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Wrap up of the 89-90 season
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NUMBER 25

Legislation may stop parking fee

By Lara Abrash
BUSINESS MANAGER

A bill stopping SUNY campuses from
imposing a new parking fee yesterday
passed the State Senate and is under
consideration by the Assembly’s Ways
and Means Committee.

SUNY Central officials blasted the plan
to scuttle a parking fee of as much as
$132 per year.

“This proposed legislation would be an
intrusion into the internal administrative
operations of SUNY. It would not only
have serious consequences on campus
budgets, it also would erode the
legitimate authority of each of the campus
councils and the SUNY Board of
Trustees,” said SUNY spokesman Ken
Goldfarb.

The same legislature recommended the
fee in the state’s 1989-90 budget to help
SUNY absorb $3 million in system-wide
reductions. That fee was never
implemented.

The legislature again figured on the fee
to raise $4 million in the budget for the
1990-91 fiscal year. SUNY officials said
loss of that revenue would result in

program cuts.

“Without these fees, campuses would
be forced to find additional ways to slash
another $4 million. As a result, the loss
of those parking revenues would further
compromise our educational mission,
forcing the University to take resources
out of the instructional program to
support free parking. Inevitably, it would
mean more job losses in this very tight
budget year,” said SUNY Senior Vice
Chancellor Harry Spindler.

SUNY Albany needs the fee to make
up $360,000 said SUNYA Vice President
for Finance and Business John Hartigan.

“We must generate revenue in that
amount or take $360,000 in reductions,”
which could mean the loss of 10
positions, Hartigan said.

SUNY Central estimated the amount
of the fee for SUNY Albany to be $63,
but Hartigan that was high.

“It’s nothing like the $132 the unions
are discussing. It’s fair to believe it
would be less than $50,” he said.

Parking at SUNYA is technically free.
The current $10 annual charge is a
registration fee, Hartigan said.

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Abill imposing a $132 parking fee Is under fire in the State Senate.

SUNY Central maintains it has
subsidized parking until now, but “tax
dollars will be inadequate to subsidize
parking services” and a user fee is
necessary.

Student groups and faculty and staff
unions are up in arms over the fee.

United University Professions, the
largest of the four unions at SUNYA,
refused SUNYA’s offer to negotiate the
fee into its contract with the University,
claiming free parking is an implied
condition of employment.

The state filed improper practice
charges with the Public Employee
Relations Board against UUP and the
Public Employee Federation, another
union at SUNYA, for failing to negotiate.
UUP filed improper practice charges
against the state.

PERB will decide whether the union
must negotiate the fee. If it rules UUP
neéd not negotiate the new fee, it cannot
be imposed until the current contact
expires in June of 1991.

But Tom Corigliano, a UUP
spokesman, said he does not expect a dec~
ision from PERB until next January,
when negotiations for the new contract
will already be under way.

UUP represents all teaching and
professional staff positions at SUNYA.

Employees of University Auxiliary
Services, who have no union, can’t do
much about the fee but sit back and
watch.

Mary Ann Beaulieu, a UAS worker,
said she doesn’t mind paying a little more
for parking, but hopes the fee isn’t too
steep.

“There are some people that might quit
UAS if the $132 fee goes into effect,” she
said.

As if the parking revenue situation
wasn’t confusing enotigh, another budget-
balancing measure by the legislature now
requires all municipalities to charge sales
tax on off-street parking fees, retroactive
to June 1. So even if the legislature shoots
down the parking fee, those who register
cars ae SUNYA will now pay $10.70 per

SA increases

sports budget

By Morgan Lyle
SENIOR EDITOR

Student Association President Steve!
(Rhoads late last month found himself|
|juggling SA’s books to stave off al
$20,000 cut to junior varsity athletic
programs.

Rhoads invoked the Emergency
Powers Act of the SA constitution to}
change the budget passed by outgoing)
president Fermin Espinosa and the SA}
Central Council.

After that budget was completed,
Rhoads said he was informed by the}
Intercollegiate Athletics Board that IAB.
was expecting a budget shortfall of
$57,682 and was considering cutting JV)
sports programs,

Rhoads used the expected enrollment
figure, on which SA bases its
expectations when preparing its budget,
to increase the amount SA could
contribute to sports by $20,000.

The IAB, after learning of the new}
money, recommended no cuts to JV
sports.

Rhoads, in a letter to outgoing SUNYA|
President Vincent O'Leary,
acknowledged that the move might put
SA in the red if fewer than the 9,625)
students he budgeted for actually pay the|
student activity fee.

But he stressed that the new
appropriation was granted on a one-time
basis, and “strongly urged” the
University to explore other revenues of|
fund raising to prevent similar problems
‘in future budgets.

“T cannot, and will not, guarantee that}
the next President will be as
understanding in again granting these}
funds,” he said.

SA contributes about $272,000 of its|
$1 million annual budget to the
University’s sports programs each year.

In his letter to O'Leary, Rhoads said]
he was troubled by the cut to JV sports,|
lamong other resons, because they could}
have wound up being permanent.

Continued on page 13

UAS discontinues sale of cigarettes on campus

Jeff Budzynski
COPY EDITOR

SUNYA students will have to work a little
harder to get that nicotine fix this year. As
of May 31, 1990, University Auxiliary
Services (UAS) discontinued the sale of
cigarettes in vending machines across
campus. The decision to do so comes
amidst statewide efforts to keep minors
from being able to purchase cigarettes. The
idea is, if they can’t get them, they can’t
smoke them.

The move is targeted toward two goals: to
make it more difficult for minors on campus
to buy cigarettes, and to discourage smoking
on campus in general. Even though the law

prohibits people under 18 from buying
cigarettes, if a minor couldn’t purchase a
pack over the counter, he or she could buy
one from a machine. Yet even though it
means cutting profits, UAS cigarette
machines have disappeared from the quads
and the Podium,

Cigarette sales are beginning to be treated
in much the same way as alcohol sales,
according to Warren Frederick, Director of
Vending Services for UAS. “It would be the
same thing if I had a beer machine there,” he
said, noting that it is impossible to enforce
purchasing laws in areas where sales go
unsupervised,

The removal of cigarettes from the

vending machines means that both minors
and people legally allowed to purchase
cigarettes can no longer get them from
vending machines.

Like it or not, students are going to notice
the change when they arrive in the fall.
Some people around the Podium on June 17
expressed mixed approval and disdain for
the action. Graduate student Vivian Charles,
a smoker, said “I guess it’s kind of a pain in
the ass,” and mentioned that she has to go to
the bookstore to purchase her cigarettes.

Senior Catherine Vays, a smoker who has
been trying to quit, said, “I think it’s
great,because I think it is bad to smoke. It

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football
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in 1989,

H. Patrick Swygert will take over President

Vincent O' Leary’ s post this summer.
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Campus
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SUMMER ISSUE 1990 _ ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Kim will hold post so as to smooth transition

By Bryan Sierra
SENIOR EDITOR

In an effort to ease the transition to a
new university president, current
President Vincent O’Leary has asked
Dean of Undergraduate Studies Sung
Bok Kim to stay in his position.

Kim was scheduled to leave the post in
July, when his two-year appointment as
Dean expired, but agreed to stay on.

One reason Kim was asked to stay is
the departure of Executive Vice President
Warren F. Iichman, O’Leary explained in
a letter announcing the decision.
Tichman is leaving to become President
of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where
he resumes his post on August 1.

Iichman said he took the post at Pratt
because he was interested in the school’s
areas of interest — art and architecture.
Iichman, a self-proclaimed “New Yorker

by instinct,” said he welcomes working
in Brooklyn, and will be leaving at the
end of June.

As a result, Kim was asked to stay
with Undergraduate Studies, “to provide
continuity in that key role,” O’Leary
said.

O’Leary said the administration had
been in the process of reviewing a
replacement for Kim, but stopped when
Kim agreed to put aside his plans and
stay on.

Kim was on vacation and could not be
reached for comment.

As for H. Patrick Swygert’s transition
to University President, O’Leary said
Swygert has been visiting campus quite
frequently, and a transition should not be
difficult. O’Leary said Swygert has
spent his time here meeting all the people
involved and adjusting to the position.

File
President Vincent O'Leary is soon to retire

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Dr. Sung Bok Kim will be Dean in '90-'91

H.P. Swygert: a biography

H. Patrick Swygert will replace Vincent O’Leary as President of
the University at Albany this summer. Swygert, SUNYA’s 15th
President, has a diverse background,

+ Swygert was named Executive Vice President of Temple
University in Philadelphia in October, 1988.
* He was also named Vice President for University
Administration and Special Counselor to the President of Temple
in 1982.
+ Swygert has been a professor of law at Temple since 1980.
+ Swygert is a visiting professor of law at the University of Ghana
and Tel Aviv University in Israel.
+ He graduated from both Howard University and its law school.
+ Swygert has been appointed to a number of government
commissions, including:
°General Counsel to the U.S. Civil Service Commission
°Special Counsel to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
°Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (named
in the 70’s to the Authority by Pennsylvania Governor Robert P.
Casey)
+ Swygert served as a Law Clerk to Chief Judge William H.
Hastie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and was
an Administrative Assistant to Congressman Charles B. Rangel.
+ He is active on a number of boards, commissions and
organizations in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
* Swygert, 47, is an attorney who has played a limited role in
politics. He is friends with Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode
and Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey, both Democrats.
+ A Catholic who grew up in South Philadelphia, Swygert and his
wife, Sonja, have two children — Patrick Jr. and Michael — who
attend public school.

Problems in forming of G.S.O.

Eric Coppilino and Bryan
Sierra
NYSSL

SUNYA graduate students have
Tun into some problems with their
attempt to organize a student
association of their own.

After working since last
September to build support for
the creation of a Graduate
Student Organization, their
efforts may be for nought because
University President Vincent
O'Leary set a requirement for a
25% voter turnout three days
before voting was over, and the
day before leaving for China.

Election returns were in the
18% turnout range when he left
the country, leaving behind
specific instructions to an
assistant to open the ballots,
which would make it impossible
to extend voting to meet the
requirement. Voting can only be
extended when the ballots are
sealed.

Creation of a GSO would give
graduate students official
representation to the University,
as well as allow graduate students
to collect a mandatory student fee

to fund organizations and
services. All university centers
have graduate student
governments with the exception
of Albany.

O’Leary said that the turnout
requirement was added to ensure
that a representative portion of
the graduate students wanted the
organization, as well as the
mandatory fee. He said that the
number or required voters was
never agreed upon, and that too
many of the last minute details
about the voting were not
resolved.

“Clearly, you have to set some
kind of quota. That was never
done,” O’Leary said.
“Something had to be done. If
five people voted yes, and one
voted no, you have to tax
everybody.”

“We were given an unrealistic
quota to meet,” said Geoffery D.
Purcell, one of the graduate
organizers. “He [O'Leary]
thought he was being reasonable
and he may have been ignorant to
the results at other other

campuses.

“Our turnout of 18.6% is not
too shabby compared to what
some other schools are getting,”
especially since elections were
held during and just prior to
finals week. Purcell said he
hoped that O’Leary would simply
validate the referendum and
allow the votes to be counted,
without causing the students to
go to the additional trouble of
getting out another hundred or so
voters.

O’Leary said he favored the
creation of the GSO, and that his
views played no role in the quota
decision. “I just have to be
careful before I start slapping fees
on everybody,” he said.

A recent Graduate Student
Association referendum at the
University at Buffalo, in which
the GSA was re-authorized, had a
6% voter turnout and was still
binding.

About 500 graduate students
voted in the referendum, which
was organized using several key
issues facing graduate students
and graduate student employees,
including the need for health

Faulhaber plans big

By John Jackson
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

The Student Association Programming
Office plans to kick off events early this
fall in order to generate energy and
involvement. According to Programming
Director Paul Faulhaber, proposed
highlights include a Fallfest, Guinness
Day, and an Evening of Starlight Dancing
during Parents Weekend.

The first weekend of school will feature
the “Frosh Mosh,” to be held behind
Campus Center on September 2. The
objective of this event is to introduce
incoming freshmen and transfer students
to the Student Association. In the past,
SA officers would lecture students at
summer orientation, but Faulhaber said
that this only served to obscure SA.
“When it’s hot and you have been
listening to people tell you rules all day, it
is tough to give your attention to another
group of students,” Faulhaber said.

“The Frosh Mosh will help students
gain an understanding of what is SA, but
will do it in an entertaining way,” he said.
In addition to food and beverage, there

will be a wide range of performances.
The Pan Hellenic group will sponsor a
step-show, while Fuerza Latino will invite
a Latin guitarist. Faulhaber said he hopes
many other groups will bring in dancers
and other performing artists,

Fallfest, an outdoor concert in the same
vein as Mayfest, will be held on
September 16 at Bleeker Stadium. A big-
name performer, such as the Pretenders or
Living Colour, are possibilities for the
event. The concert will be open to the
public, in hopes of binding the university
with other members of the Albany
community.

Group Fair Day will be held on
September 17, and student groups will be
setting up tables on the Podium. Students
will get a personal look at ways to get
involved with SA’s many individual

groups.

This fall, Guinness Day will be held on
October 6. Although usually held in the
spring, Faulhaber said a fall Guinness
Day would help students get involved
early in the year. The world’s largest
game of Simon Sez will be the record
SUNYA will be shooting for. In the past,

S.A. Programming Director Paul Faulhaber
the world’s largest game of musical chairs
and limbo have been attempted.

Host Bob Schafer will lead the game of
Simon Sez, as he did in 1987 when
SUNYA first set the record. In addition
to Simon Sez, food and game booths will
also be on hand.

Homecoming Weekend is slated for
October 12. Exact plans are still in the

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or S.A. Programming in Fall '90

works, but Faulhaber said that he hopes it
will offer more than in past years.

Big plans are in store for Parents
Weekend, to be held from October 26-28.
In addition to a comedian — Joe Piscopo
and Robert Klein have performed in past
years — the programming office plans to
pump up the weekend with an “Evening
of Starlight Dancing.” Faulhaber said he
wishes to create a dance hall atmosphere
with a headline jazz performer, such as
Miles Davis or one of the Marsalis
brothers, Wynton or Bradford. A cash
bar would be available and dancing
would go on into the night.

“In other Parents Weekends, students
have ditched their parents after the
comedy show,” Faulhaber said. “This
year, we want to have students spend the
night with their parents in a social
atmosphere with great music.”

The programming office also plans to
bring a Rolling Stone Magazine exhibit to
the Campus Center Ballroom on
November 5, 6, and 7. The exhibit will
feature famous covers and highlight
stories from the years past. Students will
be free to enter the exhibit throughout the
day and browse through musical history.

4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS SUMMER ISSUE

—DIGEST —

ASP elects new E.i.C.

A new Editor-in-Chief was elected at the May
6th meeting of the Albany Student Press
editorial board.

Wayne Stock, a junior from Bayside, New
York, was elected. Stock had previously served
as sports editor.

“I’m very excited about the upcoming
semester,” Stock said. “We have some good
ideas for the future.” His term lasts through
December.

Editor-in-Chief ex-officio John Jackson has
graduated and plans to merge his background in
journalism with his degree in Biology so as to
be better able to inform the news reader in
matters of science.

Library offers course

The University Library is offering a program
this summer to enhance students research
capabilities.

Two instruction sessions will be held,
training students to use the Educational
Resources in Education (ERIC) and
Psychological Abstracts(Psyc Lit) data bases on
CD-ROM.

According to a library press release, CD-
ROM technology is changing the face of library
Tesearch. The new system is faster and more
accurate than printed indexes, and it costs less
than online searches.

The Psyc Lit course will be held Monday,
July 9 at 3:30pm. ERIC is being offered July 10
at 2:00pm.

Sign up is at the reference desk in the
University Library.

; Cons.Reports exhibited

June 26 through August 26, the New York State
Museum will present an exhibit entitled “
Testing: Behind the Scenes at Consumer
Reports, 1936-1986”,

The exhibit will feature 91 photographs taken
at Consumer’s Union, the world’s largest
product-testing organization. The photos
provide a detailed journey into the history of
consumer products over the last fifty years.

The New York State Museum is located in
the Empire State Plaza. Admission is free. For
more information, call 474-5877.

Preservation proposed

Last week, the Governor’s Commission on
the Adirondacks report put forth a
revolutionary forest preservation proposal.

The following are the most promising aspects
of the proposal: reintroduction of extirpated
species to the Park, including wolves and
cougar, the protection of large expanses of
habitat to ensure that wide-ranging species
thrive in the Park, recognition of the need to
protect habitat in a manner that will allow
species to adapt to global changes affecting the
Park, expansion of the Park on its northern and
the creation of the 400,000 acre Oswegatchie
Great Wildemess.

Writer's Institute to air

In July, the New York State Writer’s Institute
will be producing a Public Radio Book show
featuring two writers, a storyteller and a
broadeast journalist. The host of the show will
be Tom Smith, Associate Director of the NYS
Writer’s Institute.

The show will be aired on national public
tadio stations around the country and in
Australia, such as WAMC-FM in Albany and
WAMK-FM in Kingston at 2 pm every Sunday
in July.

For more information as to specific program
content, contact the University’s Humanities

Many students miss experience abroad

By Emer Geraghty
Although a semester on
the gondolas of Venice,}
the beaches of Lisbon, and
the slopes of the Alps may
seem exotic, it’s not as far-|
fetched as most college!

students believe.
Yet according to the
Association of

International Education,}
only a mere one percent of |
all college undergraduates,
take advantage of the
opportunity to study or|
work abroad.

James Pasquill, assistant |#
to the director of the
Office of International
Programs, said that there is}
a marked reluctance to
apply to foreign programs. Ee

He said many students The House of Parliament Is o1

may be hesitant because

they have little or no language training,
or they think that the courses offered
would not be applicable to their field
of study.

With over 100 programs in dozens
of countries available throughout the
SUNY system, students can nearly
always find one that suits their
particular needs and goals. Some
programs are highly specialized and
require a certain class standing and
language proficiency. Other programs
are geared towards those who have a
desire to learn the culture and
language, but don’t have the strong
language base required of the stricter
programs.

Traditionally, participants have come
almost exclusively from the Humanity

and Social Science departments.
Literature, history and fine arts courses
usually complement their academic
needs better than those who are
pursuing degrees in the physical
sciences. However, Pasquill said that
programs do exist for these majors,
and in many cases other course
adjustments can be made.

A country’s political situation can
also influence interest from year to
year. Participants in this summer’s
program in Braunschweig, West
Germany, more than doubled the
number of any previous year.
Conversely, the year following China’s
Tiananmen Square massacre found
many students apprehensive at the idea
of entering such an oppressive,
unstable environment, said China

ine of the sights beheld by a small percentage of American students.

program director Katherine Krebs.

Those students interested in a
cultural, rather than an academic,
experience have participated in work
abroad programs. The best known of
these programs is the British
University’s North America Club
(BUNAC). Established by the British
government, it is the only official
sponsor of such programs. The
agreement with the U.S. government
works on a person-to-person reciprocal
arrangement. The diversity and
likelihood of college students having
held several jobs only works to their
benefit. Pasquill said that waitressing
and secretarial jobs prepare them for
similar positions overseas — positions
that British youths are neither qualified
for nor interested in.

Fall of the Wall brings more students to Germany

By Emer Geraghty

The fall of the Berlin Wall, which separated East and
‘West Germany for decades, has created a huge increase in
study abroad applicants for that country.

Applications for SUNYA’s summer program in
Braunschweig, West Germany, more than tripled this year.
Typically, the average sized group each summer stood at ten.
This year, however, 26 students will be participating,

James Pasquill of SUNYA’s Office of International
Programs said, “Students have studied German steadily

through the years but rarely invésted in an overseas

important.”

program. The fall of the Berlin Wall made German

To accommodate the rapid increase, students will be

houses.

German history.

housed with families, in dormitories, and even in fraternity

‘The six-week session, which runs from early July to mid-
August, offers courses in intensive language training and

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part of newspapers , so if you have a hunger for knowledge and computer art design, we
want you too. Diversity is a major force in our campus, therefore we want a diverse staff
to cover the events that occur here. If you can offer a fresh point of view, we want you.

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SUMMER, 1990

5 Aspects

The Blue Q¢eroplanes Swagger t Soar
Into Acceptance [Finally]

“You're asking me to do your

job,” Gerard Langley, vocalist for the
not-quite overnight British rock
sensation the Blue Aeroplanes chides
me after I’ve asked him to descibe his
group for the average American
listener. “That's your job, you know.
You're getting paid for this.”

Susan Friedman

When I tell Gerard that I’m
actually not getting paid for this article,
he laughs. Just by talking to him trans-
Atlanticly I can tell he's a very
intelligent, thoughtful man, and his
laugh makes me feel like a complete
boob, though so far he hasn’t treated
me as such. “Well, you've got to start
somewhere,” he says, and changes the
subject to talk about his group’s latest
and best record to date, Swagger.

Well. It’s hard to describe the
Blue Aeroplanes to the average
American listener, because they’re not
your average rock band. They're sort
of like the Church would be on
hallucinogens — more ethereal, more
poetic, more passionate (in fact, the
‘planes just opened up for the Church
at the Ritz in New York City on
Tuesday). They incorporate new ideas
into the standard rock genre — Gerard
likes to recite his lyrics rather than sing
them, the band employs a dancer full
time, and they love to use the odd
(stress on that last word) instrument to
accentuate their dreamy hooks and
sleepy rhythms, like a hammer
dulcimer, bagpipes, and a hurdy-
gurdy. Gerard’s lyrics are ambiguous,
intelligent, and whimsical, reflecting
his time as a literature major at the
University of Sheffield in England. He
likes to play on words and conjure up
images you'd never dream of — at
once brilliant, pretentious, (“We thrive
on pretentiousness”) and very, very
strange. Yet in this quirky band with
the odd make-up, everything seems
just right.

The Blue Aeroplanes have
been around for nine years, having
been formed by Gerard and dancer
Wojtek Dmochowski during their
student days in Sheffield in an effort to
shake up the local art scene. A
suprising thing about the band is the_
fact that their name, which you would
expect to have a lot of profound,
hidden meaning, doesn’t mean
anything in particular. It came from
Wojtek’s older brother, after kicking
around some ideas of their own. “We
thought of things, but you sit around
with a list of names, and everything’s
dreadful,” Gerard tells me. “You know
how everyone else’s name sounds so
good? ‘Oh, the Rolling Stones, wish I’d
thought of that.”

Wojtek’s brother had left one
band to form another, and gave Gerard
a list of discarded names. The Blue
Aeroplanes was one of them. “It
doesn’t mean anything, really. It was
the one I liked the best, and Wojtek’s
brother said I could have it, so...”

The ‘planes did have a small
cult following, but it took eight years
and a little help from R.E.M.’s Michael
Stine before the music nress took much

company, and wanted them to open up
for R.E.M.’s tour of England last
summer. Soon the British music press
“discovered” the Blue Aeroplanes’
capricious style, and started falling
over themselves in praise of the band.

Gerard takes all of this in
stride, including the fact that many
critics are saying his band is even
better than R.E.M., the band that can
do no wrong. “Do people think that?
That's nice, I guess.

“We have no problems with
false modesty. We deserve all this.”

After the summer tour, the
Blue Aeroplanes signed with Chrysalis
Records, the only record company out
of the dozen that courted them that

didn’t want them to record a demo.
“We already had four albums out,”
Gerard says (on the indie label Abstract
Records). “There was no sense in
making a demo.”

The budget they were given
for Swagger, their major label debut,
was much larger than they were used
to, and Gerard feels that album means
more. “Our new record sounds great
because it cost more. I mean I’m still
proud of the previous ones, but there
was stuff we wanted to add to them
that we couldn’t, because we didn’t
have the funds.

We got $90,000 for Swagger,
which I guess would be small for Bon
Jovi, but before Swagger, our most
expensive album cost about $5,000. We
had one, Bop Art, that cost $300, if you
can believe it. For that kind of money
we obviously had to produce the
records ourselves, and what did we
know?...”

The ‘planes’ new album shines
asa result. That fuzzy, made-in-the-
garage-on-a-tape-recorder quality
usually present on low budget records
is absent here. Swagger has gloss and
polish, not overly produced but not
cheaply made either. It almost sounds

care festered on the record by producer
Gil Norton, of Pixies fame.

“Picture it this way,” Gerard
says. “Do you have a CD
player?...How about a hifi?...Does it
have a cassette player?...Is it
expensive?...” Now that Twenty
Questions is over, he launches into his
point — sort of. “Okay. You buy a
new album, you come home and play
it on your hifi. It sounds good. Now,
say somebody has an eight-track tape,
and they make a copy of your album
onto the eight-track tape, and they play
it on their crappy hifi, which can’t
compare to yours. There’s a big

difference, right?...Well, that’s the
difference between Swagger and our

old records.”

Gerard feels this latest line-up
of the Blue Aeroplanes, like Swagger, is
their best yet. The group has
undergone a whopping twenty
personnel changes since the beginning,
mainly because old members decided
they wanted steadier careers. The
current line-up includes original
members Gerard, his brother John on
drums, Wojtek as dancer, and Angelo
Bruschini. The newest members are
Andy McCreeth on bass, Alex Lee, a
19-year-old guitar legend, and Rodney
Allen, a guitarist who used to open up
for the ‘planes in England and is a solo
star in Japan. “I consider this line-up
to be a supergroup. They were people
Talready knew. I had to break up five
bands to get this line-up — it’s about a
year and a half old, and I think it’s our
best.”

One has to wonder why
exactly the Blue Aeroplanes need
Wojtek, whose fiendish dancing style
borders on the insane. It seems the
bonds of friendship can help to make a
career. “He was a friend of mine at
college,” Gerard explains. “And he is a
great dancer. It’s just because he was
there, you know. We needed a visual

painting pictures while we play.”

Odd as it may seem, the
‘planes aren’t the only band to have a
dancer anymore. British hippie rock
band Happy Mondays have recently
acquired a full-time dancer, and some
music critics have actually accused the
‘planes of stealing the idea from them.
“1 don’t really mind when bands copy
us, but when we're the ones being
accused, that’s something else.” The
‘planes have also been accused of
copying the echoey guitar sound U2 is
now famous for, but Gerard is pretty
mellow regarding this. “We were
using that sound way before U2 was —
I’m not saying they stole the sound
from us. Actually, we're not too big or
originality either; we did kind of take
that sound from John Martin.”

John who?

Gerard laughs, but it’s not an
intimidating laugh anymore. It’s kind
of, well, confused, actually. “He’s this
folk/jazzy blues singer. I thought he
was pretty famous. He was kind of an
influence on me.”

Well, Gerard, speaking of
influences....He groans , anticipating
the question. “I have hundreds of
influences. Too numerous to go into —
too, too numerous...” Eventually he
breaks down and tells me a few:
“Laurie Anderson, Bob Dylan, the
Kinks, and oh, yes, the Doors. even
though I loathe them. That counts,
right? I mean, you can hate a band and
still have them influence you.”

Ironically, Gerard, like Jim
Morrison, is a rock poet for his
generation — or for his audience,
anyway. He likes to take weighty
matters and disguise them in
subliminal metaphors, as in
“Weightless,” which is about pollution
in Africa, or give new meanings to
words you didn’t realize could be
taken another way, as in “Jacket
Hangs,” the first single off the record,
which utilizes three very confusing
versions of the word “suit.” Gerard
looooves to play with words.

“The band’s quite confused by
my words sometimes,” he admits. “I
don’t even know how I do it — I write
lyrics as they come to me. I consider
words to be like a lump of clay to be
chipped away, piece by piece, until the
sculpture remains. It can take any
amount of time, and when it’s finished,
it’s finished.

“I don’t write lyrics in terms of
trends — we're not part of any
particular scene.”

Gerard likes to change the
subject without warning, and he does it
again. “Albany...isn’t that the sight of
the William Kennedy books?” He then
recommends a Kennedy book to me
about a pool player, one whose title
escapes him. “It’s a very good book.
Not as grim as Ironweed. You'd like it.”

T ask him why he didn’t like Ironweed.
“Oh, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I just
about enjoy everything.”

Well, after nine years, five
albums, twenty personnel changes, and
a brave, refreshing musical style that is
literally beyond comparison, Gerard
and the Blue Aeroplanes are finally
enjoying success. And nothing
compares to that.

6 Aspects

SUMMER, 1990

Williams Drives a Lemon in Cadillac Man

Robin Williams is an obsessed car
salesman who will try to sell a car to
anyone, anywhere, even a widow on
the day of her husband’s funeral. He is
a philandering boyfriend working his
way deep into debt juggling several
lovers while struggling to meet
alimony payments to his ex-wife. He's
the father of a teenage daughter who,
according to her mother, has fallen in
with the wrong crowd. He also
becomes the chief mediator for police
when a wacko gunman crashes into the
dealership where he works, holds the
customers hostage, and grills the
clerks to find out who has been
sleeping with his wife.

All of this Robin Williams is.

Clarence Eckerson

But can he sell you a movie? Like a
well-versed huckster, he wheels and
deals a good talk and promises extra
incentives, bonuses, and rebates as
long as you sign on the dotted line. In
the end, though, Cadillac Man is
another mediocre sham you wish you

had the option of test driving before
you paid the full sticker price.

Somewhat of a departure for
Williams, (though these days
everything he does seems to be a
departure) this time he plays a
manipulative creature out of a car
buyer’s nightmare. He’s sweaty. He’s
sleazy. He wants to sell cars. He
incorporates selling into every part of
his life. He’s addicted to making any
sort of deal which provides him with
an emotional euphoria. However, the
role doesn’t allow him the
improvisational freedom of Good
Morning Vietnam and thus, his most
natural talent is wasted. This gamble
doesn’t pay off.

Particularly alarming is that Cadillac
Man is not funny. The device of having
Williams speak directly to the camera
as a narrator during transition scenes
isn’t very well suited to his persona.
His supposedly terse observations of
his own life aren’t effective. Add to

this the fact that Cadillac Man can’t -
deal.

make up its mind whether it wants to
be a comedy, a drama, both, or neither,
and it’s anybody’s guess as to the
motive behind this mess of

unconcentrated madness.

Not until the concluding moments
of the second half does it really succeed
in striking a chord with its unlikely
bond between Williams and his loud-
mouthed captor (Timothy Robbins).
There is an uncanny expectation on the
movie's part that the developing
association between the two will allow
the audience to forgive Robbins,
although earlier he injured several
people with a semi-automatic rifle. It
happens...but grudgingly slow.

It is designed to be ironic that
Williams, involved all movie in trying
to sell off autos at a special liquidation
sale to save his job, must now strike the
most important deal of his life in order
to free himself and the other hostages.
What I found more ironic is that
director Roger Donaldson couldn’t sell
the same chaotic sense to Williams’
character as he did along the same
lines with Kevin Costner’s frantic
world in No Way Out.

Plain and simple, Cadillac Man: no

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Totally Arnold

Finally! A summer movie

blockbuster whose magnificence
matches its own hype and hoopla.
Total Recall, (a.k.a. Arnold
Schwarzenegger goes to Mars missing
vital memory components) is the
colossal sixty-million-dollar-plus sci-fi
epic brought to you by the folks at Tri-
Star. By appearance, it seems to not
have wasted a penny of its budget in
bringing alive a simulated, adobe
Martian landscape of the year 2084.

Clarence Eckerson

Big Arnie is Doug Quaid, a
jackhammer operator at a rock quarry
on Earth, who has a dream of combing
a foreign world with a cryptic woman.
His pleasant vision is interrupted,
however, when his suit cracks open, he
decompresses, and his eyes and tongue
are ripped out of his skull.

Sounds neat!?

Feeling rusty, he decides to take an
interplanetary breather. Low on
credits and still intrigued by the
memory mystery, he visits Rekall, a
unique vacation dreamland which

promises a mind simulated trip at a
fraction of the cost. The best thing, a
salesman tells him , “is that your brain
will never know the difference!”

Quaid goes under and something
goes wrong, terribly wrong...or does it?
From here the story contains as many
wrinkles as one of those long lost shirts
you find imbedded in the void
between couch cushions. Quaid
“awakens” to find himself in the midst
of a civil war on the angry red planet.
The dispute is over oxygen, of which a
self-appointed governor(Ronny Cox)
has total control over. He wants Quaid
dead, though Quaid doesn’t know
why. The nice feature is that Recall, in
part, forces us to identify with Quaid
since it reveals its fantastic plot turns in
a way so we know only as much as he
does.

At the heart, this is wholly a
Schwarzenegger vehicle. It isn’t On
Golden Pond ; you know what to expect.
Watch Arnold the Fearless fire round
after round of ammunition without
reloading, break bad guys in half with
his bare hands, and toss off predictable
one-liners (he’s got a few new dandy
ones) before making mincemeat out of

247 stunt doubles. Recall is heavily
enmeshed in violence and vulgarity, so
it relies upon Arn’s charm to translate
those situations into comic relief. Its
graphic fury ends up looking more like
comic book kills than the horrible
reality of something like, say, Platoon.

This time around, Arnold’s nemesis
is Michael (Scanners) Ironside, one of
many hit-men trying to take out Quaid
and the resistance. Ironside provides <
nice twist on the typical villain: while
bad to the bone, you'll find yourself
rooting for him. He is so determined
to get Quaid that it is funny to watch
his facetious reactions to his inept, bad
boy cronies who can’t seem to shoot
straight. With this meaty role he may
finally have turned the corner and
earned a good guy role like fellow
actors, Gary Busey, Rutger Hauer, and
his co-star, Mr. Terminator himself.

Shades of director Paul (Robocop)

Verhoeven abound. Great villains.
Elaborate effects. Dark humor and
brutality. His non-stop rollercoaster
tide will have you reeling from one
minute to the next. Recall combines
some of the best moments from
Running Man, Blade Runner, and Star
Wars, just to name a few. You will be
left bewildered as to how Verhoeven
pulls off some of his shots.

Total Recall defies imagination —
it’s crafty. It’s an adventure laced with
drama, wit, color, and creativity.

And intentional or not, the finale
leaves us pondering some basic
philosophical questions as to what is
reality and what isn’t. Who are we?
What are we? How do we know?

Maybe we are all living in a Recall
dream. How’s that for blowing your

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Tales on
the Lighter
Side

Like Creepshow and Cat's Eye, Tales
From the Darkside: The Movie boasts a
collection of anecdotes that base their
storylines in tragedy or unwelcome
fortune.

Clarence Eckerson

Typically, these film anthologies
have one tale that stands out far above
the others and one that’s abysmally
boring. Darkside can take pride since,
for the most part, its trio of horror-
spun nightmares are all watchable —
and to a point engaging. Yet they lack
a certain spectacularity; on the terror
seismometer, Darkside’s subject matter
tegisters as only a brief, feeble tremor.
It’s nothing more than a big-budget
face-lift cousin to its t.v. syndicated
ptedecessor.

And for being the big screen debut
of Darkside — with names like Romero,
King, and Micheal (Beetlejuice)
McDowell along for the fright trip —
you would hope attempts would be
made at keeping the plot turns a little
unpredictable.

Not a chance.

The first tale, “Lot 249”, finds a
sinister archeology student purchasing
an ancient sarcophagus in hopes of
resurrecting the mummy remains
inside in order to perform a little
campus dirty work for him. It’s
plagued by bland acting and an
unfulfilling resolution.

Next up, “The Cat From Hell”
combines a rather nifty use of
narration and adroit directing style in
telling the story of a hit man (David
Johansen) hired by an old coot to rub
out a murderous feline. Again, the
ending lacks a knockout punch, which
spoils the crafty imagery generated by
McDowell.

Lastly, “Lover’s Vow” features a
struggling artist (James Remar) who
coincidentally meets his future wife
(Rae Dawn Chong) on the same night
he is granted a reprieve from death by
a ghastly gargoyle. The most
emotional of the three, it shows a good
deal of promise early on, but it is
weighted down by Chong, who
spends most of her screen time
standing in the shadows looking
mysterious.

All of these tales are bound by
another — mondo-rock queen Debbie
Harry’s Hansel and Gretel (minus
Gretel) take-off of a little boy trying to
escape the clutches of a tilted
housewife (Harry) planning to serve
him as the main course of a neighborly
get-together.

The stories are routine. The pace is
predictable. The gore is anemic. Yet
with all of its negatives, Darkside isn’t a
complete wash-out. It’s more enticing
than recent horror cheapos (like The
Guardian, for example), and at least it
has enough integrity to tell a story
without insulting its audience’s
intelligence.

Then again, ‘maybe that’s what's
wrong with it.

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June 19, 1990

7 Aspects

ASPects’ Guide to Off-Campus Living

Every year, many students undertake
a bold endeavor; looking for off-
campus apartments. All over the
Albany area sophomores and juniors
comb the bushes to find escape from
the campus life-style, or lack thereof.

Scott Sabourin

The thoughts of wild, never-ending
parties, added to the overwhelming
desire to tell your R.A. where he or she
can put those rules of theirs, is quite
compelling to some — hell, most
students. But before you tear through
the local newspaper to get to the
Apartments for Rent section, let me
give you some thoughts to mull over.
There are certainly many advantages to
moving off-campus. I’ve taken the

usually your landlord threatening to
turn off your heat if you don’t give him
last month’s rent (which you spent the
night before at the Branch).

2. No one will laugh at you if you
watch Brady reruns.

3. You can play your stereo as loud as
you want, or can stand, whichever
comes first.

I could go on, but those are basically
the highlights. With this in mind,
youre ready to take your hard-earned
money and start looking for your
dream house. Take it from a person
who has lived off-campus for a year —
you’re in for a surprise or two.

First and foremost, Albany is a
lovely city with many rustic buildings.
“Rustic” is another word for saying
that the house was built before indoor
plumbing was fashionable. Also keep
in mind that the kindly old landlord
who signed your lease is apt to suffer

Don’t kid yourself; he’ll make Charles
Manson look well-adjusted. Also, most
landlords in Albany view home repair
on the same par as gum disease, so if
that leaking faucet keeps you awake at
night, better get used to it.

Maybe I’m being too hard on
Albany’s fine townspeople. There are
some wonderful houses for rent out
there (way out there), and I’m sure you
will find one that is just right.
However, that is only one hurdle to
clear. Here are a few others that may
send you flailing:

1. Most houses don’t come with a
washer or dryer, so sooner or later
you'll have to go to a laundromat.
Make it later; laundromats are almost
as interesting as publicly funded
television.

2. On campus is a pleasant lady who
will clean your bathroom for you. Off-
campus, you're not so lucky. If you

alone long enough, it could turn
violent.

3. If you have never gotten your own
groceries, you're in for a real treat.

4. If you think getting your groceries
is fun, just wait till you try to cook the
stuff.

5. Getting up for an 8 a.m. class is
fun, but not nearly as fun as getting up
an hour earlier to shovel your
driveway after a typical snow storm.

6. Remember those wild parties you
planned on having at your new
domicile? Well, if you hated your
R.A.’s, just wait till you have a chat
with Albany’s finest. They‘re a real
barrel of laughs.

But hey, don’t let these little
drawbacks bother you. Move off-
campus and enjoy the good life. I’m
sure I'll see you — I'll be in the frozen
dinner section of Price Chopper. I’ll be
the thin one with the dirty clothes.

liberty to list a few for you:

1. The phone is always for you, S€vere mood swings once you move in.

Big Barn Burning Packs the
QE2

Subduing Mara and Big Barn Burning drew a vivacious crowd to fill the QE2

nightclub last Thursday night. The bands shook them up with their foot
stomping, hand clapping brand of rock and roll served up with a more than
palatable side of guitar crunch and heartfelt crooning.

Hailing from Oneonta, N.Y., Subduing Mara had started the speakers crackling.
A percussionist was featured along with their drummer and the band got
people’s feet moving and pulse rates up.

Boston’s Big Barn Burning later mounted the stage decorated with their
trademark down-home relics. Guitarist Matt Pelletier, sporting a sharp looking
flat cap and Colonel Sanders tie sung of the “lavender hollows” in one of their
favorites, “Ploughshare and the Snare Drum.” Bassist Matt Elms also stretched
the vocal cords and added to the display of non-stop acrobatics that seemed to
have placed both of the Matts in every cubic foot of space on and above the stage.
Drummer Peter D’Angelo even it made out from behind the trap kit for a piece to
pound out the beats on a marching snare drum.

The Barn went on to blaze with material from their forthcoming album entitled
Topping the Orchard. According to Elms, the album is expected out in July and will
be distributed by Rough Trade records.

The crowd was very much a part of the show, from the non-stop dancing up
front to actually coming onstage to sing a cover of Dwight Yoakam’s “Reading,
Writing and Rt, 23” as invited by the band members.

“The show was smoking,” said WCDB disc jockey Kevin Madigan.”The best
show that I have seen them put on at the QE2.”

--John Jackson

leave that green stuff under the sink

The Boal Student Sqidelines

(for you uniyspeating freshman)
The hungrier you are, the worse the U..A.S. meal will be
All hidden food will be found and stolen
The radiators will work, but only in the spring
If you wake up for an early morning lecture, it will be cancelled
If you’re tired and exhausted, there will be a loud party next door

The professor’s watch is always at least five minutes slower than
yours

If a class is long and boring, the professor will keep you for an
extra few minutes

The more interesting a class is, the less it has to do with your
major

If you study hard, the professor will compensate and make the
test proportionately harder

Any topic you already know will be discussed extensively, while
something you are unfamiliar with will be quickly passed over
and disregarded

Any lecture you attend will have absolutely no bearing on the
test. However, any class you miss will be covered extensively

If you only bring one pencil to an important test, it will break
The Rat will always close five minutes before you arrive
All important phone calls will never reach you

Whatever time of the day you go down to do your laundry, all of
the machines will be taken

Any movie/concert you’re dying to see will come out on the
night before a final

Your roommate will like to sing to an annoying soundtrack
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EDITORIAL —=—
Freedom of speech?

"Censorship is like an appendix.
When inert it is useless, when active it
is extremely dangerous”

-Maurice Edelman
British labour politician

It seems as if wherever you look
these days there are groups forming
with the sole purpose of supporting
censorship, whether it concerns
writings, the spoken word or the
human body.

Flip on your television during the
afternoon talk shows and you're sure to
find representatives of these groups
attempting to spread their message.
But the message they are spreading is
much more detrimental than the
subject they are trying to censor.

Most recently, the rap music group 2

Live Crew has become the subject of
their rage. The group was arrested after

a recent concert in Broward County,
Florida based on local obscenity laws.
In addition, a record store owner was
arrested for carrying the groups music,
based upon the same laws.

While the groups music does contain
a plethora of vulgarities, the
censorship of their music clearly
violates the first amendment to the
Constitution of the United States of
America.

Censorship groups claim that lyrics
such as this are leading to the downfall
of society. However, the actions of
these judgmental conservatives possess
a far greater danger.

Is it worse to talk explicitly about
oral sex on stage or take it upon
yourself to completely disregard what
the Constitution stands for?

These groups have also lit the fire
under pop music star Madonna
concerning her "Like a Prayer" video,
which led to the cancellation of a Pepsi
commercial.

These actions are by no means
limited to the entertainment business.
More and more we are seeing these
actions take place in every facet of life.
We saw it in the censoring of the
Stylus, the student newspaper at
Brockport, an action which is
becoming an all to familiar sight on
college campuses.

No person has the right to decide
what should be seen, heard or read by
other people. Parents should look out
for the welfare of their children and
make their own judgments about what
they perceive to be offensive or not.

COLLEGE PRESS

mS FROM THE POSTAL SERVICE...”

COLUMN

Advice for the incoming freshmen

“So, this is college," I thought to myself. It was the
first week of school, classes had just begun, and here I
was, hanging out in some dorm room with my suitemates
and a friend of a friend and his friends, doing nothing. I
was a little bored but hey, at least I wasn’t alone.

Leanne Warshauer

After what seemed like hours of that awkward “getting
to know you” talk, someone asked the question,”So, what
ARE we going to do?”

Shortly thereafter our host rose, walked to his dresser,
and produced a small plastic bag with “stuff” in it and
something that looked a little bit like the paper you clean
a camera lens with. Several people nodded in
appreciation. I looked on in horror. Barely getting the
words out I whispered to one of my suitemates,”Is that
what I think it is?”. She answered my question with a
smile.

For the next half hour I watched my new friends share
their good fortune, trying to justify in my mind why I
was against the stuff in the first place.

I doubt there are many among the newcomers to
SUNYA who are as naive as I was. But for those of you
who may not realize, we have a drug problem on campus.
More specifically, there is a lot of pot, weed, marijuana,
cannibus, cheeba, or whatever we call it being used.
While this is not the only form of drug use on campus, I
believe that next to alcohol, it is the most popular. Forget
what you may have heard during orientation. Pot is
everywhere and it’s easy to get.

The last thing I want to do is be critical. Ignoring the
fact, for a moment, that pot is an illegal substance, you
can use it if you want to. Let’s face it, it has its good
points. Compared to alcohol, unless you drink Piels, it’s
not that expensive, it doesn’t make you go to the
bathroom every 10 minutes, you usually don’t throw up
from it, and it’s extremely social, meaning that people
who use it like to share.

ATTENTION INCOMING STUDENTS: If you like to
get stoned, you’ll find a wide variety of students at
SUNYA who share your enthusiasm. But please, don’t
get too excited until you hear what else I have to say.

College can be a very lonely, boring time for some.
Because pot is such a social drug, I fear that you may use
it to relieve these feelings. If you’re surrounded by
people getting stoned you probably don’t feel very
lonely, and if you were bored before chances are you
don’t remember why. In addition, you and your new
friends now depend on each other for a good time, and
pot is part of that dependency. I’ve seen groups of people
with “nothing better to do” sit around their dorm rooms,
burnt day after day, reflecting on why Albany sucks so

much.

I propose that there is something better to do. Please,
if you ever find yourself so desperate for something to
fill your days with, besides classes, that you'll try
ANYTHING, throw yourself into one of the many
activities we have on campus. I know it sounds corny,
and doesn’t seem half as fun as getting stoned, but
getting involved can be your ticket to a good time.
SUNYA offers a wide range of cultural and religious
organizations for all walks of life. There are athletics,
tanging from baseball and wrestling to women’s judo.
We have a well equipped weight room in the University
Gym, and the Quads offer aerobics classes. Located in
our state’s capital city, SUNYA has an abundance of
politically geared organizations. There are general
interest activities, for those enthused by theater,

" ,..it sounds corny,
but getting involved
can be your ticket to a
good time".

photography, philosophy, réfio, and journalism. The
Student Association desperately needs help, and you can
better the campus at the same time. Not to be forgotten is
SUNYA’s Greek system, which can easily take up all
your spare time.

Now please, don’t think I’m patronizing you. Getting
involved with a campus activity won’t keep you on the
straight and narrow. It’s my guess that nearly half the
people in these organizations are burnt themselves. But
keep in mind, they probably don’t have nearly as much
time to devote to it as the inactive student.

With the fall semester approaching, look out for
General Interest meeting signs the first few weeks of
school. If anything remotely interests you, go check it
out. If you hate attending something by yourself, be
brave and go anyway. I took a chance, found something
1 love to do, and am planning a career around it. Give it
a try. Make your college experience more than grades
and foggy memories.

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LETTERS

Graduation is a letdown

The following letter was addressed to President O’
Leary and a copy sent to the ASP

Dear Dr. O'Leary

I trust , or at least hope, that by this time, the dozens
of families unable to witness their loved one’s
graduation ceremonies, have begun to express their
displeasure.

We do not blame you for the weather —- although
God knows, you could have prayed harder. But, when
parents were issued TWO passes, and those, like
myself, came alone, so that my ex-husband, father of
the graduate, would also get his chance to see his
daughter receive her degree, and when we were both
individually turned away, only to learn that hundreds of
people without passes were admitted to the ten 0’ clock
ceremony, something is drastically wrong.

Did I raise my daughter to respect the rules only to
find out once again, that rules are not only made to be
broken, but seem to be made for fools? Or is that what
you teach at Albany? Did countless students get inside
the gym that moming, because their friends let them
in?

I saw grandparents crying outside, and heard stories
of mothers taking their youngsters to the bathroom,
only to be told that they could not get back inside. And
while my daughter received her degree, I sat back in
her apartment and the contingency of other family
members who made the trip upstate from Long Island,
but did not even attempt to go to the commencement,
all of us being fools who obey the rules.

AA Sar?

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What could have been done? First of all,
miraculously, it had stopped raining earlier. The
decision to move the ceremony inside should not have
been made until the last minute, and even if it were
drizzling, people should have been given the
opportunity to sit outside in the rain, rather than have no
opportunity at all, but to leave.

The security should not have been left to students, but
to administrators, who would have honored the passes, I
hope. And finally, as in the past, even though the
graduating class was broken into groups, it could have
been broken into smaller groups by alphabet.
Inconvenient to your staff, yes, but I must say, it was
slightly inconvenient for me and for my family to
financially get my daughter through her four years of
college. It was inconvenient for us to drive up for her
graduation, and it was even more inconvenient to be
turned away at the last minute.

Since you are leaving this year, I guess this letter
won’t ruin your day too much. But a copy is going to
the Alumni Association, who has a much more vested
interest in preserving good relationships with families
and graduates. I hope that in the future, other families
do not leave Albany, at the end of those last celebratory
hours, with the same sense of emptiness I feel. It’s a
little bit like going to the hospital to have a baby, but
coming home empty handed.

Vivien Kellerman

SUNY bus troubles

To the Editor:

Over the years, we’ve had SUNY buses running
downtown as late as 12:30am at night. Now the 12:30
route is in question due to some problems that some
drivers have been having late at night. One of these
problems included an ordeal that I had gone through on
February 9, 1990 at around 11:30 pm. I went on the
bus. The driver had problems with a passenger and
called U.P.D. They came. The driver eventually started
driving down. The driver heard some disturbing things
and pulled over a block before Manning. He then got
off and apparently started talking to U.P.D. Things got
tense on the bus. People threatened to drive the bus and

also threatened the driver himself.

If this sort of thing happens again, not only may that
last route at 12:30am be eliminated, but also someone
may get seriously hurt.

If you want bus service, then treat the bus drivers
with respect. It’s like a muscle. If you abuse it you
may lose it. Not to mention the fact that in the process
of abusing the service you may traumatize other
passengers and the drivers.

Before I end I have something to say to the Motor
Pool. I was talking to someone at the Motor Pool on
the phone and someone said that he felt that the U.A.S.
workers were causing a lot of the problems partially
because of the Inner City kids coming up. He also said
that he felt that the bus system was primarily designed
for the students and that if there were more problems
then maybe they should just go back to basics and make
it just for the students.

I know that the bus drivers are having problems, but I
found that comment about U.A.S. workers very unfair.
I have some very good friends that are U.A.S. workers
and they are very nice people. True, the bus is
primarily for the students, but for some that work late
and cannot drive, this bus is the only bus they have.

To those who have been causing problems on the
buses, please stop this foolishness before it’s too late.

Beth Kierns

Sports pages improved

To the Editor: A

I'm really glad that the ASP has decided to include
an intramural statistics page in the back of the ASP. I
enjoy looking forward to seeing how the rest of the
league did in the past week.

The sports pages are really looking great. I know I
speak for all of the intramural players, NBA and NHL
stars when I say, leave it in!

Adam Kaplan

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Personals

It's getting closer... It's almost
time... Only three more
months until the return of the
JERSEY SHUFFLE!

God it’s hot!?

Leanne, Kerri, and
Hope(wherever you are)- |
know that all of you will do a
kick ass job next year--- hang
in there.

Wayne

Bry and Mo-
Thanx for coming through
this weekend.

Wayne

Why does my house smell?

Matt-
Shouldn't p.2 have doon
earlier?

E-I-C

Lou-
Like I've said before, you
could be a great journalist.
This weekend was great, and
I'm looking forward to many,
many more. Do it up in
Europe. Love ya-

Ruben

Mo-

Keep ‘em on their toes at
Capitol. Thanks for
everything, you're a great
Bud and a lot of fun to hang
with.

Wayne-
Congrats, it's looking great
already. Remember, I'm
always there if you need me.
Good luck

-Bryan

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Steve-

Sorry, no girls on the top
floor. What are you going to
do? Well, there's always
Tammy.

It's 2:00. Where the hell is
the ME!

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The vicious buisness woman
who makes grown men cry on
the phone, we're going to
miss you.

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Attention Freshmen

Welcome to SUNY Albany.
We hope that you are enjoying yourself
, during your orientation.

In addition to all of the various teams,
groups, and activities that you'll find here,
we would also like those of you interested

in journalism, graphic design, group
management, and business to consider
joining the Albany Student Press.

Weill be having a general interest meeting
in the fall, where we welcome everyone
to come. Otherwise, you can stop by
whenever you can to see if anyone is
around, if not, leave a note.

We're located in the Campus Center in
rooms 329, 326, and 332, and our phone
number is 442 - 5660. :

Hope to hear from you soon.

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Mo-

Thanks for all your help with

my masterpiece. I"li contact

you as soon as the libel suits

roll in. Bart saved the day!
-Lara

Matt-
Have a great time in Europe,
cause when you come back
you're doomed man confined
in hell. Just kidding, Donny,
thamks for hangin’ around
being a great friend. Send
me postcards.

-Bryan

Mi esposa-
Te amo

-Love Chunks

Emer-

Sorry we didn't get a chance
to hang out.. But | know you
love me anyway! Now, how
does it work.. | splash cold

water on my face.

-Lara
To everyone who came up
this weekend-
THANKS!!

-Lara

This is Morgan's personal to
everyone that he wanted to
put in but was to lazy to write
out.

John Jackson-
I'll never view the bus stops
at this school the same
again.

Wayne

Bryan-
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could do it! All teeth- no
action,... or whatever

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SUNY Albany student to
run for USSA pres. in July

ALBANY — State University
of New York at Albany student
Julius A. Davis said this week
he will be seeking the presidency
of the United States Student
Association.

Davis, who is presently vice
president of the organization,
officially announced his
intentions Tuesday night in a
New York STATE STUDENT
LEADER interview.

Elections will take place at the
organization’s national
conference in Las Vegas in late
July.

Tajel Shah, senior at Rutgers
University majoring in

journalism, is seeking the vice
presidency with Davis.

“We have a lot ahead of us,”
Davis, a former SASU V.P., said.
“We've really really suffered the
past 10 years, and within that
time that we’ve suffered,
students who are already
disenfranchised have taken a
double blow.

“President Bush is saying that
he’s the education president, but
he’s making us spend more
money on our educa-
tion—money that we don’t have.
Middle class students are being
told that tuition increases are
okay and they’re believing it.

And at the same time, there are
30 million homeless and 600,00
people die of starvation every
year in the US. Seventy five
percent of all disabled people are
unemployed and gay and lesbian
students fear for their lives. And
all of this takes place at a time
when our economy is supposed
to be prospering. If that’s not
enough to get the student
movement going, I don’t know
what is.”

So far, no one in the 200-
member-school organization has
announced their intention to

oppose Davis for the presidency.

SUNYA graduates honored

with Washington internships

By Leanne Warshauer
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Five Albany graduates were
recently honored by the United
States Office of Personal
Management, with an internship
opportunity in Washington, D.C.

The five University at
Albany’s Rockefeller College of
Public Affairs and policy
graduates will be placed as
Presidential Management
Interns, on two-year grants
totaling $50,000.

Only one Rockefeller graduate
was See to the program last

The purpose of the thirteen
year old program is to attract the}
brightest, most committed]
students to the federal service.

The students selected were}
Matthew B. Barry, Darcie|
Ciejka, Gregory A. Price, Lisa]
M. Risola, and Anthony
Scardino.

“Tt is a great opportunity for]
these outstanding young students|
to enter upon public service
careers,” said Richard P. Nathan,
provost of the college. “The
relatively large number selected)
from this one graduate school is|
encouraging recognition of the|
work being done here, as well as}
of the students’ individual
qualifications.”

Mall business slows down in “summer

By Wayne Stock
EDITOR IN CHIEF

Since its opening, Crossgates
Mall has become the saving
grace for the SUNY Albany
student looking to shop, go to a
movie, or just grab a quick bite
to eat at the food court.
Throughout the school year you
can find thousands of students
roaming the floors of this
metropolis of capitalism.

During the summer months,
however, the majority of SUNY

students are not in the capital
district. For many businesses this

RESERVE OFFI

leads to a loss of revenue during
this period, but that figure varies
considerably.

“When SUNY’s in session we
definitely feel the effect,” Tape
World manager Tim Petersen
said. “I’ve been here for a year
now and when September comes
it’s a little bit like Christmas
around here with everybody
gobbling up their CD’s and
tapes.”

Other types of stores which are
most effected are sporting good

stores.
“There is a definite drop,” Fan
Club manager John Cramer said.

CERS’ TRAINING

“We lose about 10-15% in
sales.”

But for most businesses in
Crossgates, the decrease is
minimal. Many claim little
change in sales, if any at all.

“Overall were not suffering,”
Aeropostale assistant manager
Amy Tucker said. “SUNY traffic
does help, but we have a lot of
promotions that help sales.”

“I don’t see any difference,”
Taco Bell manager Mike
Zarenski said.

Other businesses stated that
the summer months actually

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increased sales, regardless of the
loss of college students, because
of the product they are selling.

“Our sales are higher,” Hoyt
Cinemas manager Robert Briggs
said. “Kids are out of school now
and there are a lot of movies
aimed at them.”

But what all of the merchants
agree on is that when the winter
holidays roll around, sales go
through the roof.

“Christmas is really big for
us,” Waldenbooks acting
manager Joel Potts said. “There

are a lot of student sales here.”

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to sell SUNYA clothing at the same time (get the hint?).
We're slavishly devoted to manufacturing and selling the
widest selection of SUNYA sweatshirts, pants, tanktops,
t-shirts, and shorts.

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stuff.

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Budget
Continued from front page

“This door would remain
closed in the future, regardless of
our fiscal situation, as few
programs, once eliminated, are
ever resurrected,” he said.

The IAB was created by the
University Senate last year. A
body of students, faculty and
administrators, it took over
control of the SA allotment to
athletics as a preliminary to the
school’s anticipated move of
some sports from NCAA
Division III competition to
Division I.

Cigarettes

Continued from front page
definitely helps people to quit
when they have to wait to get a
cigarette.” And one part-time
Student, Liz Sutcu, had “no
problem with that,” referring to
the removal of the cigarettes.
Did she feel that it is an
infringement on the rights of
legal smokers? “No.”

The disappearance of cigarette
profits leads to the question, how
is UAS going to make up for the
loss of revenues from cigarette
sales? Frederick mentioned that
UAS will be introducing several
new products to the banks of
vending machines found all over
campus and in the quads. Cold
food machines and microwave
ovens are planned to be installed
in the Computer Center, the
Business Administration
building, and State and Dutch
quads. If they are a success, the
machines will also be put in the
other uptown quads, but there are
no plans to install them on
Alumni quad due to the lower
population levels.

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A cure for the summertime blues

By J.J. THOMPSON

Ah, those lazy, hazy days of summer can drive you crazy.
Especially if you — or your kids — are just hanging around the
house those long, hot days.

But there’s no need to spend your summer sitting around watching
soapoperas. There’s plenty to do. All it takes is knowing what is out
there. Well,that, and maybe a little imagination.

To get you going, here’s a list of 35 things to do this summer:

BE AN ATHLETE

1. Join a softball, basketball or baseball league.

2. Shoot some hoops in a sandlot basketball game.

3. Enter a tournament.

4. Hike before it gets too hot.

BE A SPECTATOR

5. Take yourself out to a baseball game.

6. Watch the action at the local softball park.

7. Cheer for runners in a local 5- or 10K race.

8. Drive out to the local airport and watch planes take off and
land.

BE HAPPY

9. Go ona picnic.

10. Go for a Guinness World Record.

11. Get away from it all at your favorite scenic spot.

12. Send a letter to your favorite movie star asking for an
autographed picture. The brary should have a book with all the
addresses,

13, Make up a secret code.

BE COOL

14. Beat the heat with a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle and an air-
conditioned room.

15. Whip up some homemade frozen pops — all you need are
paper cups, wooden sticks and your favorite fruit juice.

16. Put together a scrapbook.

17. Rent some old beach movies starring Frankie and Annette.

18. Go malling. Stake out a bench at your favorite mall and
people-watch, or go window shopping. If you feel like splurging,
indulge in a dish of frozen yogurt or a giant cookie.

BE SMARTER

19. Check out all those great books you’ve been wanting to read
at your nearest library.

20. Check your local library for special summer programs for
kids and
adults.

21. Look for free concerts.

22. Get a book on astronomy and take a good look at the night
sky.

23. Go to the zoo.

24. Visit a museum,

25. Learn about your state’s history, either at a museum or at the
library.

GJ. Thompson writes for the Arkansas Gazette.)
©Copyright 1990, USA TODAY/Apple College Information Network

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Midwest also has DWI

By Dennis Kelly

Kids who drive after drinking
— or ride in cars with friends
who do — are an“epidemic”
problem in the rural Midwest, a
new study in the Journal of
SchoolHealth says.

Most research on alcohol and
drug abuse by teens
concentrates on urban
andsuburban areas, researcher
Paul Sarvela says. But he and
colleagues studied 3,382 junior
and senior high students
fromsmall towns in central and
southern Illinois and found:

16 percent had driven a car
after drinking alcohol or using
drugs at least once in the past
six months.

*Driving under the influence
(DUI) increases with a student’s
age.

42 percent of 12th-graders said

they’d driven a car at least one
time the previous six months
after drinking or using other
drugs. ~
Of the total studygroup, 3.4
percent said they drove after
drinking weekly.
20 percent of seventh-graders
had been passengers in cars with
a drinking driver in the past six
months;
58 percent of seniors had.
“Rural populations in general
are neglected in drug and
alcohol abusestudies,” says
Sarvela, associate professor at
Southern Illinois University
atCarbondale.
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16 finalists announced for U.S. hoop squad

By JimFurlong

DURHAM, N.C. — Four players from the Atlantic
Coast Conference, three from the Big East Conference
and two from the University of Arkansas are among the
16 finalists announced Sunday for the roster of the 1990
USA National Men’s Basketball Team.

Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, the United States’ coach,
announced four cuts at the completion of a three-day
mini camp, which will help prepare his team for the July
23-29 Goodwill Games 29 in Seattle and then the FIBA
World Championships August 8-19 in Argentina.

Kenny Anderson, the swift 6-foot-2 point guard from
Georgia Tech; 6-11 Christian Laettner and 6-0 point
guard Bobby Hurley of Duke and 6-5 Bryant Stith of
Virginia are the finalists from the ACC. The Big East
participants are 6-9 Alonzo Mourning of Georgetown, 6-
9 Billy Owens of Syracuse and 6-2 Chris Smith of
Connecticut.

Todd Day, a versatile 6-8 swingman, and 6-2 Lee
Mayberry are the two Arkansas players who survived the
second stage after an original 47 athletes were invited to
Colorado Springs in May for the initial USA Team
tryouts.

From the group of 20 players who assembled at Duke
University last Friday, Krzyzewski cut 6-3 Randy Brown
of New Mexico State, 6-9 Robert Horry of Alabama, 6-6
James Jackson of Ohio State and 6-10 Sean Rooks of
Arizona.

“Tt’s not so much that anybody played poorly, but we
needed to get down to a more workable number,”

Krzyzewski said, after reducing his squad from 20 to 16.
“Our concentration right now, and it started today, can
not be on cuts. It’s got to be on the development of a
team,

“If you're always concerned about cuts, you are
looking at how your 15th to 18th men are doing,” he
said. “And what I should be doing is focusing on how
Billy Owens is doing and Alonzo Mourning and Doug
Smith (the 6-10 center from Missouri) and Kenny
Anderson and Christian Laettner are doing; and see how
we can develop our system to best use their talents, and
then to see how our other kids compliment those guys.

“T think we will have a very quick team. We’re not
super big. We have good height, but compared to a
normal Yugoslavian or Russian team, we will be smaller
than those teams.”

Mourning, one of the premier collegiate centers and
shot blockers, was less than 100 percent healthy during
the mini-camp, but he made a strong impression.

“Alonzo was sick the whole time,” Krzyzewski said.
“He played sick, and he still looked good. It shows that
he is a warrior. He just has a lot of courage; to have him
in there gives us a different view of our team.

“T think with Laettner, Alonzo and Doug Smith, you
have three really top-quality big men, and all three of
them are great workers. It’s amazing to me, sometimes,
how the best players are your best workers. Maybe there
is some correlation there.”

Owens, one of the seven U.S. players 6-8 or taller,

provides ample versatility. Anderson has few peers in
terms of court quickness and running a fast-paced
offense with quick, clever passes and slashing
penetration.

“T’ve always been impressed with Billy Owens,”
Krzyzewski said. “I just think he is the guy we can use
in so many different ways. ... Kenny has the ability to get
the ball up the court. I think he will adjust very well, and
we will give him a lot of freedom, but we still have to
work defensively with him.”

Three lesser-known college players — 6-1 Henry
Williams of North Carolina Charlotte, 6-7 Clarence
Weatherspoon of Southern Mississippi and 6-9 Chris
Gatling — reinforced their potential contributions during
the mini-camp.

“Williams has probably shown that overall he’s been
the best (outside) shooter in camp,” Krzyzewski said.
“Gatling, I think, is the type of active player that you can
bring off the bench or start. Weatherspoon, even though
he’s not 6-10, he plays very big. He can play good post
defense.”

The 230-pound Weatherspoon and 6-8, 240-pound
Mark Randall of Kansas are rugged, durable players who
can handle the more physical international playing style.

The two other USA Team finalists are 6-5 Kevin
Lynch of Minnesota and 6-6 Chris Mills of Arizona.

The USA Team reunites July 10 in Durham to open
training camp for the Goodwill Games.

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Dark clouds surround Pistons after capturing NBA title

DETROIT(AP)- The dark clouds
gathered rapidly, dimming the luster of
the Detroit Pistons’ championship trophy.

Personal grief, a huge organizational
question mark, a celebration tumed
deadly and, lastly, allegations of law-
breaking have loomed over the Pistons in
the days beforew and after their second
consecutive NBA title.

“They're all kind of isolated incidents,"
Tom Wilson, the team's chief executive
officer, said Saturday while shepherding
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with 0.7 seconds on the clock Thursday.
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A look back at the 1989- 90 sports season

By Wayne Stock
EDITOR IN CHIEF

For about two hours on a cold March
evening, there was a force that swept
through the symmetrical concrete walls
of SUNY Albany that hadn’t been seen
around these parts for quite awhile. A
force that transformed boredom into
excitement and apathy into spirit. This
unmistakable presence was the 1989-90
Great Dane men’s basketball team.

After receiving their first Division II
NCAA Tournament bid in five years, the
Danes found themselves heading back
upstate to face arch-rival Potsdam
College. Trailing 46-45 with 14:00 to
play, Albany busted open the contest
with a 20-4 run, in route to a 85-75
victory. The win erased the memory of
an early season nail biting 56-55 loss to
the Bears.

The scene was now set for one of the
biggest home sporting events in Great
Dane history, the East/Northeast
Sectionals.

The vociferous SRO crowd made the
usual dormant University Gym into the
likes of a Hoosier Dome. However,
Albany’s quest for a trip to the Final Four
was halted by a more physical North
Adams squad, 69-66.

The tournament was the eighth in the
last twenty years for Albany, all under
the tutelage of Richard “Doc” Sauers.
Sauers, with a 580-263 record, is the
winningest coach in Division III.

The Danes will be hard hit by
graduation next season, losing six
players, including three starters. Stephen
Mulderry, Andrew Goodemote and
Dennis Walker will leave big shoes to
fill for Sauers. The trio had a combined
scoring average of over 32.

Team leading scorer Michael Shene
will return to play the middle next
season. Shene averaged 15 a game. Alex
McClearn, Eddie Feller and Jeff
Farnsworth will also be keys to next
years’ squad. McClearn and Feller’s
strong play at the end of the season will
no doubt be a comfort to Sauers as he
enters his 35th season.

Perhaps the biggest news in sports at
Albany during the past year was the
continuing process concerning a
proposed move into Division I athletics.
The move, which has been researched
for well over a year, took a step forward
ata Recene of the University Senate on

April 30th.

The Senate, by a vote of 34-29, voted
to continue research on the possibilities
of a move. A “no” vote would most
likely have killed the proposal.

Another highlight in the 1989-90
sports season at Albany was the men’s
soccer team. After being snubbed of a
bid to the NCAAs, the Danes, coached
by Aldo Nardiello, took their act to the
ECAC’s and came away with their first
chanipionship.

Albany defeated two-time defending
ECAC champion Williams College 1-0
in the finals in Williams, Massachusetts.
Freshman Marty Mearney scored on a
pass from Chris Chruma for the only
score of the game. Goalie Brian Leher
recorded an Albany record 12th shutout
in the process. The Danes finished at 18-
zy

With a victory in their season finale
against St. Lawrence, the Albany
football team ended their season with a
winning record(5-4). Three of the Danes’
losses came against teams that went on to
the NCAA playoffs.

The '89 season marked the end of a
glorious career at Albany for quarterback
Pat Ryder.

Ryder leaves Albany as the leading
passer in Dane history. He was 236-514
for 3,153 yards. Ryder tied the Dane
record for touchdown passes with 25.

If losing Ryder won’t be bad enough
for coach Bob Ford, the Danes also lose
fullback Pete Pedro. Pedro, a four year
starter, leaves Albany as the second all-
time leading rusher with 2,612 yards.

Heading the list of returnees to the
gridiron next season will be Academic
All-American Daniel Hershkowitz, the
team’s leading tackler in 1989.

After a mediocre season, the women’s
basketball team managed to creep into
the NYSWCCA’s and nearly pull off the
upset of the tournament in their opening
round game against Hartwick, but let a
five point lead slip away towards the
latter part of the second half. Under the
leadership of coach Mari Warner, the
women hoopsters finished with a 13-12
mark.

Gina Richardson and Pam Wilson both
shined in their final season in Albany.

The greatest individual
accomplishment achieved by a Great
Dane athlete this past year came from
track star Wilfredo Rodriguez.

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Men's basketball coach "Doc" Sauers remains the winningest coach In Division Ill.

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The men's soccer team celebrates thelr first ECAC Championship.

Rodriguez, a sophomore, captured first
place in the finals of the 400-meter
intermediate hurdles in 51.50 at the
Division III Track and Field
Championship at North Central College
in Illinois.

The time set an Albany State and New
York state record. It was also the
seventh fastest in Division III history,
easily giving Rodriguez All-American
status, Other tracksters earning the All-
American title were Jeff York in the 110-
meter hurdles and Matt Kieley in the
shot put.

As a whole, the men’s track team was
equally as impressive. For the first time
in school history, the Danes captured the
New York State Championships.

On the subject of state titles, the
Danes’ softball team was looking to
claim their second straight. The attempt
fell short in the semi-finals of the state
tourney, as four errors led to six
unearned runs as Hunter upset the top-
seeded Albany team, 6-3. The Danes
captured third place by beating Staten
Island, 2-1.

Karen Smiley and Michele Thornton
were selected to the all tournament team
for their efforts. Smiley, the Danes’ only
pitcher, had a 20-5 record, identical to
that of her teams record.

In baseball, coach Ed Zaloom’s Danes
had another dismal season, finishing with

a 5-11 record. The team ended the season -

on a high note by defeating Hartwick 9-
7. Senior Jim Duesel was given the
team’s Most Valuable Player award.
After a couple of big early season
victories the Danes’ lacrosse team ran

into tough times towards the end of their
season. In the finale, Union College
defeated Albany 20-17 to give the
Dutchmen their fifth straight Capital
District Cup. The Danes ended the year
with a 4-7 record.

Attackmen Blake and Cort Kim,
middie Kevin Koelsch and defensive
middie Jay Austin were named to the
Capital District Lacrosse Coaches
Association All-Star team.

The men’s tennis team, after
compiling a winning record in the fall
season, went 3-6 in the spring for a 7-9
combined record. Andrew McGoey was
given the team’s Most Valuable Player
award and Hyok Pang took home Most
Improved Player.

Once again it was another successful
season for Albany’s crew teams. The
men’s season was highlighted by a
second place finish at the New York
State Intercollegiate Rowing
Championship. The team was led by
captain Chris Pace.

On the women’s side, me crew team
recently placed sixth in a field of 48 at
the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia.

On the mat, coach Joe Demeo
watched three of his wrestlers earn births
to the National Championships. Heading
the list was All-American senior
Christopher Zogby in the 150 pound
weight class. The other two Dane
qualifiers were Steve Mitola at 118 and
John Palvin at 188.

The men’s and women swim teams
both had disappointing seasons and will
look to regroup for next years’ meets.