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Snell and Ashwani to have runoff

Issue 29

Landslide victory for Brigid Bergin

By JUSTIN WALDEN
Associate News Editor

Tears were shed at this week’s SA
Central Council meeting, they belonged to
Brigid Bergin upon hearing that she had
won her vice-presidential race.. Bergin
won with a total of 1,167 votes. In the
race for president Ashwani Prahbhakar
and Chuck Snell qualified for next
Tuesday’s run-off election. A grand total
of 2,070 SUNY A students participated in
this year’s elections.

Most contestants appeared cool before
the results were announced, including
Nick DeCicco who had the monumental
task of facing off against Bergin. Said
DeCicco , “I think that we have enough
support to make the run off confidence.”

The resultS were announced as Joe
Markowski was presenting an ethics bill
to council at the council meeting, pande-
monium and celebration immediately fol-
lowed.

After the crowds that had gathered around
each candidate exited there were but eight
members in attendance to finish off the
meeting.

Despite the celebration v.p elect Bergin
was at council to offer her insight on
Markowski’s bill. Under Bergin’s insis-
tence the ethics legislation was tabled.
This is the second time that the bill has
been tabled. A disappointed Markowski
lamented, “The idea’s been around for
two years, we’ll have to give it a shot next
year”

Chuck Snell appeared unaffected by the
prospects of making up a nearly four hun-
dred vote deficit. “I don’t have to catch
him,” said Snell, “Come Tuesday. it is
zero-zero”

To avoid the run-off election a candi-
date had to receive just over 50% of the
vote, neither Snell nor Prabhakar man-
aged to gain the necessary 1,036 votes.
Council person Daniel Gmelin was not

attendance as he was on his way to San
Diego trying out for the NFL’s Chargers.
Before the excitement caused by the elec-
tions results, council passed a bill that will
appropriate an extra $714.50 to the
Student Rights Coalition. The money will
help pay for the asbestos testing that SRC
will be performing, the testing began
today.

Class takes backseat to nice weather

By Ep MUNGER
News Editor

A couple weeks ago the weather broke,
and a new record was set. Its getting

sunny and warm, and it’s affecting class
attendance. According to some students

nere at SUNY A, the:warm. weather
makes it just too nice out to sit in a class-
room.

“There’s so many things you can do
when the weather is nice,” said Jennifer
Shelling, a sophomore Spanish major,
“It’s a bad attitude, but I'll bet you the
EATON of students here feel the same
way.”

Shelling was not wrong. When asked if
the weather affected class attendance,
other students concurred. “ Absolutely,”
said January Pluth, an junior English
major, “We don’t go to class when it’s
nice out,” she said. Pluth said that when
she and her friends get to school, “it starts
a chain reaction.” The problem is not that
nobody comes to the University, but that
once they arrive, there is just more fun
stuff to do than sit in a classroom.

“We come with the intention [to go to
class],” said Pluth, “but we all look at
each other and say ‘it’s too nice out’.”

“Tt’s easier to come to school, It’s hard
to go to class, everyone’s in a better
mood, and all the events, there’s a lot of
stuff to do,” said Sonya Finkel, a senior
Psychology major. It seems that the cir-
cus like environment of the podium makes
it easier to skip class as well. “I think that
people when they podiate, they just think
it’s too nice to sit in classrooms and listen
to people talk,” said Kerri Croake, a
senior History major, who added another
reason why people might skip. “A lot of
people get drunk and are hung over and

Candles burn to remember Holocaust

By ABRAHAM SAKS

Associate Managing Editor

This past Wednesday was Yom Hashoah, the annual commem-
oration for the Holocaust. A stage was set up on the podium
accompanied by a table sponsored by the Judaic Studies
Department. Interns were there to hand out yellow stickers which
featured the Star of David along with the number six million and
the phrase “Never Forget” imprinted on it. Students were asked
to light candles in rememberance of those who perished in the
Holocaust. The candles are memorial candles which symbolize
the people who died under Nazi persecution in the concentration

camps.

A 24-hour recitation of names of people who perished in the
Holocaust took place, with students reading names off a list in
five minute intervals. David Rudich was one student who partici- "
pated in this recitation. He commented, “This is an event that
should be observed by students of all faiths. I decided to recite
the names because I’ve seen it. I personally went to Poland and
witnessed the camps first-hand. I’ve see what’s left of the
Holocaust and that’s why everyone should remember it.”

A member of the executive board of RZA, Josh Fisch states
that, “this event is a necessity around this campus and throughout
the world. This is the largest event for both Jewish and non-
Jewish students. Not only Jews were killed in the Holocaust.”

ASP Herlasive:

Rocking
the boat

Sexual allegations haunt
crew coach

By BEN BOYLAN
Staff Writer

Allegations of sexual misconduct have

put the women’s crew coach in rough

waters. Members of the Crew team
alleged that Coach Todd Rutecki was
having sexual relations with multiple
rowers on the team, and when they
attempted to have Rutecki dismissed for
this and various other charges, they were
denied.

One of the team- members, who
attempted to bring about Rutecki’s dis-
missal, and wished to remain anonymous
tells her full StOry COT- meses
cerning the aforemen- “This ts

worse

tioned issues:

I was a member of the than Jerry
eam since last year, in

Spring 97. I was also on Springer”
the team in the summer,

and in the fall. Last year in spring the
coach [Rutecki] was on the team. He was
asked to leave in spring because he was
verbally abusive to female students.

“In June 97, Jennifer Pearson was the
President of the Albany Crew Team.
They were having sexual relations,” she}.
continued. “I had no sexual relations with
him. She made up a contract and made
him coach of the female team, which is
technically OK, but it never went through
the executive board. She really didn’t go
through the legitimate channel.”

Rutecki denied these allegations saying,

“Since I have been hired I have had no
sexual relations with any athletes on the
team.” Rutecki also denied being verbal-
ly abusive, and committing safety viola-
tions. ;
When asked why eight female rowers
quit rowing in one day, Rutecki cited the
high rate of turnover by saying, “The
attrition level in the sport is rather high.”

The same female rower continues, “He

really wasn’t qualified to be a varsity
level coach. During the summer he was
still carrying on sexual relations with
Pearson.”
Allegedly Pearson wasn’t the only
woman whom Rutecki was intimate with.
The anonymous rower goes on to say,
“Over the summer he had relations with
another rower. I would like her to remain
anonymous.”

The story continued into the fall of 97
when Rutecki was once again hired by
Pearson. The anonymous rower contin-

es, “She [Pearson] was basically an inef-
fective president. She was a rower and
got special treatment. We [the Female
Varsity Crew team] legitimately
impeached her.”

According to the anonymous rower, the
team, after impeaching Pearson, made
attempts to have Rutecki dismissed. “We
[the majority of the team] tried to get him
fired because of safety violations, unethi-
cal conduct-the sex, and because he was
verbally abusive. He did not get fired.

See ALLEGATIONS on page 5


Albany Student Press Friday, April 24,1988

By HELEN PETROZZOLA
Human Rights Correspondent

Migrant farmworkers in the United States
labor under conditions Attorney General
Janet Reno referred to as “modern-day
slavery.” Many lack the basic rights —a
living wage, clean drinking water, toilets
in the fields, decent housing, health bene-
fits, and the freedom to organize a union.

Seasonal farm work, especially strawber-
ry picking, is extremely difficult. In
Salinas, Ca., workers call the strawberry la
fruta del diablo or “the fruit of the devil.”
The fragile crop demands delicate and pre-
cise labor, which is entirely unmecha-
nized.

On the strawberry fields of California,
workers can be seen still pushing three-
legged wheelbarrows up and down fur-
rows of bushy foot-high strawberry plants.
During harvest season, which can run from
March to November, workers stoop over
berries for up to 11 hours a day. They
labor in the extreme dry heat and also dur-
ing rain.

“We end up wet to the knees and up our
arms,” a worker said. “They give us green
garbage bags to cover the berries and the
cart so the berries don’t touch the ground
and the boxes don’t soak through. The
berries stay dry. We get wet.”

Because the work is physically taxing as
well as competitive, four out of five work-
ers are under 30. Despite the demand for
skill and speed, strawberry pickers’ aver-
age wage of $6.44 an hour is less than that
of most other California farmworkers. The
average strawberry picker makes about
$8,500 a year, a decline in real wages of
roughly 25 percent over the past 20 years.
They work with no health insurance or
other benefits. But for California, the

Modern Day Smoke ’em if you got *em
Slavery

strawberry industry is a lucrative market.
It reaps approximately $600-million-a-
year.

“Why is it that farmworkers feed the
nation but they can’t get food stamps?”
asked Dolores Huerta, co-founder and sec-
retary-treasurer of the United Farm
Workers (UFW).

35 years ago Dolores Huerta and Cesar

Chavez brought the UFW to life, to fight : Critics say the newest documents for the first time show the extent to which lawyers

for justice for the migrant farmworkers.
Their organizing efforts, led by Dolores
Huerta, have definitely brought about an
improvement in conditions. Wages have

By HELEN PETROZZOLA
Human Rights Correspondent

Newly released documents prove that lawyers for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. sup-
pressed research and destroyed evidence of the hazards of smoking. The papers, some
of 39,000 documents subpoenaed and released by a House committee on Wednesday,
reveal that tobacco industry lawyers controlled decades of tobacco research and tried to
distort the National Cancer Institute’s own nicotine investigations.

Other recently released documents have shown that tobacco companies marketed their
Iproducts to children. These findings have infuriated many in Congress who have been
tobacco-supporters. One formerly staunch tobacco ally, House Commerce Committee
iChairman Tom Bliley, R-Va., waged an aggressive campaign this year for the whole
batch of documents. After acquiring them on, he released them on the Internet.

fought growing public concern by controlling what research came to light. “This massive
fraud and conspiracy left an unprecedented toll of death and disease in America,” said
Minnesota Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III, whose ongoing anti-tobacco lawsuit
helped lead to Wednesday’s release of the papers. Their release promises to add fuel to a

gone up for the first time in 15 years
Coastal Berry, the region’s largest direct
employer of strawberry workers, boosted
the hourly wage for pickers from $5.75 to
$6.50 last January, which helped push
wages up at other farms. Several compa-

nies have implemented medical plans. || A handwritten note by a top RJR scientist says: “Destroyed reports and letters for legal

But $6.50 an hour still leaves most straw-

berry workers and their families welll]

below the poverty line. Even if women
work a full season, they will likely not be
able to provide enough to alleviate the

I] Among Wednesday’s revelations, cited by Associated Press:

Justice Department investigation of an alleged tobacco industry conspiracy to mislead
the government.

reasons.” The company’s own attorneys, doing a legal review in 1985, discovered the
decade-old note, which discussed early test results of damage from Camel cigarette
chemicals.

IScientist John Reynolds found a way to remove carbon monoxide, a key contributor to
heart disease, from cigarette smoke in the 1970s, but lawyers suppressed his discovery.

squalid conditions many farmworkers and
migrants have to live in. But the women
persevere. They believe that even a little
more money amounts to hope for their
children, if not for themselves.

“T want to give the kids a foundation,”
says Angelita Melgoza, “so they can have
good work.”

On April 23, the government announced
it is creating a task force to better prose-
cute worker exploitation and modern-day
slavery cases. “We want to eradicate mod-
ern-day slavery in America,” said Reno.

As the UFWs enduring motto says: st: se
puede : Yes, it can be done. Sf-se-pue-de.

Publishing Reynolds’ discovery “would have constituted an admission on the part of the
company that carbon monoxide was in smoke,” said one lawyer, and Reynolds said his
bosses felt that the removal was too expensive, the document says.

When RJR’s top scientist in the 1950s was attempting to isolate a tobacco carcinogen,
then-President Edward Darr responded, “Do we really need to be doing that kind of
work?”

Tobacco companies also attempted to sway federal research. Philip Morris executive
Helmut Wakeham urged lobbying an influential NCI scientist in 1971, when a study “of
considerable concern to the tobacco industry” was fighting for funding. “If we make a
strong presentation, he may downgrade the priority of this proposed test,” some of the
first research on how the addictive chemical acts when inhaled, Wakeham wrote.
Lawyers routinely edited scientific reports “to eliminate unfortunate word choices,”
insisting that scientists who uncovered carcinogens always refer to them as “alleged.”

Despite the findings, Yale University announced it would retain its $17 million invest-
ment in tobacco stocks.

Luck of the Irish stops the fighting?

AURORA COLE-REIMER
Staff Writer

After 22 months of peace-talks,
an unprecedented agreement was
reached between the opposing
Catholic and Protestant figures
on April 10, after over 3 decades
of bloody conflict. The agree-
ment was reached 17 hours after
its April 9 midnight deadline.

Representatives of 8 of the 10
political parties in Northern
Ireland spent the grueling hours
in an effort that led to a complete
reformation of the political insti-
tutions of the Northern Ireland
province. Finally, a concession
was agreed upon to instate a 108
seat National Assembly, which
will be governed jointly by
Protestant and Catholic represen-
tatives.

Tony Blair, England’s Prime
Minister, the first English Prime
Minister to meet with the Sinn
Fein delegation in 70 years,
played a significant role in bring-
ing the agreement about. Blair
- said, “What we have here is an
agreement that can only work if
all parties decide to make it work.
There is a limit to what we can do
in this House or elsewhere.” It is
now imperative that Protestant

leaders do not turn the agreement
into an aid for integration of the
British province into Ireland and
that Catholic leaders make it
clear that this agreement does not
forsake the original ideal of union
with the Republic. Both sides
must learn to compromise.

The last 30 years were the
bloodiest in the history of
Northern Ireland’s resentments
between Catholics and
Protestants which date back to
the 17th century. In 1973, when
the province of Northern Ireland
erupted in violence, the assembly
was shut down. The province has
been under direct rule from
Loadon <- since then. *:. The
province’s violent past brought
about fears that peace could only
be a dream. The peace process
that has gone on for almost two
years threatened to fold on sever-
al occasions.

Maze, a guerrilla prison that
hosts a number of the province’s
Catholic and Protestant political
terrorists, was integral to the con-
tinuation of the peace talks.
When Maze loyalist prisoners
withdrew their support from the
talks, the peace talks could not
go on without their consent. Mo
Mowlam, Northern Ireland’s

Secretary visited the prison and
won support from the loyalists.
However, many are concerned
with the possible release of the
prisoners back into society in two

~ years. Incarcerated in Maze are

the leaders of the different
Catholic and Protestant parties,
and some of the more bloody
killers, including Republican
Army bomber Patrick Magee
who attempted to assassinate
Margaret Thatcher.

Two of the groups were sus-
pended at one point after groups
that they were linked to were
found to be responsible for
killings. The Ulster Democratic
Party was suspended after the
Ulster Freedom Fighters admitted
to some of the killings that took
place after Christmas. The Sinn
Fein party was suspended after
the IRA was accused of the death
of two men. Sinn Fein argued
that it did not represent the IRA,
and threatened to refuse to return
to the table if the suspension
occurred. However, both the
groups were readmitted and
agreed to come back to the table.

In the final agreement a new
legislature, ministerial council,
and North-South Council were
decided upon. A new consultative

counsel, called Council of the
Isles, will meet twice a year and
will include representatives from
Ireland, Britain, and the newly
established parliament from
Northern Ireland, Wales and
Scotland. Another concession
was the Dublin Removal of
Territorial Claim. Therein, the
Government pledges to remove
language from the Constitution
that refers to Northern Ireland in
territorial terms.

The peace agreement is the
first step in ending the brutal and
ferocious conflict, but it is the
different parties that are integral
in making peace work. In an edi-
torial in Monday’s Irish Time,
John Bruton wrote, “If the agree-
ment is to succeed, we must cre-
ate a new common aspiration,
binding unionists and nationalists
in their common work...As long
as the two communities define
their very existence in irreconcil-
able terms, arguments on almost
any topic which appeal to one
community will tend to create
fear in the other community.”

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FRIDAY, April 24, 1998 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

UAlbany’s WCDB still rocking 20 years later

By BEN STERN
Staff Writer

On March 1, 1998, Albany State’s
radio station WCDB celebrated its 20th
anniversary. The first talks about getting
a radio station started happened 30
years earlier in 1948 when the Albany
State Radio Guild was formed. Plans to
form a radio station, began in 1962.
The station was a University Courier
Current Station. It was called WSUA,
which stood for the State University at
Albany. It was held out of a janitors
closet and transmitted music only to the
Albany campus. WSUA’s format was
classic rock and jazz and it’s call sign
was, “Come Buzz with us.”

In 1966, WSUA changed its format to
rock music for the first time ever, and
the station’s record library was the
largest in the nation for any college or
university. By 1970 the station’s stu-
dios were moved to the uptown campus,
where they are still located today on the
third floor of the Campus Center. At the
same time WSUA became a 24 hour-a-
day station.

However, WSUA was still not an FM
station, which is what they were striving
for. In 1975, they filed an application to

CAPITAL DISTRICT'S BEST

The station
changed to
90.9 WCDB,
the Capital
Distriet’s
Best, ‘fhe
first song
ever played
was “Born to
Run” by
Site ie» et Sheet
Springsteen.

Since 1978
the station’s
music format
has been
changing
with the
1 6-8,
“Every after-
noon ts when
heavy metal
is played.

the Federal Communications Commis-
sion to get on the FM dial. It took
almost two years to get the application
approved, because every year the FCC
gets inundated with hundreds of poten-
tial college applications for permission
to get an FM station.

Finally on Mar 1, 1978 at exactly 4
pm, Albany signed on to the FM dial.

We also play
a lot of rock alternative and hip hop,”
said Seth Diamond, promotions Director
at WCDB.

The station has lots of dufetent ¢ spe-
cialty shows always happening. Every
Sunday there is a talk show where stu-
dents call in and can say whatever is on
their mind. Topics range from questions

about school and life to questions about
Sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. There is
also a sports call in show on Saturday
afternoons. The call-in show was the
first of its kind in Albany.

As successful as WCDB is, a huge
problem with the station is getting it
know that there is a campus radio sta-
tion.

“One of our biggest problems is pub-
lic awareness,” Says Diamond, “Many
students do not even know that Albany
has a radio station.”

Nonetheless, like any radio station,
WCDB has come a long way from 1948
when they were an AM station that
broadcasted to the small student popula-
tion on the downtown campus.

For the students who did not know
that there is a campus radio station, now
Where
else can you win free c.d.’s or concert
tickets, like the Busta Rhymes concert
that was held last week for Springfest at
the RACC?’

Even though, awareness is a problem,
Diamond added, “People that listen, lis-
ten a lot, and they seem to like what

you do, so take advantage of it.

they hear.”

Fountain Day: A chilling experience for everyone

By JUSTIN WALDEN
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Students walking through the podium
this Monday heard the familiar sounds
of SUNY A’s fountains for the first time
this semester. .

At 12:15 on Monday the fountains
were turned back on, despite the dreary
weather. The festivities, sponsored by
the Class of 1999, included various ven-

dors selling T- shirts and balloons sur-
rounding the rails on the podium. Karen
Hitchcock was on hand to count off
until the fountains were turned on.

Fountain Day is normally held the
Wednesday before Reading Week, but it
was moved to Monday to avoid possible
conflict with the Holocaust Remem-
brance Day held on the 22nd.

Amidst the sporadic rain and tempera-

tures in the low fifties several students
found courage enough to actually frolic
in the lower fountain. One of the people

to take the plunge, Pat Kollar, excal-
imed “Its freezing, holy shit!”

Someone calling himself the Great

Umer commented, “This rules, the foun-
tain, fifty degrees”

The lower fountain was freshly paint-
ed this year. The. major problems
involved in this year’s preparation were
the several bottles of soap that were
dumped into the fountain pool.

Many people were disappointed with
the rather blase festivities for the event,
an event that was supposed to generate
some school spirit. Anthony Melvin a
freshman offerd, “Fountain Day should
not have a date selected ahead of time.
Instead they should select a time period,
and they should pick the day with the
best weather conditions.”

However, Joe Markowski, Treasurer
of the Class of 1999 said, “It was a suc-
cess in spite of the weather.”

Albany’s budget gets boost from legislature

By LAUREN KRAUT
Staff Writer

The state legislature has recommend-
ed an increase of $130 million for
SUNY Albany’s budget for the 98-99
school year. A total of $3 billion is
going to the SUNY and CUNY systems,
but Albany will have the most generous
dividend. The three state schools in the
capital region, UAlbany, Empire State
College, and Hudson Valley Community
College will have bigger gains than
other schools in the state.

“This is the most major thing to hap-
pen to the school since the campus was
first built,” said Human Relations Direc-
tor Joel Blumenthal.

The budget, which was presented by
Governor Pataki, has yet to be signed.
According to Michael Davoli of
NYPIRG, the legislature has been on
vacation this week, but the SUNY bud-
get should be the first thing they look at
next week. Most likely, the budget will
be signed by Pataki and go into effect
for next year, since he was the one who
proposed the bill in the first place.

“They’ll look pretty stupid if Pataki
doesn’t sign it,” said Davoli.

If Pataki signs the bill, it will be a

“turning point in the history of SUNY
Albany,” said President Karen Hitch-
cock.

Some major provisions of the budget
would be raising the Tuition Assistance
Program (TAP) award from $3900 to
$4125. Every Albany student would get
$65 per year of credit towards book pur-
chases. Book prices have for a long
time been much higher than they need to
be; some students pay more for books
than they do for tuition. The book ben-
efit would go into effect starting in
September, along with the TAP deal.
Also, special opportunity programs such
as HEOP, EOP, SEEK, and College Dis-
covery would be restored. More money
will be given to student child-care aid
and for part-time study, making it easier
for parents to attend school.

There are several other grants that will
go to varying needs of the SUNY and
CUNY systems. Hopefully, Pataki will
be careful not to veto any programs that
can be looked upon as ‘less important’.
Anything that can improve the lifestyle
of the typical University at Albany stu-
dent is worth saving. It would be nice
to have an actual public safety building
so the UPD wouldn’t have to work out

‘new additions.

of a trailer, which would be one of _ the
Students who take cer-
tain art classes won’t have to travel far
to get to the new art and sculpture stu-
dio.

More money for hosting full-time fac-
ulty members is another benefit SUNY
students will receive. While SUNY has
many distinguished full-time faculty
members, the addition of a few more
never hurts. The nice thing about full-
time faculty is that students can have
regular access to teachers for conferenc-
ing and discussions. It will be easier for
students who wish to form a friendly
relationship with a teacher to do so.
Right now, about 60 % of the faculty
members are full-time professors.
After the budget goes into effect, the
percentage will rise to around eighty,
ideally.

The budget would also put $10 mil-
lion into a new wing for the Center for
Environmental Science and Technology.
The current administration building will
be emptied out and used for classes.
Another bigger and better administra-
tion building will soon be in the works,
which will be separate from the podium.
Projects such as these are part of

Albany’s Master Plan for enhancing
SUNY education.

The new budget has come about as a
result of NYPIRG’s Lobbying for High-
er Education project, according to
Michelle Stern, NYPIRG Higher Educa-
tion Project Leader and an Albany stu-
dent.

“The thousands of phone calls and the
Lobby Day visits in Albany and at local
offices made a real difference in the
budget,” said Stern.

Senate Majority Leader Joseph L.
Bruno said that it would be good to
maintain the solid reputation that
schools in New York State currently
have. This is why he’s supporting Pata-
ki’s decision to implement the budget.
Bruno said that “the phsycial facilities
on the Albany campus have begun to
age and deteriotate, and we must plan
ahead for these crucial renovations.”

The renovations should be taking
place over the next five years. Students,
however, will start feeling the positive
effects of the budget sooner as many of
the plans are going into effect starting
next year.


ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _ Friday, April 24, 1998

MIDDLE EARTH ROOTS COLUMN
TIPS FOR BEATING TEST ANXI-
ETY

Notre: AS A STUDENT RUN ORGANIZA-
TION, MIDDLE EARTH KNOWS HOW
TOUGH IT CAN BE GETTING THROUGH
THE END OF THE SEMESTER RUSH. AS
THE SEMESTER DRAWS TO A CLOSE,
MIDDLE EARTH WILL DEVOTE THE NEXT
THREE ROOTS COLUMNS TO HELPING
YOU MAKE IT THROUGH FINALS.

Do YOU FIND THAT YOU GO BLANK
AFTER RECEIVING AN EXAM WHEN YOU
FELT AS IF YOU KNEW THE MATERIAL
ONLY MINUTES BEFORE? OR DO YOU
FEEL SO ANXIOUS OR FRUSTRATED DUR-
ING A TEST THAT YOU CANNOT CONCEN-
TRATE? THESE ARE COMMON SYMPTOMS
OF TEST ANXIETY. THIS ARTICLE
EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TWO TYPES OF ANXIETY AND DISCUSSES
WAYS YOU CAN COPE WITH TEST ANXIETY.

A LITTLE NERVOUSNESS CAN BE BENE-
FICIAL. OVERCONFIDENCE CAN LEAD TO
STUDYING LESS THAN YOU NEED TO OR
CARELESSNESS WHILE TAKING AN EXAM.
THEREFORE, BEING SLIGHTLY CON-
CERNED ABUT AN UPCOMING EXAM MAY
MOTIVATE YOU TO STUDY AHEAD OF TIME
AND ENGAGE IN OTHER ADAPTIVE STUDY
AND TEST TAKING STRATEGIES. FEELING
A LARGE AMOUNT OF ANXIETY SUR-
ROUNDING AN EXAM MAY ALSO BE A NOR-
MAL REACTION. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU
ARE ABOUT TO TAKE AN EXAM FOR
WHICH YOU HAVE DONE NO OR LITTLE
STUDYING FOR, THEN FEELING VERY NER-
VOUS MAY BE A VERY RATIONAL REAC-
TION. HOWEVER, IF YOU FEEL EXTREME-
LY NERVOUS EVEN AFTER YOU HAVE PRE-
PARED ADEQUATELY, THEN YOU ARE
PROBABLY EXPERIENCE
IOUS REACTION . MANY PEOPLE FEEL
BOTH TYPES OF ANXIETY AND THERE ARE
SOME STEPS THEY CAN TAKE TO OVER-
COME ITS EFFECTS.

PERHAPS THE RATIONAL ANXIETY IS
THE EASIER OF THE TWO TO MINIMIZE.
THE BEST WAY TO AVOID THIS TYPE OF
ANXIETY IS TO BE PREPARED FOR EXAMS.
AVOID CRAMMING. BEGIN PREPARING
FOR FINALS NOW SO THAT YOU DON’T
FEEL SO OVERWHELMED WHEN EXAMS
COME UP. THE NIGHT BEFORE AN EXAM
SHOULD BE SPENT REVIEWING—NO NEW
MATERIAL SHOULD NEED TO BE COV-
ERED. AN IMPORTANT POINT IS THAT IF
WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW IS NOT
WORKING, THEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO
CHANGE.

IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE PREPARED
AND YOU STILL REACT WITH PANIC TO
TEST TAKING SITUATIONS, THEN THERE
ARE SOME OTHER STEPS YOU CAN TAKE.
THE FIRST STEP, AND PERHAPS THE MOST
CHALLENGING, IS TO CHANGE YOUR ATTI-
TUDE. AVOID “CATASTROPHIC THINK-
ING,” FOR EXAMPLE, “IF I FAIL THIS
EXAM I AM A LOSER,” or “IF I DON’T
DO WELL ON THIS TEST, I MIGHT AS WELL
QUIT SCHOOL!” THESE TYPES OF
THOUGHTS ARE NOT ONLY UNREALISTIC
AND UNTRUE, BUT THEY CERTAINLY DO
NOT HELP YOUR LEVEL OF ANXIETY.
REMIND YOURSELF THAT A TEST IS ONLY
A TEST AND THAT THERE WILL BE OTHER
EXAMS,

OTHER HINTS ARE TO REWARD YOUR-
SELF AFTER THE TEST (E.G. THE MOVIES,
VISIT FRIENDS). TRY NOT TO THINK OF
YOURSELF IN A NEGATIVE SENSE. PLAN
WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR WORK NEXT
SEMESTER (MAKE THE SITUATION A

AN OVER-ANX-_

LEARNING EXPERIENCE SO THAT NEXT
TIME WON’T BE AS BAD). REMEMBER
THAT THE MOST REASONABLE AND REAL-
ISTIC EXPECTATION IS TO TRY TO SHOW
AS MUCH OF WHAT YOU KNOW AS POSSI-
BLE.

SOME THINGS STUDENTS OFTEN FOR-
GET DURING FINALS WEEK ARE THE
BASIC NEEDS THAT ARE ESPECIALLY
IMPORTANT DURING STRESSFUL CIRCUM-
STANCES. FOR EXAMPLE, EAT WELL AND
EXERCISE. CONTINUE YOUR EXTRACUR-

Middle

Earth
Roots

RICULAR ACTIVITIES. THESE TYPES OF
ACTIVITIES CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR EMO-
TIONAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING.
FOLLOW A MODERATE PACE WHILE
STUDYING—IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO
OVERLOAD BY NOT TAKING BREAKS, ETC.
THIS NOT ONLY EXHAUST YOU, BUT ALSO
DECREASES THE EFFICIENCY OF STUDY
AND RETENTION. ALWAYS GET ADEQUATE
SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFORE AN EXAM—IT
IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FUNCTION AT
YOUR BEST WHEN YOU ARE TIRED.
FINALLY, ONCE YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE
READY FOR THE TEST, DO SOMETHING
RELAXING.

THERE ARE ALSO SOME STEPS YOU CAN
TAKE THE DAY OF THE TEST WHICH MAY
DECREASE ANXIETY. EAT A MODERATE
BREAKFAST AND AVOID CAFFEINE IF YOU
CAN. EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE USED TO
HAVING COFFEE EVERY MORNING MAY
DEVELOP “CAFFEINE JITTERS” DURING
AN EXAM. TRY TO DO SOMETHING
RELAXING THE HOUR BEFORE AN EXAM.
IF REVIEWING YOUR NOTES IS RELAXING,
FINE, BUT MOST PEOPLE WITH TEST ANX-
IETY MAY FIND IT NERVE-RACKING AND
SHOULD PROBABLY AVOID IT. PLAN TO
ARRIVE EARLY FOR THE TEST SO YOU CAN
FIND A SEAT THAT IS AWAY FROM DIS-
TRACTION (USUALLY THE FRONT OF THE
ROOM IS BEST). HOWEVER, IF OTHER
STUDENTS ALSO ARRIVE EARLY AND ARE
DISCUSSING THE EXAM, AND THIS MAKES
YOU NERVOUS, YOU MAY WANT TO CLAIM
YOU SEAT THEN TAKE A SHORT WALK
DOWN THE HALL.

AFTER YOU RECEIVE THE TEST, TAKE A
SLOW, DEEP BREATH, BEFORE YOU EVEN
LOOK AT THE EXAM. THEN, REVIEW THE
ENTIRE TEST AND READ THE DIRECTIONS
TWICE.
A CHANCE TO SHOW THE TEACHER WHAT
YOU HAVE LEARNED AND WHAT YOU
KNOW. THEN ORGANIZE YOUR TIME
EFFICIENTLY AND WORK ON THE EASIEST
PORTIONS FIRST (THIS WILL GIVE YOU A
CONFIDENCE BOOSTER). DO NOT RUSH
THROUGH THE TEST. HAVE A WATCH
WITH YOU AND PACE’ YOURSELF.
RECHECK YOUR ANSWERS IF YOU HAVE
TIME. (HINT: IF YOU ARE USING SCANT-
RON, ALWAYS RECHECK THE TRANSFER
FROM THE EXAM TO THE SCANTRON
SHEET, IN CASE YOU ARE ONE OFF.)

IF YOU ARE STILL ANXIOUS DURING THE |

TEST, THERE ARE SOME ACTIVITIES THAT

CAN HELP REDUCE THE NERVOUSNESS.
YOU MAY WANT TO ASK THE INSTRUCTOR
A QUESTION, GET A DRINK OR GO TO THE
BATHROOM (IF ALLOWED), OR BREAK
YOUR PENCIL AND THEN GO SHARPEN IT.
THESE ACTIVITIES WILL DISTRACT YOU
FROM YOU NERVOUSNESS AND MIGHT
HELP YOU CALM DOWN. YOU ALSO
MIGHT TELL YOURSELF THAT YOU’LL LET
YOURSELF BE ANXIOUS LATER, JUST NOT
RIGHT NOW, OR YOU MAY WANT TO
REMIND YOURSELF ABOUT THE REWARD
YOU HAVE PLANNED FOR AFTER THE
EXAM. ANY RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
MAY ALSO HELP. FOR EXAMPLE, TAKING
DEEP BREATHS, TIGHTENING AND RELAX-
ING YOUR MUSCLES, ETC.

IF YOUR TEST ANXIETY IS SO GREAT
THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF FREEZING OR
GOING BLANK EVEN AFTER TRYING THESE
TIPS, YOU MIGHT CONSIDER SEEKING
HELP. MIDDLE EARTH COUNSELORS CAN
BE REACHED AT 442-5777. YOU CAN
CALL MONDAY -THURSDAY BETWEEN
NOON AND MIDNIGHT AND 24 HOURS ON
WEEKENDS TO TALK THINGS THROUGH.
THE UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CENTER
IS AVAILABLE TO HELP STUDENTS
RESOLVE PROBLEMS THAT IMPACT THEIR
ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL FUNCTIONING.
CALL 442-5800 FOR AN APPOINTMENT.

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BEN BOYLAN
Staff Writer

“Poetry keeps people alive,” declared

Dr. Maya Angelou, speaking to a full
house last Tuesday evening in the
Recreation and Convocation Center.
_ The Office of Educational Affairs and
the entire U Albany Student Associa-
tion presented “An Evening with Dr.
Angelou,” a program which included
many different presenters, aside from
Dr. Angelou.

Dr. Angelou, a world renowned poet,
novelist, and professor sang, spoke,
read a sampling of her own poetry, and
recited poetry by other famous poets
ranging from Langston Hughes, to
William Shakespeare. Dr. Angelou, for
the majority of her time on stage,
offered anecdotes, stories and advice,
that was at times humorous, at times
saddening, and always profound.

Dr. Angelou’s main subject matter

Call your mom.
youre callin

Maya Angelou visits Capital District

was, the power of poetry, her own life,
and inspirational advice to people of all
ages, genders, and races. Dr. Angelou
has written such famous books as /
Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and
On the Pulse Of The Morning, the poem
read at Clinton’s first inaugural
address. .

Dr. Angelou got ample applause, and
many standing ovations. When the show
was Over, many people rushed after Dr.
Angelou, but she left the building
immediately.

Before Dr. Angelou spoke there were
other performances. The SUNY Angelic
Voices of Praise Gospel Choir, sang
“The Black National Anthem,” among
other songs. Because of Dr. Angelou’s
visit to the Capital Region, the Capital
Region Center for Arts in Education
sponsored a poetry contest participated
in by students attending Phillip Liv-
ingston Magnet Academy. There were

jhe did not get fired ten rowers includ-

three poems which won, and were pre-
sented, all written by children of the
Junior High age.

SA President, Rasheem-Ameid
Rooke, who introduced Dr. Angelou
with Brigid M. Bergin, Director of Edu-
cational Affairs, said when asked his
feelings concerning the event, “I am
very pleased. I’m happy that Dr.
Angelou had one common them: unity.
She was able to deliver a message of
living on beyond your struggles, no
matter who you are.”

When asked the same question,
Bergin replied, “We had an excellent
time. I’m very pleased. People enjoyed
themselves.”

Dr. Angelou’s advice to SUNY stu-
dents, and all young poets, Dr. Angelou
said, “I couldn’t give a student anything

better than to say, ‘Read poetry. Go to

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never row again.”

ALLEGATIONS

Continued from front page

These attempts were made in late
November, or early December. When

ing me, quit. I went to another team,
and so did other girls who quit, but not
all. Because of this, some rowers will

One rower who is presently on the
team said, “I don’t want Crew to get a
bad name. Todd [Rutecki] is a great
coach.”

All of the female rowers who quit the
team that were asked said that Rutecki
couldn’t swim, and he was verbally
abusive. Rutecki also denied these
claims.

One female rower who wished to
remain anonymous addresses Pearson’s
action of hiring Pearson by saying, “I
think Pearson didn’t stand by her team-
mates and the Albany Crew team tradi-
tions. She went with her personal inter-
ests only.” She continues, “He [Rutec-
ki] played mind games with you. He
liked to cause problems.” This rower
also claims that Rutecki took underage
rowers to'drinking establishments.
“This is worse than Jerry Springer!”
stated the rower.

At this time Jen Pearson is still on the
crew team, and Rutecki is still the
coach.

Another female rower speaks of
Rutecki by saying, “I think Todd uses
people for what he can get out of them.
We had a very good relationship until
he got me kicked off the team. He was
not prepared to be the coach. He was
only the coach because Jen Pearson had
her sights on him, overall he was
unprofessional.”

The same female rower felt she ‘was

treated unfairly by SA when she
brought these complaints to them in an
attempt at Rutecki’s dismissal. “SA did
dick!” she said.
_ The rower continues, “He cannot
even swim. He was demeaning and
degrading. He segregated the team into
winners and losers, and told us which
ones we were.”

When an aforementioned female
rower was asked about her feelings
towards Rutecki, and her personal rela-
tionship with him she said, “Rutecki
was verbally abusive to me, and he
made my life a living hell.”

According to senior members of SA,
there is an investigation concerning
these issues in progress at the moment.

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your girl.

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Levesque’s nomination at all
because he told me about it per-
sonally. I could not then, and still
cannot fathom now how the
University was content to all but
overlook this momentous recog-
nition of Dr. Levesque’s work. It
simply does not make sense. I
can recall plenty of occasions
where professors were lauded for
their local achievements and
regional awards, and here we
have a professor whose recogni-
tion factor beyond the campus is
that of a leading scholar and
authority, whose work is regular-
ly and roundly cited for its excel-
lence, and it all goes unnoted on
his home campus.

It is my understanding, based
on the materials I requested from
Dr. Levesque, that the criteria
used to evaluate faculty for a dis-
cretionary salary increase are
research, teaching and service. I
think Dr. Levesque’s Pulitzer
nomination is a more than
resounding endorsement of his
meticulous and __ thorough
research skills, as well as the
import given the results of his
investigatory work. As for ser-
vice, Dr. Levesque’s commitment
to his students is sincere and
extensive. I have never had any-
one, outside of my own parents,
take a more involved interest in
preparing me for my future
beyond college than Dr.
Levesque. I say this unhesitat-
ingly and without reservation.
Countless meetings in his office,
discussions after class, coffees at
his house—this man made his
interest known, and in doing so,

form because, over the course of four
years, there was no single individual at the
University who offered me more in the
form of guidance—be it academic, person-
al, extra-curricular, professional, you
name it—than Dr. George Levesque. Just
like he was there for me, here he was, once

To the Editor,

My name is Jordan Arnold and I am a
1997 graduate (BA, magna cum laude,
Political Science) of the University at
Albany, currently pursuing a law degree at
Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tennessee. When I think back to my four

Letter to
the Editor

years at Albany—what they meant to me
then, where they have taken me now, and
what they will represent to me in the
future—I feel thoroughly committed to
seeing the University continue its scent
into the highest reaches of the academy.
For this to occur, though, I believe excel-
lence must be properly recognized, and it
is with this in mind that I write to you
about Professor George Levesque.

During a recent trip to Albany, I had the
opportunity to visit with Dr. Levesque, and
true to form, he took the occasion of our
meeting to give two of his current stu-
dents—both of whom are considering
graduate study—the opportunity to learn
more about law school. It was true to his

again looking out for these two students.
Following our luncheon, I spent a good
deal of time speaking with Dr. Levesque in
his campus office, and it was then that I
learned of the “discretionary salary
increases” available to the University fac-
ulty members. It was in the context of a
discussion about his Pulitzer Prize-nomi-
nated book, Black Boston, that he
informed me about the one such
“increase” he received, for 500 out of a
possible three-thousand dollars.
Naturally, this piqued my curiosity. A pro-
fessor at our University gets nominated for
the highest literary award in our country,
and he gets the lowest “merit” award
available. Moreover, I only learned of Dr.

had a tremendous impact on getting me to
where I am now.

As far as Dr. Levesque’s teaching ability
is concerned, I cannot say enough. of the
many classes I took at Albany, I had the
opportunity to learn from some truly gift-
ed educators. None, however, put in the
amount of time, displayed the level of
effort, and exuded a creative energy as
thoroughly and consistently as did Dr.
Levesque. From the countless hours he
spent preparing for class—sitting in on
just one of his classes leads one to this
inescapable conclusion—to the detailed
critiques he provided of students’ written
work, he epitomized my every notion of

what constituted a “Great Professor.”

' Dr. Levesque’s classroom truly was the
“marketplace of ideas” that every educa-
tional forum should aspire to be. There
was no preaching, there was no proselytiz-
ing. What there was—and plenty of it—
was thoughtful inquiry and broad expo-
sure to theories and opinions stretching
across the ideological spectrum. And most
importantly, there was the opportunity to
put forth your own views, and have them
subject to the contemplation of your peers.
When I reflect on my classes with Dr.
Levesque, I often think back to the day I
bought the books for his Honors Tutorial,
“Black and White in America.” Initially, I
could not figure out why books like Only
Words by Katherine MacKinnon, The
Moral Sense by James Q Wilson, and The
Morning After: Rape, Sex, Fear, and
Feminism on Campus by Katie Roiphe,
were all included on the textbook list. A
few weeks into it though, and the use of,
those books made perfect sense. He was
no ordinary teacher and his class was no
less unique.

To his credit, Dr. Levesque was never
afraid to take on the difficult subjects, rec-
ognizing fully that the only way to truly
dispel the most pernicious thoughts and
theories is to subject them to “the condem-
nation of the masses.” His classes made
you really and truly think, and work. Dr.
Levesque demanded substance—of every-
one—in equal measure and without excep-
tion. As such, his classes were the only
ones I ever took in which conversations
about the subject matter regularly spilled
out into into the hallway and beyond. And
speaking of matters beyond the classroom,
as far as letters of recommendation were
concerned, Dr Levesque asked you to ask
him. Imagine being a college freshman
and reading over the remarks on a final
exam paper, and being told to “remember
him” when it came time for recommenda-
tions. If I had any questions that first year
about whether I had made the right deci-
sion coming to Albany, his class was proof,
positive that I did.

I am writing this letter to ask you to
please give Dr. Levesque every considera-
tion for the highest merit award. I know
that if the process of evaluation involves
careful deliberation and dispassionate
objectivity, then Dr. Levesque should wind
up duly recognized this year for his 18
years of research, service and teaching. I
ask this of you as an alumnus of the
University. I ask this of you as a resident
of New York State, whose family’s tax
dollars—however minute a portion—go
towards the funding of salaries and
awards. But most importantly, I ask this of
you as a former student of Dr. George
Levesque.

Jordan S. Arnold

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By Brian Beekley
News Editor

Hello and welcome to Week In -Week
Out, may I take your order please?

Might I recommend the U.S. trade
deficit? It was announced last week that
when dealing with Asia, the US is in
some trouble. February’s numbers
show that we imported $12.1 billion
dollars more than we exported. That’s a
really big number kids. Overall, how-
ever, the deficit could prove helpful in
slowing the charging US economy and
keeping us from crashing over the falls
in a barrel.

How about trying some global warm-
ing? According to a group of scientists,
1997 was the warmest in the last
600yrs. The scientists attribute the
warming to the increased use of fossil
fuels, carbon dioxide, and other green-
house gasses. The group reached their
conclusions after corelating results
from ice cores, tree rings, and coral
reefs. This is not the first report that
relates humans to global warming. It’s
time for big business realizing the
effects their having on the planet.

The GOP did a lot of backtracking
this week. First, those poor guys had to
face the facts and reverse their stance
on campaign finance reform when
theyrealized it was something the peo-
ple actually care about. The repubs
tried to kill the very bill that they were
using against the president when they
realized how deep in illegal activities
they were. A full and open debate on

the House floor will take place by late
may. Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich was forced to change his
stance when 204 signatures were gath-
ered, including 12 Republicans (12!
that’s it!) demanding thatthe issue be
brought back.

It was also revealed last week that on
the same day that tobacco companies
discussed the issue of settlement, Philip
Morris dumped $100,000 into GOP
soft-money accounts. That brought the
total of tobacco money given to the
Republicans in the first three months of
1998 to $227,750. That comes to
roughly 91,100 packs. That’s a lot of
tarred lungs contributing to Newt and
On

In other news affecting the right
wing, the National Organization of
Women have refused to join Paula
Jones’ appeal. According to NOW pres-
ident Patricia Ireland, the “overwhelm-
ing consensus” of members was to stay
out of the case. It seems most NOW
members feel the case is about political
power, not sexual harassment, accord-
ing to former Representative Patricia
Schroeder (D-Colorado). Amen sister.

Chinese dissident Wang Dan was
released from prison late last week.
Dan was the leader of the 1989
Tiananmen Square student protests. He
was released on “medical parole,” but
doctors examing him in Detroit have
found nothing wrong. The major belief
is that the Chinese freed him to appease
President Clinton, who is scheduled to
visit China in late June. Some might

argue, however, that a Chinese prison is
still better than Detroit.

And another group of hackers broke
into the Pentagon. The “Masters of
Downloading/2016216” broke into

‘Pentagon computers and stole the soft-

ware that coordinates the Global
Postitioning System used to target
America’s missles. The group also
threatened to sell what they know to
terrorists. I was on the side of these
guys until they played the treason
card. Hacking for the sake of hack-
ing is one thing, endangering my
life is another.

And finally, John Wayne Bobbitt
was fired from his job as a host and
bartender of a Carson City, Nevada,
for hitting on the prostitutes.
Appearently, whores and other
employees are not allowed to
socialize. Dennis Hof, owner and
proprieter of the Moonlight Bunny
Ranch said (and this is the actual
quote kids), “We had to cut him
loose.” Bobbitt, of course, is
famous for having his penis cut off
by his wife. Feel free to make up
your own joke...

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WEATHER

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don’t get up to class,” said Croake.
The students aren’t the only ones
affected by the weather. According to

some, the professors understand as

well. “One professor of mine had class
for only a half-an-hour,” said Michelle
Stern, a sophomore Business major,
who also has felt the heat of spring. “I
cut one class two times because it’s fun
just to stay outside and do nothing.”

“I had a professor cancel class,” said

Robert Williams,a sophomore English
major. “He questioned why so many
people weren’t in class, and someone
said ‘It’s too damn nice out’ so the
teacher said, ‘Well go enjoy it then,’”
he said.

Well, the weather is going to get

nicer and nicer. There are only a cou-
ple weeks of classes left, some students
This
month, it seems, will be the one which

will stick it out, some won’t.

makes or breaks the 4.0 average of
some, and will be the one that decides

graduate now, or later.

Herrick reads to students

By LEONARD HEARD
Staff Writer

The New York State Writers Institute pre-
sented, “William Herrick” the author of*ten
novels and a new autobiography, “Jumping
the Line: The Adventures and Misadven-
tures of an American Radical,” which came
out this year. He read from his book in front
of a crowded audience, Tuesday in C.C.
Assembly Hall at 8:15 pm. His family,
along with some SUNY students attended
the reading on Herrick’s new book.

Herrick’s new autobiography, “Jumping
the Line,” recounts the author’s life from his
birth in Trenton in 1915, through Commu-
nist Party activism, life on an agricultural
commune run by Yiddish anarchists, mili-
tary volunteerism in Spain, (in which he
caught a bullet that is still lodged in him),
subsequent roles in organizing labor unions
and fighting for civil rights in the Deep
South.

“Village Voice” reporter Paul Berman,
who wrote the introduction calls Herrick,
“the American Orwell.” Throughout the
reading, Herrick read a passage from his
book about his experiences in the Spanish
Civil War, in which he met a woman named
Bushka, who he liked,m and then became
lovers when he was hospitalized from his
bullet wound. He read on how she washed
him, changed his bandages, and went to her
home. They stayed at a hotel in Alicante,
Spain where she left him, and himself very
heartbroken.

He also read a passage on how he felt
guilty of his friends being killed in the war,
with him being away from the front, and on
his fellow comrades murdering one another.

At the end of his reading, the audience

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there is any difference between Nazism,
Communism and Fascism. Herrick said that
there are always some differences, but in

what they did, there was no difference.
“They killed millions of people,” said Her-
rick. The person who introduced Herrick to
the audience asked a rhetorical question, “Is
“No hope,” said Herrick, but
he hopes he can retire.

there hope?”

“Very moving,” said Dan Lorber, who
owns a second-hand bookstore called
“Down in Denver” at Steventown Center in

Albany. “At the end of the reading, people:
knew it was over, but no one did anything.
It showed how moving the reading was,” he
said. “ liked it alot,” said Ben Pope, a stu-
dent who attended the reading. “He wasn’t

an armchair thinker, and he experienced life

in his writing,” he said. “At the beginning,
his voice gave a sense of an enriched life
with many exuberant and powerful experi-
ences, said student Chris Marti. “I felt I
couldn’t help but absorb the emotions and

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Herrick wrote his first novel, “The Itiner-
ant” in 1967 at the age. of 52. Since then he

books, some of which were sold at the
assembly, including Love and Terror and
Bradovich.

“Kill Memory,” along with his autobiogra-
phy “Jumping the line.” These books can
also be found at “Bookhouse” in Stuyvesant
Plaza. Thursday, April 23, novelist Kaye
Gibbons will read from her work at SUNY
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10 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, April 24, 1998

University at Albany Events

Calendar

* Friday, April 24, 1998

"Much Ado About Nothing." 8:00 PM, Main Theatre,
PAC. $10 general/$7 students. A Shakespeare Semester
event.

Information Session - Admissions.
Lounge

Dinner - State Quad Diversity Committee. C.C.
Patroon Room TBA

HAITIAN AWARENESS WEEKEND. April 24th -
26th, Campus Center. First Annual Hatia n Awareness
Weekend. Annual Dinner Dance on Sunday April

26, 6:00 PM, CC Ballrm Dinner Dance Banquet will
feature live entertainment, dance troupe "Le Makandal
," speakers, poetry, singing, music, DJ, dancing

and food. For more informatio n, call 442-1513. Cost of
Admission: $7 student in advance, $10 at door; $15 g
eneral public in advance, $25 at door.

-* Saturday, April 25, 1998

"Much Ado About Nothing." 8:00 PM, Main Theatre,
PAC. $10 general/$7 students. A Shakespeare Semester
event.

SASA Night - South Asian Student Association. CC
Ballroom 6pm-2am

WCDB Reunion Banquet - WCDB. C.C. Patroon Room
7:00-9:00pm

Shakespeare and Beyond: Choral Music of the Great
Poets. 8:00 PM, Page Hall, Do wntown Campus. The
University Community Chorale, The University
Chamber Singers with Gordon Hibberd, piano, and

C.C. Terrace

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David Griggs-Janower, conductor. $3 general/$1 stu-
dents. A Shakespeare Semester event.
Third Annual AIDS Walk. 11:00 AM, RACC parking
lot. Registration, announcements and refreshments
begin at 10:00 AM. The length of the walk is
approximately th ree miles of the University grounds.
If you are interested in participating, pl ease call Robin
Lee at 442-5542. Proceeds will benefit the
Albany Medical Cente r Pediatric AIDS Unit.
Sponsored by the Class of 1999 Council.
* Sunday, April 26, 1998
"Much Ado About Nothing." 3:00 PM, Main Theatre,
PAC. $10 general/$7 students. A Shakespeare Semester
event.
Honors Convocation - Disabled Student Services, C.C
Assembly Hall 1:00-3:00pm
* Monday, April 27, 1998
Weekly Meeting - Finance Commitee/ Central Council.
CC 358 7:30-11pm
Department of Judaic Studies Film Series. "The
Eighty-first Blow." (1974) 7:15 PM, Lecture Center 20.
All films in the series are mandatory for students
enrol led in "The Holocaust: Lessons & Legacies"
course. Free and open to the public.
Health Screenings for Staff and Faculty. 04/27, 04/28/,
04/30, 05/01 - 8:00 AM - Noon, on a walk-in basis,
University Health Center, Uptown Campus.
04/29, 8:0 0 AM - Noon, Room 105, Draper Hall,
Downtown Campus. Cost: $1.00 UUP member, $4 .00
CSEA member, $7.00 all other staff. These fees
include a discount provided in celebration of EAP
Week (April 27 - May 1). For information about
preparing for the screening, please call 442-5483.
President's Task Force on Women's Safety. 2:30 - 4:00
PM, CC 375. Meeting is op en to all interested
University community members.
* Tuesday, April 28, 1998
Elections - Student Association. C.C. West Lounge
9:00am-8:00pm
Take Back the Night Rally & March - Women's
Issues. C.C. Fountain 7:15-9:00pm
Annual Thorns Lecture. "Queen Victoria: The
Woman, the Writer, the Empress." 4: 15 PM,
Humanities 354. Illustrated lecture given by Margaret
Homans,
professor of English and
Chair of Women's Studies at
Yale University. There will be
a rec eption following the lec-

ture. Sponsored by the
Department of

English.

EAP Brown Bag. "More On

the ABCs of Preventative
Auto Maintenance." Noon -
1:00 PM, Campus Center
Room 375. Speaker: Bruce
Kosakoski from the
University's Mot or Pool.
Open to staff and faculty.
Meeting to discuss Summer
1998 Master Plan Projects.
2:00 - 4:00 PM, Campus Cen
ter Ballroom. All members of
the University Community are

requested

to attend o n Tues., April 28 or
Thurs., May 7 (same
time/place).

Natural History Lecture
Series. “A Future for Fire

Towers." 8:00 PM, Lecture Ce
niet: > 7° Speaners:= .dack
Freeman and Jim Briggs. Free
and open to the

public. Spo nsored by the
Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center and the NYS
Department of En vironmen-
tal Conservation.

School of Public Health 1998
Spring Seminar Series.
"Substance Abuse and Risk-T
aking Behaviors." 8:00 - 9:00
AM, bagels and coffee at 7:30
AM, Room

110, East Campus,
Rensselaer, NY. Speaker:
Edelgard Wulfert. Free and

open to the public.

* Wednesday, April 29, 1998
"Much Ado About Nothing."
8:00 PM, Main Theatre, PAC.
$10 general/$7 students.
Elections - Student

Association. cs. West

Lounge 9:00am-8:00pm

Bone Marrow Drive - Golden Key National Honor
Society. C.C. Terrace Lounge 11:00am-2:00pm

Lunch - SA Executive Branch. C.C. Private Dining
Room 12Noon-1:30pm

Speaker Dr. Neil - BLASPA. C.C. Assembly Hall 6:00-
11:00pm

Film : "Like Water for Chocolate" - Anthrpology GSO.
C.C. 373 6:30-9:00pm

Weekly Meeting - Haitian Student Association. CC 361
7:30pm-9pm

ASP News Meeting. 6:00 PM, CC 326.

EAP CareerTrack Workshop. "How To Stay Positive
and Productive in Turbulent, Fa st-Changing Times."
Presented by Susan Langlitz. Two three-hour

sessions: 9:00 AM - Noon, 1:00 - 4:00 PM. Open to
staff. ;

* Thursday, April 30, 1998

"Greece: 1998," an illustrated presentation by members
of the Department of Cla ssics who have recently trav-
elled to Greece. 4:00 PM, Humamities Room 39
(basem ent). Free and open to the public. Sponsored by
the Department of Classics and the Archaeological

_Institute of America.

"Much Ado About Nothing." 8:00 PM, Main Theatre,
PAC. $10 general/$7 students. A Shakespeare Semester
event. .

Ist Annual Career Forum : Abilities Awareness Month
- Disabled Student Services. C.C. Ballroom 11:30am-
1:30pm

Alcoholics Anonymous - Middle Earth. CC 361 12pm-
lpm

Field Experience - Academy for Initial Teacher's
Preparation. CC Assembly Hall 3pm-Spm

Middle Earth Recognition Dinner - Middle Earth. CC
Patroon Room 4pm-9pm

Central Council Meeting - Central Council. C.C. 375
Community Education Workshop. "The Albany
Educationway." 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Chance llor's Hall,
NYS Education Building. Workshop led by John
Veverka. Organized by the Mayor's Advisory
Committee on the Albany Educationway. Free and open
to th e public.

Employee Assistance Program Open House. 11:00 AM
- 2:00 PM, EAP Office.

Health Screenings for Staff and Faculty. 04/27, 04/28/,
04/30, 05/01 - 8:00 AM - Noon, on a walk-in basis,
University Health Center, Uptown Campus.

04/29, 8:0 0 AM - Noon, Room 105, Draper Hall,
Downtown Campus. Cost: $1.00 UUP member, $4 .00
CSEA member, $7.00 all other staff.

Institute for Research on Women Brown Bag
Lunch/Presentation. "Minority Women 1 n Bulgaria."
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Social Science 341. Speaker:
Professor Madele ine V. Danova, American Literature
and Culture, Sofia University and Visiting P rofessor,
University at Albany.

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To the Editor:

As a functioning member of American humanity, my awareness of racism
is both eminent and genuine. However, its true burden was never internal-
ized as efficiently and poignantly as it was on the night of April 17, 1998,

upon entering the R.A.C.C. for what I expected to be just another show.

As I approached the colonnade of double glass doors it was hard to saad
believe that I was entering the same venue that not one month prior, the #
security permitted the flow of countless people, hippies and students alike,
by merely flinging the underarm flaps of their sleeves and simply watching One Rate
as the crowd gathered and grew outside the entrance to the gymnasium. This J
night was different, though. On this night the pungent stench of racism was
virtually unmistakable. The procession of potential criminals were crammed ne p a ment
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tim to the viciously encumbering wrath of racism for reasons that were egre-
giously inaccurate. I wasn’t a criminal; I’d never seen a real gun, much less
shot one, which was probably the case of the mass majority of the crowd.

Letter to the Editor

But is it just being cautious? If you consider the overabundance of armed
University Police, security guards as ticket-takers, students crammed
together creating a phalanx to deter entrance into the wings indispensable,
then I suppose it is merely caution. But on this night the line between cau-
tion and paranoid racism was crossed. The security was not there to exercise
routine caution, but because the majority of the crowd was black, and appar-
ently according to the organizer of security, all black people are criminals.
So I suppose I, too, am black, because black no longer means skin color ,
but black means criminal and on this night we all were criminals. Also on
this night we learned a lot about the world, and a lot that a lot of people
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NYPIRG and Earthbound celebrate Earthday

Press Release

On Tuesday, April 21st, NYPIRG and Earthbound held an
Earth Day festival on the Podium in front of the Campus
Center.

A variety of environmentally friendly groups took part in
the festival, including the National Audobon Society,

Defenders of Wildlife, Save the Pine Bush, Campus Action,
Eartyhbound, NYPIRG, Students for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals and “Thirteenth Moon,” the campus feminist lit-
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Students were given the oppurtunity to send letters to
Governor Pataki and Senator D’ Amato on several different
issues, such as NYPIRG’s “Empty Plate” campaign and peti-
tion to phase out on-campus pesticide use and the Sierra
Club’s campaign for Family Health and the Environment.

In addition, there were several vendors, such as, Ben and
Jerry’s, Honest Weight Food Co-op and Peace Offerings,
which sold handcrafted goods.

Tim Keating of Rainforest Relief spoke about the “raping
of the planet” and how our society today has become
detached from the earth and views the environment only as a
commodity.

“Tim Keating really put things in perspective,”
said Maxine Oland, President of the Earthbound
and NYPIRG recycling project leader, “People have
become so disconnected from the planet taht they
don’t think it matters if they harm it. That attitude

needs to be changed before anything else can be done.”

“The festival turned out really well,” said Sarah Black,
NYPIRG student volunteer, “it was a beautiful day and it
allowed students to come out and see what the different orga-
nizations were about and become informed on various
issues.”

Earthbound and NYPIRG continued their Earth Week
efforts on Thursday, whena group of volunteers went to
Mariaville Elementary School to speak to kindergarten tho-
rugh fifth graders about personal responsibilty and the envi-
ronment. The group reported that the trip was successful and
that a good time was had by all.

Earth Day Lobby Day is May 11th. NYPIRG will have
vans coming to and from the Capital during the day for stu-
dents who wish to go and lobby their representatives on envi-
ronmental issues. Interested students can call the NYPIRG
students at 442-5658 or go to Campus Center 349 for details.

Something’s out there!

By LAUREN KRAUT
Staff Writer

Prozac, Zoloft, Ritalin, Paxil, Lithium...the list
goes on and on.. If you yourself aren’t taking one
of those drugs, you probably know someone who
is. , It’s been said in many publications that the
amount of depression among teenagers and col-
lege students is higher than it’s ever been.
Though that is a grim statistic, it is true and doc-
tors can’t figure out why they have to prescribe
anti-depressants these days as if it were cold med-
f icine.
“Depression has skyrocketed for everyone in
the past few years,” said Dr. Richard Felch, staff
psychiatrist at the University Counseling Center.
It used to be that anti-depressants were given to
people every now and then if their cases seemed
particularly dire. But now, many cases are bad
enough that immediate medication is needed.
Doctors are now investigating herbal therapies
like St. John’s Wort and Hypericum.
So there’s a choice between organic
therapy or pharmaceutical drugs..
Either way you choose to go, some-
thing is bound to work along the way.
Even if drugs do work, it can be
depressing in and of itself that one has
to keep taking the drugs until they feel
ideally happy or “more like them-
= selves,”

Not everyone who is depressed
goes on drug therapy. That’s a deci-
sion the patient gets to make on his or
her own. Dr. Harold Bloomfield,
author of the book “How to Heal
Depression” wrote that “If you feel
very depressed, seek medical help
immediately.” He wrote that as if
depression were like appendicitis.

For the people who choose not to
see a shrink and/or take drugs for their
depression, it can be a long and lonely

battle. Finding out which drug works is the equivalent of
deciding which form of ammunition works best against the
adversary. But it’s recommended that you see a shrink

if you’re going to be on any medication.

Today, finding out which anti-depressant works is like
going into a Woolworth’s and looking for a pair of eyeglasses
that help the visually impaired to see. That’s what people did
before there were Sterling Opticals and Pearle Visions who
made it possible for anyone who
needed glasses to be able to see properly. Doctors can never
be 100% sure of which medication to give to a patient; they
have to tinker with drugs to find out which one works best.
That can take a long time, sometimes a few years. “Adjusting|
the prescription” is hard in this case.

A concern which may arise for people who are debating
about whether or not to take drugs is “am I the one with the
problem, or is society all messed up?” Apparently, depression
can be a very personal issue because the amount of isolation
felt by the victim is exaggerated. “A person
who is depressed will think that they are the only one and that
everyone around them is perfectly happy,” said Dr. Felch. “I
wish I knew why is was like that.”

Dr. Felch thinks that there’s a terrible force of depression
out there that nobody can pinpoint. It has to do with more
than individual suffering and circumstances. “If something
traumatic happened to you as a child, that won’t necessarily
make you depressed,” he said. These days, depression is more
about deciding to be depressed. Once you do, you get written
down as a Statistic and get your medication and so on and so
forth. So many people call themselves depressed that it makes
one wonder exactly what the anecdote for it is. But there is no
mass generalization to make for why people become
depressed. With schizophrenia, a victim becomes so
depressed that they begin to create their own reality because
the current one is very negative.

But as for depression in its simplicity, no one can give a
cause and the illness is therefore looked upon as not major.
“If you need glasses so you can see road signs on the Thruway
at seventy miles an hour, do I have bad vision or is it just a
way to accommodate myself to a bad culture?” This was the
metaphor Dr. Felch used to compare the current state of

depression in regard to society as a whole.

The news media reports the “news”,

obviously(?)

By TOM PARKER

Human Rights Correspondent

What I see every day on the front page or on the nightly news'is spoon-fed controversy. The TV gives
us gossip for the next day, and the viewer, well the viewer watches. The “news” isJadled out of the daily
goulash. :

Some guy has some severed chicken heads with, hey what else(!), phalluses crammed down their little
beaks and a news editor says, “Doesn’t that look tasty!” Another guy comes along with a big kettle of
blood pudding, “Hey there any meat in that?” “Nope, its a vegetarian meal.”

The editor takes all these tasty tidbits, mixes them up and wala, nightly news. You see the big TV con-
glomerates don’t care if it is good for you, as long as you eat it. ‘May I have more sir?’

There is lost of crime in the US isn’t there? I mean everyday there is another sick-o stealing or touch-
ing or breaking or raping a little defenseless person. Everyday these people seep out of the ground like
some radioactive pollutant from a nightmare of a white hooded southern past.

I mean, where do these people come from? Are you a good person? Am I? Well, I think that we say,
“Yes.” So with all these good people where do these bad people come from. Well maybe we aren’t so
good and clean. Look at what we eat. After all you are what you eat.

Take some guy, any guy, a regular guy. And what you do is put him in school. Except he is afraid to
go to school because, well, its kind of violent there. So he stops going to school and he gets a job. He
brings home $200 a week and he tries to live. But that $200 a week don’t pay the bills especially with
two kids.

So he finds himself a better payin’ job for $200 a day. Well the only problem was one day he was makin’
a little too much and the cops, they brought him in.

He spends a year in jail makin’ 5 cents a hour and he takes the job cause you see he has lots of time.
And when your workin’ you don’t have to worry about being touched or broken or raped again.

And one day he is let out. Except he has got this monkey on his back except its not cravin’ for a chem-
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to buy snacks at vending machines, access school records,
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The so-called “smart cards” contain a computer chip and
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officials say. As with their old ID cards, students can use the
smart cards at automated teller machines and stores around
campus, or for access into dorms.

But the smart card also will allow students to access their
school records, including grades, transcripts and financial-
aid information. Students will be able to transfer a financial-
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The card “opens up a new set of possibilities,” said Bill
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possible with the new card because the computer chip is
harder to duplicate and thus more secure than the magnetic
strip, he said.

The smart card recently made its debut at a conference
attended by more than 200 schools. If the “smart card” idea
catches on at other schools, the university stands to earn
licensing and consulting fees.

As it is, many other universities already have expanded the
use of student ID cards.

Beginning the week of April 1, thousands of students, fac-
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to help myself. Sometimes I think I just don’t want to be at SUNYA, but I hope that’s
not it. I’m really worried about this. What’s wrong with me?

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Winter is a beautiful time for many of us—a quiet snowfall, snow on the trees. For
most of us, however, it is also a time of restricted activity—sub-freezing temperatures,
icy roads, layers of clothes, and “cabin fever.” There is a seasonal effect on our feel-
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When you are depressed you may feel sad, anxious, or experi-
ence mood swings. Sleep may be disturbed; eating patterns are
irregular; you may feel weak and easily tired; you may withdraw
from other people; you cry frequently; your general behavior
slows down. You accentuate a negative view of yourself and the
world, and may become pessimistic about the future. Some peo-
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organic illness, these signs may indicate depression.

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cerning your environment, yourself or the future, and may be triggered by a signifi-
cant loss, e.g. a relationship or a life goal. This loss may stimulate a chain of negative
appraisals which result in a depressed state. Others are said to experience “learned
helplessness,” a lack of effective adaptive techniques when one is unable to believe
an unsatisfying state of affairs can be changed. Some may be too dependent on exter-
nal sources for a sense of meaning. Others see depression as sense of loss (a goal,
expectation or position). With no focus outside of self, feelings turn inward. The nor-
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our feelings and a turning toward other persons or goals. When these feelings are not
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By ABE SAKS
Associate Managing Editor

This past Sunday, the Performing Arts Center featured
a panel discussing Witness & Legacy, Contemporary Art
About The Holocaust, an exhibit now being shown at the
University Art Museum. The panel featured artists who
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bined with politicalization to combine the various paint-
ings, and displays in the exhibit. One artist stated, “I feel
very Jewish, but I don’t feel any connection.” She also
said that she had a poltical interest in doing the work she
did. The end of the discussion gave the audience a
chance to ask the artists questions they had about the
work they did, and why they felt compelled to do it.
After the discussion, the audience was led to the exhibit
itself to view the artists’ work and to give them a chance
to further their understanding about it. The museum’s
exhibit posed profound and funadamental questions. Vis-
itors arrived at the museum to understand how someone
makes art about such a moment in history as disgraceful
as the Holocaust. The exhibit is organized by the Min-
nesota Museum of Natural Art, and presents recent paint-
ings, photography, sculpture, video and installations by
twenty-two artists from around the United States.

Some of the artists are themselves survivors of the
Holocaust; others are the children of survivors. Still oth-
ers have been moved to create art through their feelings
towards survivors. Among the displays at the museum,
was one exhibit which gave viewers information about
the history and symbolism of the Swastika; the symbol
Nazis were famous for showcasing their German pride
during the period of the Holocaust. This installation was
made by Edith Altman, an artist who personally wit-

gies in her work. Through a complex merging of primary
sources and artistic metaphors, she traces the origins of
the swastika, which for thousands of years stood as a
symbol of creation and life, but when turned in reverse to
the Nazis, came to mean death. Edith Altman, in one of
her writings, comments on the Nazi dictator, Adolf
Hitler. She writes, “Hitler was an artist, his aesthetics of
evil, his use of symbols to empower and control, his use
of propaganda are also the means that I use to approach
the impossibility of the holocaust as a topic-for art.” She
adds, “It can only be attempted but never fully realized.”
This exhibit will be displayed until March 8th at
SUNYA, accompanied by a companion exhibit in the
University Art Museum’s West Gallery, entitled Resis-
tance and Rescue: Denmark’s Response to the Holocaust,
which is a photographic exhibition of the work of Judy
Ellis Glickman. SUNYA, in the upcoming weeks, will be
host to many discussions and programs. Special Museum
hours are being installed to pave time for visitors who
wish to view this exhibit. The museum will be opened
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10am to 6pm;
Thursday, 10 to 8, and Saturday and Sunday, Noon until
4pm. Also being held in the near future is a film series
coordinated by Professor Mark Raider, in Lecture Center
20 at 7:15pm, every Monday evening, from January 26th
until May 4th. The University, in helping students under-

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This past Wednesday, at the Campus Center Terrance Lounge, President of the State University of
New York at Albany presented a forum in which students were able to pose questions and listen to Karen
Hitchcock’s personal response. Also present from the administartion were the Vice President and Associ-
ate Vice President of UAlbany. After introductions were made, the floor was open to questions.

Discussion began when one student asked Dr. Hitchcock about the current sitauation surrounding
sweatshops. The University wants to follow certain standards regarding licensing to companies manufac-
turing college wear whcih includes athletic wear, employee uniforms, and athlete uniforms. Dr. Hitch-
cock wanted to make it clear that clothing sold in our bookstore was not produced in sweatshops. Cur-
rently, Duke University has taken the lead in ensuring that clothing manufactured for their university is
100 percent sweatshop free. Dr. Hitchcock said that the administartors are doing all they can do to also
ensure sweatshop-free clothing. One student then went on to ask her if our university can get other uni-
versities to follow suit in forming their own standards. She replied, “We have to continue to urge people
to do likewise.” —

2s a is ae iH ~~ ‘The discussion turned to several of UAlbany’s sports teams going Division 1, Double A; next year.
Now Accepting Visa, M/C, AMEX & Discover ' One student stressed that money should instead be pushed towards enahncing academic quality at the
University. Another student present, retorted by saying that college athletics is a fundamental issue for
many students and that it was a great decison made by administors. Later in the discussion, when talking
about African Studies, one student asked, “Am I right to make the assumption that since we’re going D1,
we can’t get more majors and minors into graduate assistanceships.”
It seemed that someone in the audience took offense to the question, when he fired back, “What do you
mean by we?” The girl replied that she was talking about the student body collectively. The fired up stu-
dent then went on to ask, “Do you mean black and white students or just black?”

Students Rights Coalition President, David Shor was present to represent his group at the forum. He
discussed a problem many students were facing with ACC. He stated that ACC was very prone to be
problematic and many students were facing difficulties with ACC’s phone service in general. Dr. Hitch-
cock gave VP of Ualbany the chance to answer. He stated that ACC’s contract was signed 3 years ago
for a 10 year contract, and then suggested students who faced difficulties to make it a point to address
ACC itself about problems being faced.

Another issue that was brought up by one student semed to represent the voice of many in the room.
This particular student was calling for designation of 24 hour study areas that would be available cam-
pus-wide. He complained that there was no place to study at certain times at night. Quads, he stated
were, “too noisy”, and cafeterias were closed. He added that nearby polytech institute, RPI, featured 24
hour study rooms, and computer libraries. Dr. Hitchcock and her associates agreed that they would look
into this matter. She stated that “the bottomeline issue is financial.”

Dr. Hitchcock also talked about the Master Plan and explained to students present why the University
had built a new entry to the Administration Building. She stated that it was important for our university
to make a good impression to incoming Freshmen. She added that, “part of strategy to ensure our enroll-
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Covering University at Albany sports since 1916

Preview and predictions of NBA playoffs

By THomMAS MCMAHON
Editor-in-Chief

Bulls vs. Nets: Lets face it, it
was nice that the Nets finally
made the playoffs. Even with a
healthy Jason Williams the Nets
get swept, so what happens
now? Michael and the boys go
for their sixth championship in
eight years, and this series cer-
tainly won’t get it their way.

Pick: Bulls in three

Heat vs. Knicks: This should
be fun. If the Knicks are smart
they just fight the Heat and
hope to return the favor from a
year ago. I actually give the
Knicks a chance here, but with-
out a solid point guard, Tim
Hardaway is just too tough.

Pick: Heat in four

Pacers vs. Cavs: Larry Bird
returns to the playoffs with
Indiana. The Pacers stuttered
down the stretch, and limp their
way into the post-season.Bird
tries to become only the second
coach in NBA history to take a
team to the finals in his first
season as head coach. The Cavs
have little playoff experience,
but have youth and Shawn
Kemp to try and stop Reggie
Miller and company. Although
I’m not a big Pacers fan, I don’t
think Cleveland has enough to
knock them off.

Pick: Pacers in three

Hornets vs. Hawks: This is a
close matchup, as it should be.
The Hornets were 0-4 this year
against Atlanta, but they did
have an excellent home record.
Charlotte gets the three home
games in this series, and they
may need them. The Hawks are
a confusing team. You think
they should be better, but they
never break into the top three
seeds. I’m not sold on Atlanta’s
offense, and I don’t like Dikem-
be Mutombo.

Pick: Hornets in five

Jazz vs. Rockets: The good
times for the Rockets are over.
They have gotten old, and
injuries have killed this team.
Otherwise, this would have
been a great series. Utah tries to
return to the finals, and become
the first Western Conference
team since Houston in 1994 &
1995 to repeat. Drexler and
Olajuwon both were deserving
of championships and got them.

Barkley is not deserving of one, »

and he won’t get it.

Pick: Jazz in three

Sonics vs. T’ Wolves: The
Sonics are again one of the
favorites in the West. Vin Baker
is as good a player as Kemp,
and a-better guy to have in the
locker room. Gary Payton is the
best defensive player in the
league, and he has owned
Stephon Marbury this season.

Kevin Garnett and_ the
T’ Wolves will gain valuable
experience in the playoffs for a
second straight year, but they
won’t be around for more than
four games.

Pick: Sonics in three

Lakers vs. Trailblazers:
Why all of a sudden is everyone
a Porland fan? This team has
one thing, attitude. Too bad it
gets in the way of them playing
basketball. The Lakers may still
be a year away, but they are
young enough not to worry
about it. Shaq, Kobe, Eddie
Jones, Van Exel, Elden Camp-
bell, and company _§are
young,fast and exciting. I hope
they stick around for a while.

Pick: Lakers in three

Suns vs. Spurs: The ultimate
irony, “small ball” vs. the
“skyscrapers”. The Suns get
home court, but the Spurs are
loaded with playoff experience.
Tim Duncan is already the best
player on the Spurs, and should
be able to lead them into the
second round. This series may
have had a different outcome if
it weren’t for a season ending
kneee injury suffered by Danny
Manning, the league’s best
sixth man. The Suns miss him
more than most people think.

Pick: Spurs in four

Yankees off to blazing start

By GARETH SMITH
Sports Editor

The New York Yankees are of
to their hottest start in years.
This is due mostly to their
explosive offense, but pitching
has also been much better than
others expected. While David
Cone has struggled early on,
Hideki Irabu has begun to give
the Yankees a return on their 15
million dollar (if you include
what they paid to San Diego for
his services) investment. Irabu
has turned in two solid perfor-
mances so far despite being
hindered by long layoffs
between starts due to the weath-
- er on the west coast and dam-
age to Yankee stadium.

Tuesday night Ramiro Men-
doza turned out his best start of
the season,albeit against the
weak hitting Toronto Blue Jays,
going seven innings and allow-
ing just two runs. David Wells
has been descent, and Andy
Pettitte continued to prove to
the Yankees that they would be
crazy not to lock him up for a
long term deal by hurling a
complete game Wednesday
night against the Jays and giv-
ing up just one run and allow-
ing onely one free pass.

New York is so confident in
their pitching at this point that
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rushing Cuban star Orlando
Hernandez, despite the fact that
his pitching in class A Tampa
has been described by scouts as
nothing short of outstanding.
Hernandez was signed during
the off-season for 6.5 million
over four years despite ques-
tions over his age. Hernandez
claims to be 28, while reliable
sources insist that he is actually
32 including many of his for-
mer coaches currently living in
this country. Originally New
York had said that when they
bring him up sometime after the
all-star break that he would be
used exclusively as a starter,
but that may change now due to
the success of Irabu and Men-
doza. New York General Man-
ager Frank Cashman has said
that Hernandez’s situation has
changed now, saying that they
would use him in whatever role
they need help in when the time
comes.

The Yankee offense has been
solid, but Chuck Knoblauch

and Derek Jeter have struggled |

at the top of the order. While
Jeter seems to be getting his
swing back, Knoblauch has
started to falter after a hot start
that saw him reach base safely
in the Yankees first ten games
and all of the games he played
during spring training.

Bernie Williams early strug-

gles have also raised eyebrows.
Despite driving in the winning
run Tuesday night with a triple
in the tenth inning, Williams
has had trouble finding his
swing. Williams is not known
for struggling early in the sea-
son and is not helping his case
for a seven year 77 million dol-
lar contract.

Tino Martinez is having
another hot April, with 21 RBI
so far in just 17 games. Chad
Curtis and Scott Brosius have
been solid, but probably the
biggest surprise so far is Daryl
Strawberry who has hit four
home runs and stole four bases
playing primarily against right
handers. Most Yankee fans
have forgotten that Chili Davis
is on the disabled list. Davis, a
9 million dollar off season
investment, is not expected
back until June or July.

With not even a month doe

this season, it’s way to early to |
read anything reasonable into
player or team statistics, but no |
team gets hurt by a stron start. |
When you take into account |
that it looks like New York will |

have Boston to contend with a
well as Baltimore, you’ll tak
anything you can get.

If the Yankees are lucky, |
they’ll still be playing at the |

stadium come mid-october.

Baseball

UA standouts headed to NFL

By Ros O’DONNELL
Sports Editor

The entire draft weekend went by without any University of
Albany players being selected. Team after team passed on some
players that we here consider to be extremely talented football
players. This, however, apparently did not mean that nobody was
interested. Following the draft, Albany seniors Seth Thomas and
Dan Gmelin signed free agent contracts with teams in the Nation-
al Football League.

Seth Thomas, a 6’4” tight end, and the speedy and agile Dan
Gmelin both had their names draped acorss this newspaper game
after game during this past season. They were important members
of the receiving squad that helped Albany to a nearly unblem-
ished record with only one loss, and a conference championship.

Albany quarteback Joe Savino enjoyed all four of his years
throwing to these two. Thomas had a great career at tight end
after being recruited from high school as a defensive end. He
caught 94 passes for 1207 yards and 13 touchdowns in his four
years. Gmelin set records in his time here as a wideout and punt
and kick returner.

Despite being members of a division IJ team, they were certain-
ly recognized soon after the draft. Several teams banked on the
fact that the two players would not be drafted and that they would
have an opportunity to sign them to free agent contracts shortly
afterwards. They were right, but several of them got burned,
including local teams like the New York Giants, the Buffalo Bills,
and the Philadelphia Eagles.

This was a bad move, specifically for the New York Giants,
who participatedwitha horrible effort in the 1998 draft. They
didn’t seem to really attack their needs, one of which was a tight
end. They seemed adhere to their draft board based solely on per-
ceived talent, and ignored their own glaring weeknesses. They
failed in their attempt to move up in draft order to get wide
receiver Kevin Dyson, and did nothing further to improve their
receiving corps including their assumption that Seth Thomas was
their well kept secret.

Several tight ends went late in the draft, including a pick by the
Baltimore Ravens to conclude the two day event. Many, like
myself, knew that Baltimore was likely looking for a tight end,
and hoped that Seth Thomas would be “Mr. Irrelevant.” It did not
turn out that way, but it didn’t take long for Thomas to cash in on
his talents. After the Bills, Ravens, Giants, Rams, and Eagles
dropped out of the race with selections of tight ends, or signings
that would make Thomas compete with more than three others for
a job. He ended up going to the Carolina Panthers. He will be
among four tight ends there looking to make the squad.

Apparently, Thomas will be given a $5000 advance, as
oppossed to a bonus, and will make somewhere between
$150,000 and $200,000 if he makes the team. The Panthers are
said to be interested in Thomas for two years.

Thomas’ teammate, wideout Dan Gmelin, had some post draft
luck of his own in the search for an interested team. He has
signed a contract with the San Diego Chargers for unknown
terms. It is likely that he will be a special teams candidate there.

All of this talk about players from a division II Albany football

team going pro are all the more impressive when it is considered
how many big name division I powerhouses were practically
ignored in the draft. Notre Dame, Southern California, and Texas
provided only one pick apiece, after bouncing argund and eventu-
ally out of the top 25 rankings last season.
These two Albany players were obviously big talents, and we
were fortunate to be able to watsh them play on our field for four
years before we will possibly turn on our televisions in coming
years to watch them play for paychecks.

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