Albany Student Press, Volume 73, Number 36, 1986 November 11

PUBLISHED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY BY THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION

im. Tuesday

November 11, 1986

VOLUME LXXIII

ALB,

ANY,
STUDENT

PRESS

NUMBER 36

Future SA budgets threatened by $70K deficit

By Angelina Wang
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Fearing bankruptcy, Student
Association officials are working
to come up with a revision to SA’s
budget process that would affect
all SA-funded groups.

SA Controller Agnes Seminara
announced to Central Council
Wednesday that last year’s
$70,026 deficit has left SA with
only a $65,000 fund balance.

Over the years, whenever SA
budgets ran a surplus, remaining
monies were placed in a general
fund for ‘fund balance.”

All funded groups agree to
make back a certain percentage of

their budgeted money to SA.
“Groups over the years have
slacked off, and not made back
that income, and that is how we
get the deficit,’’ said Seminara.

if SA runs another deficit this
year greater than the $65,000
balance, ‘‘SA will be in serious
financial trouble,’’ said
Seminara.

SA’s annual audit took place
over the summer, but its results
were only received last Tuesday,
according to Seminara. The audit
covered a fiscal year from July
1985 to July 1986.

SA President Paco Duarte said
at Council that bacause of the

situation, SA cannot afford to
fund any new groups for the rest
of the year.

“IT am pleased to know the
audit reflects financial procedures
and management of our budget.
However, the audit reflects a very
sensitive and drastic financial
status of the Student Associa-
tion,” said Duarte.

SA officials are choosing from
among a couple of possible
budget revisions.

According to Duarte,
possibilities under consideration
are plus-income financial
budgeting, the cutting of group
budgets, not budgeting of ap-

propriating money to any new
groups, or general contigency
funds.

“It would be irresponsible for
us to make any decisions on one
particular group, or make any
quick, rational solution,” said
Duarte.

‘‘What we [SA] need to do is sit
down, analyze the financial
budget process, the appropria-
tions of all groups and see what is
our best possible solution and
save SA from financial
destruction.””

Bankruptcy would mean that
future mandatory student activity

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of Si

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Seminara blames SA-funded
groups for the deficit.

-WORKING OUT

CATHY STROUD UPS

Local businesses have come to depend on students as customers and

as employees.

See story page 4

Res. Life facing

By Jennifer McCormick
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

An increase in reported racially
motivated incidents in residence halls
has led to charges that the Office of
Residential Life is mishandling situa-
tions involving minorities.

it may be November, but it will feel
like the dead of winter these next
few days. Snow is expected to fall
today, changing to rain later in the
day, highs 35 to 40 and lows in the
20s. Wednesday and Thursday will
be colder with flurries likely, highs
in the 30s and lows in the teens.
Friday should be a bit milder.

Aspects
Classified.

Digest

Op-Ed

Sports

Upcoming Events..

INSIDE: So you think you have pre-
registration problems? It could be
worse — you could be a Com-
munication major.

See story page 3

Student Association Minority Af-
fairs Coordinator Mark Turner has
set up an ‘‘action plan’’ to combat
what he sees as a “‘double-standard
treatment’’ practiced by Residential
Life.

However, Assistant Vice President
for Residential Life John Martone
said that his office is taking strong
measures to combat racism. ‘““There
is a definite attempt to treat
everyone as fairly as possible,’’ he
said.

minority gripes

Among the grievances cited by
Turner in his action plan are: under-
representation of minorities on
Residential Life Staff, harassment of
minority students by staff members,
and a lack of minority retention.

Turner said the central problem is
what he called Residential Life’s
misconception that all problems
result from difficulties in minority
adjustment, which causes unequal
treatment of minority students.

But Martone said that Residential
Life has ‘‘worked as hard as we can
to encourage minority students to
apply for Resideritial Assistant posi-
tions,” and has even employed
Turner’s aid in the recruitment
program.

However, many campus offices
have reported an increase this
semester in residential problems in-
volving minority students.

Student Association attorney
Mark Mishler said ‘there seems to
be more than what I’ve heard in
previous years.””

But .Shirley Kendall, SUNYA’s

_ JUWON PARK UPS
Alumni quad resident Alfreda

Thompson

Associate; director of Affirmative
Action, said the apparent increase is
due:to more people reporting in-

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Reward offered in
attempt to locate
Fine Arts arsonist

By Pam Conway
NEWS EDITOR

A $1,000 reward is being offered for information regar-
ding anyone responsible for setting two fires in the Fine
Arts building last Saturday.

No suspects have been named in connection with the
blaze, which caused almost $90,000 in damages.

However, Public Safety officials, who are working in
conjunction with state police, are currently investigating
*a lot of leads,”’ according to Public Safety Director Jim
Williams.

A minor fire also broke out Saturday night in a hallway
near the main stage in the Performing Arts Center.

According to Williams, the fire caused little damage,
but Public Safety investigators are “‘operating under the
assumption that it may be related’’ to last week’s fire.

University President Vincent O’Leary said that the
University is obligated to help find a suspect in the Fine
Arts building fires and is offering $1,000 to anyone who
offers information leading to the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons responsible.

Money for the reward is being taken from the Universi-
ty foundation, a fund which can be used at the discretion
of University officials.

The Nov. 1 fires broke out almost simultaneously in a
third-floor storage room and in sub-basement room 57.
Four firefighters were injured in the blaze, but none
severely.

Heavy damage was done to the third-floor classroom
and much of the third floor. There was also smoke and
water damage on the first and second floors.

The cost for repairing damages done to the Fine Arts
building is estimated at $81,000, according to Vice Presi-
dent for Finance and Business John Hartigan.

Hartigan said an additional $6,400 was spent on labor
costs for workers to “‘get the building cleaned up’’ for
operation.

Because of the incident, security on the podium has
been increased, said Hartigan, adding that the move has
resulted in additional costs. ‘‘It’s costing us some oyer-
time,”’ he said.

In order to, defray repair costs, Hartigan said the
University is ‘seeking relief’ from the SUNY Construc-
tion fund and SUNY Central.

SUNYA is not covered by insurance because the state is
a “‘self-insurer,”’ and as a state agency, SUNYA must
find its own funds, Hartigan said. :

As part of Public Safety’s investigation, interviews are
currently being conducted with people near the scene that
evening, as well as investigations of local ’‘fire bugs.””

“It’s not like looking for a needle in a haystack,”
Williams said. :

Hartigan called the fire a “’very grave concern for the
people of this campus”’ and said one of the reasons smoke
travelled so quickly was that doors which should have
been closed were left open. o

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NEWS BRIEFS

the Word 9

Israeli faces spy rap

Tel Aviv, Israel
(AP) Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear
technician who told a British newspaper
that Israel has secretly stockpiled at least.
100 atomic weapons, faces spying charges
and a life sentence, the daily Davar
reported Monday.

The newspaper said Vanunu’s pro-
secutors would not charge him with
treason, which is punishable by death.
Davar did not give a source for it’s infor-
mation. The Israeli government revealed
Sunday that Vanunu was under arrest and
would be tried, but denied that secret
agents kidnapped him in Britain and
spirited him back to Israel.

The report said Israel had produced 100
to 200 nuclear weapons-including neutron
bombs-at the Dimona nuclear center, a
subterranean factory in the souther Negev
desert where Vanunu worked for 10 years.

EEC sanctions Syria

London
(AP) The Common Market agreed Mon-
day to impose sanctions against Syria, in-
cluding an arms embargo, in support of
Britain’s charge that Syria sponsored ter-
rorism, officials said.

p.m.

The officials, briefing reporters on con-
dition of anonymity, said in an apparent
reference to Greece that one of the 12 na-
tions in the groups could not associate
itself with the foreign ministers’ statement,
but would implement the four sanctions
agreed against Syria.

Apart from the arms ban, the Common
Market agreed to suspend exchange visits
by high-level officials and to tighten
surveillance of Syrian embassies and of
Syrian Arab Airlines operations.

Icelandic ships sunk

Reykjavik, Iceland
(AP) An American anti-whaling group has
claimed responsibility for scuttling two
Icelandic whaling boats — halt the coun-
try’s whaling fleet — in Reykjavik harbor.
The Los Angeles-based Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society said it carried out the
attacks. Its leader, Paul Watson, said in
interviews with Icelandic state radio and
television that a team from his organiza-
tion sank the 430-ton vessels because the
Icelanders were hunting whales illegally.
Iceland agreed to abide by an Interna-
tional Whaling Commission decision to
cease whaling from 1986 to 1990.
Although commercial whaling stopped,
the government permits the Hvalur Whal-
ing Co. to carry out scientific whaling in
cooperation with the National Oceanic
Research Institute.

The Nation f

Senate ‘war’ predicted

Washington, D.C.
(AP) President Reagan is likely to face
tougher battles over aid to Nicaragua’s
Contra rebels in the 100th Congress
although the Democrats’ Senate win does
not dramatically alter the balance of power
on the issue, analysts on both sides say.

These observers foresee Contra aid as
one of the most closely fought issues in the
new Congress and potentially an impor-
tant battleground in the 1988 presidential
race.

This year, Reagan lobbied heavily to win
$100 million in military and other aid for
the rebels fighting Nicaragua’s leftist
government. He prevailed 53-47 in the
Republican-controlled Senate and 220-209.
in the Democratic-dominated House.

Blacks aid Democrats

Washington, D.C.
(AP) High turnout among Southern black
voters with intense allegiance to the
Democratic Party spelled Victory for four
new Democratic senators and this cen-
tury’s first black congressman from

Mississippi, observers of the midterm con-
gressional elections say.

boosted by

PREVIEW OF EVENT.

in CC 361. Terrorism is

dent Society at 7 p.m. in CC

This high support level,

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GOP missteps, put Democratic Senate
candidates over the top in Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina,
and made the difference in California as
well, black analysts say.

“This should demonstrate to the
democratic Party that in whatever
Southern strategy they have, they should
be careful not to alienate black voters,’
said Linda Williams, senior political
analyst at the Joint Center for Political
Studies, a non-profit research organization

that studies policy issues of concern to
blacks.

‘The State
AIDS plan debated

New York
(AP) City Health Commissioner Stephen
Joseph says he favors conducting a small-
scale experimental study to determine if
giving addicts clean hypodermic needles
would slow the spread of AIDS.

Under state law, such an experimental
Program could be launched only with the
approval of the state health commissioner,
said Frances Tarlton, spokeswoman for
state Health Commissioner David
Axelrod.

Tarlton said today that Axelrod “‘has in-
dicated he would review such a proposal if
it doesn’t encourage or facilitate drug use
and if it gives us experimental data, but he
has made no assurances?’ about approving
such a project.

“He (Axelrod) has indicated he per-
sonally is skeptical that dispensing clean
needles will be effective,” Tarlton said.

Medical costs studied

Albany
(AP) A team of Harvard University pro-
fessors is studying the costs associated with
medical liability in New York with an eye
toward future reform of the current
system, Gov. Mario Cuomo said.

The study, estimated to cost about $1.2
million, will involve a review of hospital
records and interviews with selected pa-
tients and physicians, to evaluate the total
costs of illness, hospitalization and con-
valescence and any complications arising
from hospitalization. It is scheduled for
completion in 1988.

“Our aim is to define the entire society’s
costs connected with medical liability and
malpractice, including insurance costs,
workers compensation payments, lost pro-
ductivity and work time,’’ Cuomo said
Saturday.

A pilot phase of the study will begin this
month at Albany-area hospitals. Resear-
chers will review some 3,000 hospital
records, and interview 300 patients and
100 physicians. All data will be collected in
a way that will maintain the confidentiality
of individuals involved.

SATURDAY, NOV. 15

Free listings

TUESDAY, NOV. 11
The American Marketing
Association will hold a man-
datory meeting at 7 p.m. in SS
256.
A Support group for families
and friends of suicide victims,
Safe Place, will hold its
meeting at 7:30 p.m. at St.
John’s Lutheran Church, 160
Central Ave., Albany.
First Aid Information
Workshop sponsored by
Waterbury Hall Residence
Staff and five quad will be held
at 8 p.m. in the second floor
lounge of Waterbury Hall.
The Political Science Associa-
tion will hold a meeting at 8

one topic to be discussed.
New members are welcome.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance
will meet this and every Tues-
day night at 8:30 p.m. in cc
375. All are welcome.

Movie Night presented by Col-
onial Quad Board will be held
this and every Tuesday night
at 7:30 p.m. in the pit of
Delancey Hall.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12
Open Forum sponsored by the
Office of International Pro-
grams will be held for
students interested in study-
ing abroad at 2:30 p.m. in LC
At.

“Karma, Reincarnation, and
Creating Your Future” will be
presented by ECKANKAR Stu-

358.

The Revisionist Zionist Alter-
native will hold a meeting at
7:30 p.m. in CC 370.

Pre-Law meeting at 7:30 p.m.
outside the Campus Center
gameroom will be held to
discuss a trip to Albany Law
School for the week of Nov.
17. Call Lori Stern at 434-3610
for more info.

Interview workshop will be
held at 9 p.m. in Pierce Hall.
Come and learn impression
management.

Class of 1990 will have a man-
datory meeting for the newly
elected members at 6:30 p.m.
in CC 370.

THURSDAY, NOV. 13
The Anthropology Club will

hold its meeting at 4:15 p.m. in
SS 260. T-shirts and trips will
be discussed.

The SUNYA foundation will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in LC 13.
Anyone interested in science
fiction is welcome.

“Is Jesus God?” presented by
Campus Crusade for Christ
will be held at 8 p.m. in CC
375. Larry Wakefield will
speak.

Sleeper by Woody Allen will
be shown at 8:30 p.m. in CC
320 by JSC-Hillel. Admission
is 50 cents for members, $1
for non-members.

FRIDAY, NOV. 14
Career Fair for students plann-
ing careers in science,
medicine, or related fields will
be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Shabbat dinner will be spon-
sored by Chavurah, JSC’s
reform group, at 7:30 p.m. in
Dutch cafeteria. Reservations
are required. Call Stacey at
442-6757.

A ‘Go Hawaiian’ Party will be
sponsored by the Chinese
Student Association from 9
p.m. to 2 a.m. in Sayles Hall.
Leis will be distributed to the
first 25 Hawaiians and pina
coladas will be served from 9
to 10 p.m.

A Beach Party will be held
from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. in
the Dutch U-Lounge spon-
sored by the “Beach Bums”
from RPl-Sage, Union, and
Skidmore colleges. For more
info call JSC at 5670,

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TUESDAY; NOVEMBER ‘11; 1986 (1\ ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

pi lei =a Mishler targets grouper law issue

Dancers raise money

Telethon ’87 raised over $1,000 from a
24-hour dance marathon held last
weekend, according to Tanya Wilcox,
operations official of the marathon.
There were approximately 18 couples
dancing, and about half lasted the entire
24 hours, said Wilcox.

The marathon began at 8 p.m. Friday,
and lasted until 8 p.m. Saturday in the
Campus Center ballroom.

“The winner of the marathon will be
that person who brings in the most
Imoney,”’ said Wilcox. “‘This will not be
determined until December,”’ at which
point the total funds will be counted, she
added.

An air band contest acompanied the
marathon, which was won by Tom
1O’Conner, she said.

“At one point, there were about 100
people on the scene watching,” accor-
ding to Wilcox.

Spalding promoted

David Spalding, a senior, has been
promoted to managing editor of the
|Albany Student Press.

Spalding, formerly an associate news
editor, had been training for the position
for two weeks.

“Dave learned the job very quickly.
He gets along with everybody, has good
leadership abilities, and plays a good
game of golf. All of these qualities are
very important for a managing editor,’’
said Editor in Chief Dean Chang.

Duties of managing editor include hir-
ing and firing of personnel, overseeing
production, and assisting in the overall
management of the ASP.

First SA forum held

An open forum designed to improve}
communication between Student
Association and the campus community]
was held last Wednesday.

“We had about 50 people come, in-
cluding many minorities,”’ according to}
Duarte. ““Not everyone knows how to get,
involved [with SA] and we have to know
our people’s needs,”’ he said, adding that,
SA will become “‘service oriented to serve}
students.”

The forums will be held monthly, said
Duarte. Their purpose will be to increase}
student involvement in Guiness Day, pro-|
gramming events, University Concert
Board, University Senate, and the Test
Bank, among other activities.

Students who become involved will
“receive a special education that they or-
dinarily would not get,’”’ said Duarte.
The forums will especially help minority,
groups to become involved, he added.

Cervi gets the job

Wendy Cervi has been named|
Women’s Issues Coordinator, a new|
position created within Student Associa-|
tion’s executive branch.

According to SA President Paco}
Duarte, the position will focus on issues}
that address women’s needs, including]
public safety. ‘‘Cervi will become involv-|
ed with the President’s Task Force on|
Women’s Safety,’’ said Duarte, adding
that Cervi will also become a part of the’
“Don’t Walk Alone’’ program.

“We've never had someone who
specifically addressed the many struggles
of women,” said Duarte. ‘‘We have not}
had such a representation of women)
before.” 2

A total of eight candidates were|
evaluated on the basis of interviews con-|
ducted by SA.

Cervi will not be paid for the position|
because “‘we [SA] don’t have a stipend|
for it. Hopefully in the years to come this
will change.’”

— Compiled by Duncan Shaw

By Laura Liebesman
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

About 40 students turned out for a
Monday night forum designed ‘‘to provide
up-to-date information to the student
body” on Albany’s anti-grouper law.

The forum was conducted by Student
Association attorney Mark Mishler, who is
currently representing 16 students charged
with violating the law.

“There is a lot of misinformation
floating around,” Mishler said, adding
that there is a need to disseminate accurate
information to students.

One concern students expressed at the
forum was what should be done if so-
meone comes to a door asking questions
about the number of residents living in a
house.

Mishler suggested three options: telling
the truth, lying, or not answering the ques-
tion. He recommended students not
answer the question.

If violators are caught breaking the law,
which prohibits more than three unrelated
people from living in one unit of housing,
it is not certain exactly what will happen,
Mishler said.

Albany officials issued summonses to
six landlords and 20 students three weeks
ago as part of the city’s first major attempt
to enforce the law.

“We're still at very preliminary stages of
the current convictions,” he said, adding,
“No eviction proceedings have been
brought against these students. New York
state law says you can not be evicted unless
a court issues you a court order evicting
you.””

The grouper law does not concern the
amount of space in an apartment, Mishler
said. A one-family living unit is defined as
a cooking area, bathroom and sleeping
facilities for three people.

Students also questioned the Univer-
sity’s role in fighting the law.

Expanding SUNYA’s bus system may
reduce the concentration of students in the
student ghetto, Mishler said.

“One of the causes of the problem is the
insufficient housing on campus,” Off
Campus Association President Steve
Zirkel said after the forum. “‘It forces peo-
ple to move off,’” he said.

“Building a dorm [on Fuller Road] is a
nice gesture, but no matter what my guess
is, it won’t be opened when they [Universi-
ty officials] said. The bubble is a perfect
example,”” Zirkel said.

The University plans to build a 410-bed
housing complex on Fuller Road by early
1988.

At the forum, approximately seven to
ten students signed their names to
volunteer to help fight the law.

“I think students were. apprehensive
about signing the list,”” SA President Paco
Duarte said later. ‘‘It will only be used to
inform students on active approaches to
dealing with the law,” he said.

The law ‘‘can be repealed or amended
because it is a city ordinance,’’ Mishler
said.

If students were to petition, it wouldn’t
guarantee a response because a repeal
would have to be introduced in Albany’s
Common Council, but ‘a petition of
students and non-students would be very

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SA attorney Mark Mishier

powerful,’’ Mishler said.

Duarte said off-campus students should
get involved in neighborhood associations.
“In the past, students haven’t been active-
ly involved [in neighborhood associations]
partly because of [their] schedules, and
they also don’t cater to students,” he said.

Robert Scholl, a homeowner in the area,
said that although the grouper law is not a
solution to Albany’s housing problems,
serious concerns need to be addressed.

“T’ve seen a change in the character of

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Prof shortage limiting COM students

By Jamie Gerelli

Communication majors are reporting
problems in completing degree re-
quirements because too few classes are of-
fered, and one department advisor says the
crunch isso bad that he is discouraging
students from minoring in the field.

Richard W. Wilkie, director of
undergraduate studies for the Comunica-
tion department, said he believes
availability of classes must be limited
because of the department’s high student-
faculty ratio.

The department is only budgeted for 8.5
permanent faculty members, but has at
least 440 students majoring in Rhetoric
and Communication, said Wilkie.

Many classes are currently being taught
by temporary personnel, Wilkie said.

According to Wilkie, funding for the
department is lacking because the Univer-
sity gives priority to graduate rather than
undergraduate programs to bring the
University more recognition on a national
level.

In October, SUNY Central announced
that it will be allotting $84.5 million —
about $13 million of which will go to
SUNYA — for upgrading graduate and
research programs over the next five years.

Wilkie said at least five more permanent
faculty lines must be-added to improve the
situation. Visiting lecturers and grad
assistants are presently teaching some
courses.

The Communication department, which
has one of the highest student-teacher
ratios, refuses to expand the number of
students per class or to move classes into
lecture centers because, according to
Wilkie, we are “‘unwilling to have less than
a quality program.”’ >

The problem of the department lies with
the University, which ‘‘must reduce class
size to maintain the quality of instruction
at this institution,”’ said Wilkie. “They
don’t attack the fundamental problem —
the need to increase the staff and reduce
class size. Its been this way for 15 years.

Department Secretary Vikki Oliver said
current department problems stem from a
lack of funding. The department’s lack of
money to spend on faculty expansion

MIKE ACKERMAN UPS

Richard W. Wilkie

results in the inability to create additional
sections, which is the reason for students’
limited access to classes, she said.

Many students blame the department in-
stead of the University, added Oliver.
“Both the faculty and the students name
the same thing — for the department to
grow for the better.”’”

Communication majors must take part
in pre-registration, which was imposed to
control excessive enrollment and weed out
those students who are not “‘interested or
capable to be a Communication major,’’
said Wilkie.

The department held pre-pre registra-
tion Oct. 24 and over 440 students waited
approximately two hours hoping to get in-
to classes.

Non-majors interested in registering for
Communication classes must wait until
after the department’s pre-pre registration
period.

Wilkie said he ‘‘wouldn’t recommend
anyone to minor in communications’ at
SUNYA. It is sad, he added, but can’t be
helped because majors must have first
priority because of the limited number of
classes.

According to Wilkie, non-
communication majors who would like to
enroll in communication classes do not
have the access that they should. Wilkie

said he wishes there was better access
because of the need for communication
courses as part of liberal education.
Junior Linda Eastman said pre-pre
registration was “unorganized as usual,’’
and added it was “‘very hard to get classes
you want.’’ She said it took four semesters
beforé she could enroll in Com 336.

Another student said that in the past he
“almost got into a fight because of line-
cutting” and that he’d seen ‘more
organization in a Chinese firedrill.”” 1]

a
Student pulled

from air duct

after four days

Louisville, Ky.
(AP) A student was rescued Saturday
from an air duct in a building at the
University of Louisville after apparently
being stuck since Tuesday night.
Rescuers worked for two hours before
freeing Jerry Livers, 19, of Loretto, from
the base of the air passage in the school’s
humanities building.

Livers was in stable condition Saturday
night at Humana Hospital Audubon. He
suffered a broken arm and ribs after
tumbling about 40 feet, officials said.
He told police that he could not
remember how he ended up in the air
duct. However, the student’s friends told
authorites that Livers had explored
similar areas in campus buildings when
he felt bored.

Livers, who studied chemistry and
electronics at the university’s Speed
Scientific School, was last seen leaving
his residence hall Tuesday night.
Friends and campus officials had been
stymied in their search for him.

But Saturday a faculty member in a
third-floor restroom of the humanities
building heard a call for help coming
from a mechanical room. The teacher
alerted authorities, who found Livers in
the passageway below. {3}

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SUNYA students hot item at local businesses

By Nicole Nogid

If SUNYA students weren’t in Albany
the Subway shop on Western Avenue
would lose about 60 percent of its
business, Jerry’s subs would lose seven
employees, and many area businesses
would be affected in one way or another.

Pizza and sub shops, hair-styling salons,
and fast food restaurants are just a few
types of businesses affected by the univer-
sity’s students who reside in Albany about
eight months a year.

Joe Adragna, owner of the Subway at
1182 Western Ave., said that 60 percent of
his shop’s business comes from SUNYA.

Subway’s delivery service caters almost
exclusively to SUNYA students. If
students weren’t here, Adragna said, there
would not be delivery service that we have

now, and there would be a 60 percent loss
of volume.””

Adragna said that offering delivery ser-
vice, aimed mostly at students, has increas-
ed his business tremendously. During
SUNYA’s vacation periods Subway does
not deliver.

SUNYA students also make up a large
part of Subway’s workforce, said
Adragna. About 90 percent of his crew,
whose starting salary is $3.50, attend the
University.

To accomodate students’ schedules,
Adragna said he ‘‘doesn’t shorten shifts
because I have such a large percentage of
students, and they usually work one night
a week, I will let them work only the hours
they feel they can handle.”

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retailers. While 90 percent of Subway’s
business goes to SUNYA, Jerry Pitt,
owner of Jerry’s Subs at both 514
Washington Ave. and 419 Central Ave.,
said SUNYA students make up about 15
percent of his total income.

Pitt said that although ‘the students
love us,”’ he doesn’t make a lot of money
from student business because ‘‘I have to
put on more drivers at night [for delivery].
We’re more like a service because we’ll
deliver just one sub.”’

Because of this, Pitt said his ‘overhead
is tremendous. It’s not highly profitable
because although the volume is there, the
overhead is more.”’

Jerry’s Subs, which gives a 10 percent
discount on subs to SUNYA students,
caters many SUNYA functions, according
to Pitt.

They also currently employ seven
SUNYA students as pizza cooks, who start
with a salary of $5 per hour; delivery
drivers, who start at $10 per hour; and sub
makers, who start at $4.50 per
hour.“‘SUNYA has a great influence on
my business,” said Pitt. “‘The business
does depend on the students. The overhead
is very high but the quality is very good.
SUNY has made my business.””

Other local businesses rely on SUNYA
students as clientele, said Pitt. ‘People de-
pend on SUNY. There’s no question about
that. The bars are totally dead in the sum-
mer,”’ he said.

However, Pitt said, ‘‘Students have a
big impact on the community, but food is
different. We deliver, so we have to pay
for delivery service, extra sub makers and
pizza makers, and phone operators [to
take calls]. So it evens out.’’

Other local businesses, however, do not
rely on SUNYA students as a main source
of income.

According to Imran Siddiqui, manager-
in-training at Domino’s Pizza, “‘only 1.5
percent of our business is from SUNY
students.””

Domino’s, located at 571 New Scotland
Ave., does not include SUNYA in their
usual delivery area, Siddiqui said, but does
“go there for a little bit of late night
business.””

Siddiqui said many of Domino’s
workers are SUNYA students. ‘“‘We pay

minimum wage, but they make $7 or $8 in-
cluding tips and gas money.’””

Domino’s employs more students in the
summer, Siddiqui said, but other than
that, business doesn’t change much when
SUNY is out for the summer months.

Lirne Ireland, manager of New Wave
hair salon in Crossgates mall, said that
“during the school year it does get busier
here. Business increases about 25
percent.””

During the summer months business
from SUNYA does decrease, said Ireland,
but the salon makes up for it with local
customers who go away to school and
return home in the summer.

Treland said she has never had a SUNYA
student apply for a job at New Wave.

As far as SUNYA’s effect on the com-
munity, Ireland said, ‘‘I’m sure business
increases because it is such a big school.”

Pizza To Go’s president Tony
DeThomas said students account for
“about 70 percent of our night time
business.”’

“When school is not in session,’ he
said, “‘business slows down about 25
percent.”

DeThomas said his business also makes
money when students who left Albany to
go away to school return for the summer.

If the University wasn’t here at all,
DeThomas said there would be about a 50
percent drop in sales.

DeThomas thinks SUNYA affects local
business ‘‘quite considerably’ and added
that, ‘‘A lot of places give discounts if you
have a student ID.”

One example of this is McDonalds,
which runs a ‘‘SUNY Special” for anyone
showing a valid SUNYA ID.

Rick Dilorenzo, manager of the
McDonalds at 1502 Western Ave., said
that SUNYA students comprise aobut “30
percent of the business.’’

“A lot of the business is SUNY,” he
said. However, ‘“‘during the off [school]
season. we’re not affected that much
because we get a lot of tourists.’’

McDonalds also hires many SUNYA
employees, and according to Delorenzo,
20 percent of the staff is from SUNY, in-
cluding one full-time SUNYA student who
is a manager. Delorenzo added that
scheduling is based on ‘‘make your own
hours.”” QO

Age discrimination charged
after quake center decision

Berkeley, Calif.
(AP) Sen. Pete Wilson says age discrimina-
tion played a part in the National Science
Foundation’s decision to place a national
earthquake research center in Buffalo,
NY, instead of Berkeley.

“I find it appalling NSF officials
discussed age as a factor in determining
where the earthquake center would be
located,” the California Republican said
Thursday. ‘‘In my estimation, this is a case
of pure and simple age discrimination.”

Wilson demanded a foundation in-
vestigation into whether the foundation
violated civil rights laws by denying the
$25 million research center grant to a
group of California universities.

According to Wilson, during an Aug. 15
meeting several foundation board
members said that the California resear-
chers were ‘‘advanced in years,’”’ and that
the board was concerned because a large

number of the key people were ‘‘over 60
years old.’’

“I think I’d better go home’and take a
nap,”’ joked Joseph Penzien, a University
of California at Berkeley seismic engineer.
Penzien, 61, headed the California team.

“T find a lot of these things sort of
amusing,”’ Penzien said. “I hate to see

things get like this, but I guess it’s going to

have to run its course. It sounds to me like
they were just looking for things to make
us look bad so they could give it to New
York for reasons that I still don’t
understand.’’

Wilson, speaking from Washington,
also asked that federal civil rights officials
look into possible age discrimination.

The foundation and the General Ac-
counting Office, a federal watchdog agen-
cy, -are already investigating Wilson’s
earlier charges that the foundation board
favored New York due to improper
political pressue and New York researchers
lifted whole sections of the California
grant application for use in their own
proposal.

The Eastern group consists of the State
University of New York, City College of
New York, Columbia University, Lamont-
Doherty Geological Observatory, Cornell
University, Lehigh University, Princeton
University and Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.

The California group includes Stanford
University and the University of Southern
California, as well as Berkeley and
Caltech.

Provost Wiliam R. Greiner of the State
University of New York at Buffalo
acknowledged some copying took place,
but said it was an oversight. oO

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By Vanessa Clarke

Door-to-door registration of
students for Student Associa-
tion’s Albany Dorm Tenants
Association will begin this week
following delays caused by the
writing of the group’s constitu-
tion and by SA’s recent focus on
voter registration.

The new group will assist
students with problems they may
experience while living in dor-
mitories, said SA President Paco
Duarte.

The Tenants Association’s
main goal will be to ‘‘take
grievance reports, educate
students on University policies,
and inform students of their
rights,’”’ Duarte said.

“The main focus of the
association will be as a strong stu-
dent activist organization and in-
formation network,’’ he said.

Each quad will have one
“Jocal,’’ or group of students,
operating under the umbrella
Tenants Association, to be
directed by a group of SA of-
ficials and representatives of each
local.

Locals are expected to take the
place of each quad board’s
grievance committee, Duarte
said.

The Student Association of the
State University (SASU) and SA’s
Student Action Committee (SAC)
are also involved in the group’s
organization, Duarte said.

Funding for the Tenants
Association’s operations — such
as advertising — are being taken
from the operating budgets of
SASU;SA, and SAC.

SAC will focus on registering
students for the group. SASU has
provided research, surveys, and
advice which aided in organizaing
the group, Duarte said.

Issues that may be addressed by
the locals include topics such as
racial harassment, problems in

By Nicholas Schneir

communicating with the Office of
Residential life, and questions
arising from public safety and a
student’s right to privacy, Duarte
said.

About 35 students are currently
on the group’s membership list,
he said.

Central Council will consider
on Wednesday a proposal that
would make tenants’ rights one of
SA’s priorities this year, Duarte
said.

A general interest meeting is
scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 20.

Students joining the Tenants
Association would probably be
involved in one of the locals,
which would have its own chair
and spokesperson, Duarte said.

Overall guidance would be sup-
plied by the association’s steering
committee, he said.

Any important issue of concern
to a student could be brought toa
meeting of a local, Duarte said.

The steering committee is com-
prised of designees of Central
Council’s Student Community
Committee and SAC, SA’s pro-
gramming director and affir-
mative action office, and the
chairs of each local.

“Many injustices crop up dur-
ing the course of the year which
infringe upon the students’
right,”” SAC Chair Phil Botwinik
said. ‘‘For example, [there were]
several incidences of mice
sightings in State Quad tower.
The mice have been seen running
in and out of radiators and we

feel that this is one of many con-
ditions to be remedied.”’

Botwinik said that ‘‘one
woman on State Quad counted
eight mice nesting in her closet,
and the committee will investigate
areas in which the mice seem to be
most prevalent on the quads.””

“The key reasons why the com-
mittee is important is because
Residential Life has failed to treat

department,

LYNN DREIFUS UPS:
SAC chair Phil Botwinik

students as adults in their own
homes,” Botwinik said.

Debby Katzowitz, executive
vice president of SASU, said she
sees a definite need for a tenants
association.

“On a statewide basis,’ said
Katzowitz, ‘‘there will be a push
for tenants rights for all students
on [SASU-based] state university
campuses. Also, a current survey
will be completed and [its] results
distributed throughout the state
for the purposes of gathering in-
formation on dorm conditions.”

SA Minority Affairs Coor-
dinator Mark Turner, Botwinik,
and a random selection of
students -from the group’s
membership are expected to meet
this or next week with Assistant
Vice President for Residential
Life John Martone to discuss the
group’s goals and objectives,
Duarte said.

Duarte said he doesn’t expect
much of a response from Univer-
sity officials. ‘‘I don’t expect
them to be extremely responsive,
but I don’t think I’m concerned
with their response because it’s a
student matter. oO

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dent Association President Paco Duarte have
finalized their choices for an eight-person commit-
tee that will review funding of SA’s Student Legal
Services office.

The “campus review board’’ is comprised of
four members appointed by O’Leary and four by
Duarte.

SUNYA administrators and SUNY Central are
currently questioning SA’s right to offer in-
dividual legal representation because they feel
long-term cases do not benefit the entire student
body.

According to O’Leary, he and SUNY Central
would have no problem with the single representa-
tion of students if mandatory activity fee funds
were not involved. However, SA Attorney Mark
Mishler, who runs the Legal Services office said he
was unsure if single representation could continue
without mandatory activity fee funds.

When a university president has reason to ques-
tion a particular use of activity fee funds, state
guidelines specify that the president appoint a
campus review board.

The board then reviews the type of expenditure
in question and makes a recommendation to the
president, who then issues a final ruling.

The committee will make its recommendation
to O’Leary sometime this spring. At that time,
O’Leary said he will ‘‘get advice on it [from
SUNY Central] and then make a decision.’’

O'Leary has selected Assistant Vice President
of Student Affairs Rodney Hart, Associate
University Accountant Paul Speck, Associate
Professor Thomas Church of the political science

visiting distinguished professor in the School of
Business.

Both Speck and Aldrich have legal
backgrounds. O’Leary said he thought Aldrich
would be a good appointment because “‘he has on-
ly been at SUNYA for a year’’ and therefore is not
very exposed to the issue.

Duarte’s choices are 1978 Central Council
Chair Dave Ruffo, 1982-83 SA President Mike
Corso, former SUNY Cortland SA President and
current Student Association of the State Universi-
ty [SASU] board of directors member Lisa
Codispoti, and Maria Maglione, who is the com-
mittee’s undergraduate representative.

Duarte said that he ‘‘hopes that he [O’Leary]
will follow the recommendation’ of the
committee.

O'Leary refused to give his own opinion of Stu-
dent Legal Services, ‘‘I respect the law and SUNY
[Central] control.My own personal opinion is not
important,” he said.

However, Duarte said, “‘The University sees it
as a threat — a very threatening thing.’’ Duarte
added that he doesn’t ‘‘really comprehend why
they [SUNY Central] don’t support it.”

“SUNY Central doesn’t like the power that
students have when students have access to an at-
torney like they do here. They feel threatened,”
said Mishler.

O’Leary said that his power over the situation is
limited and students don’t understand his situa-
tion. Students act “‘as if I’m taking something
away,’”? O’Leary said, adding that he is ‘“‘only
following SUNY Central’s guidelines.””

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Cornell profs join students in shanty-building

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(AP) Cornell University professors have
built a pair of anti-apartheid shanties in
defiance of a court order, and an organizer
said Saturday that instructors were
prepared to be arrested if the university
tore down the huts.

The shanties, built Friday, were part of
the first organized faculty involvement in
Cornell’s anti-apartheid protests, which
turned violent last month when 23 people
were arrested outside student-built
shanties.

The professors said they were protesting
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nell, which has given this the aspect of a
free-speech protest,’’ he said.

The university got an injunction in July
1985 to back up its rule against building
shanties on campus.

“Under university rules and regulations,
the university has the right to control use
of its property,” said David I. Stewart,
associated director of university relations.

He said that in 1985, Cornell had of-
fered students the option of constructing
one shanty on a site selected by Cornell.

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The protesteers turned down the offer, he
said.

“The irony of it is if they had
cooperated back in spring 1985, it’s possi-
ble shanties would be permitted today,’’ he
said.

The Ithaca Journal reported that 75
faculty members and 300 students
gathered Friday before Homecoming
Weekend to construct the clapboard and
corrogated tin shacks on a hillside. Stewart
said the figure was closer to 250 people,
with 40-50 faculty members involved.

The protesters, members of Faculty and
Staff Against Apartheid, maintained a
vigil in front of the huts through Friday
evening. About a dozen professors sat at
an information table at the huts Saturday
in a cold rain, sipping coffee.

No order was issued to destroy the

shacks, said Stewart.

“They [the faculty] say they themselves
will take down the shanties tonight,”’ said
Stewart. “If that’s the case, that’s fine.””

King said that if authorities tried to
demolish the shanties ‘‘it is entirely possi-
ble that individuals may practice passive
non-violent resistance” and could be
arrested.

On October 8, 20 students and three
other people clashed with campus safety
officers who accused them of violating the
July injunction.

Demonstrators later claimed safety of-
ficers needlessly roughed up protesters,
and said officers clamped on handcuffs so
tightly that some people lost circulation in
their hands.

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_ RPI president draws criticism

By Roger Erickson

Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute is settling down after stu-
dent leaders recently accused RPI
President Daniel Berg of ex-
cluding students from campus-
oriented decisions and not being
accessible to student leaders.

Discontent peaked Saturday,
Oct. 25, when students
demonstrated in front of the RPI
Fieldhouse, where the Univer-
sity’s Board of Trustees was
meeting without representation
by student leaders.

Student Union President An-
| drew Morrison and Grand Mar-

shall Carrie Ekstrand were
previously informed by Berg’s of-
fice that they were not invited to
address the trustees as had been
traditionally done in the past.

{ According to Morrison, Berg
told him ‘‘the Trustees don’t
want to meet the students, so why
should the students want to meet

j the Trustees?”

The demonstration took place

in front of the Student Union

| building, and was organized by

students concerned about the pro-

blem between Berg and student
government leaders.

According to Suzanne Cano,
one of the protest’s leaders, the
| rally was intended to “‘bring to at-
i tention that Dan Berg wasn’t
j allowing student input in student
| planning.”
| It had been a tradition for stu-

dent leaders to brief the Board of

_ |SUNYA programs let local youth
get a STEP in the right direction

Trustees for three hours on the se-
cond day of Trustees’ weekend.
However, according to RPI’s stu-
dent newspaper, The Polytechnic,
student leaders understood, when
Berg said students did not have
time to speak at the meeting, due
in part to a Strategic Planning
Process and an important fund-
raising presentation.

Berg and student leaders had
previously met to discuss the pro-
blem, Morrison said. After much
arguing, Morrison said he and
Ekstrand convinced Berg to allow
them to go to the breakfast and
lunch.

At the conclusion of their
meeting, Morrison said both he
and Ekstrand agreed students
were not involved enough in any
decision-making that concerned
them.

According to Morrison, Berg
said that although students were
complaining because they were
not involved in high-level deci-
sions, student input should not be
required on every issue.

Student leaders presented a
statement to protest saying that
Berg ignored Morrison and
Ekstrand because they are
students, said Cano. Berg does
not realize that the leaders are
representing a student body and
not their own personal beliefs, she
added.

According to Cano, Berg
doesn’t seem to very ap-

proachable. ‘‘He hasn’t com-
municated very effectively with
student leaders.”

Cano said she saw a positive
response to the rally. After listen-
ing to the statement, Board of
Trustees chair Ed Hood said he
had confidence that positive
changes would be made shortly,
according to Cano. ‘‘Hopefully,
they will work on the problem,”
she said.

In a The Polytechnic article,
Berg said he meets with students
every month, holds a call-in show
on the campus radio station,
WRPI, and visits the Commons
twice a year to hear what the
students have to say. Berg also
said students can make an ap-
pointment to talk to him in his of-
fice if he has time available.

Morrison said local media blew
the story out of proportion when
it covered the protest by saying
the students sought to gain access
to the meeting. Student leaders
only wanted to meet the Trustees
at the informal breakfast and
lunch, he said.

The dispute actually began in
May, when students were under-
represented at RPI’s Planning
Conference, Morrison said. Only
he, Ekstrand, and the chair of the
Student Planning Advisement,
were originally allowed to attend,
but after a discussion with Berg,
more students became involved,
said Morrison. o

2 By Heather Levi

Although SUNYA focuses on post-secondary
education, the University also plays a role in
educating some of Albany’s younger. students.

Programs oriented toward talented students or
| science-oriented studies are just some of the types
} of services SUNYA provides to the local
| community.

i One such program is the Science and
Technology Entry Program (STEP).

STEP was designed to meet the special needs of
minority and/or economically disadvantaged high
school students in the areas of science, math,
technology, and health. STEP also provides ser-
vices that students need in order to pursue pre-
professional or professional educational programs
| at college levels.
| According to Carl Martin, Director of the
j STEP program at SUNYA, “‘STEP is an extensive
| program because'the other colleges — RPI [Ren-
| nselaer Polytechnic Institute], Union [College]
| and the College of Pharmacy also participate.””

1 STEP is divided into two branches — junior

high and high school, Martin said, adding that
SUNYA has set up STEP activities at both
Hackett and Livingston Middle Schools. Students
there are taught critical thinking, problem solving
and understanding, and reasoning by certified
teachers trained at the University.

SUNYA has also established a STEP program
at Albany High School. However, unlike the mid-
die schol STEP program, Martin said the high
school program involves after-school tutoring in
Regents-level math and science classes. This ser-
vice is provided by University undergraduates who
have either a science or math background, he sdid.

According to Martin, “‘The program was
designed [for students] to develop a strong interest
in attending college.’” Funding for the program is
being supplied by a grant awarded by the state
Education Department.

SUNYA also participates in “‘The University in
High School Program.”’

According to Dr. Frank Carrino, coordinator
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8 Aspects on Tuesday &

November 11, 1986

CSN sing for Green-er pastures

nvision an audienc. comprised of a

curious configuration of sixties

children now turned yuppie
(complete with Izod sweaters and receding
hairlines) interspersed with contemporary
deadheads (clad in tie-dyed clothing and
under 23). Envision political endorsements
and a senatorial candidate's appearance.
Accoustic music such that the guitar and
each voice become currents within an
‘ocean of sound waves sweeping over you.

Danielle Gagnon

It may sound like a time-warp from the
Woodstock era-which, in a way, is what's
created when an audience is pulled
together by relics such as David Crosby,
Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. Last Sun-
day the flower children of days gone by,
and those that would have been had they
been born earlier, gathered at the RPI.
fieldhouse to hear Crosby, Stills, Nash and
Judy Collins play a benefit concert to elect
democrat Mark Green as Senator. (Green
ran against Alfonse D’Amato).

Contrary to popular assumption,
Crosby, Stills and Nash are not touring; the
R.P.I. show was one of two shows to elect
Green. There were no shirts on sale, and a
democratic propaganda table stood at the
back, where photographers surrounded
Green before the show began. The show
was politically oriented, with politics prac-
tically usurping the music. The band has
never kept a low profile in that area, but
this marks the first time the band has ever
actually endorsed a candidate. The closest
they had come previously was to grant per-
mission for “Teach Your Children” to be

used in the 1984 Mondale-Ferraro
presidential campaign - television
commercials.

The group supported Green because he
is environment-conscious, pro-choice, anti-
Star Wars, opposes cuts in Social Security,
Medicare, student aid and Drug Rehab pro-
grams, as well as opposing U.S. involve-
ment in Nicaragua.

The audience (especially the younger
faction) appeared unaccustomed to politics |
mixing with music, seeming unenthusiastic
at best. They were, however, anxious to
see David Crosby, who played this concert
in the wake of his release from a Texas pri-
sion after serving 2 years for drug charges.

As a warm-up act, Judy Collins flowed
onto the stage wearing a flittering silver
ensemble and makeup applied with a
trowel. The only thing that made Collins a

only way I was able to translate the

' [

world around me, the human ex-
change, the struggle of existence into a
meaningful form.”

Diane Sepanski

So said Diogenes Fallister, one of six
SUNY. faculty artists whose work is on ex-
hibit at the University Art Gallery. Two
new exhibitions: Bill Wilson: Return to
Landscape and Recent Works by Six Facul-
ty Artists have just opened at the Gallery
and may be viewed until November 26.

Ballister takes his artistic influence from
his Spanish, African and Taino Indian ©
Heritage. His paintings reflect “the visual
and tactile language of the Caribbean.”
Bold, splashy colors and wide, free-ranging
brush strokes tell the story of Ballister’s life
experiences from Puerto Rico, New York
City, and Madison, Wisconsin. An ac-
complished and cosmopolitan painter,
Ballister is currently a visiting artist on the
SUNY faculty.

Phyllis Galembo is a photographer
whose trademark large color Cibachrome
format and stylized interpretations of sub-
ject have garnered international

stayed with art because it was the

recogniton. Her current exhibition is taken

viable opening act was her enthusiasm for
Green. Whoever paired the acts was vir-
tualy setting Collins up for a fall, as she is
not a big enough attraction to draw her
own audience, and is not generally known
or appreciated by Crosby, Stills and Nash

fans. Collins befriended the audience by
opening with Joni Mitchell’s “Both Side
Now,” even singing in Mitchell's style and
not her own, but the initial enthusiasm
quickly dissipated as she played her own
music, Collins began a lengthy political
speech informing the audience of Green's
fine points, but generally depressed the au-
dience by talking about the late Harry
Chapin, “who would be so proud we're do-
ing this for Mark.” The restless audience
nearly drowned her out, and Collins ner-
vously tried to play it off as she laughed,
“It's awfully noisy in here, isn’t it?” She ex-
ited shortly after, having regained some en-
thusiasm with another Joni Mitchell cover,
“Chelsea Morning.”

Following a brief intermission the can-
didate himself appeared onstage, thanking
everyone for their support. He introduced
the band by stating, “Iam honored by their
endorsement, and | know you are honored
by their music, so here they are.” Everyone
left their seats and flooded the aisles near
the stage, and as the lights went down all
the “lights” went up.

The trio came out, Crosby looking obese
and older but smiling the same familiar
way, and wearing his usual concert attire
of denim shirt and jeans. Nash wore baggy
black leather pants with a casual shirt,
while Stills looked like a displaced shoe
salesman in a grey 3-piece suit and tie.
They opened with “Wasted on the Way”
and “Change Partners,” then played the

first song they ever played together (at the
Woodstock Festival in August 1969), “You
don’t have To Cry.”

The three men spoke among themselves
for a moment, and Crosby said, “We never
know what we're going to do, but this is a
song from our favorite group, besides us,”
then playing “Blackbird” (from the Beatle’s
White Album.). During “Long Time Com-
ing,” Crosby's guitar was actually off-key
‘once, but he played an amazing solo never-
theless. As is customary, all three played
solo material.

Crosby was the first, and the audience
seemed unruly even for the big act, as
Crosby paused and joked, “We've got
these accoustic guitars you guys, keep
quiet or I can’t tell a tale.” Crosby went on
to say that he had had a dependency that
became so intense that it prevented him

from writing any material for over two
years, and then he was arrested. While in
prison (and drug-free) he composed the
next song, “Compass.” This touching song
seemed to crystallize his experience as he
sang, “I siezed Death's doorway/like a fish
cout of water/waiting for the mercy of the
cat.”

Nash then joined him for a version of
“Guinnivere” that fell nothing short of
amazing, and alone justified the price of
the ticket to any skeptics. The mesmerized
audience swayed back and forth, as each
note Nash and Crosby sang was a stone
that continually constructed a musical
mosiac.

Afterwards, Nash sat alone at the piano
onstage. As the only member of the group
that had aged gracefully, it seemed ironic
when he quipped, “sex symbols we're not,

’s own in fine form

Bill Wilson’s Winter Twilight.
trom a recent anthropoligical trip to Benin,
Nigeria, where she gained access to the
secret rituals of the Olukum religion,
Divination Groups/Objects of Prayer is an
intriguing essay that engages the viewer
while it depicts a totally foreign culture.

JoAnne Carson is a recent addition to
.the painting faculty in the Graduate Pro-

gram at the University. Her work is a

fascinating mixture of painting and

sculpture which she calls “constructions.”
Reminiscent of early Lichenstein and Jasper
Johns, her constructions are nonetheless
strikingly original; they are intricate,
visually demanding pieces which detail the
motifs of American culture. Carson’s work
was included in the 1985 Whitney Biennial
at the Whitney Museum of American Art
in New York City.

A husband and wife team, Marja Vallila

so it must be the music.” Recalling the re-
cent benefit the group played in California
for handicapped children, he lamentfully
told the audience that Neil (Young) has 2
children afflicted by cerebral palsy. He
then debuted a song written only four days
before, “about what a terrible prison it
must be to have a beautiful mind trapped
in a handicapped body,” called “Try to
Find Me.” He also played the emotional
“Magical Child.”

Stills played a solo version of “Love The
One You're With,” and Nash rejoined him
for “Southern Cross” and “Our House” the
latter of which the audience sang most of
the vocals for). Crosby rejoined them for
the classic “Judy Blue Eyes,” and the band
exited the stage.

When they returned, they once again
implored the audience to vote for Green
with idealist enthusiasm - “You can make a
difference!” Their encore consisted of a
combined, “Daylight Again’/“Find the
Cost of Freedom,” and ended with their
standard closing song, “Teach Your
Children.” Altogether they played a show
less than 90 minutes long, including
polticial plugs.

Although Crosby, Stills and Nash seek
to distance themselves from their infamous
past link to the Woodstock/Haight-
‘Ashbury scene (Don't let the past remind
us of what we are not now, no way!”
Crosby vehemently sang), one cannot help
but associate them with an era passed. The
group has retained the excellent musician-
ship that brought them to fame, but
Crosby's voice sounds a bit ragged, and
overall they do not sound as good as they
did two years ago when they last toured.

and James Buchman share the sculpture
position in the Fine Arts Department. Both
sculpt in cast iron, graphite and steel.
While Vallila’s work is clean, spare and for-
mal, Buchman’s sculpture is jagged and
quite irregular. Both artists have had
numerous exhibits in such prestigious
galleries as the Max Hutchinson Gallery
and the Zabriskie Gallery.

“Funky,” “outrageous” and “innovative”
are words that come to mind when view-
ing the fairy tale sculpture of Steve Plaxco.
He combines various mediums such as
wood, steel and paper to produce wild jux-
tapositions of camels and temples, horses
and boats. Worthy of the Museum of
Modern Art, Plaxco’s sculpture is in itself
worth the trip to the Fine Arts building.

As if this weren’t enough, Bill Wilson,
chairman of the Fine Arts Department, has
his own exhibition of landscape paintings.
Wilson's canvasses are filled with fecund,
vibrant, eye-catching scenes. He uses color
as light to capture the brilliance of the Hud-
son Valley's natural beauty.

These two current exhibits by members
of SUNY’s Fine Arts Department
demonstrate that dynamic and original art
does not only exist in Manhattan; there is a
very “happening” art scent right here in
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Aspects on Tuesday 9

Marsalis: a classy jazz man

ow does one describe genius? In the

case of Wynton Marsalis, many

words come to mind.
“Unbelievable,” “intense,” and “incredible”
are just a few. If you find yourself at a loss
for words, however, you could express
yourself in a manner similar to that of the
gentleman sitting next to me. During an ex-
ceptional solo he simply muttered, “Holy
shit.” That said it all.

Bill McCann

On Sunday, November 2, Wynton Mar-
salis gave a lesson in pure genius at the Em-
pire State Institute for the Performing Arts.
Those familiar with this 25-year-old jazz
and classical music phenomenon can ap-
preciate the meaning of this statement.

Receiving a very warm welcome, Mar-
salis with his quintet started with the title
cut of his 1986 Grammy winning Black
Codes. This had a very introspective sense
to it as well as a hypnotizing quality.

If you are keeping count, Marsalis has
won three consecutive Grammys for “Best
Soloist” in jazz. His LP Think of One won
in ‘83, Hot House Flowers in ‘84 and Black
Codes in ‘85. Marsalis became the
youngest and only the second musician to
win in three consecutive years. He is also
the only artist to ever win both jazz and
classical Grammys in the same year, which
he did in both ‘83 and ‘84. Marsalis notes,
“because I've played with orchestras and all
that, some people think I’m a clasical musi-
cian who plays jazz. They have it
backwards! I’m a jazz musician who can
play classical music.”

The audience got its first real taste of
Marsalis as he limbered up with a fine solo.
This was followed by tenor Don Braden
who gave lines similar to those of Marsalis.
In the background the exceptional rhythm
section was very npticeable. This featured

Marcus Robertson on piano, Bob Hurst on
bass, and Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums.

Incidentally, this is the same group that
plays with Marsalis on his latest album J-
Mood. Roberts gave a neatly vibrant solo
while Marsalis stood in the background
diggin’ it all.

Next up was a nicely done rendition of
Thelonious Monk's composition,
“Booboo's Birthday.” This was followed by
a unique versin of a perennial jazz stan-
dard, “Cherokee.” Those familiar with this
Ray Noble classic will likely envision the
big bands of the 40's that made it famous.
Marsalis’ band, however, had something

else in mind. Marcus Roberts made the
piece unique by playing the line of the
melody near the end of the tune. The piece
came off sounding like a totally different
tune, not recognizable as “Cherokee” until
the very end. This points out the great dep-
ths to which Marsalis takes his music.

The group maintained a very upbeat
temper featuring a fine muted solo by Mar-
salis. His virtuosity on the trumpet was
highly evident. “Cherokee” ended the in-
troduction to the band which lasted a good
half-hour. The group continued in a
fashion similar to where it had left off, giv-
ing us what Marsalis called (for lack of a
better name), “Blues for McCoy.” He
credited the great McCoy Tyner with its
creation. This tune featured the trio of
Roberts, Hurst, and Watts; Marsalis and
Braden had left the stage

The three let loose, using the spotlight to
their advantage. Roberts started with an
excellent blues riff followed by the first
real look at bassist Hurst, whose playing
was outstanding. Watts gave us a short but
great segment on the skins and did some
highly creative trade-offs with Roberts. He
was, however, just setting up for things to
come.

With the full group back on stage, we
heard the title cut from J-Mood, a slow
blues piece, followed by an intensely
upbeat bop number. It took the group but
a few bars to roll out of the blues and reach
full swing. This rigorous play prompted a
great ovation from the crowd.

What followed was the first of two
highlights of the afternoon's performance.
Marsalis played a heart-melting version of
the beautiful ballad “When I fall in love
again.” To call it breathtaking would not
be exaggerating. It was the side of Marsalis
most loved. He smoothly wisped around
the melody, maintaining a tonal quality
matched by none; not even the ballads of

Stan Getz or Zoot Sims could match this. In”
short, Clifford Brown would have definite-
ly approved. It was the only ballad of the
show, and it was too bad Marsalis did not
play more of this type of music.

The quintet then went into high gear
and never looked back. It gave us a Marcus
Roberts original entitled “I'll see you in 1,”
so named because of its various time
changes. Marsalis, caught up in the flow of
it all, shouted “Swing,” encouraging his
cohorts to greater heights.

In a crazed and frantic style the band
gave the second highlight of the perfor-
mance, “Insane Asylum,” another track
from J-Mood. Braden started it off with a
fever pitched solo, followed by Marsalis
who easily raised the temperature a few
degrees. Watts played the instigator,
shouting at the other members who pro-
mptly shouted back. His drum perfor-
mance was one of the best, and he is sure
to be amongst the best drummers around.
With the band screaming like loonies, the
audience responded in quite an amusing
manner, signifying their enjoyment of it
all. This tune was a clear example of ‘bop at
its best.’

His band ‘playing in the background,
Marsalis thanked the audience, telling
them “it’s not the easiest music to listen to.”
Urging the crowd to keep the faith, he saic,
“tum your kids on — get some Monk
records.” This received a very warm round
of applause and a standing ovation, as the
band exited the stage.

Returning for a much wanted encore,
Marsalis and company continued the
psychotic pace. Marsalis again showed
why he is considered by many to be the
best, by hitting and sustaining a G above
high C! The crowd could only gasp at his
brilliance. After two solid hours of the
ultimate in jazz and two standing ovations,
Marsalis ended his E.S.I.P.A. performance.

The crystal vision of Coolidge

n Wednesday, November 5 at 4
Cex while most of SUNY

Albany's population was either
marvelling at nature's first offering of
snow, or turning off their televisions dur-
ing the closing titles of General Hospital, a
small group of students and well-wishers
were entertained by a poetry reading.

Michael Andrews

Although not a household name, poet
Clark Coolidge is well known in many
literary circles and, for the brief span of an
hour, one of those spheres surrounded
Humanities 290. His presence was one of a
man in his late 40's, early 50's, with
mousey brown hair and sparsely grey
sideburns. At the bridge of his long, thin
nose rested the large, rounded Ben Franklin
glasses that he used for reading and so-
meone from every generation has used as a
fashion statement. While his appearance in
itself was not enough to hold even the
most enthusiastic of audiences, it was clear
from the first words he read of his newly
released book, The Crystal Text, that for
the next unmeasured period-of time, a
room of people would hang on his every
statement.

Although Coolidge has published some
25 books of poetry over the past many
years, 1986 seems to be particularly good
one for this native of Providence, RI.
Aside from his aforementioned work, The
Crystal Text,, he has published Solutions
Passage Poems 1978-1981, a rather large
and complicated work that only one who
recognizes a perfectly written sentence will
enjoy. Indeed, Coolidge’s work is not for
the poetry fan who can be quoted as say-
ing, ‘If thisis a poetry, how come it doesn’t
thyme?” These people will most likely
never be able to enjoy the works of Clark
Coolidge, for his poetry is typically not

more important than the

constrained by the conventions of rhyme
schemes. For Coolidge, the message is
more important than the meter.

But, what is Clark Coolidge’s message?
Well, to say it is unclear would be an
understatement. Coolidge did not offer
answers to life's mysteries. He simply read
from his work, including 30 pages from
The Crystal Text, and asked for questions.
However, after reading his poetry as if it
were dialogue from a very sarcastic, one-
man conversation, he looked up to a
definitely familiar sight: faces as blank as
the new paper he uses to write on.

The room was filled with a few bearded

For Coolidge the message is _

professors, who closed their eyes and let
the words rule them, while the rest of the
warm bodies tried to rule the words. Yet,
as confusing as the books were, they were
indeed books of interest. The swiftness and
eloquence of his words demanded the
closest attention in order to be grasped.

So, how did this man keep a room of
people awake? While his dress and ap-
pearance may not be that of an adorned
royal family member, his voice and rise of
language were surely enough to sustain the
interest of everyone. His reading inspired
the audience to think about the words they
use, and misuse, every day.

Coolidge, now a resident of Hancock,
Mass., conveys a wide spectrum of ideas

and touches so many subjects. that
everyone should be able to look through
his work and find a quote that they may
relate to. However, Coolidge writes for
himself as well as others. He makes
analogies to his first love, rocks and
minerals, and finds new ways to relate
these works of nature to more com-
plicated, human feelings and emotions. His
words and love of voice, both equally com-
manding, draw the audience into his world
of ideas. But an invitation to enter pro-
mises nothing more than a foundation:
Coolidge requires you, the reader and
listener, to build upon his thoughts.

The more recent works of Coolidge lead
‘one to see a certain amount of commenting
on writing. He talks about what separates a
prose writer from a poet, why one writes,
what it does for him and what it does to
him. In the same way that- Shakespeare
refers to the Globe Theater in The
Tempest or Woody Allen makes his
tongue-in-cheek comments on the film-
making process in The Purple Rose of
Cairo, Coolidge reflects on his medium.
This is not uncommon for an artist after a
period of such proliferation, but as with
most subjects presented, he leaves us with
no answers. :

All things in proper perspective, no ma-
jor world problems were solved in
Humanities 290 between 4 and 5 p.m. on
Wednesday. No great solutions for the
struggles between men. But, for a few peo-
ple who did attend Coolidge’s reading a
seed was planted for the growth of.con-
tinued thought. For these lucky few, the
hour brought them closer to a man moved
by his own work and energy who, after a
calming drink of cheap red wine from his
silver flask, gratefully fielded the questions
of those he had confused. For the rest c
the world, well, the time brought them ai
hour closer to Thursday. C

Negative division

Question: What do you get when you
divide 440 Communication majors by 8.5
permanent faculty members?

The answer would vary, depending on
who’s making the calculation. The
University would say the answer is about 52
students to 1 faculty member, a bad but
workable situation.

The Communication department would
say the 52-to-1 ratio is inexcusably high,
forcing the department to limit the number
of classes, as well as the number of students
per class, to ensure a ‘‘quality program.”

Both answers leave Communication
majors on the short end of the stick. Most
of these students are finding it difficult to
complete their major on time, due to the
shortsightedness of the University and the
Communication department.

About three weeks ago, the department
held a pre-pre-registration meeting for
more than 440 Communication majors.
The students waited approximately two
hours, hoping to get the classes they
needed. Too many of them left
disappointed.

One quick way to solve the problem is to
teach the classes in large lecture centers
instead of in academic buildings. But the
department won’t do that becuase it might
risk the department’s standing as a ‘‘quality
program.”

One department adviser has gone as far
as to discourage students from minoring in
Communication, a fact he should be
ashamed to reveal. After all, what good is a
quality program when not enough students
can participate in it?

This is a public institution. It should
provide ample academic opportunities for
all its students.

The Communication department heads
should seriously consider expanding class
size, even if it only makes room for a few
more students.

If they are unwilling to do this, then they
ought to severely cut back on the number
of students admitted to the program. That
way, at least those students admitted to the
major could actually get into the high
quality classes the department is trying to
maintain.

Perhaps the department should follow
the lead of the business school and the
computer science department by imposing
strict admission standards. Currently, the
only requirements are grades of C or better
in two introductory classes.

To be fair, if University administrators
allotted the department more faculty
members, this problem wouldn’t exist.

This however, is highly unlikely. The

University has been holding the purse’

strings tightly, and any money that
manages to leak through tends to be aimed
at its graduate programs.

As the situation stands, Communication
majors can’t register for the classes they
need; prospective minors are being steered
away from the program; and other students
shouldn’t even bother thinking about
taking a Communication class.

The question at the top of this column
isn’t one that’s answerable in numbers.
That many students and that few faculty
members can only result in one thing: a
negative quotient.

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE

Nicaragua: what now?

The traditional opposition to aiding the so-called
“‘Contras”’ in their efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan
government has centered around the argument that the
United States has no right to intervene in the affairs of
another nation. Granting that intervention can sometimes
be deemed necessary, aid to the Contras can still be pro-
yen a major foreign policy blunder.

David Finz

In order to determine whether or not to aid the Con-
tras, we must first ask ourselves several questions: Are the
Sandinistas deserving of US aggression? Are the Contras
particularly worthy of our support? Can the Contras
win? What kind of threat does Nicaragua pose to our na-
tional security? And finally, what consquences can we ex-
pect in the event of a victory (whatever that may be)?

Are the Sandinistas deserving of US aggression? As
revolutionary governments go, Nicaragua is about the
least justifiable case for US intervention. In 1979, the
people of Nicaragua ousted the Somoza regime. This
dynasty (there is no other word for it) was corrupt,.
repressive and insensitive to the needs of the impoverish-
ed masses of that country. It was also American backed.
Today’s government is relatively democratic, egalitarian
and pluralistic. Land reform and labor rights have im-
proved the lot of the people. There are seven political par-
ties represented in the National Assembly. The Christian
Base Communities provide religious expression for a
traditionally religious society. Women are being drawn
into the workforce with help of day care. In addition, the
universal education program has significantly increased
the country’s literacy rate. A new constitution is being
drafted. The elections the FSLN held make a sham of
some of the regimes that the US backs, and neutral
observers at the United Nations have testified to the
fairness and openness of these elections.

Much has been made of the closing of La Prenza, the
opposition newspaper. However, our own courts
guarantee free speech except when advocating the violent
overthrow of the government, which is precisely what the
CIA backed press was doing. I highly doubt we would
tolerate such a paper if our nation was embroiled in a civil
war being backed by a foreign government. Also, while
there has been much socialization of the economy, the
majority of the GNP is still from private enterprise. In
other words, when Reagan calls the Sandinistas ‘“Com-
munist’’ he is sadly mistaken. In fact, the Sandinistas
were on friendly, or at least not hostile terms with the
Carter Administration. However, Reagan’s efforts to
boycott Nicaragua has forcibly driven that nation further
into the Soviet camp.

Are the Contras particularly worthy of our support?
The Contras were organized by remnants of Somoza’s in-
famous National Guard. These soldiers have a history of
terrorizing the people, and their list of human rights
abuses is long. Even those dissatisfied with the San-
dinistas are adamantly against a return to the Somoza
era, which is what could be expected from the Contras.
The Contras are bloody and hard to manage. They have
attacked Western nationals within Nicaragua, which has
proven an embarrassment to the US.

Can the Contras win? The Contra army is composed of
a rat-tat band of 10,000. They are fighting against a force
several times larger. It will take a great deal more than
Reagan’s $100 milion to bring down the Sandinistas.
What we must really ask ourselves is, What are we getting

ourselves into? It is not realistic to think that any amount
of ammunition can defeat the Sandinistas. The sheer task
of occupying ie capital of Managua would exhaust the
supply of Contra troops. What I am driving at is that
American troops would be needed. Anyone who doubts
this need only look at what a task it has been for our Rus-
sian comrades to hold on to Kabul. General Secretary
Gorbachev has begun troop withdrawal, but it is doubtful
that Kabul won’t be inundated with Mujahadeen (Afghan
contras) if he goes through with this. We must question
whether we or not we are willing to make this kind of long
standing commitment of American resources, not to men-
tion Americn GI’s. If we simply wish to be an annoyance
to the Sandinistas then the Contras are fine; however, the
poeple of Nicaragua are not fooled. They know that their
sluggish economy is a casualty of the US backed insurgen-
cy, not the failure of their revolution. To aid the Contras
is to start a long chain of events that smacks of another
Vietnam.

What kind of threat does Nicaragua pose to our na-
tional security? Nicaragua is a poor country of three
million. It is about the size of Westchester county. I will
not even entertain the thought of this tiny republic posing
a threat to our national security. While the Sandinistas
may be something for the Contras to grapple with, they
are not a menace to us. Indeed, they are nothing without
Soviet or Cuban help, and then our problem would be
with those nations. This is unrealistic, however, as I have
yet to see Cuba, a nation many times larger and closer,
send its troops crawling up the Florida coast. What these
nations want is self-determination. If they are officially
hostile to America’s past role in their history, they are
eagerly open to our help, and to assume that we are losing
American markets (something that has never been my
primary concern) is ludicrous. We continue to invest in
Angola, a government we simultaneously would like to
overthrow. No sane world leader of an underdeveloped
nation would turn away American capital. Even the peo-
ple of these nations are interested in American culture.
On close examination, it is we, not they, who exhibit
hostility.

What consequences can we expect from an American
victory? If the Contras overthrow their government, we.
would be burdened with the task of propping up a
government that is not popularly supported (A role not
entirely new to the US). We would commit gross viola-
tions of international law, as we already have by mining
the Managuan harbors, and we would be sending the
message to other repressive Latin American governments
not to worry about brutalizing their people and keeping
them poor, because we would come to their aid. It would
also generate a mistrust of America within the popular
liberation movements in those countries, and bring them
further under Soviet dependence.

As one can see, there is little to be gained by aiding the
Contras, but much to be lost. Our real problem with that
government is that we have lost our ability to bleed
Nicaragua dry for our profit. Those who wish to protect
slavery in Latin America should call it by its proper name,
and not defame the term ‘‘Democracy”’ by substituting it
for what is more aptly called imperialism. It is high time
that the Reagan administration learns to distinguish bet-
ween democracy and capitalism. Until we realize that the
two are independent of each other, we run the risk that
the Spanish we were tatfght in high school may finally
have to be put to use. Oo

Of meds and bees

To the Editor:

Amidst the pressures of midterms, reading Jeff Leon’s
letter in the last ASP was a nice bit of comic relief, but
with one problem: I don’t believe he thought he was being
funny. At best, it was a bitter view of his bad experiences;
at worst, a scary attempt by Mr. Leon to legislate his per-
sonal morality.

Mr. Leon’s basic point, apparently, was to say that
there are inherent similarities between religions and cults.
There are also similarities between the birds and the bees,
but we all know how different they really are. 1 am not so
distresed by his claim, but rather, I am appalled with his
supporting criteria. He induces the ultimate negativity of
religion from a few odd childhood experiences and
historical events invariably presented out of context. His
flat accusations and self-rightous opinions are akin to a
parent ignoring a child’s view by saying, ‘‘Because I’m
the mommy, that’s why.”

“Think of the turmoil that would arise if you. . .open-
ly questioned the validity of the bible,”’ he says. Maybe a
few glares, but hardly the chaos he proposes. Mr. Leon, if
you do not agree with the bible, then ‘take your toys and
go home.’ There are many sects and denominations —
such as atheism and agnosticism — to allow for Mr.
Leon’s ‘‘questioning mind’’ to function unfettered, and
allow me free faith.

“The social controls exhibited by religion vary from
petty gossip to excommunication to death.”” Mr. Leon;
these are not the days of Luther; in America no one is
beheaded or made to wear a scarlet ‘A’ because they slip-
ped on one of the ten commandments. Maybe this hap-
pened in Jim Jones’ cults, but not in your neighborhood
chapel.

“Tf religions seek to make people expand their minds,
there would be no need for rigid church doctrines.’’ I sup-
pose that Mr. Leon would also agree that if our
democracy is for the good of the people, there was no

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need to draft the Bill of Rights; if sports are for recrea-
tion, there is no need to have officials. In refusing to even
acknowledge others’ possible beliefs, Mr. Leon is in ef-
fect rejecting the very society that allows him this
precious right — freedom of speech. Let him try that ina
Communist country. If Mr. Leon truly wants to reject
religion, the American government, mainstream culture,
or even the law, that’s fine: he should not need to coerce
others into joining his bigoted views.

Finally I must address what I view as a vicious insult to
one of the greatest professional organizations in this
country: Alcoholics Anonymous. The exact details are
my personal business, but there was a time in my life
when A.A. was the only sun that shone for me. Yes, we
participated in prayer: non-sectarian prayer. Not to
praise a generic religious ‘God,’ but to call upon whatever
cosmic or metaphysical spirit we could grasp that we felt
made us human, to regain our human health, to promote
unity in our struggle for sobriety. If anyone has been
turned off of A.A. because of Mr. Leon’s casual
remarks, they could be missing out on some of the most
efficient help available and continue to suffer. Mr. Leon,
I hope you sleep well. I only hope that someday you will
see that you are ‘‘limiting your life’’ with your ‘head-in-
the-sand’ attitude. Mr. Leon, I pray for you.

— Jo-Ann M. Pangburn

Foreign policy

To the Editor:

With the beginning of the new semester, SUNYA’s
large foreign student population had to face some drastic
changes regarding the University’s health insurance
policy. Instead of being able to buy SUNYA’s $98 a year
health insurance plan or pick an insurance of choice,
foreign students are forced to buy a new $130 a semester
($260 a year) health insurance plan proposed by the
University. The decision to implement this new policy was
made over the summer, such that the foreign student
community was neither consulted nor given time to com-
ment on the proposal.

Certainly, the majority of the foreign student com-
munity is outraged, particularly since the new insurance
plan appears to be a real rip-off. Many foreign students
have to hold health insurance policies on behalf of their
home countries, such that they are covered at home and
in the US. SUNYA’s new health insurance plan only
covers students while in the US, a definite disadvantage.
So who benefits from the new policy? It’s definitely not
the foreign students! It’s definitely not the University’s
image, nor the image of its administrators..As a pure ex-
ercise in being insensitive to the need of foreign students,
the price seems to be too high.

— Gerd Schwartz

Chancellor who?

To the Editor:

The search for a SUNY Chancellor to replace Clifton
R. Wharton, Jr. has begun. Unfortunately, the Search
Committee, appointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees at
last month’s meeting, completely excludes students as
well as faculty.

The screening and search process for a SUNYA
Chancellor is very critical for those who are affected the
most by the Chancellor’s decisions and actions.
Therefore, students and faculty, the largest constituencies
within the University, should be included in the search for
Wharton’s successor.

The search is still in its early stages. If we express our
dissatisfaction to the SUNY trustees, they can reverse
their decision at the November 19 trustee meeting in
Albany. You can call trustee Edgar A. Sandman at
518-438-2143 to relay your concerns and demand that
Everette Joseph, the student trustee and SASU President,
and a faculty representative be included on the Search
Committee.

If you want more information, you can call the Student
Association Office at 442-5640 or the SASU Cental Of-
fice at 518-465-2406.

— Flip Posner
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Mail insurance

To the Editor:

This letter is in reference to the negligence of the SUNY
mail system. My car insurance was cancelled three weeks
ago without my knowledge because my insurance bills
were being sent to my SUNY address from last year. They
weren’t getting forwarded to my present address due to
lack of help in the mail room.

I went to the mail room and found the insurance bill
plus a late notice from September sitting in an unforward-
ed pile of mail. The excuse that was given to me was that
the lady in charge of forwarding went on vacation and
nobody did any forwarding in her absence. Meanwhile, I
have been driving for three weeks without insurance.
Something must be done to improve this system.

— Andrew Fox

To your health

To the Editor:

Most students are aware that the company which car-
ties our student health insurance policies has changed this
year but many are not aware of some of the important
ways that this policy has changed. One important way is
that hospital room and board reimbursement has increas-
ed from one hundred dollars a day to two hundred dollars
a day. This amount now covers the cost of room and
board at local hospitals.

In addition, reimbursement for treatment and surgical
expenses has increased from one hundred -and fifty
dollars to a maximum of one thousand dollars. This is
particularly important with regard to childbirth expenses.
Under the old policy women were reimbursed a maximum
of one hundred and fifty dollars in total for all prenatal
care visits and delivery, which costs fifteen hundred
dollars locally. This had made it impossible for women to
go to term unless they paid the expenses out of their own
pockets or went on Medicaid.

In conjunction with the new policy, the University has
made an arrangement for SUNY students to be treated
under a special program at the Whitney Young Health
Clinic which will accept the student insurance to cover the
entire cost of prenatal care and delivery, In addition, in
spite of the dramatically improved coverage the premium
has remained the same.

The man responsible for all this is Dean Neil Brown
who worked very hard to arrange the new health in-
surance contract and the agreement with Whitney Young
during a time when he had very heavy professional and
family responsibilities. Dean Brown also personally
helped several pregnant undergraduates who wanted to
go to term to give birth while continuing their studies at
SUNY. All students who hold the Student Accident and
Sickness Insurance policy owe thanks to Dean Brown
who has given SUNY women a real choice and has im-
proved health care for all students.

— Sharon Long

In the name of...

To the Editor:

lam writing in reference to Mr. Leon’s letter in last Fri-
day’s October 31st issue. This I must rectify: Cults and
religions are not synonymous or even that ‘One is public-
ly accepted; the other is not.’’ Cults exploit a person’s
need for spirituality and worship. Only a few benefit —
leeches that take advantage of individuals who need a
system of worship. They offer little, compared to what
they gain. Somewhere people are making money off of
these bogus cults. Religions generally offer a person an
outlet for that need; a whole congregation jointly sharing
where the ‘‘higher-ups’”’ gain little as far as material
concerns.

Tt sounds to me that Mr. Leon has had a narrow range
of experiences with various faiths. Jeff, who when ap-
proached refers to himself as an atheist, dismisses all
“cults-religion.”’ Because of grave and disheartening past
experiences in a religion that he did not choose but rather
was placed into by his parents, he dismisses all denomina-
tions, strengthening his argument with ‘‘witch burning’’
and references to the Inquisition. Imagine that! Where
fanatics exaggerate all the good and are blind to all else,
you are just as twisted. Mr. Leon, you are not looking at
the whole picture, you are looking at the actions of a few
radical groups; grains of sand on the beach (of Christiani-
ty). Granted, these were injustices used “‘in the name
of. . .’ as an excuse but one cannot put aside a whole sect
because of an extremist time in history or some revolu-
tionary group. If there ever was such a thing as “‘Chris-
tian book burning’’ it was rash, but that doesn’t mean
that Christianity opposes open-mindedness! By having
doctrines, sermons and “thou shalt nots’’’ one is en-
couraged to expand ones mind in productive directions!

You state that one would be alienated from a Catholic
congregation if one questioned the validity of the Bible.
WRONG. They would offer answers in the hopes of in-
corporating you (back into the shared theology of the
congregation itslef). They are NOT out to get you!
Religions are not concentrating their efforts on gossip,
excommunication and death as social controls. The fact
that you even speak of death is laughable. This IS 1986,
isn’t it??

It is not true that Alcoholics Anonymous can not help
you if you do not believe in a supreme being. People have
weaknesses, that’s why there is an A.A. You have to draw
your strength to combat alcoholism, etc. from
(somewhere. You just need a “‘higher power” — the group
itslef can be the higher power from which you tap your
strength. Mr. Leon, what is YOUR “‘higher power’’?
A.A. is an institution to be commemorated, not defaced.

In conclusion, I hope that Jeff Leon opens his eyes and
examines his slight and irresolute thoughts about Chris-
tianity and other religions and bases his arguments on
points closer to the truth.

— Corinna Rose Angella-Marie Bull-Brown

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transferable to any university in
the country.””

“Since each course costs only
$70, the program is designed to
help a gifted high school student
economically,” said Carrino. “‘A
student can pick up 12 to 15
credits while still in high school.
This can definitely save the stu-
dent’s family a great deal of
money in the long run.”

And while most youngsters
were avoiding classrooms and
teachers this summer, 13 sixth-
graders from the Albany area
were involved in a special com-
puter seminar run by SUNYA.

The two-week program, an
Educational Opportunities Pro-
gram (EOP) pilot effort, was
financed by the Office of the Vice
President for Academic Affairs.

Although the 13 students came
from varied backgrounds, none
of the students had computer
training before entering the
program.

According to EOP Director
Carson Carr, ‘‘The students had
fun while learning.”

Students were taught ~ basic
computer skills by an EOP com-
puter coordinator and two
University undergraduate
students. In addition to develop-
ing important skills for use in
future careers, these students
were developing at an early age a
strong interest in going to college,
Carr said.

“The program was highly suc-
cessful,’ he said. “The 13
students came away with a better
sense of themselves,’’ said Carr.
“Next summer, if we can receive
funding, the program may ex-
pand and there might even be
more advanced classes.”” QO

Grouper law

the area,’’ he said. ‘‘Couples are
moving out because they can’t
compete with a group of singles.
Houses are difficult to buy
because they’re a mecca as invest-
ment property, and as older peo-
ple move out their housees are
bought up by investors,’ Scholl
said.

This investment property is no
longer owner-occupied. ‘‘There’s
no longer that balance of [age]
groups that first attracted us to
the city,’ he added.

“Vm glad I went [to the forum]
because there were some vague
points that had to be cleaned
up,’’ SUNYA student Lawrence
Schindelheim said.

“A lot of people were asking
me questions about specific infor-
mation and I didn’t know the
answers,’’ said Zirkel, who plann-
ed the forum.

Zirkel, who approached
Mishler with the idea of the
fourm, originally intended to
have a city representative present
at the forum.

“Mark pointed out that that
would have been counterproduc-
tive because there would have
been conflicting sides of the issue.
The purpose of the forum was
just to relay information,’’ Zirkel
said.

Disappointed with the turnout,
Zirkel said he hung up posters an-
nouncing the event, but having
worked with a limited budget,
relied on word-of-mouth to pass
along information.

“Tt would have been more ex-
citing and probably would have
generated more interest”’ had so-

meone from the city been present,
Zirkel said. oOo

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1986 (1) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 13

State budget cuts force colleges
to raise tuition rates at midyear

COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE — Colleges as diverse as
Auburn, Utah, Alabama and even New Mexico
Junior College have announced in recent weeks
they’ll be raising their tuition rates in the middle of
the school year.

In each of the cases, the colleges said imposing
mid-year tuition hikes was the only way they could
cope with mid-year budget cuts imposed on them by
their state governments.

The schools fear by waiting until next fall to in-
crease tuition, some programs and courses could be
severely cut or damaged.

“The problem was a declining revenue from
[state] oil and gas taxation,” said Ray Birmingham,
New Mexico Junior College’s (NMJC) spokesman.
“Jt caused a drop in annual revenue of a half a
million dollars.”

With less money to spend, the state legislature
told all state agencies — including colleges — that it
would have less money to give to them to spend
than it originally thought. Such mid-year ‘‘short-
falls’? have also sent campus presidents in many
depressed farm and energy states on elaborate tours
to try to forestall cuts in state collge funding.

It would not have helped in New Mexico, Birm-
ingham said. ‘Raising tuition is a move to maintain
the services we have now.”

In January, tuition will go up $5 per credit hour,
bringing fees for residents of Lea County to $15 per
credit hour. Students from outside the county will
pay $30 per credit hour and out-of-state students
will pay $35.

The increase hardly puts NMJC on a par with
Harvard or Stanford, Birmingham said, but ‘‘in-
creasing tuition in the middle of the year makes us
Jess and less of an ‘open door’ institution. Raising
tuition makes us less affordable to lower-income
students.””

“But cutting back on programs is a last resort
because people in the community are very hesitant
to see us do that,” he said.

For the same reasons, three weeks ago University
of Alabama trustees agreed to boost spring semester
tuition by an average 11.5 percent at the Tuscaloosa
branch. It will cost students at the Huntsville and
Birmingham branches — operating on a quarter

system — an additional 7.7 percent and 12.7 per-
cent, respectively, to enroll in their next terms.

“At the end of the year,” said UA finance chief
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So, we decided to increase tuition mid-year to make
up for the funding loss.’*

For students in Alabama public schools, mid-
year increases are old hat.

In the late seventies and early eighties, state
schools suffered four years of prorationing to help
defuse a money crunch. Mid-year tuition increases
were common, Dowdle said.

As other states and their colleges tried to cope
with inflation during the period — and especially
with the first wave of federal college cuts that hit
during the 1983-84 school year — they, too, started
doing what up until then had been unthinkable:
raising their rates between semesters instead of bet-
ween academic years.

But the mid-year hikes were always controversial.
In some cases, students protested the increases. In
others, state legislatures stopped the practices.

In 1984, for instance, 16 University of South
Carolina medical students sued the university for
imposing mid-year surcharges. The court made
USC return each student’s $215 fee, starting a spate
of suits against colleges for imposing mid-year
hikes.

In California, state legislators banned midyear
tuition increases in the UC system after two years of
fee boosts. Lawmakers said it was ‘“‘more honest’’
for the university of absorb midyear budget cuts
than to pass them along to students.

But this year, while students aren’t applauding
the increases, most understand the reasons behind
the hikes.

Reaction to a 10 percent surcharge on the Univer-
sity of Utah’s tuition — to be divided between
winter and spring quarters — is mixed, said Gail
Norris, Utah’s associate commissioner for finance.

“The increase is significant to students, of
course, but it comes to about $37 per student per
quarter, so it’s really not a large amount of
money.”’

“And most students seem to understand,” he
said.

“Most students realize the budget situation and
that there’s not much we can do,”’ said Gwen Hit-
chcock, an Auburn student who’ll pay five percent
more tuition to enroll for spring term. Out-of-stat2
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Legal services
45

A meeting was recently scheduled bet-
ween Duarte and four SUNYA ad-
ministrators, including Vice President of
Student Affairs Frank Pogue, to discuss
specifics of the committee.

“The committe will make its own
tules,”’ said O’Leary, including whether it
will have a rotating or elected chair, and if
the meeting will be open or closed.

The meeting was previously postponed
because O’Leary had wanted a SUNY
Central attorney present after Duarte in-
formed Pogue that he was bringing Mark
Mishler with him.

Mishler said Duarte wanted him there
because it ‘‘could potentially have been a
meeting where legal matters would be
discussed”’ and the balance of “four ad-
ministrators to one student did not seem
fair.””

When Duarte told Pogue of Mishler’s
expected appearance, the meeting was
postponed so that a SUNY Central at-
torney could also be present. According to

Res. Life
“17

minority community and Residential Life
occured recently between a smoking
minority student and her non-smoking
roommate, also on Alumni Quad.

The student, Debbie Hamilton, criticiz-
ed Residential Life’s handling of disputes
between herself and her roommate.
Residential Life later apologized in writing
to Hamilton.

“If the tables were reversed, they’d be
jumping down our throats;” she said, ad-
ding that she feels Residential Life ‘‘needs
new administrators — they need a whole
new staff.’”

Despite these incidents, Turener said his
major concern is minority retention.

The percentage of minority students that
graduate is much smaller than that of non-
minority students, he said.

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nothing.” O’Leary misunderstood “the
meaning of my presence,’’ he said.

Voluntary activity fees are not a viable
alternative to funding Legal Services ac-
cording to a 1983 letter from SA Attorney
Lewis Oliver to then SA Presdient Mike
Corso. Oliver had said that it is not recom-
mended ‘‘because voluntary dues collec-
tion is always a difficult task and provides
an unstable financial basis for an organiza-
tion with serious responsibilities such as
SA.”

Mishler said that “grants from founda-
tions could be one source of money, but
we [SA] feel that it is proper and ap-
Propriate to use mandatory”’ activity fees
for individual representation by Student
Legal Service.

The issue of mandatory student activity
fees as funding for representation of in-
dividual students in court is not a recent
one, said O’Leary.

SUNYA is the only SUNY school that
still offers single representation of legal
services. 0

minority student to say ‘I’m leaving — I
don’t have to put up with this.’ ”*

Turner added that ‘‘what’s frightening
is that this university says it’s very con-
cerned about retention of minority
students.”

Martone said that low minority reten-
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in. . .they feel they’re not treated equally
or fairly’”’ and said Residential Life works
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“I don’t think it’s realistic for students
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Kendall’s explanation for such problems
with prejudice is that ‘‘people tend to be
insensitive towards other cultures,’’ and
that it has happened to students from
other cultures. ‘‘It’s not only associated
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fees will go toward paying SA’s
past due bills. ‘‘It also means that
SA will be at a point where it can-
not replace any of its equip-
ment,”’ said Duarte, adding that
“nor can we continue to expand
and develop Dippikill.”’

Much of last year’s deficit was
caused by the $44,811 which paid
for unplanned postseason athletic
expenditures, which were never
budgeted until this year.

“T think the athletic depart-
ment will be in better shape this
year,” said Seminara.

One SA-funded group which
contributed to last year’s deficit
was University Concert Board,
which lost $37,000 on Mayfest.

Other groups included Ski
Club, Dance Council, SA Pro-
gramming Board, University
Cinemas, Albany State University

Alumni Quad Board,
WCDB-91FM, and Speaker’s
Forum, according to Seminara.

If the Athletic Department
spends the remaining $25,000
budgeted for post-season play
and Maufest loses $40,000 or
more, ‘‘SA will be bankrupt,”
said Duarte.

Seminara said former SA Con-
troller Eric Schwartzman was not
to blame for the deficit. “The
groups just didn’t make enough
money.””

Fearing a deficit, Schwartzman
cut student budgets five percent
accross the board last year.

“Groups still spent their
budgets, but didn’t know how to
make money — so we still lost,”
said Seminara.

Essential to avoiding the deficit
is the ability of SA-funded groups
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hands because I cannot'drag peo-
ple to events,’’ said Seminara.

Groups have been receiving let-
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future action if income lines are
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Res. Life

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Great Danes lose to Buffalo

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goal on the next play, and tied the game on
Tony Chedile’s 26-yard kick.

What was noticeably absent from the
Bull’s offensive attack throughout the first
half of Saturday’s game was their passing
attack, an attack that had been so suc-
cessful in previous games. The Bulls gain-
ed only 28 yards through the air in the first
half, the same amount as the Danes. But
the Danes’ total offense in yards was 134
to Buffalo’s 91. So despite the rain, despite
Buffalo’s gaudy 7-2 record, despite the
presence of Div I transfer Underwood, the
‘Danes were holding their own.

In the games’ third quarter, Albany did
more than that, when they scored the
games’ first touchdown at 9:08. The Danes
got possession of the ball on downs on
their own 45, and made it to the Bull’s 20
when Ryder completed a 35 yard pass to
split end Glen Cardin. Halfback Caesar
Revano carried the ball up the middle for a
yard on the next play, and Pedro followed
it up by making a 13 yard run of his own
off the Bull’s left tackle. A Buffalo off-
sides penalty gave the Danes three addi-
tional yards, bringing Albany to within
three. Ryder swept right to pick up a yard
on the next play, and completed a two-
yard pass to Revano to score the games’
first touchdown. Tony Chechile added the
extra point, and for the first time in the
game the Danes lead, 10-3.

The lead lasted throughout the rest of
the third quarter and much of the fourth,
greatly due to to the clutch defensive play
of Dane halfback Gerry Brown. Brown
had two interceptions during this time
period, one of which occured during a
Buffalo possession on the Dane five-yard
line.

“Gerry Brown,’’ said Ford, ‘should
have, could have, would have been the
hero of the game.”

But the game wasn’t over yet.

With 6:09 left to play, Buffalo gained
possession on their own 26, and Crosta,
who. had been relatively cold throughout

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the games’ first half, completing only three
of eight passes for 27 yards, came alive.

Crosta made passes of 15, 24, and eleven
yards, and ran for 19 yards himself to br-
ing Buffalo within six yards of scoring. He
then handed off to Underwood who ran
for a six yard touchdown.

And then came the decision.

“There was never a doubt about what
we would do, ”’ said Dando. “‘It was just a
matter of what play we would run.

“In the second half,’ Dando continued,
‘We knew we had to throw the ball. We
couldn’t run with it, we had to try to put it
in the air. They forced us into doing

Albany State wrestling

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That speaks for itself,’’ said coach
DeMeo.

“Chris is a great athlete, a great
wrestler, and a great guy,... I give him
all the respect in the world,”’ said team-
mate and fellow heavyweight Ivan Katz.

Katz and Tironi met again this Sunday
in the finals of the heavyweight division at
the Dane Classic. And again Tironi took
the victory, as he did last year by a 1-0
mark, and was named tournament’s
outstanding wrestler in the upper weight
classes. It is evident how Albany can
dominate the heavyweight class.

Also returning to the team after last
year’s absence is senior Jerry Clark in the
158 Ib. weight class, who DeMeo refers to
as ‘‘an absolutely super wrestler.””

Clark, made it to the finals Sunday to
face a loss to Paul Schwern, of UNH, who
pinned him late in the match.

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season’s layoff is the 142 Ib. Rafael
Santiago.

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Ramaswamy at 118, and Chris Ramsdin at
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something they didn’t want us to do.””

“We just didn’t move the ball when we
absolutely had to,” said Ford. ‘‘We gave
up a couple of drives that we shouldn’t
have. We didn’t do two things that we
knew we had to; we had to move the ball,
and we had to stop them. And we didn’t
do that completely.”

In the offensive categories, the Danes
were lead in rushing by Pedro, who gained
69 yards on seven carries, Ryder, who had
25 net yards on 27 attempts, and Mitchell,
whose 24 net yards move him past Mit-
chell, whose 24 yards move him past Sam
Haliston for eighth place on the Dane all-

figure out who will be where, but I’d say
we have a good chance of bettering our
seventh place finish in the NCAA’s last
year,” added DeMeo.

Tt was the senior, two-time NCAA
qualifier, SUNYAC runner-up in 1985-86,
last year’s team captain and outstanding
team leader John Balog’s second cham-
pionship in the battle of the 142 pounders
over unattached Marc Gumble. He won
the title last year also.

Back for only weeks so far since he
returned from a coaching job with the
Olympic Solidarity Program in South
America where he coached players and
other coaches of such underdeveloped na-
tions as Columbia, Ecuador and
Venezuela, was two-time NCAA qualifier,
SUNYAC runner-up in 1986, and outstan-
ding team leader at 177 Ibs., Marty Pidel.

John Carssie of Springfield won by
default over Matt Ryan of Albany in the
190 Ib. final match.

For the Danes to do well against tough
teams such as Ithaca, Binghamton and
Oswego, was well as secure victory in tour-
naments such as the one coming up on
Nov. 22 at Boston College, where they will
face Division I BC, Brown and Maine.
They must gel as a team and form strength
in each weight class.

‘We're always good and we’ll finish in

time rushing list. Additionally, Pat Ryder
completed six passes in 15 attempts for a
gain of 79 yards.

Defensively, the Danes were lead by
sophomore cornerback Joe Pirecca, who
had 13 tackles on the day. Senior
linebacker Frank Sarcone added 11, and
was followed by sophomore cornerback
Darryl Singleton, with nine.

“We did a hell of a job in the first half,”
said Ford. ‘‘We knew, coming into the
game, that we’d have to play well and play
over our heads, and we did those two
things. It was one hell of a tough game,
but I have no regrets.”” oO

the top ten in the country again this year.
It’s amazing how some years we look bet-
ter than others, but we always do well.
With two national champs and three guys
who have a chance at All-American, I feel
our team is strong, ”’said Feltman. o

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Miller, despite losing his shoe, managed
to run a respectable race. He crossed the
line in 39th at 28:20.

Finishing four places behind Miller was
Schoenig, who was timed at 28:30. This
made Albany’s time spread between their
first and fifth runners 52 seconds, the best
the team has had in recent weeks.

Freshman Mark Allman also had a de-
cent race despite a fall two miles into the
race. He placed 45th as he registered a time
of 28:41.

The next race for the Danes is the
Eastern Regionals Saturday at Fredonia
College. Three teams from the region
qualify for the Nationals. Albany figures
to be in the running for the final bid as
RIT and St. Lawrence will be the co-
favorites.

As Coach Vives said, “‘If we get a sure
effort down the line and put everything
together, I think we will make nationals.”

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Albany State men harriers finish fifth at ECACs

Senior Crai

Parlato shook off the ill effects of a cold to finish
eeac sect jay to help the Danes to their fifth -place finish in the

By Steven Silberglied
STAFF WRITER

Rochester Institute of
Technology won the ECAC
men’s cross country meet this
weekend with an incredible score
of 16 points. In cross country,
scoring 15 points is the best score
a team can attain.

RIT was third in the Division
Ill Nationals a year ago, and
figures to be amongst the elite
once again.

Albany, for the most part runn-
ing their ‘‘B’’ team (and an in-
jured one at that), finished fifth
in the 20 team competition with
161 points. Finishing ahead of the
Danes was St. Joseph’s(75), East
Coast Guard(133) and Amherst
College (159).

John Wager of RIT was the in-
dividual winner as he ran the
8000-meter course at Sunken
Meadow, L.I., in 26:04. The
times, in general, were slow as
rain made the course slippery.
Additionally, the men’s race was
held right after the women’s race,
which made traction worse.
Wagner was followed by his
teammates Dale Foster, Mike
Nier and Tim Healy as they
secured the second through
fourth place positions. They all

ran times under 26:30.

Albany freshman Scott
McNamara kept pace in the first
part of the race with the RIT run-
ners and was second at the mile
mark. No splits were given
throughout the race, but it was
estimated that his first mile was
under five minutes.

Albany Head Coach Robert
Vives said of McNamara, ‘‘He
went out hard and looked very ag-
gressive. He wanted to take ad-
vantage of the fact that the first
part of the course was flat.’’

McNamara acknowledged his
‘coaches assessment as he stated,
“‘when we looked over the course
the day before, I figured that it
would be a good course for me to
go out hard. It was my last race of
the season and I wanted to give it
all I had.”

McNamara was not the only
Dane who was in a good position.
Senior Craig Parlato was eighth.
At this point, he was running well
despite having had a cold all
week.

Junior Tom Schoenig, who had
also been sick, was running strong
in the top 15. Juniors Paul Dietz
and Scott Miller also were in the
top 20. At this point, the Danes
appeared to be in good position

to take second.

However, at the halfway point
the Danes fell back. Parlato and
Schoenig tried to hang on, but
weren’t able to stay in contention
as the damp weather magnified
their illnesses.

At the three mile mark, Miller
lost a shoe and was forced to run
the last two miles without it. Ob-
viously, it was not Albany’s day.

Four miles into the race, the
Danes hit the toughest part of the
course, the infamous ‘‘Cardiac
Hill.”’ They fell back again as six
runners passed McNamara.

Still, McNamara was able to
finish strong and was the Dane’s
top finisher, coming in at 2ist,
timed at 27:38. This was his best
race of the season and for that he
was named “runner of the meet.’”

McNamara later said ‘‘I felt in
control for the whole race. Even
when I was being passed on the
hill I didn’t feel like 1 was slowing
down.”

Dietz was the next Dane to
finish. He placed 26th with a time
of 27:54.

Parlato finished next for
Albany. He was eight seconds
behind Dietz. which placed him
32nd.

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Williams, Braslow pace Dane women to take sixth

By Brian Voronkov
STAFF WRITER

Corning off an outstanding showing in
Saturday’s ECAC Championships, the
Albany State women’s cross country team
is anxiously looking to this weekend’s
NCAA regional to be held in Fredonia.

On Saturday, the Danes placed sixth out
of 25 teams. Ithaca College won the meet
as five of their runners finished in the top
10. Bates College, from Maine, placed se-
cond with a score of 78. Colby College,
also from Maine, finished third with a
score of 86.

SUNY Cortland accumulated a score of
113 which placed them fourth and SUNY

ACIA making best out of personnel

By Paul A. Lander
STAFF WRITER

“We want respect!””

This is the cry of the Albany Co-
Educational Intramural Athletics. Recent-
ly, ACIA has recieved a number of com-
plaints about the way intramural sports are
being handled.

“People just don’t understand what we
do,’’ said Lenny Marcus, president of
ACIA. ‘‘We want the school to know how
things are being run. The people that are
complaining don’t know this.”

The function of ACIA is to provide fun
for the students. ‘‘These are coordinated
activities for as many interests as possi-
ble,’’ said Bob Masloski, ACIA council
member, He added that intramurals are an
extracurricular activity; a release for
students to get away from school work.

The thing that is really ticking off ACIA
is the lack of cooperation it has recieved.
Marcus said the students don’t realize that
there are only about 20 people running all
the activities. The catch to this is these
people are not paid for this work.

“People want it (intramurals), but they
don’t want to help run it. We need the sup-
port of the students, not the bickering,”
Marcus said.

Over seven thousand people will par-
ticipate in intramurals this year. Coupled
with the complaints it receives, the ACIA.
has its hands full both on and off the field.

“If we didn’t run it (ACIA), who
would? No one would be able ta run this.

Geneseo, this year’s. SUNYAC champions
finished fifth with a score of 147.

The Danes were paced by two top 20
finishers. Sophomore Patti Williams led
the Danes with a time of 19:59, which plac-
ed her 18th overall. Junior Rachel Braslow
was awarded the ‘‘breakthrough runner of
the meet’ because of her excellent 20th-
place finish in a time of 20:04.

“Rachel is beginning to peak,’’ said
Albany Head Coach Ron White. ‘‘Patti
made a fine showing, but because of
Rachel we finished as well as we did.”’

Freshman Kerry Charron and
sophomore Barbara Ascher had an
outstanding performance as well. Charron

This is why we’re asking for respect all the
way around: from the top guns (ad-
ministration) to the student body,’’ Mar-
cus said.

The ACIA has not always been a co-ed
organization. Last year there were men
and women intramural groups: AMIA
(men) and WIRA (women). The men’s in-
tramurals continued to grow in popularity,
while the women’s athletics was headed for
disaster.

“The women’s program just fell apart.
There was no participation. So, rather
than do away with it, we picked it up and
combined it with the men’s program,”
Masloski said.

The result has yet really to be seen. ‘‘So
far most of the women are playing on co-
ed teams, not their own teams. That has a
lot to do with the season. Right now it’s
softball season. Not many women have
shown interest, ’’ Masloski said, adding
that ‘‘once seasons like basketball and
‘water polo arrive there should be greater
Participation.’’

Economics does play a factor for ACIA.
However, they are not there to make
money. ‘‘The school (Student Association)
Says to make money. If we didn’t have to,
we wouldn’t,”” Marcus said.

This year ACIA needs to meet an
$11,000 income line. The money for team
registration is necessary in order to play
the sports.

“This year softball registration was $30.
If you have 12 to 15 players that’s $2 per

had a time of 21:20 which placed her 43rd
overall and Ascher finished just behind her
with a time of 21:28 placing her 45th.
Senior Laurel Sutcliff came in fifth for
Albany with a time of 21:45, placing her
56th. The two displacers for the Danes
were .sophomore..Marylou Webster and
sophomore Kathy Belantoni. Webster had
a time of 22:13 placing her 64th and Belan-
toni finished 74th with her time of 22:29.

Coach White feels the team had an ex-
cellent day, although the times overall
were slower than usual. The five kilometer
course was held at Sunken Meadow State
Park on Long Island where it rained most

person. Where else could you play ball for
$2,” Marcus said.

“Included in that $2 is equipment,
referees, SA’s who know the rules,
scheduled games and field use. That’s not
too bad,” Masloski said.

So far this season, ACIA has been doing
a good job. Marcus attributes this to a bet-
ter ACIA council and better organization.

“We have had some dedication from
people who weren’t involved last year. As
aresult, we’ve been more organized. Early
on I told them how ACIA was to be run,
and that’s the way it’s been,”’ he said.

“Last year people were stealing equip-

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Dwyer. ‘‘That’s kind of nice, I think. You
never know though.”

Albany plays the winner of the Eastern
Connecticut-Elizabethtown match. The
Danes have already beaten Elizabethtown
this seasonas well as having beaten a
number of teams that beat Eastern
Connecticut.

Juniata has also received a bye past the
first match and will face the winner of the
Grove City-Cortland matchup in the se-
cond round. The two winners of the se-
cond round play each other to determine
who will advance to the final four the
following weekend.

A trip to the final four seems very at-
tainable for Albany this year as they are
the favored team at the regional.

of the day resulting in a wet and slippery
course.

Next Saturday, the Danes go to what
looks like their last race as a team as they
travel to Fredonia to compete in the
NCAA Division III regional. This race
determines who will go to the champion-
ships on the following Saturday. Only the
top two teams will go to the finals. Other
than the top two teams, the next three in-
dividual runners go to the finals as well.

In 1984, the Danes earned one spot. The
course is very demanding and anything can
happen. Coach White feels his best hopes
for a placement are Williams and Braslow.

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shortage

ment and not giving us any cooperation.
We threatened to cancel intramurals, then
things improved. This year we are getting
dedication, but not enough, ”? Masloski
said.

ACIA’s goal is to provide people with a
chance to play the sports they enjoy. ‘This
is their major leagues. We provide this and
bring fun to the school,’’ Marcus said.

“If the people playing intramurals don’t
like the way things are run, don’t play. If
they have a problem or want to complain,
come to our council meetings. Don’t just
Write letters,”” he said. a

said Dwyer. The Danes have been ranked
as high as fourth, but fell to seventh in the
final poll last week.

“We're going in with the attitude that
each match we play is no more important
than any other match we’ve played,” said
Dwyer.

“We know we’re pretty good,” said a
modest Dwyer, ‘and that may be an
understatement. We’re not trying to get
overly anything about how we’ve been
doing.’”

“They’re happy,”’ said Dwyer, summ-
ing up his team’s reaction to the news of
the NCAA bid. ‘A lot of them have been
here for four years and we’ve never made
it all the way. Hopefully we’ll keep playing
well.”” o

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NOVEMBER 11, 1986

Aibany spikers clinch first state championship

By Kristine Sauer
‘SPORTS EDITOR

Over the years, only two
achievements have eluded the
Albany State women’s volleyball
team despite having an extremely
successful program. This year’s
team has changed that.

At Cortland this past weekend,
the Danes captured the state title
for the first time in Albany State
history at the NYSWCAA
championships.

This leaves only a national title
yet to be attained by Albany.
Although they failed to gain the

automatic bid via winning the
SUNYAC championship, the
team’s 43-2 record as well as their
consistent rankings in the top ten
of the national poll, earned them
a well deserved NCAA bid. On
Thursday the Danes travel to
Juniate College in Pennsylvania
for the NCAA regionals, step one
in their quest for the national
championship.

At the NYSWCAAs on Friday
night Albany, seeded first, hand-
ed Binghamton 15-6, 15-8 losses.
St. Lawrence fell next, 15-0, 15-12
to the Danes while Brockport was

defeated 15-12, 15-3.

On Saturday the Danes faced
Nazareth, the tournament’s fifth
seed, in the quarter finals as they
overcame them 15-4, 15-11. In the
semifinals Albany took third
seeded Ithaca 15-11 in the first
game, dropped the second 9-15,
and clinched the deciding game
15-5 to advance to the finals.

The tournament’s second seed
and host team Cortland was pit-
ted against Albany in the finals.
One of the Danes’ two losses this
season came last week at the
SUNYAGs to arch rival Cortland.

This time the Danes prevailed
15-13, 15-5 to capture the
championship.

“We played very well,’ said
Albany head coach Pat Dwyer.
‘*We had fun this weekend.”

Two of Albany’s players were
selected to the NYSWCAA All-
Star team, Patty Munhall, who
was on it two years ago, and Amy
Rosenberg.

“1 was upset that two more of
our best players didn’t make it as
well,”? said Dwyer, “‘but the im-
portant thing is that the team won
and we played well.’”

At the regional this coming
weekend Albany will be joined by
Juniate, Eastern - Connecticut,
Elizabethtown, Cortland and
Grove City.

The Danes go in with the added
advantage of receiving a bye past
the first match. This means
Albany can’t finish lower than
ninth in the nation. The best the
Danes have ever done in NCAA
competition is in simply gaining
the bid.

“This time we don’t even have
to play it [the first match],’’ said

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Albany wrestlers tie
Boston for first place
in Great Dane tourney

By Al Baker

Beyond the mat, stands the man with shaggy brown
hair, glasses and a stocky frame pushed inside a tee-shirt.
An all-knowing smile crosses his face. On the niat, the
writhing figures in their purple and gold uniforms score
decisive victory after victory.

It has been this way for years.

Shouting orders to the team he has nurtured and taken
care of for seven seasons as head coach in addition to the
two as assistant, Albany State wrestling coach Joe DeMeo
knows the overwhelming abilities his wrestlers possess
may lead them to a more remarkable season than last
year’s 17-2 finish.

With proven veterans of championship mold and pro-
mising newcomers eager to continue the Dane tradition,
together with DeMeo, a former Olympic Assistant, Pan-
American, ATWA (olympic training team) and junior
World team coach, coach of World Championship teams
and former head coach of Stanford University’s wrestling
program. He twice led that team into the top 20 of NCAA
Division I ranks.

The Dane grapplers are a breed apart.

“‘He’s the best there is, and when you have a son
wrestling, you can breathe easier when you know Joe is
coaching,” the mother of senior Jerry Clark commented.

The wrestlers got a chance to test the waters of the
86-87 season at the annual Great Dane Tournament this
past Sunday in the University Gym where they tied with
Boston University for first place as each team scored 77
points.

**We gave them the trophy, though, because they were
visiting,”’ said DeMeo.

With 16 teams competing, Albany and BU led all
others in number, entering 16 and 26, the highest number
of wrestlers, respectively. Springfield, entering 25
wrestlers, finished second with 74 points, while Division I
University of New Hampshire took third place with 73
points. Oneonta, Morrisville, Brown and Western New
England rounded out the top finishers with 63, 37, 29 and
29 respectively.

All-American senior from East Greenbush, Shawn

- Sheldon is back for the Danes in the 118 lb. weight class.
But once again, the Great Dane tourney evaded Sheldon
as he took third place for the second consecutive year,
losing to Chris Perry of Springfield by a 6-4 mark.
Sheldon came back later in the day to defeat Perry
handedly.

“I haven’t been wrestling cleanly, and wasn’t ready for
the match,” said Sheldon, who added, ‘“‘last year the
same thing happened, it won’t affect my season though,
I'll be working and ready.””

“If the Olympics were tomorrow, Shelby would be the
man for the U.S.,”’ said DeMeo.

The Danes are powerful at both ends of the spectrum,
both the smallest and the largest men are devastating in
their own respect. Senior and Division III champion in
the heavyweight division last year from Mechanicville,
Chris Tironi is a force for the Danes.

“Shawn and Chris, both NCAA champs last season,
are two of the five wrestlers and two of the seven athletes,
the other two being track stars, in the history of Albany
State University to every win national championships.

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Freshman quarterback Pat Ryder looks to pass against Buffalo Saturday.

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HOWIE TYGAR UPS

Bulls’ conversion edges Danes, 11-10

By Cathy Errig
STAFF WRITER

It all came down to a gamble.

With 3:44 remaining in the game, the University of
Buffalo Bulls had just scored their first touchdown of
the day, bringing the score to: Albany State 10, U. of
Buffalo 9. And now, Buffalo head coach Bill Dando
had to make a choice.

An almost guaranteed one-point kick would tie the
game. But a less-assured two-point conversion would
win it.

Buffalo had been in this situation before. In an earlier
season game against Ithaca College, the Bulls had
gambled with the conversion, and lost. An Albany vic-
tory would bring the Bulls’ total losses to three, and end
the 19th ranked team’s chances of receiving an NCAA
bid. There was a lot riding on Dando’s decision.

Win it, or tie it? Gamble, or play it safe?

After a time-out, the Bulls returned to the field ready
to go for broke. And with just over three and one-half
minutes left in the game, Buffalo quarterback Ken
‘Crosta completed a pass to flanker Dan Withers for the
extra two points, and Buffalo had won the game by an
11-10 score.

According to Dando, there was never a doubt in his
mind as to what his team should do.

“There was no choice, * said Dando. ‘Had there
been more than five minutes left in the game we would
have gone for the kick. But it was a matter of all or

nothing. We weren't going for the tie.””

“It was a tough ball game, ’’ said Albany head coach
Bob Ford, whose team’s record now drops to 4-5. ae
thought we played well enough to win. The two teams
were evenly matched, they put on a great drive at the
end.’”

Neither team did much driving at the beginning of the
game; the only points scored in the first half were the
result of field goals by both teams.

Buffalo’s came in the first quarter, 4:94 into the
game. Buffalo outside linebacker Scott Mekenzie gained
possession of the ball when Dane halfback Ro Mitchell
fumbled on the Albany 21, and ran for five yards to the
Dane 26. Bull tailback O.D. Underwood followed with
gains of, three and four yards, bringing the Bulls to
within 19, but Buffalo was penalized 15 yards for clipp-
ing. Underwood followed with games of four and two
yards, bringing the Bulls to the Dane 28, the point at
which Buffalo kicker John D’Auria kicked a 45-yard
field goal.

The Danes scored their field goal in the second
quarter, with 2:54 remaining in the half. Albany gained
possession on the Bulls’ 30, and gained two yards on
their first possession. The Danes got a first down on the
next play, when freshman quarterback Pat Ryder hand-
ed off to fullback Pete Pedro, who rushed for 12 yards.
The Danes made gains of four and five yards on subse-
quent plays, then lost three yards on a Ryder keep when
within one yard of another first down, and with seven
yards of a touchdown. Albany opted to attempt a field

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