Albany Student Press, Volume 76, Number 40, 1989 November 10

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

Friday

SH ALBANY. November 10, 1989
PRESS

NUMBER 40

Iron Curtain Rises
East Germany ‘opens’ Berlin wall

Berlin
(AP)East Germany’s embattled
Communist leaders said Thursday they
would throw open western borders and
allow citizens to travel freely anywhere
for the first time since the Berlin Wall was
erected in 1961.

The move would end decades of
fencing in East Germans to prevent their
flight to the West and could leave the
wall—a symbol of the differences
between East and West—as a mere
monument to the Cold War. Since 1961,
191 people are known to have died while
fleeing to the West from East Germany.

“Open the gate! Open>the gate!”
chanted about 100 East Berliners who
gathered Thursday night at the
Brandenburg Gate, the huge monument
just over the Berlin Wall in East Berlin.

New Communist leader Egon Krenz
also urged a law ensuring free and
democratic elections in a desperate
attempt to gain control of his country.

More than 200,000 East Germans have
fled West so far this year; more than
50,000 have left since Saturday alone.
Hundreds of thousands of people have
taken to the streets to.demand democratic
reforms and the end of 40 years of one-
party rule.

Guenter Schabowski, a member of the
ruling Politburo, said East Germany’s
heavily fortified frontier with West
Germany would be opened as a
provisional step until a law is passed to
allow East Germans greater freedom of
travel.

Schabowski did not say when the law
would be passed and it was not
immediately clear when the borders
would be opened. He also said East
Germany was not yet ready to tear down
all its barriers.

The decision, made during a Central

By Bryan Sierra
SENIOR EDITOR

oP REY a SS |
SA Supreme Court upholds
suspension of softball player

Committee meeting, means all East
Germans “can travel over all East German
border checkpoints,” including through the
Berlin Wall, Schabowski told reporters in
East Berlin.

Those who want to emigrate can go to
‘West Germany directly without having to
go through a third country, Schabowski
said. East Germans have been fleeing
through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and
Poland.

Schabowski said those who only want to
visit the West need visas, but that those
should be issued quickly. He mentioned no
limit about the length of stay abroad.

The offices that issue travel visas closed
for the night by the time Schabowski made
the historic announcement, and it was not
known whether visas would be issued at
border crossing. There were no immediate
teports of East Germans pouring directly
into West Berlin or West Germany.

There was no unusual activity at the
Berlin Wall an hour after the
announcement. Visitors at Checkpoint
Charlie, the crossing used by foreigners,
said it was quiet as was the
Friedrichstrasse railroad crossing.

East Germans reacted to the news’ with
astonishment and jubilation.

“Ts it really true?” asked Mario Schmidt,
18,

“Now I no longer feel locked in here,”
said Uwe Landgraf, 28, who hoped to
travel to Paris.

“T think that even some of those who
left recently will come back now,” said a
25-year-old electrician who would give his
name only as Thomas.

The Berlin Wall has divided Berlin and
the two German nations since 1961.
Communist authorities built it to stop an
exodus to West Germany. It became a
symbol of the differences between East

Continued on page 17

Randi Panich UPS.

Compiled by ASP Staff

New York Public Interest Research Group’s Environmental Reservation Project
sponsored a rally against polystyrene products (styrofoam) last Wednesday.

Nearly 150 students of SUNYA joined NYPIRG in their protest against
University Auxiliary Service’s use of this harmful product, said Laurie Valeriano,

| co-leader of the Environmental Preservation Project.

Valeriano said she spoke to inform listeners of the environmental hazards of the
manufacture and disposal of polystyrene products.

Nadya Lawson, chairperson of the Student Association Central Council also
spoke about the problems with polystyrene and of the overwhelming response
from every part of the University community, commending those 2,600 students,
faculty and staff that signed a petition protesting styrofoam.

Several other student members of NYPIRG said the product was dangerous and
spoke about its harm to the environment.

Following these speeches, a number of angered and excited ralliers marched
noisily from the small fountain in front of the campus Center to the office of E.
Norbert Zahm, general manager of UAS, delivering to his door more than a dozen
bags of used styrofoam trays that presented only a fraction of the amount of
polystyrene used in the Campus Center each day, Valeriano said.

Zahm was conveniently “out” but the students of successfully made their
opinions clear that UAS should use any of the several possible alternatives to
styrofoam, Valeriano said.

Increased resident complaints
lead to creation of task force

By Morgan Lyle

The Student Association Supreme Court recently upheld the one-
month suspension of an intramural league softball player, but also
criticized the Albany Co-ed Intramural Athletics in its handling of the
suspension.

Senior pete Scotto, a member of the Sigma Chi softball team, was
suspended by ACIA following an incident during an Oct. 11 softball
game. ACIA President Michael melman said Scotto was suspended for
charging at an umpire during the game and acting in a threatening
manner. “There was a potential to erupt into confrontation,” Melman
said,

Scotto maintained, however, that the umpire had been making
questionable calls during the whole game, and that violence was not
intended. After a homerun was called out because the baserunner, in the
umpire’s opinion, did not touch second, a teammate of Scotto’s was
thrown out of the game for arguing. Scotto was then ejected for
charging at the umpire. -

“TJ never touched him at all,” Scotto said, adding “I had every shot to
hit this kid, If there was any fear in him, he would have walked away. It
didn’t make sense for me to hit him.”

Melman said the umpire, freshman Adam Zalenski, said, “there was
defintely an implicit threat,” and that, along with the fact that Scotto
‘was on probation for an incident taking place two and a half years ago,

Continued on page 17

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Tensions between Albany
residents and off-campus
students have prompted
SUNYA and City of Albany
Officials to create a task force
which will look into the
problem, officials said.

Residents’ complaints of
crowded, noisy house parties
were made public at a “town
meeting” between Mayor
Thomas P. Whalen III and
residents of the city’s 6th,
10th, and 11th Wards two
weeks ago.

SUNYA President Vincent
O'Leary, at Whalen’s request,
created the task force and
named Vice President for
Student Affairs Mitchel
Livingston to lead it,
Livingston said.

SUNYA members of the task
force include Thomas
Gebhardt, director of off-
campus housing, Jessica Casey,
director of student activities,
and six students-three from
Greek organizations and three
appointed by the Student
Association, Livingston said.

“My goal is to have some
understanding of what’s going
on out there, and (make) some
recommendations,” Livingston
said. The city will appoint
representatives from the police
and fire departments, and
possibly others, he said.

Complaints about parties are
nothing new in Albany, but the
number of calls to police is up
sharply this year, said Albany
Police Chief John Dale.

“This year, it’s probably the
worst I’ve ever seen...as far as

the parties and the complaints
are concerned,” Dale said.
“We've always had some
complaints, but this year is the
worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve
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BS EES
Weather

It seems as if the weather|
should hold up for the

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1989

NEWS BRIEFS
The Wedd 5)

Collision kills three

Bremerhaven, W. Germany
(AP)-A Danish ferry with more than 370
aboard limped into harbor today after a
freighter struck it from behind in the
North Sea, killing three passengers and
injuring 11 other people, officials said.
Witnesses said parts of the dance lounge
of the passenger ferry Hamburg were
hanging out of a 60-foot gash in the hull
after the Wednesday night collision with
the Nordic Stream. The freighter’s deck
was littered with cocktail chairs from the
ferry.
By coincidence, the lounge was almost
empty when the crash occurred because

the conductor of the ship’s band was
feeling sick and had delayed a scheduled
evening dance by half an hour, said
officials with ferry owner Scandinavian
Seaways.

The ferry was traveling from Hamburg,
West Germany, to Harwich, England when
it was struck. Six seriously injured people
were taken by helicopter from the ferry
after the accident south of the island of
Helgoland, said an official with ferry
owner Danish Scandinavian Seaways.

Iranians unsatisfied

Nicosia, Cyprus
(AP)-An Iranian newspaper said today
that a U.S. decision to release $567
million in frozen Iranian assets is not
enough to persuade Tehran to intervene on
behalf of 18 Western hostages held in
Lebanon.

The official Islamic Republic News
Agency, monitored in Nicosia, quoted the
English-language Tehran Times as saying:
“Tran has assured the U.S. it will use its
good offices with Islamic groups in
Lebanon to do all it can to help free the
hostages, provided it shows genuine
goodwill.

“But surely, there appears to be little
sign of genuine goodwill yet,” it added.

The editorial was the first Iranian
comment on the releage of the assets
earlier this week.

The newspaper, which is close to
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, did
not elaborate on the “goodwill” Iran is
seeking before mediating a release of the
hostages held by Shiite Moslem zealots.

Agreement sought

Managua, Nicaragua
(AP)-The Leftist Sandinista goverment
enters today’s bargaining with the Contras
offering to free all pol
only after half the

-PREVIEW OF EVENTS

dismantled and all Sandinista captives are
freed.

The government’s revised plan for
disbanding the U.S.-backed rebels offers
few new elements. It goes part of the way
toward meeting Contra demands, but
carries a threat of renewed war.

At the heart of the talks is a 3-month-
old regional pact to demobilize the Contra
force- about 12,000 fighters based in
jungle camps in Honduras- by Dec. 5.
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua is
determined the deadline be met.

National elections are scheduled for
next Feb. 25 and could be at risk if
fighting resumes after 19 months of
relative quiet.

The negotiations are taking place at
U.N. headquarters in New York and
include a joint U.N.- Organization of
American States commission as well as
Sandinista and Contra delegates.

The Nation jag

X-rays/Cancer linked

Boston

(AP)-Exposure to medical X-rays during

infancy can significantly increase

women’s chances of breast cancer when
they reach their 30’s, a study confirms,

The research was based on a long-term

followup of women who were given X-
ray therapy shortly after birth for
treatment of enlarged thymus glands.
Such treatment was common until the late
1950s, when doctors realized that
seemingly enlarged thymuses were
actually normal.

Experts have long recognized that
breast tissue is extremely sensitive to the
damaging effects of radiation. Until
recently, they believed that only those
who received radiation during
adolescence or adulthood would be
harmed. However, recent followup of
Japanese girls exposed to radiation from
atomic bombs during World War II
showed they also had an increased risk of
breast cancer later in life.

Gas leak radioactive

Miamisburg, Ohio
(AP)-An accident during an experiment at
a plant that produces nuclear detonators
caused its heaviest discharge of tritium
gas in at least 20 years and contaminated
four workers, officials said.

No evacuations were necessary.

About 3.7 grams of radioactive tritium
was released Wednesday at the Mound
Nuclear Production Plant, 10 miles
southwest of Dayton.

The accident released about 10 times
the gas normally discharged from the

government-run plant each year and was
the largest at the plant since the 1960s,
said safety director Richard Neff. But he
characterized it as a minor leak.

“We don’t believe we had a significant
amount that went up,” Neff said.

The plant produces detonaters for
nuclear bombs and propulsion systems for
space vehicles.

The Steve alll

Victim returns home

Syracuse
(AP)- Seven-year-old Rosa Kazarian will
board a Soviet-bound jet under her own
power Thursday, almost 11 months to the
day that she nearly died in the earthquake
that destroyed much of her Armenian
homeland.

“When she was in a hospital in Moscow
after the earthquake, doctors weren’t
giving me much hope she would survive,”
said Ardak Kazarian, who lost his wife
and two daughters in the disaster. “But,
she said, ‘Don’t worry, Papa. I will
survive. I will walk.’ “

“She is a very determined little girl,
there’s no question about that,” said
Michael Mikaelian, chairman of the
parish council at St. Paul’s Armenian
Apostolic Church in Syracuse.

‘Iron’ will saves girl

Troy
(AP)-A 13-year-old girl displayed “an
iron constitution” when she scaled an 8-
foot fence to find help after being raped
and hit in the head with a 50-pound rock,
police said.

“This girl must have had an iron
constitution. If she didn’t have that this
would be a homicide,” Troy police
Detective Sgt. Richard McAvoy said.

Police arrested 18-year-old Lonnie Lee
Bolia, of Cohoes, shortly after the attack
Monday, charging him with attempted
murder, first-degree rape and first-degree
assault.

The girl, with blood spurting from her
head, found help at a nearby business
after the attack. She was taken to Albany
Medical Center Hospital, where doctors
reconstructed her jaw and cheekbone in
emergency surgery. She was in critical
condition, the hospital reported.

CORRECTIONS ———

Legal abortions cannot be afforded by
a poor woman, not illegal ones, as
reported in the Nov. 7 issue.

Free listings
FRIDAY, November 10

Sigma Nu is sponsoring Don't
Walk Alone tonight and
Saturday from 10:30pm-
12:30am. Call 442-5511 for
information or an escort.

SATURDAY, November 11
Minorities Assistance
Program is having an

interest meeting at 3pm in LC
11 for their upcoming Spring
Fashién Show.

Delta Phi Epsilon and Sigma
Alpha Epsilon are sponsoring
a Jog-a-thon for CRAED
from 12-3pm at the University
track.

SUNDAY, November 12
Judo Club meets in the

wrestling room of the gym at
7:30-9pm and Tuesdays at 8-

9:30pm. For info. call 489-
4353.

1990 Class Council meets at
5pm in SA Lounge in the CC.

MONDAY, November13

Fuerza Latina and the
Latino Security Council
present "Yankee Go Home,"
a series of films on US policy
Latin America, today through
Friday from3pm -4:30 pm in
the SA Lounge.

College Republicans meet at
8pm inLC 12.

University Concert Board
meets at 8pm in CC 375.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

On Campus meeting of
Alcoholics Anonymous are
presently taking place, and will
continue throughout the
semester. Call 442-5777 for
more information.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1989

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Council appoints new members to UAS board

By P.J. Marcus
STAFF WRITER

Wednesday night, Central
Council approved the
appointments of 12 students to
positions on the University
Auxiliary Services (UAS) Board
of Directors.

Council’s Internal Affairs
Committee sent bills to the
council floor recommending 14
candidates for positions. There
are a total of 15 student positions
on the board. All but two of the
bills were passed by council.

The two students not approved
were Eric Wilson and Patrick
Greene.

Internal Affairs pulled the bill
calling for Wilson’s approval
when it was determined that
Wilson, a part-time student, had
not yet paid his student activity
fee.

The fee, which is mandatory
for all full-time undergraduate
students, must be paid by any
student seeking office or
involvement in any Student
Association funded organization.
It was unclear whether or not this
also applied to student positions
on the board. Wilson is expected

to pay the activity fee this week,
and his recommendation will be
re-submitted at next week’s
meeting.

Greene, who served on the
Board of Directors last year, was
challenged by State Quad
representative Barry Robinson.
Robinson, former president of
State Quad Board, cited
problems that arose last year
when Greene served as the State
Quad Board Food Committee
chair. Robinson said that the
dining hall and kitchen managers
on State refused to listen to
anything that Greene had to say
last year, simply because of the
way in which he said it.

Debate occurred on the floor
about whether or not this issue
important enough to deny
approval. Questions were raised
as to how heavily these facts
should be weighed in light of the
fact that Greene had passed the
Internal Affairs interview.

The count in the vote was 12
yes, three no, five abstentions,
and six no votes. Nadya Lawson,
Council Chair, originally read
the two-thirds mark needed to
pass as being 12 votes. It was not

Better health plans still sought

until after the approval of the last
student that it was realized that
the number needed to pass was
actually 13. The bill was brought
back to the floor for re-
consideration, but after it was
pointed out that Greene had left,
and was unable to speak again on
his own behalf. Internal Affairs
committee member Craig Butler
attempted to pull the bill from the
floor. Since it had already been
voted on, the bill could not be
pulled, and instead was sent back
to committee.

Council approved all but two of 14 candidates for UAS Board of Directors

Brad Kolodny UPS

Lawson said that Greene
would be contacted, and would
be available to speak at the next
meeting. At that time, the issue
of his approval would be brought
up again.

Robinson said later that “He
has good ideas, it’s just his way
of handling it.” Robinson also
said that if he changed his
attitude, Greene would make a
good board member.

The 12 students who were
approved were University
Concert Board (UCB) President

Scott Goodman, Students-for-
Choice and Amnesty
International member Cynthia
Spilker, Outing Club Vice
President Lisa Bonney, SASU
delegate Michael Green, Dutch
Quad Board Food Committee
chair Michael Rosenblut; Rob
Hecht, a UAS Board director for
the past three years, ZBT VP
Scott Leemon, SA Comptroller
Denise O’Hanlon, Phillip Smith,
a worker in the kosher kitchen on
Dutch Quad, NYPIRG member
Suzanne Liese, Jonathan Waks,
formerly a member of the SA
programming office, and
NYPIRG member Laurie
Valeriano.

A point that was raised by
most of the students before their
approval was the issue of
styrofoam on campus. The
general feeling was that it should
be banned on campus.

Both NYPIRG and University
Senate commented on this
subject in their reports.

In the NYPIRG report
presented by Liese, Wednesday’s
anti-styrofoam rally was called a

Continued on page 15

Voter response across

By T.E. Kane
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Graduate student leaders are urging
State University of New York officials
and Gov. Mario Cuomo to reform the
existing health plan given to graduate
students, to include benefits for major
medical and catastrophic coverage,
according to Graduate Students
Employees Union (GSEU)
representatives.

GSEU officials said they have met
with the Governor and SUNY officials
and have asked for a $7 million plan that
would be more in line with the benefits
package that faculty members receive
under United University Professions
(UUP) union negotiated contracts.

“The plan afforded the graduate
students now covers so little it is
virtually useless,” GSEU
Tepresentatives, Chris Vestuto said.

Currently, graduate student make an
average of $7,000 to $10,000 to a year,
and pay an average of $220 per semester
for $50 deductible health insurance that
only covers minor illnesses, GSEU
Officials said.

Faculty members make an average
$40,000 a year, receiving full health
benefits that include catastrophic and
major medical coverage in UUP contacts
negotiated contacts with the states
Employees Relations Board (PERB).

GSEU members said that they should
have the right to unionize legally, which
would give them collective bargaining
status to negotiate with PERB.

To be recognized as a legal union by
PERB, a group seeking union status has
to be deemed employees of the state by
the PERB review board. At this time,
graduate students are not considered
employees of the State or the University
system.

Graduate student leaders said that the
students they represent teach in over half
the classes at SUNY and handle the
majority of the research for more senior
professors.

for by SUNY graduate students

“For all intent purposes they are
employees of the University,” Vestuto
said.

SUNY officials said that the nature of
the graduate students relationship with
the University system is primarily that of
any other student enrolled in the
University system.

“They are first and foremost students
who are pursuing advanced degrees,”
assistant Vice Chancellor, John
Marrabuto said.

The research that graduate students
perform assists them in advancing their
careers and degrees. Much of the
research conducted is used in
formulating their thesis later on,
Marrabuto said. The classes that students
perform teaching duties in is on a barter
system since their tuition is waived. In
the situation where a student is teaching,
but is not granted a tuition waiver, the
University system pays them an
additional lump sum of $1,000 to
compensate for their efforts, University
Officials said.

Vestuto said that although tuition
might be waived, the University health
plan does not provide adequate coverage
given the amount of money the graduate
students receive.

“The plan leaves many students
medical bills they cannot pay,” Vestuto
said.

Vestuto related stories about students
he knows that have contracted cancer or
even AIDS, and cannot afford adequate
treatment for these illnesses.

“They literally have no where to tun
for assistance,” Vestuto said.

The University will not negotiate on
official ‘terms » with GSEU
representatives until the the organization
is legalized. A case is pending before the
review board of PERB, university
Officials said.

A decision is expected some time in
January after the State Senate confirms
the appointment of the prospective third
member of the board Eric Smertz.«

nation favors democrats

Washington
(AP) Republicans are arguing among
themselves about the political impact of
abortion and whether their 1989 election
debacle is an ominous sign about their
prospects for the much heavier ballot late
in 1990.

Democrats were jubilant on Wednesday
as they tallied gains that included the
governor’s mansion in New Jersey as well
as the State Assembly and the election of
blacks as governor of Virginia and mayor
of New York City.

Analysts of political trends among
blacks hailed the results in Virginia and
New York, as well as in such cities as
Seattle, New Haven, Conn., Cleveland and
Durham, NC, as “a new direction.”

In Virginia, Republican J. Marshall
Coleman said the outcome of the
governor’s race was “still in doubt.” He
said that if the official victory margin in
the governor’s race is as narrow as
expected, he will ask for a recount.

The unofficial tally showed Wilder
leading Coleman by about 5,500 votes out
of a total 1.78 million cast. Virginia law
authorizes recounts if the difference is less
than one half of 1 percent.

“There’s no way for the Republican
Party to find any silver lining at all in what
happened yesterday,” said Democratic
National Chairman Ron Brown.

“No time in my lifetime do I ever
remember waking up the morning after an
election where one party had won
everything, all over the country.”

“The Democrats are on a roll,” said Rep.
Beryl Anthony of Arkansas, the chairman
of the Democratic Congressional
Campaigning Committee. “We have
recruited better candidates. Our candidates
have better mainstream messages. And the
voters are responding.”

Many Republicans followed the lead of
party chairman Lee Atwater in brushing
off GOP losses with the comment that “all
politics is local.”

“Tt’s hard to see a message,” said Rep.
Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, chairman

of the House Republican Policy
committee.

But House Republican whip Newt
Gingrich of Georgia saw the results as a
clear warning.

“Any Republican who looks honestly at
yesterday’s results has to be very sobered
up and has to be willing to rethink exactly
what we’re going to do in 1990 if we’re
going to have a successful year,” said
Gingrich after a White House post-mortem
on the elections.

Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon, one for
the Republican Party’s strongest
supporters of abortion rights, emerged
from the meeting and said that if abortion
is an issue in 1990 “we will just get the
bejabbers kicked out of us.”

Gingrich called abortion “a very small
part of the equatoin.”

“We as a party, we’re not big enough,
we don’t run aggressive enough
campaigns, we don’t stay in the game full-
time,” said the Georgia congressman.

Defections on the abortion issue already
are beginning. In Massachusetts,
Republican gubernatorial candidate
William Weld and a number of GOP state
legislators joined Democrats in signing a
petition seeking a state constitutional
amendment guaranteeing the right to
abortion.

Kate Michelman, director of the
National Abortion Rights Action League,
said the results demonstrated that “if
George Bush and members of his party
remain beholden to the anti-choice
minority, they will pay a tremendous price
at the polls.”

“The lesson that will be Jearned...is that
pro-life candidates cannot waffle and pro-
life candidates must run as aggressively on
this issue as pro-abortion candidates,” said
David O’Steen, executive director of the
national Right to Life Committee.

President Bush campaigned for the
losers in Virginia, New Jersey and New
York City. His only comment on
Wednesday was “wait ‘till next year.”

4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1989

Whalen candidates defeated by independents

By Christine McLellan

Democratic incumbent Mayor
Thomas M. Whalen III, running
unopposed, won a bitter victory
on Tuesday night.

Although he retained his
position as mayor of Albany, the
four local candidates he
supported, Pamela Primomo-
Alley, Ward DeWitt and Edwin
Tobin for Albany School Board,
and 11th ward Alderman
candidate Bill Carl, were
defeated.

The three vacancies on the
School Board were filled by
independent Democrats backed
by a parent-teacher organization
called CARE (Citizens of
Albany for Responsible
Education).

The winning candidates were
Barbara Allen, former president
of the Parents and Friends of the
Street Academy, with 14,114
votes, Theresa Swidorski,
former president of Albany
Citizens for Education, with
12,083 votes and Paul Murray, a
Siena College professor, with
11,067 votes.

Despite the financial and
managerial help offered by
Whalen and “Friends-of Tom
Whalen”, the three Whalen-
backed Democrats Alley, DeWitt
and Tobin finished fourth, fifth
and sixth respectively.

Attirbuted to this intense
rivalry is the unusually high

11th Ward Alderman Gerald Jennings

voter turnout
of 29,000, as compared to only
14,386 in 1986.

According to Whalen,”we
created interest in the school
district race.”

When the three members are
sworn in in January, their first
goal , according to Murray, “will
be to elect a new (board)
President.”

They will then begin working
on their agenda, which includes
increasing parent involvement

and making the board
independent of the Democratic
party, Murray said.

In the 11th Ward, independent
incumbent candidate Gerald

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2nd Ward Alderman Keith St. John

Jennings,
also backed by the Republican
Party, defeated Democratic
committeeman, William Carl,
882-640.

Jennings, who is Whalen’s
opponent on Common Council,
has been openly critical of the
mayor and his actions, thus
adding even more controversy to
the elections.

Since the 11th ward is
comprised largely of SUNYA
students, issues concerning them
such as traffic problems and
housing are important to
Jennings’ program.

Along with controversy, the
Albany elections have also

provided a historical precedent
in electing Keith St. John 2nd
Ward Alderman. St. John is the
first openly gay black elected in
the nation. With eight of nine
districts reporting, Democrat St.
John defeated Republican Marty
Kemins 1027-200.

This year, Sharon Ward
emerged as the Democratic
winner over Republican Chris
Murray, 1393-237. Ward will be
replacing Nancy Burton, who
stepped down after 12 years on
the Common Council.

Another newcomer to the local
political scene is the self-
labelled “Whalen Democrat,”
James Scalzo. By a vote of 1,567

to 409, Scalzo defeated the 20-
year incumbent, Thomas Burch.
Burch lost to Scalzo in the
Democratic primary but ran as a
Conservative in the general
election.

According to Scalzo
supporters, this victory will bring
an independent approach to the
Common Council.

The only other Ward where the
victor faced compettiton was the
7th. Alderman Joseph M. Lynn

Jr. defeated Republican Bruce
Scavo, who did not have his
party’s endorsement, by 1257 to
147.

Ten of the 15 aldermanic
candidates ran unopposed and
will be guaranteed four-year
terms. They include Leonard R.
Fox of the 1st Ward, Sarah
Logan of the 3rd Ward, Thomas
W. Rourke of the 4th Ward,
Joseph Buechs Jr. of the Sth
Ward, Alderman and President
Pro Tempore of Council David
R. Tomcello Ill of the 8th Ward,
Peter J. Horan of the 9the Ward,
Robert Van Amburgh of the 13th
Ward, Harold H. Greenstein of
the 14th Ward, and Nicholas
Coluccio of the. 15th Ward.

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were also on the ballot. The
Comptroller position weas won
by Charles Hemingway, treasurer
by Raymond Joyce and Common
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_ Racism is focus of open panel discussion

By Laura Dooley

“At a time of Explosion”, a racism discussion, was
presented last Wednesday on Indian Quad as part of
Diversity Awareness Week. The series began last year in
response to the race relations crisis on campus. The
purpose of the second annual event was to allow cultural
expression as well as to vent any frustrations, Nelson
Vargas, coordinator of Diversity Awareness Week said.

Myron Smith, resident assistant of Mahican Hall,
presented a nine person panel who addressed some of
their concerns about racism. The first speaker was Dr.
Mitchell Livingston, vice president for Student Affairs.

Livingston urged the panel to put racism in
perspective. He also cited the obligation of the institution
to address the problem of racism. Livingston said, as
long as the taxpayers are supporting the University, then
the institution is obligated to have a fair representation of
people of color. Less than ten years ago, the University
had a homogeneous mixture of less than four percent
blacks. Since then, the number has more than tripled to
17 percent, he said.

Livingston said he hopes to raise the figure to 20 or 25
percent within the next five years. He said racism is in
the curriculum as well as knowledge.

Dr. John Martone, vice president of Residential Life,

talked about how unique and challenging residence
programs are. With so many people, Martone said,
living within a small arrangement, students are faced
with racial problems on a daily basis.

Jeff LaMarche UPS
Dr. Livingston addresses members of the audience.

Martone said Residential Life tries to combat these
problems by offering a trained as well as a diverse body
of students and faculty. They also want to make living
arrangements supportive, he said.

Geneva Walker-Johnson, associate director of
Residential Life, discussed racism from the student
perspective. She said the Minority Assistance Program is
a good support network as well as an arena of learning.
Ideally, she said, everyone should learn too.

“Change is not always easy, it hurts, but it is
necessary,” Walker said.

Ekow Ohene, member of Phi Beta Sigma and ASUBA,
spoke about the roots of racism and conclude that it
began with the creation of the planet. Ohene said it is
necessary to come to a definition of what racism is and
then fight the war against it.

Michael Logan reiterated the problems of racism in
terms of curriculum, living arrangements, and social
activities. He said that most of the curriculum is written
by European males and assumes that everyone using it
has the same background.

Logan also said living arrangements can be difficult if
one is black and the other is European and they have a
conflict. If the problem be resolved at a higher level, one

Continued on page 15

ii i ie aonb 1 CRIME gs

SUNY may impact Chile's future

By T.E. Kane
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

The State University of New
York at Albany’s commitment to
a new legislative research center
in Chile will have a “major
impact” on the future of Chile’s
new found democracy, according
to Juan Froemel, rector of
Valparaiso University in Chile.

SUNY Albany and Valparaiso
have joined forces to create
Centro Estudio y Assistantivo
Legislativo (CEAL), a research
center that will assist the next
generation of legislative leaders
in developing a new national
assembly.

SUNY’s involvement with the
research center will extend for
three years with a $1 million
grant from the United States
Agency for International
Development, and is the largest
support for Chilean democracy
by an academic institution in the
world. Froemel said he expects
many donor from European
countries.

Froemel said that SUNY
Albany’s support of CEAL
comes at the right time in Chile’s
development as a democracy,

and “fills the gap” between the
16 years of legislative inactivity
and its move to hold elections
for a new legislative body.

Chileans have not had an
elected representative body since
Dictator Augusto Pinochet came
to power by military force in
1973. Early this-year, Pinochet
promised to hold free elections
for a legislative assembly on
December 15 after a plebocite
showed strong public support for
such a move.

“We are marching towards
Democracy and SUNY is a part
of that move,” Froemel said.

Froemel said Chile’s move
toward a more representative
form of government will
probably not be reversed, and the
situation is more stable than it
has been since Pinochet took
power 16 years ago.

“The people of Chile are ready
for democracy and we are
confident that it will occur,”
Proemel said.

Judging by the strong support
of the national plebocite in
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voters turned out to cast their
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tradition of democracy that
existed before the bloody coup
by Pinochet. They had one of the
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government in Latin America,
Froemel said.

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new to the Chilean people,”
Associate Provost for
International Programs, Reynold
Bloom said, “but they need
assistance in developing the
logistical side of running a
legislative body.”

The research center will be
non- partisan in nature and
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train legislative leaders, and offer
consulting services to the elected
body, Froemel said.

The initial phase of the
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students studying at SUNY
Albany’s Rockefeller Institute,
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The students, Maryann
Darcy, Maria Hyman, Lisa
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Black Solidarity Week proves educational

By Stephanie Moore
MINORITY AFFAIRS EDITOR
Today, marks the ending of a
beginning. BLACK SOL-
IDARITY WEEK. A cele-

BLACK SOLIDARITY was to
recognize our interests and
sympathies for an entire week
as opposed to the traditional one
day celebration that occurs

annually the day before Election
Day. I ask myself, Was this
alteration a wise decision and
did it prove to be informational
as well as necessary? My

answer: But of course! Don’t
Italians, Irish, Jews and others
have their own holidays? So,
why not African Americans?
Not only was the agenda

bration of oneness, complete
unity with purpose and feeling.
Our feelings. Beyond
We continue

to honor our the

past, present, Majority

and future
publicly to not only illustrate a
union of interests but

sympathies among the Black
community. This fellowship
evolved out of the 60’s being
one of many college student
movements, attempting to
achieve liberation. We, the
students of SUNYA,
approximately 25 years later,
continue to carry the torch, hold
up the light and pay homage to
those who shed blood, sweat,
and tears for US.

However, one alteration
SUNYA students made in our
traditional celebration of

Novelist John Williams.

scheduled for BLACK
SOLIDARITY WEEK infor-
mational but so too was it
educational, enlightening, and
entertaining. Furthermore, it
allowed the African-American
students at SUNYA to educate
the mass about our history
which has for too long has been
altered, denied, and ostracized.
It is imperative that everyone
including this University
implement cultural diversity
events to create a better
understanding of differences
(ethnic or otherwise) and to
dispel the stereotypes that are
all too often pervasive in
today’s society.

The agenda for BLACK
SOLIDARITY WEEK included
a tribute to Black authors with a

Teru Kuwayama UPS candlelight vigil afterwards, a

lecture by novelist John
Williams addressing the
question, why is it a prerequisite
for African Americans to learn
the “classics” in literature but
White America isn’t required to
learn about the writings of
Baldwin, Wright, and many
other Africans American
“classic” writers, another
speaker named Waldaba Stewart
who spoke about the “truth”
about Panama, an exhilirating
African dance group (Dinizulu),
and last but not least an exhibit
of our Black beauty in a fashion
show.

Hopefully, in the near future
this University will extend its
cultural diversity and “his” story
will be “our” — story.
Congratulations! To all African
brothers and sisters who made
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possible, a week, and a success.
SUNYA this is only the
beginning and it is now our tum
and our time. UJIMA!

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Off campus task force created

Continued from front page

been around for a while.”

Dale said the complaints
include noise, occasions of
fighting between drunk
partygoers and damage to
property. Officials have also said
the safety of the revellers is a
concern, and point to an incident
two summers ago when a
second-story porch collapsed
during a party, injuring 10
people.

Dale speculated that the 21-
year-old drinking age, which
keeps many students out of
taverns, and SUNYA’s policy of
restricting parties on campus
may contribute to the seemingly
higher number of house parties.
But both he and Livingston said
the task force’s purpose is to
discover the reason for the
increase in complaints, and to
find ways to decrease them.

Both men also said a law
enforcement crackdown is not
desired.

“To ‘get tough’ is the last
resort,” Livingston said. Dale
said locking up partygoers or
hosts is “an option we don’t care
to really exert.” He added that
police have traditionally had a
good relationship with students,
and called the student population
“an asset to the community.”

Whalen, at the meeting with
residents, called the student
parties “a constant source of
irritation,” and pledged to use

Mayor Thomas M. Whalen Ill

involve fraternities and
sororities.

SA will support off-campus
students should authorities crack
down on them, he said. He also
said more participation in city
politics would make the off-
campus population of about

5,000 a voting bloc to be taken

FILE UPS.

seiously by the city.

“We haven’t really had a good
reputation with the community in
the past,” he said, adding that
some residents look with disdain
on students in general, and that
some view any gathering of
students, whether or not alcohol is
involved, as a nuisance,

(hence |
SA will sue city in event

grouper law is enforced

Morgan Lyle
Editor-in-Chief

A Student Association attorney said that if any students are
cited for violation of the city’s grouper law, SA will sue the city
in hopes of having the law overturned.

Albany’s grouper law says that no more than three unrelated
people may live in the same dwelling. A similar law in the Long
Island town of Brookhaven was ruled unconstitutional by the
State Court of Appeals in March.

Lewis Oliver Jr., one of two attorneys SA has on retainer, said
although SA lost a similar suit two years ago, the law has been
amended since then, and the new language more closely
resembles the Brookhaven ordinance.

But, in order to bring suit against the city again, the attomeys
would have to prove that tenants have been “aggrieved, hurt or
negatively affected by the law,” Oliver said.

Suit can be brought in the absence of an aggrieved party,
Oliver said, but municipalities often object that the plaintiffs
have no standing.

Enforcement of the grouper law, which has been neglected
recently, is one of the proposed ways to answer complaints by
Albany residents that off-campus student house parties ar
getting out of hand.

Mayor Thomas P. Whalen and city Code Enforcement
officials have both said recently that such action might be taken.

Oliver took the city to task for using the law to quiet the
parties.

“Non-students generate noise also, and if the mayor is
interested in...controlling the noise at parties, it seems that
discriminating against students with housing is a very
oppressive and roundabout way of going about it,” he said.

He also said the grouper law is an inappropriate method for
preventing overcrowded homes.

“Tt would be better if the city would refrain from invoking a
law that is designed to discriminate against students,” he said.
Better methods are to limit the number of tenants per square
foot or per room, he said.

“code enforcement” to bring
offenders in line.

Asked yesterday if the city
was planning to enforce the
grouper law, Whalen said, “that
is one of the possibilites.”

“We are here to enforce the
Jaw,” he said.

Whalen said he had not met
with O’Leary, and that no date
had been set for the task force to
meet, but Dale and Livingston
said they expect the group to get
together within a week.

SA President Fermin Espinosa
said he, too, had heard that
problems from partying were on
the rise this year.

“It’s beginning to be pretty
rowdy out there,” he said.
Espinosa agreed that a lack of
public places to party may
contribute to the problem, but,
defended the fight of tenants to
entertain in their homes.

“As a tenant who’s paying
rent, you should have, to an
extent, the right to say, ‘I want to
have a party in my house,” he
said.

And while he agreed that
tenants have a responsibility to
their neighborhoods, “You can’t
infringe too much on the rights
of an individual” who supports
the local economy, he said.

“He also said some of the |

more troublesome parties

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News column

Student describes miners’ 'war'

By Steve Grimaldi

One room shacks made of
flake board line the wet dirty
toads. Inside these tiny
structures sit men and women
dressed in military fatigues. On
the walls, constructed very
loosely, are shelves stacked with
canned foods and eating utensils.

The sound of loud machinery
wails in the background.

This is Lebanon.

“Three of my brothers died in

this war,” said 40 year veteran
John Cooley.
This is no OPINION
ordinary war.
This war is not about a military
superpower expanding its
control nor about indigenous
populations defending their land
against imperialist aggressors.

Instead, this is a civil war. A
war happening right now, right
here, in the United States.

Welcome to the war, war
executive style. Welcome not to
Lebanon, Middle East, but
welcome to Lebanon, Virginia.
welcome to a place where
military garb is not compulsory,
but instead a show of solidarity.
Lebanon is a small coal mining
town in south western Virginia.
It is situated about 45 minutes
north of North Carolina and 35
minutes north east of the
Tennessee boarder.

While the battle has been
going on for decades, it has only
recently escalated. Since April 5,

the United Mine Workers of
America (UMWA) have been
waging a war against Pittston
Mines, a large mining company,
which up until then, was
unionized,

Mining unions, one of the first
representatives of workers dating
back 100 years, are in jeopardy
of being what is commonly
called “busted.” Pittston began
its entourage by pulling retiree
benefits, cutting hospitalization,
and proposing a cut in personal
and sick days by over 60 percent.
The UMWA went on strike on
April 5, 1989, under a court order
citing Pittston guilty of “unfair
labor practices.”

Pittston President, Mike
Odums, said the company would
continue to work without union
help for up to two years before
going bankrupt.

In an industry where black
lung is a common ailment, where
fear of falling rocks and coal
slabs are common, unions are
essential. “Conditions have
gotten so much better, I mean
with safety and benefits,” Cecil
Woods said, a 25 year UMWA
card holder.

“Pittston, like any other large
company, cares first about the
maximization of profits, even if it
means cutting workers sick days,
personal days, vacation days,
health benefits, pensions, and
banning overtime,” Harless
Mullions , a miner and self-

avowed union advocate said.

For some, a union is the only
way to security and justice. For
Jimmy Carty, a 17 year veteran
and a father of 2, non-
unionization means injustice.
Jimmy’s cousin worked in a non-
unionized mine. Besides long
hours, limited sick days and low
wages, Jimmy commented on
insufficient health benefits,
“They won’t give him a pension,
they won’t pay his hos-
pitalization—and he’s in a
wheelchair with a back broken in
five places.”

Jimmy, standing erect in the
“strike shack,” adjusts his Red
Man Chewing Tobacco baseball
cap and buttons up his shirt
fatigue.

Jimmy, like the other Lebanon
miners, leads a very personal and
private life. The miners are
multi-denominational; Catholic,
Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran.
some eat squirrels for dinner,
some don’t. Some prefer
hamburgers, others ham.

But when it comes to the
mines, when it comes to
working, all 1500 union miners
are together. At a union rally,
they chant “We are strong, we
are one, we will win, we are the
union!” They then proceed to
sing an old union song
“Solidarity Forever.”

A reporter strolls up to a miner
asking, “Knowing how long

Continued on page 14

pi —-DIGESi===—

SA V.P. nominations still open

Nominations for vice president of the Student Association will be}
laccepted at the SA office, CC 116, until 5 pm today.

Nominations have been submitted by Shawn Thompson, Scott P.
Trent, Mikey Green, Beth Zuckerman, and Ron Halber.

Each nomination must be a petition bearing at least 100 signatures|
lof students who have paid the Student Activity Fee.

The vice presidency is open because of the resignation of President
Andy DiPalma on Oct. 18. Then Vice President Fermin Espinosal
assumed the presidency, and Media Director Guillermo Martinez was|
appointed interim vice president.

Teaching seminar to be held

On Novy. 21, the School of Education, in association with the
Office of Minority Student Services, the Albany Professional|
[Development Center, and the Office of Academic Support Services,
is presenting an undergraduate seminar on opportunities in teaching|
Hin the public schools in New York State title “Careers in Teaching: A
Second Look.”

The program will deal with the shortage of minority teachers, and
both university faculty and administrators will address opportunities|
land perspectives on teaching as a career.

The seminar will run from 6 to 8 pm in the Campus Center Patroon|
room. For more information, please call the Office of Minority,
Student Services at 442-5490 by Nov. 14.

Motorists warned about deer

The New York State Thruway Authority this week warned
motorists to beware of wandering deer when traveling the State’s|
highways.

Thruway Authority Executive Director John Shafer said more deer]
wander along the Thruway this time of year than any other.

“More than half of the 630 vehicle-deer accidents reported on the!
Thruway last year occurred from October through December,” Shafer|
said.

Police officials said to pay attention to deer crossing signs and be}
especially careful during twilight and dark hours, when most
accidents occur.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The Minority Business Student Association

Invites You To Our

FIRST ANNUAL CAREER FAIR and LUNCHEON

Keynote Speaker:
Assembly Woman
SARA LOGAN

Topic:

Entrepeneurship

Companies will be recruiting

students from all majors For

Career Fair Continued in Assembly Hall

1:30-5:00pm

-Computer Science Company

Attending Companies:

Summer Jobs and Internship

Positions

-Chubb Insurance

-American International Group
-Peat Marwick

-CBS Records

-McMillian Publishing
-Brooklyn Union Gas

-Ogilvy & Mather
-Aetna Life & Casualty
-NYS Dept. of Social Services

-Mastercard International
-Marine Midland

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1989 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

9

Internal conflict within SA
at Binghamton continues

By Eric F. Coppolino
N.Y.S. Student Leader

After just 3 weeks in office, two members of the University
Center at Binghamton’s Student Assembly have moved to
impeach Student Association President Christine Fecko for taking
part in the appointment of an interim staff member two months
ago.

Financial Vice President Mary Kate Cullen was also named in
the impeachment on the same charges.

No vote on the matter has been taken in the Assembly, though
the same Assembly members seeking the officers’ ousting are
simultaneously attempting to have them removed through the
college’s residence councils.

The impeachment resolution, submitted to the Assembly
Tuesday, Oct. 26, alleges that Fecko, who at the time was
executive vice president, and Cullen, violated the SA constitution
when the Executive Board appointed a student to do the work of
the academic vice president, who had resigned during the first
week of classes.

The executive Board had named Angus Johnston to temporarily
conduct SA’s academic business until a new academic vice
president could be elected. Johnston, who lost in last year’s
election for the position, did not seek the office again. Herb Baer
was elected to the position by a landslide victory Oct. 26.

Fecko and Cullen are the only two remaining Executive Board
members who were on the board at the time the temporary
appointment was made, making them the targets of the action.

The impeachment was submitted by Assembly members Ruth
Rhodes and Dan Thompson.

Rhodes, interviewed Thursday, said that naming Angus to fill in
involved, “Real negligence on the part of our officers” as well as
“constitution violations that were deliberate. You have to follow
the constitution very strictly, because if you break one rule, that
gives you license to break the rest.”

Fecko called the impeachment motion “absurd,” adding that,
“The charges are unfounded, and a few people have become
obsessed over the whole thing. A big problem is that people
haven't heard anything about any real issues this semester, and
they’re just playing this up.”

Binghamton’s SA has been rocked by internal controversy this
year, beginning with the academic vice president’s resignation,

ollowed by the Sept. 13 arrest of former Jewish Student Union
President James Oppenheim on charges that he was responsible
for anti-semitic vandalism in the JSU office last year. On Sept. 24,
Craig Seigel resigned from the SA presidency.

Fecko said that Rhodes “honestly believes that rules were
broken, and that it would be ethical to do this. She’s taking the
high moral ground. But we were just trying to keep things
functioning in the midst of a crazy year.”

Fecko noted that while the constitution calls for an election

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By T.E. Kane
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
SUNY Central budget
officials have sent a

memorandum to presidents at
State operated campuses asking
their financial mangers to prepare
budget “impact” statements that
would outline ways individual
campuses could absorb cuts in
spending.

This move comes in the wake
of Goy. Mario Cuomo’s directed
two percent across the board
reductions in spending that has
forced the SUNY administration
to cut $28 million in this years
budget, which ends in March.

Cuomo’s across the board
spending cuts come at a time
when the State is grappling with
a $277 million deficit that arose
unexpectedly because of lower
revenues from taxes due to a
sluggish economy.

Budget officials from the
Central Administration said that
the memorandum calling for
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an indication that the University
system definitely going to reduce
spending at the campus level, but
that the budget request was a
matter of procedure “just in case”
funds were not available from
University-wide accounts.

Budget officials have said that
at this time the spending
reductions will be from
University-wide accounts, and
not from individual campuses.
Officials have not ruled out
entirely the possibility of having
to ask campuses to make budget
tevisions,

“With those numbers, I expect
that they will have to go to the
campuses to fill the gap,”
Assistant Vice President for
Budget and Finance at the

Albany campus, Eugene
Gilchrist said.
Gilchrist said that Albany State

is positioning itself with the
expectation that some kind of
cuts will be handed down form
SUNY Central, and on this
campus, budget officials are

“hedging” on their financial
books to absorb the possible cuts.

By “hedging” the financial
numbers, Albany is preparing for
the worst by moving the
purchase of some items until the
future and not filling faculty
positions immediately that are
left vacant, Gilchrist said.

Gilchrist said that the Albany
campus will probably not have to
cut spending for major academic
programs and there will probably
not be any layoffs of faculty or
Support personnel.

The extent to which SUNYA
will have to reduce spending is
largely speculative at this point
because the University’s Central
Administration has not sent down
any specific numbers on the
revenue that they might have
raised to fill the current gap.

Possible ways that the
University system could cut
University-wide accounts would
be to refinance the University
construction fund, dormitory

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EDITORIAL

On Veteran's
Day, remember

It’s a kind of poetic justice that on the
heels of Election Day, the occasion of
the most valuable part of life in America,
we remember those who went through
unimaginable horrors to defend it.

The American political system often
comes under cynical, skeptical fire.
Much of the criticism it receives is
deserved. American politics, and the
money and power it is so intricately and
inseparably entwined with, is indeed a
self supporting entity; just look at the
ridiculous rate of incumbency in
Congress.

But look, too, at the recent upset of a
firmly entrenched party right here in
Albany. Ordinary people changed a
system that some might have called
unchangeable, and they did it by
themselves, on their own, because they
felt it was their duty to go in that booth
and pull some levers, to make some
decisions.

Maybe real expressions of self
determination like this are too rare, but
they’re not impossible, and that means
that we’re in good shape, as long as
apathy and cynicism don’t sap our will.

And for that ability to make a
difference, we must thank the men and
women who have gone to war.

Few of us will ever understand what it
is to be among the blood and the bombs,
to see and feel and do things that will
change us forever. Most of us are lucky.

Many of the victims of our last war are
with us. Some are our fellow students
here at SUNYA. Many have families and
jobs, and friends and homes and lives.
But too many are haunted by that war, so
haunted that they can’t make their way
through the world in the safe, happy way
that most of us enjoy without knowing it.

And it’s not just that war, it’s any war
from the beginning of that senseless,
hideous institution: they all leave the
people involved different, they all leave
families ruined, and they all take the
good things that people build and reduce
them to garbage.

Those that endured it, because they felt
they should, deserve our thanks, our
respect, and our prayers.

“OH, SURE— NOW He FINDS A WAY TO CUT THe TRADE DEFICIT With APAN..!”

COLUMN

Student loans not "guaranteed".

On October 27,1989 I danced the typical bureaucratic
shuffle that many students such as myself do when
entering the Financial Aid Office of his or her
institution. This particular day, however, I left with no
faith left in the educational system of New York State
nor as my role as a student financing her own
education.

A gentleman informed me that I would not be eligible
for a Guaranteed Student Loan of $2500 due to the fact
that my parent’s estimated contribution and my
contribution were too high. I explained to him that my
problem was that my parents were not contributing to
my education nor have they in the past. Having
encountered this same exact situation last year, I did
precisely what the Financial Aid Office suggested and
declared myself independent. Earlier in October when I

Christine L. Kenefick

was checking on the status of my loan I was informed
to provide documentation to the FA Office indicating
that my parents did not claim me anymore which I did
on October 26, 1989. My understanding of this matter is
that Albany reviews my file and they decide if I should
receive any aid. However, even after seeing this
documentation, reading a letter I had written in the Fall
of 1988 regarding my financial situation, and speaking
‘with me personally, I was still told that if any aid was to
be given at all, it would be minimal. This was all that
this gentleman could do unless I cared to tell him of
some reasons that my parents may have for not
contributing to my education. Perhaps there was a
problem with being physically or sexually abused, or
with alcoholism, drug abuse, etc. that might shed some
light on the situation. First of all, I do not appreciate a
Stranger prying into my personal life, wether such a
problem exists or nor. Secondly, I do not feel that is
appropriate nor any of his business to even seek out
such information. Would walking into the office
battered and bruised, or pregnant, make the difference?
Does one need drastic heartache in his or her life to
warrant ‘a student loan? I should think not. I might
remind people that I am not begging for a handout-I am
requesting a loan, a loan which I will PAY BACK with
interest. If it does take an airing of my personal life to
get me a loan, it is certainly not worth it to be educated
by this institution.

My final question to this gentleman was that, in lieu
of the chance that I will not receive a loan and in lieu of
that fact that it would be impossible for me to come up
with $1600 by January 18, 1989 (to pay for my current
SUNYA balance), could I then assume that I will not be
able to continue my education at this institution this
spring? “Yes,” he replied, “I guess that is correct.” It
strikes me as ironic that the State University of New
York at Albany would let a student discontinue his of
her education so readily. It strikes me as odd that,
according to our Governor, our Legislators, our
universities and colleges, our media and our potential
employers, a college education is a necessity and vital
for all people yet at the same time it seems to be an
elitist notion - one has to be either below the poverty

level or born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth to
usurp it.

On the average I work about 25 hours per week at
Conners and Reddy Insurance
agency and carry a class load of 15 credits (five
courses). After taxes, my weekly earnings are
approximately $141 ($564 monthly). My monthly
expenditures include rent $185; average gas and
electricity $30; average phone bill $35; miscellaneous
credit cards (Master Card, Visa, JC Penny, etc.) $75;
food $150: and gas for my car (not including any
maintenance that-may be needed) $45. This leaves an
average of $44 dollars per month ($11 dollars per week)
for spending money - spending money to go out on
weekends, have lunch at the RATT, purchase any
birthday or holiday presents that may occur, etc. My
summer earnings went toward things such as life
insurance premium ($200), books for classes ($225), a
LSAT prep. course ($650), taking the LSAT ($75),
applying to Law Schools ($800) etc..

This letter is your chance to enlighten me on where I
am going wrong as a financially independent student in
New York State. Where am I going wrong with my time
management and financial planning. Please, anyone,
give me some advice on what I should change. Shall I
quit my job and become a product of the New York
State Welfare System? Should I get another job in
addition to the one I have and let my education suffer?
Should I sell drugs, Mr. Cuomo, to earn more than
sufficient amounts of money to pay for school and
more? Should I prostitute myself to men to get more
money - unconcerned about the perpetuation of AIDS
and other sexually transmitted diseases? Should I forget
about college and law school altogether and become yet
another individual to add to the already high statistics of
uneducated youths in America? Please clue me in on a
solution to the dilemma.

The purpose of this letter is not to receive pity from
it’s readers nor is it a plea for a handout. My intent is to
provide to you an example of a typical middle class
struggling student who faces extreme red tape and
humiliation when it comes to paying for school. I am
not the only person who faces this same situation, there
are many of students just like me out there. You should
direct your pity toward the student who, after being told
that he or she will not be able to continue classes in the
spring, does not continue classes in the spring because
he of she has no where to turn and gives up too easy.
Each time I walk out of Financial Aid, I feel like a
beggar, I feel humiliated and embarrassed as if i am
asking for something undeservingly - God forbid I
pressed this issue so much as to question my denial of
TAP as TAP is not a loan, it is a gift. Usually I feel
Proud to be one of the many students financing her ow
education, but on Friday I felt beaten by the system.
Where do students turn when a Guaranteed Student
Loan is anything but guaranteed?

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The writer is a student at SUNYA

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November 10, 1989

SUNYA CAMERA BRINGS NEW DIMENSIONS

Do the words “Environment
Displacement Chamber” bring strange
images to mind? They should,
according to artists Neil McGreevy and
Nick Walters. The Environmental
Displacement Chamber is a giant
transportable camera obscura (large
enough for humans to enter) currently
located behind the biology building
adjacent to the greenhouse.

Christine Magurno

McGreevy and Walters, the creators
of this camera, are graduate students
here at SUNYA. The Environmental
Displacement Chamber originally
began as a display at the University
Arts Festival in April, 1988. The
success of the temporary structure
encouraged them to submit the project
for a Benevolent Research Grant, a
competitive interdepartmental award.
This award, granted for fall 1989,
helped them to fund the creation of the

Somewhere between the world of

the Wild Kingdom and the mind of
Walt Disney lurks The Bear, a tale
which follows the “struggle to
survive” faced by a male Kodiak
grizzly and the cub orphan he adopts,
in the hunter- filled wildlife of 1885,
British Columbia.

Clarence Eckerson

One has to admire director Jean-
Jacques Arnaud’s risk in the
undertaking of a project that required
a full nine months of shooting just to
obtain the raw footage necessary. He
also deserves critical praise for the
creativity he exhibits in telling his
unique story with a minimum of
dialogue.

permanent model.

The Environmental Displacement
Chamber is large enough for several
people to enter and experience the
workings of the camera from within.
The camera consists of a pitch black
toom with a small opening to allow
the passage of lightwaves. The
lightwaves project an inverted image
on the interior wall. There is also a
microphone placed in the field of view
which amplifies the sound outside.
The observers inside the camera wear
headphones to hear the sound
produced by the object of the image.

The image produced by the camera
obscura gives the observor an unusual
feeling in regards to the surrounding
environment. Because the crisp color
image is inverted, it gives one a whole
new perspective. This is particularly
evident in the image of a person
walking. The movements of the steps
appear exaggerated, yet graceful.
According to McGreevy, if one watches
the images long enough, they tend to
lose all sense of gravity. This bizarre

Unfortunately, admiration and
respect aren’t the only qualities that
make a good film. Although The Bear
has its fascinating moments and
breath-taking Canadian scenery, it also
has its dull points that periodically end
up making The Bear look more like a
bore.

That's not to say that most of it isn’t
well made. Based upon the novel, The
Grizzly King, by James Oliver
Curwood, The Bear is a beautiful walk
through nature that is sprinkled with
episodes of drama, humor, and
discovery. It is also surprisingly
violent for most of its duration. The
best scenes center around the loveable
younger bear (Youk) who, as a credit
to his trainers, is able to handle quite a
variety of emotions. Consequently, it
is this that makes a perilous encounter
with a cougar so believable thatit will

phenomenon is illustrated by the
simple act of throwing leaves in the air.
Even though it was logically obvious
that the leaves were going towards the
sky, there was a moment of confusion
as to which way was up.

At present, the project is still in the
early stages. It is currently being
funded by demonstrations and
educational workshops. They plan to
use the camera for experimentation
and advancement in photography,
painting, and drawing. Eventually,
they would like to have a gallery for
the photographs produced by the
camera.

The largest obstacle they are
currently facing is money. Because of
the size of the photographs, each one
costs about $400. Consequently, only
one has been made. This 8’ by 8’

have you on the edge of your seat.

Arnaud couples the narrative with a
fine score by Phillippe Sarde that is
mysteriously absent from the most
climatic scenes. In a film with so little
spoken word it should rely more
heavily on its soundtrack for
conveying emotion and here it fails.
Arnaud does almost make up for this
with some weird perspective shots and
imaginative ideas which includes a
look into a bears’ nightmare, and a
“drug trip” the little cub expirences
after accidentally ingesting some
psychadelic mushrooms.

Added to all of this are three
hunters (Jack Wallace, Tekeky Kayro,
and Andre Lacombe) in hot pursuit of
the wounded step-daddy (Bart) who
end up learning a little lesson about
being hunted themselves.

The Bear is a unique and different

(negatives can be as large as 12’ by 8’)
mural photograph was done with the
aid of undergraduate art students.
Their assignment was to bring in a
large object to use asa prop. The
student ewho brought in the tractor
took his homework seriously and
provided an interesting focus for the
picture.

The project has aroused enthusiastic
support not only from students, but
from teachers and the surrounding
community as well. McGreevy and
Walters hope that this enthusiasm will
eventually spread to a large company,
such as Kodak. Regardless of the big
business response to this long term
project, it will undoubtedly have an
impact on the future of photography
and art. At the very least, it will give
new meaning to the phrase ‘a picture
is worth a thousand words.’

expirence that due to its subject matter
starts off with two strikes against it.
Somewhat - but not always - amusing,
it earns a marginal vote of confidence.

é

2a Aspects

November 10, 1989

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and what they say... will undoubtedly
influence how they will be perceived.

"A resume may even determine what career
area an individual will work (over a lifetime!)
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Syd Straw comes out snickering. ha-ha-ha.
snigger, snigger. Not like someone has just told her
something funny or anything, she's just like that. A
little goofy. Beside, the QE2 is packed (more so than
any night I've seen it this season), it's the last night
of her tour, and her brother's here tonight.

Not to mention her band full of seasoned
veterans like drummer DJ Bonebrake of X, and
Dave Alvin of the Blasters and X.. In addition to an
offbeat addage or witty comeback for anything,
Straw posseses one of the most heavenly voices to
float down my auditory tubes in months. Her voice
is soft and whispery on the slower pieces, although
sometimes too sensitive for the more rugged
numbers by her close, tight-knit backing band.

She sings songs taken from her fabulous new
album Surprise, which she "conned Virgin into
letting" her make, as well as a few cover tunes -
Marshal Crenshaw's “Someday, Someway”
especially rocks and bobs. Dave Alvin takes over for
an impassioned, celebratory run through of his."4th
of July," as Straw adds the backing vocals that
Exene fits in place on the X version of this tune.

Her very own "Sphinx is perfect - engaging
vocals and lyrics that are an absolute scream.
"Almost Magic"'s serene beauty is magical; the

height of a show that's already filled with countless
highs. She thanks the crowd with a few encores,
telling them "this is just like the cherry on top of
the hot fudge sundae - pardon my red dye number
six." Brilliant.

-- Raymond Rogers

BAN

November 10, 1989

3a Aspects

Trash TRIS

Venturing out of the campus center on Wednesday at 12:30
p.m., I expected to be crushed by the throngs of angry protestors,
fists waving and banners flying, taking a stand for Planet Earth.
This was going to be big; this was going to be huge...then I
remembered where I was.

I joined the small yet vocal crowd. led by NYPIRG, in their
demonstration against the use of styrofoam on campus; something
to consider over your morning coffee in the commuter cafeteria.
Our angry voices filled the air with chants of “Styrofoam sucks”,
and “We don’t want it, we don’t need it, UAS, you can eat it”. One
especially outraged individual fervently proclaimed, “Reduce the
waste in this country!”

We then trudged across the podium, and even past Dutch
quad, to our destination: the UAS building. We searched in vain
for Norbert Zahm,, the head of UAS, but alas, he had departed for
the weekend - and it was only Wednesday. So we left him a small
token of just a few hundred styrofoam trays, and as we exited the
building, I realized I was hungry, but could never eat at The Rat

again.

-- Tina Zaffrann

Sorry, Charlie

“What's the name of your magazine?”
Bertha Bumiller (played by
Laura Putnam) asks the reporter.
“Intellect,” the man answers.
“1 don’t believe we have that
here in Tuna.” Bertha replies.

If Albany or New York City
are places where you feel alive and
akin, the production Greater Tuna,
which takes place in a a small,
backward, practically illiterate,
southern Texas community, would be
quite a shocker. Think Footloose, guys.
Think of a place where textbook and
record burnin, is sponsored by the
local Baptist Church and practiced on
the weekends.

Aria

OK, le . talk about potential.
This play does:\’t have much. I grant
that the dir ‘ting by Brett A.
Crawford Wicdemer as a graduate
class project, was very good. However,
the acting was poor, with the glorious
exception of Laura Putnam, a shinin;
pinnacle admist a looming fog in h
dual roles of Bertha Bumiller and Pearl
Burras, a senile mischevious old
woman who enjoys poisoning the
neighbors’ dogs to keep them away
from her chickens and sings over the

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grave of a lost love. Jodi Janis, Eric
Postmaster, and Dan Strackhouse are
mediocre first year actors involved in a
complex production which contains
multi-character and costume changes,
minimal props and sets, leaving the
performers to use their imagination,
mime, and much stereotyping.

The play was filled with
stereotypical roles like the standard
“Robin Williams - Good Morning
Vietnam wannabe” broadcasters of
OKKK, the searching weatherman, the
over-zealous Reverend, the hard-ass
Sheriff, and the generic ethnocentric,
radically conservative housewife. But,
it was also this same stereotyping that
actually gave the production a sporatic
quasi-humorous quality.

Perhaps if the actors were a bit
more convincing, I would have been
swayed to enjoy their acting more.
Most of the time it appeared as if they
knew they were acting; they were
over-conscious of the audience. This
added a farcicle mood to the
production. These performers were not
in fact acting, but rather talking at each
other, not TO each other, and hoping
that the play would soon be over.
Quite frankly, it appeared that they did
not believe that what they were doing
was real.

Sorry guys, but if it’s any
consulation, think of the great quote,
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Or something like that.

Holy Resurrection,

Ratman!

Last year, I wrote an article on
how the readers of the BATMAN
comic, by a 75 vote majority,voted to
kill off, Jason Todd, the current Robin.
Well, as of issue #442, Robin is back,
alive and kicking. Of course, this isn’t
the same Jason Todd who got blown to
bits last year. The new Robin is really
Timothy Drake. It seems that Tim was
in the circus audience when Dick
Grayson’s (the original Robin) parents
were murdered. He saw Batman
“swooping out of the darkness” and
has been a. . . .”Bat-groupie” ever
since.

Marc Guggenheim

Jason Todd, the second Robin
was killed off by fans because the
consensus was that he was a winey,
obnoxious brat. Writers Marv
Wolfman and George Perez have gone
out of their way to make this Robin
very likable. The truth is, they may
have done too good of a job: this kid
could teach Mary Lou Retton a thing
or two about sweetness. Maybe
instead of Robin he should be called

“Saccharine.”

This Robin is different from
the two others who came before him.
For one thing this Robin’s parents are
still alive. It has yet to be addressed in
the comic, but they probably won't be
pleased to find out that their son is
running around in red and green
spandex. And they’re not the only
ones. Batman himself is not too keen
on the idea of having another partner.
DC has not made any announcements
regarding the future of this new Robin
or their plans for him.

However nebulous Robin’s
future is, one thing remains certain: as
long as readers don’t violently object
to this new Robin, he will probably
stay part of the Batman mythos.
Rumor has it that the only reason that
anew Robin character was created was
that Warner Bros., who own DC
comics, have lucrative licensing
agreements with toy companies.
These agreements are for BATMAN
AND ROBIN toys, thus a replacement
was needed quick. Ah well, as the
Joker says at the end of issue 442,
“What a shame he’s got a new brat

though. Still, easy come, easy go!”

Aspects 4a"

November 10, 1989

New Music Expo

Notes From Music Marathon

And they’re off...

disturbingly stagnant start. The
marathon, “Music Marathon” that is,
gears up like the trudging pace of the
most dreadful Bauhaus song you can
think of. The CMJ (College Music
Journal) sponsored weekend couldn’t
entertain a more appropriate title - it
was more of a complete run-around
than much anything else.

to a

Raymond Rogers

The CMJ New Music
Conference, or New Music Seminar
junior if you will, started and halted
and re-started, etc at the New Music
Awards show at the Beacon Theater on
Thursday eve. Host Penn Jillette (of
Penn & Teller) remarked in jest “new
music? That's just a name they came
up with for all those people watching
at home on cable.” And for all those
(major) labels to neatly categorize
everything from Soundgarden to
Nanci Griffith to sell off to the young,
bidding college radio stations, he
forgot to add.

Sandwiched between the
Ramones, Feelies, Peter Murphy and
other celeb presenters we beared
through the two hour+ cumbersome
fare. Highlights came when Michele

.4
, ie

Shocked, accepting her award for best
new (?) female artist, announced in
glee, “this category should be called
‘they might be dykes;”” when Red Hot
Chili Pepper Flea mooned the MTV
cameras as a final note to their
otherwise somewhat dilute tune; and
with Soundgarden’s heaVee butch of a
bludgeoning 70’s metal-flavoured
blintz.

Next it was over to Tramps for
the post-party and Canada’s Tragically
Hip. These five hipsters veer through a
raucous set that their first full length
Lp Up To Here only hints at in
comparison. The Hip stand off for the
first leg of the set, gradually toning up
to the unbridled energy of the next
hour and a half. Vocalist Gordon
Downie sings “everytime you go I
vomit and break into a cold sweat,” his
head cocked over the mic stand, hair
stradling his forehead. He seems like
he’s going through the dt’s as his band
plow through grizzle and harmony.
There’s plenty of sleaze around tonight
- “biz” sleaze and real sleaze - the dirt,
grit, and sweat of the Hip, that is.
These guys would be great without the
freebies (food, drink, tix), in fact they’d
probably be better with an eight buck
cover in some rotting woodshack in
the outskirts of Ontario, or Louisianna,
or anywhere for that matter. “New
Orleans is Sinking” is so damn bluesy

tragically Hip -

and “38 Years Old” is completely
knocked out disturbed. The walls
crawl, the floor shudders, and the
brows positively drip, drenched in the
Hip.

The days are filled with self-
evaluating college radio panels where
college radio programmers and big
wig label reps discuss the state and
importance of independent radio
today, then turn around and sell each
other and themselves outside of the
formal discussions. Both Ice T and
Living Colour’s Vernon Reid give self-
congratulatory talks for Friday's
“Keynote” speeches. Ice T poses the
most revealing question of the day:
“Great, but what the fuck is a
keynote?”

As a day of the “run around”
unwinds we gear up for the Marathon.
First it’s back to Tramps, which is
turning out to be a posey showcase for
industry folks. Tonight it’s Toad the
Wet Sprocket from Santa Barbara with
their acoustic blend of rock and
social/personal ills and triumphs.
Lead singer Glen Phillip’s natural
reedy vocals are the strength of this
otherwise far too laid back band of
long-haired Californians. “One Wind
Blows” is just a little edgy, and catchy,
as is the superbly tense “One Little
Girl.” The songs in between, however,
are far too comfortable - when he sings
“1 can hear, it’s in my head” he sounds
like he’s dreaming to the whole world
(mot a bad thing), but when he slips

into “Scenes From a Vinyl Recliner”
there’s no getting out. He moans

something about “too little, too late” -
we agree, and leave.

Just in time to snatch the last
few numbers of Mary’s Danish at the
Ritz, The Red Hot Chili Peppers have
found an excellent support act in these
fellow LA punk-funk popsters. The
blend of Julie Ritter’s country-tinged
vocals and Gretchen Seager’s punk-
lined yowls adds up to an inviting
cross-fire that soars with rock hard riffs
and heavy bass plunges. After the
melting pot warm up of Mary’s
Danish, the Chili Peppers whirlpool
around stage in a brew of furious fast-
flyin’, funked-out rap, exemplified in
“Good Time Boys” or the ‘skarazy
funk of “Subway to Venus.” They funk
out on tributes to any number of their
heroes - the LA Lakers, John Doe, and
Mike Tyson, not to mention bass-heavy
snipets of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC.
“Knock Me Down” crackles with
drums that kick, and guitars that put
Living Colour in their place. A
beautifully robust black cat in the hat,
Vicki Calhoun, brings this track to
unknown heights with her delicious
soulful featured vocals and non-stop
dance action.

Major technical difficulties
and a fuck-it attitude sometime get the
best of them, but they manage to live
up to their egos for intermittent
periods. They’re as subtle as ever
tonight - opening with “Back Door
Man,” hands placed firmly on cocks
(though the weak vocals here don’t

warrant the big heads), singing songs
“either for, about, or by a girl who
gave us all head,” and ending with the
infamous socks and bare bottoms for
the chaotic fury of “Crosstown
Traffic.” When the Chili Peppers come
together they can be the big, bad-assed
happening muthas they believe
themselves to be, but when they don’t
theyre just wankers.

Saturday it’s over to the heart
of Manhattan for Nanci Griffith and
James McMurtry at the Town Hall.
Although this show isn’t officially
affiliated with the marathon it does
boast one of the more gripping,
authentically “new” artists, James
McMurtry. McMurtry, son of novelist
Larry McMurtry, starts out a little
nervous in his navy shirt and. blue
jeans in front of this yuppie crowd,
with unsteady drums. somewhat
hampering the catchy “Paint By
Numbers,” and a tentative vocal on
“Terry.” His literate poorman/richman
songs all buckle with emotion, but
tonight he doesn’t; he stands left.of
center, somewhat detached, just like
the characters in his story-songs. “Poor
Lost Soul,” which scorches a la Mason
Ruffner, and “On the Outskirts,” a
paen to the land of Stop & Go’s and
mufflers, start to pull his set together,
though. “Y’all are great, you're
listening and everything,” he says in
wonder. His dead-pan vocals,
reminiscent of Lou Reed, on “I’m Not
From Here” are as sincere as they are
fitting, and when his voice echoes
“been too long in the wasteland, I
believe I’m gonna have to stay” over
the cavernous guitar, I have to second
that.

If McMurtry and co are a little
nervous and unsteady, Griffith, on the
other hand, is encased by a studio
smart band who bring new
dimensions to the word cheesy.
Griffith, however, is the human
element in here. Her anecdotes, sadly
kept to a minimum tonight, are
engaging and her honest sweet vocals
are essential. Heavy pickings from her
new, more polished pop Lp Storms are
intertwined with past faves like “Last
of the True Believers” and “Once in a
Blue Moon.” Griffith and her guitar
work best alone, though, on the more
personal picks like “Deadwood, South
Dakota” or the heart strings of
“There's a Light Beyond These Woods
(Mary Margaret),” with beautiful
soprano backings by Denice Franke.
With the voice she’s got and the songs
she writes and picks, why does she
bother with a band that smoothes over
the tension and intimacy of a classic
like “It’s a Hard Life”? She ends the
show with a one-to-one version of her
personal favorite “Brave Companion,”
wishing that you “walk out holding
hands with your sweetheart, and if
you didn’t come with a sweetheart
may you find one on your way home.”
I found one alright, but I was pretty
sure she wasn’t coming with me so we
booked on over to the World for Mary
My Hope.

Continued on Aspects 5a

4
November 10, 1989

Aspects 5A

in New

York

"New" Music Wears Old Hat

What's the difference between

a record company exec and a car
Salesman? None, except that one
always wears black. This past week I
had the distinct pleasure of both
shopping for a new car and attending
the College Music Journal shindig in
New York City, both somewhat
harrowing experiences with the hard
Sell.

Richard Crist

Now in theory, the CMJ affair
is a good idea, presenting bands
usually outside of the mainstream of

commercial radio and _ public
acceptance, and bringing together
college radio and press

Tepresentatives. But the centralizing of
Such a movement like college radio
and the alternative music movement
takes away from the whole rebellious
Purpose of the movement.

I always associated seminars
and conferences with the big labels,
who were usually far removed, at least
in the early part of this decade, from
anything considered a slight deviation
from the AOR programming norms.
But-remember, the big labels, Atlantic,
CBS, and RCA et al, have recently
Tealized that a lot of people listen to
and care about the alternative music
usually delegated to the dark corridors
Of college radio. Suddenly, bands like
Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and the
Swans, are, well, acceptable.

But if you took a listen to any

of the afore-mentioned three group’s
efforts, you wouldn’t see a
considerable stretch towards comercial
elements, especially in the case of
Sonic Youth. So what gives? What
gives is that bands like U2, REM, and
to a lesser-degree, Jane’s Addiction
and Camper Van Beethoven, have
emerged, or are gradually emerging
from the underground club and
college radio to commercial success or
eventual success.

The success by those bands
have made the big labels more than a
little wary of being left out in the cold
in the 90’s, so hence, the big push
during the CMJ conference. The whole
three-day affair had the feel of a
salesman’s convention - open bars, lots
of industry talk - but little
accomplished in the way of real work.
The best case of this was the New
Music Awards show at the Beacon
Theater.

That show demonstrated that
new music is actually just something
recently played on the radio. What's
new about Lou Reed? Nothing, except
for the fact that he released a new
album this year that was widely
considered brilliant. But his first work
was put out in 1967. There was people
at the show not even alive when “The
Velvet Underground and Nico” was
released. How about Nanci Griffith.
She’s decades old. Wonderful at what
she does, but is she a new artist?

And strangely, the “new”
music organization that’s supposed to

be all about knocking down fences is
doing its best to put some of its own
up. Consider emcee Penn (of Penn and
Teller, I forget their first names) who
proudly declared “New music is just a
name for the dorks watching this on
cable.” Oh, I see. “New” music is for
the hip and jaded, or those lucky
enough to scam passes into the awards
ceremony.

Thankfully, the show was
livened up by the likes of the Red Hot
Chili Peppers, who also turned in a
brain-melting show at the Ritz on
Friday, and Soundgarden, who, to put
it lightly, resembled a train wreck in
the middle of your living room. But
the worst shortcoming of the awards
ceremony was that it was a celebration
of oneself. It was kind of how I felt
when I heard the Clash was playing at
the US Festival for $1 million -
something is fundamentally wrong
here. The whole show, and the mood
which partially extended throughout
the weekend, was like patting yourself
on the back, a bit of a stretch for
congratulations.

That's not including the fact that
the whole thing was spotty in
organization and concept. Tickets were
hard to come by the first night, and my
companion and I had to swallow hard
when we were told that we would
have to be seated among the models
who were hired to fill seats. Oh well,
duty calls.

Bright spots included the
poorly named, wonderfully talented

CM]

continued from Aspects 4a
The World is a somewhat trippy place
to begin with - rundown, empty
feeling (even when it’s packed like
tonight), loopy lights and chandelier.
This is the perfect setting for Mary My
Hope, who blend Church spaceyness
With gutteral guitar rock into a combo
that eats its way through your
Squirmy, floating body when you
€xperience it. Experience is the key
Word here. These guys drain you with
hurricane-swept rushes and throbbing
Suitar grind that will leave you
Catatonic. They bring you down to
farth and then far, far beyond.
“Suicide King”’s “lift me up, lift me
Up” pinnacle is followed by an
@coustical dreamy comedown. Mary

My Hope is the finish line in this
“Music Marathon” - they absolutely
Stagger in a very surreal state. Nothing
like ‘em.
The Swans are up next, and
What a depressing let down they are
after Mary My Hope. Their music is
Pretentiously arty, dis-jointed and an
verall earsore, where a blonde who
©oh-aahs the lyrics and acomstic
dumpings splatter onto anything else
they care to add. A building drum
Storm with a sprinkling of light, clever
and an all acoustic guitar assault
keep us hanging on, but the next few
Numbers are filled with that wretched

deep, dead droning of the lead Swan,
and we are forced to leave.

A race past crack addicts and
prostitutes down through the Bowery
leads us to the cramped, one time
band-breaking CBGB’s for The
Verlaines from New Zealand and
Seattle’s The Walkabouts. The
economical three piece of The
Verlaines combine melodies
reminiscent of the Teardrop Explodes
with pummeling bass lines and cool
rythm changes that jolt to a hault. They
are perhaps the only band I like who
can sing a song about themselves and
make it convincing. They strike havoc
on “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know
You” with the impact of a Mack truck
smacking into a brick wall.

The Walkabouts are a little more
fine-tuned, with subtleties that evoke
the sounds of the Go-Betweens and
The Feelies. Vocalist Carla Torgenson’s
shimmery vocals coax the pieces down
easy as the rest of the band concocts
folky elements with rougher rock
edges. “Long Black Veil” is especially
moody with interweaving acoustic and
electric guitars, and “Bones of
Contention” starts off a capella and
builds to a march with flickering snare
action. “Hell’s Soup Kitchen” is as
firey as the title suggests. The
Walkabouts are an uncut gem, or a
massive body of water just before the
thunderstorm.

photos by Richard Crist

The Tragically Hip, who sound as if
they went down to the crossroads,
caught a ride back on Highway 61, and
went to the same Main Street the
Stones were exiled on. The Hip also
had the seemingly insurmountable
task of heating up the CMJ post
awards party. They escaped with their
grime intact, and managed to put a
little burn into an otherwise antiseptic
party.

Mary My Hope, out of
Atlanta, were a refreshingly obnoxious
band to meet, after first being
introduced to them at the RCA
Records party, which featured hot dogs
and pop corn. (These people must
really think us college folk are really
kids.) Mary My Hope blew apart the
World in Soho. They even got a small
round of applause, which represents
mad ecstacy at an East Village concert.
Plus the lead singer was catatonic just
after he got off stage.

We got lots of free drinks, free
food, free records, and posters, and all
that, but it was still a disappointment.
Call us spoiled, (well, we’re college
students, we’re supposed to be
spoiled, and plus, we're aspiring music
journalists), but the whole thi
started smelling like big money and
big business. I thought the whole thing
about new or alternative music was
that it was far removed from the
industry, and had some humanity,
letting itself fall down sometimes.
Instead, the CMJ affair was brilliant in
its sheen and polish, and a little short
on substance and promise.

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Monday, November 20th and Tuesday,
November 2ist-

VOTE FOR YOUR

Student
Association

VIC

PIRIESIDENT

WH

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Polling areas will be open lunch
and dinner times on the quads
and from 9-7 in the campus
Penter.:

Everyone must vote in the living area
they live in.

November 10, 1989 —_—_—_—_——_—____ ees Aspecis 7a

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Jane Siberry
Bound By The Beauty

The beauty is all hers - the voice is
calm, smooth, arresting, the tales are
personal, witty, concerned - and I’m
bound by it. The beauty in this is that
she cracks herself up, singing songs
like “Everything Reminds Me of My
Dog” (guys in red Camaros remind
her, Einstein reminds her, cockroaches
and other insects remind her too, don’t
hit them), and “Miss Punta Blanca” (“I
could’ve samba’d with the tour guide,
instead I took a motorcycle ride, with
my friend Mike, this guy I really like,”
sung in quick staccato breaths).

Jane Siberry has released one |

of the most special recordings this
season, combining vocals, sometimes

spoken as asides, as pure as Carly |

Simon with unique phrasing and
musical content ranging from the
tranquil simplicity of “The Life is the
Red Wagon,” the first single, to the

Latin influences of “Miss Punta
Blanca” or the accordian squeeze of |

“Are We Dancing Now?”
There’s an environmental
theme running through this smart Lp -

in the title cut she wants to come back §
in 500 years to kiss the fragrant torest

floor, lie down in the leaves and listen
to the birds sing the sweetest sound

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mothers Milk

In the press bio accompanying their
new album, Red Hot Chili Peppers
vocalist Anthony Kiedis speaks of
“understanding the funk,” the key to
any musical movement by the
notorious Los Angeles funk punks. “I
liken funk to ‘War and Peace,’ Keidis
explained, “because neither draw from
the mediocre emotions from life. It
draws from the pains and extreme
pleasures...it jumps from the more
severe ends of the spectrum and not
really much in between.”

After a period of trial and
tribulation, including the death of
founding guitarist Hillel Slovak, the
departure of a drummer, and much
Soul searching, the Chili Pepper's
latest shows that they undeniably still
“understand the funk.” And much
More. Mother’s Milk, the Pepper’s
fourth record, encapsulates just about
very high energy musical medium -
funk, punk, rock, pop, psychedelia
and then some - to make this the Chili
Pepper’s best, and most cohesive effort

ss te as

you'll ever hear, to see these things
that she loves. And they better be here.

Her remembrance of
childhood Sunday afternoons in
“Hockey” is riveting and gorgeous.
Jingle bells chime in this wintery
atmospheric track as she recalls “you
skate as fast ‘til you hit the snowbank
(that’s how you stop)” and “the sun is
fading on the frozen river, the wind is
dying down, someone else just got
called for dinner... Sunday afternoon.”
Don’t let this fine piece of work get

away from you.

— Raymond Rogers

The Gorehounds
Semtex

Semtex isn’t the soundtrack to a cheap horror flick. It’s a meeting of punk and
psychedelia, politics and nonsense, restraint and autonomy. It’s a mixed-bag of
thythms and vocals, sounding like nothing you've ever heard, and yet, heavily
influenced by varied groups all at the same time.

Take “Cargo Cult,” which evokes memories of early Blondie with its
strong drum beat and dominant, choppy guitar. Yet the Gorehounds give it their
own personal touch, via swirling keyboards and lyrics that compare death to a
UFO. “Eyeball Soup,” about a prehistoric fast food chain, sounds like the
Buzzcocks on amphetamines, and “Gimme Gimme Gimme” blends the Ramones
with the Jesus and Mary Chain, resulting in a hectic, psychedelic love song.

The Gorehounds write songs full of cynicism and brashness, even when
they tackle the subject of love (check out “10 Pairs of Shoes” for a good blow-off
line). Extremely caustic are “The General,” a tale of the plight of Northern Ireland
(“.."1 Maggie kicks all the micks around..”) and “Hall of Imbeciles,” which
satirizes yuppies and materialism (“Hell's the man who does his work while
others reap the profits”). They also like to make use of alcohol-influenced
metaphors, giving their songs a rebellious, debauched quality.

The Gorehounds have been raised on a diet of punk, psychedelia, and

alcohol, which helps to make Semtex a cacophony of Irish thrash-pop. Don’t let
the name scare you.

— Susan Friedman

“ay

yet.

The death of Slovak from a
drug overdose seems to have derailed
the band only briefly, as they have
returned with two new members, 19-
year-old John Frusciante on guitar, and
Chad Smith on drums, to deliver a full
frontal attack on lethargy and
complacency. The music, from
“Johnny, Kick A Hole In the Sky,” to
“Stone Cold Bush,” leaves little room
in the middle. You're either in there
dancing, or you're left out.

Mother’s Milk falls a little bit
short in capturing the bump and grind
fire of the Chili Pepper’s live show, as

Gumby (The Green Album)

Various Artists
John: “It’s stupid.”
Jane: “It’s a Gumby celebration, it’s fun.”
John: “You've got to be kidding me—they’re singing about a fuckin’ piece of
pee pe with yeu Gumby?” That's sick and besides, it sounds
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Jane: “But the music is good. There’s such an assortment of sounds, there’s
something for the reggae lover, the polka lover, and even the zydeco lover. And
it's got Sly and Robbie, Brave Combo, Jonathon Richman, Dweezil and Moon
Sis pe Frank ee Jr. ae besides, it’s Gumby.”

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—Stef McDonald

exhibited by a two-hour blowout at the
Ritz in New York City late last month.
But as covers of Stevie Wonder’s
“Higher Ground, “ and Hendrix’s
“Fire” show, the Chili Peppers are
capable of turning the classics upside
down with punk urgency. Plus, the
new single “Knock Me Down” and
“Pretty Little Ditty” show that the
Chili Peppers can tone down a bit and
be humble, but still burn brightly.

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Moon Unit Zappa

Frank Sinatra, Jr.

— Richard Crist

November 10, 1989

newibeat
by Stef McDonald

Life after the Presidency

Though it goes without saying that any President of the
United States will be famous after his (and maybe someday,
her) term, but being immortalized is a matter entirely all its
own. Ronald Reagan has been immortalized for the third time,
with another wax likeness at Madame Tussaud's Wax Works in
London. Meanwhile, his volume of collected speeches,
Speaking My Mind is on sale for $24.95. But for those with a big
pocketbook, a limited edition copy of the book is available for
$1500. The volume is autographed by the President, contains
color photos, an audio cassette of some of the speeches, and it's
packaged in a mahogany box. The money raised from the sale
of the edition will go towards building the Reagan Presidential
Library in Los Angeles.

Ramblin’ Rambo

Since rising to fame as Rocky, Sylvester Stallone has had quite
a difficult time shaking the image of the dumb speechless
brute. But as they say, if the role fits, play it; Stallone went from
"Yo Adrienne" in Rocky, to grunting in the Rambo flicks, and he
hasn't exactly earned a reputation for intellectual garb. In the
current issue of M Magazine, though, Stallone, in speaking on
his career, is quoted as saying, "I am a verbal person and
"Rambo" is an Elizabethan dumb show, almost a mime. It isn't
as if Im in the gutter drinking Woolite, but it has jaded and
distorted the image of who I am," he says. "My baggage of
prior roles arrives two hours before I do." More on his image,
he says, "I entered this business as an actor, not as an icon, not
as a rough-and-tumble guy, right-wing, jingoistic, sociopathic—
that's not me." And that's not Rocky or Rambo talking.

The Decade Stoned

The current issue of Rolling Stone unveils the magazine's "Top

100 Greatest Album's of the 80s." At the top spot is London :

Calling by the Clash, Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution
makes a #2 showing, at #3 is U2's Joshua Tree, followed by

Remain in Light by the Talking Heads at #4, and Graceland by }

Paul Simon at #5. Prince has a total of four works on the list,
Michael Jackson has two, and in a family showing, his sister
Janet also appears. At #100? Sun City by Artists United
Against Apartheid.

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Second Sight (PG), 1:15, 4, 7:15, 10:05, 12:10.
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Dad (PG), 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:45, 12:15. :

: Communion (R), 1:05, 3:55, 7:05, 9:55, 12:05. .
? Phantom of the Opera (R), 1:25, 4:15, 7:25, 10, 12:25. :

: Fabulous Baker Boys (R), 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 9:50, 12:15.

: Romero (PG-13), 7:05.

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3 15; Chesterfield Kings, Thu. Nov. 16.

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3 New York State Museum (474-5842)

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Protest UAS service

To The Editor:

This letter is in response to Anita Grandy’s article “Don’t
just sit there, do something," I do not wish to debate the
question of whether or not the incident that she
witnessed was racially motivated. I have no way of
knowing if any UAS employees saw the group of 10
people enter the cafeteria.

My concem is with the way Miss Grandy was treated
by the kitchen supervisor. As it was described in her
article. the supervisor did everything she could to skirt
the question that was raised. What has a student’s desire,
or lack of desire, to be an employee have to do with the
fact that she was reporting violations. I must admit, I
wonder why Miss Grandy didn’t report what she had
seen immediately, rather that waiting until it happened
again. I would assume that she felt she would get a
response similar to the one that she did and therefore let
it go until the second incident which disturbed her even
more.

UAS is a privately held company with whom the
University contracts to provide food service on campus.
They hold a complete monopoly on this campus and it is
becoming increasingly evident that they will take
advantage of their power at every opportunity. The
service that they provide is currently terrible and getting
progressively worse. A few weeks ago, on Dutch Quad, a
situation occurred where there was no skim milk at
breakfast four times in two weeks. Once might be
acceptable with the excuse of a late shipment, twice

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might even be tolerable, but four times is ridiculous.
When I asked about the problem I was told that they
can’t put out what they don’t have. My basic question is
“Why don’t they have it?”.

Another example of the type of service that is provided
is that students are told that the portions cannot be
increased. I have been told many times that if I want
more I have to come back to the serving line. I’m a big
boy now. I know how much I can eat. Why can’t I get
my food, sit down, and eat, rather that running back and
forth all through dinner?

UAS has no competition and no real fear of losing
their contract with SUNYA since the possibility of
bringing in another company such as Mariott Food
Service was voted down just a few years ago.

We are forced to pay for a campus meal plan in order
to live on campus. Why are we paying to be treated so
poorly? UAS has not been treating students like the
clients that they are and I think it is about time they
started to.

We as students do have an option. If you are not happy
with the food quality or service we can force changes
through petitions and letter. Don’t just gripe to your
suitemates and friends, write a letter to the president of
UAS, Mr. Norbert Zahm, or to the president of the
University, Mr. Vincent O’Leary. With enough pressure
from the students changes can be made. Keep in mind,
we pay a lot for this “‘service”.

David G. Hoch

All life is precious

To the Editor:

In the Nov. 3 ASP, I was not surprised to find a letter
from Students for Choice calling our attention to the
200,00 women worldwide who die annually from unsafe
abortion. Nor was I surprised when the writer failed to
mention the 200,000 unborn children who died along
with them, let alone the 1.5 million American children
who are aborted every year.

I found this statement to be typically one-sided, rivaled
in its ignorance only by those statements from the pro-
life movement that bring morality of religion into the
issue. All human life is equally valuable, whether it is
mother, or child.

J. Humphrey

Marines not the enemy

To The Editor:
This is an open letter to Miguel S. Alonso:
Dear Mr. Alonso:

I shall not insult your intelligence by imagining that
you had meant for your recent letter in the ASP (October
27, 1989: Yankee Go Home”) to be taken seriously. The
ludicrous arguments and excerable grammar which you
used in the letter made it clear that such was never your
intention. Please indulge me however, and let me
continue as if you were serious.

In your letter, you described the United States Marine
Corps as rapists, torturers, murderers, “barbarians”, etc.
(You didn’t bother to back up these claims, but I’m not
surprised). Sure the Marines have some scratches on
their record; among them are the occupations of
Nicaragua (190*-;*33) and the Dominican Republic
(1964). But don’t forget to listen to the other side of that
record. They have served with loyalty in all of America’s
wars. Marines have died in freeing Cuba from Spain, the
Philippines from Japan, and South Korea from
Communist occupation. Whether or not the Corps has
done more harm than good is up to you: but please don’t
lie and say that no good has ever come from the barrels
of Marine guns.

Even though the Marines have done some bad things
in the past, that has nothing to do with whether they
should be allowed to recruit on campus today. Imagine
the University telling a Marine recruiter not to come to
campus because of something nasty which Miguel
Alonso claims the Marines did in 1898! Can you see the
headlines? “Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders Kill Puerto
Rican Terrorist it 1898; Consequences still being felt

today; Marine Corps says its very very sorry.” I won’t
belabor the point, but Teddy Roosevelt wasn’t even a
Marine.

What is more, there is no reason to believe that
approval of the Marine recruitment on campus today
implies approval by the University of bad things the
Marines may have done in the past. The university
permits the Young Communist League to recruit and to
act on its campus; but that’s no reason to think that the
University believes in Communism.

Even if the University were to despise everything the
Corps has ever done, that would be no reason to ban the
Marines (or any military) from campus. We are in
America, live in a free society. Men here, are allowed to
choose whether or not to disapprove of their military(try
saying that about those countries you refer to as “OUR
countries”, Mr, Alonso; how about Chile? How about
Nicaragua?) If the University were to ban the Marines
from campus, it would be denying its students the right
to choose. It would also be imposing a certain view of
the military upon the students (at tax payers expense!). It
would be exactly as if the University were to impose
upon the students any certain religion or ideology.

Near the end of the letter, you announce that the
United States will soon be fighting a war in Latin
America. “I’m not making this up,” you exclaim. I
assume that you make this accusation only because you
have some evidence to back it up. I think that your
University and your nation, Mr. Alonso, would benefit
greatly if you were to tell us what this evidence might be
so that we may judge and that we may do something
about it. Unfortunately, i don’t think we'll ever wee this
evidence; and that’s because distorting history is always
easier than presuming facts, isn’t it, Mr. Alonso?

Thank you and cheers.
Sincerely yours,
Alfredo B. Goyburu

Alonso letter offensive

To The Editor:

It is not the policy of the United States Marine Corps to
Tespond to attacks upon its reputation and integrity. The
Marine Corps believes its record and tradition speaks for
itself. From a personal standpoint however, I felt
obligated to reply to Mr. Miguel Alonso’s offensive
“YANKEE GO HOME” letter.

First off, the Marine Corps is a legitimate employer
and this being a public university have as much right to
seek employees here as any other business. The fact that
they are a military organization is irrelevant.

Contrary to Mr. Alonso’s misinformation, the Marine
Corps’ motto is not kill. rape, pillage, and burn. The
incident referred to occurred during basic training on
Parris Island. Mr. Alonso neglected to mention that those
responsible were disciplined (NAVY TIMES, Sept. 89)
Indeed the Marine Corps’ motto is Semper Fidelis, Latin
for always faithful.

While Mr. Alonso is “educating his Latino Brothers
and sisters as to the long history of the U.S. military’s
murders...” he would do well to inform them that the
Marine Corps does not, nor wishes to dictate U.S.
foreign policy. As evidenced by the people like Ortega,
Somoza, Castro, and Noriega, Latin America needs no
USS. assistance in butchering and oppressing its own
people.

The Marines do not harass anyone to join. We are
fortunate enough to live in a nation with an all volunteer
armed service. The Marines often say no one likes to
fight but someone’s got to know how. And since not
everyone is as “kind and gentle hearted” as you espouse
to be Mr. Alonso, this is true.

The United States Marine Corps has a long history of
above and beyond service to this nation that it has earned
and is unflinchingly proud of. The contributions of
Latinos (and Afro-Americans) are an invaluable part of
this.

To lambast and degrade the Marine Corps is to assault
and diminish the dedication and commitment these
people have shown. It is alarming that Fuerza Latina and
the Latin Security Council would allow such an article to

be printed as representative of them.
Sincerely,
Michael S. Donovan
Officer's Candidate
USMC

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during the fourth week of classes
in the event of a resignation
during the first three weeks, it is
the Assembly’s elections
committee that is supposed to
conduct the election. The
Assembly was not in session
until early October, and its
elections committee did not
exist.

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Assembly “definitely”
contributed to the delay in the
election, prompting the Executive
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in, she also blames Fecko for the
delay because Fecko, as executive
vice president, was responsible
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Rhodes also takes issue with
how Fecko handled herself during
Seigel’s resignation. Seigel
tendered a letter of resignation to
Fecko on Sept. 24, then changed
his mind the next day. When he

asked for his letter back, Fecko
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encouraged him to think his
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according to sources close to the
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Seigel then changed his mind
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Budget

Continued from page 9
authority or various pension funds by
“floating” bonds that would raise
additional revenue, officials said.

TJniversity officials said that additional
tevenue could be raised by the
implementation of higher parking fees,
ani revenue from SUNY’s participation
in the New York Network, a television
network,

If the University Central Admin-
istration does raise revenue by the
implementation of increased parking fees
and from the television network, it would
garner nearly $6 million in additional
funds.

But University officials concede that
there has not been a formal plan drawn up
as yet to increase the parking fees.

Officials from Central Administration
are not entirely sure that the projected
funds from the television network will be
received by the end of the fiscal year.

“The cuts will have a potentially
devastating effect on the University any
way you look at it,” President of the
Student Association of the State of New
York, Judy Krebs said.

Pittston

Continued from page 8
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“No way, “ replied the miner, “they
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The reporter continued, “How long can
the union continue on for?”

Without hesitation, the miner
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1989 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 15

Racism

Continued from page 5
of the two may feel
discriminated against. He said
the failure of student groups to
program any activities for Blacks
and Hispanics is because the
turnout would be smaller than
for a program geared to the
majority of the University.

Naomi Dresinger, a member of
RZA, said racism is anti-
semitism. Dresinger said people
forget or discount what Jewish
people have gone through
because they have fit into
America so nicely. She said since
only 38 to 40 percent of students
on campus are Jewish, they are a
minority as well and have the
same problems.

William Malpica, a member of
Fuerza Latina, spoke on the
subject of bilingualism, and
proposed legislation on it in New
York. This legislation proposed
to make English the official
language of New York. Malpica
said he fears great implications
from such as measure on those
who do not do not speak English
or whose family does no t speak
it. If this bill bill is passed he
said there will no longer be an
obligation to provide services or
government documents such as
the absentee voting ballot to
those speaking a foreign
language.

Steven Gellerstein, vice
president of Hillel, talked about
the ignorance of Jewish customs.
Gellerstein said there are
stereotypes and negative

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impressions associated with the
Jews. He argued that not every
Jewish person is a wealthy
banker, nor is every Jewish girl
from Long Island a “JAP”.
Finally, Gellerstein said not to
assume that one individual is a
representative of the whole
community.

Marie Mangini, Indian Quad
Coordinator, was the last to
speak. She offered three ways to
battle the problem of racism.
Manglione said education is the
key. She said everyone should
take an active role in trying to
understand this problem.
Communication came next on
her list. She emphasized the need
for validation, and said without
giving others validation and
Tespect, there is no further steps
one can make.

Myron Smith then opened up
the forum to the audience by
asking, “What can we do to
combat racism on campus ?”

Council

Continued from page 3
success, with multi media
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University Senate said that
they had passed a resolution
calling for the complete ban of
all styrofoam products anywhere.
on campus. This would hold for
all departments, not just UAS.

Academic Affairs Committee
spoke of the success of the peer-
advisement program in their
report. They also discussed a
sign language program at the

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ACIA

Continued from Front page
was why the ACIA committee
handed down the suspension.

Scotto said the suspension was
too harsh. He cited another case
where a player came up for
“mushing,” or shoving an umpire
in the face. This player, Scotto
said, was only suspended from
one sport for one week.

Scotto also said he felt that his
actions of two and a half years
ago, when he was involved in a
fight between two teams, had
nothing to do with this action.

After the suspension was
handed down, Scotto sought an
injunction against it from
Supreme Court Chief Justice Al
Malena. That injunction, Scotto
said, was granted, and led to
further problems. Sigma Chi’s
scheduled games were then
postponed, and Scotto said he
believed this happened because
Melman felt it wasn’t safe for

him to be on the field.
Both Melman and ACIA
Council member Sam

Wojnilower maintained that the
games were postponed because
Scotto had nothing to back up his
injunction. Wojnilower said no
evidence of a proper injunction
was given. “Our only recourse
was to put all of Sigma Chi’s
games on hold,” Melman added.
These events led to the
Supreme Court case. The court
tuled in favor of ACIA and
upheld the suspension. Scotto
can resume ACIA activity as of
Saturday. The Court, however,
was highhly critical of ACIA’s
handling of the suspension, and
responded to Scotto’s charge that
no guidelines were set for
disciplinary standards.

“This Court orders the ACIA
within one month (by Thurs.,

However, Scotto said the
damate was done. With him
playing in his position as pitcher,
“We would’ve won,” he said. “It
was the first time Sigma chi
made the playoffs, and we
would’ve won this league.”
Sigma Chi lost in a playoff game
Wednesday.

Scotto said it was wrong that a
small committee can make
important decisions that affect so
many players. “I think certain
members of that committee
should be impeached,” he said.

Sigma Chi President Tom
Darmody, who represented
Scotto at the hearings, said it was
not a matter of fighting to have
him play in those last games, but
a matter of clearing Scotto’s
name.

“I just hope nothing like this
happens again,” Darmody added.
“We're playing sports to have
fun, and if we can’t have fun,
then why are we out there?”

E. Germany

Continued from Front page
and West, differences that Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
has sought to erase by urging
reforms in the Soviet bloc.

Every U.S. president since
John F. Kennedy has urged the
East Germans to tear the wall
down.

President Bush hailed the
announcement as a “dynamic
development” and said it was
“clearly a big development in
terms of human rights.”

“We welcome it,” Bush said.
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell said the
decision amounts to the
symbolic destruction of the
Berlin Wall,” and he urged the
Communists to “take the final
step and tear that wall down.”

“The wall is the most tangible
symbol of the failure of
communism that exists for it

demonstrates for the world to
see—in the most stark and
barbaric way—that the only way
the East German government
could keep its people within their
country was by preventing them
from leaving,” he said.

Fifteen prominent East Berlin
Communist intellectuals and
officials wrote a letter to the
Central Committee suggesting
the Berlin Wall be torn down.

“Tt is also imaginable, even in
the foreseeable future, that the
wall will become a relic of the
past” if an agreement is signed
with West Germany that would
prevent “damage to the East
German economy,” The group
said in a letter that appeared
Thursday in the Berliner
Zeitung, a newspaper of the
city’s Communist Party
organization.

Krenz, who assumed power
just three weeks when his
predecessor was unable to calm

his nation, on Wednesday purged
much of the old guard from the
Communist Party’s ruling
Politburo. The 21-member body
was slimmed down to 11.

The Communist Party’s
Central Committee set a party
conference for Dec. 15-17. A
party conference, a forum for
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discuss personnel changes in the
163-member Central Committee.

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topic of multiparty elections in a
speech to the Central Committee
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Women's cross country team at ECAC's

By Michael Director
STAFF WRITER

In preparation for regionals this
Saturday, the Albany women’s cross-
country team ran an incomplete squad last
Friday at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic
Conference (ECAC) Championships.

Resting were five of the top seven
whose performances are needed to make a
tun for a Nationals birth competing were:
sophomores Colleen Shine and Ingrid
Gonzalez, freshman Jeannine Brinn and
junior Diana Peralta.

Shine has run well, but was hurt. She
tan well, however, placing 49th in 21:26.
In doing so she guaranteed her place for
Tegionals.

“T felt good during the race and I should
be ready for regionals,” Shine said.

The other three runners were vying for
the seventh position on the team that will
compete at regionals. Earning this coveted
spot was Peralta who placed 79th in
22:25. She is continuing to improve and
earned this spot on hard work.

Placing 93rd was Gonzalez in 23:06
followed by Brinn in 96th (23:25);.

The team is now facing its most
important race of the season— Nationals.
The last time the women’s team went was
in 1984. This is its best chance since then,
but as Albany head coach Ron White
points out, “No matter what happens we
are still a successful team.”

White added, “Right now I am just
trying to get seven healthy runners and
concentrate on regionals.”

This is a team with a lot of talent. They
won the Wagner Invitational, crushed the
competition in the Capital Districts, and
placed second in State’s behind
powerhouse Ithaca.

“Confidence is definately the key to
victory,” White said.

The team has talent and the seven
healthy runners are the second essential
part of a victory.

Shine and junior Tricia Shultes have
been looking well in practice and the
Danes number one runner, Amy Mack, is
Starting to regain her form after illness.

With only a couple of other minor injuries
and sickness, the Dane’s should be ready
for this meet.

The top two berths are almost
guaranteed to Ithaca and Cortland barring
any injuries or misfortune. Putting
Albany’s position in perspective was
senior co-captain Kerry Charron.

“Tt is so close you do not want it to slip
through your fingers,” Charron said.

“Tf we perform as well as we can there
is a good chance we will go to nationals,”
added co-captain Denise Buneo,

The meet, held at Rochester, is
tomorrow and no matter what the results
are, the women will still consider this
season a success.

Dolphins rediscover running game, defense, winning

(AP) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
These are the Miami Dolphins?

As unlikely as it might seem, yes, the
1989 Miami Dolphins can run the ball.
They also can play defense, and they can
win even when Dan Marino isn’t having a
big year.

Marino has been decidely
unspectacular this season, ranking closer
to the bottom of the AFC ratings than the
top. But Miami is 5-4, one game behind
first-place Buffalo in the AFC EAst, and
journeys to Giants Stadium for Sunday’s
game with the New Yrok Jets (2-7).

While Marino has struggled with a 71.8
rating and three more interceptions than
touchdowns, the Dolphins have
discovered a running game. Sammie
Smith, the first-round draft choice from
Florida, rushed for 123 yards in last
week’s 19-13 victory over Indianapolis.
The Dolphins had 159 on the ground and

Marino threw for 149, the first time they
have run for more yards than thrown for
since 1985.

“That just creates more problems,” Jets
linebacker Kyle Clifton admitted.
“Marino causes enough problems with his
passing and you need an oustanding
defensive effort just to stop that.

“Now they’ve got Smith running.
When you look back to Don Shula’s
teams, when he’s had the backs and the
people to do it, he’s preferred to run the
ball.”

Shula won’t commit to counting on
Smith too much against the Jets, who
broke a five-game losing streak by
beating New England last week. After all,
Marino has completed 60.6 percent of his
passes against New York for 3,667 yards
and 34 touchdowns. He hasn’t been
sacked by the Jets” weak pass rush in five

games.

“Sammie’s a rookie, as you know, and
he wasn’t here at the beginning,” Shula
said of Smith’s holdout; Smith was the

last first-round draftee to sign. “He’s got a
lot of catching up to do and we have to get
him into the offense.

Football

Continued from Back page

Jeff Davis, linebacker, “Has so much
potential, a great deal of pride.”

Mike Ford, linebacker, “Performs well
on special teams.”

John Gacek, tight end, “Stuck with it
and made a contribution to this team.”

Ted Kush, linebacker, “Another solid
performer on special teams.”

Kurt Labanowski, “Each year he’s
gotten better, a real technician.”

Brian Lindsley, tight end, “Through
hard work he earned a starting position.”

Chris Pizzo, defensive back,
“Inspiration to many guys on the squad,
has the longest interception return in

school history (90 yards for a TD).”

Pat Ryder, quarterback, “Holds virtually
every QB rushing and passing record.
Extremely tough, and he’s gotten better
every year.”

James Watson, punter, “He turned into a
pretty decent college punter.”

The Danes will have their hands full
with the Saints. Albany would like to win
one against a team it has never beaten.

“We haven’t played well against St
Lawrence in two years,” Ford said. “It’s
that added little incentive to have a
winning record,” Ford added.
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Great Dane men harriers are sixth at States

By Michael Director
STAFF WRITER

With the men’s cross country regional in one week,
Albany coach Roberto Vives rested his top two runners at
the New York State meet, held last Saturday at Roberts
Wesleyan College.

The team still did well placing sixth out of 19 teams.
The meet was won by Rochester, who scored 35 points
beating its closest challenger, St. Lawrence, by 44 points.

Albany compiled 184 points and would have placed
higher had its top two runners, senior co-captains Mark
Allman and Chris Kranick, competed.

The course was flat and fast, with good weather
conditions for a cross-country race.

This meet was important for one big reason. The final
two spots for regionals were still up for grabs and this
meet would be a determining factor.

The first mile saw a fast pace with senior Scott
McNamara pacing the Danes in 5:00. This is a good split,
but the field was so competitive at that point he was in
about 40th place. Following two seconds behind him
were Dave Spencer and Joe McCullen. At 5:03 came
Steve Collins. Four seconds behind him was a pack of
Danes; Joe Ahearn, Eric Bush, and Gregorio Luciano.

By the three mile mark, McNamara was still pacing the
Danes at 15:50. At this point in the race he had picked
off about 12 competitors and was starting to show strain.

“T started to tire after three miles and just held on the
best I could,” McNamara said.

Three seconds behind McNamara was Spencer looking
strong. At 16:03 came McCullen followed by Luciano
and Ahearn 15 seconds back.

Running extremely strong in his last two miles
including a 5:00 last mile, Dave Spencer was the first
Dane to cross the line. He placed 21st in 26:33, a
personal best, and for his efforts was named Albany
runner of the meet.

“T felt good and really like running here,” Spencer said.

In 28th place running a personal best, 26:46, was
McNamara.

“This is a nice flat course and I felt comfortable
running my own race,” McNamara said.

The next Dane was McCullen in 41st place (27:08).
Following him was Ahearn in 43rd (27:13). Rounding
out the Danes scoreres was Bush (51, 27:34).

The team ran extremely well with a personal best from
McNamara, Spencer, and Ahearn, who looked good
coming off an injury. Bush also looks to be regaining his

form of old, running a seasonal best.

For their performances this season Collins and Ahearn
earned the last two berths for regionals.

The team for regionals is composed of all veteran
runners. In addition to Ahearn and Collins the other five
runners are all veterans. Allman, Kranick, McNamara
and Spencer are seniors with McCullen, a sophomore.
This is the first time in Albany history five seniors have
ran for the team at regionals. As Coach Vives said,
“this is a team of destiny.”

To get to Nationals will be no easy task. As it stands
Rochester, ranked fifth nationally, Cortland 10th, and St.
Lawrence 11th, are virual locks. The fourth berth is a
four way race.

R.LT. has never faced Albany, so they are a question
mark, Fredonia State and Ithaca both beat the Danes at
States, but Albany was without its top two.

“T am pleased with our results at States and very
optimistic of our chances at regionals,” Vives said.

The Danes have a good chance and it comes down to
what assistant coach Kevin Williams pointed out, “If
everyone peaks and runs to their capabilities we have a
good shot.”

CORTLAND, NY (AP) In six of the
nine games Cortland State has played
this season, one team has left the field
without scoring.

Unfortunately, last week that team was
the Red Dragons, which was shellacked
28-0 by defending champion Ithaca.
Now, despite eight wins including five
shutouts in nine games, the Red Dragons
are facing the very likely prospect of not
making the NCAA Division III playoffs.
Coach Dennis Kayser is not amused.

“Tt’s unfortunate that sometimes
you’re evaluated on the last couple of
games you play,” Kayser said. “If we had
lost to Ithaca in the second or third game
of the season, then won seven in a Tow, it
would be a different story.”

The loss at Ithaca was especially bitter,
and not only because it came against the
school’s biggest rival.

“There’s no question that we had the
ball in our own hands last Saturday,”
Kayser said. “And we were in control of
our own destiny. We made it tough on
ourselves.”

Cortland was the top-ranked team in
the East region going into the game
against Ithaca (7-2). Now the Red
Dragons are behind Union and seven
other teams in the latest poll.

In order to get into the playoffs,
Cortland has to beat St. John Fisher on
Saturday and “hope of a couple of people

Cortland may miss NCAA playoffs

stub their toe,” Kayser said.

Union (9-0), which hosts Hamilton on
Saturday, is one of those teams. Kayser
was an assistant coach for the Dutchmen
along with Al Bagnoli, now the head
coach.

“I don’t want to root against my old
friend Al Bagnoli, my old roommate,
but...,” Kayser said.

The Division III selection committee,
chaired by Ithaca athletic director Bob
Deming, will decide Sunday who will get
the 16 Division III playoff spots. Four of
those spots go to teams in the East.

“My phone has been ringing off the
hook,” Deming said.

“Obviously, people are concerned about
the system.”

Under that system, each team is given a
power rating based on last year’s record,
this year’s record and schedule strength.
Ithaca has a 7-2 record but a 2.8 rating
because one of those losses came against
American International, a nationally
ranked Division II team.

Cortland, with a 1.56 rating, needs losses
this weekend by Ithaca, Union and St.
John’s, another 9-0. team, for any hope of
returning to the playoffs.

“The only thing we can control is to go
out and play Saturday,” Kayser said. “That
much we can control. We certainly can’t
control what the other teams do.

“It’s always an outside shot at best when

you rely on other people to lose,” he
said.

Kayser thinks his team is being
penalized for a schedule that is made
up year in advance.

“We were losing as early as two and
three years ago to the teams we are
beating now,” he said. “You really can’t
control the kind of season your
opponents are going to have. You can’t
change your schedule that easily. A lot
of these have been set three and four
and five years in advance.”

Kayser is hoping the selection
committee takes into account
Cortland’s play before the Ithaca game,
when the Red Dragons had given up
just 33 points in eight games.

“Decisive wins let people know we
do have a good, quality fooball team,”
he said.

Cortland’s players are “a little bit
confused about the politics of the
situation,’ Kayser said.

“Here we lost one game to last year’s
national champions and we go from the
No. 1 spot to No. 7. Then you have
some teams ahead of you with two
losses and one loss and one tie,” he
said. “The teams that are ahead of us
haven’t played Ithaca, either. We
played a great team on Saturday and it
seems we're being penalized almost too
severely.”

Rose says he is seeing p

disorder, He said he realized after he was
banned from baseball for illegal gambling
Aug. 24 that he had a problem.

“I just did something that risked (his
baseball career) and 1 did something that
Teally I did too much in the offseason,”
Rose said in an interview Wednesday with
the Associated Press. “Now I have to
eliminate it completely. And I’m doing
Pretty good, but I have to keep on it.”

That means no more gambling, and no
more trips to one of his favorite places, the

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who had a heart attack and didn’t w
up. It’s a warning sign out there.”
Instead of going to the track, he plans
haul his new golf clubs to Plant City,
Fla., for the winter, where he’ll work on
his putting and spend time with his
family. Rose had a home built there when
he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds,
who train in Plant City.
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commissioner (Fay Vincent) or prove to
the commissioner that I’m not a bad guy,
which I don’t think I am, that I’ve kicked
the gambling habit, which I will, and that
I’m not the type of guy that’s going to
kick it until I’m reinstated and then go
back and do it again,” Rose said.

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Sports

Friday

Men's soccer

Albany playing Metro
winner on Saturday

By Andrew Schotz
STAFF WRITER

The ECAC Division III soccer playoffs are now down
to four teams, one of which will be champion before the
weekend is through. For the final four matches, the site
revolves each year among regional winners; this year’s
matches will be at the home of the New England region
champs, Williams College.

Williams plays Frostburg St. (MD), South region
winners, at 11:00 Saturday, and Albany (upstate New
York region) and Kean (metro NY/NJ region) will meet
at 1:30. The finals will be Sunday at 1:30.

Albany (16-2) got a very good season from striker Lee
Tschantret, a Division III All-American last year.
Tschantret led the team with twelve goals after a slow
start. Forwards Erick Cifuentes (six goals), Yves Limage
(five) and back Scott Goldstein (seven) also chipped in.
Goalie Brian Lehrer spearheads a defense that shutout
eleven opponents this year (a school record) and allowed
more than one goal only once. The Danes defeated
Alfred 3-1 in overtime in its regional final.

Kean (19-4), has scoring potential that will worry
many a defense. Forwards Joe Kelly and Dan Mellett
have each scored 12 goals, while All-American
midfielder Greg Bajek (10 goals, 15 assists) provides a
third offensive source. The Cougars, ranked 20th in the
nation, have defeated NCAA tournament teams (Ithaca,
Montclair), Division II teams (Southampton, New
Haven), and Division I Monmouth on their way to the
semifinals. They defeated Glassboro 2-1 (OT) in their
regional final.

Frostburg St. (9-7) looks somewhat out of place
among these teams on paper. Besides its record, its
leading scorers have modest numbers—midfielder Jim
Eppard (five goals), back Mike St. Martin (four), and
forward Bryan Morris (three). The Bobcats have won
seven of their past ten, though, and all seven were
shutouts by goalie Tom Prunty. They defeated Moravian
2-0 to reach the semis.

Williams (13-3) will probably be considered the
favorite this weekend. The Ephs jumped up nine notches
in last week’s Division III polls and are now ranked
tenth. Despite fielding a team that could possibly fare
well in the NCAA tournament, the Ephs refuse any bid
they are offered. School rules only allows them to play
in the ECAC’s. Head coach Michael Russo was
unavailable to comment on this policy. Williams won its
Tegion by beating Amherst 3-0.

Dolphins are improved- See page 18

Men's hoops exhibition-Sun., 8:00 pm

Fitness column answers- See pg 19

"Kean"at ECAC's

ARMANDO VARGAS-UPS

The Albany soccer team is looking for its first ECAC Eastern championship.

Dane wrestlers expect excellent season

By Adam Dolan

The Albany wrestling team began
another promising season on November
fifth, when they hosted the Great Dane
Duals.

The Danes posted a record of three
wins and one tie with resounding victories
over Boston U-Mass. (28-12), Norwich
(31-9), and the Oneonta B-team (35-17).
Impressive wins were recorded by Billy
Mallin, John Pavlin, Chris Roberts,
Patrick DiCaprio and Chris Zogby.

With the retum of Joe Demeo as coach
for his 13th year, and a more than capable
coaching staff of Shawn Sheldon and
Andrew Seras (both of whom were the
only two Albany athletes to make the US.
Olympic team), the Danes are planning on
improving on last year’s performance.

“Although we lack a great deal of
experience, Chris Zogby is our only

senior, I believe we have a good group of
young athletes,”"Demeo said.

“J expect our team to place better than
last year, because I believe that this is one
of the more talented teams that I have
ever coached,” he added.

The return of all nine varsity wrestlers
from last year is also a cause for
optimism. Demeo also believes that his
team is facing one of the toughest
schedules for a Division II school. The
Danes will have to compete against seven
Division I teams this year, including four
from the Ivy League.

The Danes squad is filled with many
bonafide stars and a few just waiting to
happen. At the pinnacle of the group are
Zogby and Greg Jones, two returning All-
Americans.

“T believe we are a lot more mature

than last year. If we all can focus on our
own job and all work hard, this should be
a very rewarding season,” Zogby said.

He also expressed that it would be very
possible for the Danes to win every one of
their meets this season, although it would
be difficult, especially with them having to
compete with powerhouses such as Ithaca,

“Pending on our wrestlers’ attitudes,
this should be a very productive year,”
Jones said.

“I would hope that we could place in the
top ten at the Nationals,” he added.

Mallin, Pavlin, Roberts and last year’s
Eastern Regional Champ Steve Mitola are
also returning. Some freshmen to keep an
eye on in the future are Rob Appel, Van
Fronhofer, Cory Haines and Chris Bors,

With last years talent returning and the
emergence of many new wrestlers, this
year’s team may be one of nation’s best.

Great Danes
finish season
tomorrow

By Christopher Sciria
SPORTS EDITOR

Two important questions will be
answered for the Albany football team
after Saturday’s game against St
Lawrence (1:00 at University Field).

The first is whether the Danes will
have their first winning season since
1985. Albany finished at 5-5 the last
two seasons and 4-6 in 1986. In 1985,
Albany was 9-2 and ECAC champions.

At 4-4, the Danes are in a must win
situation. A victory will give them a 5-
4 mark and some optimism towards
next season. The St Lawrence Saints
are 5-4 and Albany has never beaten
them as the Saints have won all three
games.

The second question is whether
senior fullback Pete Pedro will gain
110 yards and become the all time
Jeading rusher in Albany history. Pedro
sat out the Danes” last game against
Hofstra two weeks ago to rest an injury.

He is healthier and should start.
Pedro has 448 yards and is second on
the team in mshing. Regardless of what
happens on Saturday, Pedro has the
respect of his coach, Bob Ford.

“Statistics tell part of the story,” Ford
said. “He is well liked and much
respected by his teammates. He is a
total team player.”

Besides Pedro there are 20 other
seniors who will be playing their last
game for Albany. Ford had these
comments about them, in alphabetical
order.

Brad Acker, split end, “Has made his
mark here, real contributor, totally
unselfish.”

Kevin Adams, running back,
“Outstanding young man, better each
year, he’s a pretty damn good college
back.”

John Alberici, full back and punter,
“played a utility role for us, a class
kid.”

Dan Amar, offensive line, “One of
our best linemen, his injury was a
stumbling block.”

Jay Austin, defensive back, “A
pleasant surprise, played some games
extremely well.”

Matt Ballard, offensive line,
“Tenacious, fierce competitor.”

George Bock, defensive line, “Solid
performer, class young man.”

Mike Cerminaro, defensive back,
“Three year starter, an excellent
leader.”

Anthony Chechile, kicker, “A
success story, has played well, never
played high school ball. Has second
longest field goal in school history (47
yards).”

Pat Clark, center, “Performed well in
his tenure here, a solid team player.”

Anthony Dattero, defensive end,
“Played well when called upon.”

Continued on page 18