable bills, in part because Democratic leaders
perceive the President as being weakened politically by
the Iranian-Contra arms scandal. Many bills of this
nature had been prevented from reaching the President’s

desk by the Republican-controlled Senate. Facing a new,

situation, the President will find his veto power to be of
increased importance. The President will veto bills more
often than he did during the first six years of his term.
Perhaps more importantly, the President will employ the
threat of the exercise of the veto to persuade Congres-
sional Democrats to accept amendments to bills to make
them more agreeable to the President. Furthermore, the
President may be able to negotiate agreements with the
Congressional leaders to the effect that in exchange for
Congressional approval of bills he desires, he will not
veto certain Democratic-sponsored bills.

The President will be in a strong bargaining position
since the Democrats lack the required two-thirds vote in
each house of the Congress to override a Presidential
veto. Viewed historically, Presidental vetoes have been
difficult to override with only 98 of 1,419 vetoes being
overriden since 1789. Nevertheless, the President faces
the prospect of an override should he veto the Clean
Water Act because of strong bipartisan support for the
bill. In November, the President employed the pocket
veto to prevent the Clean Water bill from becoming law.

Democratic control of the Senate will impact the Presi-
dent’s appointment policy and possibly any treaty that his
Administration negotiates with another nation, as
Presidential appointments and treaties are subject to ap-
proval by a majority vote of the Senate whereas Presiden-
tially negotiated treaties are subject to approyal by a two-
thirds vote of the Senate. Relative to appointments, the
President undoubtedly will encounter greater difficulty in
obtaining Senate approval for his judicial nominees. Dur-
ing the previous six years, the Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee was controlled by the Republicans, yet a number of
Presidential nominations for life-time judgeships won on-
ly narrow Committee approval. It is apparent that these
types of nominations will be rejected during the Presi-
dent’s remaining tenure in office. It is reasonable to
predict that the President will exercise more care in selec-
ting nominees to ensure their confirmation by the Senate.
In addition, the President may be forced to ‘‘trade-off”*

Reagan faces the Democrats

with Senate Democrats by agreeing to nominate some
Democrats to judgeships in return for Senate approval of
certain Republican nominees.

Assuming the President’s attention is not occupied ful-
ly with the Iranian arms scandal and other foreign policy
issues, Mr. Reagan probably will continue to pressure the
Congress to bring the federal budget into balance and to
Propose a balanced budget amendment to the United
States Constitution.Thirty-two of the required thirty-
four States have memorialized the Congress to call a Con-
sitiutional Convention, which would be the first one since
1787, to propose a balanced budget amendment.

The first trillion dollar federal budget, submitted to the
Congress on January 3, 1987, by President Reagan,
would result in a $107.8 billion deficit if approved and all
budget assumptions are valid. The deficit would be slight-
ly less than the 1988 ceiling established by the Gramm-
Rudman-Hollings Act. Congressional leaders have ex-
pressed their dissatisfaction with the budget. The 1986
Congress was unable to approve any of the thirteen fiscal
1987 appropriation bills prior to the start of the fiscal
year on October 1, 1986. The current Congress probably
will encounter similar problems with the timely enactment
of appropriation bills. The size of the current federal
deficit and Congress’ proclivity for spending suggest that
deficit reduction proposals will occupy much of the Con-
gress’ time,as tax attorneys penetrate the intracies of
the new Internal Revenue Code and discover loop-holes.

Should the new lower federal income tax rates fail to
produce the forecasted revenues, Congressional leaders
will have to ‘‘bite the bullet’’ and propose tax increases, a
most unpalatable action for members. Taking advantage
of the public’s adversion to tax increases and to embarass
the Democratic majority, all 173 House Republicans on
January 6, 1987, voted in favor of a rule change to pro-
hibit any House action to raise income tax rates or slow
down the gradual lowering of rates under the new Inter-
nal Revenue Code. Desiring to keep their options open,
the Democratic majority voted down the proposal with all
but two Democrats voting against the proposal.
Republicans undoubtedly will continue to exert pressure
on Democrats on the tax issue, a vulnerable one for
Democrats since they control the Congress. The Presi-
dent will be able to continue to blame Congress for spen-
ding increases and to decry his lack of an item veto which
would permit him to disallow items in appropriation bills.
Currently, the Governors of forty-three States possess the
item veto.

A related issue is the size of the international balance of
trade and balance of payments deficits. The President, a
laissez-faire advocate, generally has resisted pressures in
the Congress to raise tariffs and impost quotas on foreign.
products. He no longer can rely upon a Republican.
Senate to block trade restrictive bills and may be forced tc:
veto bills of this nature or to allow them to become law
without his signature.

The current stances of the two major parties overall is
the opposite of their traditional positions—Republicans
generally favoring trade restrictions and the Democrats
supporting measures to liberalize international trade. In
part, the reversal of positions is due to the depressed in-
dustrial centers which tend to be Democratic strongholds
and have suffered the most from foreign competition.
Many Democrats in particular will emphasize the unfair
advantage foreign producers have because of “‘cheap”’
labor.

Protectionist measures at home beget protectionist
measures abroad, especially by the European Economic
Community, and international trade and prosperity will
suffer. President Reagan has attempted to defuse the
foreign trade issue by imposing duties on a number of
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January 30, 1987

cAspectfully Yours

While a grossly large number of fortunate people are struggling to maintain
their tan, I have had time to reflect upon my winter break.

Surely the most frequent comment I muttered during my vacation was “I am so
bored.” The most frequent comment made by my parents, in response, was, “Then
get a job,” which took the form of an order, and was frequently followed by “and
pick your dirty laundry up off the floor.”

Two weeks into my fruitful vacation, I was burrowing my way out of a room
submerged in a sea of dirty socks. And of course, I was still unemployed. The
closest I had come to a job, in fact, was contemplating trying to locate the
phonebook to call Kelly Girl Temps. I quickly dismissed such ridiculous thoughts
with frequent phonecalls to various friends to complain of boredom.

“Denise, | am so bored I could die.”

“Me too.” t

“Do you think it’s too late to get a job?’

“Definitely.”

‘Let's go skiing.”

So I slept, watched I Love Lucy reruns, and did some skiing. And the dirty socks
continued to pile up in my room, now accompanied by sweaters, sweatshirts, jeans,
and ski equipment.

It seems the more I was reminded of my untidiness, the more sloppy I became.
Every time I had begun to gather my stuff from the floor, the phone would ring
and I would have to go out to lunch. Then there was General Hospital at three
o'clock. Who can concentrate on cleaning a messy room while Duke's life hangs in
the balance?

My restful pattern was drastically altered when one morning | awoke at the
ungodly hour of 8:00 a.m., to the sound of loud voices and a Steamtronics Carpet
Cleaner. A malicious man with an unidentifiable accent knocked rudely on my
bedroom door.

“Oh, don’t bother with that room,” Mom told Mr. Steamtronics. “No point
cleaning her rug. I don’t even remember the color of it.”

“Hey, that’s not fair. I'll have this stuff picked up off the floor in no time,” I
pleaded. “And it’s navy blue, remember?”

But Mr. Steamtronics and Mom were skeptical. At last my door was closed by
mutual consensus. Mr. Steamtronics sudsed and rinsed and steamed the rest of the
house, while I remained trapped amongst my dirty laundry. With no television
and no telephone, I broke down and began to clean.

I did uncover a few items of interest in the process: the final notice for an AT &
T bill, my spring semester schedule, my senior prom corsage, and my hamster,
Vonnegut Jr. Vonnegut had been missing in action since January 3, and had ap-
parently made himself quite the cozy home. He was nestled in a fuzzy mound he
had made by shredding the handmade mohair cardigan I had bought in England.
He looked up at me in disgust and yawned.

Incidentally, Vonnegut Sr. had perished two winter breaks ago, when he emerg-
ed suddenly from beneath a pile of dirty socks to greet the Regina Steamer Carpet
Cleaner. Mr. Regina Steamer mistook him for a rat, gasped in horror, and steamed
him. The rest is history.

On that fateful day two years ago, I had been contemplating trying to locate the
Yellow Pages. Some things never change. Oo

January 30, 1987

Aspects 3a

Platoon: Stone’s Vietnam vision

ome will look at the 1960's in the
S United States as an era of not ask-

ing what your country could do for
you, but what you could do for your coun-
try. However, in the wake of the Vietnam
War, many were left saying, ‘Look what
my country has done to me.’ Now, some
twenty years later, Oliver Stone brings Pla-
toon to the screen and attempts to put this
festering wound under a microscope.

Michael Andrews

Platoon attempts to chronicle the days
and nights of a group of American soldiers
in the jungles of Vietnam, near the Cambo-
dian border. Stone claims to have lived
much of what is seen on the screen, but
many of the characters and actions are tru-
ly stereotypical: the drugs, the mental in-
stablity, the anger, the racial prejudice all
seem to be themes taken from any movie
on the war we lost.

There is a difference, though. The dif-
ference is Stone himself. Stone does not
make a beautiful movie, one that leaves
the audience with a good feeling about
itself. Instead, the moviegoer is left with
serious questions about the nation they
more than likely call their home.

The movie follows the tour of duty of a
young footsoldier name Chris Taylor
(Charlie Sheen) who has dropped out of
college to take part in ‘his generation's
‘war.’ What he discovers is that war is not
the romantic and glorious event that man
once thought it was. No brass bands, no
welcoming parties celebrating the arrival
of a liberator. Chris finds that he is now in
the middle of a dirty, bloody, bug.infested
jungle with no training (as if there could be
any) as to how to handle the situations that
he must face.

The moyie is essentially made up of four
major military events and two personal
conflicts. The battles with the pronounced
enemy are violent and, apparently, |
frighteningly realistic. Chris is first exposed
toa night ambush, where a new guy is kill-
ed and he himself is shot in the neck. He is
next involved in the sacking and burning
of a village. He is so shaken by the events
of his first few days that he loses control
and shoots at the one remaining leg of a
Vietnamese villager. What is even more
alarming than his actions is the fact that he
is not even close to the level of cruelty of
his superiors.

It is in this village setting that we first see
the brewing of internal battles. Sgt. Barnes
(Tom Berenger) needlessly murders a
village woman and now is threatening her
daughter if the elder of the community
does not tell what involvement they have

Charlie Sheen (top left) and the cast of Oliver Stone’s Platoon.

with the Vietnamese National Army. The
violence of this action enrages Sgt. Elias
(Willem Dafoe) to the point were the two
men are beating each other. The dispute is
temporarily settled and the village burned.

We are to see Chris as a noble man when
he stops his fellow soldiers from raping a
young girl on the basis that it is wrong, and
she is a human being. Chris serves as our
moral base and seems to be the point of
reference for the middle-American au-
dience. Barnes and Elias are too confusing
to be grasped by the masses and the black
soldiers are slanted by their color and social
position. The rest are either geographically
or mentally alien to a common audience.
The underbelly of society that someone
like a Chris Taylor, or the average theater-
goer, might not often see is what we are
asked to examine and say, Those are our
boys, fighting for our country’.

Oliver Stone brings Platoon
to the screen and attempts to
put this festering wound
under a microscope.

After Elias is killed we see a change in
Chris. He is now a man with a more focuss-
ed purpose, He turns from a boy just trying
to survive, one who could see the pro-
blems and situations for what they were, to
aman moved by hate, revenge and a need
to vent complete frustration over his pre-
sent position, location and even state of
mind. We greet Chris Taylor as a boy and
leave him a man, one who has killed, and
not just a nameless, faceless enemy in the
night, but a man he knows and served
under, a live human being who's eyes he
had to look into as he pulled the trigger.

What truly hammers the points of the
movie home are not just the occasional
letter-readings we hear or even the realiza-
tions made by Chris, but the work of the
director, Oliver Stone. It is not just a movie
of words, but one of images, and unplea-
sant ones at that. We see blood and death,
but not of the horror-picture genre. We see
human beings suffering in the only way
that every man can relate to. We see the
very mortality taken from them by never-
seen bullets in the night.

Oliver Stone brings to this film a wide
range of expertise, and he seems to call
upon all his resources to make this one of

the best war films ever and one of the best

films of the last few years. His ability as
both a writer and director are tested here
and he makes good use of his past suc-
cesses. The feeling of the lonely man
fighting a foe he cannot even see seems a
throwback to Stone's first major film ac-
complishment, Midnight Express, which
won him an Academy Award in 1979.
One feels that the drama and emotions in
this film are layered. When one layer is
drawn away, the next is exposed as being
even more frightening.

Stone's finest moment on the screen, the
one that could help to mark his return the
Night of the Oscars, is not the one that left
the crowd most satistied. Ihe audiences are
generally moved to cheer when Chris kills
the force of believed evil in the movie's
emotional climax. However, the visual im-
age that truly sums up the movie, and
perhaps the entire war, comes earlier. It is
after the third battle. We see Elias shot by
his own soldier, Barnes, and left for dead.
‘As the company flies off in a chopper to
escape total defeat, we see Elias, hurt but
not dead, running for his life, He is running
from the Vietnamese, but to whom? The
man who shot him? The company that is
leaving him behind? As he runs he is being
shot from behind. He stumbles. He falls.
He hopes that perhaps the company, and
his country, will be there for him. Yet the
entire time there are the bullets from
behind, menacing. Just as the memories
will fire at the veterans from a half a world
away when they get home.

As Elias takes an unbelievable number

of bullets in the back, the chopper flies
over head, abandoning him forever. He
rises to his knees and thrust his hands up as
if to say, ‘How can you do this to me, after
all I have done for you. The chopper
leaves, condemning him to die on the spot.
It is an incredible moment with more
metaphorical meaning than most. full-
length movies.

It seems clear that Oliver Stone has a
huge success on his hands. In just one week
the movie grossed over $1.6 million in on-
ly 74 theaters. Add to this the fact that Pla-
toon only cost 6 million to make and we
see some of the ideas of ‘bigger being bet-
ter’ in the industry being refuted.

Platoon is not an easy movie to sit
through. It becomes even more difficult to
deal with after one leaves the theater.
Ideally, the movie would lead to better
understanding of the men who fought over
there, but that does not seem likely.
Maybe seeing the face of young Chris
Taylor as he kills another man will make
some of this generation's young people 4
little less impressed with the violence in the
various medias, but that seems even less
likely. If anything, Platoon will introduce
Vietnam to those who were not able to
meet it face to face and, justifiably, it is not
apleasant meeting. ia

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4a Aspects

January 30, 19

... Consider the case of BJC, confined

involuntarily to Pilgrim
State following the

» attempted murder of

her 86-year-old

photos by Ken Graff

he was dumped in New York City. That was
S where the State put the people who no
longer fit into the scheme of the mental
health care system in 1978. The mental health laws
had been amended to protect the rights fo in-
dividuals confined in the various institutions across
New York State. The purpose of the amendment
was in keeping with the wide spread liberalism of
the Nelson Rockefeller administration: to end the
practice of long term confinement of mentally un-
balanced people.

Conceptually, the legislation was a humanitarian
act. Practically, it meant thousands upon thousands
of poor, unwell people would be left homeless and
untended, left to wander and live on the streets of
New York City fending for themselves as best as
they could. Many of them wouldn’t last a winter on
their own.

Consider the case of BJC, confined involuntarily
to Pilgrim State following the attempted murder of
her 86-year-old mother. The law wasn’t involved as
her delicate, formerly award-winning, piano-playing
fingers throttled the neck of a virtually helpless old
woman. They would be interested later, when it
was too late, in all the details of BJC’s wrapping an
electrical cord around LK’s bruised neck. The old
woman somehow managed: “This is what you
wanted all along, isn’t it? Do you think you'll get
away with it, really?” Looking down, BJC saw an
eternity of missed opportunities, locked doors, clos-
ed,barred rooms she might never escape from. Stun-
ned by the truth of her mother’s statement she
released her hold. Something inside her suggested,
she had been killing herself ‘all along and that
another death wouldn't solve anything. Mostly, she
knew this was no paranoid delusion, she was in big
trouble and there was no way out now. She believ-
ed in the State.

This was the same state that had released her
twenty years earlier after a two-year stay at Pilgrim
State. She was cured and was pronounced fit to
reenter the society she had voluntarily left, They
were wrong then, and even more wrong the second
time around.

The systems the State erects to deal with its
unmentionables is monolithic and self-perpetuating.
Each case is a number, and nothing more in the long
tun. No thought is given to the individual case and
what the release of one of these numbers might
have on the community or on the immediate
families involved. There are laws, systems that must
be adhered to and nothing else.

That was the way it was/is: rules are rules. That is
the very bottom line. I know. BJC was my
mother. I saw LK a week after the assualt. She
wasn't entirely broken by the attack but she seemed,
in addition to her obvious wounds, as if something
essential had died inside. Certainly, she was no
longer the vital, strong woman who had brought
two children through the depression by herself and
managed to see them both through college during
World War II. In a real way what she did from that
point on was simply to exist. The County and the
State saw to that, caring for her in a home for the ag-
ed that quickly drained her life savings.

I visited BJC.some months after her second con-
finement, though. No one knew where she was.
“Look around,” a day nurse suggested, “You'll find
her eventually.”

“Look around?” We asked. “Around the
grounds.” I had hesitated visiting BJC as she had
demonstrated violent behavior toward my wife and
lin the past, trying in turn to strangle first my wife,
then me, when | interceded. The nurse I’d spoken to
on the telephone didn’t seem to mind: "Oh sure,
come see her. All our patients love to visit with their
families.” Perhaps the nurse hadn't read her file. The
chilling thought occured as we searched the eerily
silent grounds of Pilgrim State, perhaps it wasn’t in
her file at all. Working at Pilgrim State was only a
job after all.

They were right, we would find her, eventually,

ife and L

Alan Catli

and we were sorry that we
into cleansing the world th.
in-patient dressed in ar
(everyone else was into s
was ridding the grounds of
project even for a perfectio
schizophrenia. At least, she
from grubbing quarters fro
tients. Of course, none of t
‘oh, hi what are you doing

What happened as we v
of “anice little coffee shop’
mingly lax New York's in
knew, as all the patients d
to leave the grounds. A:
Meadowbrook Parkway p:
became apparent that the c
the road catering to travell
the inmates of Pilgrim Sta
job there, too. Of course, t
laws forbidding this sort of
walls, no agents, no one |
force them.

That was the year a mar
and family left these sam
knife. He got there well b
loose. We got to listen to
dying on 60 minutes.

That was the beginning
dangerously in New Yor
long before the State begat
papers telling me I had to a
and that I was to assume r
cial affairs. It seems the h
tion for all thos* months
against her will and they 1
get it from her. After all,
had her: Of course, when t
right.

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but no one but me was 1
were creating. I thought: “’
"It should state that she ha
ty to manage money des
part of the scope of her p
there was a file.

I tried pointing out som
these lines of reasoning to
attempts to get them to k
reason she was there in th
would do if I took charg:
was very clear on this issi
as executor of her affairs
sentence for me.

I refused voluntary app
tered much. The state
through the motions of ap
Typically, the two branc
coordinate their timing ot
released, thus making the

Instead of anticipating a
quences of such an appoir
strange meeting at Chris
home on Long Island. S.
curiously subdued. | attrib
to the “free drugs” she s
writings, which revealed
sonality than I had ever im
that time up to her death
was creating a world insi
tules she fervently believ
plied to the outside wo
twisted, convoluted plac
childish at one time, and y
balanced by a desperate s«
religious in foundation.It 1
was no one to intervene n
with her. It seems she pai
demanded. Debts, after
schizophrenic.

I recall the discussion
charge of BJC’s affairs at
january 30, 1987

Aspects 5a

Death

Catlin

sorry that we did. Very sorry. She was
g the world that year, She was the only
Iressed in an institutional uniform
Ise was into soiled polyester) and she
he grounds of its debris. A considerable
for a perfectionist with severe paranoid
a. At least, she had the grace to refrain
1g quarters from us unlike the other pa-
urse, none of them adopted a surprised,
are you doing here attitude’ either.

pened as we went for a walk in search
le coffee shop” is indicative of how alar-
New York's institutions really are. She
the patients did, any number of places
> grounds. As we walked under the
ok Parkway passing the time of day, it
irent that the coffee shop was a diner up
sring to travellers of the road, as well as
of Pilgrim State. It was after all only a
o. Of course, there were any number of
ing this sort of activity, but, there are no
ents, no one who cares enough to en-

the year a man, violent toward his wife
eft these same grounds with a kitchen
t there well before the warning he was
ot to listen to the tape recording of her
minutes.
the beginning of many years of living
in New York for me. It wouldn't be
rhe State began sending me official legal
z me [had to assume Power of Attorney
as to assume responsibility of her finan-
t seems the hospital needed compensa-
thos’ ‘months they'd been keeping her
vill and they were afraid they wouldn't
rer. After all, she was crazy while they
course, When they let her go she'd be all

3 was drastically wrong in this thinking
but me was noticing the conflict they
g. I thought: ‘Haven't they read het file?
ate that she had a cost accountant’s abili-
;e money despite her illness. It was all
cope of her paranoia. I began to doubt
file.
nting out some of the inconsistencies in
f reasoning to the hospital in my various
get them to keep her. I pointed out the
vas there in the first place, and what she
1 took charge of her money. The law
ar on this issue: they could appoint me
of her affairs even if it meant a death
me.
voluntary appointment, not that it mat-
. The state slowly proceeded to go
motions of appointing me involuntarily.
he two branches of the state did not
heir timing on this matter and BJC was
is making the appointment moot.
anticipating and dealing with the conse-
uch an appointment, we settled in for a
ting at Christmas time at my in-laws’
ong Island. She was well dressed and
bdued. | attributed the laid back attitude
drugs” she spoke of so fondly in her
ich revealed a far more splintered per-
1: I had ever imagined. The writings from
to her death showed evidence that she
; a world inside her to conform to the
vently believed in, but could not be ap-
> outside world. It was an incredibly
woluted place to be living: curiously
ne time, and violent, even evil at others,
a desperate search for meaning that was
oundation.It was hell on earth and there
‘o intervene now that the state was done
seems she paid the hospital all they had
Debts, after all, are debts even to a
o
discussion I had with the people in
C's affairs at Pilgrim State.

in New York

“"The law is very clear on this. We can’t keep her.”

“But, she's still crazy.”

“Crazy?” The psychiatric nurse said, disdainfully

“That's right as crazy as they come. It wasn’t that
long ago that I saw her.”

"Yes, paraniod schizoprenic,” the doctor on the
conference line added, “But curiously functional, A
most interesting case. With care and drugs — ”

“She doesn’t believe in care or drugs. Once she's
out she'll go back to being the kind of person that
got her put in here.”

“There's nothing we can do, the law is very clear
on this issue.”

Reading through her papers from that time sug-
gests I was wrong, If anything, the care Pilgrim State
had given her had intensified her sickness and
broadened the depths and dimensions of her demen-
tia [found nine readily identifiable personalities liv-
ing in her mind, four of whom were left-handed.
This was a woman who had railed all her life about
how left-handed writing was unnatural. Curiously,
her left-handed personalities ranged from a child of
about four, to a teenaged debutante who wrote text
book french, to a young woman with artistic preten-
tions. The right-handed self was more self-assured
and very, very sick.

document that would allow us to open up a safe
deposit box on Long Island that was presumed to
contain a will. .

“But she didn’t believe in lawyers or wills.”

“First you have to open up the safe deposit box.”

The law was very clear about this matter.

“But, I don’t have the key, the police took it with
the rest of her effects.”

“You'll have to talk with them, then.”

The law was very clear on this matter. We had to
go to the World Trade Center and get a tax waiver.
Also we needed a paid up funeral bill. | tried to ex-
plain that we were from Schenectady. that we had
jobs, and we were hoping to take care of this before
the Fourth of July. The law was very clear and total-
ly inflexible. We learned that we needed an appoint-
ment with the bank, an appointment with the Court
of Nassau’s State Tax representative (there is only
one for all of Nassau County’s three million or so
residents) and, in lieu of the key, we decided against
trying to get from the police, a locksmith. Clearly,
there were going to be obstacles to overcome before
we actually accomplished anything,

We weren't prepared for the kind of obstacles the
state was going to erect for us. Following the open-
ing of the safe deposit box which contained some

“Oh, you can’t do that,” we learned.

Still, we had obtained the tax waiver in Albany in
advance. The World Trade Center wasn’t conve-
nient to Schenectadians even if the law was very
clear about what was needed. I threw away the safe
deposit keys and the tax waiver as soon as we left
the police station.

Opening up the room should've been simple. All
we needed was a uniform policeman and our Let-
ters. Try and find a policeman who has time to
unseal a hotel room at the Midtown South Manhat-
tan Precinct, proudly known as the busiest in the
world. We understood why we had waited two and
a half hours standing before the law at the front desk
until a team could drive us across town to the Hotel,
as we listened to the never-ending dispatches on
their radio.

The elevator service at the Martha Washington
Hotel is uncertain at best. We rode up the service
elevator with the manager and our officers and were
admitted to room 641. Nothing could prepare us for
what was inside. Seven years of junk we had to sort
through kept sealed for ten weeks in a room with a
window that hadn't been opened in decades. As we
sifted through the seven years of New York Times,
bags of OTB tickets, travel brochures from every

I was able to obtain all this information ten weeks
after she died, Even in dying, she found a way to in-
volve the State, in this case the Midtown South
Manhattan Police Department. Around seven
o'clock June 28th we received a phone call from a
detective investigating the case of BJC. Someone
from the Schenectady Police Department would be
getting in touch with us. Three and a half hours
later, a rather confused young officer was trying to
figure out how to give us the bad news. Midtown
South’s regulations forbid the giving of bad news
over the telephone.

Little did we know the bad news was just beginn-
ing. There is some truth to the assertion that there
are laws for New York State and laws for Manhat-
tan and where the two overlap is purely a matter of
coincidence. Settling what should have been a clear-
cut estate became a nightmare of epic dimensions.

“How do we unseal her room at the Martha
Washington?” | asked.

“Go to the Surrogate Court and apply for Letters
of Adminstration.”

Of course, it was assumed you would have prior
knowledge of where that Court might be. We
didn’t.

There was a clear cut statute that prevented us
from getting the Letters. First, we had to apply for a

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sad, torn momentoes from her youth, we hoped the
Surrogate Court would come across with Letters of
Administration. Well, they would, once we provid-
ed them with a baffling amount of paper ranging
from a swarn testimony of our relationship, our
notarized document wasn’t good enough, a cer-
tificate of domocile, apparently Manhattan does't
recognize people actually lived in hotels and actual-
ly died there, to a statement that the hotel actually
had two entrances and two addresses. One thing
was very clear to us: the byzantine system of the
Surrogate Court of New York was not set up for
speed or service. In the computer age of the 80's we
saw only huge ledgers and files like rooms from a
Dickens novel and noted one computer.

It was 94 degrees the day they decided we could
administer her estate. | had paid her hotel bills for
ten weeks, which amounted to almost two times the
mortagage on my house over the same period of
time. The Police Properties Court would release her
property provided we could prove who we were,
which was difficult because I didn’t have a driver's
license, show a paid up funeral bill, a death cer-,
tificate, letters of administration and a tax waiver for
the safe deposit keys. :

“But we opened the safe deposit box.”

country in the world, many she professed not to
believe in, bags of children’s toys, religious tracts, us-
ed keys, and dead roaches, we gradually began to be
overcome with despair. Looking out the window at
30E Street, I remembered the one time we visited
her here. She was hopping that summer. For the ex-
ercise, she said, but it was obvious she had done per-
manent damage to her right ankle. She wouldn't
hear about seeking care for her injury. It would be
all right soon on its own. Maybe if she changed her
mocassins, maybe if she hopped it would be all
right. It was a life filled with fanciful, unattainable
maybes.

Standing at the elevator with what possessions of
hers could be salvaged from the holcaust of her
room, we waited for the elevator that wasn’t stopp-
ing at the sixth floor this day. It became apparent
this was the kind of life the State had willed her to
live and she was one of the lucky ones who could af-
ford to live off of the street.Finally, the elevator
stopped as passengers disembarked on her floor.
Aware of the ironies implicit in this whole dreadful
conclusion to the life and death of BJC in New York,
we climbed aboard and descended with the others
prepared to quit the Martha Washington Hotel for
Women, forever. 0
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January 30, 1987

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Aspects 7a

Jennifer Van Dyck and Rafael Ferrer in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge.

Capital Rep’s
spectacular View

‘ow [waul: interjection-used to ex-
press pleasure, surprise, or strong
feeling.

Wow n. [waul: a striking success: HIT

Wow n. [waul: The Capital Rep’s pro-
duction of Arthur Miller’s A View From
The Bridge.

Matthew Mann

The stage was small and the props were
simple yet the performance was grand. The
drama was intense leading the audience to
laugh, cry, and feel the characters’ every
emotion.

Starting in darkness, the narrator,
Alfieri, sets the scene and begins the story
of Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American
longshoreman who lived in the shadow of
the Brooklyn Bridge in the late 1940's.

All action takes place in or near the Car-
bone’s simply furnished apartment.
Although it is a small platform, the stage
adequately represents an apartment. When
characters are on stage, they are in the
wall-less apartment; when they are in the
pit they are in the neighborhood.

Eddie Carbone is extremely over protec-
tive of his seventeen year old niece,
Catherine, and refuses to allow her to grow
up. She has a job offer but he wants her to
finish school before going to work.

Enter the scene, two submarines (illegal
immigrants), cousins of Eddie’s wife,
Beatrice, who come to live with them and
to earn money to send to their family in
poverty strickened Italy. Marco, one of the
submarines, is married with three kids to
feed. Although he says little, his strong
presence is felt throughout. His brother,
Rodolpho, proudly declares “I want to be
an American“.

Eddie doesn’t like Rodolpho because he’s
“not right.” He's blonde, cooks, sings and
sews.

Catherine and Rodolpho fall in love and
intend to marry, Eddie objects. (It is im-
plied that Eddie has romantic interest in
Catherine). He tries to prove to Catherine
that Rodolpho is “not right” by kissing him.
When he is unable to prevent the wedding,
he, against his own advice, calls
immigration.

Beatrice convinces him to, change his
opinion of the marriage, but not in time to

avoid immigration officials from arresting
Marco and Rodolpho.

Marco, while in custody, disgraces Eddie
in front of the neighbors. Suffering from
the sin of hubris, Eddie needs to regain his
honor which ultimately leads to his
dramatic death.

Between scenes, the theatre blacks out as
the audience is reminded that this is a nar-
rative recollection by Alfieri.

The drama is powerful and the audience
is on the edge of their seats throughout the
performance. Because the theatre is so
small, the audience is silently involved in
the show. When Eddie pulls his knife on
Marco, hearts stop. Sitting in the front row,
the knife is so near that one easily feels as
threatened as Marco.

The drama was intense,
leading the audience to

laugh, cry, and feel the
characters’ every emotion.

Eddie Carbone, as played by Michael
Fischetti, was both a tough longshoreman
and an emotional family man. His dialect
and Brooklynism were perfect with such
lines as “don’t trust nobody”, “most people
ain't people,” and “you don’t know nuttin.”

Director Tony Gordon made clever use
of the stage. Despite its physically small
size characters moved continuously and
unhindered as if on a larger Broadway
stage. While using every available inch, the
stage remained uncluttered, with no single
area being overused. Bringing the
characters out practically into the audience
served to further enhance this superb
production.

While the performance of the entire cast
was superior, some accents and dialects
were off. The accents of Marco (Lawrence
Palmisano) and Rodolpho (Raphael Ferrer)
were underdone and the intonation of
Alfieri (Sully Boyar) was more Yiddish
than Italian in origin.

The action climbed continuously, each
scene reaching a new pinnacle, thus
culminating in a powerful and emotional
climax and denoument.

Davis and Dee
carry the torch

ast Monday, January 26 at 8:00

p.m, actors Ossie Davis and Ruby

Dee gave a concert. When the term
concert is generally used around college-
aged persons lovely images of men with
long, dyed hair and distorted string in-
struments attempting to draw blood from
their listeners’ inner ears flash through
one’s mind,

Michael Andrews

Although this may disappoint those who
enjoy these shows of true artistic talent, the
performance of Davis and Dee was one of
poetry and prose, not volume and
vulgarity.

There was a time when this sort of show
was welcomed by the masses. When two
true storytellers were enough to captivate
an audience and, if given a chance to do so,
could easily control a crowd today
However, it is hard to captivate a captive
audience. In a multi-media marketplace
there simply just does not seem to be
enough interest in this kind of display or
the messages expressed. This is particularly
confusing when one looks at modern
entertainment trends. All things con-
sidered, the storyteller has rarely been in
such an enviable position.

Pethaps if everyone were able to have a
talk with Davis and Dee conventional ideas
of the storyteller, the fablist and the social
commentator. They are self-assured, well
spoken and talented communicators. To
hear them refer to the earlier days of their
careers and times of “waiting for
Hollywood or Broadway to call” makes
one realize that these are two seasoned,
show business educated and cultured peo-
ple, as well as performers. They are
beyond the status of simple entertainers,
however.

The role they play is one of educators as
well. Davis and Dee spoke of the lower
level of racial acceptance in this country.
They also spoke of pride, which seems to
be something they know a good deal about
and justifiably. Even the readings they
chose to perform seem to carry a message,
one that is brought to life by their abilities
as showmen. Their readings of Gwendolyn
Brooks and Langston Hughes carry weight

{

on two levels: one of a literary greatness
and another of a personal signifigance that
almost shakes one into taking notice and
believing in the words that generally are
convincing enough on the printed page.

How can they do this, one might ask.
They are able to achieve this because they
are true actors and so much more. Davis
and Dee are social commentators and
conscience-raisers. They are not overly
critical, though. There is a sense that they
believe that an honest goodness is what
forges the manners of men and it is this
faith in the human spirit that makes them
so pleasant to listen to.

In Manhattan there are hundreds of ac-
tor’s workshops. Some will even boast a
famous alumnus, while most will only re-
mind you of their former student who now
does a popular floor wax commercial. I
wonder if these ‘clinics’ for tommorrow's
performers might take a lesson or two, or
even ten, from Davis and Dee on the art of
message-conveying. Instead of just convin-
cing yourself that you are the character,
convince the audience that you are the per-
son you are attempting to portray. If you
convince them well enough, something
you say might just have some weight.

It is doubtful that Davis and Dee will
ever be given the chance to share their
message with a large audience, a message
of pride and hope, one of striving and of
joy. What is inost saddening is that neither
of them will probably live to see their
words, or the words of their choosen poets,
become reality. The reality they face is one
of underlying prejudice that one who has
had to face it in everyday life could only
understand and only a master storyteller
could convey.

The day when the issue is not prejudice
but one of people is sometime off. Sad, but
the scars of racial tension will probably not
be healed by the works of just two actors,
no matter how talented. The end result?

Well, certain parts of the population will
never get the chance to know each other.
Perhaps that does not bother everyone, but
when you think of just how few people
you actually do become close to, is it wise
to lessen your pool of choice? Ossie Davis
and Ruby Dee do not think so. Oo

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January 30, 1987

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Cacophonous Votive with Civilized Evil, Thu, February 5.
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Albany Institute of History and Art

Betty Warren: A 40 year retrospective exhibition of contemporary
law paintings, through February 22. Folk Art: 18th to early 20th
century paintings, drawings, textiles, societal and archictectural
artifacts, through February 22. Country Churches: 65 new black and
white photos tracing 18th and 19th century church heritages, through
February 8. Institute panel presentations every Thursday at noon.
Harmanus Bleeker Center

Faculty sculpture and photography exposition beginning February 6.
Rice Gallery
Interplay: Annual juried fine art exposition, through February 21.
New York State Museum 3

Statue of Liberty: a contemporary, graphic view, through February 1.
The Ice Age Returns, The Elegance of Yesteryear. The Construction
of the Mastodonts workshop, Sun, February 15.

Schenectady Museum and Planetarium
Journey into Space, through February 28. Edison Hall of History, Out
of the Ordinary, Horizons Under the Sea. Exhibition by the National
Association of Women’s Artists. Children’s dinosaur exhibit.

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Music. | February 7 through March 8.

Cohoes

SUNYA Campus Center

A-P.B.. with Mambo-X, presented by University Concert Board,
Tuesday, February 3. Husker Du with Christmas, February 10.
Spa Little Theatre

Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers, February 7, 8, 13-15.

Dance | Im Getting My Act Together and ESIPA at the EGG
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THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

Night of the Living Dead Chipmunks

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and the coconut-like sound of their heads
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987 () ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 15

Surveys blaming mergers
for dim grad job prospects

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Thanks to the
merger mania that swept through cor-
porate America in 1986, student job pro-
spects for this spring seem dimmer than
last spring’s, two recent national surveys
of company hiring plans indicate.

And grads this year are likely to be
tested for drug use or AIDS before getting
a job.

Michigan State’s annual survey, released
in late December, found that big com-
panies in particular have cut back their
plans for hiring new college grads.

A Northwestern University study releas-
ed at the same time predicts demand for
1987 grads will mirror 1986 hiring, but
employers say they will screen applicants
more closely than before, and starting
salaries — while increasing an average of
2.1 percent — will lag behind inflation.

Both Michigan State and Northwestern
observers blame the unprecedented wave
of corporate mergers and acquisitions that
reached record levels last year.

“Downsizing, consolidations, mergers
and acquisitions have cost the country jobs
in some of our biggest and best paying cor-
porations,’’ said Victor Lindquist, Nor-
thwestern’s placement director and author
of the annual Endicott-Lindquist Report.

About 56 percent of companies Lind-
quist surveyed said they had intentionally
reduced their managerial staffs during the
last year through reorganization, hiring
freezes, termination without severance or
early retirement incentives.

Michigan State’s annual survey of 700
businesses also found the biggest com-
panies are the ones cutting back the most,
reports MSU survey co-author Patrick
Scheetz.

For example, companies with more than
10,000 employees said they would hire 9.3

percent fewer new colege grads this spring,
Scheetz said. Firms with 5,000 to 10,000
employees will cut new hiring by 1.5
percent.

General Motors. for one, faced with
falling profits,announced in late
December it will halt college recruiting ef-
forts altogether.

In response, area colleges are trying to
bring smaller firms to campus to recruit.
“We're expanding our job days to small
and medium-size companies,”’ said Janis
Chabica, director of Cooperative Educa-
tion at the University of Michigan-Flint.

But, while hiring will increase among
smaller companies with 500 to 1,000
employees — overall hiring will slip 2.4
percent nationally, Scheetz said.

“This year, the demand will be in mid-
sized and small companies,”’ he explained.
“Many larger organizations are merging
and downsizing. If they can’t make a pro-
duct they need themselves, they’re farming
the job out to smaller companies. Hence
the growth of smaller operations.

“There’s an element of global competi-
tion now ‘so companies are looking to do
more with fewer employees.”

Firms also are cutting hiring plans
because they’re unsure what 1987’s
economy will be like, Lindquist said.

“Only three percent [of the firms
surveyed] expect a [business] downturn,
but some employers are still cautious
about 1987 because of concerns about the
economy, the continuing exportation of
American jobs, the deficits in foreign trade
and our national debt,’’ he said.

Nevertheless, hotel and restaurant
management, marketing and sales, educa-
tion, electrical engineering, computer
science, retail and accounting majors
should get a lot of job offers, Scheetz said.

INTERESTED IN

SOCIAL WORK?

An interest meeting for all students
will be held THURSDAY, Febuary
5, 1987, on ULB 95 from
4:30-6:30. Jan Hagen, Chair,
Undergraduate Social Welfare Pro-
gram, will be available to talk with
you about the profession and social
work courses.

Applications for the social welfare
major will be available at the
meeting. Applications may also be
obtained in ULB 95, Richardson
105, on by calling 442-5321. The
application deadline is March 1.

For further information. Call Dr.
Hagen at 442-5321.

University Auxiliary Services

and

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER SPRING PROGRAMS

FEBRUARY

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
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For more information

or copies of this
schedule, visit the

Center.

Phone: 442-5515
ULB 69

ORIENTATION: A program which provides information on the services of tie office
and how to use tnem.

RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS: Instructional session on how to write resumes and cover
letters.

JOB SEARCII: Participants learn to organize and conduct a job search.

INTRODUCTION TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Participants learn about process and procedures
for on-campus recruitment program. Highly recommended for those who hope to interview

with companies recruiting on campus.

LIBRARY RESOURCES: Career-related resources which may be found in the university, public
and career libraries are identified.

DISCOVER: Participants learn how to use the new DISCOVER program, a computer-assisted
career search program. Includes analysis of skills, interests, career possibilities.
Required for those wishing to use the program.

INTERVIEWING SKILLS: Participants learn about and discuss skills and techniques for
successful on-campus and on-site interviews.

RESEARCHING EMPLOYERS: Participants learn to identify resources and conduct research
which provides information on potential employers.

FIRST JOB: Learn how to keep a new job from turning sour-

Mandatory English tests for

foreign TAs spark debate

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Illinois has
become the fourth state in the union to re-

* quire that foreign-born grad students who

teach college classes pass tests proving they
can speak English well.

Many campus officials — as well as
Gov. James Thompson — opposed the
new law, which goes into effect next term.

Many schools already require foreign-
born teaching assistants (TAs) to pass
language tests before they are allowed ‘to
teach. But now some state legislators want
to make such tests mandatory at public
campuses, overriding the protests of ad-
ministrators who say in-house proficiency
tests are sufficient.

So far, only four states — Florida,
Ohio, Missouri and Illinois — have
legislated teacher English proficiency tests.
Other states are considering such laws or
waiting for colleges to implement their
own programs.

In Missouri legislators grew tired of stu-
dent complaints that they couldn’t unders-
tand classroom teachers. Saying schools
were too slow in responding to the pro-
blem, they passed a law to require teacher
testing at the universities of Missouri in
Columbia and Rolla, the campuses with
the most numerous foreign TAs.

“The faculty said the law was
discriminatory because not all TAs were
tested,’’ said Dr. Judy Vickrey of the state
Coordinating Board for Higher Educa-
tion. ‘‘But the legislature ruled it was too
late for the schools to handle the problem
on their own.”

Democratic Rep. Barbara Pringle in-
troduced the Ohio measure after her
daughter complained she couldn’t unders-
tand some foreign-born teachers at Ohio
State and Kent State.

STEP TUTORS WANTED

$4.00/hr.

The Science Technology and Entry
Program wants qualified College
Students to tutor high school students
in an afterschool program in Regents
Maths and Sciences

Mondays-Thursdays. From
3:00-5:00pm
Located at Albany High School

Qualified applicants must have an overall GPA
of 2.5 and a GPA of 3.0 in either Math or
Science.

Interested applicants should inquire in the Stu-
dent Services Center-Rm CC 137

“[’m very proud of the bill,” Pringle
said.‘‘Several other states “have such
legislation or are working on it.”

The problem is a relatively recent one,
tracing back to the influx of foreign
students into American graduate programs
in recent years.

As a result, more foreign-born TAs were
assigned to lead undergraduate courses,
especially in scientific disciplines where the
vast majority of native students skip grad
school and go directly into the job market.

In the process, however, undergrads
began to complain they had trouble
understanding the TAs, who sometimes
had little expertise in English.

“It’s safe to say more schools are begin-
ning to require English language proficien-
cy tests for both teachers and teaching
assistants,” said Paul Jones of the Council
of Graduate Schools in America.‘‘There’s
pressure from students and from
legislatures both.’”

The Illinois law ‘‘had the support of
students, of student governments
statewide and substantial support in both
houses of the legislature,” said Kirk Hard
of the University of Illinois’ governmental
relations office.

“But universities and faculty generally
opposed the bill. The Uniyersity of Illinois
felt the situation would be better handled
on a case by case basis,”’ he said.

Gov. Thompson opposed the bill, Hard
said, because ‘‘it cuts out experts in many
high tech areas. It’s cultural elitism,
isolationism.”

Hard added that ‘James Madison
couldn’t have lectured in Illinois because
he had a speech impediment. It would have
eliminated such people as Albert Einstein”
from teaching in the state.

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“SENIOR WEEK”
IS
CANCELLED!

Instead ...
Let’s make it a
SENIOR SEMESTER!

Class Council of 1987
general interest meeting
Monday/February 2nd, 1987
at 6:30 p.m.

Lecture Center 19

(Senior week is not cancelled, but let’s start the fun NOW!
Student Association Recognized

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Cal
State-Chico, Miami (Fla.), San
Diego State, Vermont and Slip-
pery Rock are the biggest party
schools in the United States,ac-
cording to a Playboy Magazine
list of the nation’s Top 40 Party
Colleges.

Playboy said it compiled the list
by interviewing student leaders at
“‘more than 250 colleges
nationwide.’”

But while students at the nam-
ed schools generally seemed
amused by the list, administrators
— some locked in mortal battle to
get more funding by convincing
legislators their campuses are
beacons of academic excellence —
have reacted with outrage.

Officials at West Virginia,
Mississippi, Cal State-Chico, Ver-
mont, Miami and other schools
the list protested their inclusion in
the list, sometimes calling press
conferences to make the point.

But Playboy staffers reply the
list was done ‘‘obviously as a fun
thing, not to put down academic
qualities.””

“T have a feeling ad-
ministrators are saying,
“*Harumph,harumph,we don’t
think we should be on this list,”
said Playboy spokesman Bill
Paige.

In one of the milder responses,
Mississippi Vice Chancellor
Gerald Turner said,“‘I’d rather
not be on their list,” while
University of Tennessee Vice
Chancellor Phil Scheurer called it
a“‘blessing”’ to be left off the list.

“The Number Two ranking
puzzles me,”’ said Miami Student
Affairs official Bill Mullowney.

“We have ample social life here,
but I’d be interested in knowing
the criteria of the study, who they
talked to, what they observed.”’

“If we’re Number Two in the
country as a party school, we do
even better academically,’’
Mullowney added.

“J don’t think they [Playboy
staffers] were ever on this cam-
pus,’ complained a Cal State-
Chico spokesperson. ‘‘I don’t

<pFRIDA ¥,, JANUARY 30,:1987, G>ALBAN¥ STUDENT PRESSIFQ

Playboy’s ‘party school’ list angering officials

think it was very accurate
Teporting.’’

Chico students agree, claiming
they don’t party any more than
students on any other campus.

“Tt’s a nice label to tag on the
school, but the survey must not
have been very extensive,’’ said
student government President
Greg Hill. ‘Students here enjoy a
party atmosphere, but they’re
here to study. They know their

purpose.’”

However Paige said Playboy
asked students to rank their own
schools and others in their states.
On each campus,seven to ten
students were questioned about
the number of parties held on
campus, other entertainment op-
portunities and who attended
such social gatherings.

“Obviously, we didn’t call the
campus librarian on a Tuesday

night,” Paige said.

At Miami, Playboy might not
have been able to reach many
students on Tuesday night either.
Almost 60 percent of the students
are commuters, a demographic
that minimizes partying, some
students say.

“The Miami area is very big,
very interesting, and there’s lots
to do,’’ explained UM senior
Juan’ Diaz.

‘If it can stand still, well print on it!”

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20 Sports ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987

Danes busy over break

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He forced several shots with his
team leading by a comfortable
margin.

“‘We may have been able to get
better shots,’’ said Cardinal
guard Guy Garrow. “We were a
bit impatient at the end.

Adam Ursprung scored eight of
his season high 27 points in a four
minute stretch late in the second
half to stake the Danes to a two
point lead, 78-76.

Brett Axelrod hit two big free
throws with 1:25 left to ice the
contest.

Two nights later the Danes
found themselves in the visitors
locker room in Potsdam’s Maxcy
Hall wondering just what had
gone wrong in their 75-69 loss to

the Bears, winners of last year’s
Division III Naitonal Champion-
ship and owners of a 48 game win
streak, :

Everyone involved agreed
Albany had played well enough to
break Potsdam’s 48 game win
streak. The Danes had not been
intimidated by the taunts and
chants from the Potsdam student
section that so often unravels
visiting teams here. Strategically,
they played the game they needed
to if they were to upset the Bears.
And they had actually outre-
bounded the taller Bears by a
43-33 margin. But in the end, it
turned out that the Danes were
stabbed in the back by their most
trusted friend: the three-point
field goal.

Thirteen times in the second
half the Danes launched shots
from beyond the 19 foot-9 inch
stripe and only three times these
shots found their mark. Sauers
acknowledged that the missed
three-point . opportunities were
critical in the outcome of the
contest.

“Our three-point shooters,
O'Connell and Goodemote; just
couldn’t connect. They missed
shots they usually make,’’ said
Sauers.

Albany had no trouble finding
the bottom of the net in the open-
ing minutes of the contest,
however.

The Danes jumped out to an
8-0 lead and made it clear they
had no intention of losing a game

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“This may have been the best
I’ve ever prepared a team,’’ said
Sauers.

Down only, 37-35 at the half,
the Danes didn’t have the depth
to stay with the Bears.
Sophomore Joe Smith came off
the bench and scored 12 second
half points to lead the Bears in
one of their patented scoring
spurts, and the Bears maintained
a four to eight point lead for the
remainder of the contest.
Ursprung had 15 points to lead
the Danes in scoring.

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year with the aforementioned
Great Dane Classic. Adam
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bounds in an 80-73 win over
Westfield.

The Dane’s opponent in the
Championship Game of the tour-
nament was St. Anselm, big win-
ners over St. Lawrence in their
preliminary game. Everyone on
the balanced St. Anselms squad
ended up in the scoring column as
they triumphed, 59-55. Cinque
was the high scorer, registering 16
points on seven for nine shooting.
Carmello was the only other Dane
to score in double figures. He had
14,

The Danes took the crosstown
bus for a January 6th date with
RPI. The Danes came out of the
gate quickly and took a 40-26 lead
at the half. RPI made a strong se-
cond half showing but went down
to Albany 26-76. Cinque,
Carmello, Axelrod, and Ursprung
all scored in double figures with
Cinque again claiming high scor-
ing honors, this time with 21
points. Ursprung had 13 rebound
and Axelrod, 12.

On January 10th Staten Island
visited University Gym and came
away with a 69-54 win. Down by
just three points at halftime, the
Danes didn’t have the firepower
to stay with this traditionally
strong Division III squad. Also
hurting the Danes was sub-par
performances from co-captains
Ursprung and Cinque. Ursprung
had 10 points to lead the Danes.

Perhaps the finest moment for
the Danes over winter break came
in Clinton, New York, home of
nationally ranked Hamilton Col-
lege. The Danes had not beaten
the Continentals at Hamilton in
five years, and had lost a hotly
contested contest last year at
home, Each team scored 38 points
in the first half. Each scored 32 in
the second half. In the overtime,
however, it was Albany scoring 12
to Hamilton’s 10, and the 82-80
had the’ Danes bursting with con#
fidence going into a Jan. 17
SUNYAC game with Oneonta.

Perhaps a little too much con-
fidence. Or more likely, too little
Adam Ursprung. The senior for-
ward was out with a back injury,
but the Danes still claimed a 10
point half time lead. However,
the Red Dragons refused to quit
and pulled out a shocking 65-64
victory. Teague had 17 points for
the Danes. Oo

Ear problem
sidelines Ranger
coach for a year

New York
(AP) New York Rangers Coach
Tom Webster will be unable to
complete the season behind the
bench because of contributing
problems stemming from an
inner-ear ailment, according to
a published report today.

New York Newsday said
sources close to the situation as
saying Webster, who was ex-
amined Tuesday by ear
specialist Dr. Ronald Hoffman,
will relinquish the coaching
reins to General Manager Phil
Esposito. Webster, Esposito
and Madison Square Garden
president Richard Evans were
scheduled to meet today to
discuss the situation.

Esposito has declined com-
ment, pending an announce-
ment after the meeting.
However, he said Monday that
he would take over as coach if
Webster were unable to con-
tinue, with Webster conducting
Practices as his health
permitted. 1B
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987 (| ALBANY STUDENT PRESS Sports 21

Undefeated women swimmers keep on rolling

By Jerry L. Kahn
STAFF WRITER

The Albany women swimmers
raised their record to a perfect 8-0
with a 130-66 victory over St.
Michaels on January 24. Robin
Roche was named “‘Athlete.of the
Meet,’’since she won two events,
and participated on a winning
relay team.

Amy Foster, Mary Anne
Schmidt, Carole Elie, and Roche
led Albany to a victory in the 400
medley relay. Their time was
4:38.20.

Albany’s Christine Cawley won
the 1000 freestyle in 12:05.26.

The Danes Audrey Olson
followed that with a victory of her
own in the 200 freestyle. Her time
was 2:14.90.

Roche triumphed in the 200
I.M.; her time was 2:31.54, with
Calvosa winning the one meter
diving with a score of 1:20.05.

Albany’s Carole Elie captured
the 100 buterfly in 1:07.53, while
teammate Carol Pearl emerged
victorious in the 100 freestyle at
0:59.59.

Hannon also won the 100
backstroke, with a mark of
1:08.00.

Albany’s Nancy Smith trium-
phed in the 500 freestyle. Her
time was 6:00.67.

Roche captured the 100
breaststroke in 1:15.74 before
Albany won the 200 freestyle
relay with a time of 1:56.82. The
swimmers were Kris Cusse,
Smith, Cawley, and Mary Daly.

The swimmers square off
against Cortland tomorrow. It
will be their last regular season
road meet.

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While most of us were enjoying
the last weekend of our vacation,
the women’s swim team was tak-
ing on the Potsdam Bears and the
Oswego Great Lakers in a
triangular meet. The Danes won
the meet with 68 points. Oswego
took second with 43 points and
Potsdam came in third with a
score of 28.

Except for the 50 freestyle and
the 100 freestyle, both of which
were captured by Potsdam’s
Miller, all of the events were won
by Albany.

The 400 medley relay was taken
by Amy Foster, Carole Elie,
Robin Roche, and Andrea
Caporuscio with a time of exactly
4 and one half minutes, while
Nancy Smith triumphed in the
1000 freestyle with a mark of
12:16.92, and Kris Cusse followed
that with a victory in the 200
freestyle. Her time was 2:11.22.

Carol Pearl won the 200 in-
dividual medley coming in at
2:25.01.

Christine Cawley emerged vic-
torious in the one meter diving
with a score of 158.50, with Elie
capturing the next event, the 100
butterfly, in 1:07.20.

Foster got her second win of
the day in the 200 backstroke,
registering a time of 2:32.30.

Pearl triumphed in the 500
freestyle by finishing in 5:34.74,
while Roche finished her day by
taking the 200 breaststroke in
2:44.27.

Finally, the 400 freestyle relay
was captured by Elie, Pearl,
Cusse,and Audrey Olson with a
time of 3:57.54.

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able to edge Hamilton 48-47 on
Wednesday, January 21 at
Hamilton.

Hamilton’s Stephens, Glantz,
O’Hara, and Lynch took the first
event, the 400 medley relay, in
4:24.66. Albany’s Amy Foster,
Robin Roche, Mary Daly, and
Audrey Olson placed second.

Albany’s Kris Cusse captured
the 1000 freestyle with a time of
11:54.31. Hamilton’s Bosch
finished second with a mark of
12.04.60.

The 200 freestyle was taken by
Albany’s Carol Pearl in 2:06.99.
Hamilton’s Stephens came in se-
cond at 2:09.67.

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intensity.

“Tt looked like they were still
thinking about the Potsdam
game,” said Sauers, referring to
Saturday’s narrow 75-69 defeat at
the hands of the Bears, the top
ranked Division II squad in the
nation.

“The Potsdam game was very
emotionally draining for us. It
always takes something out of
us,”’ he said.

“It’s typical of us to start out
slow,’’ said Axelrod. ‘‘We
weren’t contesting shots, weren’t
rebounding when we’re not
pumped, it all shows up on the
defensive end.”’

But Cortland made it clear in
the second half that they would
not make Albany pay for its slow
start.

Usually a very good shooting
team, Cortland had a miserable

Albany’s Carole Elie took first
place in the 50 freestyle with a
time of 0:26.86 and Hamiton’s
Lynch and Glantz tied for second
at 0:26.96.

The 200 individual medley was
won by Hamiton’s O’Hara in
2:20.00; second place went to
Harmes of Hamilton in 2:27.28.

Albany’s Pearl also captured
the 200 butterfly in 2:26.96, while
Hamilton’s Harmes placed se-
cond at 2:34.87.

Albany’s Elie also triumphed in
the 100 freestyle. Her time was
0:58.01. Hamilton’s Lynch came
in second with a time of 0:58.57.

The 200 backstroke was taken
by Hamilton’s Stephens in

0-9 shooting stretch from the
floor in the middle of the second
half as the Danes went on a 20-3
tear. The Red Dragons shot just
36 percent from the field for the
game.

“T don’t know what it was,”
said veteran head coach Bill
Williams. ‘‘Wayneright, Barr,
Grabosky, they all missed a ton of
easy shots. But give Albany
credit. They’re a good team and
they play scrappy defense.”’

Indeed, Albany’s defense was
the prime benefactor of its of-
fense. Two sparkling steals by
Cinque and rough rebounding
from Teague, Ursprung, and Ax-
elrod keyed the 20-3 run, which
occured between 16:30 are 6:50 in
the second half.

Ursprung copped the run with
a reverse dunk that gave Albany
its largest lead of the night, 61-46,
and further pumped up a crowd

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2:25.61. Albany’s Foster came in
second with a mark of 2:29.01.

The 500 freestyle was captured
by Albany’s Pearl in 5:39.40, and
Albany’s Cusse came in second
with a time of 5:46.13.

Hamilton’s Glantz took the 200
breaststroke in 2:35.77, while
Albany’s Roche finished second
at 2:43.20.

Albany’s Olson, Cusse, Anrea
Caporuscio, and Elie captured the
400 freestyle medley with a time
of 3:54.66. Hamilton’s Bosch,
O’Hara, Schroeder, and Harmes
placed second in 3:58.62.

The next meet will be against
Cortland on Saturday on the
road. o

that has already proved that not
all University gym crowds must
resemble the library during finals
week.

“Yes, I believe the crowd was
more vocal than I remember,”
said Williams.

Sauers substituted freely
following Ursprung’s dunk.
Although his second team gave up
ten straight points and prompted
him to put his starters back in,
Sauers had nothing but praise for
his reserves.

“They’re good players. I have
confidence in them,”’ he said.

Albany was paced by
Ursprung, who has been playing
better than ever after missing the
Oneonta game with an injury.
The Senior scored 21 points and
had another strong night on the
boards, grabbing 13 caroms. Cin-
que had 13 points and 10 assists.

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22 Sports ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987

Sailmaker switches course in America’s Cup

Fremantle, Australia
(AP) Howie Marion was born in Virginia,
grew up in California and lived in Connec-
ticut, an American from sea to shining sea.

So why is he working for the enemy in
the America’s Cup yacht racing series?

A sailmaker by trade and a nomad by in-
clination, Marion goes with the shifting
employment -winds.

. For now, he ties up at Australia’s dock.
Dennis Conner will steer Stars and Stripes
in the Cup finals starting Saturday against
Australia’s Kookaburra III, which will be
powered by sails from Marion’s program.
“T have worked all over the world,” said

Women cagers

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wright, who led with 10 points, were
other high scorers at half time. For the
Danes, junior Donna Hughes led with 13
points on six for 11 shooting from the
floor. Point guard Chris LaBombard

chipped in eight points and four steals as
well.

For the next seven minutes the —

two teams exchanged baskets until the
Cardinals tied it up at 66-66 by baskets
scored by Dixon and Nystrom.

By the 5:21 mark Plattsburgh had their
first three point lead of the game, 71-68.
Albany freshman Gina Richardson tied
up the game at 71-71 on a three point
play. Two baskets by Jensen were follow-
ed by Plattsburgh’s Carnwright and
Nystrom pulling the Cardinals to within
one point at 2:22, 75-74.

A basket by Jensen at 1:25 drew the
Danes within one, 78-77. A steal by
Hughes led to an Ellisa Parish three point
play on a break to give the Danes a two
point lead, 80-78, with 40 seconds to go.
Dixon answered that by hitting the front
end of a one and one to pull her team to
80-79.

Plattsburgh’s attempt ot tie it up failed
as they didn’t even get off a final shot.

Marion, the sail coordinator for
Kookaburra III who still considers nor-
thern California his home. ‘I worked in
Italy for a number of years, Hong Kong
for a while and on the East Coast of the
United States and the San Francisco area.

“T don’t really view the competition as
such a nationalistic quest. Dennis obvious-
fy had to beat more American syndicates
than we will have to beat and, conversely,
we’ve already eliminated four Australian
syndicates. ‘

“At this level, it’s a Grand Prix situa-
tion. You see in racing cars an Italian

The Danes were led by Jensen with 18
points and 11 rebounds. Hughes added
14 points, six steals and three assists.
LaBombard’s 10 points, four steals and
six assists aided in the win as well as
Parish’s 15 points on 7 for 11 shooting
from the floor. Richardson, a freshman,
added 11 points.

High scorers for Plattsburgh were
Carnwright with 25, Dixon with 19 and
Nystrom with 13 points and 12 re-
bounds. Plattsburgh has an excellent shot
at beingoneof the top two teams in the
SUNYAC East.

The following night in Potsdam’s
Maxcy Hall the Danes dominated a tradi-
tionally weak team. Although Albany
had only a 30-21 half time advantage,
they broke things open a bit more during
the second half. It was still a 10 point
game at 11:52, but the Danes went on a
14-4 scoring press to pull out to a 20
point, 58-38 lead at 5:17.

Albany was led by LaBombard’s 17
points, 6 assists and four steals and
Parish’s 16 points, 7-11 from the floor,
2-2 performance from the line. Hughes
contributed nine points and seven re-
bounds while both Julie Hotmer and
Jensen scored 8 points. a

driver with a French car and an English
mechanic.”

Marion, 30, attended Stanford and the
University of California. His last declared
major was comparative literature. His first
love was engineering and mathematics.

“T found that pretty easy,” said
Marion, who has been making sails for 12
years. “‘That’s what we do now. In
sailmaking, it’s basically an engineering
problem.””

He worked for the now-defunct Horizon
Sails for seven years. He came to Australia
in July 1985 seeking customers and make

By Brian Voronkov
STAFF WRITER

The Albany State women’s indoor
track and field squad had their first meet
onSunday. The Danes attended the Car-
dinal Classic at Plattsburgh State,

Erica Anderson won the shot put with
a toss of 10.87 meters. Kathy Belantoni
won the 400 meter dash with her time of
104.4 seconds.

Michele Kirker placed second in three
events. Her first place finish was in the
55m dash with a time of 7.6 seconds.

Two standout performances came
from Mary Lou Webster in the 800m
dash and Barbara Ascher in the 3000m
tun. Webster finished second with a time
of 2:28.5. Ascher registered a personal
best time of 11:49.

Albany placed second overall out of
the six teams that participated. The host
of the tourney, Plattsburgh, took first

place with a score of 206, The Danes had

Women’s indoor trackteam
takes secondin Plattsburgh

his pitch to Kookaburra III helmsman
Peter Gilmour.

“He said, ‘Well, that’s all just fine, but
we really needed somebody to run our said
Program,’ ”’ Marion recalled. ‘“When I
looked carefully at the people involy-
ed...and discovered that they: were well
flmanced, I was very impressed. That, and
the fact that my work with Horizon was
coming to an end, I was very happy to
accept.””

“They're the people I felt I could do the
best job for and got the best opportunity

to work with. Obviously, Dennis never
even offered me a job.’’

a score of 94 and Union College followed
closely with 90 points. The Vermont
Track Club scored 10, the “On The
Road” Track club recorded eight points
and the Plattsburgh Athletic Club, six
points.

Coach Ron White commented -on his
team’s strengths and weaknesses.

“We are strong in sprints and mid yar-
dage runs but weak in the high jump,”
said White.

White thinks the relays will be solid
with more practice and that the long-
jumps are fairly respectable.

“More people turnout in the spring,”
White explained. ‘‘With the amount of
people who will be experienced in the spr-
ing, we should do well. Generally it looks
like a fairly good team.”

On Saturday Albany travels to Smith
College to compete in their second meet
of the campaign. ia

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1987 () ALBANY STUDENT PRESS Sports 23

Coach DeMeo aims for 100th victory Saturday

By Al Baker
STAFF WRITER

In his eight years as head coach
of the Albany State wrestling
team, Joe DeMeo has pinned
down a 99-45 record. With a win
against either the Coast Guard
Academy, an honorable mention
team with national recognition,
Keene College, a tough school
from New Jersey, or Ithaca, rank-
ed number five in the nation in
Division III, DeMeo will grasp
number 100.

“One hundred always seems to
be a landmark match. It’s a nice
round number,’’ said DeMeo.

Perhaps the coach will get
numbers 101 and 102 also, but it
will be a matter of beating Ithaca,
who has always been a thorn in
the side of the Great Dane
grapplers.

The ninth ranked Danes have
defeated Ithaca in the States and
the Nationals, but have never
beaten them in head to head
competition.

“I’m not thinking about my
record, I’m just thinking about

getting my team into the
SUNYACs right now,” said
DeMeo. Slated for February 20,
the SUNYACs are not far away.

For the past four years in a row
Ithaca has defeated Albany by a
single point in exciting matches.
“‘We’re excited about the
challenge of facing a team ranked
fifth in the nation. We are the
underdog, but we definitely have
the right stuff to beat them this
year,’’ said DeMeo.

On Saturday the fans will get to
see one of the finest coaches in
the sport so after a landmark vic-
tory, as well as Shawn
Sheldon, Matt Ryan, Marty Pidel
and John Balog, all seniors,
wrestle for one of the last times in
their home gym.

After being out for the past few
weeks, Balog, the captain, will
return. ‘‘Rafael Santiago filled in
and did a good job, but it’s good
to get Balog, a leader with ex-
perience, back out there,” said
DeMeo.

Marty Pidel is back on the
roster for the Danes this semester,

also. After taking a second place
spot in the Wilks Open Cham-
pionship, called “‘The Rose Bowl
of Wrestling,’’ and traditionally
one of the top tourneys in the na-
tion, he looks very strong.

After beating three guys ranked
fourth, fifth and sixth in New
York state, Pidel went on to face
Greg Fatool of the Division I
N.C. State team.

“He lost in a close match, but
anyone who places in that tourna-
ment is able to be an Aill-
American. We have some
wrestlers who are as good as
anyone in the country,”’ said
DeMeo.

Senior Chris Tironi finished
third in the heavyweight division,
while Shawn Sheldon took fourth
in his class in the same
tournament.

With three and a half weeks left
to go before the SUNYACS, the”
9-3 Danes have still got some
room for improvement. After
Saturday’s meet, Albany will face
Binghamton, a very tough team,
and Cortland, a squad carrying

Albany men’s swim team beats four
teams to continue unbeaten streak

their best team in several years.

On Jan. 13, Albany faced and
defeated Williams College and
Hunter College. In the 39-15 vic-
tory over Williams, the Danes
Ben Lerner scored 18 points in a
period to defeat Kevin Cook.
Hunter was defeated by a 28-21
mark.

Sheldon took the second
Albany title in the 19-year history
of the tournament, while Tironi
took the third title.

In Albany’s 26-15 victory over
Oneonta on Jan. 20, Sheldon pin-
ned Chris Romero in 3:52. Lerner
pinned Oneonta’s Ray Doggoli in

5:41.

The loss to Springfield on Jan.
21 was a tough match for Albany.
Ivan Katz, filling in for the sick
Tironi, was winning the match 3-1
with one minute left to go.

‘‘He’s [Ivan] capable of winn-
ing. He was leading the whole
way, but lost it in the last
minute,’’ said DeMeo.

Against Potsdam, Sheldon
defeated Dave Agosto by a
technical fall in 4:10, as did
Lerner in 4:40 over Potsdam’s
Ron Kuty.

Saturday’s match will be held
m.in UniversityGym.

By Brian Voronkov
STAFF WRITER

Since returning from winter break, the Albany
State men’s swim team has had a busy schedule.
The team had meets with Oswego, Potsdam, St.
Michaels College and RPI.

Albany swam a dual meet against Oswego and
Potsdam. Albany soundly defeated Oswego by a
score of 76 to 37. The Danes beat Potsdam, this
time winning by a score of 67 to 42. The Danes won
10 out of 13 races.

In their first home meet, held last Saturday, the
Danes defeated St. Michaels. St. Michaels scored 75
points to Albany’s 128. Albany swept the 500
freestyle, placing Mike Jackson, Pat McElerney,
and Rick Van Brunt in the top three spots. Albany
also swept the 200 freestyle.. Van Brunt took first,
Jackson second and senior Jim Neiland placed
third.

The Danes latest meet was against the Engineers
of RPI. Albany defeated RPI by a score of 113 to
98. In the first race, the 400 medley relay, the Danes
took first with a team consisting of Burton,
Jackson, McElerney and captain Fred Greenbaum.
They had a time of 4:07.9.

The next race was the 1000 freestyle, and was
won by an RPI swimmer. Albany’s Peter Farman

followed closely, taking second with a time of
11:20.98. Greenbaum took second in the 200 yd!
freestyle, sticking close to the first place swimmer
all the way. McElerney won the 50yd free, and
Michael Koutelis took second place, finishing right
behind McElerney.

Albany’s Ed Burton won the individual medly
with a time of 2:03.47. Burton, who jumped ahead
in the butterfly portion of the event, was quickly
gained upon by RPI’s Verdier. Burton held on to
win by only .23 seconds.

Senior Michael Vardy won both diving events
and Ed Kaminsky placed third in the 1m event-and
second in the 3m.

Burton won the 200 backstroke with a time of
2:03.35.

Farman placed a disappointing third in the S00yd
freestyle.

Jackson’s time of 2:20.41 in the 200 breastroke
placed him second. Captain Doug Ketterér, Far-
man, Pogoda and Wilson swam to a second place
finish in the 400 free relay.

Ed Burton was awarded the “‘Swimmer of the
Meet’’ honor for his two first place finishes.

The undefeated Danes travel to Cortland on Jan.
31. The Danes next home meet is on Feb. 6 versus
Binghamton. Oo

‘MIKE ACKERMAN UPS:
MCDUFF, THE GREAT DANES’ BIGGEST FAN, was a bun-
die of nerves during the early moments of Wednesday’s
game with Cortland. His fears proved ill-founded however,
as the Dane’s went on to an easy win.

Dane dozen runs respectably at Boston meets

By Steven Silberglied
STAFF WRITER

Twelve athletes represented the Albany
State track team this past weekend in
Boston. On Saturday, the Danes attended
the Boston Terrier classic at Boston
University, and on Sunday they par-
ticipated in the Greater Boston Track
Classic at Harvard University.

Both of these meets are extremely com-
petitive, as they anually attract the top
Division I schools in the country. The
Danes did themselves proud with a very
respectable showing, which included three
new school records. :

At the Terrier classic, sophomore
Stephen Thompson shatterred the school’s
800 meter record by recording a time of
1:55.1.. Thompson has consistently
lowered his time this winter, giving him an
excellent chance to qualify for the
nationals.

He remarked after the race, ‘I thought
my first quarter (55.9) was a little slow, but.
I’m happy with the result. I’m sure I could
lower my time by going out a little
harder.”

Senior Tim Hoff also performed well,
winning his heat in the 1500 meters. His
time was 4:01.9, which is even more im-
pressive when it is considered that he ran
much of the race alone.

Albany coach Roberto Vives said of
Hoff, ‘‘He is running the same times this
early in the season that he did at the end of
outdoors last year, so this is a good sign.
Every race Tim runs he seems to get more
mentally tough.”

Junior Mike Bizzovyi also ran well for the
Danes. He tied his personal best time, 7.9,
in his specialty, the 55 meter hurdles.

fhe next day Thompson broke another
School record, this me in the 880 yard
run. Once again his first quarter was a
shade under 56 seconds. He finished with a
time of 1:56.6.

Though it was tough running on con-
secutive days,Thompson thought he had
risen to the challenge.

“I think running some cross country
races this year helped my stamina,”
Thompson remarked. “I didn’t feel tired
on Sunday, and ! think this will help me in

future meets,”’he added.

Later in the day, Thompson, Bruce
Gaynor, Vernon Miller, and Bizzovi ran in
the mile relay,and once again the result
was a shattered school record.

Thompson (51.0), Gaynor (53.3), Miller
(49.7), and Bizzovi (53.4) ran the race
“stacked” for the first time this season. It
was the first meet back for Gaynor and
Bizzovi after various injuries. The quartet
hopes to lower their time in order to
qualify for the nationals.

Coach Vives said of the relay, “‘Con-
sidering Mike and Bruce had been injured,
this is a good time for them. We ran the
team together to break the record and they
did. I was also happy with Vernon’s leg, he
js a super relay runner.’”

Freshman Mark Allman had a big
breakthrough in the 5000 meters. His time
was 15:21, which is the fastest time an
Albany freshman has run in that event.
Allman beat a personal best time by 22
seconds.

The Danes record stands at 1-1 as the
result of a triangular meet at Williams two

weeks ago. The host team won the meet
with 65 points, and was followed by
Albany’s 50 and Springfield’s 49.

Miller and Hoff were the top'performers
for Albany. Miller won the 1500 and 1000
meters. Hoff enjoyed a fine day by winn-
ing the 3000 meters and led the two mile
relay to a second place finish.

Miller used two different approaches to
winning his races. In the 1500 he surged
ahead on the last straight away to win with
a time of 4:09.6. By contrast, he led from
the gun in the 1000 and hung on to win in
2:40.6.

Hoff won the 3000 meters in 8:57.5. He
ran a controlled race, then exploded from
the field with a half mile remaining. Hoff’s
2:06 half-mile time in the two mile relay
ensured the Danes second place in the
meet.

The Danes will be busy this weekend.
Today, Thompson, Miller, Hoff, and
Dave Reinhardt travel to Madison Square
Garden to compete in the two mile relay at
the prestigous Wannamaker Milrose
Games. Tomorrow, the rest of the team
travels to face their arch rivals, R.P.I. O

Sports Friday

Dane wrestling coach
Joe DeMeo goes for
his 100th win.

See page 23

JANUARY 30, 1987

Great Danes hold second in tight SUNYACrace

Albany loses to
Potsdam, upsets
Cards, Hamilton

By Mike Brewster
SPORTS EDITOR

In addition to Wednesday night’s
contest with Cortland, the Great
Dane men’s hoop team has seen
plenty of action during January
while most students were on
vacation.

Last week’s road trip up north to
Potsdam and Plattsburgh were the
first games played since classes
resumed. An upset win over
Hamilton was the highlight of the
games played over winter break. The
Danes also hosted the Great Dane
classic in early January as well as
several other non-conference games.

The Plattsburgh game took on
special significance due to the grow-
ing opinion around the league that
Plattsburgh has improved enough to
challenge the Danes for the right to
play second fiddle to the top-ranked
team in the nation, Potsdam State.
Indeed, Plattsburgh area papers
touted the game as a major test for
the first year coach Brian Riley and
the refurbished Cardinal program.
Albany showed, however, that they
are not quite willing 'to slip behind
Plattsburgh in the SUNYAC as they
registered a 93-89 win.

The Danes jumped to a 50-37
halftime lead, but, Plattsburgh’s
Holman Harley, a former starter at
Division I West Virginia, sparked the
Cardinals with an array of three-
pointers, dunks, and _ acrobatic
moves in the point. His three-pointer
with 13:10 left gave Plattsburgh it’s

MIKE ACKERMAN UPS.

The Dane’s Russ Teague goes up for an easy two during Wednesday
night’s 70-59 victory over Cortland at University Gym.

first lead of the game, 63-62. Harley
followed with another three-point
field goal shortly after and the Cards
jumped out to a 70-62 lead with
11:50 to go in the game. Albany
head coach Doc Sauers could not
find enough superlatives for Platt-
sburgh’s prize recruit.

“T would put Harley in the same

class as Randy Smith, and he played
in the NBA. As far as Harley goes,
he doesn’t have the size for the
NBA, but he could definetly play
CBA,”’ said Sauers.

However, if Harley led the Card
comeback, it was also he who allow-
ed the Danes to get back in the game.

20>

Ursprung leads Danes to victory
over Red Dragons, 70-59

By Mike Brewster
SPORTS EDITOR

After watching his team sleepwalk their way into a 9-2
deficit after four minutes of Thursday night’s contest
with Cortland, Albany State head coach Dick Sauers
resorted to a coaching technique befitting a man who has
been motivating student athletes for the past 31 basket-
ball campaigns.

“He yelled at us,” said junior Brett Axelrod.

Apparently, a good talking to was all the Danes
needed.

Axelrod, playing the finest basketball of his career, led
the Danes in a first half comeback and eventually to a
comfortable victory. The Danes are 4-2 in the SUNYAC
and 12-5 overall.

Axelrod’s basket with 14:35 remaining in the first half
made: the score 11-4 and started the Albany surge.
Following an Adam Ursprung three-point field goal and
two Russ Teague foulshots, Axelrod scored on an inside
move to trim the Cortland lead to three, 18-15, with 8:42
remaining.

Axelrod, who finished with 16 points, explained that
while he perceives his role on the squad to be that of a re-
bounder and rough defender, he is now looking for his
shot more often.

“My first year on the team I wasn’t being aggressive of-
fensively,”” said the biology-chemistry major. ‘‘Now,
game by game, I’m becoming more confident and geting
more shots.’”

The Danes tied the game at 18 with eight minutes left in
the first half on an Andy Goodemote three-point shot.
They then took their first lead of the game, 21-20, as
senior swingman Andy O’connell made a three-pointer of
his own with 6:40 remaining.

The Danes took control from then on as they utilized
their Mike Cinque-led fast break to create several easy
basket opportunities. After Cinque stole the ball and
completed a three point play, the Danes had a 33-25 lea
at intermission. ‘

His team’s eventual first half resurgence did not stop
Sauers from lamenting over his team’s early lack of

21>

a |
Dane women up

record to 6-0
in SUNYAC play

By Kristine Sauer
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

After holding onto a 81-79 win over
Plattsburgh, the Albany State women’s
basketball team trounced Potsdam 68-49
ithe following night in the second of two
SUNYAC road games last weekend.

With these two wins the Dane women
cagers remain undefeated, 6-0, in
SUNYAC play after the first half of the
league season.

The Plattsburgh Cardinals nearly ruin-
ed the Danes’ chances of a second con-|
secutive undefeated SUNYAC season
last Friday at Memorial Hall. Although
Albany held the lead for the entire first
half it was never by more than eight
points.

With 5:06 to go in the half and the
‘Danes ahead 35-27, the Cardianls, led by
‘Donna Dixon, went on t 6-0 run to draw
within two points of Albany at 35-33.
The half ended with Albany ahead 41-39.

Plattsburgh’s ability to capitalize on 15
lof 22 times. at the free throw line kept
them in the half. The Danes were in foul
trouble with 17 personal fouls. Albany's
Cindy Jensen and Plattsburgh
sophomore Kim Nystrom each led with
five rebounds apiece. Nystrom added
eight points, six from the foul line. Dix-
ion, with eight points, and J.J. Carn-

22>

Women rally to beat Cortland, 53-50

By Paul A. Lander
STAFF WRITER

When a team is down by 13 points with
less than eight minutes to play, it knows it
has to take advantage of everything it is
given.

Especially if it is free.

The Albany State women’s basketball
team did just that as they used the free
throw line to win a game it had no business
winning. The Danes improved their record
to 13-1 by defeating Cortland for the se-
cond time this season, 53-50. Cortland fell
to a 9-6 overall.

Trailing 46-33 with 7:53 remaining on
the clock, Albany put together a surge
which Cortland was unable to overcome
or prevent. The Danes, who played a very
sloppy and unmotivated first 32 minutes,
closed out of the game by outscoring Cor-
tland 20-4.

The surge was led by sophomore guard
Lisa Parrish. She hit for 10 of the Danes 20
points in the last seven-plus minutes of the
contest. Eight of the ten came from the.
charity stripe. Also contributing to the
scoring run was Kim Losalek and Chris La
Bombard.The senior co-captains each hit a
crucial pair of free throws to pull Albany
within one, 50-49. =

The Danes took the lead for good when
Parrish rebounded a missed shot by Cindy
Jensen and hit a layup with 1:10 remain-
ing. After a miss by Cortland’s Sue
Smithers, Albany ran the clock down to 22
seconds before La Bombard hit a jumper

from inside the foul line to push the lead to
53-50.

Cortland had a final chance to pull even
ona three pointer, but Michelle Wolf miss-
ed a jumper with two seconds remaining.
Kosalek pulled down the rebound to secure
the victory.

The win was not well earned by Albany.
They had been outplayed for much of the
game, especially early in the second half
when Cortland outscored them 14-2 to
build their lead to 46-33. It was only after
Dane coach Meri Warner called a timeout
that the team played what Warner called,
“‘Albany State basketball.’’

“The last five minutes showed a com-
plete attitude change. Early on they played
tentatively; like they were scared. I told
them there was lots of time left and that
they should .make good selections offen-
sively, ’’ Warner said.

Warner also said that she had to
motivate the team rather than work on
strategy with them. “I was frustrated in
the first half. They played like they were
asleep. That’s scary if you’re a coach.”

The first half saw Albany take an early
lead. Cortland stayed close for the most
part. The Danes’ largest lead was only
five, 22-17. Cortland pulled within one at
the half, 26-25, by outscoring Albany eight
to four in the final five minutes.

The second half opened with both teams
exchanging baskets for the first five
minutes. Then Cortland went on their
scoring run, only to have the Danes come
back and steal the game from them.

Parrish was top scorer for the Danes as
she finished with 16 points, including her 8
for 8 free throw shooting down the stretch.
Jensen finished with 10 points and 16 re-
bounds. Kosalek also added 10 points and
seven boards. Smithers led Cortland with
16 points and Sue Martin chipped in with
10.

The Danes host CCNY Saturday at 7:00.
They then hit the road where they will face
Hartwick on Monday and New Paltz on
Tuesday. Oo

HOWIE TYGAR UPS

Chris LaBombard leads the fast break
for the Danes.

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