Albany Student Press, Volume 62, Number 2, 1975 January 28

University of New York at Albany

VOL LXII NO. 1

Friday, January 24, 1975

Faltering Danes Drop Fifth

by Bruce Maggin
Afier a mediocre 2-3 road trip, the’
Albany State basketball team
returned home Tuesday night, hoping
that their home court would turn
things around, But the magic of Un-
iversity.Gym did not hold, as Harry
Sheehy and Fred Dittman put on
their own magic show as they led
Williams College to a 75-71 over
Albany. The win broke Albany's 12
game home winning. streak, and
dropped the Danes to a 6-5 record,

Danes in a winning effort against API in the Capit

District Tournament.

Sheehy, Dittman star

Sheehy and Dittman combined
for $4 of Williams points as both
men shot an incredible 60 per cent
from the field. Beating Albany was
nothing new for Sheehy, as he
sarredin last year’svictory over the
Danes. He was simply on fire in the
second half, as he scored 19 points
‘and was unstoppable,

‘The Danes played far from the
kind of ball that they showed before
the semester break. Gone was the

tenacious « defense. Albany's fast
break was ineffective. The team's
biggest problem was in rebounding
‘as Albany was murdered under the
boards. Williams constantly follow-
ed up their missed shots with one or
two easy. shots from underneath,
white Albany often had to settle for a
single shot, Albany was also taking
iow percentage shots, as many of the
ballplayers felt impelled to shoot if
they got a pretty pass.

Perhaps the biggest problem for

Albany in a losing cause versus Willlams Tuesday.

the Danes was the lack of a leader on
the court, They needed someone to
take charge and settle the team down
when things weren't going their way.
Last year Bryon

pressure off the team

shooting. This year their is no Miller
to save the Danes, and it showed late

they forced shots from all over the
court,

The game opened with Wil
takingan curly lead, as Dittman and
his teammates had the hot hand
Albany seemed tight, as they mina,
ed one basket in the first five
minutes. The Danes settled dawn
and Eddie Johnson's shooting enabl:
ed Albany to take the lead for the
first time M-12. For the next couple
of minutes it
teams were hot and traded baskets.

Zone stifles Danes

With Albany leading 30-28,
Williams switched to a zone defense
and completely. stifled the Danes.
Albany failed to work the ball in for
an in
from too far out and the shots did
not drop. Williams ran off nine un
angwered points to close the hall
and went into the
leading 37-30,

The Danes wer

de shot as they forced shots

Jockerroom

atble to cope with
Williams’ sone in the second half as
Johnson once again had the hot
hand, Albany closed to within three,
47-44, but Williams pulled back to
their seven point lead, With almost
ten minutes to go in the comtest,
Albany received a technical foul
This, plus the insertion of Rich

Kapner into the lineup, scemed to
spark the Danes. The offense started
to roll and the team finally started
playing some defense.

Bob Audi put in two foul shots to
bring the Danes within two. His field
goal tied it at 54-54, but that would
be the closest Albany would get.
Sheehy and Dittman took charge

id Williams opened up an cight
point lead as the clock ticked under
the three minute mark. Albany tried
to come back, but their forced,
hurried shotsdid not drop. The Pups
closed within four, but Villiams
hung on for u 75-71 vietory

Ed Johnson Jed the Dane scorers.
Hard
working Bob Audi finished with (6

as he chipped in 17 points

points, IS in the second half

The Danes must now regroup
their forces a ing some
solid basket ist get
hetier production froin Pete Koala
and Tom Morphis. they can’t keep
giving the oppustion second and
third basket]
Morphis, who way so impressive i
the Capital District
could do little against Williains. 1d

chances at the
Fournament
must use his herght and weight to hi
advantage

Offensively, Albany must wor
for better shots. Whey can't ju
throw the ball up.

the talent is there as evidenced 6
early vietories and th
The twag

the team’s
n over Buffalo State
ist work harder, if they
hopes for the SUNYAC Crown, I
team gets t chance Co turn thin
pund, when it faces Southern Cot
necticut
Gym, Game time iy 8:30 p.m,

tomorrow at Universit

Wrestlers Suffering From Injuries

by George Miller

The Albany State wrestling team
burdened with costly injuries to key
players since the start of the season
in carly December has thus far
struggled toa mediocre 2-5-1 record,

In their most recent match Coach
Joe Garcia's Great Danes hosted
Williams College and Fairleigh
Dickenson University Wednesday
evening. The best the varsity could
produce from this outing wasan 18-
18 tie with Williams, while suffering
424-18 set back to Fairleigh Dicken-
son

Against Williams, it was an even
and exciting contest right down the
line, The outcome rested on the final
match which posed Tom Cleary of
Albany versus Jackson of Williams
in the heavyweight division, It was
one of Albany's brighter spots of the
night as Cleary was able to defeat his
‘man by the slight margin of 9-8 to
gain a tie for the Danes

In the 118 Ib, division Albany
forced to forfeit all its matches, This
Proved to be the most severe blow, is
they lost six valuable points to cach
team. In both cases those six points
Proved to be what could have been
the margin of victory for Albany.

AL 126 Ibs. Albany's Brian Jubrey
decisioned William's Sanders 10-2,

In the 134 Ib, class Frogale of
Williams decisioned Albany State's
Vie Gagliardi 14-4, Since the
William's man was able to defeat his
‘opponent by more than ten points he

was awarded 4 superior decision

ining for his team four
points rather than the usual three for
awin,

Co-captain Larry Mims also won
by a superior decision over Coleman
of Williams 13-3,

Rhodes of Williams was able to
shut out Albuny’s Jeff Golden 6-0 for
three points.

AU 158 Ibs., Albany State and
Williams wrestled to a 5-5 tie as
neither D'Ambrosio or Mitchell
were able to gain an upper hand and
tuke the decision. As a result both
teams were rewarded 2 points

At 167 Ibs., Rick Robbins of
Albiny took the decision over Co-
nant of Williams 6-1. At 177 Tom
Horn of Albany was victorious over
Tolles of Williams while Hubbard of
Williams squeezed past Ethan Atten
$3,

In their mateh with FDU Albany
showed some fine wrestling in the
lower and middle weight classes but
ran into stiffer competition in the up-
per divisions where they ultimately
lost it,

AL 134 Vic Gagliardi and Dick
son's Metz wrestled to a low 2-2 tie.
Larry Mims was able to put Albany
out in front with his second superior
decision of the night {3-1, However,
Deitz of FDU tied things back up at
12:12 by defeating Albany's Jeff
Golden 12-0 at 150 Ibs,

At 158 Ibs, D'Ambrosio wonit for
the Danes with a 3-0 decision, State

moved further into the lead as Rick
Robbins was able to wrestle an 8-2
decision from Dickenson’s Dressler

Things started to turn sour at 177
tbs., when Sealy decisioned Tom
Horn 8-3.

The big mateh that put Fairleigh
Dickenson in the driver's seat was
when their man Sapienza pinned
Ethan Allen of Albany at 5:06, This
fall gave Dickenson six big points
and a 21-18 edge with only one

mateh remaining.

In the heavyweight class Dicken-
son's Klein was able to s
diet by defeating Tom Cleary 6-2.

Last Saturday, the varsity had a
rough time of it as they dropped all 3
ends of their quadrangular match,
27-10 to Union and 35-6to Potsdam,
and 24-16 to St, Lawrence

A large void is definitely felt in the
lineup by the absence of Doi
Bi with a rib injury, Don

J the ver=

Mion at 190 tbs. and All-SUNYAG
avyweight champion Rudy Vidg

curred before vacation. It is hops
that Mion may be back in form f
the Oneonta match next Wedne
day
Road meet tomorrow

Phe varsity will ry to put
together tamartow when they travel
to face Amherst, Southern Con
neticut, and Lowell at Amherst

Women to Open Tomorrow

Mary Ellen Foley and Wendy

by Mike Piekarski

Yes, there fx a women's varisty
basketball team on this campus.
And yes, they do play basketball. If
you have never seen these girls play,
you're in for quite a surprise

Coach Bai squad is
getting “psyched up" for tomorrow's
season-opener at Oswego, and with
hopes of improving upon last year's
5-4 record; the worst in Ms. Palm's
recent memory, But it won't be easy,
The loss of Liz Gilliam leaves Coach
Palm with four sophomores and
seven freshmen on her I -girl (eam,
So, inexperience will be a major fac-
tor in Albany's seasonal outcome,
Fortunately, al) four sophs are
returnees from last year and will be
secing plenty of action,

Gath are co-captains and returnees,
atlong with Cathy Dower and Vicki
Girko, Girko is the only starter trom
last ye and Gath (known as
the “super sub") was quite a
sparkplug in many of those games

Freshman Vita Davis looks very
promising and may be the key to
Albany's success. She is an excelle

jumper and (albeit a guard) should
be the primary rebounder, and,
possibly, scorer. Sue Winthrop
seems to be the team’s best shooter
and has impressed Coach Palm with
her ‘all-round consistency. Sue is
recovering from an accident but still
should see considerable playing
time, Dorothy Coletti will probably
bbe battling Girko for the center slot,

but the coach stresses that there wil
be no automatic starting line-up}
that it is subject to change. thd
aforementioned players will
probably comprise the starting five
Rounding out the squad a
Dorothea Brown, Nancy
Lauren Harris, und Matilyn Hinden,
Height will definitely be
Problem, as the tallest girl on th
squad, Vicki Girko, is listed as onl
59". Rebounding difficulties ma
affect the fast break Ms. Palry
prefers. Couch Palm is hoping fo
the best and said, “We'll rely on a run
ning and hustling game to keep us i
it.” *We're striving for a team ef
fort,” she said when queried abo
any individual to watch for, but s
continued on page |

Bartel,

Yam gay.

Pass you on the podium dally. By now a few of you know my name, but to each of you that

doesn't—Would it make » difference f you knew? . . .

| decided to survey other people's views and experiences in this area as a project...
all but two of the men have come out to those they consider to be

Alll of the women,

friends, A friend Il Call John considers himself ovt (0 himioet, his anally, che Ccmmmmundty
Jam a person, 1am your friend. I sit next to you ln elise, ent next (o you in the cafeteria, and society, but not to aiy friends or acquaintances. He feel thet now that ke hes come to gripe with

his homosexuality and bullt up hs confidence as an individual it does not pay to rik hie
friendships by revealing himself. Jon feets It a useless to “upeet the apple cart,” fearing that
* people would react to him differently «.. .

-Gay Like Me on the ASPects centerfold, pages 4P and SP,

TUESDAY -

‘STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY

VOL. LXINO, 2 JANUARY 28,1975

Students Return; Russian Exchange Complete

by Nancy Abbaugh

The first thing the ten students
noticed in Moscow were the im-
maculate subways. But the city itself
was grey. And the people seemed
Brey, too

Don DePalma, one of the ten
SUNY students who just returned
from a semester in Moscow last
semester was struck by the “uni-
queness of the Russian people.”

“They are conlused about who
they are, One is struck by the fi
that they are stuck between the East
and the West. It's closed society

‘One of interesting
character aboot the
Ruysians is that they’ very rarely
guess that is an Amer
trait, but they used to come up to us
What is it about
American? You're always smilin

Another thing that tells
something about them is that they
drink shot alter shot of
Don smiled, remembering
nol_many

people really enjoy the taste of it

thes most

revelations
smite

alten
sodka

The strange thing is

They never mix it with anything
juist drink it straight.” He grimaced,
“1 can’t look at vodka anymore
have to close my eyes.”
he slid his brown
lasses up this nase and thought fora
minute. “You know, | really think it
might be a failure of them to provide
a spiritual value to life

Hut, “Lenin isa God to them, and
communism is their religion

Hy the time we we
ting tired of the
Soviet religion, and the Czechs felt
the same Kind of ambivalences we

te was hard
ne of them. We

ve there for a

while, we were gs

did. so we got along,
to say good-bye tos
made some close friends,
“Che courses we had were pretty
good, We were split up into two
groups of five each because our
Knowledge of Russian wasn’t good
enough fo go mie the 4
staat chsses, but it wats all right.”
The ten who went were from
dillerent, SUNY
Kintvel, erty Jo Cerirolo, Annette
Nina Loan, Hanya Shulgin.
Lorraine boreman
Morris Rabinke, and
Their advisor, Ed
SUNY

schools:

farmat
Don Det
Fyn Stane
Andrea Beesmng,
Norby

irom Oswego.

Touring downtown Moscow. Left to Right: Lynn Stone, Don DePalma, Annette Jarmak, Morris Rabunko, Nina Loan, and Terr Ceravolo,

brought his family something that
surprised the Russians, who aren't
allowed to lave the country together
with their families

Their courses were rather stan-
dard fare for anyone who studies
abroad

Phonetics. "Which was difficult
You see, the problem here is that
what we study at Albany is limited to
what the emigres (most of whom
have lived in France or somewhere
helore coming here) tell us so that
the intonation we learn here ix
hilarious to them.”

Lexicology was lexieology, and
the Americans took a film course
‘abunch of boring films about the
Soviet Union designed by Moscow
State easing

lang

University for
usage and comprehen:
Soviet literature

and transkating

Soviet culture
practical Russian,
fiom English to Russian were the
other courses they studied.

The school wast tot like amr huh

schuals you know, smoking
between the classes, the girls an one
side of the hall and the guys on the
other, Classes were an hour and a
half long, and they were mostly pret-
ty good, 1 know my Russian im-
proved.”

“I way st though, after a
while we started to almost lose our
American identity to forget things
about America, but every month, as
it turned out, we had some kind of a
xel-together that reminded us of
home, One time in October, after we
were there about a month, we went
Wy dinner at the Manager of the
Moscow Chase Manhattan Bank's
house. fe had about three or four
average Soviet
together. so it was really big and real-
not like the usual Moscow
seene, It way there that we had the
only green salad the whole time we

were m Mascon.”

apartments put

In November, we went to the
partment ot W

\meriean ambassidor

er Stessin, the
He was right

lter Vladivostok

“Any interesting scoops?”

“It was fantastic, talking to him:
He said that Ford was not as
aggressive as Nixon, but that they
got some things done.”

Speaking of Nixon:

“the Russian people really like
him beeause of the detente. ‘They
really don't understand what
happened to him

Another time, they went to a
Soviet rock concert, but the music
was straight American. I was only
iter the concert they tearned the
group they had heard was one that
performed only at ymbassies and
played only Western music “jazz
They did J.C, Superstar
nd stull trom Chis

and rock

inder of America was
the time Sen, James Buckley came to
“He headed straight
lor the synagogue to talk 9 the Jews,
who wanted 40 leave the Soviet Un:
ion. Then he went to talk to some

Mosca to visit

SA Alerts Students to Tuition or Board
Hike, OCSC Work, and Reciprocity

by Rick Paley
S.A. President Pat Cartan helt a
news conterence yesterday to diseuys
upcoming changes tor the spring
semester that affect most Albany
students. [hese include possible ti
tion, board, and F.S.A, prive hikes,
increased O.C.S.C. (Of-Campus
Student Coalition) activities to aid
olf-campus students, and a
teciprocity policy between p
ticipating $.A.8.U. member schools.
Much of the conference concerned
rumors of tuition increases for
§.U.N.Y. students, Curran explain-
ced that all the information up to now
fas been heresay and that a definite

Yes oF no anywer on a tuttion in
crease would come alter the budget
has been decided upon this Satur
day

Carey Promises

Governor Carey has promised no
increase in tuition for the state
schools and as a result the desired in-
crease in tuition may be reflected in-
stead it higher board rates.

There way also mention of a
possible separate student health tax,
which up to now has been included
in regular tuition charges

Speaking for the Off-Campus Stu-
dent Coalition at the conference w
Robin Shuster. She explained that

the OCS.
tives ta assist oll &
by studying city housing and oning,

ania

plans to intensity its ave
pus students

codes. This would help the
ion advise students on landlord~
tenant problems that are created
when more than three people live in
the same apartment
Booklets

The O,C.S.C. also plans to dis-
tribute booklets to off-campus
studentsthat would explain the com-
plicated housing code and help solve
such problems as where to complain
bout housing problems when an in-
spection would reveal four or more
people living in the complainant's

house.
S.A, View President Ira Birnbaum
discussed the new S.A.8.U. pliey of
ieeiprocity between
schools, The policy allows any stu-
dent ata $,A.S.U, member school to
have the same rights and privileges
of tax paying students at all other
participating schools, This would in-
clude (with minor exceptions) ticket
siles to concerts and most other
cumpus-sponsored activities at the
following schools: Canton,
Binghampton, Cortland, Delhi,
Oneonta, Genesco, Univ. of Buffalo,
id Farmingdale, More schools are
expected to aprticipate shortly.

member

‘other dissidents, And that idiot He
couldn't figure out why the Soviets
weren't too cordial to him.”

Some of the controls on the
students were strict as they are in all
al Rugsiat, "Ruysit is a country at lite
le slips of paper. You have to showa
paper to change tubles into
American dollars. You haye to show
at pass (0 leave the building and one
to get into a building.

"We lived ina hotel.” Annette Jiar-
mah (a grad student here) said on a
rweent WEN interview, “und at one
time, the babuska downstairs didn’t
know we could leave. or who we
were, so We Were stuck in the hotel
for three days or so... Hopefully,
the next group will live in the
dorms.”

Don complained that the hotel
\wais (oo far frony the eampus and the
dorms of the Moscow tnstitute for
Foreign Language Study. “1's about
forty mmutes to the campus, depen
ding on the connections you make
(bus to (rain), and then another fit
fen minutes, ait east tothe
dorms... Everytime weshowed up
at the dorms somebody, expecially
the Cveelis, would pull outa bottle of
Vodka and we'd have a party.”

Reeyeled Meatballs

“The food was horrible," Moscow
fst grey city. and the food was also
wiey. Recycled meatball, two kinds
of cabbage (cooked and raw), and
bread were standard. I have to con
tess. and | told this to Norb Zahm,
(ESA Director of Food Serviee) the
other day that when 1 came back
here, and 1 couldn't believe how
goad the FSA food tasted compared
to the Russiam dormitory food,

“You can get some American
food--or at least food that. we're
used to—in the foreign currency ex
change stores, You see, the Soviets
like to have foreign currency coming
int the country, so they encourage it
by running these stores where you
can get Pepsi and lettuce and good

continued on page three

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\\

museian Emigre Teitelbaum to Speak

Gregori Teitelbaum, a Russian
Jew recently permitted to immigrate
to Israel, will speak at SUNYA this
Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m,
in Campus Center room 375. He is
currently on a six-week tour of the
United States on behalf of the Un-
ited Jewish Appeal to emphasize the
plight of Russian Jews.

Gregori and Tamara Teitelbaum
spent monthsin efforts to secure per-
‘mission to emigrate from theit home
in Moscow to Israel. With the help of
some members of the Albany Jewish
Community and United Jewish
Appeal, they now live in Tel Aviv,
Israel, where Mr. Teitelbaum can
pursue his profession as a photo-
journalist,

Americans read and hear about
the difficulties of Russian minority
groups who want to leave the Soviet
Union but are denied permission by
their government. The recent trade
bill between the Soviet Union and

Mr. Gregori Teitelbaum who will speak here tomorrow afternoon in
the Campus Center.

for any arms or military equipment. Albany State is being planned for
the United States included an Israel Emergency Fund is a cam- this semester, with further details to
amendment to assure emigration paign of UJA which is granted tax- be announced in the near future.

rights for at least a minimum exempt status under the Internal Mr, Teitelbaum's engagement on
‘number of these people. Since the Revenue Code as a charitable Wednesday is sponsored by the

bill was signed, however, Russiahas organization devoted to Jewish Students Coalition-Hillel,
blatantly announced her intention humanitarian needs, i.e., “rescue, with the cooperation of the Albany
not toadheretoitsterms,andnoone relief, rehabilitation.” The moniesgo Jewish Community Council. All

members of the university communi-
ty are invited to attend.

to the Jewish Agency and Joint Dis-
tribution Commission which handle
only social welfare needs such as im-
living conditions amid pressure, ex- migration and absorption centers,
tortion, and indiscriminate spiestells immigrant housing, and vocational
us just how important the ammend- training, Monies also go to areas
ment is to these Russian minorities, other than Israel, like Iron Curtain
The Albany Jewish World quoted and Arab countries (under the
him last month: “Freedom..you auspices of JDC) to provide food
take for granted; you haveit.,.Butto and clothing to Jews there.
beable to get upandgo...tocome,or Mr. Teitelbaum’s three-day stay in
not...cur whole life is infected in the Albany area will hopefully help
Russia with this lack . . .” to begin the Albany Jewish Com-
‘The money raised in a United munity’s USA Campaign for 1975. A
Jewish Appealcampaign isnot spent similar campus-wide campaign at

Judge Rules Kids O.K. in Dorms

said that the rule interfered with
marital privacy and forced graduate
students to put toddlers in
“psychologically damaging" boar-
ding homes while their parents were
in school.

in this country has cared to insist on
law enforcement.
Mr. Teitelbaum's description of

(ZNS) Cecil Slemp_ of
Jarrettsville, Maryland, has come
uup with a reversed shoe that has
the heel in front and the toe
behind. Slemp has been trying to
sell hisinvention to the Pentagon.

He believes the shoe has
military possibilities in that it
would leave tracks leading in the
opposite direction than the
wearer actually marched.

(CPS)—A U.S. District Court
Judge has ruled that the State Un-
iversity of New York at Stony Brook
cannot prevent married graduate
students from keeping their children
in dormitories with them.

SUNY/Stony Brook had for-
biden children in the graduate
dorms on the grounds that there
were no “supportive community
facilities" for family living, such as
full bath and kitchen facilities. Inad-
dition, the ban on children was
necessary to preserve an “academic
Atmosphere” in the graduate dor-
mitories, said the school,

But Judge Orrin Judd ruled

Orientation Assistant
Positions Available
Summer Orientation 1975

Orientation Assistant,
1975 Summer Orientation Program

No Appeal
During the hearing of the case,
students living in the dormitory
testified that they had experienced
more noise and less of an “academic
environment” in ull-student dorms
in their undergraduate years than
they did in a graduate dormitory
children.
SUNY has not yet acted to appeal
the decision.

. He called the school's at-
titude “perfectionist” and agreed
with the students who filed suit who

Position Tite

Undergraduates only

Qualifications:
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‘Time Commitment: June2-Auguat 4, 1973
Attendance at ONE of two interest
meetings is mandatory- either Thurs.,

Jan, 30, 6:30 pm in the CC Assembly Hall
OR Tues., Feb. 4, 6:30 pm,

CC Awembly Hall,

Requirements;

yt Office of Student Life, Campus Center 130
Wie eearee between Jan. 20-Feb. 6, 1975
Return Applications to CC 130 by 4:30

on : on Thurs,, Feb. 6, 1975,

SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) : s

Le Duc Tho, the North Vietnamese leader who negotiated the Vietnamese
‘cease-fire agreement signed two years ago yesterday, has declared the Ford
‘administration is “givinga new path to the war” by urgingadditional military
aid for the Saigon government.

In military tion, the South Vietnamese command said two of its A37
bombers were shot down today by North Vietnamese antiaircraft missiles
during a battle west of Saigon near the Cambodian frontier.

A

aera a jar Sadat of Egypt arrived in Paris today seeking French
weapons and diplomatic support in the Mideast conflict. ;

‘Sadat, on his first visit to a Western country since he became president in
1970, was greeted at Orly. Airport by President Valery Giscard D’Estaing

‘dat and Giscard d’Estaing were to hold their first working session
yesterday, The Egyptian president is accompanied by a high-powsred
delegation including War Production Minister Ahmed Kamaled Badri

BELFAST, Norther Ireland (AP)

Belfast newspapers reported that the army council of the Irish Republican
Army's Provisional wing might announce a new cease-fire in Northern
Ireland today.

‘The papers said the army council met Sunday in Dublin,

Reports of a new cease-fire have been circulating since British officials met
last week with representatives of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political front, to
discuss renewal of the Christmas truce that expired Jan. 16,

SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda (AP)

‘The United States team was expected to withdraw from the world contract
bridge tournament yesterday in protest against the failure of the World
Bridge Federation to expel two Italian players accused of cheating by using
foot signals,

‘After discussing the charges by an American journalist and others against
Gianfranco Facchini and Sergio Zucchelli for nearly cight hours, the
Federation's Appeals Committee announced the two Italians were
wverely reprimanded for unnatural movements of their feet and touching
their partner's feet.”

Allegations against the two Italians resulted in the postponement until
later yesterday afternoon of the filth round match between Italy and the
United States, But the U.S, team announced earlier it would not play against
a team that included Facchini and Zucchelti, and the Italian team said it
would quit the tournament if the two players were suspended.

WASHINGTON, (AP)

Volkswagen, a German manufacturer of small cars, told the
Environmental Protection Agency today it will follow the major American
companies in secking a one-year extension of 1977 auto emission standards

Arthur R. Railton, vice president of Volkswagen of America, the U.S.
branch, said in prepared testimony at an EPA hearing that Volkswagen was
achieving the 1977 standards in laboratory engine tests.

But he also stated that the company’s exhaust-cleaning catalysts do not last
long enough to meet U.S. standards and the results of the tests did not
provide enough margin to ensure the assembly-line cars would meet the
standards and stay within them,

The EPA has been holding hearings on requests for a one-year suspension
of ths 1977 standards, which currently require steep reductions in emissions
of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides.

LOS ANGELES (AP)

Can the movie industry continue to defy the nation’s economy and
maintain prosperity in 975? Film leaders areconfident, and they point to the
list of attractions for the coming year.

‘While many other industries were hurting in 1974, motion pictures made a
startling comeback.

Daily Variety reports that America's film theaters did their best business
since the postwar boom of 1946. Income is estimated to have reached as high
as 1.675 billion, an 18 per cent jump over 1973

Several reasons have been offered: the search for escape in troubled times.
the need of neighborhood entertainment during the gas shortage, and
disenchantment with television,

Perhaps the soundest reason for the box-office upswing was th
"appearance of appealing attractions, starting off the year with The Sting, The
Exoreist and Papillon and ending with The Towering Inferno, Earthyuuh
The Godfather, Part Il, Young Frankenstein, Lenny, and The Man with the
Golden Gun.

CHICAGO (AP)
Two California physicians report that certain Chinese herbal medicines
illegally imported into the United States are causing. serious blood disease
{mn the Jan, 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Associativn.
they describe four cases, including one which proved fatal, in which patients
developed agranulocytosis after taking these herbal medicines. ‘They sity
‘more cases can be expected. ‘
The authors, Drs. Curt A. Ries and Mervyn A, Suhud of the University of
Cabtoene ‘at San Francisco, say the medicines originated in Hong Konganud
‘tiwan,
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.(AP)
sha at failure atthe new campus of Skid more College over the weekend
yesterday ty And heat for 30 hours unit power was restored easy
‘ Barbara Hogan, Director of News Services for the College, said the power
cable a Ab P.m. Saturday was caused by the explosion of an under-ground
cara aright 700 ofthe 1,380 students still on campus studying for f
Niagara Mohene metbers. The power failure, which was corrected by
ara Mohawk Power Corp. technicians at 1:45 a.m. yesterday, left the

residences, dini :
Piso rhode aa and library on the new campus totally without

Impact and Change Mark Women’s Conference

by Audrey Seidman

Over fifty, women of all ages
and vocations exchanged idea
related experiences and vented
theiroccupational frustrations at
the “WOMAN and the
Professions” conference here at
SUNYA this past weekend.

The mood was set at the open-
ing session on Saturday morning
by Patricia A, Bull, Director of
her own consulting firm. Since
the objective of the conference
was to enable the women to gain
insight into their
professional personal decisions,
Bull had the participants ex-
amine and then share some of
their personal feelings.

Fifteen successful professional
women served as role mode
relating their experiences and in-
sights about their fields in
presentation and interaction set-
tings. For example, one ex-
uberating workshop was “Im-
pact and Change: Politics", with
State Senator Karen Burstein.
Burstein, who looks likea college
student and talks at 78 rpm is in
her second term representing
parts of Queens and Nassau
counties,

Burstein, who lost her first
race in 1970, says she has been

dealt with differently due to her
sea. In 1970 her age, 28, was held
against her, at least until it was
found that she had a law degree.
She was told how to dress, and
felt hostility from other women
This hostility faded in 1972, and
she saw being & women as a
positive factor in the 1974 race.

She found that entering
politics helped her to find a sense
of herself. An outspoken critic,
Burstein iy a feminist, an early
ti-Vietnam War worker, and

Students Return

continued from page one
meat and saussiges.””

Breshnev’s problems were in-
teresting to wateh in the papers. “As
time went on, fhe was mentioned less
and less in the Soviet press.” Don
said they interpreted this to mean
that Soviets were increasingly dis-
sitistied with his pertorn:

“You have to read between the
lines im the news stories.” It seems
that what they don’t say is impor
tant. “There isa standard format for
tiews stories,” Don had discovered
something, and his eyes Tit up. “In a
trade conference that goes well, the
papers might say the atmosphere
was Iriendly, but like with the con
ference with Japan, you know it
went poorly because they didn't
mention any kind of friendly at-
mosphere. The news there is pretty
standardized . .. We got the Inter
national Herald ‘Tribune to find out
what was going on."

Depalma with angther funny
a of his malfune-

story, told the sa
tioning tape
One of histei
wrong, bon?”
“This tape recorder it’s eating
the tape. But then, what do you ex-
pect? It'sa Czech tape recorder, I'm
an American student, You're a Rus-
sian teacher. We're in a Soviet Un-
How do you expect
anything to work together?
His teacher leaned down and
whispered to him: “Ihave a Sony.”
Women’s lib isn't quite the same
there, said Terri Ceravolo, ana

chersasked, "What's

an advocate of the legalization of
marijuana, Upon her election to
the Senate her mention of the
“sexist attitude in Albany”
received wide press coverageand
put her in “bad odor” with her
colleagues. Her committment
and devotion to her constituen-
cy, however, gained her respect
in the Senate and re-election,
Women in the Medi
represented by
news analysist
WRGB tcley

new ideas, to fight the typical ‘I
never thought about it”

that power corrupts, she wants

ing the difference when making a
phone call
as either “Lt, Governor's office,”
or as “Ginny.”

The participants in this
workshop, mostly teachers, ex-

id reporter for
ion, and

nd identifying herself’ tion,
Florynce
appearance inspired the whole
conference, spoke last night.
There wa

management techniques. Sheen- pressed loneliness in their jobs
couraged women to introduce and frustrations with the system.
How to help high school women
to plan their future seemed to be
traditionalist attitudes. Believing one problem.

Other presentations included
no partofit, but can'thelp realiz- law, criminal justice, manage-
ment, and Business Administra-
Black feminist lawyer

Kennedy, who's

also a multi-media

presentation, “A Woman's Place
is Everyplace” by Audrey Seid-
man, showing women at their
various jobs. A dance was held
Saturday night co-sponsored by
the Women's Liberation group
and Albany's Lesbian's, for:
Liberation.

The Conference was coor-
dinated by Patricia’ Buchalter,
Director of Student Activities.
Feedback on the sessions is
welcome from the participants.

se romance" New Information Sources Directory

ecutive Women's Editor of the
Knickerbocker News. Smith said
she climbed up the same ranks as
her male colleagues, beginning — Th
by typing programming mation Science at State University

tat Northwestern Un- &
iversity, and getting summer jobs
at different radio stations, She
was working in Austin, Texas,
where she reccived her Masters
degree, before she came to
Albany The 118-page booklet lists and

Smith stressed building up a gescribes Capital District

izations in
ratoga, and

disseminating
Albany, Rensselaer, Si
Schenectady counties.

fields in order to enter the media, tion, social services, or community
Union regulations and the pre- facilities to the public, either directly
sent economic situation make it, oF through referral to other

particularly difficult for young erwtnizations. The directory ix in-
people to break in tended to lead those with questions

to i place where answers cin be

Speaking on “Education asa 1? 4
Medium of Change” was [Us
Virginia Corsi, Director of Com- The ater part of the book is an

munications and Community. alphabetical listing of 339
Coordinator, Cassadaga Valley organizations in the Capital District
Central School Distriet. She was Etch entry contains the name of the
recently appointed to Lt, oreunization; primary mailing ad-

4. dress; telephos umber; a descrip-
Governor Mary Anne Krupsak’s 478% teleph poner n Oor a
Wi ion of activities, in abstract form,

staff for program planning, based on information submitted by

Copal Sree, Graetn the organization; the size and seope
perience: the individual's ability — ¢¢jjbrary, if any, maintained by the
rm anything. “Do your organization; office hours of ad-
she stressed, along — minist staff; and the source of
funds as reported by the organiza~
tion.

al CX

to tes
homework”
with learning group. skills

The directory also contains a list

of 145 lobbyists and the interests

they're they support; i list of libraries in the
Capital District; and a bibliography,
It is indexed according to subject

dergrad here, “They thi
fiberated because they work side by
side in the factory, but you get out
and they talk about “Oh, when am 1
getting marr

Ceravolo said that the older men
are more endearing and more sen-
sitive than the women, She thinks

this iy becuase they lead such harsh
lives

Once the students got ta know
some Russians, the Russians opened
up about Communism, They
privately say that Communist isn’t
the ultimate answer, that aswith any
doctrine, itis good in theory, but it
still exploits the worker in pr

Anil, what are Russians inte
in from America? Props from the
great American Dream
televisions, records, and, stra
lumped in’ books. "Books are hard
to find in Moscow, so they love it
when som

“Ht was interesting, it was alright,
it was not like here," are DePalma's
stock answers to “How was your

“I wasit bit upset, because the only
movies they show,” evidently for
propaganda reasons, “are films like
The New Centurions, and The Go
Jarher. Russians think America is
run by the Mafia, W was sort of
depressing, coming back from secing
The New Centurions... W works
hath ways, our impressions of
Russia are distorted, as are theits of

W's trips like this then, that open
eyes

hoo! of Library and Infor- . matter,

tories,
izational phone books,

funded by student ass

es and addresses for the
‘adio station while of New York at Albany has publish- directory were taken from existing
‘apital District Information dire

ources,” a referral pointer to social oF.
service and information- bulletin boards, and suggestions
made by acquaintances of the com-
pilers. An op

public and

nded questionnaire
jer were mailed toabout

1200 organizations in the Capital
District, and information was culled
from the 400 of
resume and watching related organizations which offer informa- responded.

nizations which

Edward M. O'Connor served as

Published for the Capital District

the American Society for Informa-
lion Science,

The project was funded by the
Hudson-Mohawk Association of
Colleges and Universities, Latham,
N.Y.; the Mid-New York Library
System, Utica, N.Y.; and the School
of Library and Information Science
at SUNYA.,

The price of the directory is $1,
and those interested in obt ga
copy are advised to contact Janice
Succo, School of Library and Infor-
mation Science, State University of

Student displays a copy of the new directory.

chief compiler for the catalogue and
was assisted by nine students from
SUNYA student chapters of the
Special Libraries Association and of

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number is 457-8575,

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Big Eye Syndrome Hurts FSA

by Andrea Herzberg

“Their eyes are bigger than their
stomachs and they're spoiled. Ifthey
don't get exactly what they want,
they throw it out,” says Bob
Toussaint, student and 3 year
veleran of FSA, ashetackles the next
tray. Untouched knockwurst, two
halffull glasses of coke and a fistful
of napkins get dumped into the
Somat disposal unit.

State Quad’s lunch time disposal
crew is one man short this particular
Saturday. Waste is coming down the
conveyor belt faster than they can
dump it. Two hamburgers, 3 hot-
dogs, two untouched chocolate pud-
dings riding the same tray plus
seemingly countless numbers of dis-
carded buns and napkins are thrown

y withing two minutes time.
ve me, that’s nothing,”

es of roast beef, There's nother-
ing wrong with that meat. Knowing
the world’s food situation, it's hard
erstand this.” Bob, who is
of entering th
ned with the apparent in-
of SUNYA studentsto the
growing food crisis
Bob thinks that because stadents
‘ire situated in an atmosphere of
abundance they caneasily havean at-
titude which sayy “) paid for it
anyway. U have a right to uke it and
iT don't want it TN just throw it
out.” He wishes it were possible for
them to reitlize that there are people
who must survive on a mere bow! of
c in which each
student would go 24 houry with a
how! of mush to sustain him
Another FSA employed student
stid that when he asked students
why they threw out untouched por-
tions they said they didn’t know it
would he so had. Vis exe
although often valid. is no expl
tion tor the Waste of bread, coke, oF
napkins. Also itis conceivable that
alter a substantial period of time
studenty are acquainted with whieh
ul the cafeteria tood they consider
inedible
ESA Assistant, Food Director

J put up in the

€ deterrents.

last year’s waste was at big. actor in
preventing price neteases in this
year's meal plans,

Clough said that current tood
price mecteayes. especially in sugar

have necessitated certain waste
Precautions. These include taking
sugar off the tablesand having toask
for cereal instead of taking it
yourself, “We want you to have as
much as you want, as longasyou eat
it.” says Clough.

Although there isan improvement
‘over last year both Clough and
Tarullo also agree that there is still
unnecessary waste. Chef Tarullo

says that often students take a lot
more than they can finish the first
time throught the line so as not to
face the inconvenience of having to
g0 up later.

“There is a state health law
prohibiting the return of anything,
even sealed packages of cereal, to the
main supply, after ithas been taken,”
explained Clough. “Once it is on the
belt, forget it!”

Birds, Bees, and Gorillas;
Machine Stumps Soviets

(ZNS) Fogund cold weather have dashed another attempt by zoo keepers
‘amento, California, to tum (wo naive gorillas into lovers
ind Chris have been in captivity since their births, zoo officials
ind don’t know the first thing about sex or n
700 imported an educational film from
illustrated in living color the sex habits of gorilla tribes,

Their plan to show hard core Mics to the reluctant pair was foiled several
times when Chris and Suzie found the movie projector much more interesting
than sex films, On a third attempt to arouse the gorillas, rain and fog shut
down the private sercening once again,

Joao
(ZNS) American Soviet detente sometimes has its pitfalls. The Soviet
publication the Literary Gazette reports that Moscow business enterprises
have been stuck with a piece of expensive American machinery that no one
knows what to do with

The problem, the magazine explains, is that no one in the Soviet Union can
figure out what the complicated machine purchased recently from the
United States is supposed to do.

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InterFraternity Council says:
Take a sample of Fraternal life by visiting
any of these four groups:

Alpha Pi Alpha—Clinton Hall
Potter Club—Hamilton Hall
Sigma Tau Beta—Johnson Hall
Theta Xi Omega-Schuyler Hall

watch for announcements of social events very soon

Profs Book Admired

The Mafia Mystique, by Dwight
C. Smith, Jr., will be published of-
ficially by Basic Books, New York,
on Thursday accompanied by a
number of extremely favorable ad-
vance reviews. Mr. Smith is Director
of Institutional Research at
SUN

Writing in the The New York
Times, Christopher Lehmann-
Haupt described the wo
“scholarly study of erim
20th Century America,
mented further, “But more impor-
tant than its persuaveness, Mr.
Smith's thesis seems useful. For, as
he argues, so long as we perceive
organized crime as an alien con-
spiracy, we are not going to get at its
real causes. So long as we imagine
exotic enemies in our midst, we are
almost bound to run the risks with
our legal system that produced
Watergate.”

Francis Ad. anni, Director,
Horace Mann-Lincoin Institute,and

author of A Family Business and 4

Black Mafia, wrote, “Mr. Smith's

description of the development of

“the Mafia mystique is by far the best

compendium and analysis of the
literature to date.”

ibutes to the work

“An_ excellent

book, bated on solid empirical data.

Greatly superior to the existing

literature on ethnicity and organized

crime.” Dr. Cammett is Provost and

Dean of Fac at Job ay Collet

que” and explains how a peculiar
blend of hidden motives and sen-
sational reporting created the public
fascination with the idea of a secret
criminal society. According to the
author, the hard-boiled novel, Con:
ressional committees, the press,
und the movies have contribulted to
the Mafia Image.

Mr. Smith joined SUNYA’s ad-
ve staff in 1966, and is also

iate Professor of

John Jay College.

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dition. lem than two months old.
$21.00. Call Steve, evenings, 465-
2877.

Schick Styling Hairdryer #336. In-
frequently used (thort heir!) $12.
Cyndi ot 457-8870 evenings.

Sony Stereo phonograph (HP 150)
Boil in Garrard 30 w/Pickering-v15-
‘Micro IN AME. 7RMS/chonnel. $35.
Mark 457-7977.

66 Valiant $200.00 very depen-
doble. 21MPG. Joe 465-6970.

Freshly painted 2 Bedroom oy
$100.00 per month. 10 min. wolk #
from Droper Hall. 143 S. Knox St.
Call anytime 462-1940,

Leisurevile Apartments—1 ond 2
Bedroom from $160, free heat and
hot water. SPECIAL student looses.
Off 9-r Johnson Rd., Latham, 785-
1756.

Wanted: 1 person to fil bedroom
country opartment. Must have car
‘ond like animals, Call 477-4463 ofter
6pm.

Apartment, seven roomsDove St.,
Albany, $225 per mo, 463-7459.

Lorge Bedroom in professor's house
‘ot edge of campus. Use of Kitchen
ond goroge. Call 7-8417 or 438
1233,

Gay tenonts wanted, one bedroom
‘and studio opt. Near SUNY bus. 462-
9785.

71 Datwn 510—dight rear end
domage—engine excellent
condition— redick, 30A 38 MPG.
Best offer over $600 or trade for von.
869-7731

Diomond ring, 81 pts. 3/4 korot,
good color, white gold setting valve
500, sell $300.869-7731.

SKIS—Hart Mercury—190 on. with
Tyrolio bindings—$50. Rich 465-
1895.

For Sale. Small’ stereo AM/FM
receiver and speakers with BSR Moc-

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pas ae
——$—

Executive Secretary—port-time, typ
ing, steno, machinery, 3. yrs. ex
perience, Coll G. Kondro Orr, 457-
5255.

‘Math tutor available for calculus. For
information Call 482-2545.

Guitor Lessons—Theory and Techni-
que, learn different styles. $5/lesson.
John Poul - 465-6970.

Typing done in my home, 869-2474,

donald 1650 tu Ideol for
someone with o smal room ond
limited funds. A Guoronteed
Bargoin. Call Ron 472-6404,

15, Desk: $10, Choir: $2each,
drener: $3, 65% new. Cannot afford
1? Just coll before Jonvory 30.

Nikkormat FIN. comera-with © 50
mm. 1.4 lens. Hs only months new —
steal 0: $240.00—stll
original warrantee for 4 months. Coll
465-0272 and ask for Howie for ini.

under

Flute Lessons from flute mojor. Dione
465-7996,

ane my home, Reosonoble, Lid.
Coll Pos, 765-3655.

The Democratic Republic by Dio
mond, Fisk, Gorlinkel (2nd ed.) Coll
Kevin 457-5057.

WANTED

Used Furniture Store—600 Clinton
Ave., Open Monday through Satur-
doy 11-6; Furniture, Dishes, Clothing,
Appliances, etc. Reasonable. Coll
434-6859, and 459-6568.

Calevlotors, Wholesale, SR-10—$57,
SR-11—$62, SR-50—$125, Texas In-
struments, call Corol 7-786.

North Foce Down Expedition Porko.
Brond New. Ideal for Winter Com-
ping. $75. Norman 465-9875.

Kothy needs @ tutor for Calculus i
Coll 457-7719.

RIDE/RIDERS
WANTED

Ride Wanted, Philadelphia, This
weekend. Poul 457-8739.

Rodar detection unit, For cors, Like
new. $28.00 Coll David 472-7730.

12-string Yomaho guitor with cove.
$95.00 472-8897.

Longe Ski Boots. Size 9%. Excellent
Condition. Boot cose included $45.
Mitch 457-8712

HOUSING

Just returned from studying at the U
of Copenhagen ond now without o
place to live. Looking for o room in on
opt. ora house. Call: 438-3988. John

Male or female needed 10 share apt
with 2 gids. Own room, $67/mo. in-
cluding utilities, Furnished, on
busline. Coll 462-451).

Fehole Aptmate wonted. Own room,
neor busline. Coll 489-1042.

LOST & FOUND

lot—Gold bracelet with pearls,
teword if returned, Contact Borbora
ot 457-7732.

PERSONALS

Beards are sexy. Get it bock on!
Fly Ust T.W.S., INC.

Bon aniversaire! Hope the celebro-
tion will be great fun! Shall we choose
© new Dairy Queen?

tava

Dear Dave Shain,

Really fine party. Really fine. Fine
Fine Fine.

Byeeeee,

Steve

You haven't ruined anything,
litle sister

Dear Moria,
love you is the only original thing |
con say.
Love, Chri

HEY RABBIT!
Hoppy Birthday!

love,
Jo, Sanch, Rheo, and Joe DiMaggio

Zwolf, Your new toys ore reody.
Pick up your gear up ot the center
Romrod

Nino,
Double shots ond your ankle don't

Dear Fots,
KLB6, pleose
Love, Tubs

Hoppy 22nd, Honey!
love, Sue

Four horny males looking for four
Qeodlocking young ladies. Come to
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coll 472-6404 and osk for Jeli, tro,
Ron, or Jef,

Joime,
Hoppy 21s! bithdoy. i's about
time you cought up with me!
love, Sue

Amelio,
Remember oll the times together
‘ond our good luck.
Roomie

KO,
Too bod!

Final Tolly:
TxO—56

Ad-hoc paper comminee will be
Fewming heorngs this semester—
detoils will be onnounced soon,

Dear Ontorio,
1 Jocks os if you were right
bow

Joimie ond Les. Happy Birthday. The
post moy be behind us but memories
of those doys will never die. Toke
care ond good luck!
JoAnne and Steve
Clarence,
| miss you...N seems like i's been
300 yeors.
tove,
Vol

‘Memo to-Candi, Mark, Pot (and Par
with the tie), Cheryl, Piglips, Steve,
Steve Porlormentanan, Lew

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business experience, and opening
the doors of the business world.
Contact the Professional Busi
Fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi. For
information contact Dave Rainer ot
457-4655.

The Day Tomorrow Began, «film
by the Atomic Energy Commission,
will be shown by the Society of
Physics Students on Tuesdoy,
Janvory 28 at 7:30 p.m. in PH-129.
All interested students are invited.
Refreshments will be served. Funded
by S.A.

There will be © meeting of the
Chemistry Club Wednesday the 2h
6:30 p.m. in CH-I51. Topics to be
discussed will be speokers ond the
spring picnic.

Pre-Law Society: Business
meeting—to discuss plans for Sp.
semester fill-in elections. All
welcome, January 29. HU-113.

All Pre-Med Pre-Dent Students
There will be a meeting of the Society
Monday, February 3, ot 8:30 in
LC. 23. New Members Welcome!

The Speech Pathology and
Audiology Club presents Mrs. Kathy
Smith, © speech therapist of the
Cerebral Palsy Center. Jonuory 28 ot
8 pm. HU-354, Relreshments will be
served
Coming in Aprit Sav Club Banquet

The Sou Club presents a Panel

Discussion of Sav Grods from SUNY
Albany. Topics to be discumed willbe
their positions, and how they feel
undergrad training did or did not
prepare them for their obs. Monday,
February Vth at 8 p.m. HU-354,
Retreshments will be served.

ies? The
University Wind Ensemble hos
openings: for trumpet, horn, and
trombone players. See Mr, Chorles
Boito right away in PAC-B-03 or call
457-6977 —his office, or 438-5325—
his home phone.

The Department of Classics will
hold a Deportmental Assembly on
Wednesday, January 29, ot 4:10
pum, in HU-024, All students with o
‘major or minor in the department are
requested to attend.

The Aegean Institute will provide
six weeks of study and travel in
Greece this summer at moderate cos.
For more information see Prof.
Pohisander in HU-332.

CLUBS & MEETIN

SkiClub meeting tomight ot 8 p.m.
in LC. 4, All future trips will be
discussed. Everyone welcomed,

There will be on
arganizotional meeting for all those
interested in planning Senior Week
75. Watch the ASP for further
details

Seniors:

Don’t let the winter season have
you staying in the dorms—get
involved in the Outing Club and
go X-skiing, sno-shoeing, caving, and
winter mountaineering, Meotings ore
Wednesday eves at 7:30; C.C. 315,
Everyone Welcome.

If you hove on interest in the sport
of Archery—come down to the
Women’s Auxiliary Gym (2nd floor)
ond join Albany Stote Archers

Tuesday eve 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Are you a Compulsive
Overeater? if you think you are, you
probably are. Looking for a program
that will help you love weight and
gain sanity? Come to CC-975
Sunday, February 2at 7:00p.m. and
find out about Overeaters
‘Anonymous.

Jewish Students Coalition—
General meeting, Sunday, February
2nd, 8:00 p.m. in C.C.-315. The
speaker will be Rabbi Michael
Kramer, Topic—“Jews in American
Politics.”

There will be a meeting of the
lucae! Committee of the Jewish
Stdents Coalition on Sunday,
February 2nd at 7:00 in the Fireside
Lounge. All interested students are
welcome,

Attention Gay Students. How can
this campus better meet your own
personal needs? Share your ideas
ond tolents with the Gay Alliance
which will be meeting throughout the
semester on Tuesday evenings at 9

p.m, in Campus Center 370.

Women in China: U.S.China
Peoples Friendship Assoc, begins
1975, International Women’s Year
with a panel discussion on this subject
by Mickey Green and Holly Nelson,
two former SUNYA students who
toured Peoples’ China in 1974.
Wednesday ot 8 p.m. in L.C. 4. More
info: call Tommy at 472-8761.

OFFICIAL NOTICE

Resident Advisor Positions forthe
Gradvote Dorms and Sayles Int'l
House ovailoble for 75-76. Seven
groduote students and two
undergraduates will need to be
hired. I interested, attend one of the
following mandatory meetings:
Tuesday, February 11—9:30 p.m.—
Soyles lower lounge.

Wednesday, February 12—4:00
p.m.—Brubacher Hall moin lounge.
For questions—coll 472-7671—Pat
McHenry.

Gradvating Spring 1975?
W you are axpecting to graduate on
June 1, 1975, you are reminded thot
you must file o degree application on
or before Friday, February 7, 1975.
Pick up ond return the necessary

open. Tough? in English, MW 10:10,
HU-128. No knowledge of Russian
required. Regitter now!

Orientation Assistent
opplications are now ovailable.
you ore interested in applying for an
©.A. job with the 1975 Summer
Orientation program, pick up an
application in CC 130 between
Jenvory 20 and February 4, 1975.

Wednesday and Thursday Janvory

29 and 30, Please

by Alpha Pi Aipha & Faculty Wives.
vee

15, 22, & 26. No previous experience
necessary If interested contact
Coach White 7-4827, Jayne or
Maryjane 7-762,

Telethon auditions are now. Sign
up at the C.C, information desk.

We with to announce our intention

You must alto attend o Y
interest meeting.

—_—_———

INTERESTED FOLK _

Class of '75 members:
Senior Week willbe here soon. Wont
to know what you'll be doing? Watch
future ASPs and save your ideas,

All Business Students ore
welcome to a Keg in the basement of
Ten Eyck, Thursday, January 30, 8:00
p.m.—Sponsored for you by Delta
Sigma Pi and Phi Gomma Nu, the
Professional Business Fraternity and

SQuad Volunteer Ambulance
Service needs crow members ond
dispatchers. We will provide the
training, Training for crew members
will include an emergency medical
care program ond response
procedures. Dispatchers get a short
first aid background plus radio
procedures. Questions will be
‘onswered, further explanotion
given, and training begun this
Wednesday night, Jonuory 29 at
8:30 in LC. 20.

A Business Coreer Seminar will
be held for all interested people,
Wednesday January 29th at 7:30
p.m. in L.C, 22. Speakers will include
representatives from Ernst and Ernst,
General Electric, and Sears Roebuck
Sponsored for you by Delta Sigma Pi.

The Marines are looking for o few
good men, Are you one of them?
Contact; Matt Meyer—Box 356—
Dutch Quad,

Bloodmobile on Campus Monday,
February 3 from 104, Donor

Registration, CC Lobby 9:30-3:30

Mon.,

Photo Club
Kilm Sale

Wed.,

Every other week

beginning February 3rd.

Campus Center Lobby

& Fri.

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Mony New York State
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PAGE SEVEN

[The Buckley File

The principle behind the Buckley amendment is quite solid; allt really does is apply
the Freedom of InformationAct to education. Students will now have the choice as to
whether or not they will have “open” files, or “confidential” ones. The original bill,
unamended, would have permitted students to see recommendations and references
that, when written, were expected to be closed to the student forever. It would have
been unfair to the professors who wrote them to permit students to see\ the
recommendations, and claims of “student rights” in this regard are little more than
disguised curiousity, :

‘One wonders, after looking through the bill in detail, whether thenew law will make
any difference to most students, Since many professors will insist that their
recommendations be confidential and many students will “close” their files with a
blanket waiver of rights, the “open” recommendations will be few in number. Itshould
then be pointed out that many references are no surprise in the first place, so weare lelt
with only a slight change in what students know about the files.

But there is more to the bill than this. For the first time, there is an assertion that
students have rights over what is contained in their records. ‘They will know, without a
shadow of doubt, who is getting to see their files since they will have to.release them in
writing each and every time they are sent out. The minor inconvenience this might
cause is nothing compared to the importance of knowing who knows about you

The loopholes in the bill are disturbing. If government officials want to use them in
evaluating schools, they may. It is worded vaguely enough to thrill even the most
experienced politician, “Evaluation” can mean downright anything, But this is nothing
new, indeed our system counts on new interpretations of old laws for change.

Students seeing their records report one or two things of some interest, but overall
nothing exciting. They cannot view recommendations and the like but can see
transcripts, correspondences already received, and all sorts of little formsthey've filled
out and material relating to their application (if someone wrote something to the
school without telling you, it would be there).

All in all, a good bill, but nothing to scream and shout a

Padded Payrolls

Talk of u tuition increase has spread completely across the SUNY system. There is
now little doubt that SUNY central, along with the Board of Trustees, has been
planning a tuition hike to further drain the students in an effort to balance their own
inflated budgets. Members from within the Board confirm plans are in the works fora
hike, though no one will confirm whether the increase will take the form of a board,
room or tuition raise. Further confirmation comes from Lieutenant Governor's office,
which is a somber warning that Governor Carey may abandon his campaign pledge not
to increase tuitions,

‘That there is a discrepancy between the money the state gives to SUNY and the
money that SUNY Central shells out for the individual campuses is not in doubt. The
solution, however, is not as quickly apparent.

Ithas always been the policy of the Board to raise the rates to cover the debts, but no
one has apparently bothered to seek another way to find an answer. The costs of
running theSUNY systemare absurdly high, Estimates range that from 34% to 44% of
the education budget goes to the administrative bureaucracy while some 36% goes to
such educational ends as teaching or library services, In all but the most conservative
estimates, this places more money in the hands of adminstrators, Deans, Secretaries
and stenographers than in the classrooms.

‘This unneccesary waste of valuable education dollars is the true cause of the budget
gap. SUNY Central alone employs a staff of 600, When new facilities are completed
with a capacity for 1200 employees, there will suddenly bea need for 1200employces.

The solution to the money shortage is in cutting the enormous fat from the middle
management level. An investigation launched from the Governor's office into the
purpose und justification for the enormous administrative tangle will doubtless reveal
the useless paperwork and the pointless desk-jockeying, whose only goal is in the
perpetuation of the bureaucracy. Herein lies the path toward sparing the students a
$400"cost-of padding" incre

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Quote of the Day: :

“Of late, Ford, Kissinger and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger have called for
‘additional military aid to the Nguyen Van Thieu administration, and this means giving a ney

path to the war.”
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Duc Tho, North Vieinamese Foreign Minisier,

discussing the possibility of renewed fighting in Vieinan

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"WELL THEN... WAVE YOU EVER KISSED CHARLIE BROWN?

Changing the Grading System

iby Steve Baboulis®

Now that everyone has received his
transcript, for better or worse, it seems a good
time to examine the system by which our work
is evaluated. To me, it is a flawed grading
policy, without enough precision and
specificity to be equitable.

It seems that with little of no ine ein the
work done by teachers, we could employ a
system that is as accurate and fair as any
system can be expected to be

First we should examine the present system
Its highest grade is 4.0, which signifies “A"
work. Immediately a flaw arises. There is no
allowance for different types of "A" work.
After all, there are five possible letter grides:
A.B.C\D. or E. But thereare only four number
ranges: 0,0-1,0, 1.0-2.0, 2.03.0, 3.0-4.0. And
there is equal unfairness in the other grade
ranges. We have all benefitted and ‘or suffered
by the fact that the highest “BY work is
represented by the same number as the lowest
possible “B” work.

It might be argued that everyone's luck
balances out, that we get the same ‘number of
good breaks as bad, but why leave that to
chance? There are a few steps that could be
taken 10 alleviate the inequities throughout
the present system,

First, serap the 4.0 system and replace it
with a 5.0 system. That would assign each
grade a number range between 0.0 and 5.0,
Now “A” work is not represented by a single
number, 4.0, but by a Tange, 4,0-5.0. This
Pattern will hold throughout the scale of
grades, “B" work is in the range, 3,0-4.0, "Cc
work is from 2.0-3,0,"D" work is from 1.0-2.0,
and °E" work i from 00-1. :

Then the system is curried w ste
Insiead of having the professorsgie neat
letter grades, they would now give number
frades, This would allow a professor to give u
truer indication of the student's performance

in his course, Some examples shoul
illustrate the point, " een

CA g

EX, | - Three students, 1,2, and 3, are destined
to receive a “B” in a course, Student | had
89 average, Student 2 had a solid muddle “W
and Student 3 eked out a“B" with an ’1 on the
final. The present system would give
them a “B™ or 3.0 on their transcripts. {He
Proposed system would give Student 14
Student 2a 3,5, and Student 3.0 40
EX. 2-Students | and 2 both did “A werk in
a course. Student I had the highest number
Points in the class, Studemt 2 had a %).a.cr
The new system would giveStudent | $1! sod
Student 2 a 4.0,

Benefits outweigh problems

Of course there are some problems. bul |
believe they are minor. One is that th
professor's subjective opinion enters mt
situation, But as long as some baste stant
are adhered to, teachers shouldn't sary a pte
deal in their grading policy. Another prv
might be increased burden for teach
finals time, when they are alten
overworked. Some professors might think 1
4 problem, but it seems that for the most pt!
Professors would welcome the chance tv bh
More exact in their grading. Finally 1
Problem of graduate schools exanunny
transcripts from a “4.0 point of view” |e
might welcome this change as well, but i! the
did not, a simple mathematical juggle would
do the trick. The final cumulative averare
could be multiplied by 4/5 to translate 1 inte
"4.0" language,

So, this system would be on the whole much
more equitable and precise. It would g1s¢
everyone, students, advisers, graduate
interviewers, and hiring managers a bette!
indication of how the student has performed
At Albany State. 1 do not claim that
necessarily « brilliant, original idea. Many
students have probably thought about similar
changes in their own minds. It just seems to be
firmly based in common sense, which cannot
be said about the present system.

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Ready Or Not,

Welcome to the second semester of the ASP’s magazine section. Now
called ASPects, we hope the magazine will continue to serve you with
unusual, entertaining and informative articles of all styles and formats. We'll
always welcome contributions from students, faculty, or any other member
of the University community.

About the cover:

It is unfortunate that our main story. ' (Gay Like Me)’ must be labeled
“anonymous”, but it is necessary to protect the author in light of the
prevailing attitudes in our society. Today's cover illustrates what life may be
like for many homosexuals in a world abundant in prejudice. Maybe
someday there will be no reason to hide one’s true sexual feelings; it seems
that we are moving that way.

Photos by Rob Magnien

Societal truisms from a sitting position. . .

Toilet Talk

Results from an inside survey. ..

Gay Like Me

2 Getting to it before it gets to you...

iy Student Efficiency

PU give you $60 for an ‘A’ in RCO 265...
The Great Grade Auction

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Trends toward legalization. ..

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by Neil Kenduck
briskly walked down the
I corridor and swung open the
bathroom dooronly to find two
urinals that were both occupied. I
entered a toilet stall, closed the door
behind me, and commenced the
primordial process of urinary
excretion. 1, stood impatiently,
glancing at the walls surrounding me.
They were almost completely covered
with writing—pictures, limericks,
epigrams, and quolations. | began to
read some of the scribble; "If you voted
for Nixon, you can't shit here—your
asshole is in San Clemente.” I started
to shake uncontrollably with laughter.
When | regained my composure, |
looked down and noticed that I had left
a sizeable yellow pool in the leftcorner
of the toilet stall. nervously zipped my
fly and tumed to the door. But before I
could reach for the latch, | collided
with a boldly inscribed message on the
door: ‘Our aim is to keep this
bathroom clean—your air will help!
That night I thought about the vast
display of graffiti. It amazed and
puzzled me. What motivated people to
do this? Did the writings have any
significance, or were the walls merely
treated as one big adult coloring book?
I wanted answers to these questions. |
decided to scrap my original
communications project in favor of
researching bathroom grailiti

Toilet

Although bathroom graifiti was a far
cry from the celebrated pre—historic
cave drawings, it would be a hell of a
lot more interesting to research. Very
little material was written about the
subject, so I decided to use the
contents of the bathrooms on campus
as my major resource. I called a girl
friend and asked her if she would help
me with my research by covering the
toilet stalls in the women’s bathrooms.
She laughed for a while and then
consented.

Within two weeks, my friend and I
had gathered enough samples for the
project. I spent several weeks studying
the collected data and ! arrived at
some very interesting and revealing
observations. I realized what
motivated people to write in the toilet
stalls. Graffiti is an expression of inner
drives, needs, and impulses that are
not presented through formal avenues
of communication. What is written on
the walls would not appear in a
newspaper, on a radio, or in formal
conversation because of restrictive
cultural norms. The toilet stall affords
people a conlidence of privacy and
security that noother public place can.

However, it is not just a matter of
seclusion that fosters graifiti, Few
people write on the walls ol the toilets
in their own homes. | concluded that
graphical expression on the walls of
public toilet stalls is unique in that itis

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meant to be both private and public at
the same time. Hiswritten contribution
will be on public display for all who
follow his occupancy of the toilet stall.

Because the toilet stall offers both
privacy and publicity, the writer can
communicate his ideas to society in
ways which would be considered
taboo by other forms of media.

Much of the content leaned toward
sexual perversion and vulgar
profanity, The women’s toilet stalls
were no exception to this observation.
Although I found sexual obscenity

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most prevalent, harsh racistgraititi was
almost as widely displayed in the
men’s stalls, (very little racist graffiti
was found in the women's
bathrooms—their forte was. strictly
sexual perversion). Most of the racist
graffiti was anti—black in sentiment..

+A most interesting point is that little
racial friction appears outside of the
bathroom walls. Although the campus
does not have an air of complete racial
harmony, there seems to be a sense of
mutual respect between the students of
different races. There are barely any
signs of racial hatred, When I
questioned several black and white
students about the existing racial
situation, their remarks were to the
effect that things “weren't good,
weren't bad, but cool." Obviously,
there is a sharp contradiction between
the exterior attitudes of the students
and the implications of the bathroom
graffiti

Belore last year's ‘Parents’
Weekend", at the university, the
janitors were ordered to wash off the
graifiti in the bathrooms. During that
lime, | visited one supposedly clean
foilet stall and found “E.O.P. niggers
eat shit" written across the wall and
untouched by cleanser. Underneath
this statements, were several replies in
detense of black students which were
mostly washed over and barely
legible. This evidences the presence
of obstacles of communication in the
toilet stalls.

Like all graffiti, bathroom wall
writing is rarely viewed as.containing
any serious messages, Graffiti tells us
how different we are from what we like
fo think. When a wall exhibits signs of
racism, people preter to ignore themor
pass them olf as nonsense because
they fear what they read. Graflitiin the
bathrooms offers the students, faculty
and administration a picture of a racial,
conilict that is hidden from them. They
must be willing to accept this image
and deal with it accordingly.

I no longer laugh as loudly when
someone jokes about what they had
read in a toilet stall, My research has
enlightened me to many things that |
failed to realize before. If anything? I
have come to understand what Paul
Simon meantwhen he forewarned that
“the words of a prophetare written on
a subway wall...”

PAGE ap.

am gay.
I Were | to fill in my own
questionnaire [would admit to
being 21, a senior, I live off-campus,
had my first homosexual relationship
at 21, belong to SUNYA Gay Alliance
and Lesbians for Liberation, have
come out to people mostly in
Premeditated situations or through
relevant discussions, and have a very
high need for coming out. About 10%
of my friends on campus are gay and
about 80% of my friends know I'm gay.
Thaven't gone for counseling, despite
my mother’s encouragement. The
other questions require more thought
or explanation; these are just statistics.

But lam nota statistic. lama person,
1am your friend. | sit next to you in
class, eat with you in the cafeteria, and
pass you on the podium daily, By now
@ few of you know my name, but to
each of you that doesn't—would it
make a difference if you knew?

As I was involved in the process
known as “coming-out” mysell this
year I decided tosurvey other people's
views and experiences in the area asa
project for one of my courses, As! am
not a statistician I will use the statistics |
compiled from my very limited sample
as a jumping off point for my
observations and discussion of the
experiences of my friendsand mysell.

First of all, there are more gay people
on this campus than many of you can
imagine. We meet each other one by
one, first with a strange feeling of being
found oul, then with a warm feeling of
camaraderie. This feeling of
community is important to many of us,
4s we come |o feel less “unusual”.
Remember, we too were brought up to
be heterosexual, and it is no easy task
to throw off twenty years of parental
and societal conditioning. It is not a
decision made over-night—it is a long
and involved, and often painful
experience— “coming out"

The ages of the students questioned
are about the same, and it seems that
more women had taken some time off
from school. Allof the women students
are living off-campus, whereas about
half of the men live in the dorms.
Perhaps this indicates that women lind
it harder to be comfortable with a gay
social life in dorm living.

One weakness of the questionnaire
was that many of the questions were
open to interpretation. The firstol these
asked the age of the person's first
homosexual “relationship.” As some
people pointed out, an “experience” is
different from a "relationship". Also, as
one woman illustrated, an emotional
relationship is different than 4 physical

relationship. I would agree with this as
the discovery of homo-emotional
relationships is often the beginning of
coming-out. The survey showed,
however, that men have homosexual
relationships earlier than women on
the average.

The results on the next question
made me do quite a bit of thinking. I
was trying to find out in what order
people came out fo themselves and
others Everyone considers
themselves out to themselves, and all
but one man said this step came first,
Tl call this friend Scott. Scott and I
became friends during our Summer
Planning Conference. We kept in
touch freshman year, until | noticed a
change in his friends. | suspected that
something strange was going on and
realized now that | became uptight
when I realized that he was "becoming
gay.” We lost touch until the
beginning of this semester when now,
having something in common |
renewed our friendship with an
apology. I guess I was a pretty naive
freshman.

Anyway, | asked Scott why he
answered that he came out to his
acquaintances, friends, family, and
then himself, taking two years. “Ididn't
realize the impactof what | was saying”
he replied. He hadn't really associated
himself as a homosexual despite
telling these others that he had had sex
with men, Coming out to himsell for
Scott was finally accepting being gay
as a way of lile, letting it become
something natural for him.

In thinking this over lamnowable to
understand why for months I was only
able to tell my friends that | was
“thinking about" or "considering"
being gay. I could not until later say “I
am gay." My initial identity crisis
(definitely my hardest week) ended
when | decided to investigate my
sexuality and reject labels, yet it took
quite a while belore | accepted a gay
identity. The necessity of this self.
awareness was expressed by Scott, “I
feel that not too many people ever
come oul, As for me coming out is
being aware of yourself as a person.
which is something I feel few people
ever do, gay or straight.”

All of the women, and all but two of
the men have come out to those they
consider to be friends. A friend I'll call
John considers himselflout to himself,
his family, the communily and society,
but not to any friends or
acquaintances. He feels that now that
he has come to grips with his
homosexuality and built up his
contidence as an individual it does not

SUNYA Males- 13
Age: range 19-32, average 21.3.

Status: 1-graduate, 9- 1975, 3- 1977.
Residence: 7- on-campus dorms, 5- off-campus apartments, 1- with family.
Age of first homosexual relationship: range 9-21, average 16.25,

Order of coming out to:
self- 13, 12-#1, 1-#4,
family- 8, 5-#3, 1-#2, 1-#5, 1-#6.
friends- 11, 7-#2, 3-#3, 1-#4.

acquaintances- 10, 3-#3, 3-#4, 2-#2, 1-45, 1-#6.

community- 6, 3-#2, 3-#4.
society- 5, 3-#5, 1-#4, 1-6.

Organizational membership: 5 SUNYA Gay Alliance, 2 Albany Gay Activis

Alliance, 8 no organizations.

What does coming out mean to you? Checking as many as apply:

joining gay community: 5

having a homosexual experience- 6
revealing your sexuality to others- 5

awareness of self- 13

Situations in coming out: Accidentally- 4, Premeditated- 6, discussion
Need for coming out- self-rated scale 1-1

Per cent of friends on campus that are gay:
Per cent of straight friends know I'm gay: range 0-100%, average
Have you gone for counseling regarding your sexuality?: 2-on-cam

off-campus.

becoming angry at himself in
schizophrenic fits, until last semester‘
when his “straight side” tried to kill his
“gay side”, as he explains his
attempted suicide. He had been
seeing 4 University counselor at the
time, and three weeks laterat one of the
sessions decided to accept his
gayness. It took over one year of
Larry's awareness of his sexuality to
become acceptance.

From the sample taken, it seems that
the other factors of “coming-out” are
more pertinent to the women than to
the men. Joining the gay community
and revealing their sexuality to others
may be more important to these
women because of their needs for
community and openness. The
connection with the women’s
movement may be relevant here. The
women also placed a greater emphasis
upon ‘having a homosexual
experience than the men did. The
statistics and some personal
discussions have led me to one
possible explanation for this
According 'o one male friend, he felt

range 2-7, average 5.5
range 0-90%, average

pay lo risk his Iriendships by revealing
his homosexuality. John feels it is
useless to “upset the apple cart,”
fearing that people would look at and
react fo him differently. He would also
feel uncomfortable asking his friends
to keep his secret, so will wait until he’s
ready for all of them to be told. John
told his parents, however, two years
ago and still maintains a close
relationship with them.

One woman who has come out
within the last year also expressed
some of my own leelings. Aller
coming-out to herself she revealed her
gayness to her close friends who

watched it happen.” She then
revealed herself to some
acquaintances, commenting that "no
‘one has yet to drop his or her teeth.”
Last, which she calls "the hardest, but
absolutely necessary,” was her family
Deciding that you are gay is a very
hard thing to tell your parents; it is also
4 very hard thing sometimes not to tell
them. Slightly over a half of the males
and the females studied have come out
to their families, This sometimes meant
just parents, just siblings, or perhaps
just the members of one sex. One
woman has not fold her father, upon
whom she is still financially
dependent. This exemplifies the
situation where people are afraid to tell
people who have some sort of power
over them,

The calegory of community was
faken in two different ways. First was
the usual sense of Albany or SUNYA
community, which I would guess was
meant by those checking it as filth or
sixth. It could also be taken as the "gay
community” which just about anyone
who frequents the bars or attends
meetings has come outto, and this very
likely does precede friends and fam ly.
Relatively few people considered
themselves out to society

The reasons for joining gay
Organizations are both personal and
Political, which would account for why

80% of the women surveye
40 oI ie n Surveyed and about

@
wore contacted through these Ges
80 there are many who don't) The
reasons that women gave for joining
usually centered upon security, as
they mentioned friendship
community, socializing, and
consciousness. raising

This feeling of communit
important to the ‘wornen.
worker from Vermont said
love was @ woman
straight and we thoug]

Y is very
A young
"My first
We both ‘were

Results from ajnside survey. ..

|

Gay Like Me

| homosexuals experience yeteach
menon differently, and attaches
this questionnaire was to survey the
experiences of those gay peoplealtegdy out to some peopleand reveal the
similarities and the dilferences fin the individual experiences.
Approximately 80 surveys weredistfbuted to gay people, mostly SUNYA
students. They were contacted eithefthrough the SUNYA Gay Alliance or
Albany's Lesbians for Liberation, orfere recognized on campus as people
who frequented the gay bars. Theinfmediate limitation to this study is that
it completely eliminates all gaysonchmpus who arg either unknown to the
surveyor, or have not yet begun theprocess of "coming-out"

“Coming Out” is something thal
individual experiences this phet
different meaning to it. The purpose

during his early teens. Males seem to
have homosexual experiences sooner
and more offen than most women,
making ita less vital factor of their final
coming-out. Whereas a woman may
feel homo-emotional for many years, it
is not usually until later that she has a
homosexual experience which
perhaps becomes a more monumental
occurence.

Most people have revealed their
sexuality to others in varied situations.
One man's comments adequately
explain all three methods.
Accidentally, he says, is usually
“through someone else's big mouth.
Some people just love to talk and have
a compulsion to reveal things of this
nature {o others." Premeditated
situations “usually involve people who
should know for one reason or
another,” for example a roommate.
Finally he will come out during a
discussion concerning sexuality if he
feels that he can “add a worthwhile
example or other information.”

There are dozens of reasons why
people come-out to others. The sell-
rated scale shows that women feel
more of a need to do so, One attitude
towards this revelation can relate to an
increasing of other's awareness, or
public relations function. One woman
wrole, "I like to show people that an
otherwise ‘normal’ person like me can
be a lesbian without any negative

lect on other aspects ol my life." The
need for acceptance as oneself
reluctance to lie, the desire to be
understood are other reasons for
coming-out to others.

It is not an easy feeling to do
something secretly lor very long,” one
man said. “Eventually you will want to
be able to do these things and not have
to hide them..{'s not an easy thing to
do, but once it's done you feel better.

The degree of closeness to, the
individual is a major deciding factor.
One woman commented that she
would not tell people who would
become ‘very upset.” She looks at
coming-out as necessary lor good
relationships, however. Then again,
others look al it as peripheral to their
non-sexual relationships. One man
with a low need for coming out said,

‘As llee! that | have accepted ‘me’, itis
not important for “me” to describe to
others why they should look at me

‘ilferently. You see me’ for what | am,
to you, there’sno need to allow that to
change due to stereotypes, etc.

Some people view their gayness as

only ones, ThankGod there are 11
Its hard to believe that still happ
people who are sheltered from
gays. The women downat Lesbat
Liberation are also rather politic
feminist sense. Many of thet
lhemselves as aligned
women’s movement more than th }
movement.

The men also seem to join thr
groupsior social and politica
Some of the gay men question
varied reasons for not joining ur
Some just don't enjoy ordat
groups, or find them stimulatiny

The phrase
multiple meanings and a «
interpretation from
An awareness of self

SUNYA Females -10

Age: rarige 19-28, average 21.7

with

Order to coming out to
self- 9, #1 for all
family- 6, 3-43, 2-#4, 1 #5
inends- 9, 8-#2, 1-#4
acquaintances: 8, 5-#.4, 4
community- 5, 1.#2, 1-#4. 1 #5
society- 3, 1-43, 1-#4, | At

Organizational membership

Liberation, 2-none.

What does coming out mean lo
joining gay community 6
having a homo:

‘coming-out

ch indi

sotnis to
universally accepted factor. Hc

one friend that I'll call Larry pointesd

the diflerence between awarenws:!
acceplance ol sell, A year ay:

was aware of his homosexual dr

but was totally unable to accep! th
He was unable to discuss his feelin
with anyone, and had !
expressed these feelings se

Need for coming out: self-rated

not

Status: 1-graduate, 5- 1975, 1. 1976
Residence: 10- off-campus apartments.

Age of first homosexual relationship:
(of nine responses

1 SUNYA

7

tly ..
scaled {rom 1-10. Range 2-10, average-7.3.
range 5%-90%, average 60%.

t are ga!
Per cent of friends on campus that are gay ie oem

Per cent of straight friends know I'm gay: rene
Have you gone for counseling regarding your sexua’

2. 1977, 1- 1978,

range 16-23, average 189.
_perhaps tenth hasn't begun)

1 #6

Gay Alhance,

you? Checking as many as apply:

), Premeditated-4, Discussi

lity: 1 on-campus.

8-Lesbians for

———— —
more integral to their personality than
others do, which often affects their
attitude towards coming-out. This
could also be one aspect affecting their
choice of friends, _

Ithough both groups range

from few to most, it seems that
Lesbians choose more gay
friends than homosexual men do. It is
important to have gay friends socially,
and also to have people to relate to at
school on at least one level. Both the
men and women said that about half of
their straight friends knew that they

were gay
Friendships and social activities
change to varying extents after people
come-out. Moving off-campus might
have a good deal todo with my change
of social activity and loss of contact
with some friends, but coming-out has
certainly had its affect. | spend one
night a week at Lesbian for Liberation
meetings, socializing with other gay
women, and usually visit the gay bar
on the weekend. Although I now have
quite a few gay acquaintances, my
“friends” (in the strict sense of the
word) are my straight friends | had
before coming out in most cases.

When coming-out, however, some
people do feel it is necessary to seek
out new friends and activities. One
woman wrote, “While living on
campus | {elt quite alienated since
dorm lile is designed in very exclusive
heterosexual terms. Parties, mixers,
elc., are very woman|man oriented.”
She soon “dropped” many straight
friends and became friends with gays
with whom she felt she had more in
common. One man has also felt a
change in his circle of friends and
choice of social activities. He attributes
his increase in friendships with other
gays to the fact that with them he could
really be himsell. "To be anything less
with anyone else is no longer
satistactory.”

Another man believes these
changes have not been overpowering
for him. “Ilosta few friends asa result of
coming-out, but very few,” he said, "A
few friendships were strengthened.”

This change in social life for the gay
student is due partially to the lack of a
comlortable atmosphere to be oneself
on campus. Especially when I lived in
the dorms belore coming-out | had
very high attendance to campus
events, movies, Henways, the works. |
still attend a movie, play, orother event
that interests me as my campus
interests have not changed, However,
there was one night when I attended a

‘campus movie with anolher Tesbian,
and felt quite frustrated that I had to
restrain myself from showing affection
fo her, as the heterosexual couples
freely did, to save myself and others
embarrassment. One man mentioned .
fegling quite alone at straight dances.

Because we are members of the
SUNYA community (and student tax
payers) I asked if there were enough
campus activities that they could
enjoy. One woman wrote,
“Involvement in any social activity not
specifically billed as “gay” involves at
least.a partial shedding of my sexual
identity in order to feel comfortable. A
change in general public attitude
would make it easier for gays to enjoy
campus social activities.’ Another
woman {eels that more on-campus gay
activities would involve the same
people seen at the off-campus gay
activities, so it doesn't make much of a
difference.

Some students would appreciate
more dances and coffeehouses geared
towards gay students, One. member of
the Gay Alliance said, "The reason we
can'texpect more activities is because
there aren't yet enough people who
will participate in them. In order to get
more students outof the closet, the Gay
Alliance has to make itself much more
obvious.”

This same man did have a concrete
answer to the {inal question, "How can
Albany State better meet your needs as
a homosexual?” He suggested more
positive reference material in the
library, particularly to help those not
yet “out; a larger appropriation for the
Gay Alliance; and finally some
centrally located lounges for gays.

Most people believe that the
institution itself can do (or should do)
nothing to meet their needs, as it is a
personal thing. Larry wrote, “It can
only help indirectly by educating
people as to their prejudices, so that
someday, | too might be accepted by
the majority of this society as what |
am—a thinking, feeling, human
being.” One woman views this type of
change as more ol a "real possibility ir:
@ university community.”

Another woman seems to speak for
many. "It starts with people,” she saic

"It's kind of like what the man said ir.
the Greening of America—'if thw
people change, the politics will follow
like a wave caused by a boat.’ If the
people of the schoo! would becom:
more open to sexuality—any kind you
choose for you—my needs would be

met.”

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

He sullered deep depr
JANUARY |28, 1975
|

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

he key to both success and
enjoyment in college lies in
your ability to use time wisely.
In order to have fun while getting the
most out of these years, you need to
establish a pattern of good atudy habits
and skills. Such habits and skills will
help you get the necessary work done
asthe monthsand years go by, and you
will handle exams with a minimum of
stress and a maximumof achievement.
Authorities in education generally
agree that successful preparation for
an examination starts in the beginning
of each term. Two overall steps are
suggested:

1, Make a term study plan

2. Use good review techniques

At the beginning of each term
develop a daily schedule that allows
time for class preparation, study,
review, recreation, eating and
sleeping. Your ability to adhere to the
plan willbe a measure of your success,

A study area, conducive to
learning, is important. Make sure it
has good light and all the tools you will
need,

Study and reviewditfer from each
other. As they are equally important,
allocate time for both in your daily
schedule. Study refers to learning
new material for the first time, Review
is critical because it strengthens the
retention of this new knowledge.

Forgetting takes place most
rapidly immediately after learning.
Review and recall, therefore, is more
effective soon..after. study. Following
each class go over the main points for
10 to 15 minutes to reinforce them in
your memory. This makes reviewing
for exams latera quicker, simpler task.

Don't overtax your memory or
stamina. Research shows that most
people can absorb and retain just so
much knowledge at one time. It's
important to learn day by day, week by
week. But each period of study
scheduled into your work plan should
be no longer than 1 or 1% hours,
followed by some kind of recreation,
meal or other activity.

Take legible class and study
notes. Mark the margins and
underline your textbooks throughout
the term and you will be able toreview
forweekly quizzes or final exams with a
minimum of strain.

Getting to it
before it

gets to you...

Student
Efficiency

If you have applied yourself during
the term, then preparing for exams is
largely a question of review. The time
needed is not as extensive as some
students think—provided you have
been working consistently. Review for
weekly quizzes should take no more
than 15 minutes, a mid—term hour
exam 2 or 3 hours,-and a final
examination 5 to 8 hours.

Your preparation for a final
should be carefully scheduled into
the two weeks prior to exam day.
Organize a schedule that does not
interfere with your regular study for
on-going classes. Beware of racing
your motor. Make sure you still allow
time for rest and relaxation with no
longer than 1 or 1% hours of review at
one time. Your mind needs breaks.

Plan your review systematically
and consistently. Go from main idea
fo main idea, using the textbook
chapter headings or your instructor's
term outline as a guide. Go from
chapter notes to chapter notes or from
class notes to class notes, recalling the
important headings and ideas in each.
If certain points are difficult for you to
remember, THEN reread the textbook.
Otherwise stick with your notes. Don't
plan to leam something for the first
time.

Making summary notes is often
helpful, depending on the amount of
the material to be reviewed. In 4 to 8
pages you can outline the main points

of your detailed class and text chapter
notes. Headings with indented
numbered points under them make
relationships more obvious. This
procedure will also help reinforce the
major ideas and important details.

Summary notes can also serve as
a self—test toward the end of your
preparation for exams. Put a sheet
over each page and slowly uncover
the first heading—see if you can
remember the main points underit. As
you go, ask yourself what, when etc.

Try to predict the exam questions.

Be alert throughout the term to the
emphasis instructors put on certain
topics, aspects or ideas. They often
give clues to points that are important
or particularly need review.

Ask your professor what he
recommends for pre—examination
work. Usehiscommentsasa guide but
don't try to outguess him

Group reviewing can be helpful.
But it shouldn't take the place of
working on your own. — Limit
discussions of significant points and
possible ‘lest questions to 30 or 45
minutes, with no more than 4 or 5
people.

Avoid cramming. If you have
followed a regular schedule of study
and review, you should not have to
cram the last day. Remember,
forgetting takes place more rapidly
right aller learning, If you do have to
cram, be selective. Don't attempt an
exhaustive review.

&

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

JANUARY 28, 1975

PU give you $60 for an
‘A’ in RCO 265...

The Great
Grade

Auction

by Ed Pierson (CPS)
‘ome exam time, most students
C throw away idealistic notions
ol learning and bear down on
the real business of school: grades.

‘An economies professor at Denver
University capitalized on this
competitive syndrome by injecting
some Iree market theory into his class
last quarter. He sold grades to the
highest bidder.

Professor Mike Rock raked in almost
$2000 in a grade auction where the
average “A” went for $85, "B” for $55
and °C” lor $35.

Nearly 90% of the students present
in the class participated in the auction
olgrades right up until the day aller the
bidding when the professor revealed
that it was a hoax

In a recent interview, Rock said,
retrospect, | wish | hadn't do
precisely because it was sod
fo see how easy it is lo man
students. .

‘The bizarre tale unfolded like this:

One day last quarter the economics
prolessor walked into class and said:
“Look, you people have won... I'm
going 10 sell grades. Grades will go to
the highest bidder. If you people are so
happy with the market process, why
don't we just let the marketdictate who

gets what.”

Rock told the class he would sell a
certain number of A's, B's, C’s and D's,
that payment was due within three
days, and that those who didn’t want to
buy grades had the option of taking a

withdrawn passing” (WP) grade

An impartial auctioneer, another
faculty member was brought in by
Rock ashe told stude
could not “in good cons:

s. The auctioneer stood up in
gan, "What are
the bids for an A?" The first bid was

The bidding went on and the

veral members of the class

ted to the selling of grades and

proveeded to go to the department

fairman, dean of the business school
and acting dean of student lile.

Some objected to the proposed
jrading system mainly because it was
notin the original contract of the class
Others said that it was blackmail to pay
tor the class twice.

One business major who consulted
vyer, said that he was not opposed
» selling ol grad

dentin
thy: fact that Rock told
buy grades. That was
sed

em they had to.

coercion” he

One other shrewd business student,
noting that a number of students were
absent from the auction, bought up all
of the C's and D's. He planned to
advertise them in ‘the campus
newspaper and sell them at a profit.

While he didn't advertise, the
student did spend fifteen minutes in
class the day alter the auction trying to
sell the grades at a 300% profit.

After paying $86 in cash for an A,
another student asked Rock, “Do you
think you're going to get another
teaching job in this country? You're
going to be blackballed from every
university in the country.”

Students in the class were so
convinced that Rock was serious that
many stopped studying lor the final
exam and others tore up their papers.

On the last day of class, Rock
explained that he had not been
serious. "How could you be so absurd
as lo believe you could get away with
something like this?” he asked them.

When asked why he believed Rock,
one student answered, “Look, you're
an authority figure and as an authority

gure we take what you say al lace
value.

Another member of class, after
hearing it was all a hoax, tried to keep
Rock to his contract and force the
money on him. “We made a contract
yesterday,” he argued. "Here's my
$80. | want my A!"

Rock noted that no one attempted fo
oblaina WP in the class, thal ultimately
the money made no diflerence in the
grading, and all the money was
renuri@@! Only:’$86 in cash--was'
actually collected. The remainder was
in the |

It's so easy lo ¢
almost any thing,
it that’s education,
educational system is more tr
th. aL thought it wi

Explaining his reasons for intitiating
the scheme, Rock said, “For nine
weeks | attempted to engage the

nts ina chalogue which most of
n relused to be engaged in

| would have though! everything |
did tor those nine weeks would have
led tem to believe that I'd be the last

» in the world to sell them

JANUARY 28, 1975

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

‘Are pot-—smokers
the decline?

The American Council on Education
is out with a report indicating that
liberal trends of the 1960's may be
sharply reversed by 1975 college
students.

In a massive study, the Council
surveyed 364 colleges and 190,000
first-year students ‘on such topics as
dope. and equal rights.

Surprisingly, the Council found that
for the first time in six years, the
number of students favoring liberal
marijuana laws and job equality for
women has dropped. (ZNS)

*

A report on marijuana from the
Department of Health, Education and
Wellare indicates that approximately
three in every live high school students
has smoked dope.

H.E.W.'s 1974 report, Marijuana and
Health, cites a study in San Mateo,
California, where 61.9 percent of the
boys and 58.2 percent of the girls
smoked pot. H.E.W. estimates that one
inevery seven Americans over the age
of 12 has used pot.

The United States Government is
also studying the possibility that the
giant marijuana plants, which
currently grow wild in the mid—west,
may become extremely potent as the
years go by,

A series of studies commissioned by
the Department of Health, Education
and Wellare has found what, many,
smokers have long known—that the
wild plants contain almost no T.H.C.
As a result, smoking the wild planis
produces almost no “high at all.

However, additional H.E.W. studies
have found that “high T.H.C.
producing strains” are "dominant
that is, by cross-—pollinating with the
low—T.HC, plants, high T.H.C, pot is
the inevitable result

The Government reports linding that
successive pol crops in Mississippi
have been growing stronger by the
year.

The same is expected to happen to
the wild weed in the Midw the
Government says. (ZNS)

*

The U.S. Government has spent
more than $350,000 (dollars) in an
ellort to prove that marijuana smokers
become dependent on pol

San Francisco physician Dr. R
Jones, the director of the re
project, reports that volunteers are
kept in a stoned state around the clock
for twenty—one days. Each of the
volunte according to Dr. Jones, is
given the equivalent of dU marjuana
cigarettes each day

Two of the volunt in the
both of thern long-time pot

have complained that the
dosage in the experiments was so
heavy that they had serious
hallucinations, muscle spasins, and at
times, believed they had died.

A critic of the experiment, Dr.
Santord Fineglass, calculates that each
volunteer is being administered the
equivalent of a marijuana cigarette
every eight and a hall minutes
around the clock.

The project's director, Jones, says he
has proved that smokers do become
physically dependent on marijuana.
Dr. Jones states he plans to apply for
another Government grant for a new
experiment which will triple the
amount of drag-aiven to volunteers:
That would be a joint more than once
every three minutes. (ZNS)

project
smokers.

Trends towards legalization...

The Oregon Pot
Study

Oregon is the first state-to abolish criminal penalties for
Possession of one ounce ol marijuana or less and to replace them
with a maximum civil fine of $100. The independent Drug Abuse
Council commissioned a survey in October 1974—the lirst
anniversary of the new legislation—to assess what changes have
occurred in marijuana usage during that year and to lind out what
impressions Oregonians have of their new law.

‘A majority (58 percent) of the State of Oregon residents favor the
elimination of criminal penalties for the possession of small
amounts of marijuana, Three out of every 10 Oregon adults
approve of their state law that makes simple possession of
marijuana a civil “offense"—akin to a parking ticket—carrying a
fine but no jail term or criminal record. An additional 26 percent
favor changes making sale andlor possession of small amounts of
marijuana legal.

The Oregon survey consisted of 802 personal interviews with
adults 18 years or over, representing a balanced sample of the
state's population. As might be expected, young adults—ages 18
through 29—took a more liberal view on the four legal choices
regarding sale andlor possession of small amounts of marijuana
The division is sharp between those who either have or currently
use marijuana and those who have never used marijuana.

Marijuana Usage

Have ever used Never used

Total aduits’ 19

By Age
30-44
45-59
60 & over

Two out ve on Ovejon adults have at st tried marijuana,
ry fen reporting that they currently use
harp difference in marijuana usage 1

with one oul
marijuana, Again, «a
sbserved between younger adults and older adults.

Change In Marijuana Usage

Current_users
Soeee oe

Decreased usage 40
Increased usage 5
No change 52

appears that the number of individuals using marijuana has not
signilicantly increased in Oregon during the year since i! has
removed criminal penalties lor simple possession of one ounce or

Reasons For Non-Usage

urrent non-users

No interest

Health danger

Possibility of legal prosecution

Not available

Other reasons

Undecided
The federal National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse,
alter an exhaustive two—year study, estimated in 1972 that 26
million Americans had tried marijuana, with 8 million of these
usingit regularly. The Commission recommended that possession
of marijuana for personal use no longer be a criminal offense and
that casual distribution ol small amounts of marijuana not involving
profit no longer be an offense. Oregon is the only state to adopt, in
part, this recommendation, although many other states are
presently considering it.
The Oregon survey was conducted by Bardsley and Haslacher,
Inc, of Portland, Oregon, a marketing research firm, and consisted
of several questions asked as part of a longer, regularly scheduled
survey of public opinion on a variety of issues.

The New York Times reports that the
‘use of drugs, including marijuana, is
‘on the upswing among young people

_ in the Soviet Union.

Although Soviet officials deny drug
use is a problem there, the
Government recently enacted tough
new drug laws designed to punish
drug users.

In a sharp departure from normal
practice the official newspaper of the
Young Communist League has
reported in detail the recent bust of a
young Soviet citizen for peddling
packets of hashish

According to the Times, official
newspapers rarely, if ever, talk about
drug cases—and the factthat a hashish
story was played prominently
indicates that the article wasa warning
to other potential drug sellers.

The Times adds that Soviet youths
are able to obtain marijuana which is
cultivated in Soviet Central Asia, The
newspaper says pot is also shipped to
major cities throughout the U.S.S.R.
trom the Caucasus and {rom the port of

Odessa on the Black Sea. (ZNS)

*

A group of young, dope
Australians has formed a nationwide
inion and political party

smoking

legal marijuana in A
The organizate
4go, is known as th
Union—or the “DS.U
currently generating $65,000 (dollars
1 year in income
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fleeing
trom dope charges.

The party state:

andidates in the
elections mn Australia

Also i Australia.
boon raising mariana as the
cash crop al 198
destroyed their tobacco crops,

The Australian magazine Nation
Review reports that the pot trade he
grown into 4a multimillion dollar
industry which is expanding fast even
though police continue to bust both
smokers and farmers.

In one section of Australia, however,
about 100 miles northwest of Cairns,
farmers are reported lo have grown so
tired of police raids, heavy fines and
jail sentences that they Have formed an
armed militia to protect their pot fields.

A reporter from Nation Review, alter
 first—hand look at the marijuana
plantations, writes that the farmers are
well—armed and mean business.

(ZN:

| letters

The Dominant Society

To the Editor:

In the Central Council meeting of January
22; 975, the chairperson of C.C. presented a
resolution that proposed a 67% cut of all the
budgets of the ethnic groups on campus. His
rationale was 1) the money given to these
‘groups is “astronomical,” and 2) that these
groups “breed hostilities” on campus. The
chairperson recommended a 67% budget cut
as a means to eventually eliminate all ethnic
organization on campus, and having these
organizations “absorbed” by the larger
general S.A. organizations, During the
debate, no non-council members were allowed
to speak, though representatives of Fuerza
Latina, on the affected groups , were asking to
be recognized.

Though the resolution was overwhelmingly
defeated, 1 feel that its implications are
important to understand and J sincerely hope
that a debate will be waged in the ASP, so that
ve may all reach a higher level of truth and
rity on the question, ‘The following is my
contribution to the debate,

When the chairperson states that ethnic
groups are receiving astronomical sums of
money, he is merely displaying his ignorance
and racism by implying that 1) non-Anglo
talent is inferior and not worth the same
money as Anglo talent and that 2) non-Anglo
cultural expressions are limited and
fedundant, therefore only one or two annual
activities per ethnic group will suffice, o that
3) ethnic groups should give up their cultura
integrity and should move along the path of
acculturation, oF 4) all of the above

Asto his argument that ethnic groups breed
hostilities, the chairperson is again showering
us with bis ignorance and racism, He is
implying that the ethnic groups are the
“problem.”

His implications do not have an ounce of
originality but do have an identifiable bi
That basis is the racism and intolerance of
cultural pluratism that exists in the dominant
society, The chairperson is not entirely to
blame for his beliefs, He is a product of a class
divided society where the exploitation of
people hy people is the basis of its socio-
economic systern

Racism and intolerance of cultural
pluralism cannot be erased from this campus
as long as they continue to be # part of the
ideology of the dominant society. They can
however be alleviated by encouraging the
flourishing of ethnic organizations and
encouraging the general Anglo community to
attend the activities sponsored by the ethnic
organizations.

1 congratulate the Central Council for
acting responsibly in defeating the resolution.
and | urge them to attack problems from their
foots, not their symptoms,

Juan ‘Tito Melendes
Assistant Coordinator
Fuerza Latina

Voters’ Choice

To the Editor:

On December 3, 1974 the SUNYA Student
Association began elections for vacancies on
Central Council and for officers and council
members forthe Class of "78. In both elections,
EOPSA endorsed candidates for the
Positions. For both elections, EOP students
Were not allowed to vote by S.A. appointed
Poll-Watchers, It this disfranchisement of
EOP students by S.A. which has provoked our
demand that the elections of December +
1974 be declared invalid, and that new
‘ections be established.

Knowledge of disfranchisement of students
ached our office on December 3, 1974. It
begin when Jimmy Brown's name was
illegally removed from the election ballots.
Brown was running for the office of President
of the Class of ‘78, Ira Birnbaum, Vice

REY

President of S.A. informed Brown of his
alleged ineligibility sighting Brown's failureto
pay his class dues as a problem,

Facts

1. Jimmy Brown is a member of the Class of
“78 in good standing at the University.

2. The EOP Program, Office of Financial
Aids, and the Bursar have verified records of
payment on bills for Brown including class
dues

in our analysis of the situation, EOPSA
found that S.A. was supplied by the Bursar
with data on studentaccounts. Included in this
material was information on class dues and
student tax payments. It was lateradmitted by
S.A. that the supplied and used was, in
fact, inaccurate since much of the information
had not been updated, Thi
wis the cause of
removed. His name did not appear on the
dated sheets.

1 S.A. did not attempt to correct the
situation until after the removal of Brown's
name from the ballot
Although S.A. compensited for the

mistake by invalidating December third’s
Clays of "78 elections, still « large segment of
voter were uneducated to the circumstances
involved, Many failed to retry to re-east their

3. hive (8) FOP freshmen, whose names
were mot on the out-dated sheets were not
allowed to vote im both elections Chiss ol 7X
and Central Council, These casesiare presently
being documented by EOPSA,

4. Central Countil Elections tor
3, 1974 were not declared invalid, aya result of
these studenty being distranchised.

there are still many questions, relating to
that have been lett

mber

his entire situatunn,
unanywered.

1 Why way confidential information on
student aecounts sought by S.A., and used in
the electoral process?

2, Isthe use of such information part of S.A.
election pricedure’?

2 Were FOP students the only students
distranehised?

4 Isthe overnight storage of ballot boxes in
residence teas (orn so permissible
undet S.\- electuan procedure’?

5. [snot vail 1D and tay gard sulficient

for an electuan’?
er, though,
Student

The elteety at this entire
seemingly insignificant to
Assoenation, atte tnost disturbing to FOPSA,
We view this act by Student Association ity
diveriminatory, biased and

beige. highly

approaching racist, We strongly

rapidly
demand that all elections of December 3-6,
1974 be deckired invahd and that Rich
Greenberg be removed [rom his pasition as

Acting-H lection Commiysioner

The Membersand Represeatitivesol LOPS

Buzzing Around

To the Editor:
It sents thatt the best place to eateh a bury
alter year
t busing

fon campus 1s in the library. Ye
students are phagued by the mncess
of the tlusrescent lights that yeep into every
ny of the library, Fhe problems
No one likes to study under the
il bees ts about to.

nook and
4 serious ane
feat that a guint swat
attack: yet the situation remus unchanged.
Tus constant endless, hypnoticdtone mayan
fact, be partly responsible for the library's
reputation asa good place tocatch upon some
sleep (there are those, however, who insist that
it untorta

Until the library does something ab
1 that students study in

mean you still won't
ast you'll be able t0 get

tely keeps them awake)
it the
busing lights. | sugges
their rooms. This dos
catch a buzz, but at
your work done.
Then

Steve Herch

The Albany Student Press reset
the sute right ta print ar edit Lewers to the
Editor. Submit letters typewrinen ta CC
326 for consideration. Keep those cards

and letwers coming, folks!

Cooperation and Production

“It is in fact nothing short of @ miracle that
the modem methods of instruction have not
‘yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from
stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom;
without this itgoes to wrack and ruin without
Sfail.’"—Albert Einstein

We intend to inaugurate a co-operatively
owned, edited, and published journal from
which we hope will emerge new insights into
both traditional and experimental disciplines.
We believe that an independent periodical
inay stimulate our curiosity by encouraging us
to transcend the conventional boundaries of
orthodox scholarship. Because this will be a
co-operative forum, it may encourage the
growth of a genuine community of scholars
drawn from all backgrounds and points of
View, and permit the mutual consideration
and continual exploration of vital intellectual
principles. And because this publication will
be ours, it will challenge us to make of it what
we can,

We hope that its content will be fruitfully
diverse_and_thus provide a forum for_a

continuous interchange of ideas within and
outside our respective departments; and that it
will enable teacher and student alike to escape
the fetters of narrow specialization and
academic sterility, Tending to be more
provisional than conclusive, more
interrogative than declarative, the journal will
attempt to foster communal interaction in two
ways: it will encourage students to engage
more actively in the experience of educatio
and in the process of self-discovery; and it will
try to reunite us with our colleagues, with
whom we share profound interest in humane
studies,
We invite all those interested to join with us
at an open meeting on Monday, February 3,
7:30 p.m., in HU-354,
Erich Nussbaum
Sigurd Juncker
William Grimes
Alfred Finkelstein
Harry Staley
Michael Kaufman
Jeffrey Berman

Notes From the House of the Dead:

His Arm in the Till

hy Robert Mayer

Several University officials have not quite recuperated from thescandal six months ago that
uncovered Campus Center Director Tom Wilhelm's exploits. Withelm who distinguished his
career at SUNYA with more filth written about him in Campus Center elevators than any other
individual, was found with his fingers in the till, Before something rotten was discovered in
Denmark by FSA sleuths, Wilhelm managed to bilk the university and students for several
thousands of dollars, minus the gratuities that some affectionate students managed to secure
from their boss.

Well it hay happened again, Kaculty Student Association is silent and so ix Security and the
1.A,s office, This iy what we have pieved together from several sources.
tly received a horizontal promotion in charge of cash register
operations, Was diseovered with his whole arm in the till, The figure is somewhere between 16
and 20 thousand, possibly more, and according to Assistant Director of University Police
Hannigan, “involves hundreds of transactions,

Asie rom the obvious embarrassment to the University which now credits two major
scandals, these exploits are costing students a lot of money. The job of the University Police is to

‘tigate these kinds of corruption but the job of Faculty Student Association personnel and
Student Attairy olfice is to insure that these things don't yo on for years without being
unenyered.

Hundreds of man hours have already been spent to unravel these gross examples of
cembe/lement while certainly better time could be spent serving us clients

Vote: A friend of mine was employed with FSA last Spring and often would visit her at the
Executive Park Otfiees, It was there that I met Ed Adis who Was the staunchest anti-Nixon
person in the building simply because the former President was “an $.0.B, crook.” ttall goes to
Show that there is no comraderie among thieves,

Fd Adis, who just re

FORO Ok

Ie was Old Home Week Friday night for many SUNY A graduates who came to see The Star
Spangled Washboard Hand. But the experience way very different from those days when the
group would play on the State Quad lawn with their simple microphones, Sam Brook's PA,
system and Worn out instruments, On Friday night they were all Pro and the old timers could

only say, "Wow, they have ehanged.”

FOI tt

Is is the agenda for concerts this semester, Solid and set: Keb. 7, Billy Cobh
Marshall Fucker and Elvin Bishop. Better than Maybe: April 12, Focus; April 24, Zappa,
Fingers Crossed: Billy Joel; Jefferson Starship.

Alter a remarkable ball semester. University Speakers Forum is working out another fine
slate of speakers, On Feb, 11 George Plimton will speak on “My life from the Packers to
Playboy." On Feb, 20 Nicholas Johnson will speak on “How to Achieve notoriety in an
inuacuous Government job, On Feb, 25 Supreme Trekker Gene Rodenberry will discuss “Why
there should be courses on Star Trek in Colleges Today.” April 8 will bring Sol Gordon and a

seussion on “Why the orgasm is infinitely superior to getting high.” April 23 through 25 Alger
Hiss will discuss “From the State Department to SUNY A and all because of Richard Nixon.”
Finally April 20 tsaae Asimov speaking on “SUNY A as a Separate Celestial

Vote: The names and dates ate true but the titles are adulterated fantasy.

IORI ROO tok

“Notes From the House of the De
information of import you wish (o be made public, | would also appreciate
inaty know that someone else wishes to be made public, But L would be most
“RM,

Will be appearing weekly. | would appreciate any
ay information you

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PAGE NINE ‘

The Price of Meat and Potatoes:

Three People in One...

by Dow Seidel (099-40-4999)
Wao-la it that says University life is de-
personalized? For two years, Ihave listened (o
ing groans of students

complaining. People complain that this school
is too large and that they have become just a
handful of social security numbers buried
deep inside a Univac’s memory bank. I don’t

them at all,

‘Allow me to introduce myself. ! am 099-40-
4939. | realize that by identifying myself by my
social security qumber I am supporting the
contention that we are depersonalized by
machines at SUNYA, but then again, itis the
computer who really knows who I am,

Tam 099-40-4939, no doubt about it. Every
once in a while, I go down to the computer
center and punch a few keys, just to makesure.
It never fails, For two years here at SUNYA]
haven't altered one bit. | am always 099-40-
4939. It is very reassuring.

Oh, Idon’t go around introducing myself by
‘my student {.D, number. Quite the contrary.
Many people here know me by my given
name, Jason. Jason T. Albright, schmuck Pre-
Med student. However, there are quite a few
of you out there who will recognize me as
Steve Morgan, and an equally distusbi
number of you call me Keith Borglum.,
Impossible you say? Notin this University and
am the living, proof.

Si

iteve:

It all started quite by:
election in 1972, 1 Wid
campus center doing nothing in particular,
when, without any’fason, a short burly lad
with blonde hair and brown mustache
motioned me oyer to his propaganda table. It

... Or No One Ata All

was the “Re-Eiect the President” corner. He
told me that I looked like someone who might
like to work for President Nixon's Re-
Election. I replied “thanks a lot” and turned to
Jeave to prevent my saying something more
appropriate, when I heard him offer an
invitation to a free beer party after the
campaign work. Completing a 360 degree
turn, tasked where I could sign up. On the
Practically bare list he présented me, 1 added
the first name that came to my head besides
my own, Steve Morgan,
rereres

I really didn’t expect anything to come of it.
On the following Saturday, | reported early at
Re-Election HQ, lest 1 be seen by any of my
friends, To my dismay, a raging party was in
progress, a Republican party. Biting the
bullet, I dashed in hoping to reap some reward
for my commitment. Before I could curl my
fingers around a glass, the funny looking dude
from the campus center grabbed my drinking
arm, pulled me into a corner and started to
talk with me, He explained that he knew me
through our large, lecture center Political
Science class, but he didn’t know my name, 1
again used my hastily contrived alias and my
friend started to introduce me to his friends,
calling me Steve Morgan.

It was amazing. In the brief span of that
Saturday afternoon, I was transformed from
Jason T. Albright, McGovern idealist, to

‘Gheowndns Steve Morgan, Nixon «reactionary, In
in the” “PPMiiple, “1 vehemently disagreed with

everyone I met that day—that is in my mind,
But that day, I wasn't me, lwasSteve Morgan
andl loved it. It was new, it was different.
None of those people had known me before

and besides, the size of classes and the ”
numbers of people on campus were in my
favor. None of those people would ever find
out that Steve Morgan didn’t exist, and never
had. I vecured close friendships with many of
the people I met that day and the relationships:

nave remained strong sit

‘Then Who Is Keith Borghum?

Mynext venture began almost as innocently
as the first. A fellow sufferer in my lecture
center Psych class asked my my name. I
hesitated a moment, remembering my
experience with the Nixon people and
immediately recognized that this presented a
whole new opportunity, This fellow had long
hair and a beard and I suspected that he
smoked MARIJUANAI!! The name | gave
was Keith Borglum.

Later in the week, | spent an afternoon
helping my new friend with a term paper at his
room, He asked me if 1 got high, and
practically leaping at the opportunity, | lied,
replying in the affirmative. Whereupon he
whipped out a joint and lit up, That was the
very first time 1 got stoned. With this and
several gatherings afterwards, 1 was
unofficially ini the world of the freak,
and again I wasno longer myself. A whole new
person emerged, instead of Jason T. Albright,
conscientious student, 1 was now Keith
Borglum, freak.

Fortwo years now, I have developed along
three different personality lines. One, Keith
Borglum became one of the directionless ones.
Living wholly in a drug oriented atmosphere,
not caring about anything in particular, he
grew much as mold on a cheese, acquiring
character and individuality, Keith made new

PLAZA

friends and connections and even did a little
dealing on the side in order to keep himself in
head stash.

Steve Morgan also grew and made new
friends and found new ideals operating in a
politically oriented atmosphere and political
‘community. And, Jason Albright continued
on his original course. Istill muddle around as
a disenchanted pre-med. student. Reality
escapes me most of the time, but then who
needs it. Most of my J.T. Albright friends
think I'ma bitwhacked out. Ifthey only knew.

“All the World's A Stage...”

Am I a schizophrenic? Au Contraire, 1
know exactly what I've been doingand lenjoy
it immensely. If | was schizo, | wouldn't be so
selective with the times I choose to flash my
alter egos. It goes without argument that my
multi-personality could present some real
problems, so most of my friends recognize me
as good old Jason T.

So all you people out there who complain of
having no identity, what is your problem? In
this huge mass of humanity I've managed to
find enough identity to last three lifetimes.
How can you do it? You can find a way, the
possibilities are endless. My secret lies in the
fact that I try to spread myself out over several
quads. On Alumni, my home base, 1am Jason
T. On Indian where all my activist friends are,
I'm Steve Morgan, and on Dutch | am very
much activeas Keith Borglum. t still have two
quads and the commuters to use yet.

‘A Walter Mitty reality is within your grasp.
If you feel lost, just go out there and be
someone, it doesn’t matter who. If you don't
like it, you can always be somebody else. 1
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Poems ©

\

Poems

Today’s Special: A Poetical Smorgasbord

Lament
by N.S.

Sing O Muse of a man of laughter
Who lies now fallen broken in spirit,

Eros, the wielder of gold and lead arrows
Pierced open his heart, then left him to waste,

Hope, daughter of Delusion, why do I seek thee?
You burn out my stomach and torment my heart,
Let dreams be buried that are phantoms of no substance,
Why can't J willingly accept hateful Fate?

White Zero

by Godolphin Reed
The sting of the razorblade wind
chips at the nerves,
the skin pales & shrinks,
the blood slows sluggish
as mercury,
It has been said that the extremities
aire the first to freeze,
the edges of limbs

the ears

Foolish is the man who doesn't recognize his fate,
The gods shun most him with a stubborn will

He builds up castles from the sands of futile dreams
Then sees them crushed in floods of painful sorrow.

Time builds a safe in each man’s spirit

Kt protects deepest feelings, hidden secrets from himself,
But life's circumstances may pick that fearful lock,
And you O starry eyes cracked open my guarded door,

the nose
the fingers
the toes,
the sentries on the mountain peaks,
but there is something inside that chills
the moment that motion becomes
impossible,
something that folds into itself

like a fetus and dies,

That door is a dam holding back a restless river

Dreadful torrents of emotion wait to ravage troubled spirits.
The Noods will follow the contours of your mind

And thoroughly wash out all other roads of thought.

© great Sentiment it'syou { must master
But my mind is veiled with visions of her.
Her eyes still sprinkle; I'm helpless, cruel Fortune,
With her f was happy and the first time content

He's a soul now doomed 10 a life of wander
Never,to know the joys of a tranquil spirit.

He will quest to conquer the secrets of nature
And seck a happiness that will never be near:

Parable

My father took the stuffed
anaconda, limp and heavy
asa chain, from over

the fireplace and watked

by Godolphin Reed
My mother got down
on all fours
and snipped at the ghuls
with her tceth,
She snipped around
the trunk of the pine tree
and between the roots
that curled along the ground
I called to her but she
pretended not to understand.
\ called my father
from his workshop
in the basement
and pointed at our
mutual woman
through the picture window

Attention
Business Students

1 him, her mouth in
rotary motion, He raised
ke and whipped her

to the ground, The snake
sing as it snapped across

her rump, across her

shoulders, around bi

neck and outspread legs.
By the time | reached

them she was dead

My father and latchamburger
all that winter

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postgraduate years. We have developed a brotherhood of
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A crisp comforter of snow
covers everything

and blurs the outlines
of streets and trees.

‘The sun has been blazing
like a torch at night

but it stays 90 million miles
away (o blind us,

We have retreated
in an orderly manner,

deaving a trail of monuments
in our wake,

Many have given up praying
‘und want to defect or surrender,

and to make matters worse
there is rumor of icestorms

‘cruising in the North,

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PAGE ELEVEN

‘Film Reveals City Life

By Ira P. Shabronshy’ ‘ppt his little house and the food in-
On January 24, Akira Kurosawa's sid
Dodes’ka-den was presented at the The third, and perhaps the most

Performing Arts Center, All the
‘other Japanese movies [ have seen
fare those grade’ Z Godzilla or

important way of dealing with the
miserable conditions of the slumisil-
fusion and delitsion. The title of the

Mothia flicks on television, 20 Iwas film, Dodes‘ka-den, means “the
quite unprepared for this particular sound of the trolley” and indeed, the
film, . first plot we see has to do with a

Kurosawa uses the film as a can-
‘yas to paint a surreal portrait of a
‘Tokyo shum. There are many small
plots in this film, the purpose of
‘which is to show the slum-dwellers
miserable poverty and how the poor

young man who conducts an im-
‘aginary trolley car down a long path
and back, all day. He travels from a
“station” along the path through the
junkyard to the local “water-hole,”
around which sit a gaggle of women,
washing clothes, gossiping, ‘and

cope.

‘One way of dealing with the
squalor of this alum is drinking.
Most everyone drinks sake’, a cheap
rice wine, Two laborers are warned
by their wives not to come home
drunk again. Of course, they do
return crunk, One wife tells her hus-
band that he must stop drinking. He
goes to his friend's house, and the
friend decides to talk (0 the man's
wife, Each man gets chummy with
his friend’s wife, and, in the blink of
an eye, the friends switch wives. The

but no one is terribly surprised or
offended. The morals of these people
are different than ours, I suppose.
Another means of dealing with
poverty isby retreating into one:
One man, who discovered his wife
with another man, became.a recluse
and comes out of his hoyel ofly,to
buy and sell rags. He locks hig door
against intruders, but in truth, he has
ig that warrants stealing, But
he has absolutely nothing else left ex-

Fourie tve:

otherwise spend the day. They
become our commentators, telling
us little bits of information about
each story-line, Except for leading us
to this place, the young man plays a
minor role in this film, returning
once or twice to the screen, running
along his
“Dodes'ka-den.”

“track,” repeating

The beggars, father and son, are

the lowest on the totem pole of finan-
cial ability. The others manage to
scrape up some money, making
flowers, cookin

ete,, but these two
re the most destitute. And yet they

have the biggest dreams. They build
a house on a hill. Of course, being so
poor, they can't really construct this
house, but they are rich in their
dreams. They start with an elaborate
gate of iron, thena a fence to sur-
mitt erty At: thio: pointy}
the little boy’ goes off to beg for the
day's food, He returns and they eat,
Before finishing the meal, the son

ives the father a small container of
fish he was told to boil. The father
says that the fish is pickled and it is
not necessary to boil this fish, and so
they eat, and continue “working” on
the house. An interesting point was
that they never appear in the house
itself up to this point in time.

That night they both become ill.
They still discuss the house. The
house is now built, an ultra-modern
design, ina metallic rose-pink, witha
porch for the son to play on. The
father recovers from the illness, but
the little boy gets worse. Afraid to
take him to the doctor, the man
deludes himself into believing that
everything will be alright, He goes
off and returns with some broth. As
he heats it up, he talks of building a
swimming pool. He opens the door
of the abandoned automobile in
which they live, and the boy's inert
body fallsout. The father and the old
wise man cremate the body and bury
it, The father then says “You see,
Kiri, you have your swimming pool
now,” and suddenly he is standing
before a huge round pool. He isnow

in his dream, and thedream becomes
his reality. Illusion is the only way he
can cope with his misery.

Dodes'ka-den is Kurosawa’s first
{ilm in color, and he uses color quite
effectively, In the “trolley"-man's
room, the walls are literally covered
with trolley cars in rainbow colors,
in the style of kindergarten pain-
tings: ‘Thepaintings serve to
emphasize the dully-colored house
and the even more dully-colored
lives of the slum dwellers,

Dance
Workshops

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc.,a
group of young artists creating and
producing original works, will per-
form in the Main Theatre of the Po
forming Arts Center at State Univer-
sity Of New York at Albany on
Thursday, Jan, 30, at 8 p.m, The
troupe, which is devoted to the
development of the art of
choreography and its related
theatrical and musical elements, will
idence at the university fora
and will conduct a number
of workshops and master classes,

On Tuesday, Jan, 28, from 6:30 to
9 p.m, the company will
demonstrate techniques of im-
provisation; the following ing,
trom 7:30 to 9:30, they will conduct
classes on intermediate technique.
Two master classes will be held on
Saturday, Feb. !—one in technique
from 12;30 to 2 p.m. and one in im-
1on Fron to. 3:30 p.m. All
will take placesin the Dance

The program is! the fourth in a
series of performances and
workshops in contemporary dance
sponsored by the univeristy's Dance
Council, funded by Student Assécia~
tion, The purpose of the program is
to bring to the community dis-
tinguished modem dance companies
representing a variely of approaches
to dance,

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Jazz-Rock Trio At
Eighth Step Coffeehouse

“The weekend of Febfuary 7 and 8
will bring to ‘the Eighth Step
Coffechouse, 14 Willett Street,
Albany, an interesting group known
as the Buxtehude Trio. Basically an
acoustical group of musicians, they
feature a variety of music styles that
can best be described as folk-rock
with a definite jazz influence. A large
section of their material consists of
music by Dylan, Mike Mesmith,
Van Morrison and others.

The group consists of Joseph
D'Entrone, vocals and guitar;
Russell Gardel, electric bass; and

Mitchell Shukdman, vocals and
guitar. Joseph D'Entrone, of
Albany, writes most of the original
material performed by thegroup. He
isan excellent guitarist with training
in musica) theoryand is soon to be
graduated with a degree in music
from SUNY at Cortland. Russell
Gardel, from New Jersey, the
bassist, is responsible for adding the
contrapuntal line to their perfor-
mances, Mitchell Shuldman, from
Brooklyn, the other guitarist, is
presently studying classical guitar
and is soon to graduate from Cor-
land, also with a music degree.

The colors used for the sunsets
and evening light are also quite
brilliant. They undericore and co
trast the action on thescreen. For i
stance, the beggar boy's death scene
contains a sunset where reds and
purples predominate, The majesty of
this sunset contrasts with the boy's

gonizingly gruesome death,
touching a very harsh chord in the
hearts of the audience, to show that
life goes on, stopping for no one.

Akira Kurosawa must have lived
in the Tokyo slums at one time or
another to have been able to portray
this poverty with such a sympathetic
feeling. He isan artist, expressing
feelings, using celluloid as a canvas,
to show how the deprived of Tokyo
manage to eke out any sort of ex-
istence for themselves,

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EXIT magazine in Cleveland
reports that reocrd makers are
studying the idea of printing com-
mercials on record jackets. The
is that ads could be printed on those
white jackets which serve iis
‘wrappers for an album, and could be
sold for a healthy sum.

Oliver Berliner, the President of
Tel-Audio Center, whose firm is in
the record field. estimates that 20
million L:P.'s could net an extra $1.6
million (dollars) with the extra ads
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“The Proposition

continued from Live 13

‘out and devours Mata Hari and a
finale in which everyone comes bak
to life. All was done in song, with the
actors’ fine voices parodying the
Italian operatic style with such songs
‘as “What's the Matter, Harry?” Ex-
cellent miming of actions such as be-
ing swallowed by a lion contributed
to the humor (the actors use no
props whatsoever).

After the fairy tale “Cinderella”
‘was cleverly performed in the style of
six suggested playwrights successive-
ly (Shakespeare, O'Neill, Ibsen, Eu-
ripides etc.), came the finale of the
evening, a Rodgers and Hammers-
tein musical comedy about a
plumber, and earthquake and false
teeth that don’t fit. Centering around
a dentist who falls in love with a lady
plumber, but is upset because one of
his patient’s false teeth don’t fit, the
happy ending comes when the
plumber uses her plunger to create
and earthquake which makes the
patient's mouth slam shut around
the false teeth, Sounds wild? It was,
and the songs were amazingly clever,
abounding in puns such as “I'm
flushed all over", “You've bridged
the gap—Let’s take the plunge” and
“You're a pal—T'll even do your root
canal.”

The Proposition’s goal
entertain—and they certainly
succeed. They work within a semi-
fixed framework (their show will
usually include a musical, a foreign
film festival, a parody of playwrights
etc.), but the framework is free
enough to allow them to improvise
characters, situations, dialogue and
song incorporating audience
suggestions,

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

JANUARY 28, 1975

Former Governor Malcom
Wilson has been fond of liberally
sprinkling his public speeches with
Latin quotations. It was, therefore,
not at all inappropriate that the
Knickerbocker News, in its
November 6 edition, should employ
Latin phrases in reporting the
Governor's loss at the polls. “Finis”
was one such phrase, and “ave atque
vale” was another, “Ave atque vale”
means “hail and farewell” and is the
simple but effective close of a belov-
ed and famous Latin poem. Catullus
(84-54 B.C.) is the most personal of
Latin poets; in facthe hasbeen called
“the master of self-revelation.” In
this poem, however, he tells usnot of
his stormy love affair with Lesbia,
but rather of his grief at the loss of a
brother, whose tomb he visited in
far-away Asia Minor:

Fragments of a Roman tomb on the Via Appia trom the time of the poet Catullus,

Improvisatory Group Presents
Audience With A Proposition

by Sharon Swerdloff Part of the answer lis in the fuct that

and and ¢

thquake, They even set it

tonaitons and expressions were ex-

tremely funny. froze the action and asked the
Another sketch atudience to help continue the plot,

moueuenomeuencuencnomononenencnonenonenonone:

ind Suzanne. At various points, Ray

“New York City Style Pizza”

FTI RII IOI IO IOI tt

Improvisatory theatre is exciting it is spontancous, created on the to musi
theatre; a company of five young spot. and employs the suggestions The members of this company are
performers called The Proposition given by the audience only a minute Ray Baker, John Monteith, Olga
proved this last Saturday night to a belore, It is the sheer delight of — Holub, Suzanne Rand and pianist

full house at the Main Theatse. The watching your own suggestions Allen Cohen, who improvises the

Proposition's format was conceived — cleverly and comically incorporated — music to accompany the action, Its

of and directed by a man named into improvised songs and skits that dutficult ta convey the essence of

Allan Albert and this format, makes this show a specuilexperience hat they do, since their material

coupled with the talents of the per- for the audience. And theather part — owes its humor kirgely: to the sp

formers, is a sure-fire success. The of the answer isthat the membersof — janeity of its creation, but | will

show has been running for several the company are inventive and vere attempt to deseribe how they took

years now in Boston and, up until a satile enough t carry off with great audience suggestions and ime

year or two ago, at the Mercer Arty ora scene, for exam provised situations around them.

Center in New York City, ple. involving such diverse elements For the first impravisation, Ray

What makes thisshow so exciting? —avaplumber, talsetecth thatdon’lfit asked the audience for an em=

hake ee nk ea eee PANERA RA RR Ra harming moment and u volunteer

responded with “walking in on your

+ JOHNATHAN’S PIZZA, % mmmate while he's: sng’ the

, * room.” The format was that of a

‘ 463-5100 bd foreign film festival, and the scene
‘ We Deliver Anywhere % was enacted in French, British,
‘ Small, Medium, and Large Pizzas % Japanese and Malian, “The per-
: + formers are trained in the sounds audience suggestions o
t Open Friday, Saturday arn » and gestures associated with these first fine: a ball park, an
+ {6 De # countries, so their foreign gibberish these hamburgers. stink!"
’ sounded amazingly real and their in- volved a first meeting between John
' ’
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employed

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time: Tonight 7:30 pm

place:
date:
j Officers:

Pres - Marc Benecke VP - Diana Castillo

Fireside Lounge

Tuesday, Jan. 28th

See. RenaCohen Treas- Jody Schaeffer

Council Members :

Hans Jansen, Steve Arthur, Rich Vaccaro, Jody Schaeffer, Judah Shapiro

souenononcncnonesoucnencucneuencncnonenene

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Classical forur

Latin Quotations,
Catullus to Wilson

1 have traveled through many
countries and over many seas,

and now I come, brother, to these
sad rites,

1 wish to give to you a parting gift

‘and to speak in vain to yourbilen(
ashes.

Fate has robbed me of you, alas,

poor brother, taken from me
pointlessly.

‘And so—it's all that 1 ean do—
accept these gifts,

offered sadly by ancient custom to
your shades,

Accept them—they are wet with a
brother's tears—,

and forever, brother,
farewell.

“You swallow up all beautiful
things," Catullus says of death in
another poem, and he himself was
aken at the age of thirty,

and

The Proposition created @ great rapport with PAC audiences,

For example, he asked, “Why is she
‘so aggressive?" and the answer was
“Constipation.” Suzanne told John
of her problem and then added, “But
1 shouldn't be loading all my
troubles on you." This is just one ex-
ample of the way the performers use
the suggestions to make on-the-spot
jokes and puns, which is why they
are so funny,

‘Combines Myths and Spies

The next improvisation was an
opera called The Hercules of Seville
using the suggestions of adilemma,
myth and a famous woman; what
have for dinner, Hercules and Mata
Hari, To say that it was wildly funny
would be an understatement, The
complex plot involved a quarrel
between Hercules and Mrs, Her
cules, a love affair between Hercules
and Mata Hari, Hercules pulling off
his wife's girdle as one of his Labors,
Hercules cating a lion which jumps
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PAGE THIRTEEN

A

by Spence Raggio and Matt Kauf-
man

The Star Spangled Washboard
Band is not the new sound of the
seventies, Neither is it the hope and
salvation of American Music, What
they are is a hilarious mixture of
song, dance, “a lot of laughs and
twice as many jokes.”

The SSWB is seven guys from
Mother Albany—rhythm “guitar,
banjo, percussion, string bass, elec-
tric violin, electric guitar, and clec~
tric bass—who get up there on the
stage and enjoy themselves. They are
all excellent musicians, even though
they don't place a lot of emphasis on
their music.

Their major stock in trade is
parody, Attacks were launched on
everything ,from country/ western,
the Doobie Brothers, bluegrass (a
bluegrass version of ELP’s *Oh,
What A Lucky Man He Was”) and
soul, to Lawrence Welk, the Big
Bands and the classics ("La Merde:
Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Horse"), They did a great job on
Beethoven: a syncopated, clockwork
version of the “Ode to Joy” portion
of his “Ninth Breakdown” that look-
ed just like a window display in

.A.0. Schwartz,

heir Roots

All this we
jokes, puns and some acting—all
terrible, but all the more funny for
it—and the audience, despite their
groans, loved every minute of it.

Down south, audiences af the Bot-
tom Line and My Father's Place are
busy being amazed by a bright rising
group: Hello People. It may sound
more likea greeting than the name of
group, but they are four of the most
entertaining musicians to be seen in
quite a while,

Their act employs greasepaint,
pantomime and acapella renditions
of several fifties tunes as comic in-
terludes, while their music takes care
of the rest.

On stage, Hello People handle
themselves well, possessing the abili-
ty to ereate almost spontaneous rap-
port with their audience. They havea
tight, original sound, due in part to
their producer: Todd Rundgren.

But credit must also go to the ex-
perience and versatility of the
members themselves. They've been
‘around for nine yearsand werenever
very successful, Now, though, with
ABC pushing th ¢ new album—
Handsome Devils—and with a solid
new single just released—“Future
Shock"—what_was formerly only

interspersed with’

Star Spangled Washboard Band at Spring '73 Telethon

potential is turning into action,

Caravan & The New Symphonia
(London) After several little known
albums, Caravan seemed ready to
settle back into the comfortable, if
not glamourous, role of a small
name opening act band, But this

bum, recorded live with The New
Symphonia, indicates that the band
has higher ambitions.

Warhol’s ‘Dracula’ A Biting ..
Comment .On. Morality

by C.S. Santino

“The blood of these whores is kill-
ing me!” complains Count Dracula,

Count Dracula has met with hard
times, He's losing, weight. His skin
urns paler by the day. His greying
hair requires a touch-up job in the
morning, You see, the vampiric
nobleman is addicted to virgin
blood—he's got a bat on his back, if
you will—and he's finding fully in-
tact young females an increasingly
searce commodity these days. It's
cold turkey forthe Count,and unless
he sinks his teeth into “virgin meat"
before a fortnight, it’s the end of the
fine,

At least that's the way itisin Andy
Warhol's “Blood for Dracula”
(publicized as simply Dracula"), the
sequel to his “Frankenstein,” written
and directed by Warhol's recently
surfaced protege Paul Morrissey.

Following closely on the heels of
its predecessor, “Dracula”

X-rated blood-and-se:

horror spoof that demands a fairly
strong stomach and a willingness to
Ldugh # dust-dry, unpunched com-
cay, (t's a frantigally funay movie
that refuses to take, itnelf seriously,
an off-beat, occasionally off-color
parody of the horrog genre with par-
ticular attention paid to the slick and
sexy Hammer Film productions,

‘As the updated legend goes,
Dracula (Udo Kier) has but one
hope in his search for unspoiled
maidens—to flec his native Romania
for Italy, where the influence of the
Church has allegedly kept wanton
ust in check. With the aid of his

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frenetic but resolute assistant, An-
ton, Dracula takes up residence in
the crumbling castle of the DeFiori
family asan aristocrat in search ofa
virgin bride

The DeFioris offer the Count any
one of their four virtuoiis daughters.
‘There's just one little catch,
though—two of the girls have
already found their thrill with the
hired hand, a brute named Mario
(Joe Dallesindro) whose studied
machismo, Brooklyn slang, and
Marxist leanings provide the film's
most readily accessible humor,

Obviously, Dracula samples the
two imperfect girls first (to com-
plicate matters) not realizing what
he's getting himself into, The result is
expected he can't keep down ex-
perienced blood. That still leaves
two virgins for the frustrated vam-
pire, but Mario is on to Dracula's
game and is doing his damnedest to
disqualify the finalists

What it amounts to is a contest
between a virile, bawdy farmhand
and a sickly, thwarted aristocrat,
which can hardly be called a contest

at all,

Morrissey has a somewhat
muddled message to deliver here
he’s using Dra plight as an

kward metaphor for the collapse
of the old morality and the ruling
class—but “Dragula™ his ‘its tongue
rooted so firmly in its cheek that it,
can barely speak. Is Morrissey on the
level’? Apparently not,

Theacting and dialogue in the film
are remarkably atrocious, There are
some very, very funny tines that are
delivered with such contrived gravity
that laughter may
afterthought. The gore is stylized to
the point of absurdity so the loping
off of an arm or eg is reduced to
slapstick. All of this is quite
intentional—a deliberate aim at
mediocrity.

The film's only unplanned flaw is
that Morrissey can't decide whether
he merely wants to point out the
failingsofthe horror film or make us
taught at them, too. But this is a
minor fault—the film remains a
reasonably entertaining romp and &
must for the high camp set

seem an

Scuba Club
Business Meeting

Wed. Jan. 29th

funded by stadent association

The album is largely instrumental
and that is one of its strengths, for
guitarist and lead singer Pye
Hastings’ voice is not really suited to
any strenuous activity like singing.
Another strong point lies in the ex-
cellence of the recording itse
something not usually found on live
recordings, for which applause must
go to producer David Hitchcock
There's nothing  staggeringly
original about combining rock
group with symphony orchestra, but
where the album does break new
ground is in the method of combina-
tion. Conductor Martyn..Kord and
the tifémbers of the New Symphonia
did not simply play backgrow
chords, but joined in ay an integra
of the music, and
makes the album a suecess.
Trace (Sire) Trace is three of the
most talented musicians in Dutch

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keyboards, Jaap Van Eik on guitars:
and bass, and Pierre Van Der Linden
(well known for his work with Focus
in the last three years) on drums.

Right from the beginning Trace is

straight musical trio, with not a
“trace” of the superfluous: plain
silver and blue packaging: the inner
sleeve a complete information center
for the‘album, providing everything
from inspirations for each track to
precise descriptions of equipment
utilized.

Musically, Trace relies totally on
their there wre no
lyrics 40, help point out the album's
direction and gimmickry is kept
down to a minimum. It's. presenta~
tion of their own blend of classical

instruments

and European folk music with rock
and it comes off very well in the
studio. They should provide some
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rock Rick Van Der Lig

The

following Student

Association

groups have failed to attend either of two

mandatory meetings. It

will be

recommended to Central Council to
revoke these groups budgets if they donot
contact the Controller of Student Associa-

tion by Friday, January 31, 1975, 5:00 pm.

Chess Club
Karate Club
State Quad Program Council
Sky Diving Club
Luso Brazilian
Friends of the United Way
Hellenic Students Assn.
Friends
Geography Club
Duplicate Bridge Club
Hebrew Club

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JANUARY 28, 1975

juamen Drown Bridgewater Floor Hockey

Rob Geler :
Mie Albany, State Swim Tean.
Bridgewater State this past
forunday by a score of 61 - 52. This
Se acl aft the long in-
Tmiesion training program and the
i t was evident. The win
ver Bridgewater was the first since
dus! _meet competition began
fetween the. two teams five years
typ. The swimmers’ record now
sands at 2-3.

‘Swimming before a large crowd
ty Albany standards, the mermen
dominated most of the meet. They
‘won | out of 2 rela} and placed first
Jp 4 out of 11 individual events.

‘The team of Masom, Seidenberg,
Rubin, and Siebecker got the
swimmers off to a7 -O lead with an
‘ayy win in the medley relay. The
Bridgewater team did not swim the
relay with their full strength. They
were holding some of their better
‘gwimmers for the latter part of the
nee, thereby conceding the victory
‘o Albany in the medley.

In the 1000 yard freestyle
freshman Dave Rubin placed first
with a new school record of 11:00.0.
This broke Len Van Ryn’sold record
by a full seven seconds. Ken Weber
placed third in this event,

Rubin and Bridgewater’s Bat-
tistini had an exciting dual for first
place, Rubin managed to stay ahead
for the entire 40 laps of the race. But
around the 30 lap mark, Battistini
closed the gap and was a mere
shoulder length behind. Rubin seem-
ed to tum on an extra reserve of
energy and pulled away to finish the
race seven seconds ahead of Bat-
tistii,

Ben Sicbecker swam next in the
200 yard freestyleand placed second.
Ben also came through in the final
stretch to pull ahcad in the last two
laps and beat the third place man by
half a body length,

Rick Masom swam a hard 50 yard
freestyle, with a time of 23.5, only to
miss first place by .2 of a second.

In the 200 yard individual medley

Dan Dudley swam 4 seconds ahead
of the field to easily take first place.
Dave Rubin and Battistini once
again competed closely for the se-
cond place. This time Battistini
managed to edge out Rubin by a
shoulder length.

Artie Rosenberg placed first in
both the one meter and three meter
diving events. The lack of divers has
in the past been a sore spot for
Albany swim tcams. Rosenbergs
success broke that tradition and con-
tributed to the moral and the point
total of the team. In the three meter
dive Rosenberg failed to complete
one of the five required dives, yet
managed to outdive Bridgewater in
the four remaining dives to compen-
sate for the failed dive.

In the 200 yard butterfly Mitch
Rubin cruised to an easy victory,
with the nearest Bridgewater com-
petitor fifteen seconds behind.

Ken Weber placed third in the 100
yard freestyle with a time of 52.4.

Rick Masom swam a strong race,
leading the entire way to place first in
the 200 yard backstroke, Dan
Dudley passed a Bridgewater
swimmer in the last two laps to take
third.

Dave Rubin once again placed
first in the 500 yard freestyle, beating,
challenger Battistini by a substantial
11 second margin, Ben Siebecker
placed third.

‘Albany swept the 200 yard
breustroke with Jack Scidenbetg
placing first and breaking his own
personal record with a time of 2.28.4.
Dan Dudley came across with the
close second place.

The Mermen go on the road next
weekend for a meet against a strong
Potsdam team.

Wrestlers Continue to Slide
Finish Third in Tourney

ty George Miller

The Albany State wrestling team
ran into some stiff competition over
the weekend and was unable to
salvage its floundering record which
‘ow stands at 3-7-1

The grapplers participated in
quadrangular tournament which
cluded State, Lowell Technical In-
stitute, Southern Connecticut and
host Amherst. The team scores,
which were arrived at using a new
format, were as follows: Amherst 45,
Southern Connecticut 29, Albany
‘State 28 and LIT 10.

This was the first match in which
Albany has competed this year
which was run under the “Sparks
System" of scoring. Ruther than
having a wrestler in cach weight
«as, this system allows the couch to
field his best 14 wrestlers with two in
tach division. Therefore, it is possible
to have two wrestlers in only five or
six of the 10 classes and not get

Australians

‘A Women’s International Basket-
ball Game will be played between
Australia and State University
College at Brockport here at Albany
Suteon February 10, 1975. The con-
(est, which gets underway at 7:30
Pm,, will be played under inter-
‘ational rules,

This marks the first time a
women’s international competition
has been staged in Metroland. Inthe
Patt, teams and performing groups
{from other countries have put on ex-
hibitions in this area,

‘The Australian team, which has a

penalized by having voids.

This method proved to be very ad-
vantageous to Coach Joe Garcia as
he was able to go void at 118 Ibs. and
190 Ibs. where the Danes have been
weakest, Team points were awarded
on a 5-3-1 basis for first, second and
third place in each weight class, with
‘one point for pinsand one-half point
for superior decisions

‘A 126 Ibs. Albany entered Brian
Jubrey, who defeated 8.C.’s Walsh
10-6and then Jost to Amberst’s Loeb
to move to the consolation round.
There Jubrey won by fall over
Lowell’s Skandier and took third

by decisioning Diemer of
hern Connecticut 6-3.

At 134 Ibs. Ethan Grossman
wrestled his way to the finals where
the was beaten by Trouville of LIT, 6-
3. To get there, he soundly defeated
SCs Cannon 8-1

The weight
Albany almost alwa

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twenty game schedule slated for its
tour af the United 8 tk
Albany its only New York St

one class where

can

stop.
Tickets for the game are ava
on a guaranteed seat basis. Stud
tickets are free with a tax card. They
must be picked up at the Campus
Center Lobby at the following times:
Jan 2% 1-3
Jan 29 1130-2
Jan 3013
eb 3 14:30-2
Feb4 1-3
Feb 5 11:30-2

assured of a win is at 142 Ibs, with
‘All-American Larry Mims. ‘Thus far,
the talented senior remains un-
defeated this year as he got by
Amhers’s Hirsch by the narrow
margin of 3-1, His other victims were
Southern Connecticut's Gayoski by
fall at 1:26 and Smith of Lowell by
fall, in an incredibly fast 0:21
seconds.

‘Albany entered two men at 150
Ibs. and was able to put a lock on
third place. Jeff Golden was defeated
by Pendergast of S.C. and Truesdell
of Albany decisioned Carrol of
Lowell 3-Land then lost to MeDutfie
of Amherst

At 158 both Jack D'Ambrosio and
John Alden nude it intothe consola~
tion rounds and therefore got third
place for the Danes,

SUNYA was able to get its second
first place of the day in the 167 Ib.
class as Tom Horn went all the way.
Tom did it via two de one LI
J and the other 6-3 against Nash of
‘Amherst, Also at 167, Rick Robbins
put in a fine showing by taking third
place by a 9-6 decision

Greg Allen won another third
place for the varsity in the 177 Ib
division. Greg was able to pin
Skroski of S.C. in 4:14 in his
match, lost to Smolinski of 1
overtime, won by fall over Soloman
of Amherst and defeated Harmon of
Amherst, 8-6,in a full day's work,

in the heavyweight class, Tom
Cleary nearly took it all but was just
nipped out by Amherst’s Conway 6-
5. On the way he did manage to pin
Conway's teammate Gorbet,

The varsity’s next outing is at
Onconta for a dual match,

by Nathen Salant

In A.MLLA. Floor. Hockey action Sunday...Division A: Steve Katr's
breakaway goal inside the two minute mark of period one proved to be all the
scoring Nate's Nanooks needed, as they beat the State Blues, 2-0. Steve
Greenwald scored the other goal, beating Blues’ goalie Bill Stech on a
rebound shot.

The Blues came close to scoring early in the third period when Nanook
goalie Jeff Lefkowitz was caught out of the net, but Nolan Altman was there
to kick out a ten footer by Andy Negri.

Stech stopped 42 shots, an A.M.I.A. record, while Lefkowitz was called

upon only 9 times...

Hawks Edge Something Special, Cheekles Extinguish Fire

Bob Fried scored a breakaway goal with lesthan one minute toplay.in th®
game, as the Hawks edged Something Special in a cliffhange

* Tom Martin scored one goal and assisted on two others,

the Cheekies

put out the Fire, 5-0, Mare Plevin opened the scoring at the five minute mark
of period one, off a pass from Tom Ryan, Martin notched his fret assist at

12:00 of period one, when Roy Michaelson took his ps

and fired it past the

Fire netminder, After a scoreless second period, Larry Kahan scored goal

number three on Martin's second assist. Ryan tippec
11:27 of the third period, and Martin scored uni

remaining.

'a Plevinten footer at
sted with 10 seconds

Division B

“No’ scored five unassisted breakaway goals, four in the third pe
‘Dan Theberge put.No on op at 10:54 of period one, with a

stopped STB, 5+

and

breakaway goal, Mike Gazelles evened matters at 5:20 of the second period,
before No exploded. its four-goal bombing...

Mike Jeffson scored twice and pic
twenty footer, as Poke’s Pucks slapps

ked up an assist on Scott Madigan’s
ed the Yaks, 3-0, After a scoreless first

period, Madigan’s centering pass from the right corner found Jeffson alone
in front, where he tipped it past a sprawling goalie, Thirty seconds later, they

reversed roles,
of the third period...

Whalers Harpoon B.

ith Madigan getting the goal, Jeffson scored again at 11:40

.D.

Brad Seid notched the first Hat Trick of the young season, and assisted on
4 fourth goal, as the Whalers harpooned the B.V.D.'s, 6-0. Seid split the

defense at 6:15 of period one, took a Neil Gesch pass in for’
7:45 of period two, and then converted from Gesch again, this time
Mike Razenhoffer, and Cliff Gerber

the third period. Bob Constantine,
scored the other goals...

Bob Pape (2goals, one assist), 1
(1 goal, 3 assists) combined for 9

Mother Puckers, 6-0. Pape scored ti

they needed.

second goal at
11:00 of

1m Herman (2 goals), and Jay Wasserman

ints, to lead the Colonists over the
in period one togive the Colonists all

—————

A reminder to all ci

tains—all sticks must be properly padded and taped

with white tape before Sunday's games. Please check your team’s sticks,
bearing in mind that the foam rubber does wear out.

Women Drop Opener

Albany State's women's varsity
baskltball team suffered a season
‘opening setback as they lost to Os-
wego State 71-34 Saturday at the vic~
tor's court,

Although the offense was unable
to penetrate well, a strong defense
enabled Albany to stay within strik-
ing range throughout the first half.
‘After the half-time break, however,
‘Albany's defense faltered and Os
wego quickly pulled the game out of
reach with some surprisingly: ac~
curate hitting from the outside.

During the opening half, Albany
had difficulty stopping Oswego's
Jounne Murphy, the game's leading
scorer with 17 points. Couch Bar-
bara Palm changed Albany'sdefense
inan effort to get more height (in the
form of Vicki Girko) into the middle
to stop the towering Murphy. But
this left the defense prey to the
penetrating drives of "Vicki Pope,
‘who had a fine second half to finish
the game with 14 points for Oswego.

Coach Palm is considering some
new defensive changes to help her
team compensate for lity lack of
height. One of these changes might
well be w 2-3 zone defense which she
hopes to try out this week in practice.

Co-captain Wendy Gath had a
fine game for Albany, providing the
bulk of the scoring with 14 points.

and Girko had 6,but more can be ex-
pected from them once the offense
starts working effectively.

Probably a major factor in the loss
was the relative inexperience of
Albany's young team, composed of 3
freshmen, 7 sophmores, and | junior
transfer student, As Albany had no
scrimmages, this was the first time
these women have played together
‘against an opposing team. Itisin this
game situation that they must learn
to adapt their style of play to the
foreign strategies of another team.
With the tough schedule they have (3
or 4 gamesa week)allowingthem lit-
tle time for practice, most of the
problems will have to be ironed out
in actual game situations,

Coach Palm is stressing the im-
portance of driving to the hoop and
‘outpositioning the taller opponents
for rebounds. She is hopeful that the
team will be able to incorporate
more of these skills into its plan for
this week's home games.

‘Albany will also have to work for
the better shot as they hit on only
23% of the shots from the fleld
Saturday, while Oswego hit 44% of
their shots. Albany had the advan-
tage on the free throw line, however,
hitting nearly 33% of their foul shots
to 20% of the opponent

The team has its third game this

‘She and Vita Davis provided mostof « week, Thursday, against Bingham~
thehustle, but were unable to get the " ton at the gym, Game time is 6:00

offense moving. Davis had 7 points

p.m,

JANUARY 28, 1975

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

PAGE FIFTEEN

by Les Zuckerman

Go Mel! Go Mel! Go Melt

‘These cries explain the mood of
Saturday's 105-85 Albany victory
over Southem Connecticut; In the
remaining minutes of the contest it
was the State substitutes that won
the applause of the crowd.

Doc Sauers removed his stariing
five with four minutes remainingand
Albany ahead 91-65. In the course of
the action, 5? 10" Mel Brown had the
entire gym on their feet cheering his
acrobatics. The “Mel Brown Show"
featured three consecutive baskets in
A distinguished style,

Brown began hisantics after being
charged with a palming violation at
midcourt. He stood up, silently ex-
ploded, and cautiously bounced the
ball to the referee, Then he took his
revenge.

‘The Owls’ Ray White hit a lay-up
and the inbound pass came to
Brown, He dribbled a ta Marques
Haynes complete with a series of
bounces while lying on his back. Mel
then took off downcourt, stopped at
the foul-line and swished a jumper
through the cords

Following a missed shot by the
Owls, Brown got the ball, and again
he raced the length of the court (this
time with conservative dribbling
techniques). The University Gym
audience was electrified with the
driving shot, Mel capped off the
quence by stealing the ensuing
bound pass at midcourt, racing to
the basket and hitting the layup.

The Iate minute heroics by Brown
overshadowed the excellent in-
dividual performance by Ed John-
son, The sophomore guard shot an

incsedible 12-13 and finished with 28
Points. Asa team, Albany amassed
44 field goals, only four short of a
school record. The Danes’ shooting
percentage was a torrid $9% while
the Owls’ hit a respectable 43% of
their field goals,

When the game began, it seemed
as Albany would be victim to the
same problems that plagued them in.
Tecent contests, The Daries were fac-
ing a tough zone defense and were
forcing their shots from long range.
‘The much taller Connecticut squad
was moving on offense and finding
their forwards underneath for an
easy layup,

‘The Owls fed 13-12 with 13:36
Temaining in the first half when Doc
Sauers called time-out to change his
strategy.

Taller Owls

The taller Ow! forwards were tak-
ing advantage of the Danes. both
offensively and defensively, Sauers
decided to replace Gary Trevite with
Tom Morphis to help rebound,

Morphis was the key to this
tory as he played flawless basketball

in the following four minutes. inthis
period the Danes held the Owls
scoreless as they scored seventeen
points to attain a 29-13 lead, The
Owls couldn't regain their style of
play as the rest of the game appeared
to be an intra-squad  serimm:
Albany's largest lead in the contest
came in thesecond half with an 85-53
advantage.

The decline of the Owls was the
effective shooting of Albany State.
The zone had to be disbanded in
favor of the man-to-man. defense.
‘Then Albany used their quickness to

ale
There was happiness at University Gym Saturday as the Danes broke
out of thelr slump,

State University of New York at Albany

Tuesday, January 28, 1975

stifle Connecticut, The Owls com-
mitted many personal fouls out ‘of
frustration, They couldn't cope with
the Dane fast break and quickly lost
confidence.

‘Tom Morphis was superb on
defense, blocking shots and grab-
bing rebounds. He and Pete Koola
did everything possible to intimidate
the larger Ow! forwards, On offense,
Morphis went 3-4 with seyen points,
Koola had 5-8 for twelve.

The most important statistic was
the turnover ratio as Southern Con-

necticut muffed 27 to only 17 by +

Albany, Most of the Dane turnovers
came in the final four minutes as the
substitutes played sloppily,

The Dane starters Bob Audi and
Mike Suprunowicz added excellent
performances. Audi was noticeable
as he hustled on defense, The corner-
man shot 5-7 for the evening with
twelve points. Suprunowicz was all
over the court, challenging the op-
ponents, He shot 7-12 and finished
next to high scorer Ed Johnson with
sixteen points

Rich Kapner concluded the game
with twelve points and was a strong
point on def:nse. He grabbed loose
rebounds and acted as a floor leader
when ry Trevitt was on the bench,

Although Trevitt did not score, he
played one of his finest games this
season. He took only five shots but
he passed off to his teammates for
easy layups ashe controlled the ball,

iubs’ Kevin Keane and Dave

aanahan contributed four and six
points respectively, Their play was

Conn.

steady and theextra gametimewasa Action in Saturday's Albany Southern Connecticut contest. Albany
won, 105-85.

Pups Extend Streak

welcome chance to prove their abili-
y.

by Mike Piekarski

Squandering an 18-point halftime
ead, the Albany Junior Varsity
basketball squad saw their lead slip
to three points late in the second half
before coming away with an 85-74
victory over Albany Business
College Saturday night at University
Gym.

The win wasthe Pups’ second over
ABC and seventh of the season
against only one setback.

Aubrey Brown
Verdejo were the
ballgame, as they just plain
demolished ABC's defense. Garner
ing 45 points between them, Brown.
with a game and personal high of 25
and Verdejo with 20, and museling in
for rebound, the dynamic duo
appeared unstoppable, And yet, the
Pups had quite a n the second
half and were fortunate 10 emerge

nother victory,
Trade Baskets

The Collegians scored first on a
Dave Halloran hoop before Steve
Pass found Verdejo underneath for a
2-21tie. Brown then hita layup and n
short jumper for a four point Dane
lead before both teams began
trading baskets, ABC went ahead 8-
7 on two quick buckets before
Brown pumped another one in for a
one point advantage. Th: lead
changed hands six more times after
that in the span of three minutesand
it looked like it would be quite a
dogfight, as the Pups lead by a slim

could not find the range and the

Pups reeled off the next twelve
points in a row, parked by Puss and

8 Johnson. Johnson began the
surge by pulling down an offensive
rebound and laying it right back in
for the first score. Hethen fed Verde-
jo and Brown for short jumpers, and
now it was 25-18, Pass then cume to
life and drove in for two pretty
layups sandwiched around Ray Gay
free throws and now the Pups were

the driver's seat with ABC thirteen
tallies in arrears,

Terry Marbley, ABC’s 6'S" center.
who had quitea game with 16 points,
finally ended the streak when he eon-

ed on a 15-footer from the cor-
‘er (0 cut it to eleven, But the losers
were not {0 come even that close
again until much later in the game. A
Gay steal and layup and a Brown 3-
point play gave the Pups a 17 point
cushion at 40-23 as both teams
played even basketball until the end
of the half. Verdejo popped in a 20
foot jumper at the buzzer and the
Pups looked like they were going to
run away with it as they fed 48-30
heading for the lockerroom

Brown had 15 and Verdejo, 14 as
fo less than cight Pups contributed
to the scoring column in that halt:
Couch Lewis has expressed con-
fidence that his bench can do the job
and they certainly have done it.
Lewis substituted quite freely with
‘ho adverse resultsin the first and se-
cond halves as Johnson and Amos
Taylor looked particularly im-
pressive,

The second half started off with a
bang as the Pups scored (wo quick

layups with Brown and Verdejo do-
ing the honors. At this point, with
the hosts ahead by 22, Albany B.C.
started to turn things around, They
began pressing the Pups and it did
wonders as the turnovers began to
add up.

And then the Collegians caught
fire. Marbley got hot and with Jerry
Lawson hitting two jumpers, they
came up with nine consecutive
points, Pass’ bucket from the top of
the key still gave the Pups a comfor-
table fifteen point lead, but not for
long

ABC Comes Back

ABC kept coming back and it was
66-53 when they reeled off eight
more unanswered points; 66-61 and
fingernail-biting time. A pretty
Verdejo to Brown backdoor play
was answered by Marbley and Chris
Coons basketsand now it wasa three
point contest with over six minutes
remaining

Hut Verdejo, Johnson and Brown
picked up buckets and ABC all but
ran out of gas. The Pups now had an
eight point advantage and this time
refused 10 relinquish it. Now it was
76-70 and Johnson took over. A
stea) and driving layup, a couple of
key rebounds, two foul shots, and
assist and a short jumper and it was
all over but the final score.

Johnson ended up with eight big
points down the stretch as the Pups
continued their winning ways with
seemingly always someone new com-
ing off the bench to aid in victory

‘Tomorrow night the Pups will
host Utica with game time 6:30.

Stronger than Buck Rogers, faoter than Flash Gordon, able to leap

tower in « single bound, Captain Marvel made his debut on casmpus leet Friday night.
This semester, for the first time ever on the SUNY A campus a serial, “The Adventures
of Captain Marvel”, will be shown in its original weekly format. . ..

when they died out, killed by television. i bl of on, sd old eg

serials, were produced

‘stiper hero, crime buster, and

Sound serials were produced from the advent of sound flim, up until the mid 50's,

ae

Staff, Library Cut In

by Daniel Gaines

Eighteen positions, including five
faculty, woul! be climinated at
SUNYA if the Legislature passes
Governor Hugh Carey's proposed
budget. released yesterday

SUNYA's proposed budget in-
$1,476,000 represents
mostly mandated increases minus
about a hali-million dollars in cuts.
Tuition and Board increases seem
unlikely

crease of

Reductions include: Faculty and
staff (132,000), lower library acquisi-
tion rate (162,000), and the ex

ted elimination of the Solar

ergy Project ($192,000), a one-
year allocation, according to SASU.

Compared to other parts of the

's budget, Carey's proposal for
SUNY is relatively generous.

SUNY Centra) announced last
spring that SUNYA would have a
no-growth budget, Carey's budget is

consistant with that attitude,
providing for increases in faculty
and students at the other University
Centers but not SUNYA
Vice-President for Mai
and Planning, John Harth
was “very disippointed
dicated that the allotments for
Albany were not unexpected.
‘One bright spot in the proposed
budget is that it would give Albany

the owest faculty-student ratio

Committee and Governor
May Ease Pot Penalties

by Edward Moser

Campus heads may take some
pleasure in two current. polit
happenings, both of which have to
do with the possible elimination or

ring down of criminal penalties

for the use of marijuan

First, the New York State
Assembly Committee on Codes
plans to hold apen hearings ta dis-
cuss the tough anti-drug laws passed
in 1973 under the guidance af former
Governor Rockfeller. The Com:
mittee is a sort of watchdog on
legislation; from time to time it
reviews the effectiveness of laws
enacted in the past

Secondly, Governor Hugh Carey
sid Wednesdayhe was considering
the easing of penalties for marijuana
usage

Witnesses at the Codes Com-
mittee hearings can be expected to
raise many questions as 10 the
Rockefeller legistation’seffect on the
criminal justice system itself, Take,

for example, the plea bargaining
aspect of the present law. ‘Those
brought up on drug abuse charges
are severely limited gs to the extent
in which they and their lawyers can
bargain for more Jenient sentences,
The result, some claim, hasbeen that
alleged abusers stay in court (0 the
bitter end of their trials, and thus
flood the court system with extru
y also object to the
emphasis on a single class of crimes;
they fear that the unusually heavy
penalties slapped on drug offenders
distort the just
The drug law's influen
ty as a whale will also be studied.
Committee witnesses will try to find
out if harsher sentences deter di

cases, M:

e system.
‘on socie-

has been effective

ough in increasing the number of

arrests of drug pushers during the
last year.

Ie would also be interesting to

know whether the number of drug

‘Above: Acting Station Manger Eric Gold:

“transmitters are aged.” Below: Former manager Pat McGlynn. He
believes a “near full-time” advisor could alleviate many of WSUA's

problems,

addicts is decreasing and whether the
present law seares away those who
might provide information on illegal
narcoties deals

In addition, there's little doubt
that some committee members
themselves will propose abolishing
penalties for the possession and use
of marijuana, — ‘The N.Y, Times
reported Wednesday that Governor
Hugh Carey was “considering the
removal of cri
possession of small amounts of mari-
juana.” The Governor seemed to in-

two panels he had a

pointed to study drug abuse were go-
ing to alter the 1973 kaw to a large
degree

Last October, ata SASU con-
ference during the race for the gover-
norship, then candidate Carey said
that if the state legislature were to
pass a bill deeriminalizing mari-
juan, he would sign the bill into law

In regards to the time and place of
the Cades Committee hearings, in=

FSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY

ina fifteen year period from 1935 to 1958, ..
i ster of ie SH Ge eave om SOM OU eee Ue oe

ee iarvel Rises from Dead by Todd Allen on Page 3A.

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VOL LXil NO.3__JANUARY 91,1978

Carey Budget

among the developed state schools,
with 15,6/1, Last year SUNYA had
15.5/1 while Stony Brook had
15.3/1, Stony Brook now hus
15.7/1

SUNY had asked for an 87
million dollar inerease in the stat
wide budget. which would have
brought the present 609 million to
700 million proposal
supplies a 37.2 million dollar in-
ereaye

Certain student tuition. waivers
will be eliminated SUNY wide, The
Civil Servant contract is not final
and is not included in this budget.
Money for this would come from
supplemental funds later.

Carey's budget would boost state
spending by nearly a billion dollars
and would be financed by inereases
in income, business, liquorand other
taxes, including a ten-cent gasoline
ta,

Marijuana: Sold In liquor stor

terested SUNYA ‘students will find
the opening February 1% meeting
most convenient to attend. 1 will
take place in the Executive Office
Building. in downtown Albany, at

10:00 a.m,

The other scheduled meetings will
uke pliee in New York City on
February 20, aad in Bullato, on
February 28.

WSUA Forced Off the Air;
Equipment Breakdown Blamed

by David Winzelberg
he campus vadio station WSUA,

lett the air last Friday due to

malfunctioning equipment.

The station has been broadcasting
with dated equipment needing fre~
quent repair for some time. Eric
Goldstein, who has been with
WSUA fora year and. half (becom-
ing Acting Station Manager just a
few Gays ago), said: “Our
transmitters are aged, it's difficult 10
keep them on the air." Goldstein
feels that repairs will be made soon
and that the station will resume
broadcasting in “ten days to two
weeks”

The problems of the station stem
from the cost of the repairs needed
on each transmitter in order to
restore a good signal to all five
quads. Pat McGlynn, Goldstein's
predecessor as Station Manager, ex-
plains that the transmitters are
“highly complex equipment" requir
ing experienced engineers to repair
them properly; however, the cost of
hiring professional maintenance for

the equipment is prohibitive
MeGilynn explained: “The cost for
gelling the five transmitters working
with a good signal would probably
exceed tha station’s present budget.”
MeGlynn, retired Station
Managerats of this week believes that
the station could alleviate many of
its problems under a different
system, He favors the addition of “a
fulltime faculty advisor with
station experience or a professional
station manager” to help the existing,
student staff
Although each year there is an
abundance of volunteers for WSUA,
a kind of apathy seems to have
developed
station’s staff as wel
The apathy is largely a result of the
station's failure so far to land their
clusive FM license. Joel Feld, the
station's Program Director,believes
that “the chances are much im-
proved” to get the license. WSUA is
considering hiring Educational FM
Associttes, a firm which aids radio
stations in getting their FM licenses.

among some of the
its audience,

Last year the same firm helped the
station at Union College go FM,

Since leaving the ait last we
there have been questions raised
concerning the future of the station,
Student Association Vice-President
Ira Birnbaum said, “Central Council
should use careful consideration
before continuing the operation of
the station. It seems to me that many
people in this University don't care
about the station, one way or the
other Some Central Council
proposals are to move WSUA off-
campus, operate the station on a
reduced budget or to form a com>
mittee to run it

Some station workers claim there
has been administrative foot dragg-
ing in regard tothe FM license, The
say that their FM application is
slow-moving because it
up in bureaucratic red tape, and
should be given the full attention it
deserves,

Nevertheless, current
stutfers are mectingthis week to sticle
the injured station back togsth.

station

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