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NUMBER 1

Summer brings changes to Athletic department

By HERB TERNS
Editor in chief

SUNYA Director of Athletics
Milt Richards announced four of
six sports that had been cut in a
June 6 reorganization model to
attain gender equity would be
reinstated.

The announcement comes on
the heels of a temporary injunc-
tion issued preventing the
University from taking further
steps to cut the programs. The
decision by State Supreme Court
Justice Lawrence E. Kahn was
the result of a suit filed by eight
student-athletes in an attempt to
keep the programs.

On June 3 Richards announced
Men’s and women’s swimming,

wrestling, men’s tennis, men’s
junior varsity football and junior
varsity basketball would be elim-
inated and women’s field hockey
and women’s golf would be
added. Richards said the changes
were made to obtain gender
equity in the athletic department.
Richards describes a gender
equity

model where the percentage of
male and female athletes equal
within 5% the percentage of
male and female students on
campus. In statistics provided by
the Department of Athletics there
were 64.4% male athletes to
35.4%female athletes before the
June 3 changes. After the
changes those numbers were
52.7% male athletes to 47.3%

according to projected figures.
The student body is comprised of
51% male to 49% female.

Men’s Tennis Coach Bob
Lewis said the move “bypassed

File photo

Dr. Milt Richards

Car accident on Indian Quad

_By GLENN TEICHMAN
Contributing Editor

was in front.of the quad selling rugs to freshmnen.

Hendel was on the way to his car when he said he

An auto accident in front of Indian Quad
Thursday left five cars damaged after the driver

blacked out behind the wheel.

The driver, John Henighan, had seizures when
he lost control of the car at approximately 9:15

a.m.

Henighan, theme
assistant director of |”
the Department o
Public Safety, wa
taken to Albany
Medical Center and
is now in stable con
dition according to}

the hospital.
Henighan was dri-
ving a white}

Chevrolet Capricej
past Indian Quad}
towards the Campus
Center when he
blacked out.

Jeff Hendel, a
brother of Sigma
Alpha Mu fraternity, ©

saw the car flying over with the engine revving. “It
was a cop car, it had the lights and everything,”
Hendel said. “He was coming right towards me. I

heard the car honk...and took a step back. The car

A victim of Thursday’s accident is attended to.

SUNY Research center gets grant

By HERB TERNS
Editor in chief

In the face of losing money for
research from the Department of
Defense, SUNYA has recently
received a one million dollar
grant through the New York
State Science and Technology
Foundation.

Vice President for Finance and
Business Carl Carlucci said the
grant was, “recognition that we
do world-class work.”

The research center at

SUNYA, which works toward
advancement in computer chip
research, also will receive
matching funds from industries.
Jeanne Gullahorn, vice president
for Research and Graduate
Studies, said the matching funds
usually come from small and

-large industries generally based

in New York that use the
research from the center.

Gullahorn said the high-tech
center acts as a training ground
for graduate and undergraduate
students

just missed me by about three inches.”
The car then hit Mike Miller’s black Nissan

S€@ ACCIDENT On Pg’ 17

Staff photo by Glenn Teichman

SUNYA’s Center for
Advanced Technology is one of
thirteen across the state. Created
in 1982, the centers form a part-
nership between New York’s
industry and research centers
which produce the technology
needed by those industries.

When announcing the grants
Governor Cuomo said “the CAT
Program is a key element in New
York’s strategy to position itself
in the world technology market-
place.”

all procedures and deceived the
students.” Lewis said coaches

didn’t know about the changes’
until June 3 and were still active-

ly recruiting students until that
date. Lewis said students and
coaches could have known about
the changes sooner because a
committee appointed’ by
Richards to recommend a policy
on gender equity finished it’s

report March 1. Lewis said this
shows “they didn’t care about
the students because it (the com-
mittee’s report) sat on the
President’s desk for three
months.” .

Both Richards and Associate
Athletic Director and committee
member Gail
Cummings—Danson contend the

S€@ ATHLETICS ON pg 17

Grants may be cut

By HERB TERNS
Editor in chief

SUNY and other colleges
across the country that receive

funding from the Department of

Defense will lose some or all
funding if a bill in congress is
signed by President Clinton.

The Department of Defense
authorization bill contains an
amendment by Congressman
Jerry Solomon (R-Glens Falls)
which would deny Pentagon
funding to schools which ban
military recruiting on their cam-
puses. ;

“This sends a clear, unmistak-
able message to schools across
the country, recipients of federal
funds shouldn’t turn around and
presume to interfere with the
legitimate operations of the fed-
eral government. They are per-
fectly free to ban military
recruiters, but those who do
shouldn’t expect to be rewarded
with federal funds.”

Last November: the New York
State Supreme Court banned
military recruiting on SUNY
campuses citing Governor
Cuomo’s 1988 executive order
banning organizations that dis-
criminate on the basis of sexual
orientation from operating at

any state facility. The decision
was the result of a case filed by
Buffalo law student Terry Maya.
Maya, a lesbian, claimed she
could not apply to the military
because of her sexual orienta-
tion.

A press release from
Solomon’s’ office states
Solomon began work on the
amendment when Maya filed
her suit.

Ken Goldfarb, SUNY’s direc-
tor of media and public rela-
tions, said the funding cuts
would mainly effect the
University centers as they
receive funding for research
from the department of defense.
The SUNY centers consist of
Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo,
and Stony Brook. SUNY
received 7.8 million in military
money in the fiscal year ending
June 1993 but Goldfarb said that
figure changes yearly. "It‘s not a
steady stream, each year grants
are applied for and received,”
Goldfarb said. .

“Many educational institu-
tions are receiving massive
amounts of federal dollars yet
they are denying the Department
of Defense the opportunity to
recruit on their campuses. This

see GRANTS on pg 17

91] now in use on campus

By GLENN TEICHMAN
Contributing Editor

With the installation of the
new phone system, students and
faculty will now be able to dial
911 when there is an emergency.

The new 911 system will

work the same as any enhanced
911 system, Officer Randy Fine
of the Department of Ruplic
Safety, said.
When a person dials 911, a dis-
play of the caller’s number and
the location will be displayed
immediately.

Even if a caller cannot speak,

UPD will be alerted to the situa-
tion. If the call is cut off, the net-
work will be able to “recover
and ring that call back,” Fine
said.

The system will include stu-
dent and administrative phones
on both the uptown and down-
town campus with emergency
blue phones being tied into the
system. Pay phones on the cam-
pus will not be part of the sys-
tem, Fine said.

The 911 system will also pro-
vide UPD with critical informa-
tion. If a call comes from a labo-

see 911 on pg 17

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994

Interim vice pres-
ident for Student
Affairs appointed

James P. Doellefeld, assistant vice
president for Student Affairs, was
appointed interim vice president for
Student Affairs on July 2.

Until a permanent successor is
found, Doellefeld will serve as the
replacement for Mitchell D.

Freshmen moved into Indian Quad
Thursday. This year marked the first year of
the quad being an all freshmen quad. Groups
of students from various fraternities and
sororities including Alpha Chi Rho, Pi Alpha
Nu, Delta Zeta and Alpha Phi were on hand
to help the new]
students move in.

Livingston, who left the University
to become vice president for Student
Affairs at the University of
Cincinnati. .

Doellefeld has been an assistant
vice president since 1988, and previ-
ously held the positions of director
of Student Life, director of
Student/University Activities and a
student activities advisor.

He has also served on a variety of
University task forces, including the
University Budget Panel and the
Committee on the Freedom of
Expression Policy.

He holds a degree in Counselling
Psychology and Student
Development and a masters in
Student Personnel Services from the
University, and was described in a
press release from the office of
President H. Patrick Swygert as
“demonstrating strong student advo-
cacy” and “contributing to the goals
of the Just Community.”

According to Swygert, a search
committee comprised of students,
faculty and staff will begin a nation-
al search for a new vice president
for Student Affairs immedately.

Frosh moving into
the towers had a
while to wait for
an elevator, at
times the wait was
over two hours.

Photos by Mark Thurman

“The car just missed me py about three

inches.”

—Jeff Hendel

August 25, 1994

ePlease see story on front page

University expands access to CDTA

By GLENN TEICHMAN
Contributing Editor

After years of attempting to keep up
with the changing demand of transporta-
tion services, the university has decided
to seek help from the Capital District
Transit Authority (CDTA).

“There has been a very changing
demand for services,” Carl Carlucci,
vice president of Finance and Business,
said. Using CDTA to supplement their
service is an option worth exploring, he
said. The first phase in the new rela-
tionship will begin this semester, affect-
ing School of Public Health students.
These students make use of the Four
Mall Circuit bus run to go to Executive
Park and will be offered CDTA swiper
cards at a reduced rate through the uni-
versity, Carlucci said. ,

CDTA will also be expanding the
Four Mall circuit run, beginning it at
approximately 7:45 am and ending at 10

pm, according to Carm Basile, director

of information for CDTA. The run will
also go in both directions.

“We are trying to make it user friend-
ly for the whole SUNY community,”

Basile said.
The Washington Commons shopping
area will also be added to the 17 line.

If the program with the Public Health

school is successful, then the university
will start to try to expand access to
CDTA for the whole campus communi-

resources.”

He said CDTA has given the universi-
ty very good prices on the experimental
service with Public Health and are very
responsive to student needs. “They want
to deliver services,” Carlucci said.

Basile said the changes in the 17 line
will work for the Public Health students

ty, Carlucci said.

An ad for the new CDTA swiper card.

“There are some real advantages to
CDTA...they travel along other major
routes and would allow students access
to anywhere,” Carlucci said. “We can’t
meet [the student demand]-with our own

and will also satisfy
people who live on
campus. He said
these modifications
will show students
that “CDTA is the
best way to travel in
the whole capital
district.”

Seventy per-
/)cent of the people
_|riding the 17 line

j university commu-

‘Staff Photo Py Glenn Teichman nity, according to

Basile. —

By working together, more ae
needs will be satisfied Carlucci said.
“The university and the community bus
service are doing something together.”

j are members of the

Physical plant.
employee wins
big at Saratoga

A University Physical Plant employee stum-
bled into fame and fortune on August 10
when he won $540,367 at the Saratoga Race
Track. The winner, Joe Natale, a Ground
Maintenance worker, had made his “Pick Six”
gamble, in which the winning horses are cho-
sen in the third through eighth races consecu-
tively, with a friend, Maggie Smith, a waitress.
Smith’s husband, Joe, works as a groundsman
with Natale at the University.

Natale and Smith will each take home $194,

500 after taxes. The two had bet two dollars on
144 number combinations. The payoff, $1.08
million, the other half of which was won by
Mae Rabuffo of Manhattan, was the second
largest Pick Six payout ever, according to the
New York Racing Authority.
- The Albany Times Union gave the story
front page coverage and quoted another
University Physical Plant employee, Jane
Cloutier, as describing both families as, “very
giving. They would help anybody”.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Center offers competitive technology to disabled students

ROCHELLE KEUM-YUN LEE
Staff Writer

Incoming students with learning and physical disabilities will
be presented with enabling technology by the Center for
Computing and Disabilties, (CCD). The Center will hold an
information session on campus on Monday, August 29th as part
of a program sponsored by Disabled Student Services.

“We’re doing an orientation especially for those with learning
disabilities or physical disabilities. There’s technology they may
not be aware of in our facilities,” said Lloyd Morganstein, an
information specialist at CCD.

The Center has been serving the University since 1987. It oper-
ates as a service provider and consultant to SUNYA, as well as at
the local, state, regional and national level.

Its main functions include providing micro-
computer needs evaluations, educational
courses, materials, perspectives, and oversee-
ing other projects and grant related activities.

The perspective of the CCD is that disabili-
ty is a relational construct and a result of envi-
ronmental conditions, not a personal character-
istic. The Center uses technology to alter the
person’s environment to enable him/her to
compete. This perspective is in keeping with
the University’s “Just Community” goals.
CCD is active in providing information and
recommendations to the University to insure
that all individuals have equal and reasonable
access to all its programs, facilities and activi-
ties.

A major part of the CCD’s func-

of adapted microcomputer work-stations available in its Lecture
Center 13 facilities.

The Center has demonstrated assistive technology at the United
Nations Headquarters in NYC and the NYS Assembly; provided
seminars on topics such as parental advocacy, speech recognition
technology and products for blindness and visual impairments.

The CCD is also busy planning another assistive technology
seminar on recreational activities for disabled computer users.
The projected date is “late November or early December,” said
Morganstein. “More detailed information will be on our informa-
tion hotline.”

For information on CCD sider its services, call 518- 442-

Chancellor search continues

The process for finding the new chan-
cellor of the State University of New York
continues to move forward.

A search committee appointed last
February after former chancellor Bruce
Johnstone’s resignation is making
progress said William Weitz, a committee
member.

The committee has probably narrowed,

down the applicants to a dozen and is
hoping to have an announcement by the
September 27 board meeting, according to
Ken Goldfarb, director of information

Lynn Mayer and Lloyd Morganstein.

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Aspects 6

August 26, 1994

As surely as a cloudy sky
foreshadows rain, the recent
volume of publicity for Jeff
Buckley suggests that by the
years end he will have
emerged as the biggest new
act in the music business.

Jason Black

This week Colombia
records released “Grace,” the
first full-length, studio album
by this singer/songwriter
who has been the subject of
numerous articles in
magazines like Rolling Stone,
Spin, Musician, Interview, and
others, drawing interest due
to his religiously attended
performances in New York
City’s East Village at venues
where seating was limited to
a number of people smaller
than the number of songs
Buckley can play.

Notoriously and gloriously
difficult to describe, Buckley's
inspired vocals and haunting
guitar playing sometimes
recall Robert Plant’s fusion of
screams and wails, sometimes

show the influences of such

diverse artists as Robert
Johnson and Edith Piaf. Such
defiance of catagorization
garnered him a bizarrely
loyal following when
considering the number of

musicians one can choose to

see in NYC.
At his shows fans can

constantly be overheard
discussing the long period of
time over which they have
been coming to see Buckley
play, or the majesty they find
in his performances.
Especially awe-inspiring is
the point at which people will
begin to shout “Hallelujah!” a

request for Buckley’s version
of the Leonard Cohen song of

that name, but perhaps a.

comment, intended or not, on
Buckley’s effect on his

- audience.

Little of this barrage of
publicity and “industry buzz”
is of much interest to Buckley
who is far more satisfied with
the evolution he has achieved
with his band after years of
playing solo. “This is exactly
what I was shooting for when

I was playing solo, I mean

exactly. At the time I knew
that I wouldn’t know what it
sounded like but I knew what
it would feel like. I didn’t

-wanna know what it sounded

like so I couldn’t control it.
(The vibe) has always been
there from the very
beginning, that’s how I knew
who to have on the album.” °
Surprisingly, for Buckley a
record deal (which he signed
after a reportedly astro-
nomical bidding war amongst
record labels) was not a
priority. He says “I never
really thought about it. I
knew I’d make music all my
life but (a record deal)
just didn’t occur to me.
I never gave my tape to
anybody or anything.”
Buckley knew early J
on he wanted to be ag
musician. “About the &
time I reached the age
where people were
asking me what I
wanted to do with my
life, I’d just say music.”
He left home at 17 to
pursue that goal after a
“half-hearted” attempt
by his grandmother and
mother, a classically trained
musician, to suggest he
attend college. In response he

“half-heartedly said ‘alright,
whatever’ and I proceeded to
do what I wanted to do. I
couldn’t afford it and I didn’t
feel like having a protracted
period of high school, just
older people who knew how
to breed, it really didn’t
appeal to me.”

Being on his own, he says,
taught him that “life is really
serious and life is a complete
joke. That everything that’s
true has a _ complete
opposite.” He says he had his
sex, his drugs, and he “was
really into Miles Davis, so I
guess you could say I was
into rock ‘n roll.”

Since then Buckley says the
changes in his life include
“my knowledge of people
and how to live among them
and how to read them and
how to read myself a bit,
human things, really.”
Musically, however he wants
to “drown myself in it until I
come up completely
changed.”

In his songwriting, he
draws upon “everything,”
even a “tacky night cover” he
describes from his hotel

room. “The other thing that’s
really uncommon to draw
upon, the special thing I draw
upon are dreams. Those are

Jeff Buckley

things I have to be really
reverent to, to be in a state
where I can write it down,
sometimes I remember them,
but usually my life is easy to
draw upon.”

Another uncommon aspect
of Buckley’s personality, as a
musician, is his desire for
people not “to think they’d be
an asshole if they didn’t have
my album. All I can ask is
that if people like what they
hear they come to the gig and
if they don’t they can leave.
But if you like my vision of
music or the way I work with
my band, yeah, you’re
welcome, come on in, pull up
a seat.” Such a desire to share
an experience with people,
rather than dictate one to
them is what has endeared
Buckley to such a large fan
base.

The idea of dictated
emotions is where Buckley
finds fault with MTV. “It’s
everywhere. It declares things
revolutionary. People believe
it. It declares things
alternative. It declares things
stupid. It declares a certain
standard of beauty for

women, people
believe it. At
a. the same time it

Fsuccessful
corporate
triumph of the
modern. age.

(I-r) Mick Grondahl, Jeff Buckley, Matt Johnson, Michael Tighe Music is

innocent of that. MTV works
faster than every single form
of media. Reality should be
much more amazing. The

thing to do is to realize the
real, undeniable beauty of
girls around you and of
adults that are around you
and of sex that you can have
yourself and of music that
you can make yourself and of
danger and style and
vibrance that you can
experience yourself and taste
for yourself.”

As Buckley expounds on
the enjoyment available in
real life, he heeds his own
advice, taking advantage of
the chance to “really see
(America) and be it” while
out on tour. The only problem
with this reality are times
when he is in small towns
and looks “a bit too weird for
the Nazi greasemonkey who
wants to kick your ass.” But
he takes the hostility in stride
and moves on to gigs where
people are so desperate to see
him they stand at the
windows, cheering in.

It is that kind of passion
that Buckley’s music
transmits and is the key to his
success. But in considering
the possibility that his music
won't be accessible to all
people he remains un-
daunted. “I’m already not
fitting in, it’s just the way I’ve
always been. Sometimes it
gets lonely but it’s something
I can’t do anything about. It’s
something I accept and I live
in and I thrive in.” While he
raises the possibility that
some people may think it’s
“complete shiite,” the
likelihood is that the music
will be embraced thanks to
Buckley’s raw vocal style and
his lyrics, intensely personnel
and prone to defying literal
interpretation, just like
Buckley himself.

BAYERING WITH MTV

Just Before The MTV Awards, Director Samuel Bayer Discusses Video Making

Samuel Bayer is pissed off. He is
mad the video for Melissa Ehther-
idge’s song “Come To My Window,”
which he directed, is not nominated
for an MTV video award.

Jason Black

The awards, which his video for
Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
won two of, are to be given out on
Sept. 8. Bayer feels “if somebody else
had done it I’d be very pissed off
because I think it was a great idea
waiting to happen.” ©

Bayer doesn't stay angry though,
beacuse he understands that MTV is
“very middle of the road. They’re not
dangerous or cutting edge.”

Having done over sixty videos in
| the past three years, in a style “that's

about emotion. I want you to feel
things you haven't seen in videos
before” he understands the realities of
the business.

One of those realities is that the
artist for whom he’s creating a video
may not like his ideas. “It hurts,
actually, when they get too involoved
in the visual aspect of it. It’s like
when Kurt Cobain came to the set of
‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ he hated
what I did. These people didn't go to
fuckin’ art school, they’re not
photographers.”

Kurt Cobain is someone Bayer does
have a lot of respect for and he says
that although “horrible things” were
said about him in a book on Nirvana,
he respects Cobain for having been
the “real deal,” unlike Eddie Vedder.
He attributes Cobain’s suicide in part
to the fact that Cobain “saw

something that was really personnal
and really special and really
underground filling the airwaves.”
Directing is very personnel to Bayer
who shoots, art directs, and
sometimes even paints the sets of his
videos, unlike many directors who
Bayer says take advantage of the fact
that “if you surround yourself with
enough people, they'll put it together
with very little help from you.”
Thinking he wouldn't be very
successful, Bayer, an art school
graduate, waited until he was twenty-
nine and had a “horrible falling out”
with the director he was assiting,
before directing on his own. “I’m
kinda mad at myself for waiting as
long as I did...It’s not that your ideas
get better as you get older, I had ideas
years ago and never pursued them
but you do everything when the time

comes.”

When the time came for Bayer to do
one of his most widely recognized
videos, Blind Melon’s “No Rain,” the
band told him “they wanted to do a
video with bright colors and bring the
album to life.” Working with only
that input allowed him to experiment
with “situations that were totally
improvised. The people that the little
girl runs up to are real. You can't fake
that.”

Bayer is now trying hard to develop
a script he has written. If given two
hours to showcase his take on the
human condition, the public may be.
witness to the rise of a talent given
more to truth and to the beauty of life
and people than to formulaic
exploitation of emotions-certainly a
future that _—_holds some
award-winning achievments.

August 26, 1994

Aspects 7

My So-Called Life, television’s
most anticipated new entry
this fall, created by the
producers of thirtysomething,
rs. much-: less. like. its
predecessor and more similar
to a series like China Beach .

Jason Black

The differences are in this
drama the female protagonist,
Angela, is younger, her tour of
duty entales being a teenager
rather than a nurse, her killing
field is high school, not
Vietnam.

Angela does not miss these
ironic comparisons. She sees
school as a “battlefield for
your heart,” compares a day
there to a drive-by shooting,
and calls the cafeteria “the
embarrassment capitol of the
world.” Painfully insecure and
detached from her peers,
Angela tries to achieve
upward social mobility by
hanging out with new, cooler,
more “alternative” friends like
the androgynous Ricky and
social butterfly Rayanne. In
this quest to graduate
geekdom, Angela isolates her
mother, confuses her father
and alienates her oldest friend.

While endearing, the show is
too often familiar. Looking like
Molly Ringwald, searching for
a life of cool like a Heathers-
esque Winona Ryder, seeking
the companionship of the
beautiful-yet-tortured,
embarrassingly popular
Jordan, Angela is written as a
collage of teenage film and
television characters.

Ingenue Claire Daines is able
to able to overcome the cliches
thanks to her expressive face
and inspired awkwardness,
she often avoids eye contact
and looks appropriately
longing as she watches the
cheerleaders pass, oblivious
however, to the one crying in
the hallway.

A Pepsi commercial that
came on during the first
episode instructed “Be Young.
Have Fun. Drink Pepsi.” If My
So-Called Life has a mission, it
seems to be to negate such
simplistic assumptions of what
the life of a teenager is like.

It addresses the severity of
the burden of trying to
develop a unique personality
in the face of constant pressure
to conform, from her mother,
new friends and old buddies.

More insightful than 90210
could ever have been due to
it’s agenda of reality rather
than soap opera, the show
wins thanks to its sympathetic
nature and genuiness of its
lead’s experience.

Angela’s self-introspection
via voice-overs seems forced
at times but more often than
not her triumphs and failures
in dealing with crises allow
her to emerge as a hero.

‘media spoke abo
were absolutely NO

hooked up. The. ie
two guys, about eighteen years old INCOOK
wearing “Peace Patrol” shirts and a thi
holding portable metal detectors. They
were serious about their jobs too In fact
the metal detector beeped on Sharon
and the dude said, “I didn’t hear Cc

The bus ride over there was one of the
highlights of the weekend. In my
journal I wrote the following:

“I'm loving the spirit all ready.
There's cars and vans all painted funky.
‘colors for the occasion. Everyone is
eager to strike up conversation with
strangers. Very few peo’ are ly
clothed.

Some dude pulled out a oni and

started playing and singing for
everyone. Soon everyone joined in,
People were pees) joints and ps

all around the bus. —

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weekend! With each neighboring bus

just.

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even music. But.

no one fought
and no

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judged. We left

our tent up the
whole time, with

‘touched a thing.
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friendly,

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socio-econom ¢ backgrounds, with |

different taste in clothing: hair color and _ mom was at Vroodsioc a

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happy that I was able to part 7
such a huge event. I know that someday
my children will be excited to say their

WIDITOIRIIAIL

Unfair Punishment

In a measure that soon may become law,
Congressman Jerry Solomon _ has
introduced an amendment to a department
of defense bill that would deny military
funding to universities that ban military
recruiters.

Because of an exective order by Governor
Cuomo prohibiting groups that discriminate
against people because of thier sexual
Orientation from recruiting on state
institution grounds, last year the state
supreme court ruled military recruiters are
banned from SUNY.

The court found that the military’s ban on
homosexuals biolated the governor’s
executive order. Solomon’s amendment
could cost SUNY millions of dollars in
research money each year. It seems
Solomon wants to punish schools who do
not accept federal policy.

This is just one of many times
organizations or members of the federal
goverment has used federal money in an
attempt to manipulate the actions of a state.

The problem with Solomon’s idea is the
fact that federal funds don’t just appear,
they come from taxpayers. Certainly
senators and congressmen constantly tell
their consituitents that their money is being
spent in the best possible way. But can they
do that now? This amendment will deny
funding to some of the better colleges
across the country.

If Congressman Solomon and everyone
else who voted for this amendment can
honestly say they don’t need the research
being done at these colleges, then why were
they spending that money in the first place?

According to information from SUNY,
over 7 million dollars of money from the
military was paid out in grants over the last
fiscal year. SUNY is just one school on
Solomon’s list of schools. There is no doubt
that some of these schools recieve more
money than SUNY. Considerring all this
money goes to all these schools and with
the potential passage of this bill, congress is
saying none of this research was really
necessary.

If the department of defense does need
this research done, that money will now go
to other colleges. _

We would hope this research money had
been going to the best colleges available
but will it now go to colleges with research
facilities that aren’t quite as good? And if
so, why? Because Govornor Cuomo
recognizes the military’s ban of
homosexuals as an archaic policy and has
decided to do something about it.

Congressman Solomon has said if the
governor wants to help SUNY he can
simply repeal his executive order.

We ask the governor not to back down on
this issue.

LISTTIBIRS
City Mores

Dear Students:
It is a great pleasure to extend a

warm welcome to each of you from.

the people of this historic Capital
city.

In April of this year, we joined.

with SUNYA in celebrating its 150th
Anniversary at the site in downtown
Albany where this great educational
institution had its beginnings. You
are the beneficiaries of those years of
growth and progress in educational
excellence, and I am sure some of
you will decide to stay and live in
this community as have many
SUNYA alumni before you.

During the course of your
academic career in ‘Albany, I hope
you will avail yourselves of the many
cultural and recreational resources
we have in abundance. There are also
many opportunities to become a part
of this community through
volunteering. I urge you to consider
them.

Many of you will choose to live in
our neighborhoods in off-campus
housing. You can do a lot for cordial
“town and gown” relationships by
being good neighbors to the residents
who live here year around. Your
mature and considerate conduct
would be greatly appreciated.

You have my best wishes for
continued success in all your
endeavors. Enjoy your years in
Albany.

Gerald D. Jennings
Mayor, City of Albany

Sports for All

Dear Students:

Welcome Back! During the last
few months, we have been working
to build the type of men’s and
women’s intercollegiate athletics
program that students have said they
want.

Last May, the University Senate
approved a resolution to upgrade
Albany’s athletics program to NCAA
Division II status, effective with the
1995-96 academic year. This was

accepted by President H. Patrick

Swygert, in consultation with the
University Council. At the same
time, we were approved for
membership into the New England
Collegiate Conference. These steps
will allow us to field exciting and
competitive teams.

Upon my appointment, and
continuing afterward, during
Division II discussions, President
Swygert, the University Senate and
student leadership expressed their
desire for the department of athletics
to become as gender equitable as
possible. Gender equity is a broad
concept of fairness between men’s
and women’s. athletics. An
emphasized comparison is that the
male-female ratio in athletics be
similar to the same percentages
within the student population.

In an effort to achieve gender
equity while maintaining our
commitment to academic excellence,
and without diverting limited state
resources from academic programs, it
was necessary to reduce our overall
number of sports sponsored.

Reorganizing our intercollegiate
athletics model began with a study in
January 1993 and ended last Spring
with decision to add women’s field

hockey and women’s golf as varsity.

sports, while discontinuing

sponsorship of wrestling, men’s

tennis, men’s and women’s
swimming, plus the junior varsity
teams in football and basketball.
These changes took effect with the
start of the current academic year.

Prior to this reorganization, 65
percent of our athletics were male,
while 35 percent were female. By
implementing the new model,
participation for females increased to
47 percent, while male athletics are
nearly 53 percent. We are now more
comparable with the student which is
comprised of 51% men and 49%
women.

While this difficult decision
created a hardship for a few
incoming students and some current
team members, we are doing every

- thing possible to help those affected.

Our coaches, staff, and SUNY
Central are assisting those
student-athletes who wish to transfer
and/or continue to compete in their
chosen sport. We are also working
with the Student Association to aid
students who desire to from sports at
the club level. :

Students support for our entire
athletics program played a pivotal
role in convincing the University
Senate to adopt the Division II
resolution. My staff and I are again
committed to enhancing student life
and making athletic part of the
Albany experience. This concept will
include and emphasize student
facility usage, providing entertaining
spectator sports for all students, and

continued dialogue with the student

body on how best our program can
serve.

On behalf of all our

‘ student—athletes, coaches and staff, I

would like to personally thank you
for your previous support and invite
you to experience athletics at Albany
throughout your collegiate career.
Should you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to call me at
442-3076.
Milt Richards
Director of Athletics

All for You

Dear Students:

I am delighted to welcome all
University at Albany students for the
start of the 1994-95 academic year. »

The summer has been a very busy
and productive time for the
University as we have been working
to build upon the outstanding quality
of the campus through many
enhancements and special projects.
Among the most anticipated events
of the fall will be the opening the
new Campus Center Extensions.
These modern and spacious will
provide much-needed space for a
new larger bookstore and student
servicess such as a convenience
store, food court, banking and ATM
services, and even the campus
barbershop. I know all students will
benefit from the greatly areas and
invite everyone to attend the
ribbon—cutting ceremony. We expect
to open the extensions by
mid—semester.

Of course, the phone and vidoe
cabling project in our residence halls
has greatly enhanced
communications and information
services for our resident students.

The Academic Services Center.

(ASC/US) has also been completely
remodeled to improve student
advising services, plans are moving
forward for a child care center on the

uptown campus, and many other
projects, large and small, will make
our campus an even more
“student-friendly” environment.

With the start of the Fall semester,
we also resume the celebration fo the
University at Albany’s 150’s
anniversary —the Sesquicentennial
of our founding. There will be many
events to mark this occasion,
including appearances by world
renowned astronomer Carl Sagan on
October 3 and Miles Lerman,
Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Committee, on October 26.
Finally, we will be announcing
shortly a major campus evenet to be
held on September 29, Campus
Together Day . Mark your calendars
and look for the announcement with
details soon.

We do, of course, carry with us
into the new academic year our
continuing commitment to benefit
from our rich University community,
expressed through the Principles for
a Just Community. As the recent
Capital Region recipient of the
Jewish National Fund’s Tree of Life
Award, I am reminded of how much
more we all need to do to foster
greater peace and understanding at all
levels of our lives from our personal
interactions to our relationships and
contributions within our University
community and the greater
coomunity.

I am confident that the 1994-95
academic year will again be a
rewarding time for all of us. Best
wishes for a happy and productive
year.

H. Patrick Swygert
President

Come on in!

Dear Students:

On behalf of the Student
Association I welcome you all to the
1994-95 academic school year! This
year promises to be one with
increased levels of excitement and
energy for every member of our
campus community. The Fall

_semester and all of the new things

that it has to offer is looked forward
to with much anticipation. |
The Student Association officers
and assistants have been working
diligently over the course of the
summer to ensure that our student’s
acdemic, athletic, cultural and social
concerns are being protected and
programmed for. I invite you all to
participate in th emany waves of
positive programs that are generated
by the Student Association in hopes
of informing and exciting you. Be an
active leader/ organizer or be a
passive receiver/ recipient, but most
of all be informed and aware of the
tremendous opportunities that we are
capable of furnishing. I am honored
and pleased to represent a student
body in transition; a student body
with rising levels of interest,
attendance and recognition in all
areas of University life. We are a
Student Association made up of the
students, by the students, for the
students. Please come in to Campus
Center 116 to help us personalize the
experience for you. Don’t miss Fall
Fest. Don’t miss Homecoming. Don’t
let these years pass you by. See you
all at the games, on the podium and
in the classroom.
Cliff Lent,
Student Association President

What’s downtown

—-Where to shop
-Bus Schedules

10 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994

There is more to Albany than meets the eye

The New York State Museum

By ROCHELLE KEUM-YUN LEE
Staff Writer

Welcome to the world’s oldest
chartered city, Albany. Acutally,
most of the school’s uptown
campus, with the exception of
Indian Quad, is in the town of
Guilderland. But most of you
frosh are living on Indian, so I
guess we’re safe.

It sucks that you can’t have a
car your first year here on cam-
‘pus. But right on the SUNYA
busline are many attractions and
sites not to be missed. Be careful
to get on the buses with the red
“Wellington” signs in the front.

The namesake of the bus is the
Wellington Hotel, where some
students were contracted to live
in Albany’s heyday when the
five quads could not meet the
housing demands of the students.

The Albany Institute of
History and Art is located at 125
Washington Ave. Founded in
1791, AIHA is a museum dedi-
cated to Albany and the Upper
Hudson Valley Region. It’s free
for all but closed on Mondays.
Call 463-4478 for more details.

Right up the street is the main

Albany Public Library.

To get a card, you need proof
of address. They have a
formidable selection of popular
videos, in addition to educational
ones. Rentals are free for two
nights. They are open late until 9

The New York State Capitol.

p.m. Mondays _ through
Thursdays, with limited hours on
all other days. Get off at Lar
Street for the Museum. .

Lark Street is Albany’s answer
to New York City’s Greenwich
Village. Albeit smaller, you can
find anything between small cof-
feeshops to the best Chinese
restaurant in Albany, (Emperor’s
Palace), on this street.

The Ben and Jerry’s on this

street is the former house of the

first Albany Gay and Lesbian
Association. Live jazz music can
be heard at Justin’s. You can rent
or buy rollerblades or just look
like somone who rollerblades
with the apparel sold at the stores
on Lark. You can buy vintage
clothing or any look that fancies
you here.

Although the closing of Blue,
White and Rainbow bookshop
has taken away some of the
charm of Lark, you will find
much to amuse you here.

Explore the narrower streets in
this area around Lark. You will
find the Bryn Mawr Used
Bookshop on Dove and many
more treasures. Every
September, Lark Fest, a giant
street party with food, entertain-
ment, crafts and more takes
place. Call the Lark Street
Merchants Association at 463-
7182 for more details.

Getting off at the last stop will
put you near the Empire State
Plaza with the New York State

Museum. It has
art, culture, his-
tory and tech-
nology, some-
thing for every-
one. It is open
daily from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
and is also free.
Not far away is
the Capitol and
the Corning
|Tower. The
observation
deck in the
Tower is open
weekdays from
| nine to four and
weekends from

If you happen to get on a blue
“Alumni” bus, don’t fret. Get off
on Ontario St and take a tour of
the neighborhood where the
bouncers rule. Yes. The bars are
down there. Enough said.

On the corner of Quail St and
Western Avenue is Mother
Earth’s, a vegetarian cafe with
live entertainment every night. It
has somehow become a major
Graduate Student Organization,
(GSO), hangout, but undergradu-
ates can feel just as welcome.

Walk one more street down to
Lake St and you will hit
Washington Park. There is a
beautiful Lake House where
there are outdoor performances

brownstone houses. Note the
University at Albany building
along this street with the magnif-
icent doors.

By the western side of the park
on Madison Avenue is
Downtube, where you can buy
your bike, get it fixed, or take
classes on taking care of the one
you already have.

On New Scotland Avenue, a
little off from Madison is
Quintessence, with a metallic
and neon exterior decor. It has
rotating and seasonal menus of
international foods complement-
ed by the very affordable grill
menu.-It has dancing in the
evenings with a live DJ from

Staff Photo by Glenn Teichman

easily recognize it by its odd
Pier-One Import chair-look-

design.
The State
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Broadway is
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ten to four. The
Plaza is also
home to “The
Egg,” the per-
forming arts
center. You will

during the summer.

greens.

Some will ice skate in the win-
ter on the lake. It is a good place
to ride your bike or just enjoy the
fresh air looking at the many
sculptures and statues on the

Wednesdays to Saturdays after
11 p.m.

These are just some of the
things you will find when you
explore the streets of Albany
with the SUNYA buses. Get out
your camera and let’s go!

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Podiate with Albany’s best

By ROCHELLE KEUM-YUN LEE
Staff Writer

University at Albany may look cold and
uninviting, but hidden between the 1248
columns on the podium is your niche. And
in it you will find words of wisdom and
encouragement, helping you toward your
future.

All eleven buildings on the uptown
campus were built under a single roof. It
will protect you against the occasional
drizzle but little else. Hide in the tunnels
from the months of snow and winds. Don’t
worry about getting lost. Just follow the
crowd and try all the doors. Nobody in
recent memory has seen a map of the tun-
nels. Be aware of fast moving vehicles
from the plant department.

Enjoy the weather and the podium while
you can. “Podiate” before the leaves start
to fall. Throwing frisbees and friends into
the fountain seem the only logical things
to do when the mercury rises. Podiating
under the moonlight can be romantic and
soothing.

Discovering yourself and this college

have a special exhibit of “150 Years of

will be more memorable this year with the
sesquicentennial celebrations. Carl Sagan
and Elie Wiesel will be giving
Distinguished Sesquicentennial Lectures
this term. The University Art Museum will

American Art from the Collections of
Alumni, Faculty and Friends” in
September. ;

The new campus center extensions will
open this semester to enhance the quality
of life on this campus. This will include
an expanded banking facilities and food
court, including national fast-food chains,
beauty salon/barbershop and a conve-
nience store. -

The Great Danes basketball team is
coming off from their most successful sea-
son. Go out and cheer them on as they
charge towards Division II. Many changes
are happening in sports and receation at all
levels in addition to the move to Division
II. We will all benefit from the expanded
programs and facilities.

Special events will be happening
throughout the year, so keep reading the
ASP.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 1]

Shopping the easy way— a guide to Malls and more

By SHAWN T. CONRAD

For you freshmen, otherwise
known as the frosh, you obvi-
ously won’t know the locations
of the Capital District’s wonder-
ful shopping areas (if you find
any with reasonable prices let us
know).

The two biggest shopping
attractions closest to the campus
are Crossgates Mall and Colonie
Mall.

Crossgates Mall has approxi-
mately 150 stores to choose
from. It is currently being reno-
vated to become the largest mall
in our area. If you don’t mind
the construction inconveniences
_and the people who forget how
to drive in mall parking lots, this
mall is for you. Crossgates mall
houses J.C. Penney’s, Jordan
Marsh, Filene’s and Caldor’s as
its biggest attractions.

I have to mention my favorite
store is the new Warner Brothers
where you can purchase clothing
with your favorite Warner
Brothers cartoon characters on
it. Its kind of high priced but if
you love Bugs Bunny and the
Tazmanian Devil as much as I
do you'll become friends with a
worker and get their discount.

This Mall also houses all of
your regular stores such as
American Eagle Outfitters,
Structure, and of course, Radio
Shack and Record World.
Crossgates offers a decent food

court, if you like overpriced
food, with Uno’s pizza as your
overpriced best bet. Hey, at least
Uno’s has a bar so you can have
a beer with your pizza. But for
you freshmen who are under

Colonie mall is:.our other
shopping place, with 160 stores
for those of you who like to do
the Mall Crawl. Colonie mall
won’t be able to compete with
Crossgates mall once Crossgates

Again I have to mention that
my favorite store in this mall is
the Disney store where you can
pay an arm and a leg for your
favorite Disney clothing.

If you like to walk outside and

Staff Photo by Glenn Teichman jg

The CDTA is an easy way to get to the Malls.

age, order a coke on the rocks.

Last, but not least, Crossgates
Mall offers a 12 screen movie
theater, where, if you didn’t go
broke buying a $16 CD at
Record World, you can go broke
here paying $7.50 a ticket. Take
my advice and go to the Cinema
Ten theater located on Central
Ave. in the Northway mall
where you can pay $2.99 a tick-
et.

is renovated but it will do for
now. Colonie Mall boasts
Macy’s, Sears, and Steinbach’s
as its major department stores.
Colonie mall also houses the
same exact stores as every other
mall built in New York.

The food court is average.
Applebees and Mozzarella’s are
two restaurant attractions along
with your local and reasonable
Friendly’s.

enjoy the
weather you
{can shop at
a Stuyvesant
Plaza located
at the corner
fof Western
a Ave. and
: Fuller road.
mere you'll
find a charm-
jing array of
865 different
stores includ-
ing Records
"N Such,
Hippo’s
Electronics
and the Book
House. Also
located here
T.G.I.

Friday’s and
Mangia’s restaurant.

Now for those of you who like
to save money, here are a few
tips. I already mentioned the cin-
ema ten movie theater where
you pay $2.99 for a ticket. What
I didn’t mention is that these
movies aren’t the latest releases
but you can wait a month and
beat the lines.

There is a Champion outlet
located on Central Ave across

from the Super Shop and Save.
Here you can_ purchase
Champion clothing at substantial
discounts from the normal
department store prices.

Instead of wasting your money
buying CD’s at the Record
Worlds, Tape Worlds and other
franchise stores go to Rhino
Records located in the previous-
ly mentioned Super Shop and
Save plaza . Here you can pur-
chase used CD’s for as low as
$5.99 with a money back guar-
antee. You can also purchase
used CD’s at Music Shack locat-
ed at 65 Central Ave. downtown.

If you absolutely must buy
your CD’s new or can’t wait to
find a used one then go to
Lechmere’s located on Cential
Ave. in the Northway mall. Here
you'll also find electronics
equipment at better prices then
Hippo’s as well as other depart-
ment store merchandise at
decent prices.

For those of you without
transportation, there is a bus sys-
tem that services the Albany
area. The #12 and #17 buses go
to Crossgates Mall as well as
downtown; #17 and #10 buses
service Stuyvesant plaza; #1,
#55, and the #17 buses service
Colonie mall; #1 and #55 buses
service the Super Shop and Save
plaza.

For a schedule of the #12 and
#17 buses refer to the printed
schedules located on page 12.

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University at Albany students
will return to a newly—activated
cable and phone system,
installed and maintained by
ACC Long-Distance Company.

Under the new system, each
student has one jack with sepa-
rate outlets for voice (tele-
phone), data (University main-
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“Voice” is ready for use by stu-
dents upon arrival on campus.
“Data” will not be ready for at
least another year.

Cable wires to connect televi-

dents for these services.
However, basic—service charges
are described as included in
room fees.

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Department of Residential Life
and Housing quoted this year’s
room fees as $1549 for a two-
person occupancy. Last year,
she said, room fees were about
$1400.

For the new telephone ser-
vices, each student will have
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personal voice mailbox and
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rates. At the end of each month,
each student will receive a bill
for the calls made. There is no
pre-set spending limit per stu-
dent.

New administration appointments made

Over the summer, President H.
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executive assistant.

Professor of Geology Stephen
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_ as special assistant to the presi-

dent, has been named associate
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been executive assistant to the
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ATHLETICS

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initial report went under changes
after SUNYA was accepted to
the New England Collegiate
Conference (NECC). One of the
proposals in the initial report
was to eliminate the baseball
program. According to
Cummings—Danson the NECC
requires schools to have a base-
ball program.
Cummings-—Danson said the
committee worked to revise the
original report before it was sent
to Richards for his approval.

Richards said the report was
sent to then Vice-President for
Student Affairs Mitchel
Livingston. He said the report
was sent to University President
H. Patrick Swygert on May 16
for his approval which came on
June 1.

When asked why no one was
told about the planned changes
Cummings—Danson said “you
couldn’t make that announce-
ment until it was approved by
the President.” __

Earlier this month eight stu-
dents represented by Guilderland
attorney Paul Wein filed suit
against the university to get the
sports reinstated claiming the
Athletic Department acted fraud-
ulently in recruiting students that
later would be cut.

Men’s Swimming Team
Captain David Agresto, who was
to be a respondent in the suit but
had prior commitments when it
was filed, said he believed the
sports were being cut to free up

money for scholarships when the’

school eventually goes to
Division I. “If cuts have to be
made they shouldn’t hide behind
gender equality.”

Agresto’s sentiment was
echoed by Wein in The
Schenctedy Gazette, “They are
taking a valid issue like gender
equity and trying to hide behind
Ties.

Richards said when he came
to SUNYA he and Livingston
decided to work on a gender
equitable policy. “It (the June 3
reorganization) was about Title 9
but people aren’t willing to
accept that.” Title 9 is federal
education law amendment which
requires schools received federal
aid to provide equal athletic
opportunities to both sexes.”

by deception and capricious-
ness.”

When Richards announced the -

reinstated of the four varsity
sports but not the two junior var-
sity programs as well as keeping
women’s field hockey and golf.
“We'll be better (towards
achieving gender equity) but
we’re arguable not in compli-
ance.”

Richards said his reason to
reinstate the sports was made
because with the beginning of
the semester there were too
many things going on to deal
with litigation.

When asked about where the
money for the programs will be
coming from Richards said “I
don’t know, we’ll have to sharp-
en our pencils.”

President Swygert said rein-
stating the programs was “the
right thing to do.” About funding
for the programs he said “it’s
going to be difficult to find those
resources and we may have to
scale back in our division of stu-
dent affairs.”

Both Swygert and Richards
said they were comitted to gen-
der equity and Richards outlined
how the issue would be pursued

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with four being members of the
faculty, tow being members of
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staff and five members being
students.

When learning of the rein-
statement of the four varsity
sports Lewis said “I am pleased
the sports are being reinstated, it
shows our efforts over the sum-
mer were justified.” He said is
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the sports “certainly brings us
alot closer.”

Wein said he will follow the

events of the next year to make
sure “it’s a fair process, not just
a rubber stamp.”

Paul Garnock of the Tennis

Team and one of the petitioners
in the suit, said he appreciated
the work of Bob Lewis and some
of the student’s parents, includ-
ing his father, who worked to get
the sports restored. He, like
Lewis, would support an inde-
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GRANTS

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is totally hypocritical. No one,
and no institution, which
receives federal funds should be
allowed to then turn around and
thumb their nose at the federal
government,” Solomon said.

Solomon said colleges and
states chose to ban military
recruiters because the military
prohibits homosexuals as well as
“the enduring hostility toward
the military many college offi-
cials retained from their own stu-
dent days in the “60s.”

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governor’s orders but if that’s the
case they can ask the governor to

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ACCIDENT

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ation.

Pathfinder. “My car was parked
and the car spun [my car] around
and pushed it into those two
cars,” Miller said.

Miller, a senior at the school,
was helping a friend move in. He
said the accident could have
been worse, “someone could

have been standing there.”

After Henighan’s car hit the
Pathfinder, it hit another car
before stopping. UPD and the
Albany Fire Department arrived
on the scene quickly. A team of

Albany Fire Department
Emergency Medical Technicians
worked on stabilizing

Henighan’s condition.

An ambulance was called at
9:30 a.m. and arrived on the
scene at 9:35 a.m. :

Joe Brielmann, a father of a
freshmen student moving in, said
he was concerned about the time
it took an ambulance to arrive on
the scene. “It was totally ridicu-
lous the time it took the ambu-
lance to get here.”

The Five Quad ambulance ser-

vice, which serves the campus,
was not called according to Katie
Belfast, the vice president. She
said Albany Fire’s EMT’s call
the ambulance and it is up to
their discretion on when or if it is
necessary to call it.

UPD officers remained on the
scene following Henighan’s
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AUGUST 26, 1994

Covering University at Albany sports since 1916

Albany Great Dane history: new and old

By Eric DAGNALL
Managing Editor

Albany is not the first name to
come to mind when talking
about nationally known college
sports teams.

Albany’s athletic history dates
back to the 1890’s when the first
known intercollegiate teams
arrived on this campus. Albany
has been very competitive over
the years and the excitement
level of the Great Danes can be
contagious.

For example, last year the
men’s basketball team thrilled
the Capital District community

with their dominance on the hard

court.

The Great Danes’ 16 game
winning streak was the shining
moment of their 23-2 season.

Capacity crowds filled the
RACC in numbers of excess of

3,000 to cheer the Danes on in

the NCAA playoffs.

Now there is a reason to start
taking note of the Great Danes.
Albany has taken its first steps
towards upgrading the status of
the athletic department.

“With the great university we
have, we should be facing teams
like Temple and Rutgers.”

These were the words of a
confident Dr. Milton Richards
two months after stepping in as
the new athletic director of the
university. Now one year after
the hiring of Richards, the sports
department has undergone a big
change.

The change occurred May 2 of
this year when the University
Senate approved the proposed

Courtesy of the UAlbany sports department

Damien the Dane.

File Photo

Men’s basketball rocked the house last year.

move by Richards to Division II.
Albany will be enrolled in the

New England Collegiate
Conference.
Although, Albany will

become the tenth member of the
NECC, it will be the largest uni-
versity in the division with an
undergraduate population of
10,500 students.

“Of the Division II confer-
ences available, the NECC was
one that combined good aca-
demics, geographical location,
and excellent competition,”
explained Richards. “I think we
will have an early impact within
the conference.”

The move to Division II will
take place in the fall of next
year.

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The Great Dane had an image
overhaul last year when a con-
test decided the design and name
of the mascot.

Damien was chosen over-
whelmingly by student applause
on Fountain Day this past May.

Great Dane sports set

By Eric DAGNALL
Managing Editor

The fall has always been an
exciting season for Albany’s
sports teams.

Football, soccer, and cross
country are on tap and each has
had its share of success over the
years.

Last year the men’s cross
country team finished third in
the nation. The highlight of the
season was the Albany
Invitational which the Danes
won for the first time. Albany
defeated high caliber teams like
the University of Pennsylvania
and Dartmouth.

The women’s team took sec-
ond billing to the men but the

upstart team surprised a few
teams with their tenacity. This
year could be the season that the
team takes the limelight.

The football team had an up
and down season last year and
things could be as rocky this
year also.

The Danes start their season
September 10, at home when
they go up against the
formidable Ithaca Bombers.
Ithaca has won the NCAA
Division III national title three
times since 1980. If a high scor-
ing game is your thing then this
is the game to see. Kickoff at
University Field is slated for 6
p.m.

Under the tutelage of head

to kickoff

coach Roy Pfeil, men’s soccer
has been one of the more con-
sistent Albany teams. The past
few years the Danes have
reached the brink of the
NCAA’s but unfortunately each
time they have fallen short. This
quest begins again on
September 8 when cross town
rivals St. Rose visit for a 4 p.m.
game.

Though the women’s soccer
team has struggled the past cou-
ple seasons this could be the
year the rebuilding process will
mold.

Admission for students is free
to all sporting events (excluding
playoffs). All that is necessary
is a student ID.

File Photo

f= The soccer team will be heading back into action.

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