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NUMBER 2

Pataki’s budget calls for drastic cuts to SUNY system

Schools face tuition increases and cuts to financial aid programs

By KEVIN DEVALK AND
KEITH DOHERTY

Governor George Pataki sent shock-
waves through the SUNY system
- Wednesday when he released the proposal
for the state budget for the 1995-1996 fis-
cal year.

In the budget proposal, the SUNY sys-
tem will receive budget cuts totaling $290
million, and there were recommendations
of budget cuts in areas such as financial
aid and program offerings.

According to a press release from
SUNY Chancellor Thomas A. Bartlett, if
the budget is passed as is, then the SUNY
system will have to generate $215 million
in new revenues and still cut about $74
million from its current budget.

Bartlett said the budget cuts will have
an impact on a variety of things, including
the number of students enrolled in the sys-
tem and a drastic increase in tuition rates.
The number of campuses, the number ‘of
faculty and staff, and the range of pro-
grams and services available to the SUNY
community are also likely to be affected.

SUNYA officials now believe a tuition
increase will be necessary. The increase
could amount from $1,000 to $1,800 per
~year per student. University President H.

Patrick Swygert said he is opposed to
increasing tuition, but there could be con-
sequences if tuition is not increased.

The proposed budget is as well calling
for the elimination of the Educational
Opportunities Program (EOP), which
gives aid to students who show ability to
attend college, but are unable to due to
their financial, cultural or social back-
grounds. Also, graduate students will no
longer be able to receive financial aid
from the Tuition Assistance Program
(TAP).

Referring to the statement, Swygert
pointed out “nearly 70% of students
receive some form of assistance through
grants and loans.”

In response, Swygert said, “We must
restore funding for the EOP program.” He
pointed out that nearly 800 students are
part of the Albany EOP Program, nearly
1000 are part of the Buffalo Program, and
that almost 14,000 students state—wide
would be “directly affected were the EOP
to be eliminated.”

TAP assistance for undergraduates is
still available, but new restrictions were
proposed. Undergraduates may receive
assistance of no more than 90% of their
tuition, up to a maximum of $3,575.

On Monday, Swygert met with mem-

bers of the faculty in a special meeting to
discuss the implications involved. Specif-
ic information was not available because
the budget had not been released, but
Swygert anticipated that SUNY Albany
would have to cut money from the
already—begun spring semester.

He also said the University has a policy

against firing teaching assistants, comput-
ing services personnel, library personnel,
professors, and safety and health person-
nel. He said that he would try to enforce
that commitment.

Swygert said, “I don’t see this as a cri-

sis; I see it as another challenge.” He con-
See BUDGET on page 17

Staff photo by Roxanne dePrado

President H. Patrick Swygert discusses budget cuts at executive meeting.

NWROC protest calls for action Central Council assesses after

By STEPHANIE BETH FINDLING
News Editor

The National Women’s Rights Organizing
Coalition aired a large array of complaints
Wednesday, at a protest rally in front of the
small fountain.

Topics discussed by the various speakers
ranged from the allegedly anti-gay attack on
Tom Keller’s car during the fall to the tuition
hike proposed in Governor George Pataki’s bud-
get.
~ Sarah Warden, a former SUNYA student
spoke for NWROC about the recent resignation
of Student Association President Cliff Lent and
Vice President Brian Donovan. She said, “Lent
and Donovan were forced to resign their posts in
the Student Association by the Administration...
The truth is that the SUNY Albany Administra-
- tion was attempting to purge Lent and Donovan
from student government because, as S.A. Presi-
dent and Vice-President, Lent and Donovan had
attempted to defend student rights against
Administration policies the S.A. leaders regard-
ed as harmful to students.” Lent and Donovan
resigned at the begining of the spring semester
for “personal reasons.”

When the administration was questioned on
the reasons for their resignations, Joel Blumen-
thal, University Spokesman said, “Lent and
Donovan said they resigned for personal reasons
and we have no reason to believe otherwise.”
When discussing the rally on a whole, Blumen-
thal said, “they were exercising their first
amendment rights but the chief speaker wasn’t
even a student.”

The rally also focused on an incident that

occurred last semester in which racist remarks }

were expressed openly over the internet in an
English 300z Expository writing class. Flyers
were circulated over the past week by NWROC
demanding Mark Connolly, President of the

College Republicans to, “repudiate” a statement
he made at the time defending the author’s
anonymity as “freedom of speech.” According
to the flyers, “Mark Connolly’s and the College
Republican’s failure to condemn this statement
would amount to taking political responsibility
for this (racist) statement.”

Connolly came to the rally and spoke on his
own behalf. He said, “Yesterday I was the sub-
ject of a vicious attack -by NWROC.” He later
called NWROC, “a terrorist organization who
believes in burn and run tactics” when it comes
to attacking different groups and people on cam-
pus. He also said, “All that is being fostered by
your (NWROC) attacks is anarchy, anarchy fos-
tered by anarchists such as NWROC.”

See NWROC on page 17

Staff photo by Roxanne dePrado

Former student Sarah Warden leads protest.

newly elected

By KEITH DOHERTY

Only one week after having been
elected to Central Council chair in
the wake of Cliff Lent and Brian
Donovan’s resignations, Moshe
Maoz, Central Council chairman,
has also resigned.

According to Mike Castrilli, who
was elected vice chair last week and
who opened proceedings this week
in Maoz’s stead, Maoz left because
of a newly acquired internship and a
heavy course load.

Maoz had been elected to replace
Alex Blain as chair. Blain was made
SA president last week because of
the resignations of both President
Chiff Lent and Vice President Brian
Donovan in late January. =

Candidates for the position of
chair were Jason Schoen and Christ-
ian Klossner. Castrilli declined a
nomination and remained vice chair.

Asked by council member Parag
Khandar about “something new”
that each would like to see, Schoen
responding by proposing special
meetings of council to educate
members on legislative details in
order to speed the productivity of
meetings, while Klossner said that
he would “like to give more power
to the committees.”

Council member Carolyn Wong
asked whether they would consider
the position “provisional” in light of
her view that Lent and Donovan
were unjustly forced to resign by the
administration. Klossner said he

chair resigns

“would not call Cliff a liar” in say-
ing that they were forced out, and
Jason Schoen said that he would
respond to student and council
demands on the issue.

Klossner was subsequently elect-
ed Central Council chair.

In the midst of the election for the
new chair, University President H.
Patrick Swygert,. and Dean of Stu-
dents Sung Bok Kim entered the
meeting room and sat in the gallery.
After observing the debate for some
thirty minutes they stood and left
the room.

Speaking with Blain outside the
meeting room, Swygert handed her
a sheet of paper concerning the bud-
get cuts proposed by Governor Pata-
ki that morning, and urged her to
discuss the matter with SA and the
Executive committees.

Asked why he had come, Swygert
said he had hoped to “catch up with
some members of SA,” and
explained he was not aware of the
resignation of Maoz. .

In the executive report later in the
meeting, Blain announced that she
was. “extremely concerned about the
budget,” which would require ©
SUNY campuses to generate $215
million in new. revenue, most of
which would come from tuition
increases totaling at least 1,000
more dollars per student per year. In
response, Blain asked the various
council members to “get about 100
of your constituents” in order to get

See CENTRAL COUNCIL on page 21


2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1995

Sunday, 2/5

be holding a Finer Womanhood
Luncheon, honoring black and
latino women in the community.
The luncheon will be held
between 1 and 5 p.m. in the
Patroon Room. For more info.,
contact Suki Acqualt.

The Protestant Student
Association will hold its worship
service at 12 p.m. at Chapel
House. For info. call 489-8573.

The Roman Catholic Liturgy
will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the
Campus Center Assembly Hall.
For more info. call 489-8573.

Monday, 2/6

The Pan-—Caribbean Association
will hold its weekly meeting in HU
137 at 7 p.m. For more info. con-
tact CC 349 at 442-3348.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Alliance
will hold its weekly meeting in ED
335 at 7 p.m. For more info. call
LGBA at 442-5672.

The People on Women’s
Enpowerment and Respect
(POWER), formerly known as the
Choice Party, will be holding its
weekly meeting in LC 11 at 7:30

The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority will

Campus Calendar

p.m. For more info. call Megan
Casey at 432-4008.

Lambda Chi Sorority Inc. will be
sponsoring a Valentine’s raffle in
the Campus Center lobby for $1.
The prize is dinner for two at the
Parc V Cafe. 3

The Protestant Student Association
is sponsoring a book discussion of
C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe in CC 370 from 7 to 8

- p.m. For more info. call 489-8573.

Alpha Phi Omega will be sponsor-
ing an informational session at 8
p.m. in the SA Lounge. For more
info. Call either Larry at 459-0828
or Jamey at 442-2851.

Tuesday 2/7

The Pre—Law Association will
hold its weekly meeting in LC 20
at 7:30 p.m. For more info. con-
tact Luana at 436-7614.

Pi Sigma Epsilon will be spon-
soring a general interest meeting
in LC 11 at 8:00. The fraternity, a
national professional coed frater-
nity, is open to all majors. For
more information, contact William
at 482-7303.

Wednesday, 2/8

Lambda Chi Sorority Inc. will be

“All that is being fostered by your (NWROC)
attacks is anarchy, anarchy fostered by

anarchists such as NWROC.”

—Marc Connolly, Pres. College Republicans
February 1, 1995
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sponsoring a Valentine’s raffle in
the Campus Center lobby for $1.
The prize is dinner for two at the
Parc V Cafe.

Alpha Phi Omega will be sponsor-
ing an informational session at 8
p.m. in the SA Lounge. For more
infro. Call either Larry at 459-0828
or Jamey at 442-2851.

Thursday, 2/9

The Don’t Walk Alone Escort
Service is available Sun. through
Thurs. from 7 p.m. to 11'p.m. in
the library lobby.

Newswriters:

There will be a
newswriters meet-
ing on Sunday at

8:30 p.m. in CC
329. Anyone inter-
ested in writing for
the next issue is

welcome.

Correction:

In the Jan. 27 issue it was incorrect-
ly stated that expenses for Jason
McEnaney’s bills would be taken
from the University at Albany
Research Foundation. The article
should have said the money would
come from the Universiy at Albany
Foundation.

4 election

Jackson supporters rally; issues of 8

FEBRUARY 10, 1984

Faith, hope, and the church
were repeatedly emphasized as
key factors for Jesse Jackson’s
campaign at a rally Wednesday
night the attracted about 70 peo-
ple.

Speakers from such groups as
the Rainbow Coalition and the
Vietnam Veterans Association
spoke at the rally. County
Legislator Sandra Rose Temple
(D-3rd District) and Albany
State University Black Alliance
(ASUBA) President Eddie
Edwards were among those who
spoke.

Rainbow Coalition member
Dwayne Sampson observed that
the Jackson rally “got a little
more (people) than Reagan (the
January 30, ‘Reagan for presi-
dent rally’).”

Albany Student Association
Minority Affairs Coordinator
Vivian Vasquez also spoke at the
rally although she stressed that
she was not there as Minority

J Photo by Lisa Simmons
Jessie Jackson speaks to college students at a rally on campus.

Affairs Coordinator. “We (SA
officers) are not allowed to sup-
port a political candidate,” she
said. “I’m here to speak as
Vivian Vasquez, the Puerto
Rican,” she claimed

Student
State Uni
Executive V
Isaacson, sai asquez was
legally allowed to support a
political candidate.

“She has every right as an
individual to support Jesse
Jackson,” said Isaacson. “As
individuals, people can support
candidates; they do it all the
time,” he explained.

Two members of Revisionist
Zionist Alternative stood outside
the rally while people were arriv-
ing and distributed leaflets
describing comments Jackson
was quoted as saying when he
_ traveled to Israel and Lebanon in
1979.

Since “Jesse Jackson is run-
ning for president he is a public

figure,” explained RZA repre-
sentative Steve Hilsenrath.
“Everything should be exposed”
for the benefit of the voters, he
said.

Jesse Jackson has “failed to
rectify of fully explain his posi-
tion of supporting the PLO
(Palestine Liberation Organization),”
asserted Hilsenrath. “He wants the
USS. to recognize the PLO,” he said.
Jesse Jackson is trying to com-
e with all nations,” said
n. The PLO is searching
meland, said Sampson,
and should not be isolated.

“We are not endorsing, nor are
we against” Jackson, contended
Hilsenrath. RZA was only rais-
ing concerns about the man” by
distributing leaflets outside the
rally, said Hilsenrath.

Sampson said before the rally
that he believes Jackson has
“excellent chances” of winning
in the upcoming primaries. He
said that “as the campaign pro-
gresses, we gather more sup-
port.” Sampson added that sup-
port in Albany for Jackson was
“adequate,” and that “some peo-
ple are not very supportive.”


FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1995 ALBANY STUDENTPRESS 3

Honored student loses fight Questions arise surrounding

against lymphotic leukemia

By SuSAN CRAINE
Editor in Chief

Jean Pierre Koniaris, a physics
senior at the University at Albany
died Saturday Jan. 28 at the
Albany Medical Center.

Koniaris had been suffering
from acute lymphotic leukemia
since September 1993, and was the
cause of his death.

President H. Patrick Swygert,
who was given a National Golden
Key Honor Award by Koniaris in
October described the senior as a
“warm-hearted and giving per-
son.”

Swygert and the University
chapter of the Golden Key Honor
Society sponsored a bone marrow
drive for Koniaris in May of 1994.
However, Koniaris said he would
only accept a donor from the
National Bone Marrow Registry,
therefore other leukemia suffers
could possibly benefit from the
tests.

A match was eventually found,
and Koniaris leukemia went into
remission until the fall of 1994
when he suffered a relapse.

Koniaris was a member of the
Golden Key Honor Society, Phi
Beta Kappa, and Sigma Pi Sigma,
which are both academic societies.

In an article written by Koniaris
for a university magazine he

“described what his disease taught

him. :

“Somehow through all of this, I
learned the real power of compas-
sion. Compassion has the power
to give hope to the hopeless, to
give health to the sick. ” Koniaris
wrote.

Koniaris was buried Tuesday in
Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in
Schenectady, where Koniaris lived.

Contributions on behalf of
Koniaris can be made to the
Leukemia Society of America, the
Hospice of Schenectady, or the St.
John the Evangelist Church
Restoration Fund.

Staff Photo by John Meyer

Tortorici’s rifle purchase

By JEN MILLER

Senior Editor

Ralph Tortorici is unlikely to be prosecuted for
violating Federal firearm code, officials at the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said
this week. Tortorici had purchased the gun he
used to hold 35 students hostage at the KMart in
Rotterdam last year.

Although Tortorici had been committed or
committed himself at least once to the Capital
District Psychiatric Center, he apparently
answered “No” to Question 8e on the Firearms
Transaction Record which asks “Have you ever
been adjudicated mentally defective or have you
been committed to a mental institution?”
Answering “Yes” to any of 9 questions on the
form means the gun dealer is “prohibited by fed-
eral law from selling him the gun,” according to
Special Inspector Dan Peirscinski of the ATF
Bureau’s Buffalo Compliance office.

Filling out the form is the one requirement for
buying a gun in the United States. Lying on the
form is a felony. However, there is no law in
New York or in the US in general requiring a
check of answers.

According to Special Agent Frank Lattancio
of the ATF Bureau’s Albany Law Enforcement
office, violators come to the attention of the ATF

Bureau primarily through “instantaneous records

checks”, involving a survey and investigation of
a “random sample of applications.”

Managers at KMart in Rotterdam refused to
comment on the Tortorici case but insist they are
in compliance with federal law and that they do
not sell to anyone who answers yes to any ques-
tion on Form 4473. However, because Tortorici
did not buy a handgun, there was no way to
check any of his answers.

In the U.S., only handgun purchasers are sub-
ject to any kind of record check, under the Brady
bill, enacted as part of the 1994 crime bill.
“There is no obligation to check and verify” the
answers on the form, Pierscinski said. Under the
Gun Control Act of 1968, only a “yes” answer
means the gun dealer is “forced to deny giving

him the gun...there is no obligation to the store
to check those answers,” he said.

“Tf he lied and the store keeper obviously has
no way to know, then the store would not be in
any danger of being prosecuted for non—compli-
ance with the law,” Lattancio said. Only if the
gun dealer happens to be aware of a history of
mental institution committals and allows the
individual to purchase the gun anyway would the
dealer be considered in violation of the law, he
said.

The ATF Bureau has no formal policy of
investigating individuals accused of committing
crimes involving a firearm. According to
Lattancio, even if a case where a violation was
suggested “came to our attention,” the ATF
Bureau would not be inclined to prosecute if the
perpetrator was facing state charges which could
bring a longer sentence. “What’s the sense if he’d
get more time under d state conviction? We
wouldn’t make him go through the federal sys-
tem just to add time,” Lattancio said.

The ATF Bureau depends on the US Attorney
General’s office for the decision to press charges
and in a case such as Tortorici’s, where the
“charges are stacked pretty high against him for
kidnapping and attempted murder,” the office
would decline, Lattancio said. An untruthful
answer on the form is “a felony, but it’s not going
to get him the kind of time he would for attempt-
ing to shoot someone,” Lattancio said. _

“The best way to use our law,” Lattancio said,
“is let’s say for some reason he beats the charges
in state court, then we would charge him. We
would go to the Attorney General’s office and
arrest him and take him to federal court.”

Mary Lorenz, Corporate Communications
spokesperson for gun issues, speaking from the »
KMart Corporation in Troy, Michigan, said
KMart doesn’t “really track these incidents.” She
said KMart “adheres to any local, state and feder-
al firearms laws but unless a customer is under
18, he can buy a gun... All our employees are
trained to see if sales are appropriate, based on
how forms are filled out, and to make sure ID is
legal and appropriate.”

Holocaust survivor’s son com-
memorates 50th anniversary with

By JULIE RISINIT
Staff Writer

as a “little oven.”
At Birkenau, Kay spent three years
working with a group named “Canada”.

The film One Man’s Story , produced and
directed by Ron Kay, son of Holocaust sur-
vivor David Kay, was presented by the
Holocaust Survivors and Friends Education
Center, Thursday night, in the Performing
Arts Center.

The film was shown in commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of
the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

“T had the willpower to survive, to be a

. witness, and sit here and tell you. That was

worth the suffering,” Kay said. The focus

of the documentary was the experiences of

David Kay during the Holocaust.

In 1939, Kay’s father and older brother
were taken from their home in Ciechanow,
Poland, and murdered by the Gestapo, the °
German Nazi death machine. Kay, then 19,
and the rest of his family were forced to
live in the ghetto. Kay performed manual
labor there until he was transported to the
Auschwitz death camp in 1942,

“Germany didn’t want Jews and neither
did Poland,” Kay said, “How could we

fight back? The Poles, our neighbors, were _

against us.”

At the end of 1943, Kay was sent to
Birkenau, a sub-camp of Auschwitz. Kay
said the living conditions at Birkenau were
much worse. According to Kay, there was
no food and water at Birkenau.

“(There was) just mud,” he said, “We
slept in the mud. When we wanted to wash
our faces, we used urine.”

According to Kay, the crematorium at
Birkenau was more efficient than the one at
Auschwitz. The crematorium was capable
of killing 2,000 persons at once, whereas
the crematorium at Auschwitz was known

They sorted the belongings of those who
were killed in the gas chambers.

One night, in the summer of 1944, Kay
said his group was sent to unload the new
death camp prisoners from the railcars.
Kay said the SS. guards stood 1,000 feet
back and forced his group to open the cars.

There were hundreds of dead bodies in
the railcars. “I thought I would die from
the smell,” he said. According to Kay,
these people were being transported to
Auschwitz from a Polish town about two
hours away.

When his group unloaded the bodies, he
said some of them started to move, raising
an arm or a leg. These people were still
alive and had started to breathe upon

‘reaching the fresh air. However, Kay said,

they were soon shot and killed by the SS.
guards.

In late January of 1945, the SS. forced
approximately 6,000 prisoners onto death
marches from Auschwitz-Birkenau into
Austria. Soviet troops had been advancing
towards Auschwitz, and the SS. wanted to
remove the human evidence of the crimes
committed at the camps.

Kay said they marched for three days
and nights until they reached the
Mauthausen camp in Austria. One-half of
the 6,000 prisoners died on the march. :

Kay discussed several other hardships
and said he was the only member of his
family to survive the Auschwitz concentra- .
tion camp. Before the movie was shown,
Rabbi Paul Silton, chairman of the
Holocaust Survivors and Friends, joined
six Auschwitz survivors in reciting the
Kaddish, a Jewish prayer.


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Internships provide _Tortorici’s cries for help were unanswered when he
tried to pursue treatment in the mental health system

“real life” experience

By STEPHANIE BETH FINDLING
News Editor

Many students hoping to gain “real life” experi-
ence before graduation are turning to the intern-
ship programs here at SUNYA. One such program
is the State Politics Internship Program run by Dr.
Alan Chartock.

Students involved with the internship programs
hold forty-hour a week jobs in different communi-
cation related positions throughout the capital
area. In addition to working, students are required
to attend one hour of seminar per week. They. are
also responsible for daily journals, weekly reaction
papers and monthly book reports, all which focus
on their field of study.

News Feature

In return for the hard work the students put into
their job, they receive six A-E graded credits and
nine S/U graded credits for a total of fifteen credits
for the semester.

The State Politics Internship Program, which is
only offered during the Spring semester, is open to
fifteen SUNYA students and fifteen SUNY New
Paltz students. The juniors and seniors eligible for
the internship often get jobs working for senators,
assemblymen, lobbyists and other organizations
dealing with the state political system. Students
are also rewarded for their hard work with a $2000
stipend for the semester.

The Communications Internship Program places
students in various communication related posi-
tions. In the past, interns have been placed in the
Knickerbocker Arena, area television stations and
local radio stations. This program runs through
both the fall and spring semesters.

Students interested in either internship are
required to have a 2.5 minimum GPA in any
major. They must also have a junior class standing
or higher.

Communication majors as well as students in
other majors are welcome to apply by the March 1

See INTERNSHIPS on page 10

By JEN MILLER
Senior Editor

Before he strode into a SUNY
Albany lecture center to hold a class
hostage and demand that Albany
Medical Center admit it had implanted
a chip in his brain, Ralph Tortorici
sought help.

According to his lawyer, Simone
Petromelis, Tortorici “cried out to the
community several times for help,” in
struggling against his mental illness,

only to be repeatedly disappointed.

“He’s actually actively pursued treat-
ment, he’s even gone to the state
police, as well as the University Health

With the experience you gain from

Services and the Capital District
Psychiatric Center. He would be driven
to CDPC and dropped off. And all that
ever happened was they would drug
him up and send him home,”
Petromelis said.

Petromelis said Tortorici had been
open about his illness for years. “Every
person I’ve talked to, his relatives,
acquaintances, everybody, knows that
he thinks he has computer chips in his
brain and his penis. But when he went
to get help, he would end up just being
told to follow up on his own. This was
a person coming from limited
resources. He fell through the cracks.”

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(CPS) Students at the College of
William and Mary are asking
Mom and Dad to chip in a little
toward their college educations.

Only this time, the students
aren’t asking for money.
Instead, they’re asking their par-
ents to write letters against dras-
tic cuts to the state’s higher edu-
cation system, which have been
proposed by newly elected Gov.
George Allen.

The William and Mary chap-

ter of the Virginia Student
Coalition mailed out 3,500 let-
ters to parents, asking them to
protest the move.

“The exploding cost of a col-
lege education in Virginia didn’t
just happen,” wrote Greg Werk-
heiser, president of the College
of William and Mary Student
Association. “It has happened
because, as supporters of higher
education, we have failed to
point out the consequences of

Parents called to join in tuition protest

the state’s decision to reduce its
role in supporting our colleges
and universities.”

Gov. Allen spared public col-
leges and universities from the
sweeping cuts made at other
state agencies but still cut more
than $47 million from their allo-
cated funding.

In addition to writing letters,
William and Mary students are
calling the legislature’s hotline
to register their opinions.

Forum on black male stereo-
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“The Vanishing Black Male,”
forum transmitted via satellite
from Washington D.C., was pre-
sented in the Recital Hall of the
Performing Arts Center Wednes-
day.

The forum focused on how
society uses the “young black
male” as a scapegoat for many of
its problems and how the “young
black male” internally could pre-
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Many active speakers such as
Reverend Al Sharpton, Nathan
McCall, Thomas W. Dortch Jr.
(President of the 100 Black Men
of America), Jacqueline F. Brown
(Human Relations Department,
Howard University) and Haki R.
Madhubuti (Publisher and Editor
of Third World Press) spoke on
how the African American com-
munity could come together to
eradicate the problems faced by
the “young black male.”

These proposed solutions
included early education, culture
promotion, positive mentors and
individual self-reflection. The
forum stressed that trying to
incorporate these solutions is
vital, but the actual participation
of prominent black citizens, espe-
cially black college students, to
come find a way out is lacking.

Panelists said they felt black
role models should reflect intellect
more and athleticism less. The
forum also spoke on how, as role
models, rap musicians are positive
examples of black entrepreneur-
ship and African—American cul-
tural expression, but the negative
message sent by black “gangsta”
rappers is destructive to the black
community. Education of black
youth, before these negative role
models set in, was the forum’s
collective solution.


__ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1994. ALBANY STUDENT PRESS .~ 7

| UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
February 1, 1995

To: The University Community

Following release of the proposed Executive Budget for 1995-96, Chancellor Bartlett has
informed campus Presidents that the State University of New York faces an overall budget reduc-
tion of $74 million, and total reduction instate support of $290 million. The $290 million reduction
in state support represents a decline of 31.5 percent from this year’s $919 million in state support.
To meet these challenges, the University system would have to do the following:

¢ Generate $215 million in new revenue, the majority of it through a tuition increase. This
would require tuition increases well in excess of $1,000 per year per student at all SUNY
: | campuses. | |
¢ Reduce expenditures by $74 million from 1994-95 levels.

The proposed budget also calls for elimination of the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) for
graduate students and a reduction of TAP for undergraduates to 90 percent of tuition up to a maxi-
mum of $3,500. The Executive Budget also eliminates the Educational Opportunity Programs,
support for which has totaled $16 million.

Chancellor Bartlett noted that “a loss of this magnitude at SUNY’s state—operated campuses
will force an unprecedented consideration of:

e the number of students enrolled;

drastic increases in tuition rates;

the number of campuses;

the number of faculty and staff;

and the range of programs and delivery of services.”

While we do not know the exact impact that these proposals would have at the University at
Albany, we do know that they pose a serious challenge for all members of this community.
Currently, 70 percent of University at Albany students receive some form of financial aid. The
EOP program supports 800 students at Albany. In our response to these challenges, the interests of
our students, the integrity of our academic programs, and acknowledgment of the state’s fiscal
realities will be paramount. These are significant challenges indeed, challenges that we must face

together as we continue this great enterprise begun 151 years ago.

H. Patrick Swygert
President


8 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1995

Working through traumatic situations is the key to successful recovery

As we live our lives, most of
us expect that we can go from
day to day without touching
major stressors. However, in
our society, newspapers and tele-
vision programs tell us that seri-
ous situations such

Middle as rapes, assaults,
Earth violence, and

events such as the
Roots _ hostage situation at
our University last
December are not beyond the
realm of possibility. If such a
situation were to happen to us or
to someone we love, what reac-
tions would we-expect? How
long would these reactions last?
Most importantly, what can we
do to help ourselves or others as

we deal with the aftermath of a
traumatic event?

Defined most succinctly, a
traumatic event is an occurrence
that is beyond the scope of
everyday experience which
makes a person concerned about
his or her welfare or survival in
the face of that event. Examples
of traumatic events may be situa-
tions related to war, abuse, vio-
lence, accidents, or other events.
When faced with such situations,
the human body prepares to
engage in a“fight or flight”
response to deal with the stress-
ful situations.

While the fight or flight
response can be adaptive in con-
fronting physical danger, a simi-

lar psychological response may
increase our level of stress
unless we find outlets to address
our concerns and allow our-
selves time for healing.

Typically, responses to trau-
matic situations can be charac-
terized as falling within several
stages, though all people do not
have to pass through these stages
sequentially nor do they need to
experience every stage. In the
“OUTCRY” stage, which fre-
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after the trauma, individuals
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sensitive to sights and sounds
around them,and hay have diffi-
culty sleeping, perhaps being
affected by nightmares. During
the “WORKING THROUGH”
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and strategies that will allow
them to heal. There is no set
time line for this stage nor any
of the others. listed above;
responses to traumatic situations
are as individual as are persons
who experience such situations.
There are many things that
individuals can do to address the
affects of traumatic situations
on their lives. These include tak-

ing care of oneself through prop-
er nutrition and exercise, devel-
oping or enhancing one’s sup-
port network, and learning and
practicing relaxation techniques
to be used during periods of high
stress. Some persons find it very
helpful to discuss their concerns
with either a professional psy-
chologist or a peer counselor. To
this end.

The University Counseling
Center (442-5800) offers ser-
vices from licensed psycholo-
gists and advanced doctoral stu-
dents in Clinical and Counseling
Psychology programs, and the
Middle Earth hotline (442-5777)
can lend a listening ear from a
peer counselor.

Whatever the traumatic situa-
tion, there are options to address
its effects, and we can each play
a role in directing the path of our
healing.

Alumni’s twenty million misused

(CPS) Texas oil mogul Les
Bass wanted to make sure that
Yale University students were
getting a solid educational back-
ground in Western civilization.

So, in 1991, Bass donated $20
million to his alma mater with
instructions to introduce new
courses on Western European
writers, philosophers and other
historical figures. However,
three years after the donation,
university officials still are
working out the details of the
new academic plan.

Yale President Richard Levin
says the delay is being caused by
routine procedural decisions.

Many Yale graduates learned
of the Bass debate after reading

an article entitled “Whatever
Happened to Western Civ—The
$20 Million Deception” in
“Light and Truth,” a Yale journal
published by conservative stu-
dents and sent out to more than
5,000 alumni. The article, by 20-
year-old Pat Collins, states that
the courses have been held up
because of protests from liberal
faculty members.

“There were serious behind-
the-scenes efforts to co-opt the
money for liberal causes,” wrote
Collins, adding that Bass was
upset when he learned that the
university had used his money
but had not carried out his wish-
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10 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1995

HEALTH SERVICE

Continued from page 5

CDPC last summer.

Officials at Health Services
declined to discuss Tortorici’s
case, citing both confidentiali-
ty policy and the $20
million lawsuit brought against
the state by injured hostage
Jason McEnaney. However, they
were willing to discuss Universi-
ty policy in general.

Dr. Ingrid Porter, Medical
Director of the University Health

Center, said CDPC is called if a
student is thought to be “a dan-

_ ger to himself or to others.” If

CDPC determines the need for a
hospital stay, the University
stays in touch, “We keep in con-
tact with them, we call them,
they call us.”

According to Dr. Estela
Rivero, Assistant Vice President
of Health and Counseling Ser-
vices, Health Services informs
other departments of the Univer-
sity of a student’s condition as
they deem necessary.

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going to kill so—and-so’,

ers is to inform anyone needed to
contain the situation and protect
that person and anyone else
involved. If a student is threaten-
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that almost always involves
UPD. If someone comes into the
Counseling Center and says ‘I’m
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we’ll take whatever measures we
have to to keep that person safe.
The question we ask ourselves
is, ‘Who do we need to inform to
keep students safe?’” Rivero
said.

Rivero described CDPC as
the “primary treatment site,” and
said the facility is responsible for
deciding “what is in the best
interests of the patient,” includ-

ing whether he or she should

return to school.

However, she said, “Typically, .

we will follow-up if we’re aware
a student has been hospitalized.
We feel a clear obligation to
reach out to them and offer our

-services when they return.”

. Roger Klingman, Acting

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the Office of: Mental Health;

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health institutions, including
CDPC, was also unable to dis-
cuss Tortorici’s case specifically.
However, he described. CDPC as
functioning as a “first point of
entry” in the mental health com-
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emergency room for Albany
Med”, dealing with “acute
admissions,” such as schizophre-
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the readmission becomes the
focus of the treatment,” Kling-
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causing the problem? Is the
patient going off their medica-
tion? What are the factors?’”

According to Petromelis, Tor-
torici was increasingly disillu-
sioned by the resources he found
waiting for him outside CDPC.
“He needed extensive counsel-
ing, not to be told to go home
and pursue it on his own. He
didn’t have the perfect kind of
life, he wasn’t coming from the
perfect kind of situation.”

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Students learn home brewing tastes great and less money

(CPS) If you want something
done right, do it yourself. Such is
the attitude of home beer brew-
ers, those liquid pioneers looking
for an alternative to today’s
mass-produced beverages.
Michael Sterba, an undeclared
sophomore at the University of
California-Santa Barbara, began
home brewing as an attempt to
match some of the more expen-
sive import and micro brewery
beers available in stores, he said.

“During my freshman year, we
started drinking the $8 six-packs.
I stumbled upon a homebrewing
kit and made my mom buy it for
me,” he said. “She feigned disap-
proval, but I think she was
impressed when I produced my
first batch.”

The only drawback is the pos-
sible inconvenience for room-

mates of homebrewers, Sterba
added.

“It’s a big hassle for my
housemates. They think it smells
bad,” he said. “It’s not very con-
ducive to roommate relations
because for four of five hours
you basically occupy the whole
kitchen.”

Each individual brewer must
take not only a physical commit-
ment but a mental one as well,
Sterba said. “It takes mental
exercise because you have to
plan everything out,” he said.
“The more patient you are, the
better brew you make.”

Like Sterba, many are attract-
ed to the thrill of creating some-
thing unique, according to Mark
Stevens, CO author of “Home-
brew Favorites.”

“Many homebrewers are gad-
get hounds and technical people
who also like tweaking things,
trying to improve on them and to
invent things,” Stevens said.
“Homebrewing gives you the

chance to try bizarre combina- '

tions. Like adding fruit, choco-
late, spices, unusual grains, cof-
fee, tea or other things that a

commercial brewer is not likely —

to want to risk on the scale of
hundreds or thousands of barrels.

“TI suppose most people get
into it to learn more about what
makes beer taste the way it does,
in all its various forms, or
because they want to experiment
with styles of beer that are diffi-
cult or impossible to find in
many parts of the country,” he
added.

The number of homebrewers
in the U.S. is currently on the
rise, according to Lori Tullberg-
Kelly of the American Home-
brewers Association, an organi-
zation which promotes competi-
tions among brewers and educa-
tion of would-be manufacturers.

“No one’s done an extensive
study of how many homebrewers

there are,” she said. “But based -

on sales figures, approximately
1.5 million in the U.S. brew their
own beer.”

Since its inception in 1978, the
AHA has experienced a steady
yearly membership increase,
according to Tullberg-Kelly,
adding that the rate has jumped
to 25-35 percent over the last
three years.

A single batch of homebrewed
beer requires about three weeks
of preparation, though longer
periods of time may be required
depending on the type of beer
produced, according to Rafael
Maldonado, who has been sell-
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his Isla Vista, Calif., home for
about 15 years.

The brewing process requires
the boiling of malt and hops,
which determine the character of
the beverage, for about one hour.
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produce the beer’s alcohol. This
part of the process can take any-
where from three days to a
month, depending on the type of
beer desired and the temperature
at which the fermentation takes
place, according to Maldonado.
After removal of the sediment
produced by the yeast, priming
sugars are added to produce the
carbonation, and the beer is bot-
tled. After approximately two
weeks, the beer is sufficiently
carbonated for drinking.

But for those who lack the
time for such an undertaking,
special kits are available which
only require the brewer to add
water and wait, according to
Maldonado.

Currently, state and federal law
allow people of legal drinking
age to engage in limited home-
brewing for private use and
entries into specific competi-
tions.

Current statutes allow for the
production of 100 gallons per
year for one adult or 200 gallons
per year in households with two
or more drinking-age residents.
The brewed beverage cannot be
sold but can be entered in home-

brewed beer competitions,
according to Rick Feldan of the
California Department of Alco-
holic Beverage Control.

However, enforcement of the
age requirement is difficult, as
the ingredients that go into beer
are food items available to any-
one, according to Feldan.

“Can, you buy the ingredients?
Absolutely. Should they be regu-
lated? No. The ingredients for
making beer are food products,”
he said. “Do you really think it’s
a good idea to say you have to be
21 just to buy barley, corn sugar,
yeast or honey? These are things
you brew with.

“In practice, most homebrew

supply shops have a policy
where they don’t knowingly sell
to underage drinkers,” Stevens
added. “They do this for ethical
reasons because they believe it
would be irresponsible to do so.
However, they are just selling
food products, nothing contain-
ing alcohol.”

In most cases, the efforts
involved in homebrewing is
enough to make a minor rethink
homebrewing as a way to obtain
beer, Stevens said.

“Most underage drinkers also
have a logistical problem in
brewing,” he said. “How do you
hide the smell of the boiling hops
from mom and dad or neighbor-

ing dorm rooms? Certainly, some

people can work around this, but
if they can, they can also figure
out ways to buy it.

“If you think that homebrew-
ing is an easy way round the
drinking age, you’re more than a
bit naive,” Stevens said. “It takes
many hours to brew beer. It’s
bulky, messy and smelly. A
smart underage drinker will just
find a fake I.D., a store that
doesn’t card them or make
friends with someone older. It’s a
hell of a lot easier, less risky and
ultimately cheaper.” __

Regardless of these deterrents,
Sterba has brewed beer for about
a year without concern over the
age regulations.

“T never thought about that, the
fact that it’s illegal,” he said.
“Besides, kids around the world
drink beer.”

Sterba finds homebrewed beer
more enjoyable than the store-
bought version because of the
quality and effort he puts into it.

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“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can se
you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that y:
are a victim of it.”

—S. I. Hayakawa

Webster’s defines culture as the way of life of a society, a conce
used to distinguish human societies from non-human animal grouy
The customs, ideas and attitudes shared by a group which make up !
culture are transmitted from generation to generation by learnit
processes rather than by biological inheritance.

In light of Black History month just around the corner, the questic
of culture and its effects on the maintenance of one’s consciousne
creates a plethora of emotions in my mind. Because America
supposed to be a melting pot, thoughts of just what exactly is beit

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melted in this pot and what is happening to American culture itse

Christina Ortega

due to this fact, brews nothing but disturbances for me. Creer
feelings of cultural debasement sit on my conscience and do not allo
me the freedom of thought that I, as a human being, am entitled t
Don’t get me wrong, I am not the most conscious person in the worl:
but my point is exactly that. If debasement is this much of a conce1
to me, I can just imagine the great concern it must be to people «
unadulterated African heritage.

Personally, I feel that it is an issue relevant to each person in th
world, considering we all come from a common ancestry. Being thi
America, the country that a huge number of us have built and a great
number of us are citizens of, has emerged into the world as the main
superpower, with a police like entity, I feel the utmost concern for the
future. Specifically, my future, my brothers’ and sisters’ futures, and
the futures of the children of my cultures, and my colors to come,
because of the destruction that has been continually imposed on us as
a whole ever since America came to be. For since a great many of us
reside in America, our futures are part and parcel of the future of
America itself.

In the history of the Americas, the culture of people of color has
been collectively one I choose to define as a counter culture. A culture
that is a direct counter force of the dominant culture that stands. For
many of us, this phenomena has kept us endurant and as strong as any
human beings could withstand, yet it seems that for a while, we have
not had the time or energy to address the issue of how these
occurrences have taken a huge toll on our general everyday health.
Because we are so strong, it is completely imperative that we, as a
unified people, sit down and focus on a remedy. For our overall
mental and physical health, and for the children of color tomorrow, I
would love to see us seize back our cultures, with the utmost pride as
many of us have avidly been doing, celebrating and living them out
consciously and unconsciously. But the next step is to also recognize
that a brighter day comes closer and closer each time we actively fight
the debasement that has infected us for more than four hundred long
years now. However, we must fight in unity toward a common goal
since we all have, believe it or not, a common ancestry, an ancestry
undeniably linked to original causation. Causation and creation are
linked consciously and biologically, and being that God is the primary
role model for one’s perfection, our consciences will not let us rest if
we continue to play into the games set up to put us against each other,
to tear us apart.

Two statements that influenced and enhanced my need to vocalize
the subject matter were made last summer by two professors of Black
Studies and awareness. The first, made by Professor Camille
Yarborough was, “Today is the child of yesterday and the mother of
tomorrow, for all that we think and feel and do today, from yesterday
we borrow.” The second, stated by Professor Simmons said, “If you
wish to be a part of something, you cannot destroy it.” These two
statements together brought my consciousness to a higher level, and
gave me the ability to see that I should have been at least this awake
all of my life. Unfortunately, due to the surrounding circumstances of
my adolescence “the eighties,” and the paradoxal nature of the
country I grew up in, my wrong side was on the surface for too long,
and my conscience was hardly even functioning as an entity in my
life. But when I saw that the light, my light, had been off for as long

See CULTURE on page 20

Comerete Cormers

BDITORIAL

Short sight or magic in ‘95?

Governor George Pataki has lowered
the boom. In his budget proposal, our
tuition is supposed to go up over $1,000,
and TAP is supposed to be eliminated. I
thought this was the University at
Albany, not Dartmouth.

In this country, and in much of the
world, a college degree is necessary to
keep yourself above the poverty level,
and today a degree doesn’t even
guarantee that. Students are constantly
told they need to stay in school, that a
degree is the way to a happy life. With
these increases and cuts, how can this be
considered a public university?

A thousand dollars may not seem much
to those who can easily afford this
university, but it will be a devastating
blow to those students and families who
can barely pay for tuition. A thousand
dollars may not seem much in the over
700 page budget Pataki passed out on
Wednesday, but for many that little
increase decides who goes to college and
who doesn’t.

Why, of all things, did he pick
education? Aren’t we behind enough with

the rest of the world? What could be the

possible explanation for denying even
more people college? It seems no one in

government ever listens to anything
scientists say. Maybe there is a direct
correlation between analysts telling us
that America’s education system is in
shambles and tuition hikes.

In an article printed on Nov. 11, 1994, a
supporter for Pataki said, “He won't
balance the budget on the backs of the
SUNY system.” It seems this supporter
was a little misinformed. Pataki promised
he would cut down on the bureaucratic
tape, but so far it seems his only cuts are
in the people who will be attending this
university. Once again it seems the
middle class and the lower class will
suffer at the hands of the government.

Apparently, Governor Pataki is more
concerned with what will happen in the
immediate future rather than what is
going to happen in the long run.

There is no possible bright side to
denying children their education. Sure tax
breaks now seem fine and dandy, but
what is Pataki going to do with the
greater number of high school graduates
who can’t afford college, but can’t
qualify for a job without some sort of
degree? Hopefully for those students,
Georgie’s got some magic trick he’s
simply not telling us about.

Scott Bogin

How was your winter break? Mine was pretty good.
Actually, I learned something very useful while working
for a group called the Long Island Neighborhood
Network. This coming year, the Neighborhood Network
will be petitioning for a referendum supporting council
districts in the Town of Brookhaven. The Neighborhood
Network has had a history of petitioning success all over
Long Island. If a grassroots organization can alter the
balance of political power on Long Island, then the

Student Association of SUNY Albany, whose budget is.

approximately the same size as the Neighborhood
Network’s, and whose issues are far more limited and
concentrated, can learn to do the same.

First, our S.A. leaders need to find those issues that
students have been concerned about for years and give
them a loud, loud, loud voice. Last semester, through a

petition drive largely conducted by a good friend of mine
— Larry Kauffman (AKA Landslide Larry), students won
a small victory — the expansion of our physical education
facilities. He and his friends identified an issue, gave it a
voice, petitioned, submitted the petition with scores of
signatures, and succeeded.

Case in point — Larry and his friends proved that
petitioning at SUNY Albany is possible !

What I am suggesting here, though, is not civic
volunteerism. Rather, the incoming Student Association
executive body should hire a team of petitioners (from
the student body, of course) every year. These petitioners
will know the issues of an agenda so that when they
knock on your suite or apartment door, they are eloquent
with the issues they discuss and are able to answer your
questions about the petition. After all, highly organized
mass petitioning at our dorms and apartments in Pine
Hills will cultivate student outrage, education, and
thousands of signatures.

If, after thousands of signatures, administrators refuse
to respond to our concerns with a real response, then our
petitioners will canvass students again and have us flood
the appropriate office with thousands of phone calls. The
administration would have no choice but to respond!
They would be made accountable to us.

Now that we have found a way to force our
administrators to listen, let’s review the top three student
concerns (in no particular order) whose address has not
been sufficient.

1) Dorm Security: For years, many students on campus
have been urging the administration to have tighter
security on campus. This can come in many forms — the
security upgrades that President Swygert agreed to
hasten during last semester was not fast enough. For
example, there must be a night watch in every dorm, not
tomorrow, not next month, but now.

2) Availability of Classes: Especially English classes.
There is no reason it should take anyone five years to
graduate because the classes they need aren’t available —
or a class designed for fifteen should hold thirty-five.

3) Student Services: Advisement falls under this
umbrella. How can a freshman learn what classes they
should take if they can meet with their advisor for only
ten minutes a semester? : :

With petitions and generated phone calls, the concrete
comers which support this school and our student body
remain solid. Through lessons from the Long Island
Neighborhood Network and Larry Kauffman’s gym
petition, the S.A. can make SUNY Albany a more livable
place for all of us.


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STARTS FEBRUARY 3 AT THEATRES EVERYWHERE!

Th,

This week we are writing an appeal to our fellow students. As
you know, many issues have been the subject of protests recently.
There is one subject no one has addressed, that being the lack of
breakdancing and the surrounding culture on this campus. In
order to fill this vacancy, we have devised a list of measures we as
a student body can take to bring back the world of breakin’.

It all started with the release of Breakin’ (the movie, Breakin’ 1).
All you needed was a flattened cardboard box, a boomin’ box
radio, and a pair of shiny parachute pants. Breakin’ knew no race,
it knew no social status, it knew no financial position; all breakin’
knew was “the worm.”

Back then we had real musicians. There was none of this Warren
G crap, none of this Offspring bogosity. We had Kurtis Blow to
listen to, there was The Sugar Hill Gang, and of course, there was
whoever sang “Electric Bugaloo.”

Then came Beat Street, a movie you could take the whole family
to see. The kids could enjoy the dancing, mom could enjoy the
romance, and grandma liked the part where the kid gets fried on
the third rail (we always wondered about grandma). In other
words, it was hours of good, clean fun. What are the popular
movies nowadays? It’s all crap. Crap, crap, crap. It’s Dumb And

- Dumber (no, Jim Carrey’s not funny. Really. He’s not. Really.) Or

else the kids are seeing Little Women. Where’s the inspiration in
that? Little Women doesn’t teach you any lessons about life—not
like Breakin’ 2 (Electric Bugaloo. Duh). Where’s the funky
soundtrack? The smokin’ rhythms? Nowhere. All it has is Winona
Ryder going (in a nutshell) “bitch, bitch, bitch,” and it all works
out fine. That’s not life!

Later in the “80s, producers tried to repeat the success of Breakin’
with films like Dirty Dancing, Lambada (the forbidden dance), and
of course Lambada 2 (-something stupid)—as if we could be fooled.
We knew where it was at. As if Patrick Swayze lifting Jennifer
“big schnahze” Gray into the air at the end was comparable to
those funky arm movements (I don’t know what they’re called,
we just work here)? There’s nothing like eight people in a line,
hands connected, doing that wavy thing. Patrick Swayze—please.
We were hoping he’d drop her-right on that honker.

So, what we are asking is that you, the student body, make
demands on this administration. Instead of movies like The Lion
King and The Firm (John Grisham is really not a good writer. He’s
not. Really), there should be a retrospective of breakdancing films.
We want an anthology night, six hours non-stop (with Don’t Walk
Alone standing by, of course, to escort the ladies home-not that
they’d need protection, breaking makes everyone happy and
peace-loving).

We want gym classes on breakin’ as opposed to that
self-defense garbage which really does you no good. Instead of a
one credit gym class you should be able to take breakin’ for 15
credits—it’s just like studying abroad. Naturally, there would be
different sections of the breakin’ major (or minor, in case you
don’t have the skills to pay the bills). Of course, it will begin with
Popping 101Z (the writing intensive version is required for
students majoring in breakin’); Tae Kwon Do should be replaced
with Battling 212L. We are generous enough to be willing to meet
with administrators to-discuss the details of this program.

And don’t forget, it’s up to you students. Don’t worry about
NYPIRG, the world will take care of itself. Don’t worry about
working at the radio station, we all have CDs. What you should
be doing is starting clubs which will show an appreciation for the
art of the dance. The Fat Boys could show up as guest speakers
with The Human Beat Box and we could all dance together like at
the end of Grease.

In closing, all we can do is offer our suggestions, we can’t make
you take action. But if you really care about your future you will
do whatever it takes to see our vision of a breakin’ school come to
fruition. After all, you don’t know where you're going, if you
don’t know where you've been—and the place you’ve been is
“Beat Street, the land (or “the name,” we forgot the lyrics) of the
beat”—so jamonee.

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Female Bonding Highlights Boys On The Side

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Alana J. Sanford

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Helmet’s New York City Noise Coming To Saratoga

New York City has always been a
mecca for bands who provide great
influence on the music community.
The Ramones brought punk music to
the masses and Sonic Youth became
one of the leading
noise bands of the
last decade. From
out of the shadow of
such bands came
Helmet.

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album, Betty(Interscope), last summer
and went out on the road to support
it.

I talked to bassist, Henry Bogdan
over the phone at his hotel during the
recent leg of their American tour
bringing them to the Albany area
February 3rd at Saratoga Winners. As
the early afternoon chat started, he
sounded tired and worn out from
touring. We started by talking about
the commercial progress of Betty and
he sounded a little displeased about
how it was doing. “It’s doing OK,”
Bogdan said. “It could do a lot better,
but no hit single this time.”

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his hometéwn of Portland, Ogegon.
After coming to New York from the
Westcoast, he hooked up with Page
Hamilton, a fellow Western migrate,
drummer John Stanier and original
guitarist Peter Mengede. “
moved to New York to get ira band,
something kind of serious,” Bogdan
explains, “We just met through an ad

‘Wanted: bass player’ and we got
together and it worked out.” Within
four weeks, they had their first
recording, which was a four song
demo, two of which were on their first
7

Although they started recording

» quickly, they were one more rejection
- away from not getting signed. “After

we made our demo, we sent it to
about fifty small and mid-size labels
and (Amphetamine Reptile Records)
was the only one to respond. The
owner called us up, he said he liked
what he heard and asked if we would
ike to do a single. We said “yeah”
wo months later he asked us to
n album and that’s how it went.”
vey had the same luck with their
shows. “The first few shows we were
kind of nervous, kinda get your shit
together, making some mistakes and
all that, but we’ve been pretty lucky
from the get go.”

Outside of touring and recording,
they have a small role in the new
Jerky Boys movie with Ozzy Osborne.
Not aspiring to be actors, they did the
movie for one main reason: “It was
very easy money.”

(l-r Page Hamilton, John Stanier, Rob

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smaller, 500,

‘Milo Z Brings Funk Into The ’90s

Milo Z’s debut album, Basic
Need To Howl (Mercury), is a
melting pot of funk, rock, and
soul. Milo Z’s music is like
recycled ‘70s with a twist of the
‘9Os. Their unique sound was
inspired by Sly Stone, The
Neville Brothers, and Chuck
Brown. Milo Z emerged out of
New York City with
groundwork in NYC clubs
before they released a major
label album several months
ago.

Andrea Leszczynski

Band members all go by
either nicknames or their first
name only. Milo Z, himself, is
on lead vocal; Smokin’ Joe
Copeland plays bass; Steve
“Daddy Eyes” Hopkins is on
the keyboard; Masa plays the
guitar; DC Rod is on drums; Ze
Luis plays the saxophone, and
Jeremy the trumpet.

Milo Z begins with the
kooky song, “Get on Up.” This
tune can put someone into a
totally groovy mood. Milo Z
sounds much like Sly

Stone-proving he is a huge
influence on the band. Bursts
of trumpet and a groovy,

kicking beat will pierce into
any quiet and boring room and
will make the room come alive
with excitement. A short rap
skit is performed by Biz
Markie. Moe Holmes joins the
Milo Z band with his backup
vocals on this new tune. Ze
Luis later gives his wild solo
performance on the sax.
“Dog,” second track off the
album, is just as slick as the
first. Beginning with the back
up singers giving us a little
bark of a dog, Milo Z sings in
his deep voice about a girl who
causes him to drool like a dog.
“You bring out the dog in
me/ You bring out my basic
need to howl/You bring out
the dog in me/And where you
go
follow.” A total two and a half
minutes of non-stop,
foot-stomping, beat which
moves into a_ slower,
mysterious period within the
song, and right back to its
usual lively bit of cool music.
The tune ends with a real dog
barking in the background.
Sophia Ramos joins the usual
male-singer dominated songs
on “Lost Puppy.” Enthusiastic
and intense beat, with the

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usual guitar, trumpet, and sax.
The tambourine also plays a
part in this funky tune. Lyrics
tend to be about looking for
something—quite obvious. Milo
Z asks “What are you lookin
for?/What did you lose you
can’t find? (lost puppy)/What
are you running from?/Don’t
you know that runnings just a
waste of time.” It’s not so
much the lyrics that make this
song good, but its soulful
sound.

The most emotional and
violent song on the entire
album is “Step Back.” Milo Z
harshly attacks a harmful issue
of our time: racism. “I’m a
white boy/ My girlfriend’s
black/That’s the way it is and
it’s just like that/But how
come on the street I’ve gotta
watch my back/For racist
motherfuckers with their
verbal attack/I always knew
that it was a fucked-up
world/But how you gonna try
to spit on me‘and my girl, walk
away laughin’ ‘cause you had
the numbers/ Next time I'll be
packin’ and I'll put your asses
under...” The beat is quite
anxious in forcing itself.to be
heard—very rapid moving and
loud. It is almost as if it is
portraying the anger within
Milo Z.

Basic Need to Howl will move
you into a total state of groove.
Milo Z brings back the funky
Motown soul that exploded in
the 1970s. It is an album with a
different sound, something
that should be experienced. As
compared to current musical
styles, this one sets itself apart
from the rest, unique for those
who never heard an ounce of
soul music from the 1970s, but
a welcome change for those
who have experienced the
sexiness of rhthym, soul and
funk.

Echeverria, Henry Bogdan)

The first Stone Roses a ‘|
album established is
them as an important §
band, undoubtedly. @
They themselves said
they were the greatest
band to ever come
out of Manchester,
England, a statement
many critics and fans
alike could not
dispute.

Returning with their
second album, Second a
Coming (Geffen), they begin with “Breaking into Heaven.”
The song is eleven minutes long, four and a half minutes
of which are a non-Stone Roses composition. The John
Leckie composition is a perfect prelude to the musical
“love-in” of “Breaking Into Heaven.”

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The Return Of Stone Roses

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James Bogart

John Squire’s guitar stomps across the hard wood
rhythm of “Mani and Reni.” All the while, Ian Brown's
barely decipherable verse floats ominously above the
musical manglings.

“Daybreak,” another funky offering, may very well have
been improvised during its recording. It has the flavor of
Duke Ellington, had he been “smoking a little tea.” Then
the guys throw us a curve, ending the song in a Black
Sabbath-like-ax fest. Six and a half minutes of pure hell-in
a good way.

“Your Star Will Shine” is a soft-psychedelic lily-pad that
could host a mandolin or harpsichord, along with the
acoustic guitar/tambourine. It’s a vocal song, and Brown
shines. “Begging You” is almost industrifunky. It almost
gives one the sense that their nipples are being
involuntarily pierced or bitten.

“Tightrope” is weird: a nearly acapella number that is
Floydish, Beatle-ish, but not gibberish. It suggests images
of sex, the earth, and death (three of my favorite topics).

“Good Times” suggests what Jimi Hendrix and Jim
Morrison would have sounded like had they met under
better circumstances.

Which brings us to the first single from Second Coming,
“Love Spreads.” The song has a vaguely familiar groove
which is kicked up to another level by the guitar work of
Chris Squire, a very disciplined guitar player who rips out
a smooth tide for Brown’s gothic crooning. Brown’s vocals
are at their best on “Love Spreads;” they are the driving
force behind the sex of it all.

The Stone Roses have accomplishedsomething of rare
beauty on Second Coming, paying tribute to their influences
while creating a masterpiece for this generation.


8a Aspects

ORE ees

2/3 - Smith & Bakken give
blues concert at Borders Books
and Music. Espresso Bar. 8
p.m. 59 Wolf Rd., Albany.

2/3 - Bob Fosse's comedy,
Chicago, at the Empire Center at
the Egg. Show begins at 8 p.m.
Tickets cost $25 for adults and
$20 for children 12 and under.
473-1845, additional info. |
2/4 - Earth Crisis, Gatekeeper,
and 25-ta Life at the QE2. 7
p.m. 16 and up.

2/4 - Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz
guitarist, will give a concert at
the Eighth Step, 14 Willet St.,
Albany. Tickets are $12. For
info call 434-1703.

2/4 - Kronos Quartet will
perform at the Troy Savings

$22 and can be obtained by
calling the Music Hall box

tickets are half price when

purchased at the door.
/4 - Dirty Crayon performing

Bank Music Hall. Tickets are

office at 273-0038. Student

at Mother Earth's Cafe, Quail
and Western, Albany. 8 p.m.
No cover.

2/4 - Molly Hatchet will be
performing at Charity's.
Special guest Eb Jeb. Tickets are
$14.50 and $16 at the door.
Rtes. 9 and 146W, Clifton Park.
Call 782-0577. for more
information.

2/4 - Rainbow Room Trio
giving a Swing concert at Mill
Road Acres, Mill Road,
Latham. 8 p.m. Contact Don
Dworkin at 782-0577.

2/4 - Dr. Jah and the Love
Prophets give concert at
Valenti's Pub, 729 Pawling Ave,
Troy. 283-6766

2/5 - R & B Band, Out of
Control will give concert at the
Turnin' Point, Princetown
Road, Rotterdam. 3:00-7:00
p.m. Tickets are $15 (beer,
food, and music)

2/5 - Cynthie Elise performing
grunge/folk at Mother Earth's
Cafe. 8 p.m. Quail and
Western in Albany. No cover.
2/7 - Dishoner and Drivin By
Rage at the QE2. 10 p.m. 21+
2/8 - Big Head Todd and the

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(left-right) Ugly Americans and
Monsters, The Dave Matthews
Band, and The Ugly Americans
will play the Palace Theatre in
Albany. Tickets are $20 in
advance, $23.50 night of show.
2/8 - Seven Rabbit 8 Stew
performing at Mother Earth's
Cafe. 8 p.m. No cover.
2/8-2/9 - the musical, Jelly’s
Last Jam, will be presented at
Proctor's Theatre, 432 State St,
Schenectady. Show starts 8
p-m. Tickets are $36.50, $29.50,
and $22.50. Call Box office at
346-6204 for more information.
2/9 - Irish Folk concert given
by Hair of the Dog. 8 p.m. at
Mill Road Acres, Mill Road,

The Dave Matthews Band, See 2/8

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Latham. Call Don Dworkin at
782-0577 for additional
information.

2/9 - They Might Be Giants will
play Saratoga Winners.
Opening is Chris Stamey. For
info. call 783-1010.

2/9 - Jonathan Hyman will
perform at Mother Earth's Cafe.
8 p.m. No cover.

2/9 - Clay People and Distopia
giving a show at the QE2.
Concert begin at 7 p.m. 16+
2/9-3/12 - The Game of Love and
Chance, play presented by
Capital Repertory Company,
111 N. Pearl St, Albany Call
462-4531 for more information.

Student Starts Own Record Label

(CPS) Greg Latterman started
collecting CDs of his favorite
college bands as a hobby.

But when the Northwestern
University graduate business
student found that he was bored
with his 9-to-5 accounting job, he
decided to put his hobby to work
for him. :

His idea: seek out the best
college bands in the nation and
put their recordings together on a
‘compilation disc.

“I had a pretty huge collection
of CDs, mostly from bands that
nobody ever heard of because it
was hard to find their stuff,” says
Latterman, who is now 26. “But
when people heard the music,
they liked it, so I was always
making these tapes for my
friends. I figured I’d just take that
same concept and expand it.”

Latterman quit his accounting
job in Boston and moved to Vail,
CO, to work as a ski instructor.
He worked the slopes during the
day and watched live bands at
night. “A lot of bands come

through Vail each year, so I was"

able to hear a lot of music,” he
says. “If I saw something I liked, I
tried to contact the band to see if

they wanted to get involved with

the project.”

After listening to hundreds of
bands, Latterman came up with a
list of 10 that he wanted to feature
on his disc, which he called
Aware.

“Deciding on the bands was
pretty easy compared to the next
step,” he says. “I didn’t realize
how hard it would be to get all 10

bands, and all their representing
attorneys and management
companies to agree to the terms.”

But after spending a couple
thousand dollars in long-distance
phone bills, Latterman finally. was
able to secure the bands for Aware,
which includes songs by
Jackopierce, Acoustic Junction,
Jupiter Coyote, the Winebottles
and others.

After the final contracts were
signed, Latterman hit the
recording studio to oversee the
production of the CD. Four weeks
later-roughly six months after

-Latterman came up with the

compilation idea—the first copies
were delivered to his door.

Instead of pitching the CDs to
stores at the local malls,
Latterman set up an 800 number
(1-800-AWARE-65) and waited for
the calls to come in.

And they did. Relying primarily
on word-of-mouth publicity, the
toll-free number, a_ few
independent distributors and
sales representatives on various
college campuses, Latterman was
able to sell thousands of copies of

his CD in the first year.
Latterman, who is currently
pursuing his MBA at

Northwestern, says that most of
today’s bands realize they need to
put their music out on CD, even
when they’re just starting out.
“You can get a following from
live shows, but once your music is
out there on CD, people can pass
it around to their friends,” he
says, adding that recent advances
in technology make it possible for

a CD to be manufactured for
about 25 cents more than a
cassette tape.

“A lot of times, bands don’t
know how to go about getting
more exposure. We try to help
them with that.”

Like any good entrepreneur
knows, one good idea deserves
another, so Latterman began work
on Aware II. And while he didn’t
expect his second go-around as a
record producer to be a piece ofs
cake, Latterman says he was a
little surprised at how difficult the
process was. He ran across many
of the same headaches he
encountered his first time out.

“Anytime a lot of people are
involved, they’re going to be
some problems,” Latterman says.
“But I learned a lot from both
times. There probably wasn’t any
other way I could have done it.”

Aware II features a fairly diverse
group of bands, including Hootie
& the Blowfish, Better than Ezra,
From Good Homes, The Emptys
and more.

Despite his full schedule of
classes, Latterman still finds time
to sample bands for Aware III,

which he plans to release “as soon |

as he gets the music.”

In the meantime, he has started
his own label, Madaket Records,
and is looking for bands to jump
on board. “Whenever you hear a

good song or band, you want

other people to know about it,”
Latterman says. “That’s what the
Aware CDs are all about. This is
music I’ve heard that I know
other people will like.”

Lleoid

by Roger&c:Salem Salloom

Breaking up with my gid was terrible.
Ve broke up in Ure beginning of a
series of long, dark, cold winter nights.

i began to get muscie spasms in my
back and develop a taciai tryvitcés.

Love is a powertul thing. # can climb
mountains, swim oceans, ... play
Chess. Sisk

fH never forget her.

She was so soft. Her sister was So
salt. Her goidlish wera so soft.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Unreasonable
Requests

To the Editor:

Justifiable Lawsuit, Mr. Molinari?
More like a money scam. I assume that
the majority of this school was shocked
with the hostage situation involving Jason
McEnaney and Ralph Tortorici. But why
must we all conclude that blame must fall
on this institution? Is it not enough to say
the incident was the fault of a maniac?
Not only have Jason’s medical bills been
paid in full, as well as the cost of his edu-

. cation, but in addition a nice philanthropic

lady from the area granted him $10,000
for his acts of “courage.” I admit, I might
not have been able to take the actions
which “heroic” Jason took, but still his

exercise of heroism must be weighed.

Even if he escaped with a medal for brav-
ery, Jason acted of his own free will and
choice.

There is some level of security on this
campus, but it is questionable if the secu-
rity meets public standards or falls short
of it. What infuriates me is Jason’s family
is currently suing the SUNY system for
20 million dollars. They are suing because
they believe lack of security on this cam-
pus led to the injuries of their son. Okay,
two things: Number one, if they really
were concerned with the security, why not
donate the 20 million to the school sys-
tem, then this campus would UNQUES-
TIONABLY be safe; Number two, did
they ever contemplate the overall effect of
their lawsuit on the students of this cam-
pus? As one of them, I have had problems
registering for my classes this semester
because there has already been a budget
cut in our state. Consequently, there are
less teachers, and clearly fewer classes.
Imagine if our school system lost the law-
suit? The absence of 20 million dollars
would make things substantially worse for
myself as well as those students receiving
financial aid packages, scholarships, etc.

Is it really the fault of this campus? I
mean, are we supposed to have bag and
coat checks for all 15,000 students of this
school? Mr. Molinari, do you think if my
house was burglarized last year I would
have the right, as a citizen of New. York,
to sue the city? After all, where were
they? I pay taxes, should I have expected
the police to be guarding my house at the
time of the crime? Does every citizen who
is victimized in the ever—-so—fine New
York City have the right to sue? I hope
not, or the city deficit would be in worse
shape than it is now. With 20 million dol-
lars, the McEnaney’s can buy a nice ADT
security system for their home. They will
have an impregnable security system,
Jason will be safe, and they will have over
19.5 million dollars sitting in an account

at their local Long Island bank.
' Batya Stepelman

Constitutional
Ban

The vast majority of Americans do not
understand the meaning or application of
the Second Amendment. The National
Rifle Association (NRA) sedulously fos-
ters misinterpretation of the amend—ment
and one must conclude intentionally pub-
lishes such misinformation since its
high-priced counsel surely knows better.

The full text of the Second Amendment
reads: “A well regulated militia, being
necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be abridged.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken on
it many times. In United States vs.
Cruickshank (1876) 92 U.S. 542, the
court held that the right of bearing arms
for lawful purposes is not a right. granted
by the Constitution and that the Second
Amendment “has no other effect than to
restrict the power of the national govern-
ment.”

In United States vs. Miller (1939) 307
U.S. 174, the U.S. Supreme Court assert-
ed that, “In interpreting and applying (the
Second Amendment), the purpose of the

To the Editor:

amendment to assure continuation and
render possible the effectiveness of the
militia must be considered.”

In Lewis vs. U.S. (1980) 445 U.S. 55,
the U.S. Supreme Court restated this:
“These legislative restrictions on the use
of firearms (convicted felon cannot law-
fully possess firearms) do not trench upon
any constitutionally protected liberties.
The Second Amendment guarantees no
right to keep and bear a firearm that does
not have ‘some reasonable relationship to
the preservation or efficiency of a well
regulated militia’.”

No federal court has ever held that the
Second Amendment confers on the indi-
vidual right to bear arms. The courts have
consistently adopted the “well—regulated
militia” interpretation.

The amendment is to be read as an
assurance that the national government
will not interfere with a state’s militia.
Beyond this, even Congress is not prohib-
ited by the amendment from regulating
firearms by the exercise of its interstate
commerce powers. See Commonwealth
vs. Advise (1976) 369 Mass. 886 by a
lower court.

All legislative measures and city ordi-
nances limiting or banning firearms have
been upheld including a Morton Grove,
Illinois ordinance prohibiting possession
of handguns within municipal boundaries.

The California law on assault weapons
was upheld through the appeals court
level and the NRA has abandoned plans
to bring the measure before the Supreme
Court. The NRA is aware, of course, that
were it to lose an appeal to the highest
court, that would put the quietus on its
fundamental contention that the Constitu-
tion grants the individual the right to bare
arms.

A ban on assault weapons is not only
constitutional but studies show it would
also be effective. A study done by the
Cox Newspaper group analyzed 43,000
gun traces of weapons used in criminal
activity in 1988 and 1989. An assault gun
was found to be 20 times more likely to
be used in a crime than a conventional
firearm. While accounting for only 0.5
percent of all guns, assault weapons
showed up on 10 percent of all traces.

The argument has been made that crim-
inals get their guns illegally, so why target
legal sales. In 1988 the Oakland Califor-
nia Police Department found that only 12
percent of assault weapons seized in crim-
inal activity were obtained illegally. Fully
88 percent of them were bought legally
over the counter.

The point is we must dry up the supply
as much as possible. Many weapons that
begin as legal sales get into criminal

hands.
Jim Senyszyn

Forced
Resignation?

To the Editor:

On January 20, 1995, the Student Asso-
ciation President Cliff Lent and
Vice-President Brian Donovan submitted
their resignations from their demo-crati-
cally elected posts. as representatives of
the students. While they would state only
that they resigned for “personal reasons,”
the truth is clear. Lent and Donovan were
forced to resign their posts in the Student
Association by the Administration. They
were also threatened with expulsion from
the University if they told the truth about
their resignations to the students that
elected them. The truth is that the SUNY
Albany Administration was attempting to
purge Lent and Donovan from student
government because, as S.A. President
and Vice—President, Lent and Donovan
had attempted to defend student rights
against Administration policies the S.A.
leaders regarded as harmful to students. In
effect, Lent and Donovan were to be
purged by the Administration for the
“crime” of doing their job as student lead-
ers. The members of Lent’s Executive
Branch were also threatened with expul-
sion if they told the truth about the
attempted Administration purge of Lent
and Donovan. In other words, the SUNY

Albany Administration first has attempted
to suppress it’s critics in the S.A. Leader-
ship and then forced the S.A. Leaders to
lie to cover up the Administration’s
repression.

The real issue here is not any particular
individual leaders or their policies; it is
the political independence of the Student
Association from the SUNY Albany
Administration.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! This is the
latest and the most dangerous in a series
of attacks on the rights of the students and
workers of SUNY Albany since last sum-
mer. Already, in the Fall semester alone,
there was the anti-gay attack on Tom
Keller with the flipping over of his car;
the very real attack on Kendra Gillis by
her father which led to a broader raising
of the question of safety and particularly
women’s safety on the campus; Adminis-
tration and UPD’s attack and scapegoat-
ing of black men for the attack on Kendra
Gillis and the racist filth written on the
Inter-net in November. In December the
Student Association began to fight for stu-
dent interests for the first time last
semester. They put out a flyer announcing
that finals were cancelled due to the
hostage crisis and organizing for a march
on the Administration building the fol-
lowing morning. When the Administra-
tion got wind of this they sent UPD in to
raid the S.A. offices! This McCarthyite,
police state like raid occurred the night
before the planned demonstration. UPD
confiscated flyers and other materials
from the S.A. offices and ordered S.A.
President Lent to turn himself into them
by 3 a.m. or face a warrant for his arrest.
When the demonstration went ahead as
planned the next day — with over 200 stu-
dents, including members of Central
Council and the Executive branch, attend-
ing — the Administration made their deci-
sion. They would wait until school was
out of session for winter break and then
force Lent and Donovan to resign their
offices behind closed doors as punishment
for attempting to fight for students.

The Administration forced Lent and
Donovan to resign because they were the
leaders of a Student Association that had,
with the demonstration of December 15,
begun to organize independently of the
Administration. The Administration knew
that students, particularly black students,

were becoming more and more angry at ©
them because of their attack and scape-—

goating of black men for the attack on
Kendra Gillis; their inability to secure the
safety of women students; their censor-
ship of student groups like ASUBA under
the “controversial speakers policy”; their
mishandling of the hostage crisis; their
raid of the S.A. offices and the general-
ized decline in the quality of education
black, working class, women and lesbian
and gay male students receive at SUNY
Albany. They feared that this anger would
become explosive when the planned
$1000 tuition hike and elimination of
most federal and state aid programs to
students were revealed after winter break.
The Administration attempted to purge
Lent & Donovan in order to put the Stu-
dent Association under their censor’s pen
and strip S.A. of all political indepen-
dence. They did this so S.A. would not be
in a position to organize against the
expected attacks of this semester.

Ironically, it is in part due to the right |

wing policies of Lent and his predecessor
Chris Hahn, in addition to other right
wing student leaders, that the attacks of
last semester met with little or no opposi-
tion except from NWROC until the end of
the semester. This lack of independent
student response to attacks, created a situ-
ation in which the Administration now
feels it can get away with attacking the
leadership of the Student Association and
S.A. itself. Following the hostage crisis,
even Lent and others in S.A. felt that they
had to do something to fight for students’
interests. That is why the demonstration
on December 15th was organized. The
attack on the political independence of
S.A. was carried out, in part, because of
the policies of Lent and Donovan, which
up to the end of last semester encouraged

reliance on the Administration and not
independent student organizing against
last semesters’ attacks. Nevertheless, if
progressive students and workers are to be
able to fight the attacks we expect this
semester, including the announced tuition
hike, we must unite to fight the attack on
S.A.’s political independence and restore
our democratically elected representatives
of students Lent and Donovan.

All of the positions in the Student Asso-
ciation that have been filled as a result of
their forced resignations should be
viewed, both by those holding the offices
and by the student body as a whole, as
provisional representatives of students
until Lent and Donovan return to their
rightful positions.

The Student Association should be con-
trolled by the students of SUNY Albany.
We should decide who will represent our
interests — not the Administration whose
interests are diametrically opposed to
ours. The Administration of SUNY

_Albany has ‘declared war on the political

rights of students to organize ourselves in
a union that is independent of the Admin-
istration. Never again should the Student
Association allow the forced resignation
of the democratically elected repre—senta-
tives of students by the Administration —
and today we should stand together and
fight!

If you’re interested in fighting for the
political independence of S.A. and against
the tuition hike, come to an NWROC
meeting, Tuesday at 7:30pm in LC 11 and
to a Central Council Meeting Wednesday
at 7:30 pm in Campus Cehter room 375.

Also call 449-6296 for more information.
Caroline Wong

Sacrificing the
Children

To the Editor:

There is a creature living among us, as
violent and inhumane as any legendary or
mythological creature of our existence. Its
jaws are more lethal than a Tyran-
nosaurus. It feeds off the decaying lives of
our species and it shows no mercy, not
even for our children. The creature is a
master of disguise, wearing masks of jus-

tice, law, and order. Walking by our side,

it spins the web of illusion that it is right
and that they are wrong. So spellbound by
its magician like skill are we, that’ we find
ourselves emulating the creature. In our
stupor, we build it towers of ivory and
temples of gold, and hope that this off-
spring will be accepted. We pray that we
will not become its prey. Is it the crea-
ture’s golden glitter that binds us to the
truth? Or is it that we now feel powerless
against a creature that we ourselves have
empowered?

Every day in the United States, thou- —
sands of family’s are emotionally and
financially devastated by our divorce sys-
tem. Peoples dreams of family happiness
and future financial security are squashed
by the “Scorched Earth” policies of
unscrupulous divorce attorneys. Attorneys
whose own unethical and immoral prac-
tices of ego and greed spare the trauma of
no child. Social services, women’s shel-
ters, and police departments, all directly
or indirectly supported. by taxpayer dol-
lars are misused and abused everyday by
these manipulators of law and justice.
Attorneys like these do not hear the tears

’ of our children left in the wake of their

destruction. Alone in their towers and
temples that we have helped to create,
they have forgotten their link with the
human race. The competition so great
among them, for the green lines their suits
and papers their walls, that they have for-
gotten how to listen to their hearts. They
are so detached form their own childhood
suffering that they no longer care about
the suffering that their actions impose on
our children of today.

Who will save our children from the
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BUDGET

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Warden retaliated by asking if
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course but when we start curtail-
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attend Affirmative Action Work-
shops for SA group leaders.
Connolly’s group, College
Republicans have been cut off
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funds because they did not

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dealing with Governor Pataki’s
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Carolyn Wong, NWROC
member and Central Council
representative said in 1989 there
was a proposed tuitiion hike, stu-
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the same action.

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attack on Tom Keller’s car dur-

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DANES

Continued from page 24

explained. “Dormer, at money
time, is a pretty good player. He
thought it was going through and
that was disappointing for him.”

The third overtime started the
same as the first two until
Dormer hit two free throws to
give the Danes the lead for good
at 87-86 with 1:06 remaining.
Hotaling and Smith would each
add two free throws down the
stretch to give Albany the 91-86
victory.

“Tt’s a lot easier to get up the
next morning when you end up
on the winning side,” Sauers
said. “The game went down to
the end, winnable by either
team.”

Duncan finished the game
with a career high 20 points and
five blocks. Hotaling ended up
with 25 points and ten rebounds,
and Dormer added 12 points and
nine assists. Zuklie and Smith
each contributed ten points in
the team effort by the Danes. In
the opinion of the coach this was
the a great win for the team
under the circumstances.

Albany entered the game in
search of respect.

“We have been sort of
ignored, getting no respect. If we
keep winning, we will get the
respect,” Sauers said.

Albany will take on Old
Westbury to start their two game
road trip on Saturday. Their next
home game will be February 9
against Keuka at 7:30pm. At
halftime of this game you wil
be able to see your favorite fac-
ulty member or administrator i
action against students.

TRACK

Continued from page 23

captain Lynne Battaglini are
doing well. In the 800 meters,
two freshmen with impressive
high school records, April Curry
and Frances Montalvo will be
competing. Another important
distance runner, Tiffany Will,
should be back from an injury.
The 4x400 relay team just
missed qualifying for nationals
and has the best time in New
York. Senior Kimberly Toone, a
member of the relay team, has
also provisionally qualified for
the hurdles and set a school
record in the pentathlon.

Junior Tanya Dunkley has
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and the triple jump with 3671”.
Sophomore Dawn Kasssabasian
has set a school record for the
high jump.

The women’s team should win
the state championship, accord-
ing to Vives, which would help
them to “go out with a bang”
from Division III.

LADY DANES

Continued from page 24

the line. She also hit both shots
in a one—and-one. Skidmore
scored a meaningless basket at
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CULTURE

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LETTERS

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greater the judicial case load, the
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an “unbelievable amount of students
downtown to protest this.”

Sarah Warden, an individual seated in

the gallery, asked Blain whether she would
consider more direct protest such as occu-
pation of campus buildings, then asked,
“or do you forswear that tactic because it
might lead to you having to resign for per-
sonal reasons?” referring to Cliff Lent’s
explanation for his resignation, which
NWROC and others consider untrue and
motivated by the administration.

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tactics at this time.

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SA literature from the SA office, Blain
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Affirmative Action Officer Luke
McClaren’s bill, which would create an
Affirmative Action Grievance Board, was
passed at the meeting. The purpose of the
Board is to “hear grievances, make recom-
mendations and making sure grievances
are fully resolved.”

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unanimously with 10 votes for and only
two against, debate hovered around an

amendment proposed by council member |

Wong that would delete the presence of an
Administration representative on the
board. Wong maintained that, in light of
her beliefs that Lent and Donovan were
forced to leave the SA and that UPD
unlawfully confiscated flyers, the adminis-
tration had proven itself to be no longer
“for the students.”

Wong also pointed out that NWROC,
despite having been officially re—recog-
nized by the council, was not listed as a
seat on the new board.

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Danes come racing out of break

By AARON GREENBERG
Sports Editor

Albany 74 Buffalo State 67

The Danes built a big lead at
Buffalo, 40-29 by the half.
Albany (5-3) withstood a
Buffalo (S—2) comeback led by
Amy Danner. Margaret Feerick
scored 13 points, with eight
assists and five steals. Christy
Squires also had a big game, with
11 points and seven rebounds. As

in all seven previous games, [eyes

Samantha Ginsberg led the

Danes in scoring, this time with

14.

“Fortunately, we did our job at
the line, kept them off the
boards,” Coach Mari Warner
said. Buffalo is rated seventh in

the region.
Albany 91 Wilkes 69

Another strong start gave c

Albany (6-3) a big lead by the
half, 48-26. Although Wilkes
(4-4) crept back somewhat,
Squires had a phenomenal game,
scoring 21 points on 8-11 shoot-

ing in just 20 minutes. Together
with Sheila McCaughin, she led f&

a 21-3 run in the first half. The
main difference in the stat sheet
was the steals and turnovers.
Feerick and Erica Witham com-
bined for 12 steals. “Our trapping
defense was working, and we
kept at it,” Warner said. “If teams
allow us to run and shoot, we’ll
put numbers up.”

Ithaca 52 Albany 49

Despite leading at the half, the
Danes (6—4) fell to the Ithaca
Bombers (4—4) when nobody
stepped up for Albany. Ginsberg
had her worst game, and Feerick
and Nicky Jenkins, who put up
some very good numbers, both
had too many turnovers. Feerick
hit 11 of 12 free throws. “A very
bad loss for us, a problem from
the start,” Warner said.

Albany 81 Hunter 50

Hunter (9-4) proved no match
for the Lady Danes (7-4), espe-
cially with Maura Quinn hitting
shots from all over in her 9 for
10 performance, including three

three—point shots. Ten of her
twenty-one came from a 20-0
run to break an early tie. Feerick
was excellent as well, and
Ginsberg scored 14. Albany’s
free throw shooting was pathetic,
however. Warner credited her
team with stopping the running
game.

Albany 68 Rensselaer 60

RPI’s Sue Bator seemed
unstoppable again, but the Danes
rallied from a poor start. Albany

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(8-4) almost put away RPI (7-6)
with some three-pointers by
Ginsberg, but the Engineers kept
coming back. Feerick grabbed
ten rebounds and eight steals to
supplement Ginsberg’s 18 points.
Jenkins also figured big in the
win, which came from wearing
down RPI until a one-sided over-
time made it official.

Albany 98 Staten Island 25

The Danes set a team record
with a 73 point victory margin.
The ten points allowed in the
second half set another record.
The Dolphins (5-9) shot 14%
against Albany’s 59%. Six Danes
scored in double figures. Witham
hit all five of her shots in the first
three minutes, starting an 18-0
run. The Danes never looked
back. Katie Zeglis had 12 points
and 12 rebounds.

; Staff photo by Roxanne DePrado
Feerick leads the Danes at the foul line.

St. John Fisher 77 Albany 58

Undefeated Fisher (15-0) won
the battle of the boards far too
easily. Warner knew she was up
against “phenomenal offensive
rebounders” but only could fight
back with Ginsberg’s incredible
performance. Ginsberg hit 6 of
10 three point shots and totaled
23 points. Albany (9-5) was
down just four in the second half
when Erika Fryer and Stéphanie
Hein pulled Fisher away.

Albany 61 Plattsburgh 35

The Danes (10-5) led
Plattsburgh (5-8) by only two at
the half. “We started out very

4 poorly,” Warner said. ’You can

never take teams lightly. We
realized that we should put them
away.” Albany allowed just nine
points in the second half, break-
ing their recently established
record. The press was relentless,
Ginsberg sharp and the Danes’
balanced attack was aided by
46% shooting.

Albany 72 Union 62

Union (3-15) played far
tougher than anticipated, but the
trio of Ginsberg (22 pts), Witham
(14 pts) and Squires (12 pts)
overcame bad free throw shoot-
ing and the Dutchwomen.
“Union played us tough,” Warner
said. “Not a good performance
on Albany’s part, but give Union
credit.” The problem of allowing
offensive boards continued.
Feerick tied a team record with
13 assists, eight in the second
half.

Stony Brook 64 Albany 63
- The Seawolves (6-10) held
tough in a game marred by dis-
tractions, physical play and close
calls. Albany (11-6) fought its
way back into the game, just to
fall short on the final possession.
McCaughin rallied the Danes,
with help from Ginsberg and
Jenkins. Richshawna Sims had
her best game yet for Stony
Brook, scoring 23 points and
grabbing 12 rebounds.

Track sweeps

By AARON GREENBERG
Sports Editor

Everything Coach Roberto
Vives has run in Albany’s Track
and Field department has gone
on to success. This year’s indoor
track season, however, may set
new highs for the Danes, both on
the men’s and women’s sides.

Albany is coming off of a
tremendous performance last
year which sent the men into
sixth place in the country. The
women have a more balanced
attack than last season and are in
the running for a top ten spot
nationally.

Although the season is early,
Vives notes that both teams are
at their best point in years.
Albany swept the Brandeis
Invitational, the men taking it
with 163 points, Trinity getting
122, Brandeis 86 and local rival.
St. Rose 80. The women won by

ond place Brandeis by 116.
Coast Guard (52), St. Rose (44)
and Trinity (41) also competed.
The men’s team won in an
eight team field at the Collegiate
Track Conference Relay
Carnival, held at New Haven
Connecticut on December 11.
After that hot start, they compet-

a blowout with 163, leading sec- -

up competition at Brandeis

ed in non-scoring meets at
Albany (Christmas Rush Meet,
Dec. 16), the Dartmouth Relays
in early January and the Terrier
Classic at Boston University.
Today the Danes send some of
their top athletes to compete in
the Millrose Games at Madison
Square Games. On Saturday,
they compete in the Capital
District Championships against
local teams.

One of the biggest concerns
Vives had to deal with was the
loss of the long distance runners
who were instrumental to last
year’s team. Fortunately, a good
young group of runners is devel-
oping.

Senior Jeffrey York has sup-
plied an unexpected boost.
Returning after a two-year
absence, ~ the... Tive'.;time
All-American set the Division
III record for the 55 meter high
hurdles with a time of 7.27 sec-
onds at the Commonwealth
Invitational at Harvard. Facing
the world’s top hurdlers, York
took fifth of eight, just missing
fourth by three hundredths of a
second. He is ranked first East
Coast All Division.

Other men’s qualifiers include
senior Oscar Almendarez in the
triple jump, with a school record

Relay Carnival and attended the

seniors Mary Walminski and co-

475”, the third ranked 4x400
relay team, which will compete
in the Millrose Games, junior
Zamafa Chickwendu in the 400
meters (49.71 seconds), and
sophomore Vincent Hodnett in
the high jump (6’9 3/4”) and
provisionally in the hurdles with
7.77 seconds.

Compared to last year, “we
don’t have the balance, but we
have the firepower,” Vives said.
Considering his team a perennial
contender for the championship,
Vives sees a great chance for
Albany’s top finisher.

The women’s team took third
out of ten teams at the CTC

same relays as the men’s team.
For the first time, the Danes will
send a relay team to the Millrose
Games.

Sophomore Lisa Nesta, fresh
off an All-American cross
country season, has made a
spectacular debut, setting a
school record in the 5000 meters
with 18:20.7. Sophomore Tonya
Dodge is also a top rank distance
runner, having been at last
year’s nationals for the indoor
1500 meters.

In the throwing categories,

See TRACK on page 19

NBA should consider new
selection process for All-Stars

By ADAM WEISS

On Sunday, February 12 at 6pm, the 45th annual National
Basketball Association All-Star game will be played. The game will
take place at the America West Arena, home of the Phoenix Suns.
Starting in this year’s All-Star game for the Western Conference will
be the mouthy Charles Barkley of the Suns, the man—child Shawn
Kemp of the Seattle Supersonics, the best center in the game today,
Hakeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets, three point specialist
Dan Majerle of the Suns, and the exciting Latrel Sprewell of the
Golden State Warriors.

Starting for the Eastern Conference is the moody Scottie Pippen
of the Chicago Bulls, the most powerful player in the game today,
Shaquille O’ Neal of the Orlando Magic, the best pure shooter in the
game today in Reggie Miller of the Indiana Pacers, the next
“Magic”, Anfernee Hardaway of the Magic, and rookie sensation
Grant Hill of the Detroit Pistons. Hill will be replaced by sophomore
surprise Vin Baker of the Milwaukee Bucks, due to Hill’s aggravat-
ed arch in his foot.

The question I have is, are the selections fair? Are the right people
being selected to play in the all-star game? Statistically speaking,
no. Not everybody gets a fair shot in the system used today. Too
many good players are being overlooked come All-Star time. The
process which the NBA uses to select its players is not good enough.
They leave it solely up to the fans to decide. This system leaves too
many good players that deserve the honor out in the cold. Players
like Jimmy Jackson and Jamal Mashburn are left off the team,
despite being the fourth and sixth leading scorers in the league.
Jackson is scoring 26.4 points per game and Mashburn is at 24.6 per
game. What about Rookie of the Year candidate, Glenn Robinson
(19.6 ppg.), defending slam dunk champion, Isaiah Rider (20.8
ppg.), veteran Clyde Drexler (22.7 ppg.) and the scoring machine,
Nick Van Exel (19.2 ppg.)?

A lot of top notch players are being left out because people vote
for their favorite players and not for who really deserves to be there.
For example, it was very touching how Magic Johnson was voted to
the All-Star team the year he retired, but he didn’t play one game
that season and the fans still voted him in! In my mind, the NBA
should adopt the system used by the National Football League to
select their Pro—Bow! players. —

Use the fan votes, but also allow players and coaches to vote. You
then take the percentage of fans’ votes and the percentage of players
and coaches’ votes so that each group’s vote is counted equally.
This system would be a much more effective way of selecting
all-stars, and not as many good players would forgotten.


February 3,

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Great Danes go to triple overtime for revenge

By THOMAS MCMaHon
Associate Sports Editor

The men’s basketball team won their
second straight game, to improve to 11-5,
with a triple overtime victory Tuesday
night over the Oneonta State Red
Dragons.

Oneonta entered the game with an 8-7
record, but only two weeks prior had been
ranked #6 in the National Collegiate
Athletic Association Regional Division
Ii poll. Albany entered the game having
won five of their last six and with revenge
on their minds from a year ago.

“They are the team that snapped our
16—game win streak last year, down at
Oneonta,” head coach “Doc” Sauers
explained. “They are a team that has
always been difficult for us, whether we
play them home or away.”

The Danes used an 11-0 spurt to jump
ahead of the Dragons 22-11 with 6:21 to
go in the first half. The teams continued

to trade baskets, with neither team going ©

on any noticeable run, for the remainder
of the half. Poor shooting by Oneonta and
solid inside defense by the Danes pro-
duced a 30—23 halftime advantage for the
Danes.

In the first half Albany set a season
high with eight blocks, four coming from

Andre Duncan. Because of Duncan.

inside, the Dragons were forced to shoot
outside shots and were a dismal 8-29,
only 28% from the field, in the first half.

The Danes shot 44% from the field in the
first half. Duncan and Brandon Zuklie led
Albany, each with six points. Donald
Allen, Jr. led Oneonta with nine points in
the first half.

The second half began slowly, with nei-
ther team gaining a distinct advantage.
The Danes would open up a nine point
lead after a Zuklie three point play, on a
pass from Doug Smith. Again, Albany

was unable to put away the Dragons and

the lead was cut to two after a Ronald
Sanchez dunk. Nigel Hucey then added a
three point play to give Oneonta their first
lead of the game, at 55-54, with 4:57
remaining. The Dragons came back from
nine down to gain a three point lead with
a 21-9 run, including an 8-0 spurt.

Down by three with 4:01 left in the
game Albany regrouped. Ted Hotaling
responded to score the Danes next four
points. Rich Dormer hit a three pointer
with 2:20 left to give the lead back to

‘Albany 61-60.

Oneonta would tie the game on a freak
play, as Dormer lost his footing and
turned the ball over to Bernard Crawford.
Crawford was on a fast break when Jason
Ferrier made a heads up play to foul
Crawford and not allow him to get off a
shot. Crawford only made one free throw
and tied the game at 61 with 1:14 to go.

Dormer would throw the ball away on
the Danes next possession to give the
Dragons the ball with 40 seconds left.
With two seconds on the shot clock Allen

hit a driving bank shot in the lane giving
Oneonta a two point lead with 15 seconds
remaining. Bob Markel came to save the
day as he put in a Duncan miss with only
one second to go, and send the game into
overtime.

“We just made the best out of a broken
situation,” Sauers described the last play.
“Markel wanted the ball. He plowed into
the middle to get it and put it back.”

Many, including Sauers, felt that
Markel was fouled and should have had a
chance to shoot free throws to win the
game.

“A big sigh of relief from me when that
ball went in,” Sauers added, “I thought
that was their chance to win.”

In overtime the lead went back and
forth between the teams. With 26 seconds
remaining and the Danes leading by two,
Hotaling missed two free throws that
could have iced the game. Instead,
Sanchez hit an acrobatic shot in the lane
to tie the game at 72 with two seconds to
go in the first overtime. The ball was

inbounded to Markel who drove past half

court and launched a 40-foot shot that
went in and out and got a roar from the
fans.

In the second overtime neither team had
a lead of more than two points. Dormer
tied the game with 15 seconds to go on a
17 foot jump shot..Sanchez had a chance
to give Oneonta the lead back With-two
free throws with only five seconds left,
but he missed both. Albany then missed

Staff photo by Heather Rohan
Zuklie battles inside to score two of his ten points.
yet another opportunity when Hotaling
drove the lane and drew a crowd. He
passed the ball out to an open Dormer
who fired a three-pointer at the buzzer
that again, just missed.

“I thought it was going in,” Sauers

Lady Danes win free throw contest

By AARON GREENBERG
Sports Editor

Opening a lengthy night of basketball
on Tuesday, January 31, the Danes held
off the Skidmore College Lady
Thoroughbreds to move to 12-6.

Skidmore came in with a record of
7-11, hoping to get revenge for

Albany’s 67-47 drubbing of the
Thoroughbreds for the Capital District
Tournament Championship. As in that
game, Tina Allen led Skidmore, this
time getting help from Tracey Ryan,

Staff photo by Heather Rohan
Ciavirella helps ice the game with free throws.

who stole the °93 CD Championship
from Albany. The Danes countered with
big performances by the starting five
and strong bench support at forward.

With junior center Erica Witham and
sophomore forward Jo Kreps sitting
out, the Danes needed their other for-
wards to take advantage of the smaller
Skidmore players. Albany started out
slowly grinding down the Skidmore
defense for a 7-0 lead. Over five min-
utes passed before Caroline Duda
scored for the Thoroughbreds, followed
by another Albany run. At 11:02
Skidmore called a timeout, down 16—2
and desperate to get into the game.

The Danes appeared to be facing a

* more determined opponent, which man-

aged to chip a few points off the lead
with a three pointer and a series of
inside baskets. With a little over five
minutes remaining to the first half,
junior forward Maura Quinn started hit-

| ting long shots on the left side. Quinn

racked up 10 points in three minutes, all
from long range and the last two shots
for three points. Skidmore scored the
final two baskets of the half, going into
the intermission down 38-23.

The first half went rather well for
Albany, but the lead should have been

i larger. Junior forward Nicky Jenkins

was demolishing the Thoroughbreds on
the boards, including offensive but
could not convert on her shots. Albany
also was not hitting free throws,-a major
problem of late.

The second half went back and forth
until, with thirteen minutes left, the

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game degenerated into an ugly free
throw shooting contest. Up 47-30, this
hurt Albany’s chance of putting away
the Thoroughbreds in a game which
should have had a 25 point margin.

“It was very boring, ugly, and that is

not what the game is about,” Coach
Mari Warner said. “We dropped our
intensity way below normal.”

In the last thirteen minutes, the Danes
were called for fifteen fouls, Skidmore
for ten. Fortunately, the Thoroughbreds
could not hit their shots at the charity
stripe, going 7—24 in the second half,
abysmally low.

With 3:21 to play, Albany led 57-43,
but lost Jenkins to an injury. Down yet
another forward, the situation rapidly
deteriorated. Coming off the bench,
sophomore forward Katie Zeglis picked
up two fouls quickly and then Allen and
Ryan hit three pointers: The Danes led
by just eight with a minute and twen-
ty—two seconds remaining.

“We weren’t going to lose this
game,” Warner said. “I was more con-
cerned about the fouling situation, and
low intensity.” ;

Apparently, her players were just as
certain, and allowed just one more foul.
By contrast, Skidmore started fouling
the Danes. At the line, senior forward
Christy Squires hit both free throws in a
one—and—one situation. The Thorough-
breds missed two shots at the line and,
their impetus lost, fouled again, send-
ing sophomore guard Jenn Ciavirella to

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See DANES on page 19

Wrestling keeps
eye on Nationals

| (150 Ib), described by DeMeo as “real tough,”

By KELLY BARCLAY
Senior Editor

The University at Albany wrestling team,
ranked 20th in the nation, was defeated by
fourth ranked Ithaca Saturday, as their record
fell to 7-4.

“We have a great team,” Danes coach Joe
DeMeo said. “There were three matches
where the guys could have won if they’d done
as well as they should have. We would have
beaten them.”

However, DeMeo said he was pleased with
the performances of seniors. Anthony Camisa
(167 Ib), Randy Shaw (177 Ib) and Lou Volpe
(HWT), while senior Van Fronhoffer (150 1b)
was “outstanding,” winning with a pin.

Fronhoffer, who ranked fourth in the nation
three years ago, is likely to make Nationals in
the 142 Ib weight class, said DeMeo. Other
probable qualifiers include senior Nick
Pendergast (126 lb) and senior James Kane

as well as Camisa and Shaw. Volpe and sopho-
more Mike O’Neill also. have shots at
Nationals, DeMeo said.

The team, rumored to be one of the teams
cut due to Title IX, has already been wrestling
Division I & II schools. “In the past 15 years,
ten of our teams could have placed in the top|
20 in Division II, and three could have placed
in the top 20 in Division I,” DeMeo said.
“We’ve had two guys who were NACC cham-
pions who made Olympic Teams, and one
who placed sixth in the world. I think in a
good year we could beat 20-25 percent of
Division I teams,” DeMeo said.

Track

i Indoor season is off ace running with the
j Brandeis Invitational

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