Albany Student Press, Volume 78, Number 1, 1991 January 25

Poeiry, cartoons
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Albany mobilizes against Klan appearance

By Kerri Lewis
NEWS EDITOR

A counter rally was held to
organize the community against
the scheduled appearance of the
Ku Klux Klan at The Capitol on
Sunday at 2:00.

According to Frank Pogue, the
Vice-President of the NAACP in
Albany, over 300 people showed
up to voice their opposition to
the Ku Klux Klan’s appearance.

Overall, he said, about 25 to
30 groups were represented.

“The people you see out here
today,” Pogue said, “are the
people you see whenever there is
aneed for community action.”

He also said the demonstration
was organized to counteract
“violence in general” rather than
a focused attack on the Klan.

“The Klan is a symbol of what
we don’t want in our
community,” he said.

Pogue added, “We have to be
concerned about-violence in all
forms as it effects all of us.” He
listed homelessness and poverty
as examples of other forms of
violence.

Jim Lukaszewski, Jr. ASP

Two men plead for a peaceful protest with incensed demonstrators after an egg was thrown at professed Ku
Klux Klan member Ron Demers (middle left with beard).

Vera Michaelson, from the
Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism
declared to the crowd gathered
before her, “The Ku Klux Klan is
not welcome in Albany.”

“In times of crisis,” she said,
“good things~do happen,”
referring to the large turnout
against the Klan.

Paul Greenberg from the New
Jewish Agenda compared the

hatred many feel the Klan
represents to the hatred
expressed by the Nazis during
the time of the Holocaust.
Crowd member Born Allah
responded, “There they go with

that Holocaust again.”

Allah said it angers him to see
“these type Of people of
Caucasian and Jewish faith” try
and steal a culture that isn’t
theirs,

“The Jews,” he added, “are in
the Middle East propagating the
war.”

In opposition to Allah’s
comments, another protester,
Andrew Feffer said, “The Klan
has a broad distribution of hate.
A lot of people in this audience,
blacks and whites, feel this is a
movement of solidarity.”

Dan Stumac, a
representative from Skinheads
Against Racial Prejudice said he
opposes the Klan‘s»presence in
Albany because of the hatred.
they represent.

Stumac also said he resents
that “Most people take for
granted skinheads are racist and
won’t come up and talk to us.”

The purpose of his group, he
said, is to take an active stand
against racism and many
people’s assumptions about

Protesters accuse
police of brutality

By Theo Turque =
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Eleven protesters who were arrested while taking part in an anti-
war rally met with Albany Chief of Police, John Dale, this morning}
ito file 2 formal complaint against police officers of the Division Il)
Albany Police Department who allegedly verbally and physically
lassaulted them at the time of their arrest, said Jim Pittman, one of the}
Iprotesters involved in filing the complaint and a former SUNYA
student.

According to Laura Spaccavento, a SUNYA student and one of the
protesters who made the allegations, thousands of people attended
the protest which was held at the Leo J. O’Brien Federal Building in

According to Laura Spaccavento, a SUNYA student and one of the!
protesters who made the allegations, thousands of people attended
ithe protest which was held at the Leo J. O’Brien Federal Building in
downtown Albany on January 17.

About twenty-five of the protesters marched down to the comer o}
Lark Street and Washington Avenue where twelve of them, including}
Spaccavento, Pittman and another SUNYA student, Sarah Arkin;}
held hands and sat in the intersection blocking traffic as an act of|
civil disobedience, Spaccavento said.

The alleged police brutality occurred when police arrived to arrest
the protesters.

Lieutenant Wolfgang of the Albany Police Department said|
lanyone who wishes to complain about the incident can complain to
Internal Affairs.

“To the contrary, we had people complimenting the police on the|
night of the incident,” Wolfgang said.

However, the protesters claim the police were abusive while!
arresting and booking the protesters.

According to the protesters the police made derogatory remarks|
and ethnic slurs to the protesters while they were being arrested,

- Pittman said a police officer told him, “We Should have beat the!

Continued on page 9

Continued on page 7

SUNYA combats state budget woes

By Tom Murnane
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

In order to reduce the state’s budget deficit the
State Legislature and the SUNY Board of Trustees
have approved a $150 mid-year tuition increase
and a $100 cut from both Regents and TAP
scholarships this semester,

The cuts in Regents scholarships combined with
cuts in students’ TAP awards are expected to save
the state $17.3 million, while the tuition hike for
the spring term is expected to increase revenues by
$16 million, according to a report in The Times
Union.

Since recipients of Regents scholarships received
$125 of the $250 scholarships in the fall, they will
Union.

Since recipients of Regents scholarships received
$125 of the $250 scholarships in the fall, they will

only get $25 for the spring semester, according toa
source at SUNY Central.

The TAP awards adjustments were explained ina
letter that was sent to all SUNYA students on
January 10 from Director of Student Accounts Lia
Catalano.

Don Whitlock, head of the Financial Aid Office,
said he was surprised that there have not been as
many phone calls to his office as he originally
suspected. He said he felt the letter, “did an
excellent job of putting to rest the concerns many
students and parents probably had.”

“It is important to note,” Whitlock said, “that
those receiving maximum TAP awards, covering

“It is important to note,” Whitlock said, “that
those receiving maximum TAP awards, covering

Continued on page 7

Adam Pratomo UPS

Students are finding their TAP & Regents scholarships $100 less than anticipated and tuition $150 more.

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Activist on trial

Beijing , China
(AP) A Chinese people’s court on
Wednesday put on trial Wang Dan, the
most-wanted student leader of the 1989
pro-democracy movement that. was
crushed by Communist authorities.

Wang is at least the 25th activist to be
tried or sentenced this month as the
government tries to wrap up such cases
while the world is preoccupied with the
war in the Persian Gulf. Wang, 23, has
been jailed 19 months.

His name topped the list of the 21 most-
wanted student leaders after the
democracy movement was put down in an
army assault across Beijing on June 4,
1989. Hundreds of people were killed.

Wang was arrested the next month
while meeting with a Tawainese reporter
to ask for help in fleeing China.

A small notice announcing Wang’s trial
was posted outside the Beijing
Intermediate People’s Court. It said he
was charged with “counter-revolutionary
propaganda and incitement.” the charge
most frequently used against political
prisoners.

Court officials refused to say if Wang’s
family is allowed to attend the trial, which
was Closed to the public. Six Hong Kong
university students who arrived Monday
in Beijing in hopes of observing political
trials visited a court office but were turned
away.

Rubles worthless

Moscow, U.S.S.R.
(AP) Soviets have grumbled for years that
shortages and inflation has made their
tubles nearly worthless.

Their complaints became reality late
Tuesday when President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev announced he was pulling out
of circulation the green 50-ruble and tan
100-ruble notes.

By dawn Wednesday, long lines had
formed at banks in Moscow, Leningrad
and other cities with Soviets anxious to
cash in their high-denomination ruble
notes so that they are not left with
worthless pieces of paper.

“My friend called meslast night, and her
90-year-old mother was in tears,” said a
woman who stopped by a bank near the
Kiev railroad station.

“She saved 2,000 rubles ($3,224) in an
envelope for her own funeral,” said the
woman.

Under government decree, any large
denomination bills not turned in by
Saturday are worthless. Anybody who

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tries to turn in more than his monthly
salary is to be questioned about where the
money came from.

NATION &

Abortion outlawed

Salt Lake City, Utah
(AP) The Utah Senate on Wednesday
passed a tough anti-abortion that the
governor promises to sign despite a legal
battle promised by abortion rights
advocates.

The Senate voted 23-5 in favor of the
bill, which would outlaw most abortions
in Utah. The legislation goes to the House
Health Committee on Thursday and the
full house probably by Friday.

The bill was expected to win House
passage. Seventy percent of Utah
residents and and 90 percent of the 104
state lawmakers belong to the Mormon
Church, which considers abortion a
grievous sin except in the most dire
medical circumstances.

Majority Whip Lane Beattie said the
bill “has a great deal of interest to the
unborn.”

“At what time does the unborn child
have rights?” he asked. But Sen. Karen
Shepherd, one of the five dissenting
Democrats in the Republican-dominated
Senate, said the law would cost the state
millions of dollars.

AIDS case settled

West Palm Beach, Florida
(AP) A woman believed to be one of the
first patients to be infected with AIDS by

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a health-care worker has won a $1 million
settlement against her dentist’s insurer.

The settlement by CNA Insurance Co.
Tuesday followed a report by the federal
Centers for Disease Control last week that
Kimberly Bergalis, as well as two other
patients, probably contracted the AIDS
virus while being treated by Dr. David
Acer of Stuart.

The CDC said genetic tests show Ms.
Bergalis, 23, probably was infected by
Acer while he removed her wisdom teeth
in December 1987, either through blood-
to-blood contact or because dental tools
were contaminated.

The Fort Pierce woman’s attorney, Bob
Montgomery, alleged that CNA should
have known had AIDS and barred him
from doing surgery before issuing him the
$1 million dental malpractice insurance
policy.

Dennis Vandenburg, a Jupiter attorney
who represented CNA Insurance, would
not comment on the settlement.

Acer never told his patients he had the
disease, and he died in September of
AIDS-related cancer. Days later, Ms.
Bergalis decided to make her case public
to prevent others from sharing her fate.

STATE &

Investors skeptical

New York
(AP) Stock prices staged a moderate
advance today as traders cautiously
awaited developments in the Persian Gulf
war.

After an outburst of encouragement last
week over signs of initial success in the
war against Iraq, the markets have quieted
down considerably in the past few days.

Analysts said many investors were now
inclined to await tangible signs of how the
conflict is going and how long it is likely
to last.

At the same time, brokers noted
tentative hopes for an improved economic
outlook later in 1991.

Repercussions felt

Albany
(AP) A suspension of New York’s land
acquisition program should be blamed on
voter’s rejection of the environmental
bond act, not on the Cuomo
administration, Environmental
Conservation Commissioner Thomas
Jorling said Wednesday.

“The people spoke. As much as it hurts,
we have to abide by the expression of the
electorate,” said Jorling, as he defended
Goy. Mario Cuomo’s decision not to fund
any state land purchases in the near future.

Jorling said he couldn’t blame the
defeat of the $2 billion bond act only on
its funding of land acquisition. “But there
were some consistent themes across the
state that suggested that at least that
program wasn’t sufficient to persuade the
people that it should go forward,” he said.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1991 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

"Lag payroll" angers SUNYA faculty members

Teru Kuwayama UPS

By Cindy Chin
STAFF WRITER

In an attempt to alleviate New
York State’s budget problems, a
"lag payroll” proposal has been
passed which will affect all state
workers.

The “lag payroll” means all
state employees will lose 1 day’s
pay out of every 2

spread it evenly so those who
earn more should give more. The
loss should depend on your
salary,” Pichardo said.

“This state’s in a big mess,”
Pichardo said, “something’s got
to be done.”

Other University professors
also said they think it’s a big

furlough did not pass because it
was found to be a violation of
contracts.

“A furlough would be worse
because it would take money
away permanently,” said Ivan
Steen, President of the Albany
Chapter of the United University
Professors and Associate
Professor in the

week pay period for
the next 10 weeks
Ken Goldfarb of
SUNY Central said.
In essence,
Goldfarb said, one

“Tt puts a burden on a particular class of
people to solve a state’s fiscal problems”

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department.
“Lag payroll is

not a solution,

—Nelson Pichardo it’s a quick-fix

for the state,”

week’s salary will
be withheld until the employee
retires or ends their services with
the state.

“It puts a burden on a
particular class of people to
solve a state’s fiscal problems,”
said Nelson Pichardo, professor
of sociology at SUNYA.

Pichardo said he is not totally
opposed to this idea, however he
would like it to work in a more

Sociology Professor Nelson Pichardo's future paychecks will be less one °uitable fashion.

day's pay out of ten worked under a recently passed “lag payroll” law.

“We should find a way to

burden for those who receive
lower salaries. ~

“T can afford to lose 5 days,”
said Christopher J. Smith,
SUNYA professor of geography,
“but I’m not sure others can.”

“Lag payroll is not a desirable
alternative,” Smith said.

Before the “lag payroll”
proposal the governor had
initially asked for a 5-day
furlough which would mean a 5-
day leave without pay. The

Steen said.

Steen said this will probably
have a great effect in the
University.

“If we keep cutting staff and
not improving conditions, people
will not be coming to this
school,” Steen said.

“We’re trying to cooperate
where we can but be
reasonable,” Steen said, “but
people are getting discouraged
because job security is no longer
there.”

Threat of terrorism curtails students’ plans to study in Israel

By Tanya Egnuss
STAFF WRITER

The SUNYA study abroad program has
been altered for the spring semester as a
result of the war in the Persian Gulf, said
Christine McKnight, spokeswoman for
the University Relations office.

“The program to Israel was cancelled
on January 11, 1991 as per the travel alert
issued by the U.S. State Department,”
McKnight said. Americans were
discouraged by State Dept. officials from
travelling to the Middle East due to
hostilities in that region of the world.

The Israel program is the only one that
has been cancelled, said Dr. Alex Shane,
director of the Foreign Study Abroad
Program. This decision was made in
consultation with the State Department,
he stated.

Eleven students were affected by the
cancellation of the Israel program.
University officials would not disclose the
names of these students. However they
did say three students signed up, yet never
went overseas, five students went abroad
but have returned and three other students
were in Israel as carry overs from last
semester. Of the three students,
University officials said two students
were expected to leave Israel this week
while the other student chose to remain in
Israel with family.

Students participating in the Israel isay,

abroad program attend one of three
universities: Hebrew University, Tel Aviv
University or Haifa University, Shane
said.

Aside from the Israel program, 133
SUNYA students are scheduled to study

abroad under programs administered by
SUNYA Shane said. An additional 25-30
students are supposed to participate in
study abroad programs by other SUNY
schools.

This semester SUNYA students are
participating in foreign study abroad
programs in Spain, England, Japan, Costa
Rica, Germany, China, and France.

Shane sent a letter of precaution to all
students attending programs terrorist
attacks. Students were also warned to be

= discreet i in public. Being American could

cause unsolicited complications the letter
stated. Any outward or typical American
behavior, such as wearing logos on
clothing and expressing one’s nationality
should be avoided.

Shane also stated in the letter that
students should spend as little time as

possible in large tourist destinations, fast
food establishments, foreign branches of
American banks, and other places
predominantly frequented by large groups
of Americans.

Students were warned by Shane to be
wary of suspicious persons, and were told
they should never disclose their address or
phone number to new acquaintances.
Parcels and suitcases should not be left
unattended and random packages should
be called into appropriate authorities to
deal with Shane stated. He also warned
students about driving cars for other
people, especially across national borders.
Shane informed students to notify the host
university officials about their
whereabouts especially if they chose to
travel, in case of any emergencies.

Budget crisis could lead to
possible campus closings

By Dayid Bauder
Associated Press

being considered because of the state's financial distress,
but only as a last resort, SUNY Chancellor D. Bruce
Johnstone said Thursday.

It’s the first time the possibility of shutting down any
of the 64 campuses in the nation’s largest university
system has been talked about to help deal with this
budget crisis. Officials have estimated the state faces a
deficit of more than $4 billion for the budget year that
begins in April.

Johnstone said the discussions al Gov. Mario Cuomo’s
budget division have specified campuses, but that SUNY
officials hayen’t participated in the talks.

“My position has been publicly...that campus closure is
‘an absolute last resort if it can ever be financially useful,
« Johnstone said. “I would very much hope that it can be
avoided.” He refused to identify what campuses are
being considered for closing.

However, sources both inside and outside state
government said campuses being considered are the
Maritime College in the Bronx and the College of
Optometry in Manhattan. Sources say two other
programs are also on the potential “hit list:” The dental

campus of the Syracuse Health Science Center.
Cuomo is to present his proposed budget next Friday.
His budget office would not asc: potential ore
closings.
“There aré many areas of the brener that are still
open,” said Cuomo budget spokeswoman | Claudia

Continued on page 9

State University of New York campus closings are

school at SUNY Stony Brook and a Binghamton satellite

Bomb scare interrupts final exams

By Jim Lukaszewski, Jr.
STAFF WRITER

“Shut up! I puta bomb in the LC’s. Don’t you dare
tell anybody,” was all a caller said to the Albany Student
Press’ Business Manager, Douglas Reinowitz, on
December 21, the last day of finals.

According to John Henighan, Assistant Director of
Public Safety, similar calls were made at about 10:40 am
to the President’s office, to the Dean of Undergraduate
Studies, and to WXXA television.

In what Public Safety is treating as a related incident,
a fire was started at 11:33 am in a garbage can in the
men’s bathroom near LC 7, Henighan said.

Thomas Rinaldi, a fire safety specialist on campus
said,” That was an arson fire...as far as cause and origin.”

A witness saw a male student pull a fire alarm,
according to Henighan, which resulted in an evacuation
of the lecture center. Police and firepersons arrived on
the scene within minutes. According to Henighan, no
one was hurt leaving the LC’s.

Vice President of Student Affairs Mitchel D.
Livingston said no professors invalidated or rescheduled
their final exams which were disrupted by the alarm.
“That’s an independent faculty matter,” he said.

“There’s very little question that it’s the same person,”
Henighan said. “We see this happening occasionally
during finals...it’s not unusual.” He said that no one has
been arrested yet and an investigation is still underway.

Bomb threats are lumped with other false alarms by
university police into a category called “Falsely
Reporting An Incident”, according to Henighan. In
1989 there was a total of 114 of these false reports.
Henighan said he believes the ten to twelve well
publicized arrests were responsible for the number of
false reports being reduced to 66 in 1990. -

Continued on page 9

Jim Lukaszzwski, Jr. ASP
Firefighters use a large fan to dissipate smoke from afire
set In the men's room near LC 7. Less than an hour before
the fire four offices received calls from a male claiming he
put a bomb in the LCs,

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Martin Luther King Day celebrated

By Joel Bucher

To commemorate Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, the NY
State Martin Luther King Jr.
Commission organized a march
from St. Peter’s Episcopal
Church to the Empire State Plaza
Convention Center, where a
program featuring key speakers
Harry Belafonte, Chairman of
the NY State Martin Luther King
Jr. Commission and Maria Kay
followed.

Marchers expressed their
disappointment with the small
tumout. “I'd hope that next year
there will be many more
thousands rather than hundreds
marching in honor of Martin
Luther King Jr.,” one marcher
said.

However, in addition to the
banners denouncing racism and
advocating social reform, posters
held by marchers also protested
the presence of American troops
in the Middle East.

One marcher said, “Both
issues (Middle East crisis and
racism) are tied together. Racism
means there are more black
soldiers in the American forces.
And that we are putting money
into war rather than health care,
housing and other things we
need here at home. There is a
connection really, you can’t
mention one issue and not the
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Among the organizations
represented at the march were
the Solidarity Union, AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power

(ACT-UP), NYS Higher
Education, the National
Association for the

Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), Delta Mu Omega,
State University of New York
and the Unitarian Social
Responsibilities Council.

The program which followed
opened with speaker Harry
Belafonte asking for continued
peaceful demonstrations in the
tradition of Martin Luther King
Jr.’s legacy.

“We share the struggles for a
good life and in this struggle we
find dreamers and doers,”
Belafonte continued. “Dreamers
show us the promised land and
doers help us get there. Martin
Luther King Jr. was a dreamer
and a doer,” he said.

Belafonte also commented on
American policy in the Middle
East, “Yet again our young
valiant men and women are
asked to give their lives on
foreign soil to fulfill the dreams
of those who have commanded
them to do so.”

“In a world in need of
civilized, non-violent existence,
no such tyranny (Declaration of
War on Iraq) can be condoned,”
Belafonte said.

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“T know that there are those
who would consider any
challenge or questioning to the
war in the Middle East as an
unreasonable, insensitive
consideration for those sons and
daughters, husbands and wives,
mothers and fathers, who sit on
the front lines of this dread
conflict,” Belafonte said. “To
challenge this war would be even
more unacceptable to the faces
of those families who are already
grieving the loss of many great
participants who have been
killed or are missing in action,”
he said.

However, Belafonte also said,
“it is precisely these conditions
that command the voices of
greater reason be heard and
headed. In the words of a great
American and Jew, the only
unforgivable sin is silence in the
face of injustice.”

While Belafonte spoke a
petition was passed around the
convention center calling for the
pull out of American troops in
the Middle East and asking for
the allocation of monies to help
curb unemployment and fund
social reform programs.

The program also included
musical and dance presentations
by local groups. NY State
Governor Mario Cuomo and
Matilda Cuomo were among
other speakers who read excerpts
from speeches Martin Luther
King Jr. made.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
By John King
(AP) Iraq’s elusive air force
showed signs of life yesterday and
sent two warplanes along the
Saudi coast carrying the feared
Exocet anti-ship missiles. Both
fighters were promptly shot down.

Iraq mocked the allies for
failing to launch a ground
offensive, but allied commanders
said they would stick to their game
plan and intensify the around-the-
clock air strikes on Iraq and
occupied Kuwait.

The U.S. Navy scored a victory
in the northern Persian Gulf,
taking 51 Iraqis prisoner on a tiny
Kuwaiti island and sinking an
Iraqi minesweeper, American
officials reported. They said a
second minesweeper exploded and
sank, apparently after hitting a
mine while trying to escape.

Three Iraqis were killed on
Qaruh Island yesterday in the
latest action by the U.S. Navy

Allied attacks

for the benefit of public opinion,
with bombing from high
altitudes,” the news agency said.

Tt quoted Saddam as saying the
battle would be decided by Iraq’s
superior will power and patience.
“Tt is only a matter of time before
the enemy becomes convinced it
has done all it can and that the
Traqis are determined to confront it
and triumph over it,” he was
quoted as saying.

The news agency said that as of
Tuesday, “only 90” Iraqi troops
had been killed by the punishing
allied bombing of Iraq and
Kuwait. The allies have not
released casualty figures from the
aerial bombardment.

The dogfight that downed two
Traqi warplanes over the northern
Persian Gulf yesterday was one of
the few such engagements of the
war and the first report of an Iraqi
attempt to enter Saudi airspace.

Military officials in Dhahran
said a Saudi pilot flying a U.S.-

along the Kuwaiti coast, where
Iraqis have been sowing mines
and installing anti-aircraft
weapons on oil platforms.

The United States and Britain
each lost a warplane on
Wednesday night. The American
pilot was saved in a dramatic
rescue after his jet was disabled by
ground fire and he ejected over the
guif.

The Republican Guards, the
backbone of the Iraqi armed
forces, are a self-contained
military force with infantry, air
defense, tanks, artillery,
intelligence, special operations
forces and medical and logistics
support.

“We are hitting them with all
assets available to us,” U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Greg Pepin said. He
estimated that more than 150,000
of the guards are “well dug in” in
Kuwait and southern Iraq.

Cavalry skirmishes on the border

The sorties are inflicting heavy
damage on the guards, U.S. pilots
and military commanders said
yesterday, but neither provided
casualty figures.

The allied tactics call for
“softening up” the Iraqi forces
from the air before trying to eject
them from Kuwait by ground.

The number of allied ‘sorties
passed 15,000 yesterday Pepin
said. Allied sources in Dhahran
said the U.S.-led coalition wants to
pick up the pace, perhaps flying
3,000 missions a day if the skies
remain clear.

In addition, Pentagon sources
said yesterday that U.S.
submarines, operating from the
depths of the Mediterranean and
Red seas, are continuing to fire
Tomahawk cruise missiles at
targets inside Iraq.

Iraq has been parading its
POWs in an apparent effort to
boost morale at home. Yesterday
Baghdad radio broadcast
interviews with men it described
as two captured American and one
captured Italian airmen.

Poor broadcast reception made
their statements, monitored in
Cyprus, largely inaudible, but the
Americans identified themselves
as Col. David William Eberly and
Lt. Lawrence Randolph Blake, 26,
a carrier pilot. The interviewer
quoted Eberly as saying “many
pilots are expressing their
opposition to this war.”

There was no way of telling if
the pilots were speaking under
duress.

Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said
Wednesday in Washington that air

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attacks would intensify along
supply routes and lines of
communications around the Iraqi
city of Basra, near the gulf and
Kuwaiti border, in an attempt to
strangle the Iraqi army in Kuwait.

Despite the crushing allied air
assault, Saddam Hussein
reportedly visited his troops on the
front lines in southern Iraq and
Kuwait on Wednesday.

The official Iraqi News Agency
said Saddam’s commanders
discussed the latest developments
in the war with their commander-
in-chief, then mocked the allies,
saying they fear a ground war.

“The commanders said that
because of his (the enemy’s)
cowardice and fear of combat with
the land forces, the enemy tried to
avoid establishing any serious
contact...and preoccupied itself,

made F-15 shot down two Iraqi
Mirage F-1 fighter jets.

“] just rolled in behind them and
shot them down,” said the pilot,
who was identified only as Capt.
Ayedh.

A Saudi military spokesman,
Col. Ahmed  al-Robayan,
described it as “an intense
dogfight over the coast” in which
two Saudi F-15s tangled with two
Iraqi F-1 Mirages and one of the
Saudi pilots shot down both Iraqi
planes.

“We believe this is the first air
battle of the war to produce a
double Kill by a single pilot,” he
said.

Al-Robayan said the Iraqi
planes, loaded with Exocet
missiles and probably bombs,
were shot down 12 miles inside
Saudi territorial waters at 12:35
p-m. The dangerous Exocets are
used against ships.

War hits home for students

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
(AP) U.S. armored cavalrymen skirmished
with Iraqis in the first firefight along the
northern border, where vast fleets of tanks
maneuvered and dug in on the desert floor
Wednesday for the land war just over the
horizon.
The Americans captured six Iraqis and
suffered two slight casualties, the U.S.

By Peter James Spielmann

United Nations (AP) - For the first time
since the Persian Gulf war broke out, the
Security Council met in private yesterday,
responding to five Arab countries that seek
a cease-fire in the spreading conflict.

The 15-nation council heard reports from
ithe United States, Britain and France on the
|war’s progress.

Jran is formulating its own peace plan,
lwhich would have the council signal it s
willingness to declare a truce if Iraq agrees
to retreat.

Jranian diplomats said Iraqi withdrawal
Imust be the first concrete step.

“First we have to have the assurance that
ithe Tragis have decided to withdraw from
Kuwait,” Tehran’s ambassador, Kamal
Kharrazi, emphasized, “ “and therefore I will
lemphasize that as a first step, Iraq has to
declare its intention to withdraw from

Kuwait.”
The council has not met as a whole on the

command said. It denied a Baghdad claim
that the Iraqis also seized prisoners.

Iraq fired off a double-barreled volley of
Scud missiles at both Saudi Arabia and
Israel.

One Scud descended on northern Israel
about 10 p.m. and was intercepted by U.S.-
supplied Patriot defense missiles, the Israeli
military said.

aS
UN reaffirmation - lraqis must withdraw

war since bombing began Jan. 16.

America, Britain, France and the Soviet
Union have fought to keep the council from
convening publicly unless Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein agrees to withdraw his
troops from Kuwait and restore the emir’s
government, as demanded by Security
Council resolutions.

“We stand waiting for a positive response}
from Saddam Hussein to our suggestions,
and we haven’t received any so far,” Soviet
Ambassador Valentin Lozinski commented.

It did not appear the request for a council
meeting by Morocco, Libya, Tunisia,|
Mauritania and Algeria would win enough
support for a public meeting to be held.

The five North African Arab countries
want the Security Council to declare a
cease-fire so Saddam can withdraw his
troops in safety from Kuwait, which Iraq
invaded on Aug. 2. Arab nations would
send in a peacekeeping force to replace the

: Pepperell, Massachusetts
(AP) The Persian Gulf war moved from

eighth-grade class when students learned
two of their Marine pen pals were among
U.S. airmen apparently captured by Iraq.

"It brought it home even more to them
that this is something very Serious, and
they’re not detached from it,” said their
teacher, Tricia Erwin.

Lt Col. Clifford M. Acree, 39, and Chief
‘Warrant Officer Guy L. Hunter, Jn, 46, are
lamong the five U.S. airmen identified in
Iraqi television broadcasts as captured allied
ipilots.

television screens into the lives of an Varnum Brook Middle School se

_ Acree was commander of a Marine
Observation Squadron to which students al

and gifts after the unit was sent to Saudi
Arabia from Camp Pendleton, Calif., Mrs.
‘Erwin said.

Acree wrote back, sent photos of
Squadron members, thanked the a
and described the unit’s role. _

“Every part of your care perkage: Were|

Out to: good use ‘by the Marines,” Acree)

Wrote. “It is very encouraging to know that
America’s funire leaders are fully aware of
this crisis and Spe us in such a positive!
fashion,”

Iraqis.

Bush:No pause for Saddam

Washington, D.C.
(AP) President Bush said
Wednesday night the war
against Saddam Hussein is
“right on schedule” and will
be unrelenting. “There can
be no pause now that
Saddam has forced the
world into war,” Bush said.

The president said allied
bombing attacks had
knocked out many Iraqi
airfields, given the United
States air superiority and
“put Saddam out of the

nuclear bomb-building
business for a long time to
come,” Bush, speaking to an
audience of retired military
officers, said.

“I am pleased to report
that Operation Desert Storm
is right on schedule.”

Military officials wamed,
however, that Jraq’s military
machine rémains strong
despite intense allied
attacks. “We’re dealing with
an enemy that is resourceful,
an enemy that knows how to
work around problems, an

enemy that is ingenious,”
said Gen. Colin Powell,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.

“There can be no doubt:
Operation Desert Storm is
working. There can be no
pause now that Saddam has
forced the world into war.
We will stay the course,” he
said.

Bush added, “No one
should weep for this tyrant
when he is brought to
justice. No one, anywhere in
the world.”

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At 3:00, an hour after the Klan
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up the Capitol steps.

Ron Demers, who has been a
Klan member for 2 years, told
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[By Hope Morrow

EWS EDITOR

SUNYA was able to save
approximately $207,400 by
closing down the campus for
sixteen days over intersession,
Joel Blumenthal of University
[Relations said.

University President H.
Patrick Swygert said the money
saved due to shutting down most
lof the campus during
intersession was one of the
reasons SUNYA was able to

SUNY Albany saves money over break

avoid layoffs during the current
fiscal year despite the additional
budget cuts.

The savings were a
combination of lower utility
costs and payroll savings.

The shutdown which saved the
school $9,876 per day for a total
of $163,000 in utility costs since
the campus used less than half of
the energy usually expended
during past intersessions, a press
telease stated.

Approximately $44,400 was
saved in payroll costs, the

release stated. Swygert attributed
the savings to widespread
support from SUNYA|
employees of the shutdown.
“More than 98 percent off
employees participated,” the|
Telease stated.

The press release also stated|
payroll savings resulted from
employees voluntarily using)
accrued leave time which)
allowed for most campus
facilities to be closed as well-as|
having employees who hold]
temporary service jobs not work.

Police

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shit out of you.”

According to Pittman, a
physical assault occurred when
one of the officers put a protester
in plastic handcuffs, Pittman said
the protester told the officers
several times that the handcuffs
were too tight on his wrists and

asked police to loosen them but
the police officer refused.

When the police finally
removed the handcuffs at the
police station, Pittman said the
protesters’ hands were a “deep
blue color” and numb. “He told
me he had no feeling in either of
his hands all night,” Pittman
said.

Another incident of alleged
physical abuse occurred while
one of the protesters was in the
process of being bailed out of

jail. According to Pittman, who
heard the confrontation from his
jail cell, one of the protesters got
up off of a bench to get his jacket
and a police officer asked,
“Where the hell do you think
you’re going,” grabbed his shirt
collar and threw him back down
on the bench.

“They called us traitors and
asked if we were gay...they said
they’d rather beat us than arrest
us,” Pittman said.

Fines were issued to all
protesters who were arrested and
they all had to post bail.

According to Spaccavento,
depending on whether or not the
protesters resisted arrest by
“going limp”, fines ranged from
$125 to $400 and bail was set
between $100 and $600.

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a.m. “It took about 45 minutes to
an hour to process us...to get us
in jail,” he said. “But it took half
an hour each to bail each of us
out.”

“T did it (civil disobedience),”
Spaccavento said,”because it’s
something that I want people to
become aware of. I want to make
a statement and make people
take a look at what’s going on.
Lots of people are indifferent.”

“The government is censoring
media. There are so many things
we’re not hearing about. The
killings in Baghdad.”

“They’re making the anti-war
movement look like they don’t
support he troops. Anti-war
doesn’t mean we’re not
supporting the troops. We want
them to come home alive,” she
said.

Campus closed

Continued from page 3
Hutton. “The university is one of
them.”

Johnstone said SUNY
Officials, like other state agency
heads, have been told to give
Cuomo’s office plans for dealing
with a 10 percent budget cut.
That would slice $120 million
from SUNY’s budget, said
William Anslow, the university’s
budget director.

The chancellor said there’s no
rationale for closing a campus
“absent a terrible crisis in state
finances.” He said he’s not
convinced closing campuses
would actually save much
money,

“There is no campus which is
economically unviable, no
campus that is too small to be
efficient, no campus rather than
spread deep budget cuts
throughout the system.

“T don’t know whether we're
at that point yet,” Johnstone said.
The idea of shutting campuses
was also discussed when the
state was facing budget problems
in 1988. At that time, three
campuses - the Stony Brook
dental school, SUNY Potsdam
and the Agricultural and
Technical College at Cobleskill -
were reported to be endangered.

Budget problems were solved
that year without closing
schools, John Reilly, head of the
union that represents SUNY
faculty and staff said there’s been
concern on campuses about
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shuts down a school.

“It’s absolutely out of the
question,” said Reilly, president
of the United University
Professors. “At this moment,
SUNY has 11,000 more students
than is budgeted for. The demand
is increasing...What kind of
society would scrap schools at
this point?”

Study abroad

Continued from page 3
Students were told to remain in
contact with their school official
as well. In case of immediate
threats, the letter stated the safest
place is one’s own residence or
dormitory unless students are
instructed to go to another
location.

These precautionary measures
have been established to
heighten the security of
Americans in foreign countries,
Shane said.

New ASP Editor-
in-Chief starts
term

The Albany Student Press
congratulates Leanne Warshauer
for her new position as Editor In
Chief as of this issue. Her
devotion to the paper and to her
fellow workers is special and led
to the unanimous decision to
make her our EIC. “This is an
interesting time to be involved in
the press and I hope we can
make a difference,” she said.
EDITORIAL —_

And now, in other
news...

The war in the Persian Gulf has been the focus of the
world's attention for the past few months, and
rightfully so. Not for one minute should these events be
minimized; they are of major consequence. However,
there are problems with the preoccupation with war
mania.

Several important, and in normal times, world-
shaking events are being relegated to the back page of
the media, and out of the minds of the people. One
major example of this is the situation in the Soviet
Union.

The past year has brought major changes to the post-
World War II Communist world. Recently, the world
was pleased to see the Soviets moving towards a
democratic government and a market economy.
Leaders of many countries applauded the apparent end
of the Cold War. Mikhail Gorbachev was set on a
pedestal as the man who brought glasnost, perestroika,
and finally, democracy to the Soviet Union.

August brought on Saddam Hussein and the
beginning of the Gulf crisis. World focus was shifted
away from the Soviet Union. Since then, frightening
things have occurred there, which have gone virtually
unnoticed.

Latvia and Lithuania, captive republics of the Soviet
Union since World War II, declared their
independence, There has been a marked increase in the
violence of these once peaceful proceedings.
Gorbachev has moved troops into the republics, to keep
them from leaving. In the past two weeks alone, these
troops have killed 19 people. A number of these people
were killed when the Soviets overtook the media.

On January 13, the Soviets took over the broadcast
media in Lithuania. The print media had also been
mostly annexed by the Soviets, and on Wednesday, the
final blow was dealt to what was left of it when
Lithuania's supply of newsprint was also nationalized.

One of the fundamental principles of a democracy is
consent of the governed. The citizens have the right to
Teject the rule of the government if it doesn't fulfill its
duties to the people. The people of Lithuania and
Latvia have collectively rejected the rule of the Soviet
Union. They have democratically elected their own
governments, and voted to leave the Soviet Union. The
Soviet government has thwarted this, and has moved
militarily against it. Whatever happened to the
democracy Gorbachev originally wanted?

Another important part of a democracy is the press. A
free and uncensored press is essential to ensure
effective checks on the government. Once again,
Gorbachev has not held true to his ideas. The press in
these republics is back under the control of the state.

The saddest part of this travesty is that no one really
kriows what's going on. Because of the war, this issue
is not receiving the attention it deserves.

A similar situation is also happening in China. During
this crisis, the Chinese government is trying the
students involved in the democracy movement in 1989.
A world that was once galvanized against the Chinese
for the brutal massacre of these students is now
ignoring the further actions against them. Again, an
issue that should be at the forefront of international
news, but isn't.

The war is important, and should be the main focus of
the news. But fair attention to other major stories is
completely necessary. Don't stop reading the
newspaper after the war information. Don't turn off the
newscast after the Gulf report. Read on. Listen to the
last minutes of the newscast. What was once merely a
less important part of the news is now of incredible
international importance. Ignoring other news of the
world allows these people to act pretty much without
fear of reproach. To permit this to happen, is
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Bush tells only part of the story

The following column was written in response to a
statement George Bush distributed to all college
newspapers.tn it, Bush explains the reasons to attempt to
expel Iraq from Kuwait.

Clear facts. Black and white. Unambiguous choice.
These are the terms President Bush used in the letter he
sent to over 450 college and university newspapers last

~ week. The subject was Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. The

object was to prepare young people for military
confrontation in the Persian Gulf.

John G. Healey

The letter cited Amnesty International’s recent report
on Iraq as evidence to support the administration’s
position. Perhaps presidential advisers know that
Amnesty volunteer groups are now active on more than
2,600 campuses in this country. I hope the administration
will soon learn that Amnesty members and other student
activists cannot be misled by opportunistic manipulation
of the international human rights movement.

Amnesty published its report on the Iraqi

Government’s gross human rights violations for one
purpose: to advance the protection of human rights. By
publicizing such abuses, the movement generates public
pressure and international protest. Governments over the
years have channeled particular portions of Amnesty’s
findings into their political agendas, and government
authorities undoubtedly will continue to do so in the
future. But the United States’ public should not tolerate
selective indignation by its own government. We can
teach our political leaders that people’s human rights are
not convenient issues for rhetorical arsenals.
When taken at face value, President Bush’s
condemnation of torture and political killings by Iraqi
authorities appears laudable. Violations of basic human
rights should arouse indignation and inspire action to
stop them. The matter becomes less “clear” and
“unambiguous,” however, in the light of two questions:
Why did our President remain mute on the subject of the
Iraqi Government’s patterns of severe human rights
abuses prior to August 1990? Why does he remain mute
about abuses committed by other governments, our so-
called coalition partners in the region?

Iraqi soldiers’ behavior in Kuwait does not constitute a
sudden shift to the brutal side. Iraqi civilians have
suffered such cruel and degrading treatment by
government personnel for more than a decade, as detailed
in numerous Amnesty International reports. There was no
presidential indignation, for example, in 1989, when
Amnesty released its findings about the torture of Iraqi
children. And just a few weeks before the invasion of
Kuwait, the Bush Administration refused to conclude that
Traq had engaged in a consistent pattern of gross human
rights violations.

If United States policies before August 1990 had
reflected concern about the Iraqi Government’s human
rights record, our country might not be digging in for war
today. Tomorrow’s tensions in the region may well be
mapped by the human rights records of our long-term
“friends,” such as the Saudi Arabian Government, and
new-found “friends,” such as the Syrian Government.
We’ve heard little from the United States Government in
recent years about the appalling tactics of repression used
in Saudi Arabia and Syria. i

Torture is reportedly a common practice in Saudi
Arabia, and political detainees have been jailed there for
prolonged periods without charge or trial. Syrian
prisoners are routinely tortured. A majority of the
thousands of political prisoners held in Syria have been
denied their right to a trial.

Relentless and ruthless abuses by the Iranian

Government continue. More than 5,000 Iranians have _

been executed during the last three years.
Incommunicado detention-and torture are routine in
Morocco, and that country’s government persists in
Tesponding to “disappearances” with secrecy and silence.
Our government fails to act with determination against
the torture suffered by tens of thousands of prisoners held
in Turkish jails.

The Egyptian Government has subjected many
thousands of political prisoners to detention without
charge or trial. The torture of political prisoners,
especially supporters of Islamic groups opposing the
government, is reportedly common in Egypt. In the
Israeli Occupied Territories, thousands of Palestinians
have been detained without charge or trial. Many of the
detainees committed the “offense” of peacefully
exercising their rights to free expression and association.
Israeli troops, often engaging in excessive use of force,
have killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians.

President Bush’s selective indignation over Iraq’s
abuses in Kuwait undermines the norms of “human
decency” he touts in his letter to campus newspapers. All
People in all countries are entitled to human rights
Protection: international humanitarian standards rest upon
this principle. The standards are unequivocally practical,
because human rights protection establishes a foundation
for just, peaceful, stable order. Exploiting human rights to
justify violent confrontation is itself indecent,

Amnesty International takes no position on the
territorial disputes now raging in the Persian Gulf, But
we do support international coalition building to prevent
all egregious human rights violators from conducting
business as usual. If President Bush is sincere about
“desperately want [ing] peace” and if he wishes to
Temove ambiguity from his invocation of “moral
obligation,” then let him be consistent in his concern for
human rights.

The author is the Executive Director of Amnesty
International USA.

January 25, 1991

uw By Mark E.Phillips

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pride as the cold war was
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and needed to prove that

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and led us into a war that

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be another Vietnam!"

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arbitrary January 15th
deadline, Secretary of
State Jim Baker tried to do
some last minute
"negotiating" with Aziz.
He handed Aziz a piece
of paper that said "Get
out."

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went. Iraqi forces were
still where there were
since the summer. They
were just asking for
trouble. Bush_ told
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When | was in second grade, | remember Mrs. Bouser teaching
us about all about wars. Being blissfully unaware seven-year-
olds, we were pretty patriotic and swelled with pride as the
teacher mentioned all the wars America had won. Some
classmate raised his hand and said, "And we've won all the wars
we've been in, haven't we?"

Mrs. Bouser smiled gently (or maybe pityingly) and proceeded
to correct the kid. It was the first time | had ever heard of
Vietnam. With a typical little kid's naivete and span of attention, |
remember listening to my teacher and thinking that war sucked,
why does it have to happen, and when was recess. Then | put it
out of my mind for years, literally.

Well, it's fourteen years later, and I've determined that first
impressions are everlasting. | still think war sucks (can't put it
more eloquently than that); | still wish, with some naive optimism
and hope, that it would never happen again. And | would love to
put it out of my mind.

Oh, | know it's impossible. But | watch the news, and | think of
the troops over there, fighting and in some cases dying. | wonder
how many Iraqis, many of whom don't even like Saddam, are
dying -- that we don't even know about. These are innocent
people too, and it seems to be some sort of injustice to not even
dignify their deaths with some sort of recognition. And | think of
my former high school classmates, those that joined the armed
forces as an escape when college proved to be a financial
impossibiltiy, and are over there now, kids | used to drink with,
watch play football....This is not stuff | can or should crawl into a
proverbial pillbox over, waiting for recess to come. This is realitv.

| suppose | can rest assured that my brother and cousin, both
the prime drafting age, will not be yanked out of college like we
all worried about before the war started, when the idea of re-
instating the draft was being kicked around (or at least rumored
about). Over vacation we'd joke that I'd shoot my brother in the
foot, or he'd brush up on his Spanish skills and we'd whisk him
off to Mexico, Ha-ha. Then the war started, and his anti-war
songs became a little more fervent, a little more nervous,
especially when my father casually mentioned that maybe my
bro’ should enlist and go over there, because just think how the
war would help the economy.

Very small-minded. | mean, | support the troops 100%, as |
think every protester does -- we want them home safe. Or
relatively, anyway. But helping the economy? Someone told me
last night that every time we shoot off a missile, it costs over 10
million dollars. So that's where the rest of my Regents
scholarship went.... And | don't think that anyone currently Over
There (as my friends have taken to calling Saudi Arabia) |S
finding much comfort in the fact that they don't have to pay their
taxes this year. Doesn't anyone realize they've got a bit more to
worry about?

Call me cynical. Even a bit misinformed, because | very well
could be. The war is a very volatile topic, and I'll the first to admit
I'm no expert on politics or the economy or even why Iran may
now suddenly join their arch-enemies Iraq against us because We
bombed a Shiite Muslim sight (this is just a rumor, but | hear Iran
is pretty pissed). But | know that people are dying, getting hurt,
and being held captive -- on both sides, and | just don’t see the
point. We can't even help the citizens of our own country, how
can we help Kuwait? | guess I'm not the patriotic little kid
anymore, but God, | wish | was back in second grade, so | could
escape through recess, or my short attention span. War really

sucks. Susan Friedman

ASPects welcomes everyone

back and salutes the powers
that be for changing the bus
route back to way it once Was,
so all the downtowners get TO
sleep in for ten extra minutes.

25,1! 2 TS
January 25, 1991 3a Aspects

Saldin and Lionheart Jamming to My Beats and After
Four Hundred Gut-Wrenching Heart-Busting Years Them
Sweet Chariot Coming for to Carry Them Home

like everything

like the wrinkles I find in my young face

like the diseases of the spirit
I contract occasionally
like everything

I try to normalize this

wriggling in and out of my head
eyes smarting from flirting

TV lines

insanity weaving a

quick and deadly

tapestry for me

of a holy and glowing sky over Baghdad

your connection is beyond my wavelength

don’t waste your time

and my life

with the stories magic smiles
because I can tell the stench

and please don’t include my heart
in your conspiracy

we’ll tell it everything
when the plotting’s done

I’m beginning to know the newscasters on a
first name how’s the wife and kids basis

and I pronounce each one’s name

with lips

and spittle

and the rootless confusion
which rules my star this month

and like everything
their perfect words
and gas mask screams

from dying Israel/Palestine/lraq/Saudi

(insert your favorite Homeland)
like everything
I try to hold down rhythms

into music a dirge

and Broken and aging and forgotten voices

rising from a squashed whisper
to a banshee wail :::

“don’t you remember what we died for?”

—M. Kazim Ali

a eee

Lighter Moments with Peter and Bilbo -- er, Bob

One of the memorable lines from
Hope and Glory, a film about England
in WWII, goes “War is hell...but
sometimes it’s pretty nifty.” While
not deeming the current military
campaign as nifty, it does, thanks
largely to the media, have its lighter
moments.

Tina Zaffrann

Anyone who watched Peter Jennings
dance all over the Persian Gulf in a
pre-war news special can recognize
the ironic humor which has emerged
from tragedy. The sight of one of
America’s most respected journalists

leaping,from Riyadh to Tel Aviv in
one graceful bound was enough to
send my friends and myself into
hysterical speculations as we noted
that he could, while standing on
Baghdad, dive into the Persian Gulf.
Spending hours fixating on ABC
news, a certain rapport between the
reporters and us was developed. We
soon found ourselves on a first name
basis with the newscasters, creating
lives for people to whom, for a
period, we paid all our attention.

Bob Zelnick, or Bob-o, as he soon
came to be known, proved a mystery.
The Pentagon correspondent became
a favorite of ours, due to Peter’s
fondness for him coupled with his
intriguing appearance. We first

postulated that Bob was actually a
woodland sprite, envisioning him in
Robin Hood-like apparel,
brandishing his microphone like an
arrow. Further observation revealed
his true identity to be none other than
Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit. JRR
Tolkien proclaimed that his
subterranean creatures were growing
in strength and numbers, and would
some day enter our civilization; the
Pentagon seems to be the door
between worlds.

The press never sleeps and,
apparently, neither does White House
correspondent, Brit Hume. The bags
under his eyes have grown
proportionally with the number of US
sorties. Displaying considerable

devotion to his job, Brit never ceased.
reporting, even while hordes of
people climbed over and around him.

No one can deny the frightening
resemblance the war bears to a video
game or sporting event; the curious
lack of casualties and charts of planes
lost on both sides fail to bring reality
to the situation. The media and
government are equally culpable for,
when such euphemisms as
“Showdown in the Gulf” are
implemented, the war seems more
like a television mini-series. Perhaps,
at least, as nerves become frayed,
someone will inform the President
that Saddam, when properly
pronounced, has no similarity to the
Biblical city of sin.

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we'll find somethin

the ASP, or come by 0

The ASP will beholding a general interest meeting

soon. We need writers for news, sports,
entertainment, and features. lf you are interested,
g for you. Time and location of the
will be announced in an upcoming issue of
ur offices at CC323, anytime.
We are waiting to hear from you!

January 25, 1991

‘Alice puts Woody Allen
Back on the Light Side

Woody Allen certainly is keeping busy, while still being as innovative as
always. Alice, Allen’s new film, once again stars his main squeeze, Mia
: Farrow, and is complete with Allen’s typical humor, accompanied with keen
3 observations of the self. Unlike his more recent films (Crimes and
September), which tended to be on the gloomy side, Alice is light
and provides lots of laughs, not short from being wacky.

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Mark E. Phillips

The story revolves around Alice (Farrow), a stereo-typical white, rich
housewife who is dissatisfied with her life of facial massages, shopping, and
total boredom. Eventually, she seeks an acupuncturist to help cure her from
her chronic backaches, which he concludes are caused by her own uncertainty
of her purpose in life. In order to help let her search herself, he gives her
herbs that have certain powers. One herb gives her a feeling of uninhibited
} courage that allows her to seductively flirt with a divorced saxophone player
3 that she’s been attracted to. Another herb turns her invisible so she can spy
on her friends and her dull, tiresome husband (William Hurt). One herb
allows her to see and speak to an old flame, played slickly by Alec Baldwin.

Throughout her experimentation with these magical herbs, she fulfills her
fantasy and has an affair with the saxophonist. These events provide the
means for her to explore her inner self and her relationship with the world.
Alice soon realizes that she has to-become the person she was before she got
married; a person who is caring and is a true altruist-

Woody Allen takes an old theme of self-investigation, that is notoriously
present in his past film, and gives it a new twist. His script is full of funny
and enjoyable dialogue and allows Farrow to show her stylish comedic talent.
This is by far one of Farrow’s best performances; her character’s ambivalence
is used nicely to show a woman’s search for the truth about herself. Alice is a
typical Woody Allen film — it has the charm and sweetness of his more recent
films, while its pace is more reminiscent of his earlier work. All of this, plus a

ood dose of typical Woody Allen humor makes his latest film seem as new

and fresh as his first.
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LETTERS

Councilgets a bad name

To The Editor:

Unfortunately amidst sensationalist press and many
bitter debates the real work of Central Council this
semester was lost. Individually and collectively, Central
Council members have been far more active semester
than ever before. For anyone who knew the full picture it
is clear that Central Council’s various reprimands and
investigation were fueled by intense frustration with
violations and abuses AND accounts for less than 10 %
of Council's activity this semester. Unfortunately the
other 90% went unrecognized by the Executive Branch,
and largely uncovered by the ASP.

As a Council we have rallied various issues such as the
tuition hike, the budget cuts, Fuerza Latina’s call for a
Latino radio show, and also held accountability sessions
with such administrators as President Swygert, Vice-
President Livingston and Director of Orientation Mary
Schimley, bringing to their attention many student
concerns.

The six committees of Central Council have also been
extremely active. The Internal Affairs Committee has
been interviewing candidates, rewriting policy with such
improvements as requiring Council members to attend
Quad Board meetings; and initiated the investigations
and impeachment in response to violations.

The Student Community Community led by Rachel
Goldberg and Larry Diamond has been working on many
projects including community, Giving Day, but most
importantly working in coalition with other groups to
implement an on-campus recycling policy.

Academic Affairs chaired first by Terri Eberle and then
by Rachel Rogers has been tackling the issues of
education like study space, and also an Academic
Department Fair at which representatives from various

Leanne Warshauer, Editor in Chief
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Patrick Cullen

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Foland, Jessica Grabowski, Ari Kampel, Tim Kenneally, Jim
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departments tabled to assist students choose their majors.

The Student Action Committee, SA’s political
advocacy branch, under the leadership of the famous
Cindy Goldberg and Kembu Myers have been tackling a
broad range of student issues. Since September, Student
Action has been working diligently on the bus line
problems, circulated surveys, sponsored a phone-in to get
later busses, and managed to have the President set up a
Freedom Quad shuttle bus. In addition, the Committee
has worked on womyn’s safety and safety of differently-
abled students.

The Intercollegiate Athletic Committee chaired by
Larry Covitt has been more active this year than in any
year since its budgetary powers were assumed by the
Administration. It has been investigating complaints of
students and meeting with the Phys. Ed. staff to bring to
their attention student needs and complaints.

The Finance Committee led by Harry Jos has allocated
over half of its money to such diverse groups as Chinese
Students Association, Philosophy Forum, and Fretboard
(Guitar Club).

Central Council has been extremely productive this
semester, but I suppose it is always easier to cover the
bad side of the news than the good side.

M. Kazim Ali
Internal Affairs Committee Chair

GSO policies are odd

To The Editor:

An elected member to the assembly of the newly
formed SUNYA Graduate Student Organization (Kevin
Madigan) has informed us of some facts that we believe
all SUNYA grad students should be aware of.

Many graduate students may not realize that the
formation of the GSO has imposed a mandatory $15 per
semester fee on all full-time grads. The ballot that was
voted on in Spring, 1990 merely mentions a fee.
However, on the reverse of that ballot; in the provisional
constitution, it states that “All currently enrolled students
at SUNY Albany who pay an activity fee to the GSO are
members of the organization.” This means that you can
be an enrolled student without paying the fee. Hence,
making payment of a GSO fee mandatory, with the threat
of a frozen, account for non-compliance, contradicts the
terms of the ballot. What we are saying is that it is wrong
to impose a mandatory fee. If you want to join the GSO,
pay the fee, otherwise the GSO shouldn’t expect fees.

We were informed that the number of grads who voted
on the proposal to form a GSO was only on the order of
400, approx. 350 for and 50 against. This is out of an
Albany full-time grad population of 2077. The ration of
pro to con votes would indicate a general positive feeling
towards instituting the GSO - among those who voted.
However, the overwhelming percentage of people not
voting may not necessarily indicate a lack of interest, but
rather a lack of sympathy with the GSO.

Mr. Madigan also mentioned that one of the topics
brought up for discussion at the first assembly meeting
was the granting of a salary to the officers of the GSO.
The stipend would be $1500 per year. He spoke of other
GSO plans and ideas, and after listening to his
description of the GSO meeting, we became concemed.
Concerned primarily with the voting procedure on the
stipend issue. Normally, the assembly alone votes on
proposals, not the officers - the assembly, whose
members would be unpaid. However, in the first vote
there was a tie. The tie breaker was cast, in favor of
stipends, by the chair, vice-president Victoria Santos, an
officer. The issue was reconsidered, and on the second
vote officer salaries were voted down - for this semester.
Next semester, however, this issue may be readdressed. A
primary concern of ours is that many of the provisions of
the GSO were not clearly spelled out in the ballot,
including the fact that the officers eventually would be
paid positions.

Another point which was not made clear during the
original balloting was that the decisions of the GSO
Assembly would be binding on all the grad students at
SUNYA. The GSO has the sole discretion to make
proposals and enact them, including the amount of their
salaries. The total amount collected under the mandatory
would be approx. $62,000 a year.

We’re not sure the arrangement of the election was
sufficiently open and organized to entrust the elected to
funds of that magnitude.

The arrangement of the balloting for the referendum to
create the GSO and for the election of its officers was
directed by the Provisional Organization. They decided
the proposals to appear on the ballot and how they would

be phrased. We believe that part of the reason that there
were so few candidates was because of the understanding
that these would be unpaid positions. However, we’re
only sure that this was the understanding of the
individuals NOT in the Provisional Organization. We’re
not sure that was the understanding of those in the
Provisional Organization.

According to the Provisional Organization, it was
leamed that the option would exist to make those salaried
positions only after the election took place. However,
there are several points that we believe the Provisional
Organization should address as soon as possible:

1. All three elected officers, who would eventually be
salaried, are members of the Provisional Organization.

2. A representative of the United Graduate Student
Organizations (UGSO) gave the Provisional Organization
advice on the setting up of a GSO. UGSO consists of the
GSOs at SUNY Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook -
all of which have salaried GSO officers. It strains
credulity that an organization such as UGSO, trying to
convince harried, stressed out grad students to devote a
large portion of their time to a GSO, would not even in
passing mention the fact that at the other GSO
universities, the officers are salaried.

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each candidate received in the election for officers. The
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this point is the head of the election committee, Ann
Masters.

We feel that the seriousness of these questions is of
such magnitude as to put the validity of the election in
doubt.

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Robert Underwood
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Miss Kerri

Just when you thought that it was
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Track shatters school records

By Mike Director
STAFF WRITER

Albany's track season opened
December 1 at the West Point
Invitational. Albany took third
out of five teams and sophomore
Howie Sellers won the 500
meters in a school record 1:05,04
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Next, on December 9, the
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against 22 other schools, the
Danes captured second place
with 25 points, their highest
Point total ever at this meet. In
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school records (two in the

2x1600, shuttle hurdle relay,
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sixth (high jump relay).

Albany’s next meet was at the
Yale Invitational held last week.

At Yale, freshman Andre Rush
(55-meter dash) and York (55-
meter hurdles) performed well.
Both set school records and
qualified for NCAA Division III
championships.

At Saturday’s NETAC meet at
Harvard, the Danes continued
their winning ways.

The one-mile relay squad of
Rocamboli, Rodriguez, Campana
and Sellers qualified for the
Nationals by finishing in 3:21.5.

State Pole Vault Champion
Tom Mead won his specialty
with a vault of 1476”.

In the 200M, Rush took fifth
in 22.67, the second fastest time
in school history.

In the 500 meters, Sellers
continued to ran well, taking first
in a time of 1:05.3.

In the 800 meters, junior Joe
McCullen won his section in
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Rodriguez won his heat in a
time of 50.4 seconds.

This weekend, the Danes will
tun in meets at Boston
University and Harvard.

Column

\Continued from page 19
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Mallin's third place at States highlights Dane wrestling

By Andrew Schotz
SPORTS EDITOR

Success was mixed for Albany
wrestling during the semester
break, as the team split a pair of
dual meets before competing in a

national dual tournament and the
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On December 11, Albany
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lacked much of their earlier
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118 pounds - Lempert
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Appel ,9-3; 134 Ibs. - Vasaturo
(On.) dec. Rascal, 6-3; 142 Ibs. -
Fronhoffer (Albany) dec. Frazier,
12-5; 150 lbs. - Mallin (Alb.)
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Adams (Alb.) dec. Watt, 10-7;
167 Ibs. - Pavlin (Alb.) dec.
Sauer, 6-0; 177 Ibs. - Jones
(Alb.) Peren drew, 4-4; 190 Ibs. -
Roberts (Alb.), Lake drew, 1-1;
Heavy. - Rehberg (On.) dec.
Rakoczy, 9-3.

Against Williams College on
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(Will.) dec. Appel, 5-2; 142 Ibs. -
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150 lbs. - Mallin (Albany) dec.
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- Gordon (Alb.) pinned Aselton.

The 1991 Wrestling Challenge
Duals were held January 12 at
SUNY Binghamton. Twelve
Division III teams were present
and each wrestled five dual
matches.

Albany finished 1-4 in the
event which put them in eighth
place. They lost 14-19 to Rhode
Island, 15-21 to Trenton State,
18-20 to Cortland, and 12-24 to
Binghamton. The team’s only
victory was over RIT, 34-10.

Albany coach Joe DeMeo
believed that his squad fared
well with a tough foe, but overall
could have done better than it
did.

“Tt was 16-15 versus Trenton,
with three draws, until the
heavyweight,” he said. Trenton
State won all five of its matches
and took the tourney title.

After defeating a tough RIT
team in its third match, Albany

suffered some lapses. “After [the
RIT march) we didn’t wrectle ae

As a team, the Danes didn’t
please their coach any more in
the New York State Wrestling
Championships held January 18
and 19 at SUNY Oswego.
Albany finished 11th among 22
teams from all three NCAA
divisions.

Individually, though, DeMeo
noted that Bill Mallin (third
place at 150 Ibs.) and John
Pavlin (sixth place at 158 Ibs.)
left him pleased.

“Mallin wrestled really well
and had a decent tournament,”
DeMeo said, “but the rest of the

team was not up to
expectations.”

Hoops

Continued from back page

“We knew coming in she was
their best player, so we wanted to:
deny her the ball,” said Warner.
“But we didn’t want the players‘
concentrating too much on one
person.”

Albany sees their next action
Saturday afternoon at 4:00 pm as
they host the Lady Dane
Invitational. The Danes first
round opponent is the City
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ranked #2 in the Middle Atlantic
region, against the perennially
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championship game are
scheduled for Sunday at the
same start times.

Warner stands two wins short
of 150 for her career so capturing
the title this weekend would be

extra special.

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SPORTS EDITOR season, Braun qualified for the NCAA year,” he said, “ there should be an increase |By Andrew Schotz
For the first time in over six weeks, championships to be held in March in _ in the numbers and the quality.” SPORTS EDITOR

Albany’s swim team took to the pool-
Saturday in home water against St. Michael’s
and at Hamilton College on Wednesday.

Both squads fared the same- a win over St.
Michael’s (114-100 men and 126-84 women)
and a loss to Hamilton (79-143 men, 90-135

women).

Albany coach Dave Turnage noted the
excellent performances of a few swimmers in
the St. Michael’s contest. Larry Hassof took
three first places for the men, while Karen
Greiten (medley freestyle relay, 1000 meters
and 5000 meters) and captain Kim
McDonald (400 meter relay, 100 meter
breaststroke) combined for five wins to pace

the women.

Against Hamilton, the teams voted Hassof
and Greiten as MVP’s of the meet. Hassof
took first in the 200 IM (2:07.7) and the 500
freestyle (5:13.2), both season bests.

Greiten placed first in the 200 freestyle
(2:05) and second in the 500 freestyle.
Also, diver Brenda Braun captured both the

Atlanta.
Turnage, the coach of both teams, feels that

The Danes will travel to Cortland

Sophomore Sarah Klein cutting through the water.

tomorrow for a 2:00 contest.

Jim Lukaszewski, Jr. ASP

Recap of Albany men's, women's basketball

By Wayne Stock
SENIOR EDITOR

The following is a_ brief
summary of the Albany men’s
basketball games between
12/12/90 and 1/19/91 and
Albany's top scorer and
rebounder for each game. The
Danes’ record stands at 9-8
following a victory Tuesday
night in Plattsburgh.

12/12 - University at Buffalo 60
Albany 56.

A gutsy effort against Division
II Buffalo fell short in Alumni
Arena. The Danes were
Successfully able to slow the
tempo and go back door on
Buffalo. A 6-1 run down the
stretch closed Buffalo’s lead to
two with 20 seconds remaining,
but Albany could get no closer.

Scorer - Michael Shene (12)

Rebounder - Alex McClearn
(12)

12/15 - Albany 82 Plymouth
State 67

The Great Danes snap a two
by shooting 51.5% from the
floor. Four players reached
double figures for Albany.

Scorer - Jeff Farnsworth (19)

Rebounder - Shene (11)
12/28 - Albany 71
Westbury 55

Trailing 19-15 with 9:50 to go
in the first half, Albany broke
Open their opening-round game
of the Great Dane Tournament
with a 12-0 run, including five
apiece by Farnsworth and Shene.
Five Danes tallied double digits.

Scorer - Shene (16)

Rebounder - Shene (8)
12/29 - Albany 82
Mountain 75

Albany survived.a late scare
by the Eagles to capture the
Great Dane Tournament title.
The Danes watched a 76-65 lead
Nearly evaporate after an 8-0 run
by Green Mountain with 2:47
Temaining. Michael Shene was
named the tournament's MVP.

Scorer - Shene (19)

Rebounder - Shene (14)

1/3 - Montclair State 70
Albany 68

Albany overcame a 37-31
halftime deficit to the game in
the waning seconds before
Montclair, playing before their

Old

Green

home crowd, was able to win it
at the buzzer on a jump shot.

Scorer - Shene, Farnsworth
(14)

Rebounder - Shene (9)

1/5 - Albany 64 North Adams
62

The last time these two teams
met was in Albany in the third
round of the NCAA Division III
Tournament, The Danes avenged
that playoff loss by winning in
North Adams before 132 fans.

Scorer - Shene (15)

Rebounder - Shene (11)

1/9 - Oneonta 65 Albany 63

Albany repeated the debacle
that occurred in Alfred one
month earlier by once again
blowing an enormous halftime
lead. A 42-24 halftime advantage
turned into a loss that could well
prove to be the backbreaker of
the Danes’ season.

Scorer - Farnsworth (18)

Rebounder - McClearn (7)
1/12 - Buffalo State 76 Albany
70 (20T)

The Danes second trip to Bills’
Country once again left them
with another notch in the loss
column. Albany played catch up
most of the night but tied the
contest with a 9-2 run in the final
2:45 of regulation on a McCleam
layup. Freshman Bob Miller's
14-foot jumper rimmed out at the
end of the first OT.

Scorer - Shene (19)

Rebounder - Shene (11)

1/15- Union 70 Albany 59

Albany suffered its third
straight defeat as the Danes were
completely outplayed by the
Dutchmen in Memorial Field
House. Albany could pull no
closer than 9 in the second

stanza.

Scorer - Miller (16)

Rebounder - Miller (10)
4/19 - Albany 84 Cortland 74

A late first half surge sparked
by freshman backup guard Garry
Murray set the stage for a big
second half for the Danes in
University Gym. Albany
solidified their victory with a 27
for 31 performance from the
charity stripe. Farnsworth, the
starting shooting guard this
season, sat out the game with a

Continued on page 15

By Patrick Cullen
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

While the student body
relaxed at home over the break,
Albany’s women’s basketball
team was busy pounding the
courts.

The Lady Danes played six
games over the break, most of
which were tight right down to
the closing minutes. Albany’s
record stands at 7-9.

December 12, 1990: SUNY
Buffalo 75 - SUNY Albany 60.

The Lady Danes kept the
game within five until Buffalo
stepped their game up a notch in
the second half to pull away and
win by. 15. Coach Mari Warner
was pleased, saying, “Being that
SUNY Buffalo is a Division II
team, I thought we played very
well up until the end.” Four
Danes hit double digits in points.

Team high scorer - Tanya
Johnson (17)

Team high rebounder - Ikeuchi
Franklin (10)

January 6, 1991: SUNY
Albany 66 - Hunter College 44.
Albany built a 20-point lead in
the first half and never looked
back, coasting to a relatively
easy win. Franklin (15 pts.),
Tonya Morrissey (11 pts.) and
Johnson (10 pts.) led a balanced
Lady Danes scoring attack.
Hunter did not have any players
reach double digits in scoring.

Team high scorer - Franklin
(15)

Team high rebounder -
Franklin (9)

January 9, 1991: NYU 54 -
SUNY Albany 53.

This game was a rematch of
NYU’s thrilling overtime victory
over Albany on December 3 in
University Gym. The Lady
Danes travelled to NYU’s scenic
campus in Greenwich Village
this time around, in a
performance that saw the lead
change many times throughout.
A baseline jumper by Lady Dane
Killer Carrie Kaczmarski (16
points) with :11 to go won the
game for NYU.

Team high scorer - Michelle

Traver (14)
Team high rebounder - Faith
Miller, Traver (7)

January 12, 1991: Buffalo
State 71 - SUNY Albany 56.

After a first half which saw
the two teams knotted at 31,
Buffalo State fought off a feisty
Lady Danes squad, which
missed many open. shots,
particularly from short range.
Buffalo State’s All-American
Arlene Egan wore down Albany
with 21 points and 15 rebounds.
Casey Stanley had a career high
18 points and Tanya Johnson
added 15 pts. for Albany.

Team high scorer - Stanley
(18)

Team high rebounder -
Johnson, Traver (5)

January 16, 1991: Western
Connecticut 61 - SUNY
Albany 53.

Albany’s 30 percent shooting
from the field was the culprit in
this loss to nationally-ranked
Western Connecticut. Albany led
at the half 31-28, forcing W.
Conn. turnovers. while
committing only three before the
buzzer sounded. The second half
was close, with more
experienced W. Conn. team
prevailing in the end.

Team high scorer - Johnson
an

Team high rebounder -
Franklin (8)

January 19, 1991: SUNY
Albany 68 - SUNY Cortland
49.

The Lady Danes jumped to a
6-0 lead in the opening minute
and never looked back, winning
a surprisingly easy upset over
nationally-ranked SUNY
Cortland, which is second in
New York State. Coach Warner
praised guard Laurie Annunziato
for her tough defense (16 steals),
especially the full court pressure
that wore down a quality
Cortland squad. Miller shot 6-7
from the field and Franklin had
four blocked shots.

‘Team high scorer - Miller (16)

Team high rebounder -
Annunziato, Miller, Traver (6)

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Men's B'ball vs. Potsdam - Sat., 8:00

WB'ball-Lady Dane Tourn.-Sat,Sun-2/4

Wrestling vs. Ithaca - today, 7:30

Great Danes gearing up for Potsdam invasion

By Wayne Stock
SENIOR EDITOR

Now the test comes,

Following a 7-8 start, the Great Danes
have put together a modest two-game win
streak to go back over the .500 mark. But
if this team wants to send out a message
that they are for real, they’ll have to do it
Saturday in University Gym against
archrival Potsdam College.

Potsdam (12-4), which is perennially
one of the top teams in the state, will be
looking to avenge last season’s 85-75 loss
to Albany at Maxcy Hall during the
second round of the NCAA Division III
Tournament. During their regular season
meeting, also at Maxcy, the Bears edged
out Albany, 56-55.

Potsdam’s two big scoring threats are
junior guard Cory Dace and 6’8” senior
center Scott Burgess. Each is currently
averaging over 15 points per game.

The Bears, however, will be without
Jast season’s standout guard Eric Gardner.
According to the athletic department at
Potsdam, Gardner left the team after an
academic dispute with coach Jerry Welsh
earlier this season. After five games,
Gardner was averaging 16.8 a contest.

“It’s going to be hard to figure out who
to put a box and one against,” joked
Albany head coach Dick Sauers, referring
to the success the Danes had last season
implementing that defensive set on

Gardner,

Replacing Gardner at the shooting
guard will be 5’9” junior Denfield James.
James pumped in 26 ppg last season at
Clinton Community College and is
currently averaging just under nine at
Potsdam.

Rounding out the starters will be 6’6”
postmen Mike McPeek and Mark
Dickson.

Although the Danes do not possess the
same outside threat as they did when these
two teams last met, Welsh is taking
nothing for granted.

“They still have plenty of good
shooters,” Welsh said. “We also know
they have very strong inside players.”

One of the men Potsdam will look to
neutralize is Michael Shene.

Before the Cortland gare, the Danes’
captain held a team meeting to try and get
the squad back on track. What followed
was a pair of victories against lesser
opponents and now a showdown with
Potsdam.

“T told the team that we had to put a
drive together,” Shene said. “If we can’t
get up for a game for Potsdam, then what
can you gets up _ for?”

A capacity crowd is the norm for this
matchup and Saturday shouldn’t be an
exception.

Tipoff is at 8:00 pm. An alumni game
will be held at 6:00 pm.

By Wayne Stock
SENIOR EDITOR

After Albany defeated
Cortland Saturday to halt a
three-game skid, head coach
Dick Sauers proclaimed that
night as the beginning of a “new
season.”

The new season continued to
go unblemished Tuesday, as the
Great Danes (9-8) defeated
SUNY Plattsburgh (5-10) in
Memorial Hall, 81-68.

Steve Ries, a 6-1 junior,
received his second straight start
in place of Ed Feller at the
point. But, ironically enough, it
was Feller’s play off the bench
that sparked the team.

“I’m not going to bitch and
moan about the situation,” said
Feller in reference to being
pulled from the starting lineup.
“T’m just going to make the best
of what’s going on.”

That best included a six for
eight performance from the
floor and a career-high 17
points.

The Cardinals were able to
hang tough for most of the
contest, but were eventually
beaten at the free-throw line,
where the Sauersmen connected
on 27 of 33.

“What we did wrong was a
easy as ABC,” said Plattsburgh
head coach Larry Cowan. “A -
we came out full court press in
the second half; B - we fouled;
C - they put on a free-throw
shooting clinic.”

Trailing 36-33 at halftime, the
Cardinals tied the game at 39
with 18:07 remaining on a layup
by Eugene Snell.

The Danes pulled ahead to
Stay on an ensuing 5-0 run that
included three points from Alex
McClearn.

With a 51-47 lead and 11:11
remaining, Albany iced the
game with an 11-3 burst that
included seven by Garry
Murray.

Murray, a freshman who was
clocked at 4.31 in the 40 during
preseason, has lit it up in spurts
during the last two games. This
scenario will undoubtedly get
more playing time for Murray.

“T’ve just learned from my
mistakes in practice,” Murray
said. “I have to have confidence
in myself.”

A big key for the Danes was
that they were able to dominate
underneath the boards, as they
outrebounded Plattsburgh 37-20.

"The Game" is upon Albany once again.

Plattsburgh provides little competition for Albany

Men are victorious in "season opener";women have easy time

“We did a good job not letting
them get second shots,” Sauers
said. “We tried to take away a
lot of their inside moves.”

For postman Michael Shene,
it was the senior’s final game
against his hometown school.
And he went out in style.

Despite having the flu, the
captain went six for nine from
the field with a team high of 18
points.

“It’s always fun to come back
and play here,” Shene said.

“T’m glad the next time I see
Mike he won’t be at Albany
State,” Cowan said.

Snell was the game’s high
scorer, going eight for 13 from
the floor with 20 points. Scott
Randolph added 16 and Oronde
King chipped in 10 for
Plattsburgh,

McClearn was a perfect four
for four from the field with 13
points and Bob Miller, who was
also suffering from the flu, had
12.

Miller moved over from small
forward to start at the shooting
guard position for the second
straight game in place of Jeff
Farnsworth, who saw limited
action due to a knee injury,

By Josh Rogowsky
Special to the ASP

The University at Albany
women’s basketball team doesn’t
get too many easy victories, but
Tuesday night in Plattsburgh, the
Lady Danes had a breather as
they ran roughshod over the
Cardinals 80-51.

Albany’s second consecutive
win raised their record to 7-9,
while Plattsburgh fell to 2-10.

The Lady Danes got off to a
very fast start. Leading 4-2, they
went on a 16-4 run keyed by six
points apiece from Michelle
Traver and Tanya Johnson. “We
wanted to get our fast break
going,” commented head coach
Mari Warner, “so we’ve begun to
throw long outlet passes to create
opportunities.”

Albany maintained a 15-point
advantage throughout most of
the first half. However, a
controversial long three-pointer
by Alicia LaValley cut the
Cardinals deficit to 39-27.
Warner complained vociferously
after the play, to no avail, that
the shot was released after the
buzzer.

After the intermission, the
Lady Danes pressure defense and
up-tempo offense proved entirely
too much for Plattsburgh to

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handle as Albany led by as many
as 30 points.

“We set goals for ourselves
coming into this game,”
explained Warner. “We wanted to
hold them to 49 points or less,
keep our turnovers under 15, and
minimize our mistakes in
general.” They missed by two
points and two turnovers, but
you could hardly argue with the
effort.

Four players scored in double
figures, paced by Johnson’s 15
points and career-high 10 assists.
Tonya Morrissey added 14 (all in
the second half), Ikeuchi
Franklin 11 and a team-high 10
tebounds, and Michelle Traver
chipped in 10. Laurie
Annunziato, who has been mired
in a shooting slump, drained
three trifectas in the first half and
finished with nine points and
seven assists. “Anytime your
point guards play well (Tanya
and Laurie),” said Warner, “it
seems to influence the way the
entire team plays.”

The Cardinals lone bright spot
was the play of LaValley, who
poured in a game-high 30 points
on 10-15 shooting. She also
connected on three of five
attempts from downtown.

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