Albany Student Press, Volume 64, Number 25, 1977 May 19

Netters Win Two More; Record Now At 13-3

‘By Eddie Emerman John Breslin and Mike Meehan, teamed to beat Vermont's top duo 6- 7
[Many teams. might falter‘alter respectively, by identical scores of & 3, 6-3 While Ackerman and Denny
playing four matches in ive dave, 0. 6. eiged Vermonts number two team
tit not the Albany State variyten- Albany finally gota badly needed’ 646-3. The Dans’ onlylos went to
tis team, “Who defeated Sina dy lf belorethey acedthe Univer- erg and Reich #3.
College $1 and the University of sty of Vermont; rated atoughtcam _Thetwo wins improved the team’s
Vermont #1 last week. by Albany's head coach “Rober. overall record to 133, but perhaps
Last Thursday, the Danes faced — Lewis Sigilcant i their 63 record during
the Indias of Siena College in a Iiturted out that Vermont wasnt the sping
tmaich that was eal postponed at tough as expected, bul only “Before the season, Ieall looked
Tecawse of rain, I wan the third bests their threstop playersdidnt forward tothe wpring” sald Aoker=
tight match for Albany in as make the rip to Albany man, Albany’ number five ma“
many day. Maying under windy conditions think we ld realy well and much of
“Two days cater, Albany defeated AMbany swept through allsisinges ih to do with our trip to Hl
Union College 722 then followed matches andtwo othe thes doubles
with 1 9-0 blanking of Hartwick matches.
College the nest day eldman topped Scot Turbau & min “Inthe xpring. the players ae
‘Only singles matches were played 4, 60, Denny whipped rice mich fetter and more compet
ausina Sicna, And that was good Rochawity I, 62, Sandler beat und this helps our players hecome
nough for Albany. Everyone but Mark Compugnon 6-2, 64 Acker- more compete
Mich Sandler was vriousforthe man beat Andy Deery6-4,¢-landin Individually llthe Daneshuder- : as
Danes the we closes matches of the day, cclent seasons. Feldman, Albany i comer “ ae
Paul Feldman beat Jon Arcero6- Reich beat Frank Babbott 63, 6-7, top player the past wo years, won 14 : id oe { eee
2, 7-6, Dave Denny won 63, 5-7,6-0. 62and Fertigedged Pete Logan 6-4, und lost or y once this yeur, In his Te «! ~ ii
‘ver ‘Tom Crawiord, Matt Reich 6,60, For Fertig. the win ashi to year Be 24-2 and has never
teat Chriss Arnold 7-6 62, Phil ninth ofthe yeuragsistfouriosses. lost 10a Divion II opponent, He
Ackorman and Mike Ferg beat" Indochles, Feldman und Sandler ko won the SUNYAC tie for the

ei

Ry,

Albany eaptain Dave Denny iting this backhand agsinat Bruce
awit of Vermont, Saturday.
“A Piece of Pie sap rapes Rockawitz of Vermont, Saturday, Denny won as di the Danes.
LET | fe brntscnon rst sramutie seeker, M4 at ay ate Deas sx
endat his eplege care, The Danes’ Hingham. Ienderiip uae
. Captain hos wen enthinyearapainst Denny was selected to prtiipate Sander the nbmber thos payer
The Last Piece Of The Pie) is ven aa wns iy ye 8CAX Drain 1 Chane hasan’, Sandan
the aly part the fall exon wth pomships tbe het in Milbaps, lt tal topo :
fnankleinjurybuteame backatrongMapstpyi ding the wesk of May SUNYAC tile mt the mubor Iwo
by Mike Pekar the ret of he ye. tah Singis. He abo texmed with eld
“Anz ihe ends upon ua At ast ts upon, Fthe one wig laving. "had a prety ood sexson, The Donny isthe only member not ih ta win the SUNYAC doubles
Vat nee tg find yourelt-& new sports eior nex year (assuming i highpoint ofthe coronhidto be my returning next year, andhisabsenee crown,
sraduate) © i be tae Danes ise il bea big
T hope Youenjoyedthissportsyearas muchas hue, Besides the deadlines : tee sid Ackerman, “He give the
andineiceoute aed the peuplecomplaningbecaweldidn cove teirdats. Denny. Denny beat Rossum in a team winning spirit." Couch Lewis
tournaments or delywinkschamplonships, ee were some reward, Yea

TET ataae iinnminninmonns tickmen Win; End Losing Skid

the fal of 74 writing a baseball preview, Since then I've written about vo
‘many sport that 1 think | right have invented a few.
‘Yer: there have been alot of memories overthe past four years;some good, The Albany State lacrosse team Albany played « good frst hall
some bad, some serious, some amusing. snapped a four game losing steak —ccordingto Motta and now
“There waste ist Aibany-Siena basketball game Lever saw, way backin with an 11-9 victory over RPI lust question of whether ar not the Danes H0 percent of th time on he day
the winter "74. The Danes trailed the entre game but kept iting back un- Saturday. ould come trom behind to pull out Paying tour good quarters in one
til Byron Miller hit ajumper with about 20seconds left to ive Albany the #4 The Danes, fresh off their the victory. The unswer was yes, game his uso been problem this
victory. tiple overtimeloss othe University ‘The Danes scored four goals to year for Albany. but not again
“There was the Football teum's perfect 9-0 season of two years ago. OF Vermont, were playing theie RPTs:wointhethird peniodto take RPI. “For mont of the season, we'd
There was the soccer team's NCAA bid of "75 Tourthcomecutive gameontheroud 4 Yt lead atthe end of tht period, play (wo or three good periods, and
There was the tennis team’s two league championships. dnd Albiny's Head Couch Mike Then they outscored the Engineers one bad one, Against RPI we played
‘Ando course the"76°77 Great Dane basketball eam winning its fist Motta wasexpectinga*tough ume” 2-1 in the final period to preserve well throughout the ume,” said
SUNYAC Championship in its history and making it all the way to the with the Enginesrs. “Last year RPL their first win in (wo and a half Mot
NCAA East Regional finals, Not to mention defeating Siena in one of the beat ws9-Sandtheyareu beiterteam — wecks. Albany's offensive attack wns led
‘moit emotionally satisfying games have ever witnessed this year.™said Motta. Motta was pleased withthetcam's by their big goalscorer, Dan Goggin
There were lighter moments, at wel: the mein the presi box when the RPI got on the acofebourd first overall performance. “Our offense Goggin scored five goals giving him
football announcers packed it in alter te iat half —not because the game and Irom there, ook a slim 6-lead Was consistent all day and we had » 27 on the year, which isthe record
‘wes so onesided, but hecause they were disconnected from thea waves;the atthe hall ood day eleurng the ball rom our for most goals scored in one yeason
times when they kept trying to play the national anthem atthe basketball vel two years ago by him.
fame and finaly cut it short aftr the third attempt; the time when Albany (Big Seorer

ng the ump when ll The Danes had to play part ofthe
jefe ume third and the entire tourth period =

without their other bigscorer. Terry K 3 a
Brady, who pulled a leg muscle and hig ea,
wos forced toleavethe game, Head

tsathotore his departure

y Kianka had another outstan

day for Albany. He woo 7p
ent of hs faceofl, hd 25 ground

end, whieh has been a problem all
year round.” Albany cleared the ball

ouit was quite an experince. im pcwed over te growth ofthe sports
programs tere up tothe point but tings my ge worse Beatie othe
Economic crunch, And the womens spots programs is hurting because of
tack of partion, And baseball my favor sport il lel Une
aended (That aun placeo ula baschll ld. You have otake six
sear ofjunge sural ut to ine it bend the var)

Bu tha een fam, And onthe opi of port | wan ake thi oppo
uty tahun the layers on my intramural stb team or lt
tmemeris heel me with, The Mean Machine andthe championship
‘Duron wil ovr be rgaten, A record of 21-2aint bad. Sory we oul
doit aptn boy.

des my paren without whom I would not ere want tothankall
shone people who made my lem sports dir jst ile more enjoyable
That you coher Buiyame Ford Savery, Shien Muse,

war Mota, Whe, ang alte forall youre an patience pulling
ap with my “ool” questions. (Darn reporter.

ranks to Bob Rise and dey Green spot information for thee ine rom thove games id the Any
valuable esate, conch

Teak to ay typists and tech workers Louse, Laure, Vik Overall am ate disappointed
carne | oobi Tank all my reporters fran, Andy. Ken thn yee nthe pining te
Manen Rh Ren, Judy, Mike, Don and al theres. : teat had high hope for etm

Sil hank om favo eporter, soca sors elo and "wate tnd thought we woul don
ball partes, Ed" ‘andextathanks tothe next Red Sith, Bate han we di said Most
Padi Emeran, my asoite. (Good luck net yet, ES. You're going to Abany ba wo games rma
fedit) And everyone ive who I id potypectially mention THANK onthe schedule, bth at home

: iy they ince Now Haven a 30
to all my devoted fans and ender — thank (or puting up pom and Saturday they take

ai nay, oa my devoted fam and venders Cer aang Albany Jay Klan (44) acoope up groundballn recent game, Danes Cc begining 2 p.m
Mekal to Sik around anymore beat RP over weekend, enapping# fur game losing steak, E: Enemas

Miller who stopped [4 of the 23
shots he faced.

reversed with a litle luck. “We lo
three gimes this year by one goal.
‘we got a few breaks we could have

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O'Leary: The Man In The Hot Seat.

by Phil Molter

When President Emmett Fields announced his
intention to leave SUNYA and take over 1!
presidency at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee,
the question of the direction of the university trom

int on was a subject rife with speculation.
Fields’ controversial leadership has left a virtual
‘hot seat in the presidential position. On August 1,
‘as acting president, Vinoent O'Leary will ocoupy
that hot goat

Fresh from the School of Criminal Justice,
where he has served since 1968, O'Leary is still
getting acquainted with all the aspects of running
tho university. “At this point, I'm gettinginvolved
in @ lot of the pieces of the university. It is

rea lot of things going on.

ig leadorshipat acrucial point

in SUNYA’s history, President Fields’ ‘Mission

‘Statement has outlined a hotly debated three year

‘course for the university, one that O'Leary feels is

‘sound. “The general directions that the university

hhas beon moving in over the last year think are

sensible and important,” he says. But, "There area

number of specific things that we must got
cracking on.”

Although in the brief time since his appointment
hhe has had little time to gointo much depth on any
specific problems, O'Leary mentions several
pressing matters, such as the proposed busing
takeover by CDTA, distribution requirementa(“In
general I will support the need to develop an
effective, widespread distribution program on the
undergraduate level"), improving the advisement
process, and garnering support for graduate and
research work.

O'Leary also places major importance in the
relationship between the university and the
“external world.” “I think that there is a coalition
that very much needs to be put together..a8 a
‘means of tellingthe external world what Albany is
about and gaining support.”

| will be acting but not
Passive. This university
cannot sit still for a year.

One of the basic problems facing O'Leary will be:
that he is, ae Acting President, serving in an:
almost lame duck ospaoity. Recognizing this
dittioulty, O'Leary is determined to overcome:tt.
“One of the worst things an Acting President oan
do isto aot like an acting president, Iwill beacting
but not passive, This university cannot ait atil for
8 year,

O'Leary anid he will serve as President only
‘until the position is permanently filled by aSearch
Committee. “Professors have the best life af all,"
he said as he spoke of his desire to return to the:
School of Criminal Justice,

‘O'Leary was chairman of the Select Committee
on Academic Priorities in 1974-75. which
recommended to then-President Louls Benezot
that 12 degree programs be suspended or
terminated. Many of those recommendations were

presidential Task Force on Academic
Priorities in which similar resource reductions
were recommended and followed.

‘The Dean was recently appointed by Fields to
hoad a committee to organize a SUNYA
Government Research and Service Center as &
art of the proposed school publie policy miasion,

“I intend to build on our strengths and turn over
4 strong university to the next president,” said
O'Leary,

Iwill learn as much as! oan of the problems and
needs that confront this university fin that tim],
said O'Leary, “I will listen'to students, faculty,
staff and President Fields,”

O'Leary has been a professor at SUNY
nationally recognized School of Criminal Justice
since 1968. He has been dean there since 1976.

He has also served on numerousfederal councils

Hing with various aspects of oriminal justice
and is currently directing a project in advanced
Statistical and analytical techniques.

Silver Balls And Golden Flippers

by Eddie Emerman
On Thursday, June 30, four SUNYA students
layed close tosixconseoutive hoursof pinball for
only 25 conts. And unofficially set a new world
record in the proces
Mae Mucatel, Drew Ehrlich, Jesse Rot

George Burnett teamed up to bang out a total of
21,143,540 points on the Top Score machine in the
Campus Center Game Room. The old record,
‘according to the Guiness Book of World Records,
was 11,123,000 pointe in one game.

Itwasn’t an idea that any of the four had planned

Pinball Wizards Jesse Ross, Gaorge Burnett, Marc Mucatel and Drew Ehrlich,

ahead of time, There had been no long practice
sessions, no elaborate training rituals. They
simply went to the Campus Center for afew gam
of pinball. And that’s how it all began.

Mucatel. a senior, slid his quarter into the Top
Score machine at two p.m, and began ringing belle
fand chalking up points like it was going out of
style, earning up to nine extra balls at a time. He
opt this up for two hours and 24 million points
bbofore he had to leave, handing theflippersoverto
the remaining three to keop the game alive.

Ross, Ehrlich and Burnett, like Mueatel, could do
no wrong. Tt seemed that the ball just wouldn't
quit, no matter who put thelr fingers to the
flippers,

However, as the game grow longer, they beganto
tire and, as with any athlete, errors eame more
frequently.

Finally, five hours and 40 minutes after the game
‘bogun. the ail ver ball slippod past the flippers and
never reappeared, It was over, but they had the
record, They had used the last of an estimated 300
free bulls,

Suprisingly, they werun't upset whon the game
ondod. “! was getting very tired and very hungry
‘said Ehrlich, who has been playing pinball singe
his sophmore year in high school, "Around 7:30 or
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golting low und it was getting very hard to
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with thelr accomplishment, “It was & great
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Implementing
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‘To the Raltor:
We are writing as represontatives of «number
Columbia Communities along the Hudson River
who are opposed to our area being turned inton
Power corridor through nuclear poser pluntsand
the 765,000 volt power line.

We believe that the action taken by Governor
Carey to delay enforcement of te Siate Be
Vironmental Act for another year negates our
right to protect the areain which we live bathas
toits scenic beauty and the ability of the environ.
‘ment to sustain healthy lie.

We believe that the age of new technology we
should be entering into, which could lend to. high
{ogree of energy self-sufficiency and nhighecria
of employment for New York State. is being
deliberately held back by the power computiee
fand the Power Authority of the State of New York
because they have vested interests in nucleat
Plants did high voltage transmission lines

We oii! upon the Governor, and upon the people
ofthis state:to acquaint themselves and bogin in
modiately to implement the proposals put forward
in“ Operation Bootstrap", This study, preparedty
Daniel Haley, chairman of the 1975-78 Lotislatve
Commission on Energy Systoms, can be gullenby
writing to your Assemblyman.

It points out that we can provide 25 per een ot
four energy needs by recycling wastes. The
building of recycling plants in the cities whl
large amounts of waste are produced can provide
both jobs and energy in areas where they are moat
needed,

Energy plantations of quick growing poplars that
oan be harvested in throo years wid turned ino
either methano gas or fuel pellets can provide a
al boost to rural areas that hve not bee al
keep up with today's largo soule farnuing.
Plantations can originally be set out om state ind
by an updated version of the Civilian Cunserv
tion Corps, in addition to keepin encriy lars
within the stato they cai helptotakej

off of oity streets, thus cutting down the crime ie
the need for more jails, ote. As the techinslox
harvosting and transporting and converting tis
fuol is developed further, local farmers can be
couraged to use their loss productive acres mex
panding this form of fuel production

‘Small streams which used to provide eneruy or
Jocal mills can be brought back intothe proavction
of water power.

Off-shore wind generating systems, sit wi
systems tied in with already existing water-power
systems can produce another large proportion of
the energy need by the stato,

Co-generation of electricity as u by-prtct of
Industrial production could become aot
Sourea of power, if the monopoly of the wiltes
tho selling of electricity could be remove

‘Operation Bootstrap" algo speaks ol & nov
technology of fly-whoel inertial stor stents
And batteries that ean tak solar and win ver
{hat cannot always be counted on as a steudy SUPP
ly, but ean be converted and hold ready tr pe
need.

‘This study makos toloar that wo an bexin teat
down our dependence on fuel {rom overseas nid
other parts ofthis country immediately if we sv?
latting the power compantesdovelop our plies

Wo call upon Governor Caroy uw xive the
Jeadership needed to turn us from a jol und power
‘hungry stato to ono whioh oan provide for wr
nods and give leadership to the rest ofthe nation
without exposing us to the hazards of nucl
Planta,

Walter Johnstone, Acting Chairmat
Vivian Rosenberg, Educational Director
Columbia County Survival Comm

Jw 7, 1977

‘| Haven’t Been to a Bar in a Month’.

Gold, newly elected Student
Assooiation President, who exudes all
the optimism now officialsarefamous
for, is obviously dedicated to helping
students inorease their political and
economic rights. He talked at length
‘about what plans are in progress this
summer and what he hopes to
‘aocomplish during his term of offi
He gives tho impression that even
though it is only July, Student
Assoolation is in full swing
Soest pew i wis a ee)
Whether real change will occur or
whether cynicism will. eolipse the
optimism, only time will tel.

What do you see as your first major
problem with the University?
Gold: Td say the future of public
education in general. There's beon a
movement away from public
education. I guess the best way to
improve it is to strengthen SASU—no
‘matter what its internal problems, It's
14 350,000 State University system but
they know we don't vote, we don't
Histen, We have to stop that

What is SA's biggest problem right
now?
Gold: It's like « paper tigor—there's
notonough grasaroots support andthe
faculty and administration don't take
it seriously, Certain functions—like
bbudyeting—eclipse other functions.

When will the Vice Presidential
runoff election be held? Are you
‘vonsidering backing a candidate?
Gold: he elections should be held the
second week in September. It's going
to be fun trying to explain to the
Freshmen just exactly what
happened, Both candidates aro well
qualified. 1 haven't decided whether
TI back a particular candidate.
Kathy's prettier but Jim's a better
athlete

What do you hopeto accomplish this
summer? What plans are already in
progress?
Gold: In the past, summer has boon
used to got to know administrators,
‘Thie summer will be different, We've
already had an interest meeting for the
students who are staying here this
summer. Thore was a turnout of about
20 of 25, which is good. Some of the
things we want to do aro reorganize
the space in the campus center and

reorganize the governing of the
aap cactrto laches ate

One of the things we're discussing is
unionization of the students, The
reason for unionization ig that
students are getting screwed on this
campus. We don't have adequate
academics, we don't have adequate
say in~decisions, even on entirely
studont issues. SA can't effect these
things because it serves an

‘aocording to the SA Constitution?
Gold: Central Council gave me the
right at thir last meoting to appoint
‘an acting Vice President for the
summer. I'd say appointing Paul has
bees iay beat deiaton 20 tar

yw does the appointment of Mike
Hetelkop, white personal friend of
yours, as controller fit in with
bringing SA to the majority of
‘students?
Gold: I felt really bad that I couldn't

SA's biggest problem? Not enough

grassroots support,

and the faculty and

administration don’t take it seriously.

fdministrative function, Students are
fighting students over a ‘limited
amount of resources, People think of
SA as an empty shell—they think of it
fas Just a bunch of people interested in
being lawyers. A union would have
grassroots support and no
bureaucracy. We're studying the’
unions at tho University of
Massachusetts at Amherst and
Geneseo. We want input into student
housing: Whoever heard of a contract
where there was no negotiation? We
want tonant’s rights for on campus
students,

But isn't a union a cop-out answerto
building a stronger SA?
Gold: No, I don't think so. SA has to be
bureauoratic to fulfill its budgetary
duties, but the strength of a Union
‘would be in mags membership. Its sole
purpose would be to fight for students
Fights and it's possibly a botter
‘approuch than Student Association,

‘But wouldn't this weaken SA?
Gold: Yes it would, but what I'm
striving for is not to make Studont
Association more powerful but to
make students more powerful.
Hopefully, it will be implemented this
year by September or January, Wo
‘want Itto be carefully thought out and
thoroughly planned.

T understand that you have
appointed Paul Feldman as interim
View Prosident for the summer. Is this

Tespond to the allegations made in the
ASP, Firat of all, it was only rumored
that he said he would be controller if
were elected—he told me heneversaid
that, Also what the ASP didn't
‘mention was that he was an assistant
to Nolan Altman, last year's
controller, and he was Altman's
recommendation and the unanimous
choice of the search committee. I had
to make a decision whether to app

1 friend to the post and I decided
shouldn't stand in the way so I s:
would,

You made a statement that you

would like to get students “involved in
every single aspect of this
university”. In light of that, how much
Input will SA have into issues like the
university budget or the
recommendations made by the
Committee to Review the
Undergraduate Experience?
Gold: John Hartigan, Vice President
for Management and Planning has
promised he will explain the whole
budgeting process to us. One of the
things I soe wrong is that SA spends
too much time on its own budget and
not enough time on the University
budget, T'm against distribution
requirements and welll fight against
them, A union would help here.

How important do you see SASU
becoming to SUNYA?

Gold: There's always a nood for a

student lobbying group. If student
don't lobby for themselves, no oneelas.
is goingtodoit, Albany's contribution
to the last session was introducing a
bill in support of the suspension.of

‘classes on religious holidays. But wé
haven't decided on this year's SASU"
contract yot.

You wore accused of Implementing
the Student Patrol for political
reasons last spring. How is it working
out? Has it boon used by many
studonts?

Gold: We've had contradictory reports

on it, The official crime reports aren't
in yet. The head of security thinks it's
‘a big success, The University has
included a $15,000 request for Student
Patrol iu its budget. I see it as part of a
whole crime prevention campaign.
Educating students should be ite
primary function.

How about the Student Dwelling
Corporation which recently
Purchased two houses on Hudson
‘Ave.? Do you forsee its expansion in
the future?

Gold: I'd like to see it becoming
major landlord for student housiny...)

‘But it's {legal for more than three ;
unrelated peopleto livetogether inth
same house although many students
live in four or five bedroom

oastments.

rove: We have a committee on off-

npus housing trying to overturn
the unti-grouper law. About off-
‘campus'tiving—U'd like to see an off-
‘campus collage like the one they have
fat Binghumton which offers cours
for oredit in cooking, city politics, and
things like that,

What goals would you like your
administration to be rememberedfor?
Gold: Greater services for students
and economic power, I'd ‘like to
increase communication. Most of all
though, Inoressing student power in
the university. I'm living on campus
to be accessible, It's important not to
get into an ogo hang-up. I feel very
funny when kids say they're honored
because the Student Association
President la eating lunch with thom. 1
‘want students to feo! comfortable with
‘me, Some of the things I'm proposing
‘are going to be controversial, but no
‘matter what kind of job Ido Tstitl want
to remain friends with people.

Roast beef sandwiches, filthy laundry, Snoopy giving a finger,
piles of records, Beatles weekends, sidewalk talent shows . . .

“by Richie Mermelstein

- The swarming of soon-to-be-freshmen
about the university has turned menostalgic.
For many of them, this is their first extended.
visit to SUNYA, and that has made me think
about my first visit here. It was not during
orientation,

My brother went to school here trom 1971-
1976, I visited him in the first week of May
during his sophomore year,

Retrospectives are by nature beautiful; the
black areas always fade toward a shade of
bearable gray. But this momory was
unsoathed . before it was a memory.
Throughout my entire stay, I never once
welled upon the overabundance of concrete,
the endless array of pillars, or the

‘symmetrical line-up of tree upon tree upon
tree. I noticed it all, but it never occurred to
me that someone might be annoyed by any of
it, was fifteen,

‘My brother picked me up at the Greyhound
station at’ noon. “Hey Jude,” the best song
ever released, was playing on the radio as I
got into the car. The next two songs wore by
the same group. “It's a Beatles weekend on
this station” Bill explained.

‘As soon as we got to State Quad, he hadto
leave for lunch. He and two of his friends
brought back a couple of sandwiches for me.
‘They were roast beef sandwiches and tasted
Pretty good.

Bill_was slightly concerned that there
wouldn't be enough amusements for baby

brother, it seemed, and made a conscious
effort to spend as much time as he could with
me. We went bowling, played a game of
pinball, and walked around the second floor
of the campus center, where some sort of fair
was going on. bought acomputer printout of

Snoopy giving the Red Baron the linger,
which was funny then.

Nowhere in the course of our travels did
Bill say anything negative about the spots we
were passing, He didn't particularly enjoy
his time here, butshis comments remained
impartial, And there was no way he was
thinking about the fact that I might xo to
school here one day. He wasn't even thinking
that I might one day go to school

It was gloomy out. The everpresent chance
of rain which seems to linger over Albany on
even the sunniest days was the only blesnsh
on the afternoon, It was dinnertime. ni
rather than attempt to sneak me ini the
cafeteria, Bill told me to prepare for jr
stolen sandwiches.

While he was gone, I walked throws! the
rooms in his suite, George and Mark hiss an
amazing capacity to never once a)wis
of their clothes, or byput any piece of elniiii
in the dresser or closet. Bill explaincs! tat:
that the two of them had contests to sex w
could form a higher pile of laundry sn ti
floor. When they ran out of clothes. tiiey
‘would merely turn the pile upside dow. nt
suddenly the dirty stuff became clean
compared to the soiled clothe
previously peaked the pile.

Nothing but records. Everywhere | lnk
— more and more records. Any
ever want to find, for sure, I thew
listened to “Ladies of the Canyin
Buffalo Springfield's best-of «1
“Retrospective.” And then I put on i
had never heard of called "A Good evi
Know,” by Poco. It was the most enjuyilt
album I'd ever heard, Five years later. Ley *
still my favorite group.

‘That night, we tried to goseeA Clock wir
Orange” at the Fox Colonie, but the ft-rtiit
prevented me from getting in. Instend. we
went to the International House of Pancaiws
acted silly for awhile, and headed buck '
campus,

Bill visited a few friends, and { wali!
around his suite some more. I picket! “p
harmonica from tho desk, and mude
ghastly noises with it, Most of the peop!
Passed by noted how poor the
‘exhuming from the suite indeed were
was still enjoying {t. George took tw
harmonica, played Sweet Georgia iro
and told me to goon playing aslong as | ked
hearing myself play. It's the only way
learn, he said,

Mine was a broad, kaleidoscopic view,
unknowingly distorted by naive blindness.

Bill's RA stopped in and was introduced to
me. Withintwo minutes, he commented on the
fact that most younger siblings who visit
their brothers and sisters are meek and timid
and quiet, as compared to me, who was bold,
brazen, bordering on repulsive. Somehow, he
said it nicely.

It was past midnight, and about six of us
found ourselves standing between Anthony
and Whitman, idly doing nothing. This was
my first experience in college hanging out,
and at first it didn’t seem muchdifferentthan
high school hanging out. My brother tried to
accentuate the lack of any sort of activity in
our grou, yawning,“This sure is @ newt
cirele we ve iusmed here.” George mentioned
that "What. -lea. old man!" was the funniest
Une from the funniest movie ever made, and
that Paul McCartney's grandfather was the
funniest charactor ever created, Charlene
started singing a lino or two from “A Hard

‘Day's Night” and a couple of us joined in,
‘Someone passed by and gave a strange look.
“Probably can't sing,” Charlene said.

Probably doesn't have much talent,”
someone else said, Soon another person
walked by, and Richie shouted, “Hey, you
have any special talent?”

‘The girl stopped, gave a bewildered grin,
and performed a five second soft shoe routine.
We all applauded wildly. She curtsied, and
walked on.

Someone else strolled by, and was
requested to play "What's Your Talent?" He
suid he juggled, so we gave him assorted
floms to throw around, and he complied, We
applauded, he walked on, and we laughed
until the next victim unknowingly crossed
the stage,

‘Name your talent!" we demanded,
pine
‘Name your talent, Don’t you do anything?

Danoo? Sing? Play Parchesi? :

“Uh, no.” Hisses and jeers filled the arena.
He walked away, thoroughly emb :

‘We lowered our standards and expectations
as the night wore on, often settling for
‘whistling, humming, closing your eyes and
touching your nose with your index finger or
hopping, The applause was enthusiastic
nonetheless, for we were very easily pleased.
It seoried that the awkwardness of walking
right by us and hearing the boos ws
potentially more humiliating to everyone:
than standing before us and performing.

‘One of Bill's friends passed us about four
times, and simply made a gesture as if he
were finishing a wonderful. song and
accepting the audience's cheers. We
applauded accordingly, perfectly content
with his “talent.”

We started singing as it became apparent
that no more acts would be coming our wa:
for it was 2:30. Kids started shouting requests
from the dorms, and some threw pennies
when we sang one of their songs. Finally a
husky voice asked if we could shut up for
about seven hours

Richie answered, “We still have more

‘ag he scampered to pick up some
Il tell you what though. For adime:

‘The money came sailing down
collected it from the concrete, and our choir
disbanded,

Five years later Charlene’s married, has &
child and is living in Texas. Richie and Bill
own an art print and frame store in Urbana,
Til. George, after amassing about about six
credits jn as many semesters left for home in
Watkin's Glen, Bill's little brother goes to
Albany.

My. first visit certainly wasn't the
determining factor in setting my course
toward a school whose founder is named
Rocky, architect Stone, and whose chief
‘commodity is coment, But that day must have
had some influence on my decision.

1 didn't know then that roast beef
sandwiches are hard to find on the quads, and
cost a dollar and change in the Campus
Center. Or that Beatle weekends come only
‘once a year. Or that the abundance of records
which had impressed me so much, are often
played at unbearable levels while you're
trying to study fora final, Orthathanging out
rarely turnsinto atalent show andoften turns
into a rather uncreative means of passing
time while blowing smoke.

‘There's no omnipotent “them” to blame it
on, The last time I found myself standing in
frontof Fulton with afew friends, could have
said with a Liverpoolian accent, “He says

he's Paw!'s grand-fatha” and challenged the
first passer-by to close his eyes andtouchthe
tip of his nose. Instead, I said, “Let's go tothe
Rat,” as I had a hundred times before,

When we pass an incoming freshman
contently smiling at his new surroundings,
some of us look down condescendinily,
mocking his utter naivity. But inside, we
envy him.

'We wish to hell that we could bethere again,

That’s the way I’ve always heard it should be.

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The Amplifier: Mixing Water and Electrici

bby Brio Osborne

There are two ways to buy © hi
fidelity system.

You can choo!
components.

‘You can let the manufacturer
choose for you.

‘This seriesof articles is written with
theidea that the custom assembling of
hifi components by the individual, to
uit his/her individual needs and
tastes, makes a great deal more senso
than, buying Radio Shack’s
prepackaged idea of the definitive
‘stereo system.

your own

the frequency of the the flow.
All sound is made up of energy
modulating at certain frequencies.
The frequency is the number of
repetitions or cycles. the energy
undergoes for afixed unit of time, It is
the number of times you turn the
faucot on and off in, say, a minute.
‘The different frequencies of
the audio signal translate into
different musical notes. Low notes
have low frequencies, high notes have
high ones, But when we tall about
audio frequencies, we are talking
‘about “on-off” oycles of anywhere

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‘You can spend the same $350-8400
either way; if you choose your own,
you can do much better.

Probably the most basic plece of a
‘component stereo system is the power
‘supply. Most hi i salespeople cal! thi
item a power amp, integrated amp.
receiver, The latter two integrate o
power supply with other features,
tihereas the first is your basic an! mal.

‘A power supply is a device which
transforms one form of enerxy into
‘another, more desireable form. An
‘audio power supply or power amp
takes wall socket julce and turns it
into variably alternating current, as
regulated by an incoming signal

‘Think of a water faucet, Behind the
faucot 1s a network of pipes. ready to
provide water to the sink (power to the
loudspeakers). However, there must
be some way of rogulating this flow
for the sink to be as useful as possible.
So there ia a valve, a control. By
turning the knob, the amount of water
flowing into the sink is altered very
rapidly and precisely.

‘This is basically what a recolvor
does. It takes a constant “stream” of
eleotrioity from the wall socket, and
rogulaioa it. But instead of amanually
operated valve, the incoming audio
‘lgnal (trom a phonocartridgo. a radio
tuner, a tape deck, a microphone) acts
‘sthe control to regulate as closely as
possible both the amount of flow and
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from 20 to 20,000 times a second.
Obviously, you could not open and
close @ faucet even 20 times in &
second, much 1es#20,000. But the audio
power amp must be capable of doing
0, and many of thom far exoeed this:
capability

There are other requirements of the
audio power supply beside having a
broad, flat “frequency response.” The
Amp is busieally a storage device.
converting 117 volts AC into current
which both alternates at a rate
governed by the incoming signal and
fp supplied in amounts governed by
the incoming signal. The louder the
music. the more electricity the
loudspeaker needs.

‘Consider two faucets, the small one
where you brush your teeth, and the
phe you fill the bathtub with, The
Gmailer sink bas smaller pipes
Toeding it, and supply less water than
the bathtub faucet. If you only need @
Small amount of water (are listoning
to soft music, or loud music at low
Volume), then both sinks will do
Cqually well in filling your needs. But
{fyou neod lots of water, the small sink
cannot bandio the job. Or if you play
Your music loud and/or own
inofficient loudspeakers (the
trainpluyinthe bathtub ets out lots of
Grater}, «low power audio amp may be
sked to do more than it's capable of
doing,

Lots try to hack out the meaning of
the word “distortion.” The word has &
very simple meaning, but 1s often
jmipused or misunderstood. Basically,

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distortions are mistakes. ‘There are
discrepancies between what the audio
‘amp (or any component) isasiced todo
and what it does. Go bark toourfaucet
analogy: In the coni: i knob or valve
there hastobe acertain amount of slop
inthe mechanism, acertain amount of
inertia which causes inaccuracies in
controlling it, and a certain number of
irregularities in the materials which

iN cause errors in the amount of

ter coming out of the faucet. I itis
well-designed faucet, the errors wi
be small, but some amount of error
cannot be helped.

‘The same is true of audio amps, or
any electronic or mechanical
‘component. A certain amount of error
is unavoidable, If we operate the amp
within its parameters, and it is wel

he amount of distortion will
‘exceed these
parameter
deliver mote power (water) than it is
capable of, or by asking it to respond
to frequencies that are very high
(turning the faucet on and off too
quickly), then we should expect to
hear more distortion in our music.

Let's recap what wo're talking
about. The Federal Trade Commission
requires manufacturers to give audio
power amp specifications in the
following way: Unit “a will deliver

x" watts of power per channel
through frequencies of “Y" to “Z"
Herta (oycles per second) at "XX" per
cont distortion. For the sake of an
example, let's say the Betty Model
power amp. will deliver ten watts of
power per channel from 20 to 20,000
Hertz at .6 per cont distortion. What
this moans is the Model C will be able
to provide each of our two
loudspeakers with ten watts of power
(a certain flow of water from the
Tuucel) for frequencies anywhere
between 20:0 20,000 Hertz (turning the
faucet knob on and off anywhere from
£201t020,000 times in a second) and do so
with no more than .5 per cont
Gistortion (introduce mistakes of no
more more than one half of one per
‘cent of the musical content at any
given time, on the average).

There are many individuals (who
should know better) who would say
that the Betty Model C power ampisa

‘good sounding” amp, judging from
these specifications. This may or may
rot be true. Certainly, they are good
specifications for a low power
‘Amplifier. But there are many other
paramoters of the amplifier which
have not been considered by these
specifications, Indeed, some aspects
of how amplifiers sound probably defy
‘measurement,

"The ultimaie test is the listening
ost. And your Informed opinion is the

only one that maitérs. Listen to the.
amplifier, or the integrated “amp:
(which combines « preamplitier with
‘an amplifier), or the receiver (which in
‘an integrated amp plus radio tuner)
play the loudspeakers you are
Considering. Listen to music which is
Youd, soft simple, complicated,
classical, acidic, anything you might
Histon to. While listening, be critical in
listening to how the music sounds.
Distortions sound like harshness oF

unstrained

you are listening through
Joudspeakers, which have snomolios
of their own, So If you listen toawell-
known receiver with good
specifications that sounds
unsatisfactory, listen to it on another
‘sot of loudspeakers as a check.

amp or receiver should meet o
the following specifications: It should
deliver its power from at least 40 to
20,000 Herta with no more than 7 per
‘cent or go distortion. It should havean
Overall signal to noise ration of at
Teast 60 db, and a damping factor of
‘about 40 at a frequency of 1,000 Hertz,
‘Then it should pass your most
stringent listening test.

For economy's sake, 1 would
recommend buying either an
tnlegrated amplifier or a receiver. If
money is a factor, or if you don't listen
to the radio much, the integrated amp
is your best choice (you can add 8
tuner later), especially since'you oan
iget more features and performancefor
the mone}

Features in an integrated amp oF a
receiver should include tone control
‘and filters (some are more useful than:
others, so listen!), one or more tape!
monitors, tuner and phono inputs,
Other features ure not essential, but
could be convenient, Have the
salesperson explain them to you, then
play with them for a while, and decide
for yourself,

By this time, someone must be ask-
ing the quostion of primary impor-
tance to many stereo fiends— How
Much Power? Theanswer—it depends
on what loudspeakers you will hook
upto the unit, So, this question will be
dealt with in the next installment,
which will talk about the most
fascinating of all stereo components—
the hi fi loudspeaker. You should not
buy one without the other, so be
patient.

In the meantime, visit your
neighborhood sound factory. Start
driving the salespeople orazy. No
matter what they tell you, they lovelt,

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by G. Pascal Zachary
‘Jimmy Carter's espousal of human
rights is caloulated to reaffirm the
moral element in American
diplomacy. That detente has been
in some jeopardy as a result of

to the rights of political dissidents,
‘communism has become its whipping
boy, Yet torture, starvation, and
enslavement, are at least. as
fundamental an attack on human
rights as the violation of political
freedom.

Genooide in Paraguay, a collection
of essays, chronicles precisely au
fan attack on human rights, In
Paraguay, a-land-locked South
‘American ‘nation, an entire, people,
the Ache Indians, are the victims of a
deliberate policy of extermination
implemented by the Paraguayan
dictator Alfredo Stroessner.

‘Inthe! United States’ the’ media
blackout’ of | Paraguay's | genocidal
polioies’ has been almost total: the
European press has demonstrated far
more generosity in its coverage.

Arens, “have to be forced oper

in one. s
‘A. general. description. of these
forest-dwellera is
‘Wolf in hig essay “Killing the Ache”.
They hunt game and oollect- wild
plants, and they move after the game
hherda and seek out the beds of edible
tion. They lack the
‘organisation of formal states but
order their relations with one another
through ties of kinship and marriage.
‘Access to the means of production is
‘governed by oflteria of age, sex, and
personal skill, but there are no
mechanisms for depriving a man of
“the ability to hunt nor for making one
man do the work of another,

‘spent practically one ye
‘Ache a an anthropologist. “Having
previously learned theirlanguage and
familiarized myself with thelr culture,
Iwas planningto study their religious
custome, Instead 1 discovered th
miurder of a nation.’ *
Hunted by plantation workers with
the aid of military personnel and
equipment, a police chief once
declared that people “kill Aches very
calmly and without any
‘compunction." Those who are not
killed (Munzel ‘estimates that 50 per
‘cent of the Northern Ache have been

‘provided by Brio:

“nas fluctuated between $5.00 and
$4.25 over the last ten yours.”

‘Mungel believes that the intentional
destruction of Ache culture is “in
‘many ways the most irisidious aspect
of this genocide.” Placed in
reservations run by the Ministry of
‘Defense for their own *protection,” the
‘Ache are subjected to physical and
paychic degradation.
Undernourished, many starve to
death; medical attention is, ni
existent; the performance of religious
rites and social practices is forbidden;
the tribe's chiefs are tortured and
‘wornen raped. To the Ache “capture,
with the consequent transition to the
mode of life of the whites, is not
meaningfully distinguishabl
death.”

In. Paraguay the vanguard of
“oivilization

‘old enomy—the Indian. Norman
Lewisexplainsthat although the Ache
have always boon the prey of local
‘manhunters recently the slaughter
has accelerated. The reason—the
forest has beon penetrated; in 1968 a
road was completed which opened up
the final Ache sanctuary.

‘Though Genocide in Paraguay a
not make a systematic study of the
relation betwoon the ever-increasing
utilization of forest resources and the
extermination of the Ache, the writers.
do note the importance of such afactor
in understanding the moving force
‘behind genocide, Munzel points out

Rights of South American Indians

‘that 64 per cont of the land on which:
the Ache reside is owned by-forest-
industries companies; foreign capital
‘accounts for almost all the important
branches of these industries, Foreign
corporate interests focus on the
‘exploitation of forest lands. The Ache
stand in the way of this process. How
the Paragulyan government has
chosen to deal with this problem is
clear.

Jimmy Carter hi
genocide in Paraguay;nor did his wife
during her recent trip to Latin
‘America, Congress has not called for
‘an end to aid to Paraguay. Aside from
the strategic and economic benefitsthe
Federal govornment and private
enterprise will gain from the
continued collaboration with the
Stroessner dictatorship there is
another, more intangible, reason for
the failure to place conditions on US.

id to Paraguay. America's own
development was predicated upon the
destruction of entire peoples. In 1776
Indians outnumbered the Europeans
living in former British colonies: by
1900, the United States had a
population of nearly 76 million, and
there were fewer than 240,000 Indians.

‘Numbering reughly ten thousand at
the tur of the century it is now
estimated that between 800 and 1200
‘Aches are alive and freo in their
‘ancestral forests, It is for them that
Genocide in Paraguay was written.
‘They may still benefit from .the
concern of humankind,

not spoken of

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THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: j. ue

UC Approves DNA Research

The University Council has endorsed
the report of the Council on Research
which earlier had recommended to
President Fields that recombinant
(DNA) work proposed by Albany
University investigators be permitted to
0 forward, subject to specific guidelines
and standards, and the president has
directed his staff to proceed with
implementing the recommendations.

President Fields, who recommended
the
report, stated,
research council report makes clear, the
proposed research holds strong promise
for scientific advancement and the safety
precautions being taken meet or surpass
National Institutes of Health guidelines
fas well as the guidelines that are being
‘considered by the State Legislature.”

He continued, “The university has a
high responsibility 10 protect public
safety asit pursuesits fundamental role of
the advancement of knowledge and | am
now completely satisfied that we are
abundantly fulfilling those

e relevant literature and

responsibilities, We dointend to continue
educational efforts that will enable
members of the university community
and the larger community to be kept
‘abreast of matters and to become fully
knowledgeable with respect to DNA
research.”

Vice President’ for Research Louis
Salkever said of the research eompnttec,
“L-have never seen a group explore an
issue in the, depth they did. ‘They
tamiliarized themselves with all the
waged in
protracted discussions with informed and.
concerned scientists and scholars, They
devoted endless hours to all conceivable
impwets of the conduct of recombinant
DNA research on this campus and
aurived at whut | believe to be sound
judgements as to the policy we should
attempt for this campus.

‘One project requiring P-L level of
containment is now underway in the
Department of Biological Sciences under
the direction of Professor Joseph
Mascarenhas,

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Daughters of the American Revolution Scholarship Winner Sharon Stromer, of

East fslip, who received a Bachelor of Arts here in May, Is shown, at right,

following 2 presentation ceremony held on campus. With her Is Mrs, Henry
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member of the Schenectada Che

Schenectady. The an

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‘overall academic standing of 3.0 or higher, Catharine Newbold, professor of
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John Shumaker.

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Thirty teachers, principals, and schoo!
‘udministrators rom throughout the sta
are on campus taking part in the Rober
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Seminars which continue through July
15.

In is being sponsored for the second
consecutive year by the School of
Education and the Graduate School of
Public Affairs with Professors Edward
Sargent and James Riedel serving as co-
directors.

‘Among the scheduled speakers
Albany Surrogate Court Judge Law
Kahn: Bernard Kilbourn, newly-cl
chairman of the Republican
Committee Congressman B
Pattison and Eleanor Pal
Rensselacr County Executive Wil
Murphy. nus, State Senators
Hugh Farley and Howard Nolan; and
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning,

ward

Campus Briefs

Len Payton, director of the Academy
of Fitness and the Exercise Consultation
Bureau, Glendale, Mass., will conduct a
three-session fitness program in. the
Campus Center Ballroom, July 12, 14,
and 18 from 4-5:15 p.m. Enrollment is
limited and the program fee is SIS.
Registration information is available
Irom the sponsoring Student Activities
Ollice, CC 361. The program will be the
Fourth conducted here by Ms. Payton in
recent yeurs

Kenneth Buhrmaster, of Seotia, has
reappointed by Governor Hugh
y to the University Council for a
term ending July 1, 1984,
Mr. Buhrmaster, 62, heads

rament. Board and former president
of the State School Boards Association,

Humanities Appoints
Shumaker to Be
New College Dean

Joli Shumaker, 4, who was associate
dean of the College of Humanities at
Ohio State University for the past three
years, this week has begun his new duties
hhere as dean of the College of Humani
and Fine Arts.

In commenting on the appointment,

‘rom among the

many able people we cor
deanship of the new College
Humanities. ‘and. Fine Arts, John

cer emerged as the most exciting
‘and attractive, He is a young and
energetic man whose appreciation of the
humanitigd and fine arts is manifest and
his livelyideas for'their advancement
‘augue well for the future.”

Dean Shumuiker graduated in 1964
from the University of Pittsburgh, where
the was a Phi Beta Klppa member, with
major” iniclassioay, Greeks) Later
revived Master oftAnts and a Doetor af
Philosophy in classical studies from the:

nkylviania, Heserved on

associate professor of classics, assistant
dian, and acting department chairman,
In 1973 he held research appointment
for six months at the University of
California at Irvine

Dean Shumaker academe interests

ancients Greek literature nd]

‘Riyrology/ ahd his research centers in}
those areas. He also fats been involved in
discussions at a national evel on the
status of foreign language study a

During the past two years he hs been
director ofa projeet funded by the
National Endowment for thy Hunts
to implementa comprehensive system of
individualized. intrution in fordign
langunye atthe university level, The
project wis tunded by the. Nation
Endowment for the Humanities to the
amount of $821,751, the largest grant
NEH ever has madein the are o ore
langues

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Senate and Assembly Voting

‘The-Plight of the Peregrine

Mr. Wolfe, Can you never go home? page 4

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Marijuana Vote

Nag (Hast Rochester)

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Ross (Mount Vernon

‘Abramson (Jamaica) MeCnbe (Johnson City)

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JUNE 90, 197 5

New York Enacts Marijuana

,pport such abill, but

by Dan Gaines

‘There will be no revolution in our lifestyles
because Governor Hugh Carey sigmed a pot reform
bill yesterday. Most data indicates that the mari-
Juana smoking habits of New York's citizens will
Change little on July 29, when the law takes effect,
‘More people may try pot, but the overall percen-
‘tage of usera in the population is unlikely to in-
crease much and could, as some Oregon studies
‘suggest, aotually decrease.

Nor will there-bo much change in the courts.
‘Though the penalties for sale and possession are
reduced, they are till unpleasant and smokers and
tellers will continue to take the precautions that
Teave the overwhelming majority of them un-
touched by the law.

"The significance of marijuans reform in New
York lies in the trend itis helping to set, New York
is the ninth state to decriminalize the possession
of small amounts of pot and to reduce the criminal
penalties for possessing larger amounts and gell-
Ing it” New York joins Oregon, Alaska, Main
Colorado, California, Ohio, Minnesota and Mis-

sissippl, whose law becomes effective tomorrow.
South Dakota qlso passed a marijuana reform bill
last fal

‘This is not the first year the Legislature has
considered marijuana reform. Governor Hugh
Garey introduced a liberal bill in 1975, and even
former Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggested
removing marijuana from his tough drug laws
just before he resigned in 1973.

‘For the past tree years the main obstacle tO

decriminalization ‘assumed to be the
noontrolled State Senate. In January
(R,C-Oswego), an

upstate cor
‘a pot refor!
Sonate Majority Leader Warren Anderson (R.C-

Dollars and Documents of tf

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so bad if only one could delight in thing
despicable, like the great o

all one gets outof that is ami

with their penchant for igr
Condition, haa kicked off thelr’
the filing of a suit,
‘challenging the constitutior
Mail's financing.

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which issued the bon
the state for a su
interest paid annually to the

rds to build it, and is le

which construction
title to the county in
the turn of the century
off — ownership of the Mall wi

tate
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the ‘South Mall, called a
agreement, was aut

‘of laws passed in the 60's

Binghamton) said he would su)
that it wasn't an issue he would force on

New Law:
Possession of up to 26 grame (about % ox.) is’
private place (home, car, pocket, etc.) 1s violation,
similar to a traffic fine. It caries a fine up:

‘second offense in throe years would bring upto #200,
‘third, $250 and/or 18 days in jail.

Between 26 grams and two ounces, or possession
‘of any amount in a public place (in open view) is &
‘can bring up to 3 months in jail

Two to eight ounces bring upto

i and/or 81,000 fine. Eight to 16 ounces
0 4 years, 16 02. t010 pounds brings upto7
brings upto 15 yearain prison.

‘are not. decriminalized, though
‘are substantially reduced. A gift up to 2
‘cigarette can bring upto 3 monthsand/ora
ale of upto 28 grams brings upto 1 year
1 ‘grams to 4 oz. brings up
1, 4-16 of. brings up to 7 v

‘over 16 oz. brings up to 18 years in prison,

years, and over 10|bs.

but changed its mind and repealed it-

Possession of a quarter-ounce or
1 yearn jail and/or 61,000, between a quarter-ounce
‘and one ounce brought up to 7 y
‘ounce brought up to 16 years.
Taw brought up to 16 years in prison.

‘Seo vote record on facing page.

Richard Gottfried (D,L-Manhattan), the sponsor
imilar measpre in the Assembly, initiated
jecriminalizing up'to 2 ounc

faction with a bill de
sonal consumption,

fand allowing plants for pers

dnen olutohed hold of
jueeze madeitolearthat she
ig the "Stop the Clamshell

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nasked by @ sideways glance
t's familiar face, Surrounded by
Hes we sought safety along the
ilently we moved on. A platoon
jorned the plaza in search of he
‘Crowd. Fortunately 1

Comptroller in 1960, 8

Constitutional procedures.”
rouulted in higher financing costs — $44 milli
more — because the credit ratin

Tower than that of the state, |

rhis sult is not about the Mal)
it fs about the constitutionalty)
of Yease purchase’ agreement:

which wouldn't be

d-timers. Nowadays
erable sense of guilt.
tho New York Public Interest Research Group,

noring the human
"war on guilt” with
‘in the state Supreme Court,
ality of the South

1 owned by Albany County,
ot

on oal to the prinolpel and
matt bond holds.
intrest ld nally aoqulred the property Upon
y e took place and transferred
way dr 1005, Bometime afar
‘¥en the bonds ae Pad
ii rovers bao the

‘voters’ approval; the people, he feels, wou}
have consented to such a plan.
hopes of winning thelr

jonstruction of ited in early June when FH

ere eZ
s

Barolay then proposed £14 guage bil, whic

Garerally move reseitive. The ie negated

ce iar Apel Gay agreet ewe

Barclay’ ion.
Barolay insiated that the Assembly pass the bill

fest x
‘Gottfried brought the compromit
‘Assembly on his birthday, May 16, 6x} to
celebrate ite passage. But the bill hadi to be
withdrawn when it became clear that it did not”
have sufficient votes, Gottfried had miscalculated.

‘The Assembly leadership, Speaker Stanley
Stoingut and Majority Leader Stanley Fink, both

yn Democrats, were embarassed by the
‘vote, Carey began making public statements about
the need for the legislation, Intensive lobbying by
the National Organization for the Reform of the
Marijuana Laws, public interest groups and the
state PTA began bringing additional presoure for
‘movement on a pot bill.

‘The % ounce bill was the result, It pickedupnine
votes, and the bill passed Monday night. In the
next twenty-four hours, Anderaon decided to help
gather needed republican Senate votes, The
Democrats flew Sen. Abraham Bernstein (
Bronx) to Albany three days after he had left the
hospital with his left leg partially amputated.

‘There was a period of panic late Wednesday
night when Uberal Republican Roy Goodman
(RL-Manhattan) could not be found. Ho had
decided to go to his weekend home to have dinner
3 were upin the air at the

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JUNE 30, 1977

Falcon is returning in New York and the

by Paul Kerlinger

ver the past

conservation. mind

Americans have” become

| increasingly aware of our

‘endangered wildlife, Infact,

m | for many of us the

Peregrine Falcon, the Redwoods

the| Karner Blue Butterfly jiave

me symbols of the environmental

‘movement. We have heard how birds

‘have ‘been shot and. poisoned, their
habitats destroyed.

Itis depressing, for those of us who
care, to delve further into what has
become of these and other animale. It
Seems that after many years of
environmental work we need some
positive reinforcement. This column
will cover some of the progress made
‘over the past few years in trying to
save and reestablish endangered

specially work done by
rohors,
One ofthe first animals that was
recognized to be drastically declining
in Burope and the United States wat
the Peregrine Falcon. Anyone who is
familiar with this magnificent hawk
‘knows that it la the fastest of animals

+ and that TT has been the victim of

Used extensively in the early 1960
bout 20 breeding pairs were present
in New York. ‘They occupied the

by Cynthia Hactnt

‘Back in Albany, Land of SUNYA,
‘ter a week of vacation downstate. It
‘g00d to be home. Up the porch steps
fand into the musty hallway of my
partment house, Then, up again to
the second floor lugging » huge
‘sultoase filled with about 40texibook
whieh, needless to say, didn’t receive
‘even a pertunctory glance throughout
the entire vacation.

‘Find the key in record time, Usually
it takou about 15 minutes. Now only
could find the keyhold. Wish that
landlord would tix the hell light,
Judging from his extraordinarily,
Prompt action when the Icitehen sink.

‘After. almost total elimination through pesticide use in the

li...

vu.

‘through captive breeding techniques.

Hudson palisades, Shawangunk
Mountains and other locales with
Tocky cliffs. They would even nest at
times on New York City skyscrapers.
During the 1950's they
‘exceedingly rare and there are no
breeding records sineé then.
Similarly, all Peregrines in the
eastern U.S, have disappeared,

In the late 1960's, with the ban of
DDT and other persistent pesticides,
‘came the first signs of a return of the
Peregrine Falcon. Hopefully, the:
environment had ridded itself of
‘enough pesticide residues #0 asnotto

‘This proved to be a most
difficult task since the Peregrine was
declining in most areas of North
America It became evident that the
only source would be birds bred in
captivity, which had not been done
before,

0's, the Peregrine

‘Captive breeding of Peregrines wat
first achieved by Dr: Heins Meng,
professor of biology at the State
‘University College at New Palts. Asa
Jeading American falconer he had
experience with all types, especially
Peregrines.

‘After a number of years of

ful attempts, Dr. Meng
id a process that is now turning
‘out over 50 Peregrines per year in
Projects at Cornell and other
locations. Cornell, infact, namedtheir
facility the “Peregrine Palace.”

With the success of the captive
breeding program only part of the
battle was over. Hawks then had to be
raised and reloased at their intended
homes. This did not prove to be easy
either, At New Paltz, two birds, were
raised on thenine story Faoulty Tower
at the college and were allowed to fly.
freely overthecampusandtown. They
‘wore.fed when they came for food and
finally left for good later in the
‘summer, Tragically, both birds were
shot.

‘The following year other procedures
were devised and precautions taken to
keep the nestlings away from people.
It was believed that by raising them
without seeing too many people they
would have a natural fear of humans,
thelr only predator. This process of
raising a bird in the wild is called

“hacking”. “Hacking” is tedious and
requires much patience and
persistence,

{noe then, numerous
palrsof birds were released
hear New Palts and other
Tocetions in the eastern and
western US. During. the
Past yearmany slghtingbot

these birds have been made t form

breeding sites and it would seem that
we once again have a "wild" popula
bet! Peregrines in the pes
may be somewhat optimistic
since no breeding record for this isa

“Seeing a Peregrine fiying along a cliff face

or in pursuit of prey is an almost spiritual experience,

The reward for saving such a species is priceless.”

————
Battling Mold, Mildew, & Rotten Margarine

was clogged he should got aroundtott
in about six months. Abhl Home,
UGHH! Is this my kitchen? Better
question: Is this my apartment? Too
cliche,

Must compliment Pat and Larry (my
spartmentmates) on their marvelous
decorating talents, ‘They. certainly
have become very innovative, A
dosultory glance tells me that they're
specializing in Late American Filth,
‘There'll be plenty of time to feast your
eyes, Cynthia. Right now it would be
wise to get this suitcase into your
room,

‘A fow words about Pat and Larry.
Pat (the gir!) belongs here, Larry (the

boyfriend) is pattie package, atect
unbolmownet to me whon Taped
‘At least my room ie tho’ aamne
lotoolydasrayed cubicle ei
‘othektchen to get me some tans Oh
Goalll Who'd hve ever thought oa
have 10 hike through a Jasete ot
setae to gto he sine Thnenove
othe sink was »detnie sey
bottomless pit of dial sia

Onward 16. the table, Now
laughler in taking ‘on’ norvoty
quality. There was atabloinihinvoon
Somewhere. Oh silly ma, T ainon
Aidn' recognize it with the lesa

Peregrine Project: Replenishing the Skies

has yet been documented, but there is
Little doubt that it is only a matter of
time, Releases are continuing and we
‘may even see thesebirds inthe Albany
ares.

In Colorado“where there are sill
resident  Peregrines, the breeding
‘success is poor, Again, this is thoussit
to be due to pesticides. Reproductive
attempts usually fail due to infertile
eggs or thin egg shells caused by
pesticides, At these nests captive bred
hatchlings have been introduced and
readily accepted by the foster parents,
‘This saves much time and effort and

-has the added advantage of
familiarizing the nestlings with other
members of ita own species.

‘These same procedures are now
being worked out for birds such us
Bald Eagles and Ospreys. Some like
the whooping crane areexperienceing
only limited success, while others are
faring better. Phenomenal amounts of
time, energy and money have gone
into the Peregrine project with many
organizations and individuals
contributing. Over one-half mil
dollars have been spent since 1971

To those who have never seen «
Peregrine Falcon it is hard to explain
why they are so appealing. Like the
‘Timber Wolf and the Bald Eagle, tiey
are powerful prodators and often male
for life. This makes them somew)is!
similar to man, which may expla
their attraction. Seeing a Peregrine
flying along a oliffface or in pursuit o!
prey is an almost spiritual
‘experience. Spectacular dives and
‘swoopsare over almost before you ca
blink. The reward for saving «species
is-priceless,

Aller this success story it should!
noted that this is only one of muy
endangered species of animals and
plants. Even the Peregrine faces
tenuous future. Ironically, altho!
DDT isillegal to use in this country
is being exported by America!
chemical companies to countrw
where there is no concern for 1
consequences. This means that
migratory animal such as tv
Peregrine can leave its relatively
safe homein North America and fly \
South America to be poisoned.

Editor's Note: Paul Kerlinyer
Presently engaged in omnithologics!
research in SUNYA's Biolvx)
department.

(clean 1 hope), Larry's motoreycle
helmet and the none-too-clean dishes
on it,

‘And how could I mise the telltale
margarine dish. Another mazgarin:
ish like this does not exist in all the
World, Needless to say it 18 covered
‘with a film of gréasy slime, The dabs
of margarine on the cover and the
sides of the dish are all in differont
stages of decay and would make an
Admirable science fair project for «
filth grader, The contonta of the inside

ra truck me
8 boing slightly immoral and th:
margarine enters my bad drowns

Four Years and $1200 Later...

Olll

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by Eric Osborne

hey asked me to write
these articles. I didn't
volunteer.
Isay this because I am to
hi fidelity gear what old
doge are to new tricks: they can
acquire them, but it takes a very long
time. -

It took me somewhere in the area of
four to five years for me to buy &
stereo.

This could be thought of as an
unusually long time for oneto make a
relatively minor life decision. After
all, one does not agonize over the
choice of Pioneer versus Marantz the
‘way one would about medicine versus
nw. Or marriage versus abortion,
naive versus experienced, blonde or
brunette. You understand my drift
Most people would not consider the
‘one noarly as importantasthe others.

1 don't think that my personel
priorities are worth exploring in this
‘or subsequent chats. I do think that it
could be worth your while to think
about the following:

thas boen my experience that once
human beings discover the limitless
realm of music and the almost
miraculous nature of hi fidelity
reproduction, the importance which
‘these two quantities take on is
sigaifloant. In other words, consider
‘that friend of yours who really didn't
get into music or see concerts but
watched TV all the time, until he/she
Got his/her stereo. Then, no one else
‘could get a night of sound sleep in the
house unless the rig was down for
routine maintenance.

Its a wonderous thing: It is far too
abstract a feeling to do justice to with
only a penin your hand. I wish I could
bring you home and put on that record
for you, No, not the one that sounds
like it was recorded in someone
mausoleum with the microphones a
mile away. The other one. The one in a
thousand where some California
hippie who plays recording engineer
decided to earn his keep for a change
fand really did justice to the
performance,

‘And the performance, What else can
you say? The performance.
Indescribable.

"That piece of vinyls worth hell of
a lot more than $4.49 at Just-A-Song.
That piece of vinyl is sacred.
‘Sometimes, irreplaceable.

Tt is thet piece of vinyl which
demands that justice be done to it. 1
mean it, | have spoken to many people
who have considered the matter
carefully and have said the same
thing. That XAM special for $90 just
will not cut it, You can still enjoy the
Fecord, but like the filet of beef that is
Smothered in catsup, your
‘appreciation of it is clouded at best.
Tam explaining this badly. Speak to
your friend who bought that stereo a
While ago. The one who dropped out of
high school, estrangedhis partner and
ignated his parents because all he
did most of the day was eat, excrete,
‘and listen, That person has discovered
what I am speaking of. That person
oan put on the Tecord we were:
istening to earlier, and completely
transcend the fact that his gut is

and Not Heeding Thom

regularly.

‘Another thing which will be joining
the margarine dish in my nightmares
is the state of my beautiful, brown and
white gingham tablecloth, « six dollar
steal from Macy's, The few spots
which show through the debris aronot
encouraging, In fact, see burn marke.
Oh Godill T shudder to think at what
tho hidden part looke like. Maybe
that's why all thisehitis piled onit—to
‘oni fy firat instinct

acre.
srything on thefloorand
see what other damage has been done,
Forget it. I'm not moving any of this,
‘And while I'm forgetting about things,
T might as well forget about hunger

dnb the anack idea, Just haven't
ace open that
Pounato
fomething. in. there. which
‘eluived proper burial and 18 just
vee to jump ont and. wreak
tine upon the tira poraon ¥ open
‘oo the oven has sufore another
oun thlatime th brollerdoor Gren
Now wo ean watch our steaes bro
Nec hukedhe urburban housewifowith
or windowed Fenge oven

ween timo to. leave the ‘itoben
itmmnn, The bsthroom door ie
Houaa' Tt take sts hint and wont
stom unt ie beclutaly necesety.

empty, he has no friends, the landlord
prosecuting for the rent, and the
rabbit died. He has before him.a
performer, a band, a symphony
orchestra.

don’t mean this metaphorically. He
ean, T can—you oan close your eyes
and have it all in front of you. The
vocals center and nice and ciose, lead
‘and rhythm loft and right and right up
there, base nice and clear but « little
further bak, and drums hitting you
with the kind of sock that means
you're sitting right in front of them.

‘Or the New York Philharmonic.
‘Thought that your living room w:
by 12? Close your eyes, listen to the
music, Ifthe record is good, the seat is
the best in the house, And half a

breathtaking, the performance is
dazzling, and the instruments sound

«just like the Iast time
you were at the new Avery Fisher
Hall. And, best of all,it'syourstohave
anytime you can puton thatflat diseof
vinyl and be in the mood to close your
eyes and take yourself there.

"The point is this: no, buying a stereo
is probably not as important a
decision as whether or not to marry

thoart or face

and exploring the situation as fully
possible is definitely worth your
while, Don't rush into anything. Don’t

‘Once you have come to realize that
the quality of your life will be changed

as Wolfe’s Advice

‘And then I'l be armed with Lysol
(Crumpled tissues randomly spottl
green-oarpoted allway. At last I've
Feached the threshhold of the living
rgom. I'll say one thing. There
certainly is a lot of life in here—and

W's growing out of the sofa, the clo
‘and my favorite armohair, The main,
motif in here is plzza—crusts, chee
‘and sauce, all strewn about in an
inoidental manner, Anothe
touch is @ pair of jocky shor
under the coffee table, Visions of
Larry and Pat and & bunch of their
friends engaged in « wild underwear
orgy are just too much,

Under the sofa, along with ten

for the better, to a greater or lesser
dogres, by the purchase of hi fidelity
reproduction equipment—once you
Gecide that you've done long enough
without that sterco—do a little
homework, take your time, explo

fof the possibilities. The only regret
you will ever have is that you
Probably didn't give the situation
enough thought.

Thave said enough. When you have
decided that itis time for you to think
‘about buying hifi gear, that itis time
for you to buy hi fh goar or that it is
time for you to take that poor excuse
for a stereo they gave you for junior
high school graduation and.sell itfora
profit to your baby brother, we will
{alk some more, For each summer
Issue of the ASP, I will contort from
my gut some new bit v: information
fabout the options open to you.

‘In closing, people aiways ask mo
how much money is enough for them
to get a good systom, but-not have
them remortgage the house in th
process. Individual tastes are like:
inferiority complexes; everyone
Seems (0 have them. In other words,
its all up to you. But nominally,
prepare to spend at least $350 to $400.
Tt sounds like a lot, ut have yet to
meet, the individual who regrets
spending what he/she did on hifi stuf.
I really is something which you can
enjoy virtually without additional

expense, for many yearsinthefutur
Bditor’s Note: First inasix partserios
that will examine, component by
component, the ins and outs of buying
Stereo equipment.

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‘Of the twelve or so plants scattered
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three ‘are crunchy but not quite dead
and four fill categories ranging from
Fair to, On the Road to Oblivion.

‘Why wasn't I ever told these horrors
of off-campus living? Firetraps,
alumlords, rent and leases they toll
you about but. 7,  olick of the
Tock .. the door opens and guess
who walks in. "Hi Cynthia. How's it
going?" I manage choked "Hello!
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Journalists: Knocking The Nonsense Out Of Their Heads

American Journalism: The Job/Student Ratio

Ibe Journalism department here at

of ane faculty member,

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places the responsibility for the training

‘ol the potential journalist. where it

helongy: with the newspaper

Granted. there are skills that
Taught 1m the ekassroom, but the
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reporting. copy editing, layout, typeset=
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like the ASP ean provide a Feel for the
newspaper business fren start te finish
From gathering the news, writing and
editing. layout and paste-up, selling ads
and balancing the hooks tw the actual
composition ind prinuing of the paper.
cu learn exactly what they're

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Journalism sehwols an my'newspaper. Het
Samvone else knock the nonsense att af
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However, two justifications persist far
Journalism training ia hygher edeation,

(One 1.10 give sutfigiet technical trai
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nature «i the work so thal he af she ean
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raison in suctets. the etlies
this rae, an encoirage empathy
with people thes wil study forthe rest of
thet careers, and some advice on what
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Juuy 14,1977

New York State Women's Meeting

by Leslie Snyder

‘This past weekendatthe South Mall,
the New York State Women’
Conference approved the ERA,
abortion, and lesbian rights, among
other issues,

Although there was much
politicking by feminists and Right-to-
Lifers throughout the weekend, there
was surprising unanimity by the end,
Unfortunately, the large turnout led to
Poor organization of the events,
marring this historic conference.

‘This conference was established by
‘Congressional Act in 1975todisouss
the status of women, propose changes
in Jaws to obtain equality, and elect 88,
delegates fora National Conventionin
Houston. State and national officials
will use these resolutions as the voice
of American women.

Of course there cannot be one voice,
and so various groups were present
this weekend to exercise their
influence: ethnic, political,
occupational, regional, and religious,
factions. In other states, the Right-to-
Life party (anti-abortion) has had a
‘surprisingly strong organization at
these conferences, and rroatly
influenced the outcomes. Fearing the
same would happen in New York
State, feminists in over 28 diverse
organizations were able to join
together and form a coalition. They
presented one unified slate of

by Laurie Studwoll

‘As an unemployed, unskilled
female SUNYA graduate, 1 slowly
discovered that my chances of finding
fa job were practically all. This, of
course, is due to the fact that Social
Science is by no means a practical
field, and being female makes it twice
as difficult

1 therefore decided that even a
temporary job is better than none at
all, and ventured into Manpower, To
my surprise, within a few minutes I
received my first asaignment. l wasto
beatypist forthe First New York State
Women's Meoting.

he meting was to be held trom
July 8-10 in the Empire State Plaza,
During the course of the weokend, 88
delegates were to be elected for the
First National Women's Conference in
Houston in November. Prosentations
wore also planned for the Governor
‘and Legislature, and eventually, the
President and Congress,
arrived on Friday at 3:00, knowing
litile about the scope and purpose of
this meeting, Not being familiar with
the Plaza, T'was afraid of becoming
lost, but as I proceeded down tho
Grand Concourse, I couldn't help but
notice the mobs of women
surtounding the main meeting room. I
told a staff member at the door that I
was from Manpower, to which she
replied, "Womanpower:

T said, "No Manpower,

She again
‘Womanpower.”

Seoing that | was getting nowhere, 1
explained that I was a typist and she
eventually let me in, I asked several
women who seemed to be in charge
where I was to go, One by one, they
replied that they would find out, then
disappeared. No one seemed to know.

repeated,

delegates, and provided guidance cn
the resolutions.

‘The first battleground was the
workshops on Saturday. Hach
workshop was allowed one primary
and one secondary resolution, chosen
‘demooratically. Anyone registered at
the conference could attend and voteat
any workshop. theory.
Unfortunately, registration -tim
were not publicized — I arrived too
late, And st some of the niore
controversial workshops, such
abortion, the doors were locked after a
certain number of people had been
admitted,

Even 60, the debates inside were
heavy. Interestingly, the leaders of
Right-to-Lite wre male, But most
‘women at the conference did not want
men to be actively involved, and so
refused to listen to these men, As one.
woman said, “They were just booed
whenever they spoke. And the women
‘with them didn't know how to react or
what to say to help.

Most’ of the workshops passed

radical resolutions — Equality in

Fepresentation; federal
‘expansion’ of child care, welfare,
minimum wage, medica

reliabilitation.. rather’ than  prieo
make, mandatory. overtime illegal
single-parent families regarded

Marred By Frantic

Everyone’ Was running frantically
around'the room, since. registration
was aboit to start,

‘The six of us fromManpowerfinally
got together, discovered what we were,
todo, and waitedfor ourtypewriterato,
bo sot up by registration. Our Job: to
type names on namo tags. It sounded
simple.

‘After an hour and a Ralf, we wore
still standing. in the, meeting room
waiting for our typewriters, I began to
get ® taste of how hectic and
disorganized the reat of the afternoon
would be,

Finally, the typewriters were sal ip
and ready for us to begin typing. At
first only a few people straggled over,
‘Then, before I kgew it, there were 50
people in my life, After about five
minutes of this, word came down that
we would no longer be typing names,
wo would just hand out information
paokots and plastic cards to put the
hhame tags in, Once again, it sounded
simple, Little did I knowof the horrors
ahead.

Within a few hours, the thousands of
packets that had been mado up were
gone, Without these packets, there was
no way of knowing where any of the
fevonta were or what time they were
taking place. Understandably, this
‘would upset a lot of people, but before
ong, the mobs of women grew and
they became angrier and angrier,
blaming iton those who had nothingto
do with itu,

We trled to explain that only 3000
women were expected, and that this
amount héd already been more than
tripled, We algo informed them that
Packets were being made up as
quickly as possible, but to no avail,
‘The screams continued,

equally to two-parent families;
legalize prostitution; federal money
for self-defense instruction. Equality.
should be enforced by quotas initially
= 50 per cont of state and national
government employees, would be
female, 50 per cent of the school
‘counselors, and 50 per cent of federal
research money for chemical abuse be
spent on women’s i

Sunday was an organizational
disaster. People were waiting on line
to vote for up to seven hours. By
sterndon, paper ballots replaced the
voting machin results
are still not frown. 1 The pics or
resolution stage, started three hours
late and accomplished nothing for the
noxt three hours. Those still on ne
missed the plenary.

‘Most of the anti-Coalition people
‘went home early.

‘Then, mid-afternoon, those at the
plenary .approved:.all. the. Core
Resolutions (those pre-determinéd by
the Conference leadership, detinitely
feminist-inclined) as g block, After
debating and approving the first eet of

/ primary ‘Fesolutions, the rest were
‘also paséed as © block. There, was

ight debate over whether to mention
specific: nationalities in’ the
Internstional) Women’s .yoar
‘Resolutions |. Ukranians, | Soviet
Jews, and’ South “Afrioan , women
eventually eosl ve miention.

: Important Issues «

When an ant
contraception amendment was
Proposed, the chair ruled {t gut of,
order. It was challenged, only to be.
Sustained by the voters, The feminist
hhad.won.

T could be cyzlcal and say that I
doubt the conference will have any
impact — surely it did not with the
press, The final resolutions from
Houston are more likely to be used to

Preserve the status-quo than effect
Sbanga, 1. Women are uot concsraed
‘about this so we won't bother dealing
with it, and we'll ignore the radical
issues. Yesterday Carter came out
‘against federal funding for abortions
— which was approved of at the
Conference — because it is not up to
the government to help obtain
‘equality between the rich andthe poor,
especially over a “moral” issue,

Thad a badtimeatthe conference —I
was sexually harrassed seven times
while walking through Washington
Parke on my way to the mall, I arrived
too late to register, was closed out of
the abortion workshop, and had to
sneak into the plenary (because I
‘wasn't registered). But the conference
itself was unimportant compared to
‘what it decided about women and the
opportunity for unification it
provided.

‘The next atep is up to the men in
‘govornment.

Disorgantzation And Future Shock

Finally,
was the rea! showdown, People began
pushing and showing: Tho tablen wore

tba wo Wore planed
Lup against the Wal, Glasses: wore
flying All 1 gould ady; were. arme
flailing in my face,

When these paokéta disappeared,
there was once, again, ani angry roar
from the crowd, This continued for the
next fow hours as the packets came
find yvont, until it was finally time t0
close up for the night.

‘Phe thought of returning to this in

* the morning was enough to keep me

‘awake all night, and I tried to sort out
in my. mind exactly what was
happening st this meeting

On the whole, I was disappointed in
both the women running the meeting,
and also, the women attending. It
seemed as if there was a lack of
planning. Of course, thousands of
unexpected women did show up, but
the organizers seemed unable to cope
with the change in event

Several ideas on how to get out of
this bind occurred to me at the time,
‘The main problem was » complete
lack of information. We wors never
told where meetings were boing held
or where visiting women could go for
housing. Most of the staff members
wore equally uninformed. There was
no central place to sond these angry
women for information, or even a
place for them to complain about this
Tack of information. Information
booths set up around the Plaza, and
perhaps a poster of all events and

times would have boon a great help,

As for the women who attended the
meeting, problems and
disorganization are no justification,
for their rudeness and lack of

understanding, If they had boon more
patient, oreven volunteeredtohelp, as,
‘many women did, the weekend would
have run much more smoothly. The
whole point of the meoting was to
bring women together to identify and
work to achieve common goals. Thi
was not the way to do {t.

‘The next day was calmer; my anger
began to dissipate. I was able to see
‘more of the exhibits and events taking
place around the Plaza, {realized that
Thad only seen a misrepresentative
group of women, or perhap:
misrepresentative behavior of these
women. | later talked to people who
had attended a lot of the events and
seen the entertainment and had come
away with a good feeling.

This mooting accomplished several
things, [It drow more women than
anyone thought would be interestedin.
‘an eventof this nature, It pointed out a
real desire for women to unite and
worlk together to better their lives. Of
course, there are problemstobe ironed
out, but altogether, from all [ hoard
and saw, there was a great deal of
optimism. The encouragement was
hidden in the collages of womens
history informally read apd
dramatized by volunteering actresses
of both stage and screen, in the music
of feminist songwriters, inthe moving
performances of the Falling Tree
Company dnd Suzannah Cher's one
woman show.

Pespite the heat of burning issues
and the discord of the uncooperative,
‘one could have some sense of
belonging within the crowd. Perhaps.
the babe of unity was the result of
thousands of years labor—premature

hy future shock and sadly.)

undernourished, but noone could deny
{ta existonce,

Baia

JULY 14,1977

Suny ha 1977.

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between 1963 and 1973. According to. crunca, then, ison the smaller schools
‘some experts we may not continue to. and on the younger and lesser known
omits eclenceand wechsclegy:  solentists. Slowly 8 gup 1s being

‘A June issue of The New York Times. or between the larger and
stated tat American selence and. smaller (antions, Graduate and

‘Many fields. The article cited a study students and who receive
by De Bruce Smith of Columbia aid directly or indirectly from
Iniversity and Dr. Joseph Karleaky of uch as the National Science
Franklin and Marshall College Foundation. Money directed away
conducted at universities across the from basic research can aled affect the
‘country. ‘quality of education. Less research
‘The Smith and Karlesky study money means fewer lab assistant
attributes the decline to an overall orowded labs or increased teaching
decrease in research funding 4s well “loads on professors, not to mention
‘as ashiftin fundallocationfrom basic outdated or insutflolent equipment.
to applied research. The decrease in . Fewer assistants now, means fewer
funds comes from both federal nd slentsts Inter and thus ia salt
Fivate sectors and reflects the perpetuating system.
feneral conomictrend A decrease of |The shift of funds from basi to
ree per cent over the past eight applied research reflects the “payoff”
yours, discounting Inflation, hus been afte held bY thowe who allocate

Suffering From Scientific Stagnation

asa pyramid with basic ressarch at
the bottom an@ applied research at the
top, With this in mind we can cee what
Chancellor of the University of
California at San Diego Dr. WD.
McElroy meant-in his presidential
‘address to the American Association
for the Advancement of Soience. He

funds and the American people as &
‘whole, When deciding what research

proposal gets fuiided the {immediate
benefit or” payott” isoften considered.
Consequently, muich research infields
sich as oduoation ad health are goal
or miasion-orlented. A past president
of the American Educational
Research Association warna that this sald that basic research must be seen
type of approach to research funding as an “investment in long-term
is myopic and may be deleterious to solutions to human problems” His
the whole process of science. example was the electronics
‘Most critics of this shift from basic “revolution. If we look around us we
to applied research have urged more can seo that the vast investmests in
spending for basic research. In fact, basic research of the 1950's and 00's
tte urges have almost been pleas not are now “paying off”
tocutbackbaalcresearchfunds.Some Dr, McElroy suggests that we make
critics argue that this redirection of toomuch of adichotomy botween basic
funda even imposes limita on the and applied research and that they are
freedom of inquiry in some cses. In really both situated on a continu
otherwordsscientists arelimitedasto He also says that we need beiter
what they can study by their research communication between the two and
funding. that large scale, multidisciplinery
‘There is of course the other side of operations are needed to dea! with
the coin. Legislators and federal certain problems. ‘The red-tape snd
agencies want an accounting of where organization surrounding «ny
research money goes. Taxpayers also attempt at what Dr. McElroy sugests
hhave the right to know where those may now be beyond the scope and
funds go and how: they will be funds of hesciences and universities
benefitted. If those warnings are justified the
‘There may not always be dirGct real decline may not show for nay
benefits from basic research. Now though, little isbeing done
Scientific research can be visualized to study the problem.
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‘by Brio Osborne
‘Inthia series of articles, theterm “hi
fi” oF bi fidelity has been used

buy «hi fl syste” versus “I want to
buy ‘a stereo system"). Hero's the
reason:

‘Stereo (stereophonic) is one modeot
hi fidelity reproduction, probably the

most popular one. There are others,
‘such as quadrophonic, monophonic,
‘and binaural

‘Stersophonic reproduction makes
luge of two related sources or channels
of information. If youlookat your baby
pictures (or the mirror), you will
that you, and most of God's other
creatures, have two cars. Like a
microphone. Yourearisa device which
converts the mechanical energy of
sound {nto electrical energy. Your
brain then translates this information
Into & panorama or “image” of sound.

To aay it another way, you do not
“heat” sound olthor as being “left” or
ight,” but as a full sphere of sound,
from which you can discern direction,
istance and other cues, Think about
riding in « car and

could you tell the direction the siren
was coming from, but also if it wa
close or distant, if it was moving
toward or away from you, if it was
doing ao quickly or slowly, et cotera,

‘With information trom your twe
your brain renders complicated
‘and’ acouraio judgements about &
myriad of sensations

Similarly, two soparate

channels do not (under good
circumstances) sound like just left
You hear an entire

and right,

aychoacou:
Seal of subtlety
engineered into
captured through a stereo hi fidelity
system,

It oan safoly be said that tho
loudspeakor is considered by many (if
not most) to be the most crucial
component in recreating this
panorama or image. Said another
way, of all the components of a stereo
system, the technology of loudspeaker
design 1s tho loast effective at
producing the desired effect.

‘Or, the loudspeaker is probably the
‘weakest link In the chain.

Loudspenkers are devices which
take electrioal signals from the power
‘amp (or receiver or integrated amp)
‘and convert them back into acoustic
energy, which is after all, what the
entire misaion is all about, They aro
the opposite of microphones or ears.

‘Most loudspeakers (in the price

Editor's Noto: Third in a six part
sorios dealing with the traumas of hi
fidelity listoning and buying.

tech hifi

Quality Components
MAIN STREET

range most people consider
affordable) use dynamio drivers, They
Use & permanent magnet, ‘an
electromagnet, a cone, and

suspension or surround.The
electromagnet convertsthe electricity

+ {nto magnetic lines of force, whioh act

‘againat the permanent magnet which
‘enoases it. This force moves the voice
coll, which in turn moves the attached
speaker cone. The spyder and
surround act as a suspension to let
speaker parts move within a
presoribed limit.

It is the movement of the speaker
cone which moves the air in
presoribed manner,and this creates
sound, Think of it a8 a piston moving
back and forth at varying rates. This
movement corresponds (ideally) to
the frequency of the sound being
reproduced. For a 440 Herta note (A-
440), the speaker must move back and
forth 440 times in one second.

Your knowledge of physics should
remind you that in the audible
spectrum of  frequencie
(approximately 20-20,000 Hertz),
wavelengths differ dramatically. Low

32-foot wavelengths:
have wavelengths

thereof, Sutfice it to say that one
loudspeaker cannot hope to be able to
reproduce all frequencies equally
well, Large speakers are needed to
move the largo volumes of air that
bass notes require, but are too
massive and not able to move quickly
enough to reproduce treble notes. Fo!
these, amaller speakers are required.

loudspeskers in each speaker cabinet,
the big speaker for bass (the woofer),
the small speaker for treble (the
tweeter).

Even with this degr
‘specialization, comprom!
‘asked of thoso speakers (or drivers),
So, many manufacturers add more
drivers, often called midranges or
super tweeter

‘Those drivers must be contained in
some type of enclosure. The design of
the enclosure is critical in getting
optimum performance out of the
spoakers, especially the woofer.
Different designors prefer different
onolosure types, such as ported
enclosures, folded horn enclosures,
{infinite baffle enclosures, and sealed
enclosures which allow for acoustic
suspension of the drivers,

Finally, each of the drivers will
typically reproduce a wide range of
sounds, but only a portion of them
with any kind of proficiency. So, an
electronic component must be added
to delegate cortain frequencies or
notop tocertain drivors, Such a device
in ovlied a crossover network.

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‘Anyone who has talked to a hi
salesperson has probably had to
suffer through other terms as well. 1
‘will not tall technically beyond these
torms for two reasons. The first ie that
those provide abasiounderatanding of
‘the way moat loudspeakers work.

‘The “second reasou is the more
important one, The performance of
loudspeakers is a subjective thing,
Many attempts have been made to
measure the performance of speakers,
tobe used as an indication of how they
sound. Sometimes this is successful,
mostly it is not. A salesperson or
manufacturer will often show you &
frequency response curve for «
partioular speaker system. If the line
onthe plotisflat (ornearly flat) thisis
supposed to indicate that the

natural and present.
‘Ay pair of lou

present abroad imageto you: Nooaly

should instruments, sound left anc

distant, The Image should not change
‘appreciably if you move around the
room (within reason),

‘Speaker logation i's room makes =
big difference in the way they sound.
So, if you find apair you are interested
in, have the salesman move them mid-
way up the wall and about five or six
feet apart. Tinon, sit about seven fect
away, and right in the middle. You
should only cempare speakers which
fare similarly located in a room.

Determine how efficient the
speakers are, or how loudly they will

The Stow Search for a

Stereo

OO

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OQO0000
ale

loudspeaker is reproducing all
frequencies at the same loudne!
level. This is desireable for «
epee at se any
philosophies about how to
fuakco auch. a. mo jent as to
render it of doubtful value.

"The way to judge the performance of

‘more than any other

‘component, is to listen. Loudspeaker
specifications are only a crude
indication of how they perform, andas
you will discover for yourself, two
speakers with nearly the same
specifioations may sound completely
different.

Go to a stereo store. Bring records
with which you are familiar, Choose a.
receiver or integrated amp which
costs about 40-45 per. cent of your
budget, Then listen to speakers which
cost around 35-40 per cont of your
‘budget (the remaining 20-30 per oent is
for a turntable and cartridge). Most
stores will encourage you to compare
loudspeakers; this is a method of
discovering gross differences in
loudspeakers, but litle else. There is
no reference or standard tocompareto,

Find & palr of speakers which
{initially sound pleasant, Now, really
listen, Bass notes should sound well-
defined, undistorted, but not
necessarily overy prominent High
such as violins and cymbals
Should sound cleat, clove, and nol
shrill or’muted, Vocals, probably the
‘moat diffloult thing for a loudspeaker
to reproduce, should above all sound

play without distortion, For a low:
powered system .(less. expensive),
efficient loudspeakers are & must to
play at realistic levels, Use your ears.

Finally, after you have listened for
about an hour or two, go home. Then
‘come back and listen again. The way

‘ou fool plays a big part in your
‘perception of how things sound,

‘Do hot be inahurrytobuy. The more
you listen, the more you discover the
‘speakers! strong and weak points. It
took me upwards of four years to
decide which loudspeakers to buy. I
‘am not advocating that you be foolish
‘enough to make the choice of stereo
‘components a lifetime pursuit, I am
ortain that well-informed and well:
‘considered judgements with regard to
the purohase of stereo components,
especially loudspeakers, will pay off
In Jong-torm satisfaction with your
choice,

Erratum

‘The people who produce this
newspaper do #0 because they are
better than average human beings.

“So, when thoy make a mistake, they
are allowed to be upset with
themselves, You are not allowed to be
‘upset with them. Here-are some
‘examplos of mistakes made in the last
installment which you will forgive
them for:

When talking about minimum
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Rehabilitating Albany

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New Construction moderate income city dwellers. The
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Soller annually from the Fodorel
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flag are Connery
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pew onnars of propery whtla the
our amighvorscode aheen for the
Costin Way be sligiig ar dtc,
Trait of onehirdtoche all ocest of
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applications for rehabilitation
dwelling unite and dlopensed almost
a {hos garters of a million dollere fn
seins iodopetiote uae gee mene Ares ties, bave

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mae 15 milion in tortgages and lonne
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febehiltsod eal work'on anotapr 50
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$1000, th thie inetance 85000 nash
tt 63,00 foun, as well as n 84,000
rack are needed fo laanos euoh an
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‘The ferocious insects have been
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beyond the ability of the body to
tolerate, In other words, they would be

‘The Rolling Stone writer says the
bees are advancing towards the United
States at w'rate of 200 miles per year,

‘and oautione that Americans are
‘going to have to “Learn to live with

incidentally, that the
nectar the bees produce 1s "The most
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‘Sweden's foremost expert of corrosion
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Five Quad Purchases

Public Safety Acquires
‘New and Improved Radar Gun
New.and Improved Ambulance

SUNYA Buys New and Improved
CDTA Proposal — Almost

The Freshman’s Request

A Short Story Page 4
The Sound of Silence:

Eliminating Turntable Noise Page7
Personals Page 8
Crossword Page 8
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_SUNYA Public Safety: Ready, Aim, Fire, Smile i

by Richie

fo Mermelatein
he SUNYA Public Safety officer propped
the gun on his shoulder, steadied his
hand, and pulled the trigger. The victim
hesitated, and, realizing he'd been hit,
‘came to a halt.

"The weapon was fierce looking. It was 12 inches
long, with a wide barrel. The only pain it inflicted
upon the victim, was in the wallet, forthe gunfires
radio waves.

Direotor of Publio Safety James Williams hopes
that SUNYA'’s new “movable
\ddeingly rtorred fo the recently anquired Spbod
Gum-1 will be the preventive so badly needed to
‘ourb speeding on Perimeter Road.

‘excoption than the rule. Withits numerous curves,
narrow width, unclear signs, and general
Inbryinth-like characteristics, Perimeter is

<dnly would he like the speed limit enforced,

had algo boon fighting for additional “Sto
“Yield” sig

"Signs are finally going up," Williamssi, “but

not without considerable offort, It has taken five

months already.

One of tho most dangerous spots on campus, and
one in which Williams would like a" Stop” sign, is
the exit toward Fuller Road behind the Dutch Quad
tennis courts. Jtis alsothe spot you are most likely
to encounter the radar gun.

“T think it's a good idew for us to use the gun
there,” Offloer John Canto said, “because most
people hoading toward Fuller Road don’t realize
that thoy are supposed to yield oven though they're
‘going atraight. Ifthey're going 45 mph, they won't
havo time to stop if there's a car coming toward
thom around that curve on Perimeter.

Frequently, he or another officer will park his
car parallel to the basoline of the corner tennis
court,The officer removes the gun from the attache
case, and turns the power on. Before using it, he
strikes a tuning fork, and holds it before the lens.
‘The fork is culibrated toacertain number of cycles
per sooond, and should register as 50 miles per
hous, This test completed, the officer then mounts
the unit on the passenger side window.

“This partioular model must be stil,

Assistant

CDTA versus SUNYA: Still a

by G.Pasoal Zachary
‘apitol District Transportation Authority

ind SUNYA are closo to reaching an
Agreement on the proposed CDTA
takeover of SUNYA's bus service,
nocording to SA Prosident Dave Gold.

Gold was one of a half dozen SUNYA
representalives to attend a meeting with CDTA
‘Tueadey

officials, ‘The mooting, held this
‘afternoon, was called by the State Division of
Budget.

SUNYA and CDTA officials, however, still
disagroo on a number of issues. The cost and terms
ff the leaso, the future of SUNY A’s bus drivers, the
type of identification needed to board a CDT'A bus,
fund the scheduling of service are the prinoiple
points of contention, SUNYA Vice President for
Management and Planning Joha Hartigan doos
not “see 18 as boing ubleto budge on many of these
points.” Hartigan hopes that any agreement
Fonched will neuro “better service for the
University community.”

‘A wook ago SUNYA's Bus Committee met with
Hartigan, who explained that the purpose of the
mooting was “to review and revise what wo
consider a tentative draft contract for CD''A bus

Director John Hennigan said. “The more
expensive ones can be used while in motion.” The
Speed Gun-t costs about $1,600, about half the
price of a more sophisticated model.

‘Once mounted, the gun merely flashes out the
speeds of every oar that passes within its range.
Jectronic digits continually shift as the car's
peed fluctuates, or as other vehicles enter its
shaped field of vision. Therein lies a minor
problem, Conto explained.

"Moe gun ploks up vehiste inthis order the
largest, the closest, and the fastest,” A truck going
HSSg therefor wil overpoter a Pinto coming
from a distance behind it at 50 mph. Also, two
comparably sized vehicles traveling st only
slightly diveygent specde cannot be éasily,
differentiated. Unless the violation is fairly
severe, it is unlikely that an officer will attempt to
guess,

If the officer wishes to, he can aim the gun at &
vehicle bebind him and push the "mirror" awitoh,
enabling him to read the digits in his rearview
mirror Fromeartain angle, may be impossible
to position your head behind the gun, 50,
reverse digits simplify accurate readings

‘The officer can also pull the trigger mechanism,
locking a particular speed into the gun. This, too,

aids in obtaining the readings when the operat:
ust obtain the reading from ad Inoonvenient
position before another cat comes inte. the
machine's eight.

Hennigan has’ issued broad guidelines on
ticketing procedures, First time offenders
exceeding the 30 mph limit by less than five mpb,
will receive written warning. Subsequent
Infractions in excess of 36 mph will remult in a
ticket, as will al offenses in excess of «0 mph —
subject, of course to the officer's discretion,

“'Ginee many officers are on vaoation Bow, We
don’t have the manpowor to use two cal oi
Canto sald. “For instance, we could have one oa:
behind the tennis court with the radar gun, and
another oar at the bottom of the gym parking lot.
‘This may come into effect duringthefall, though.

‘The end result may bo similar to N.Y. Thruway
driving, one eye always watching for radar traps,
with B's and radar detectors) flourishing
‘Williame hopes not, -

“The only purpose of buying the gun 18 to
encourage people to drive safely, Joggers. and
bioyclera are in very dangerous positions when
cars come around the wide curves

“I'm sure the gun will load to, fow angry
rivers, But rather havethem angry than dead.

Five Quad Adds a Van to Its Fleet

by JUN Haber
tudent Assoclation has grantod a loan of
$16,500 to Five Quad Volunteer
Ambulance Service Ine. for the purchase

of a new ambulance.

“We've been looking at new,
ambulances for a year and a half now.
‘The °68 ambulance was eating up the budget for
repair bills and gas," said President of Five Quad
Mary Corrigan, Ambulances aren't like regular
ara — you just can't let anything slide.” The need
for a new ambulance was echoed by ambulance
fattondant Mark Goldstein: “Some of the drivers
had very grave misgivings about driving the’68,”
‘The new rig, a Dodge Medicruiser, will be in
service at the ond of September. It differs from the
two currently used Cadiliacsin that itisavantype
of vohicle, “The van provides more room for the
pationt and it's also much cheaper. The van, fully

similar proposal submitted by CDTA a week:
earlier.

This “tentative draft”, distributed to Bus
Committee mombers on July 12, calls for a five
xyear lease nt $253,000 per year and insures fixed
find flexible service, Under this plan all full time
bus drivers presently employed by SUNYA would
bo offered similar positions with CDTA.

In the past CDTA has proposed a three year
‘contract for $325,000 per year. It did not, however,
Buaranteo jobs for SUNYA‘s drivers. Though
EDTA has convinced the Division of Budget that
their proposed price-tag is competitive, how this
figure was arrived at remains a mystery.

‘The State Division of Budget oversees both
SUNYA‘s and CDTA'sexponditures, According to
Gold the DOB has decided that “CDTA will
tnkcover” and is "prossuring the University to
make a decision.

“Tho State has reason to encourage the takeover.
ODTA, with a projeoted deficit in ts 1977-78 budget
fof about $500,000, sorely needs the SUNYA
contract which would bring with it matching
federal funds, Without it the State might be foroed
to bail CD'TA out of thelr fisoal orisi

“The Division of Budget, in its offorts to speed up
the negotiating process, hws alrendy called the two
partios togethar six times, It hus scheduled

equipped costs $17,000 while » Cadillac runs
‘$30,000 without equipment. The new one shoul:
Inst a good five years,” Corrigan said.

Five Quad has five semesters to pay back the SA
Joun, Funding will be provided by inluding ane:
line on each student's bill with a charge of thre:
dollars; two dollars for the traditional class due:
tnd one dollar for Five Quad. Students will have
the option of paying only the cl y
Five Quad contribution nelthor or bath, The on,
torm goal of this funding is to make Five Qua:
independent of SA funding it recolves through th:
Friends of Five Quad organization,

Five Quad Ambulance Service, entering its fit
year, provides emergency medical care for any
person on the SUNYA campus as well as for al
studonts and faculty and their immediate familie:
within a five mile range of State Quad.

Few Bugs

another meeting to be held sometime in August

Despite CDTA’s assurances students ar
‘sceptical of the proposed takeover. Last spring 90
Alumni Quad students signed a petition agains
the takeover.Gold worries that CDTA and th
Division of Budget “are not sensitive to th:
student.” He olaims that to make «decision onth:
matter while the student body is away would sot «
‘dangerous procedent

DTA, which firat proposed a takeover of the
SUNYA bus service in October of Inst year, hes
tried, according to Keith Barber, » CDTA
“to come up with @ proposal that's

Barber says that he is
provide better service and have it cost the tax
payers less,

With the summor almost at a close, negotiato:
‘will bo hard pressed to reuch an agreoment befor
the Fall torm bogins, SUNYA officials will |
informing the Division of Budget 1» to ohang:
that have been made in thelr proposed contrac
Both partis will meot again in Aujcust, Show:
BUNYA and CDTA soltle thelr differsnces beto.
the summer ends, students will retur to find th
‘owe green buses they hiwve ao recen'-y learned
love ary gone forever.

"the draft was discussed in company with

Juv 21, 1977

@ don't have any
money,” ‘Todd said to
the fat old woman
sitting behind the
desk, “We spent it on
ear repairs,

I'm sorry." she
‘snapped while putting,
‘8 rubber bund around
‘voll ofdollarbills. "If
‘you don’t have a meal
‘onrd_you can't eat for
7 nothing.” She suid
this with such finality that my two friends and 1 automati-
‘lly turned around and desconded the stairs toward the-side
dour

‘Owside it was dark, As we trudged through the snow of the
couriyard. my reflection caught a glimpse of us, three frail
‘shadows draped in long black coats,

‘We'll all catch pneumonia if wo don't get out of this cold
soon." | yelled over to Allan, not sure he could hear me

‘Yeuh, | know, but where the hell do they live? I don’t even
know what to look for,” With that he put his arm around me, and
it was understood.that we were to follow Todd.

Wo came upon's inrge building that had huge slabs of black
glass, Inside were books in rows that reflected the moonlight
{ike tombstones In a cemetary, I peored inside at the largo
expanse of shelves and darkness that ny protected from the
old wind and noise outside, Yes, it is a cemetery in. sonse, |
Suid to myself. As I walked away from the building, I stared at
My reflection for & moment, and knew it was wondering. like
me, why three intelligent freshmen would seek to obtain an
education at this God-forsaken place.

‘the snow drifted in slow motion in front of my eyes, gathering
intou thin translucent curtain that rippled with sporadic bursts
of wind, 1 felt my mind ascending, floating high above in acold
‘dark gaim, while my body, swopt into this whirl-world, tingled
from the spray of microséopic icicles, which flicked and sang
silver in front of my eyes. In tho distance, a bare tree branch
Jutled out, biack and claw-like against waves of white ooean, 1
Imagined \t was Ahab going down for the last timo, fist
clenched, tricked by God, cursing marikind, By the time we
it was only a branch again; a grey face covered by
sheets of white, drowned in my excoss of imagination, Todd
ploked up the stick and tossed it into the wind, We never saw it
again.

“Allan, galloping like & mad horse over the dunes, tripped as
he shouted over to wir

{gan ee them over here, the frut houses!" We turned and saw
the baoks of the looming brick buildings, The snow had dusted
the red brick to a light pink, and olung to the bare walls in
uneven clumps, As we walked toward the buildings I felt an
echo of hunger in the pit of my stomach,

‘The building had large Creek columns in the front, with the
wordd "Delia Kappa Epsilon” ohisled aoross the top. we

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‘knooked on the door for several minutes waiting for an answer. I
rebuttoned the top of my coat as the wait grew long, Suddenly
the door oracked open, and a girl in a yellow dress appeared,

‘Are you the recruits?” she asked.

‘Well, er... " began Allan.
‘ell Bill the McCormack brothers are here,” she shouted up
the stal

‘Come on in, we were wondering what took you guys 50
long

“We're not the MoCormaok Brothers,
athletes, for that matter really.

‘You're not?" she suid glancing back.

'No, we're here to vialt our friond Gil Davis,” said Allan,

‘A short stocky fellow with olose chopped brown hair draped
his arm over the gitl'sshoulder, Hishand was white andfattish,
molding complacently to the playing cards he was holding.

‘Davis has gone home for the weekend.” he said cocking his
head, “His room's looked, sorry.”

‘A slow fear gripped us all, Lost in a blizzard with nowhere to

‘said Todd, “or even

go.

‘Maybe he'll be back tomorrow, check back then,” the girl said
in the same tone of voioo that the cafeteria woman used.

“Your names are Allan and Todd, are they not?” We turned
around, and saw a tall lanky fellow in faded white corduroy
punts. There was a noticeable gap between his pants andlow cut
white snoakers.

"Gil told me to wateh for your arrival,” he suid, Gonfidently
doscending the stairs as we looked up, his sneakers making «
strange squeaking sound on what appeared to be froshly
painted coment.

“He told me you'd be here, oo,” pointing an accusing finger at

Bll, see Af you cxn change this into some beer,” he suid
handing the stocky fellow an old gallon mille container."Oh, by
tive way, the MeCormacks canoolled out because of the snow 80
all couch, and let him know, 0.K.2” They were both down the
collar stairs before he finished, Turning quickly to us, he said.
“We hope the MeCormacks will fll our backfield noxt yeur.” We
followed him up the stairs, Todd kept looking down as iftho girl
‘wore still there,

‘Why is she with him,” he asked mo, “Probably because she's
the conoh’s daughter," I suid, No one lnughed,

‘As we got to the top of the stairs Allan tripped over a piooe of
‘rug that was pushed out over tho stair, but managed to hold on
to the gold top of the bannistor that was shaped like achalice,

“Someone's going to fucking kill themselves one of these
days,” he said unlooking a door with the name "Kurt" in bold
Jettors over the conter, Turning the ight on, he told us all to

| have a seat, and he'd bo right back, We all sat rigidly forthetirst

five minutes, until Todd bocame restless and started playing
with the stereo,

“Don't fool around with that,” I sald, looking at the doorto.s
It he was coming,

t's alright, Just getting some good tune
"But what ig fins iton aatation he likes? You know we're not

exactly his beat bud =
“Don't worry, I can find it igain, Besided, we know Gil
‘A lot of good that doos us. Whore is he?!" Allan was leaning

[nis chair against the wall reading a Playboy. Just then I heard

| the clan of glasses at the door.

| “Pale these, will ya.” he said,

| |} took four beer mgs trom his hands end put them on his

|

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BL rac ims ee ren
| burping. “Shit, you guys picked « great time to come. Fill up,
| after pouring himself one.
| 80" how's” Gul?
| conversation quickly.
| Half-smirking, Kurt took a sip of beer and said, "He has his
| ‘As [ looked about the room I noticed a huge mirror hanging
| appeared more like comic apparitions of myself than real
| people, as I studied their reflections in the dim light. Kurtasked
| Todd to fill up again. I wondere:! aloud if we should drink so
| M'jcurt began to explain to Todd snd Allan the advantages of
| slowly on the turntable; and asked Kurt-if people would still
| loft open, and gusts of cold airtry push people intothe back of

eked Allan, wanting to open the

| snowbulls inside ogoasionally hiting a surprised girl in the
| back ofthe head, oF manning ck someone's drink over
| Hot stoning bodes ado toxin thetoueh of strange bunds

tho slight curve of ass, a momitary brush of breasts falling

back into place, the echo of somone else's fart drifting over, all

| unexpocted gifts. I finally yot »»\s0lf another beer and realize
| ve fad too much, My stomach ats into the rest of my body.
T inhaled but it's ns though 0% lungs have filled with stale
bricksof air, Imustfind my way vl. Notknowing wheretoturn,
1 just boyrin to walk. Somevne «sus up to me and tells me that
Bruce Springsteen will save rock and roll, and I start to laugh
because of the doadly seriousivess of his statement. A girl tells,
no she's getting a degree in Coss unieations, but doesn’t know

why. A philosophy major wisesplaining to some frionds why it
Was important that Nowton wis ivvled by ametaphor, and Plato
Wasn't, As { listened, he start! reviewing Kant’s maxims; 1

ont up to him and asked hist 1! anyone actually believed in
Anything. Lighting up a cixgaietty He said, "Hey man, you don't
have the time here.” All his trivwls were vastly amused.

T ataggerod outside and stow! m4 puddle of slush feeling the

dampness drawing and crackins the warmth of my shoes.
Yoo hot for you?” { tun! around quickly and saw the

sithouetto of a woman Iewntn ssinst the brick wall,

Lmenn," she went on, "it e's! & point where it's not worth
even the free booze.

Yeah, I'm soaked from jst siding around,” [sputtered out,
trying to grab hold of the situation,

“Got your own mug. 1 sve

{A friend lent it to mo.

Lucky, Thave to use these e108 paper cups, not even alt
the size S90?" She cane closer tor the frst time, holding her
cup and my glass up to Ue Wit The Light ituminated her
(whole face showing waves «! cleaming blaok hatr that Looked
fhe if ft was drawn back ently 1» 188 night but now lay flowing.
oete her shouldors. She wore |steol rim glasses that seem,

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Hot steaming bodies slide together: the touch
of strange hands, the slight curve of ass,

a momentary brush of breasts falling back
into place . . . all unexpected gifts.

the curve of her glast
straight.

wiping under her eyes, exposing her eyebrows to the light—
‘ena light ros of eat tha rush wholonbes, «sees |
to her face.

iT goi
hhad all the wax chewed out of ite rim,
“Sure, I said, “I'l be right back,”

noe inside the humidity hung |
overthecrowdlikethecarcassofa |
huge dead animal. The smoke |
seomedto peel away layersof skin |
from my eyelids, causing water to |
fwoll up Like that in an overflled
glass, ready to spill any minute. I '
twas finally able to fill the tio
cups, being careful not to hole
here oo firmly-becnuse cof ts poor
condition, Aslapon theback cuus- |
ed me to crush the paper cup and |
Spill some boor from mine. I
What've you been orying about," Iheard Todd say behind me.
m not crying, it's the smofe. You spilt my beer. |

‘Look there's sandwiches on the other side of the room, if we |
‘ean get them," he said. |

Na, couldn't keep it down.” i

‘Might puke it up, huh?”

“rhink 80." |

“What's the matter, you don't like it here?” if

1 don't know, Everything seems to bother me, the old Indy, |
and Kurt this party, nothing seems right. Meybe I'm not made |

for colloge.
"Vout ke reader, not made for college, come on. Out of altof |

us, you're the only one I think can male it.” |
“Well still, I don't know.

\Woll, lools, worry about it tomorvow, attend to that woman, |
'm starved, don't eure what they have to offer.” and with that, |
‘odd went plowing into the crowd i

Tmannyed to safely carry n nearly full glass outside, despite
being bashed by numerous elbows and shoulders. |

Teun ise your mug, thanks,” she said, holding the glass with |
two hands, She looked much more drunk tome now than before. |
‘The conversation between us mixed easily, like swirls of yellow |
and orange paint that drape the trees in Autumn. She was |
fisking me cute and meaningless things about my life, which T |
willingly thought up wiseorack answers for, all the time
Wanting, desiring to know what mysteries veiled her from my
eyes. We still didn't know each other's names,

‘Witt do you think of this party?” she asked, coaxing me, |

‘The whole scene reminds me of theend of Rabbit Run. There |
{is this one part where they Keep passing the ball around, |
inaking everyone look foolish because, ineffect, nobody's there:
olloge seems a lot the same.

‘You've been reading Updike, 1 sve |

Dort mind him, everything he sees reminds him of |
somothing he roud” Allan was leaning against the door, |
pushing himsolf off it as he came walking toward us. 1

Twas thinking If maybe we should stay another night to see |
we baskotball game.
“The girl looked toward me snticipating an answer, Allan |
stood defiantly with his loge apart also waiting a roply, There
toro two otlior schools on the list, dari hurbors, neon Vistages
that promised loss comfort than here. |
1 ques?” 1 suid looking at ler rather cooky. I
‘Ara you two here together?” suid the jie! to Allan. |

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‘Youlr, we're from the sume pince. Where's Todd?”
Ho's having some sandwiches inside.”
Food, swoot Jesus, Fm famishod: I'm gonnwexttit bust See |

{to be the center of her faoe. Small dots of perspiration marked | you Later;
to her gone, which was small and | leaving us alone once again in the damp night alr,

“Allan dlasppeared as quickly as he. appeared,
‘stood a moment watching the grey hase of my breath bellow

TEN snr ae Hic wee ed uaa |eevcaame Una
aa

she said duating the snow off one of the|window
sills, “my philosophy professor told us once that the early
‘Chinese thought that clouds came outof the mountains, andthat

™ Could you get me. beer please? My glasses tll fogup again | they were a eymbol of man freeinghimselffrom thefinite world
ho said handing me a wrinked wax paper cup that | and his ogo.”
we | > “Whatever, made you think of that.”

't don't know, I guess this ice on the window, it's cloud.
shapod, see?” She ran her finger along the formation I was to
recognize.

‘Sort of, 1
‘Well anyway, that’s philosophy. I'm starting to get cold.”
“Yeah, me too, want to go in?”

‘Na, things are pretty beatin there, [think I'l goback home.”
“It is late,” I added assuringly. g a

‘ve got to get my coat, ll be right back,” she said, touching
my shoulder as another would her son, and then walked
Inside. I sat thinking for a moment of what was goint to be
‘expected of me now, and in the future. Of the strange ties that
now bound New Yori and my snjall farm in Pennsylvania, Of
the fact that this would grow to be more and moro of my life,
while the wood shingled house and my parents would become a
backdrop, « point of launch, to which I owed only my origins.
‘The trust which they placed in me would now grow elusive and
abstract, a quiet confidence that let my-parents give me the
family car for the weekend, even though it meant my father
‘walking to work one day, or perhaps grabbing a ride from Mr.
Lennings. Wanting to see mo go in proper style, my father had
taped up the front seat and painted the fiberglass patch he put on
inthe fall, It would be Lonely in the future formy mother with no
‘one to talk to her in the kitohen at night, after my father wentto
bed. With no one to save money to buy books for, or ask
questions about what has been read.

“Sorry I took so long, but I forgot what my coat looked like.”
‘the ebruptness from which | was pulled from my thoughts,
mixed with the honesty of her revelation, caused me tolaugh,

“You certainly had a wide enough choice." 3

‘Well I need a new coat anyway, do you like this one?”

Looks much better than your old dumpy one.

“It'sthesame one, you ass!” she yelled inmock anger.“ Look, |
have to yo now, would you lilse to see the dorms?”

light rain was now falling
stoadily. forming a Inyer of thin
fee that regularly broke under our
weight into the wotness of the
snow. I stopped to wipe the drops
of water that wore accumulating
‘over my eyebrows, and watched
her awkwardly tip from side to
side as she walked through the
snow, She stuck her hands out
which were red and bird-like
‘compured to the rest of her body. to
balance herself, Herlegs stretched
‘atthe senms of her jeans, and blended into twoslightcurves that
folded into worn-patchos of blue joan, and bounced with the
downward sway of sn ushor’s light descending down an aisle. 1
stood and found mysolf unable to continue.

Look.” | yelled to her, “I's getting pretty cold, 1 think I'm
going to go buck.” She stopped walking und turned around, her
hair was matted and clung to her forehead.

‘You can do what you want, you know," she suid, once again
wiping her glasses, The battom of her nose appeared very reds
Tht had been mbbed viciously for a long time. "But I'm going
home.” 1 trimed around and put my hands in my pockets. the
rain was falling harder now, much harder. | could hear the
Crunch of her footstops growing further andfurther away, when
hor voice culled to me.

Hey! You forgot your glass, your friend might want it

1 started to wilk toward her, but she answered by gesture by
throwing the mug at me, It landed a few foot in front of mo. 1
Shook the snow ouitof it and began running back toward the frat
house. | caught my foot in & thick plece of ice and glided

holplossly into Whe wet snow. As I approached the building I
could fool the wred behind my ears growing warmer. 1 saw
‘myself as a fool returning to fools, and thought how eruel itwas

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already in the groove wall; and
transform those vibrations into
corresponding. electronic signals.
‘These signals are then sent to the
phono preamp, thea thé power amp,
‘then the loudspeakers, and — voila!
= miusio in stereo.

‘A turntable must have platter for
the record to rest on, amotor tospinit,

should havo little effective mass, and
{te: natural resonance should be
cetféctively damped or otherwise dealt

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and a drive system to connect the
motor and the platter. Then, it must
have a tone arm to position the phono
cartridge, Evorything else, all
automation (record changing, auto-
return, auto-repeat), is @ secondary
function for the turntable. They may
be conveniences which you would like
to have, but keep in mind that they are
conveniences,

‘There are many systems for
connecting the motor and the platter
0 that the record can spin at the
correct speed. Examples of such
‘drive” systems are idler wheel, belt
drive, and direct drive, Motors,
invariably, vibrate; the aim of the
drive aystem is to transfer as little of
vibration to the tone arm and
platter as possible, Recent years have
yn the popular acceptance of belt
‘Airect drive systems, which are
much more successful at isolating
motor noise, or rumble,

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easy for manufacturerstotrumpthem
up by using less stringent
‘mengurement techniques.

So, go to the stereo store and listen.
Find a turntable that costs about 15 to
20-per cont of your budget. Listen for
speed irregularities, low level, low
frequency rumbles, and check for the
features you want.Then, try to read a
test report of the tumtable in a
reputable hi fi magazine. Compare it,
tocomparable or even costlier models,
Hstening for differences in rumble or
speed irregularities (called wow and
flutter). Then, sneak back to the
service department and ask the
service guy/gir] (very nochalaatly)
which turntables break a lot, andifthe
‘one you are interested in is reliable.
‘Turntables tend
maint re
important factor.

Finally, a turntable cannot have a
full and meaningful existence without
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matched to each other's capabilities,
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storeo: it is the source for most of your
Listening and cartridges differ widely.
It has been my experience that people
often buy a cartridge
‘afterthought, or have one’

‘many decent stereos sound leas than.
‘good because of an inferior cartridge.
Propare to spend 10 to 15 per cent of
your budget on a cartridge. Listen to
‘what the salespeople recommend,
then listen for youself (preferably
mounted on the turntable you are
interested in, and connected to the rest
of the system you are considering).
Listen for “good, smooth oymbala,
unstrained vocals, and a full basa,
Listen for distortions in the same
‘manner as you did with recelvers or
integrated amps, Make certain that
your cartridge/tonearm combination
oan track records with a stylus
Pressure of three grams or less.

Compare with other cartridges in
the same price range. Don't be airaid
to be critical of any anomolies you
hear, don't be afraid to spend many
hours listening, don't be afraid to read
‘magazine reports.

By now, you are listening to an
entire stereo system: turntable,
‘cartridge, receiver or intograted amp,

loudspeakors, Start evaluating

/atem as a system; compare it to
similarly priced systems, compare it
to your absolute standard of what
‘musio should sound like. Try listening

the samo system at different stereo

1 things are getting a little
‘complicated for you, or if you've got a
‘question, write meo/o Aspects. I'l get ,
back to you, and maybo we can hack it
through together.

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tribulation of buying stereo
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Robert Klein Talks About His Career And Comedy

After an appearance in the
University Gym on May 6, comedian
Robert Klein was interviewed by ASP.
reporter Richie Mermelstein and
WSUA’s Paul Rosonthal. They were
joined by a dozen hard-core Kleinfans
ina small conference room.

How did you like the audience
tonight?
Kloin:1 appreciated them all the more
because they were under adverst
conditions. It was hot, but they were so
enthusiastic, ‘The first 25 minutes
were a bitch. All I could do was make
Jokes about the sound screw-ups and 1
started to got a little ri

special kind of pres
anawer to the first question is yer

Js the oollege clrouit, annoying
because you run into these kinds of
problems?
Kloin:Well, it happened at Carnegie
Hall, It happoned with a sound
company that got, or rather, did not
fgot, six or soven thousand dollars.

{Promoter Ron) Delsener wouldn't
pay them, It's really worthwhile when
you're going to have performers and
‘speakers in & large place like this, to
ve something toprrate, It has to be
well-advised, because they can tell
you to get sométhing you don't need.
Ie it annoying? The fact that people
al

Is TV more rewarding work for you?
Kein: No, it'ten't, Beoause of the
obvious restrictions: They're way in
the dark ages, Our show was too way-
out for them, which iano ridiculous. If
T showed you the show, you'd love the
show. You know, it’s hipper than “The
Courtship of Eddie's Father.”

who are not pr
promoters are handling thing
‘Sometimes makes things alittle more
difficult, but professionals also'screw
up. For the most part, it's a beautiful
way to make a living

What makes a David Brenner or a
Steve Martin play Vegas and keeps
you on the college circuit?
‘loin; Well, I'm neither of those mon
for one thing.

worked Vegas once. People pay #40
a ticket — grown-ups

‘As far a3 Bronner 1s concerned,
David has made it clear from the start
—I knew him as a producer at PBS —
that he wasn't making any kinds of

jons on‘his care
re he played or whether

‘be thoughtful or provocative material.
He's = commercial comedian in the
truest sense of the word.

T was just invited back after five
years tothe Riviera with Nell Sedaka,
bbut I deolined. { would have gone had

“ec

I am willing to forego

$20,000 a week for two
weeks because I'd rather
be happy on the job — it's
important to me.

”

they paid me an outrageous figure. 1
‘am willing to forego$20,000a week for
two weeks because I'd rather be happy
‘on the job — it's important to me.

“ec

owe Lenny Bruce a debt
of gratitude in a very real
way. Allthosetimes he got
busted . . . I would have
gotten busted a million
times tonight.

”

Who are your favorite ‘comedians
‘and who are your influences?
leln:Louis Pasteur, Isaac Newton —
First of all, 'm not that mad about
watching comedians.

My major Influence when I started
ten yoars ago was Lenny Bruce.

I owe Lenny Bruce a debt of
‘gratitude in a very real way. All those
times he got busted... would have
gotten busted a million times tonight.
Tknew someone whowasatthe Gate of
Horn in Chicago the night he was
busted. He did some Catholicism bit,

y was
see him, Those two plainclothesmer
went up on the stage, said, "You're
under arrest, Mr. Bruce,” put him in
handouffs and took him away. It was
‘soary.

1 respect’ of my peors.,.Richard
Pryor, George Carlin, Steve Martin,
‘Albert Brooks.

Steinberg ~ he's not really a great
standup, He dossn't have that gift of
taking @ room, It doesn't surprise me
[that he wasn’t woll received at
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by Jl Haber

Do you find being tn ed
Dinati Shore a9 annoying as {tt
watoh you being interviewed by
Wlein:Well, you kxiow, T reall

Bho used to be a reall
singer in the forties. There are
old recordings: that would
knock you out

She's very, vory cordial and
charming. She so wants you to
comfortable, 1 oan be any way 1 wali
‘on the program. They don't
you the way the “Tonight” show
wanting metodo astandup.

Of tho major talk-show hosts, Jip)
one I fee! the least comfortable wit
[Mike] Doegl

know, Mike, you make me feel very,
uncomfortable, being # fraudulent
entrepreneur with little or no tf
‘and probably a horseshoe up your
ass.” They're not likely to say that on
telovision

Do you feel there's too much
emphasis on the “Tonight” show?

know, Mike,

me feel very
uncomfortable, being | @
fraudulent entrepreneur
with little or no talent, and
probably a horseshoe up
your res.

you

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Wlein; T must have made about 170
network appearances since 1688,
maybe 55 "Tonight" shows, hosted tt
five times. I'm making $3,000 here
tonight. Not all of it's mine: there are
agents, managers and accountants, 29
per cent off the top, Even after all thet,

good
‘because a lot of people pald a
litue bit, But...auali,.uo comment,

major exprossed satisfuotion with the program.
‘yaryone here |s on i ono-to-one basis and thore
is no formality. I thiak I's good for those who
faron't sure whether or not $e go to colloge —
‘specially those who save been out of school for
‘awhile oF who nro severely handicapped.”

spe college evaluation program for the
Pandicapped is now operating on State

Gund SUNY Albany
The oven-wook pllot program, ts
designed to give weverely dlaablod
Jotatn asta colloge fe before thoy
acide to roll tt SUNYA or any other eolloge oF
“hve teaty partiolpants, ranging in igo from 17
oA mou Capitol Area residents who huvebeen
xeareamundod forthe program by Whole Office of
aise a and thon aulonding wpootal courbes
saoratthalp an individual dee! with university
sat ty skills, Wheslchats basiotball games

wre ano held regullly

Graphio Art SUNY Albany was chowen aw tho site for the
by program because it Is moro sultubly equipped

tater school or handleapped student Al
Roey ;

Stephen Dinan Dame anes Spee Raz

Karen Conrud, who kus already completed &
nomester ut Marist College also expressed
‘approvul of the program. Sie maintainod, “I think
ts 4 good program and should be ullowod to run,
It's u big shock to go from home to dorm directly,
‘Aino, tho attondont oare Wy geod. AU in all, t's
working itself out.” However, she suggested that
httondonts be given & mini course wo that tnoy are
potter prepared, Her attondent Kelly Howlan
hagrood, “We could huve used moro practice.”
Conrad added some practical suggestions to
fucilitate mobility for the handicxpped in
wheelchairs on campus, "Elevators could bo
bigigor with lower buttons, Doors could be wider.”
Howlan continued, “And thero should be a ramp
{going right into the fountain,

‘The program 1s aponnored by tho office of
Vooational Rehabilitation and the Cerebral Palsy
Contor. Linda Field and Hope. Premingor are 16
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three are recent graduates and the fourth 1s
ourrently # graduate student here.

Partiolpants in the program seem contont with
the orientation they are experionoing. Beth Miner,
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by G, Pascal Zachary
‘a variably some college
‘students choose to live off-
‘campus; for those who leave
their parent's homes to
attend SUNYA such a move
is a reflec-action, more

biologically than rationally inspired,

| It’s still’ against the law to have pot in your ick ta ehh cae ee
t Possession though. students who live in the city learn,

after countless lescons, to appreciate
it

For those off-campus students who
toll in obscurity or consume in
ignorance, SUNYA has developed a
narcotic—the Off Campus
Association, Funded by the Student
‘Association, the OCA has, roughly, an
{$11,000 budget: it works closely with
the Off Campus Housing Office. Both
are located in tho "off-campus" lounge
of the Campus Center which,
incidentally, is newly furnished and
‘carpeted,

Despite the culture of paranoia
} which flourishes at SUNY A—so many
{ ‘students here have developed a
| sophisticated restraint, endearing, yet
i cooly terrifying, which would ault
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‘The possible CDTA takeover of the
shuttle bus system has beon discussed
‘at great length, and thero arethings to
be said for both sides of the argument.
It is «complex issue and itis not easy
to balance the pros against the cont
But all of these details are secondary
to the basic issue of good faith,

CDTA can offer the most appealing
package in the world, but will they
keop thetr commitment? Semi-public
fagencios like CDTA have bean known
to contract with semi-governmental
agencies like SUNYA with little
serious study of whether it feasable
to provide tho stated services for tho
life of the contract, No one oan really
be held accountable. So if it becomes
uneconomical to Keop the contract,
they simply appeal to the government
for either arate increase or adecrease
in service,

CDTA ts expected to run « $800,000
deficit in the coming year. ‘The
Puokages they have offered would
hhave provided less bus service at a
renter cost than SUNYA pro:
inours, Evidentlyrour shuttle system

‘economical, Now, CDTA is offering
® package which would soem to
provide more extensive service than
‘we have now, at Ie
paying now. Even considering tiatihe

loral Government will matoh the
finds we pay CDTA, I have serious
doubts that CDTA can continue to

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though perfectly unpeouliar is
‘exposed as a patent absurdity when
‘one is unfortunate enough to
‘encounter such @ situation.

‘OCA expends mostof its onorgy and

jpources towards an admiruble end

students steer clear of
which may arise wlien
in apartment.’In the past tne
OCA has tried to educate students,
leading to the publication of the
“Survival Guide to Apartinent
Living" which is still available a he
OCA office.

Recently OCA, in conjunetion with
OCH, has taken @ more active role in
dealing with the problems that beset
student apartment dwellers. Tony Che
of United Tonants is training six
students in advocacy and landlord
tenant law. The students, who are wo
receive a $500-a-year stipend, will
work out of the Off Campus Housing
Office, which may be open eveninks
beginning in the fall; three students
taro already at work. Though they «
only give advice to their fellow
students they are certain to meet « elt

eed,

John Kennedy, the director of OCA,
has high hopos for the organization.
He clearly sees the possibility o!
increased university Involvement sn
the community and believes that
‘students will benefit from this, Tihs
end John will “try to get students
understand that OCA needs their
involvement if these goals are U0 he
achieved,

CDTA: Pros And Cons

contract. They could easily ovmp!si
that they are losing money anc th! i
the contract is not modified.
alternative would be unspexk!
Indeed, those are the tactics they ar:
presently using to have the S
Pressure SUNYA.

If the Administration succumbs
this pressure 1 am afraid tot
sometime in the future we will beta!
with one of three expensivy
alternatives: renegotiating th
contract before it expires; next!
new, more expensive contrict wh
It does expire; or discontinuing C11...
service after five years it
reassembling a SUNYA-run shuttl
system, The last alternative woul!
cortainly be expensive. Consequent!»
the second alternative of »
Substantially more expensive
contract or radieally reduced serviev
after five years would be extremely
Ukely; To put it bluntly, in five years
DTA would have us aver a barrel

‘The simple facts ure that CDTA 1810
danger of going bankrupt. ‘The
Proposed arrangoment with SUNYA
Could not conceivably reduce the
debt by more than ten per cent per

‘fit does not actually Increase it.

af CDTA goos bankrupt or not

the students who rely on shuttle

‘service are probably sooner or later

going to suffer substantially from the
Propoued package,

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American Tourist Town: Boredom and Bars.

by Stephen Dinanka
‘wishing a mouthful of warm
‘beer around his teeth, Bruce
jared out the window at the
water rushing down Main
Street. Its current carried off
ice cream tops, sandwich
wrappers and empty cigarette packs. 1
walked over and stood next to him,
without saying a word.

‘The water streamed by us and on
down past the pizza place, past the old
diner and the archaic bank, past the
bait store. Finally, at the end of the
street, it emptied into the harbor
‘where anchored-ships bobbed in the
choppy salt water.

“Ya know," said Bruce, “Northport
would make a great tourist town. It’
standard seafarer's village, like
Mystic or Plymouth. Fun toviait, but a
real dull place to live.” I nodded my
head in agreement,

Bruce turned and looked about the
crowded tavern for Scotty. He wasn’t
fat the bar where we had left him, We
‘walked along the mahogony counter
lined with people looking at
themselves in the mirror.

Reaching the back of the room, 1 saw
Scotty standing near the pool table
chalking a cuestick. A lanky guy of
medium height was busy racking up
the bails, He looked young, yet his
balding head was beginning to show
through histhin blonde hair. Bruce sat
down at a table to watch the game, I
turned back towards the bar and
‘motioned the bartender with my
empty glass, He walked in my
direotion.

‘TIT have another beer, Ted.”
‘Sure,” he answered. "What
the hell's Scott up to, gettin’ hig
fase kicked in pool?”

Yeah, I suppose.

‘beatin’ this guy:

The lanky

taking oare not to let too much of a fellow was racking upthe ballsagain.
“Well, why don't you just let him

head build up, and set it before me on
the bar. I gave him a dollar bill. He
took it and walked over to the cash
register. Returning he slapped four 1
quarters down on, the bar. Ted was &
good friend.

Four or five beers later, the four
quarters still in front of
grabbed my shoulder.
ya at work tomorrow.
awaiting my reply.

“Sure encugh," I said. “Tomorrow,
He walked out of the bar,

‘Sooty came over for a refill.
Leaning up against the bar next to me
he put his glass down for Ted. "Some
guys don’t know when to give
up.” he whispered. “I'm
slok and fuckin’
tired of

win?" T asked.

“Nope. Can't do that, I ain't Iike

hat,

“Go quit complaining ther

he crowd was thinning out. It

filling glasses for the Inst
thm that night "Last cal”
outed.

gotting late,
two am, Ted

you walt peoon stall”

already
‘began

T stood and walked to s table. After

‘ink to be washed,

fed throw a
and the neon 1

pickin up an armful of empty beer
muge und pitcher

bar and set the glassware on the flat
surface, Then I sot out to retriot
wnother bateh, Ted took the glasses
Ve the bar and placed them in the

returned to the

Sootty finished beating
Blondie at pool. He picked
up a couple of glass
had been left on a counter
‘near the pool table and
‘walked over to the bar.

that

‘witeh,
lights in

the front window went

oul, He came
and shut

pinball m
‘and the juke!

bulbs shining

‘around

from behind the bar

off the
achines
box. The

room was dim now,
it by only a few red

up from

underneath the bar and

crumbling old tiffany

7 which hung from the ceiling
the tables,

Gootty and I sat down at the bar where
‘Ted was washing out glasses, Scotty’
anky poo! opponent staggered over
from the ,pool table and propped
hhimself up on the bar. There were no
other customers left in the place.

1d poured two beera for Scotty and

hai
Blondie, sliding his body down the bar

towards us,
“Sorry.” ‘Ted replied. “I already
made last call

“Don't give me that shit," shouted
Blondie. His glassy oyes stared

‘They're my friends,” replied Ted.

‘And they helped me clean up. So why
don't you just split

We tried to ignore Blondie, but he
‘was determined to make a pain in the
‘ase out of himself, “Why the hell are
you looking at me funny?” he
‘screamed at Scotty.

Sooty turned to him, “I'm not
looking at you man, I've got better
things to do.”

“You're a real wise as
yelled, Seotty didn’t budge. “Yeah,
you're a real wise bastard.” He
Yeached over and slapped Scotty
cross the face, Before any words
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..Of Tape Recorders, Headphones And Such.

by Eric Ostorne
{you've been following the
series up until this point, you
have boon introduced to all to
the components which
fa basic stereo

powe? amp (integrated amp or
Feceiver) the loudspeaker, the
turntable, and the cartridg

Perhaps you were able to
understand more about the operation
‘and purpose of each of these
‘components.

‘Perhaps this would be an opportune
time to convince myself that I should
not pursue a career in writing.

Whatever the ose, if you purchase
‘one of each of the components listed
above, you will be able to play records
in stereo, If you choose to buy a
receiver with which to power your set,
then you have FM stereo (and perhaps
‘AM non-fidelity) as additional music
and information sources.

‘Another source you may want to
consider: a tape recorder.

Tod ‘per cent of all records
are recorded on magnetic tape. It is a
hi fidelity mode of recording
(although recording directly onto disc
is thought by many to offer superior
quality). It allows for editing and
inserts, multitracking, selective
mixing, special effects, and a variety
of other benefits,

In other words, the tape recorderis a
creative tool, It is the medium for
audio storage and retrieval ‘which
offers the greatest flexibility and
potential for innovation.

‘Your home tape recorder offers you,
‘most of the same advantages a studio
machine offers the recording
engineer. Studios use reel-to-reel
format tape machines exclusively.
Consumer machines come in reel-to-
roel, cassette, 8-track, and eloassette
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With the reel-to-reel format the tay
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onto another reel. Casiette and
cloassette formats feature a smallor
thickness tape pre-wound onto both
supply andtake-up rool, cohtainedin a
case, and automatically threaded in
the machine, An8-trackhasnotake up
reel. The tape operates in an endless
Joop, with different portions of the
width of the tape utilized at different
times.

‘The difficulties encountered in 8
track decks are usually speed
constancy and range of frequency
response. It ia difficult to make a
transport, utilizing the 8-track format
which is truly hi fidelity. For this
eason, the popularity of 8-track units

‘diminished considerably, in favor

story.

‘with live recording or broadoast
produgtion, or in general want to mess
around with tepe and learn, what's

Prices start at about $300 for a storeb.
‘unit and range upwards of $2000. What
you are buying !s improved fidelity,
the ability to multi-track or “build
fone source over another, Features to
Took for: microphone and line level
mixing, three heads (record, erase,
playback), seven and one half inches

‘a tight apooustic “seal” between. the
‘earphone and the ear, some are light
pressure, surface contact kind,

It would be useless for me to olte

able to survive the listening test
without discomfort ts equally
important.

Dust, finger oi! and grime are

The Slow Search for a Stereo

Originally, it igned for
anything more than speech
reproduction. But the format was so
convenient and eaught on 60 quickly,
that engineers did a seemingly
miraculous job in creating stereo
cassette machines with extended
frequency response.

So, what should you buy? It
depends, of course, on your needs, and
{your budget. If you want to tape music
for background, or if you don't ke
handling records, or if you want tape
in you car, boat or Learjet, then
cassette format is probably your best
choice. Units range in price from
about $150 to about $1000, Here
are minimum specification:
frequency response from 50 to 10,000
Hert, plusor minus threedb, signal to
noise ratio of at least 50 db without
Dolby, 55 db with the Dolby circuit in
wow and flutter of not more than per
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(weighted, RMS) of ‘at most 15 per
cent, and distortion of not more than
12 per cent at zoro level. All specs
‘should be met at a tape speed of seven
find one half inches per second.
tero headphones have
become the most popular
sterto accessory. Some
maintain that aside from the
privacy they offer, the
‘image presented by
headphones i more spectacular, and
‘nuanees in sound are heard in phones
that are inaudible through
loudspeakers.

Whatever your feeling, the
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fone, and the domestic quarrels they
obviate far outweigh the expense.

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dograde the quality of the record, An
‘accessory for cleaning dises can
Alleviate this problem. It has been
demonstrated many times that clean
records Inst longer and sound better.

‘A good record leaner is one which
effectively removes most foreign
‘matter from the innermost parts ofthe
grooves, without leaving any residu
and without damage to the
‘Vinyl.Solvents like isopropyl alcohol
will remove the contaminants, but
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Order, Some manufacturers claim that
the “dry” approuch is the best, others
tise liquid solvents in conjunction
With a brush, Read their literature,
then consult some hi fi magazines.
Prepare to spend between $5 and $16.

Got any problems? Drop me a line.
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taken by Mark Reich

by Nanole Schwartz
ill recombinant DNA
techniques create genetic
monatrositios?
Scientists and
nonsoientists throughout
the country have debated
the topic hotly in recent months, but
here at SUNYA the issue is academic,
fas one project using these techniques
is already underway and two more are
slated to begin upon completion of the
requisite facilities,

Dr. Josoph Mascarenhas of the
Biology department is using
recombinant techniques to aid him in
his study of nitrogon-fixing genes.
This study requires only a Pi
(minimal) level of physical
containment under the guidelines
determined by the National Institute
of Health, as the ‘mating and
interchange between B, coli and
Azotobacter, the organisms being
studied, ooours frequently in nature.

‘There's nothing I can do with them
that they haven't done already,” said
‘Mascarenhas.

‘The PI laboratory in use for these
experiments is a small room which

does not differ markedly in *

appearance from other labs on the
quiet third floor of the Biology
building. Glassware of every size,
shape and desoription abounds, vying
for space on the crowded countertops
with delicate calibrators and cloudy
solutions.

‘Two small refrigerators hold test
‘tubes of recombinant DNA material;
‘an ultraviolet light keeps instruments
sterile beneath a glass hood.

Precautions required to maintain a
PI level of environmental control are
standard microbiological practices,
ineluding such common-sense
notions aé the prohibition of eating
‘and drinking in the laboratory and an
insect and rodent control program, as
well as daily decontamination of work.
surfaces and of iquidand solid wastes,
containing recombinant DNA
materials.

{In order to convert the existing lab
to a PI facility, it was necessary only
to install Formica on the countertops,
to make them easier to clean,

‘The lab now in uso goes beyond the
NIH guidelines in that it has its own,
small autoclave for sterilization, as
well as negative airflow:
departmental policy requires
maximum stringency where the
guidelines are vague. Nonetheless,
‘Mascarenhas is convinced that there
is"noevidenceof hazards atall” in his
experiments.

The two other projects using
recombinant DNA techniques will be
undertaken by Dr, Richard Zitomer
land Dr. David Holmes of the Biology
department as soon as the P2 (low)
level phyaleal containment facility is
built in atiled corner roomon the third
floor.

stimates as to when construction
will be completed range from the
beginning of September to the end of
October, contingent upon when
SUNYA finishes the refurbishing of
‘Mohawk Tower,

‘The P2 facility will be similar to the
1 lab, but restrictions will be even.
‘more stringent, NIH requirements
include the uso of lab coats and
‘mechanical pipettes, and a safoty

cabinet to minimize air contact with
experimental materials by such
devices as blenders and shaking
machines. >

‘Additional safeguards imposed by
the SUNYA Biohazards Committee
include a large in-lab aptoclave, a
negative air-prossure system,
complete decontamination of tho
room, and special looks on the doors.

Ironically, the remodeling of the
second-floor bathroomsin the Biology
building necessary to reinstall the
glassware equipment there will be
more complex and time consuming
than the construction of the P2
laboratory.

Zitomer will be studying gone
oxprossion—the regulation of genetic
information so that each cell takes on
a different function—in the
cytochrome C and histone genes of
yeast, with the aid of recombinant
techniques,

He sees these studies as being the
bbasie kkind of research inthis area, and
emphasized that for him recombinant
DNA technology was a resource tool
that would serve as background for a
series of studies which heexpects will
last five to ten years.

‘As these experiments progress,
recombinant DNA research will play
less and less of a role,” Zitomer said.

Zitomer was alarmed at what he

ion of free inqu

inthe banning of basioresearch. “Ifor
‘ono think experiments on this scale
tare perfectly safe," he said.

‘The -attitude of scientists hi
fahifted from one of oaution to one of
safety," he said, citing an
‘endorsement by the American Society
from Microbiology of NIH guidelin
whlch noted that “not one expert in
infectious disoases or one
microbiologist accustomed to
studying pathogenic organisms has
‘spoken out against recombinant DNA.
research.”

Referring to the furor at SUNYA on
this issue, Zitomer added, “I don't
think the response wasin linewith the
level of danger.”

Holmes will be studying structural
organization and regulation of
expression in the genes of sen urchins
and yeast. Recombinant DNA
research is a primary component of
this work, which Holmes had been
‘engaged in for three yoars at Cal Tech.
prior to being hired by SUNYA last
year.

If they didn’t want me to do this
work they shouldn't have brought me
here,” Holmes said bitterly, claiming
that his careor is suffering as a result
of the lack of facilities and the delay in
building them. He has been doing
indirectly related biomedical research
while waiting for construction,

Holmes dismissed what he called

‘alarmist worries," saying,
redearohi we're -doing lar total
removed from sclence-fiction’s
genetic engineering, We have been
extremely cautious. There iseven leat
of biohazard than we thought" =

He sald that many of the additional
safeguards were unnecedsary and a
repult of “bending over backwards to
appease certain factions in the
department.

Its interesting to note that much of
the work that Holmos andZitomer will
bbe doing will actually require, under
NIE guidelines, only a minimal level
(Pip facility, a they will be working
largely with organiams which cannot
survive outside of a test tube.

“Holmes and Zitomer will be doing
their research under grants that total
more than $380,000 over aspanof three
‘years, with tho greatest proportion of
this sum covering starting costs inthe
first year.

“Most of these grant funds areused to
pay wages, including the summer
salaries of the professors and the
salaries .of personnel such as lab
technicians, research assistants and
glass washers,

‘An assessed rate of 62.2 por cent of
the grants is plowed back into the
Research foundation for indirect
costs, including reimbursement of the
state for overhead, cost of

continued on page four

A Barely Bearable Hot Summer’s Day

by Richie Mermelstein

Twas walking through the main
lobby of the Campus Centerafew days.
ago, heading toward the stairs which
lead to the oafeteria, It was a hot day,
with a stinging bright sun beaming
Outside, 1 was wandering without
@irection, taking time out from a few
appointments I had that day. These
business meotings forced me to
drastically overdress considering the
sweltering heat outside

Everyone walling by seemed intont
on splting me, Shorts and sandals,
skirts and too shirts, light blouses and
sleeveless pullovers strolled by, T
imagife with poople attached to them,
though in my condition it didn't seem
all that important what the people
looked like. They probably would
have had windblown hair flying
behind them had I bothered to glance
at their faces.

‘A pair of vivaciously short shorts
walked from the TV lounge toward the
vending machines. Atop the shorts
was a loose halter which 'dswear had
no strape attached to it. The only thing
keeping it from falling from its
peageful resting place was my
‘everpresent bad luck.

‘She wasn’t very tall, but the length
of her shorts gave a long appearance
to her wonderfully shaped legs. Her
virtually non-existent halter
accentuated a perfect figure, She
couldn't have been wearing less if she
‘was in a string bikini

‘As she approached the candy
machine, I coincidentally had a
fgudden urge to buy an orange drink
from themachine adjacent to hers, The

That’s the story of my
life — love goes out the
door when money comes
innuendo.
—Groucho Marx
in “Monkey Business”

——_———

area cleared out; there was justme and
her and our two vending machines,

[fumbled through my pookets for a
quarter, hoping I wouldn't find onetoo
quickly. Staring at the machine, with
only 3items to choose from, isarather
blatant method of stalling. I glancedto
my left, and watched her deposit some
coins in the slot

Her tiny {ace filled with puzzlement
‘as the machine refused tocomply with
her push button domands. She struck
the coln return, and her money came
gushing down. Had either Lancelot of
Casanova been alive during the
Vending Machine Age, this certainly
would have beon thelr moment to step
{n, One of them scroamed from inside
for me to do the same

"You've got tohave amagictouchto

get these machinos to work,”

Gur aed so ae Geo ee
‘that 1 was paying attention to her
plight, and was pleased to have

someone to share her troubles with.
When she looked at mo, I saw even
more clerly how prety she wae,

‘Do you'

Tena only boon a half aseeond since
1 said whatever I had said, but my
absorption in her quick glance made
me forget my profound statement.

iat"

“Do you have a magic touch?"

‘There is a God! | thought to myself.
'm staring at a stunning blonde with
Almost no clothes on whoseasking me
the most leading question I've ever
heard, Half-dazed in utopian
happinoss, | hesitated.

“You toll me," [suid enveloping her
in my arms.

“Put down those nickels and we'll
find out,” 1 blurted, walking off into
the sunsot with her.

“Like Doug Henning and Houdini

.°" Lsaid, as she sunk

Do you?" she repeated

I regained consciousness
reluctantly realizing that my bliss-
filled actions were only imaginary
retorts, I took the four nickels trom
har asked her which button to push,

wed as ach coin clicked into
position, tapped the button for a Clare
bar, and handed it to her. Thad let the
groatost straight line, the, perfect.
Innuendo slide by. She graciously
‘ocepted the chooolate bar. I was
again aware of my sweaty pants and
out-of-season shirt,

‘As she walked away, I think I saw
her microshorts and skimpy halter
give a slight smile, But it didn't
matter,

AUGUST 4 1977

“Dazzling Star Wars $parkles Galactic ere

‘by Richie Mermelstein,
‘ot too long ago, in a galaxy

‘hot very far away (Boston,
‘speoifically), the owners of

(Cine 1-6 orderedanew movie

entitled Star Wars. Before

the movie began ite run in
Albany, the owners—SBC
Managemrnt, = Boston-based
‘corporation which also owns WAST
hore—noticed that the strangest damn
thing happened when Star’ Wars
premiered in New York: hordes of
treots waiting to get

surprised everyone.
‘Thore had boon no advance build-up:
there was for Jaws, none of the
‘excessive promotion as there was fo
‘A Bridge Too Far. With only three
weeks left before the movie wi
scheduled to open, the Cine 1-
management realized that an
‘emergency course had to be set.
srdered a sedond print, and
ooided, for the first time in four years
to show one film at two of its six
theatres. Next, they doubled their
staff, hiring many employees only
days before the unveiling. They then
ordered extra concession and
promotional items. Perhaps the only
thing they didn’t do was order alarger

records; including largest total gross.
“We've had movies run for more than
four months and not make this much,”
said assistant manager Bill
Van Alstyne. He cited Chinatown,
which ran for24 weeks, asanexample.

‘The major factors which have made
‘Star Wars so important to the theatres
hhave been indiroct benefits, Cine 1-6
manager Phil Garvey explained. The
concession revenues and the spillover
into the other theatres of people who
fget turned away from Star Wars has
turned the Star Wars phenomenon into
‘a gold mine.

‘The Northway Mall-based theatre
doesn't have @ popcorn popper, and
‘orders anywhere from 25 to 100 four
‘and one half pound bag
from Dolly's once a wee
Dally’ reselved thro eails from the
theatre, "We ordered about 250 bags,”
Garvey said, which amounts to more
than a half a ton, On Saturday, with
Bad News Bears Breaking Trainingin
‘Theatre One and Star Wars in Theatres

time aingle-

‘The splll-over factor has beon
another pleasant surprise. Realizing
that people-who make the trip to the
‘theatre might settle for another

» product if Star Wai sold out,
Garvey began revolvin
starting times around it."We try to
schedule a movie that isn't as popular
to start soon after Star Wars,” he said,
‘Sometimes, he doesn't
‘those few extra minutes—"We can
start a movie at the same time as Star
Wars, and still see the effect, since it
often sell
‘The mild success of The Island of Dr.
‘Moreau Garvey attributes in part to
People who were shut out of the main
attraction,

Also contributing. to the overall

profit-picture ‘are the promotional
gimmicks which have suddenly
Sprouted far and wide. T-shirts,
programs, buttons and paperback
editions of George Lucas’ novel are
‘old in the lobby. of the theatre, “May.
the force be with you" tshirts and
buttons were given away forpublicity,
‘and have become collectors items due
to their limited quantity.

‘Laurie Wallace, who mans the Star
Wars stand, said people's reactions to
the one “Foros” t-shirt she managedto
keep for herself are astounding.

Garvey added that he knows
someone who received five dollarsfor
‘one of the “Force” buttons, The
commercial buttons available in the
lobby are plentiful—10,000 have been
ordered.

Presently, Star Wars posters a1
outselling Farrah Fawcett Majors
posters by 5-1. One Hollywood
promoter claims that in-the end, St
Wars memorabilia, will outsell
Farrah, The true efféct, Garvey say’
will be noticed this Halloweon, when
hundreds of pint-sized R2 units will
roam the streets

‘And then there’is the movie itself.
‘Twentieth Century Fox didn't apend
noarly as much as other companies
have on elther the making or the
solling of the film. Word of mouth,
critical acclaim, and Newsweek and
Time lead stories accounted for its
success, The movie industry is elated,
for the public made it a hit without
hard promotional push,

‘The promoters of The Deep, for
‘instance, made extensive studios
examining the ideal marketing
procedures, and then saturated the
public with massive ad campaigns,
‘Thoy told us t was ahit, economically
‘and artistically, and the public
proceeded to make it one.

“Tdon't understand how they're ablo

mote here during ite fifth wet
‘The Deep drew during its first week at
Colonie Center, where it was shown in
two theatres.”

How long will the phenomenon last?
Garvey suspects Cine 1-6 will be
showing Star Wars until
‘Thankegiving. Assistant
manager Van Alstyne mentions
Christmas as a possibility.

No matter. In the nearby
jalaxy of Boston Christmas

Jong since arrived.

The CDTA— SUNYA Battle: Hold Everything

To the Editor.
‘Students are the ones who have to

‘use the bus service, It is only fairthat
we should have a say in deciding
whether to keep the prosentbusesorto
give CDTA a contract to provide this
service. Notonly arethere anumber ot
matters that have not been
satisfactorily resolved regarding
‘CDTA’s capability and willingness to
provide adequate bus servic

‘summer is no time to go signing any
contract or to make any final
decisions either way on the matter.
‘The normal and reasonable procedure
would be for CDTA to submit a final
proposal and then for SUNYA to hold
full public hearings to listen to all the
affected partion before a decision is

considerable concern over this tesue,
Now the terms have changed
substantially, maybe for the worst, AL
students should be thoroughly
informed of these terms prior to any
decision. If a contract is algned before
the fall semester, students will know
that they have been left out, They will
think that the Administration is
insensitive to student sentiment, and
afraid of student reaction. Perhaps
there are other reasons for making
quick decision, But in my opinion, no
other factors could possibly outweigh
the need for simple fair play.

If the administration or CDTA is
afraid of adverse student reaction, It

would be convenient for them to push
tora contract dusing the interseslon
from Aug. 8 uni he fall arm, hen
the oxmpus will be virtually sm
‘hia would indiate that they are aot
only unintrestd in student opinion,
ut that they ate postvelyaralgot i
Students, hove. in’ the. past
demonstrated theirstong concern for
Mdoquate bus service, Wo" have

Lamb-asting

To the Bator
TAs t stadent concerned with the
rising tide of immoral ‘on this
campus, Ifind my stomach turning at
your ‘callous depiction of devient
Sern aban vi th arco tha
Appeared im ASPoets todnyT kno
that thie athe amb of toffee andthe
home ofthe brave bulyoushouldave
chapped that arioon from tat lease
Come on, man, when wool this end

protested and petitioned when wv felt
it was necessary. We prefer
cooperation to confrontation.
However, cooperation requires wud
wiM on both sides. If the
administration finalizes a contract
before students return, couperation
will be very difficult
David Gold
Prosidont, Student Associstion

Immorality

‘Thore is mutton more disgusting than
cartoons portraying beastiality

‘You have some control over wht
appears inthe paper. Don’t sheepishly
stand by and allow such degradation
of the free press.

Alter seeing this cartoon, [cw find
only one expression to sum up my
feelings on tho issue: “Fuck bw.
man”

A Conoorned Student

DNA: Monsters From Microbes

‘continued from page three
Administration and salaries of
‘Support personnel, as well as going
imto & state-wide University
Innovative Fund, which is responsible
for such expenditures as summer
grants-in-aid, awards for excelienoe
{in touching and the SUNY prese,
Funds for the construction of the Pa

facility, however, como directly fo"!
SUNYA. With incidental expenses
‘costs are expected to be close to $4.00
aid William Hedberg of the Office of
Regearoh, which is administering the
funds,
'We are hopeful that we can box
construction as soon us possible
perhaps in A\ Hedberg suid

aa

‘AUGUST 4, 1977

UtNgE! md ies oe

by Dan Gal
‘unz was looking for @ job. I
tried to help.

“How about in the
cabinet?” I asked, but she
just looked at the ceiling and
‘sighed,

“[ don't mean that kind of job,” she
ald. “I mean the kind where you can
get lots of monoy. Or at least come. The
world is tough these days, andjobs are
not a dime a dozen. A college degree
gets you nowhere.’

Tooked out towardsthe fountains at
the center of campus, watching job
hunters planning their attacks. “I was
walking down Madison,” 1 told Bunz,
“and saw job hunters chasing
‘employers down the street. They wore
soreaming for jobs but the employers
wouldn't listen, We don't need anyone’
they would respond,

“You're worried about the job
hunters?” asked Bunz. "You shouldn't
be, I's the sit-on-their-
types who deserve your sympathy.
‘They can't got a job because they

explained, “They deserve my
‘admiration, not my sympathy. Fun
far more funthan work, by definition.

T wondered how job hunters hunt
together ae Bunt said something in
response. After all, what if they come
‘upon an opening? Two hunters cannot
enter the same interview without
‘competing.

“You're not listening to. mo,
observed Bunz, “Do you want to know
why you really should feel sorry for
the ass-sitters?”

No, I guess we're finished with the
How's your job hunting going?”

Bunz looked up at the ceiling again.
‘Is that a roach?" she asked.

Tlooked up too. "Yes, itis, but they
don't hire, Of course, they do make
jobs. For exterminators. Have you
‘considered killing bugs? It's probably
rewarding, How often can a mass
murderer enjoy the respect of an
honest profession?”

'm good at job hunting, not bug
hunting,” Bunz said. “I don't enjoy
ving either,

jagreed, and said so, “You
spotted the rouoh, so you're qualified
to bug-hunt. And while you may not
enjoy Killing, you can take it one
abstract lovel higher and enjoy
making killing.” I began
daydroaming about killing bugs. Vern
and I once burned a spider, but I'm not
sure that's enough experience for
exterminating companies. Also, if
they're paid by the bug, then three
minutes would bo too long to kill one
spider. 1 once asked Vern how many
bugs exterminators kill an hour, but
ho said he didn't give a damn.
ines.” ‘That was Bunz’s voice
again, “Gaines, what do you think us
job hunters should do?”

“Extermination has real
possibilities that we have only
‘touched upon here, “You could
exterminat

“The kookies down the hall just
hired a real person,” said Bunz. “And
someone clearly on drugs keeps

king me to work for him,
rofusing to say what's involved

“Would he pay well?” I was asking
in spite of the fact that Bunz
not to even consider the drugee's offe
After all, we sometimes assume that
it’s best not to got involved, but thon
discover that working for a weirdo is
the answer to a job hunter's dream.

"$400 a week, he said. But I don't
believe him.”

“Why not?”

“Because he doesn’t have a
telephone. He never gives a number
because his office doesn't have a
telephone. I can't see someone willing
to pay $400 a week not having &
telephone.

—falptouts expensive these

offered.

Gaines." Another sigh, this one at
the wall

''m sorry. Are there roaches on the.
wall there?”

Bunz looked directly into my eyes,
and changed the subject: “Why do we
have these conversations?”

“This question upsot me, so Ifound &
way out of it, “Well, I know why Thave
these conversations and you probably
know why you have these
conversations, but to ask collectively
why we, together have these
conversations implies that we have
some mutual reasons.”

| had objected to the wording of the
question, which gave me more time to
think about it, Bunz was being
somewhat unfair to ask such a vague
‘question, She had many other options.
Tn fact, she followed with one of them:

“tm a poor, unemployed, fearful
college graduate who lacks direction,
‘and you're discussing ‘he philosophy
of lanugage. Where's you:

T assumed my feeling was in the
cabinet, near the job, but I didn't want
Bunz to know that, If she found my
fooling, then she would realize that 1
don't carry it around with me. And If
she knew that, she'd know that other
people might acoasionally carry my
feeling around, Like Rags. But Rags
only borrowed it once, and he caused
me alot of pain, Rags, yousee, figured

that my fooling might be useful when
talking to people who didn't listen
carefully. “It works for you,” he sald.
‘But people could tell it wasn't his own
fooling.

“All right”
change the subject agai
you want?”

I knew exactly what I wanted: “
meat ee ome teeta
evils of Anita Bryant and why people
‘come to universities.” That was about
it

Bunz prepared to
in, "What do

vii?" Buna saw people prety
Grr, atdoa std ber roaaeetel
clearly sarcastic. Evil cannot. ‘be
Tearned, sho would say, but must be
there already.

“Or convince yourself our soolety 18.
too efficient. It doesn't need as many
people as it has to serve the people it
he

‘Bunz atarted playing with her keys.
‘That isn't true.-I kept reading in
college that technology increas
employment, except) that it do

Hunting for Reasons
to Not Hunt for A Job

he sun was moving over the
‘campus and the job hunting

day was halfover. Bunzand!

started talking about our

friends who had given up
job-hunting—and taken up

grand larceny. “In a way. 1
understand,” said Bunz, “They're
‘smart college kids and no one will
give them jobs, They feel as if society
owes them something. Whatscares me
is that the more successful they are,
ications are,

T wondered whether I wasimpressed
with their cleverness as crook
“Sometimes I feel that stealing is a
Skill like any other. I's so embedded
in society. Everyone steals
something. Do you know someone
who ia morally pure?”

Bunz thought about that one. “There
are people who might be pure. I can't
see some of those meek, paranoid
people I know doing anything wrong.
They're all afraid they'l be caught.”

“But is it still wrong when it's
accepted?” I was about to give the
classicexempleof cheatingon income
taxes, but I decided it was an overused
story, Instead I talked about how
Student Assoolation officers receive
$1,000 for the summer rogardiess of
their noed. That was a new topic.

‘8 a new topic.” said Bunz.

‘And it sounds less interesting. If
we're goingto kill aday of job hunting,
wo have to kil it right

“Or exterminate lt." [looked around
my body for something to talk about,
fand asked Bunz if I should start
wearing a watch, “Time is an
important dimension,” I said.

“How can you live without making &
contribution to something?” Bunz
wanted to be convinced that wasted
time wasn't morally wrong.

‘We're back to job hunting.” 1
thought of ways to make a
contribution without working. "If you
‘were evil, Bung, then if you didn't do
anything you would be making &
contribution, After all, you know the
saying ‘If you don’t have something
nnjee to say, better notaay it atall’, Soif
you don't have something nice to
Contribute, better not to work at all." 1
Tooked to see if she was taking me

sriously.

‘Are there Evelyn Wood Bil
‘courses for people who want to be

reduce the need for unskilled labor.
But that
Bunz dropped the keys, and they fell
noisily to the floor.

“Why don’t you just take your car
and go somewhere?” [ asked, since
she's always saying that she should do

it

“st don't mean it when I
Gaines

“So why-do,you say it? Just to
express you're desire to escape? It's
like sleeping or drugs.

Bunz had some more questions
about her last employer, 50 she
changed the subject. "Arethereantsin
‘their pants?”

1 understood what she meant, 80 1
explained about men’s underwear thi
doosn't fit right, or is not made with
enough material. "Some people don't
worry about sticking their hands
down their pants in public,” I said.

‘But some people do,” Bunz said,
“and that’s a good way to turn thos:
people off.”

“My underwear doesn’t always fit,
but [try to bo subtle about it” I said
“Recently, though, I've been trying to
get myself to adjust my underwear
whenever 1 need to, It shouldn't
matter, and anyone who judges me by
my underwoar adjustments isn't
going to be someone I want to know
anyway.”

“Talking about underwear, how's
the Fearsome Foursome’

“Huh? What's tho connection?”

vit,

Foursome are looking for lodging.
House hunting, as opposed to job

varytiine “they. ‘60
somoihing thoy. like, someone elen
takes it first, IVa the story of their
lives.”

Bunz looked depressed, “They have

asy, Bunz,

philosophy of language, t's all pretty.
hard to follow, And it's hard to know
your pla:

“What'a your place, Gaine

T'm doing my best to answer. her
question, That's why I. wrote ,thi
story. Aftor all, things keep changing,
#0 places keep changing, My place a
‘to keop up with the chang

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‘AvGUST 4 1977,

A Farewell to Ears:

‘by Brie Osborne
his is our Jest talk,

‘At this point in time, two

things should be happening:

‘You should have # general

idea of which stereo

components you are

conaldering purchasing.
‘And you should have your money

ready.

We have talked about the business of
Ustening to and’ judging various
‘compohents of a stereo system,

If you have visited your
neighborhood hi fi shop, you have
already experienced the difficulties 1
‘am about to enumerate,

‘Stereo shops are simply not set upto
let you, for example, compare one
cartridge with another, You must
compare one turntable with another;
the cartridges will not necessarily be
the same, neither will the amps or
receivers. Consider what this means
with regard to comparing integrated
amps or receivers; unless the sources
FM, you cannot genuinely say that
you have listened to two different
power units under the same
conditions,

‘There is a further complication in
comparisons: the switching unit,
This magical device supposedly lets
the shopper choose which speakers
‘and amps he wishes to compare, Just
by dialing up different combinations.
Also, they usually have a volume
control tolet loudspeakers of ditfering,
pificiencies be compared ut the same
subjective level,

White this is laudable (as music
which is louder tends to sound better)

it introduces many problems, ‘The
‘most important is the fact that

Euditor's Note: Last (auanht) in a series
on stereo components hy suiintime
Announcer, somotime-recording
engineer and full-time grouch Erie
Osborne,

padding or resistance between the
Output stage of the amp and the
loudspeaker screws up the amp's
damping factor, which iseritical tothe
character of the bass sound, It is also
virtually impossible to set two
sources at an identical volume, and

Find components you are interested
disous

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{a The Slow Search for a Stereo

OlWO_

even seemingly undetectable
differences can yield the false
perception of one amp or pair of
loudspeakers sounding “better” than
the other.

This is a problem in comparing
loudspeakers as well, us is their
physical location in the
demonstration room, Speaker
plucement iseritieal 10 bass response,
and in some circumstances, to the
general charactor of the speaker
sound.

So, what do you do? Firs, Md likete
suggest thai baclcand-forth, A-B
comparison of components is not
orribly usotul, cortainly not as useful
fas the stereo slore would want you to
believe. When you such
comparisons, you undoubtedly hear
differences, but it ss difficult to make
qualitative judjgnents on this basis.

As an experiment, force yourself ta
Listen to that pur of loadspenteers
you initially thought were
Listen for ten oF fileen
listen to a pair you

whieh
terrible
minutes, ‘Then
previously lied, What you hear will
surprise you

to your chosen integrated amp or
receiver. ‘Then, take the pair of
loudspeakers you think you like and
move them to a “front and center”
position in the listening room, Do not
use any switching device. he object
is to evaluate the system as an entity,
In and of iteett.

Experiment with different speaker
locations, different orientations
(horizontal and vertical). Try different
speakors, different recelvers, different
cartridges. But listen to each
combination foralong time, andlisten
ton wide variety of records, Carefully
evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of each combination;even
20 80 far as to make notes to yourself.
Then, to compensate for the
poculiuritios of tne show room, listen
to the same sot up at different stereo
shops. and sev if you hear the same
thing.

What | am speaking of is « long,
lime-consuming procedure. Many
people spend weeks, months, even
years listening and evaluating; it is
hot u procedure that eun be overdone,
Also, you will undoubtedly alienate

Some Final Sound Advice

‘some salespeople in the process; fear:
not, any shop worth, ite salt will
begrudgingly do what you ask In
consideration to them, try to plok
times when the demoroom isnot busy.

Finally,a word about money. and
who to buy from.

Money at a stereo storeis a peculiar
‘comodity. While the U.8. Government.
has fixed the value of the dollar for
internal spending, and th
International money markets
‘continue to fix daily the value of the
dollar for international spending,
your neighborhood stereo shop has
hot followed in kind,

Said another way, there are’ list
prices for stereo components, but no
wise shopper pays much attention to
them, except to use thein as a basis for
how rhuch discount to ask for.

Most stereo stores (big shops. and
chains, not the little comer, guys)
work on a mark-up of anywhere from
35-50 per cent, depending upon the
brand. Got price quotes from different
places, and have the stores compet
with each other to get your busin
But koop in mind that different st
offer different warrantee and return
policies; these are often moi
important than a five or ten dollar
difference. Go with the store that
offers you a low price and a liberal
warrantee and return policy,

If you feel like you're going around
in circles, drop me a note do,
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T have both enjoyed and disliked
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about hi fi, and am continuously
fascinated by it. However, I and the
editors of ASPECTS are unhappy.
About superfluous troatment that
‘space limitations have foreed upon ui,
Wo hardly scratched the surface of a
uurea that defies description in many
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