Albany Student Press, Volume 77, Number 11, 1990 March 6

PUBLISHED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY

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Ralph Nadar calls for more student activism

By T.E. Kane
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
urged students on Saturday to begin a
new culture of civic leadership to
counteract the cultural crisis brought on
during the Reagan years.

“The Reagan era created a society that
neglected most needs of the people, while
the almighty dollar reigned supreme,”
Nadar said,"despite the wreckage it
caused."

Speaking to about 500 students, kicking
off the New York Public Interest Group’s
annual statewide conference, Nader said
the wreckage that Reagan left included
the complete rule of multi-national
corporations that increased the wealth of
a few individuals at the expense of the
vast majority of the people.

These companies produced unhealthy
food, unsafe products, and continued to
damage the environment, Nader said.

“Jt is urgent that a second generation of
activists,” begin to form at the
community level, forging a new sense of
civic responsibility, Nader said.

Nader said vision is needed by public
officials who often lack a “long term
outlook" on policies that affect the
environment, education, energy, health
care, and the economy.

“Politicians are so short of vision,”
Nader said, “they are unable to address
the problems that face the nation today.”

Bush and Reagan sing their songs, wave
the flag, but do so little to deal with the
pending crises in the American society,
Nader said.

The most effective way to move the
country in a direction that would preserve
the environment , make better use of
energy, create an educational system that
is fair and provide health care to all
people, is to knock on the door of the
nation’s political leaders, and demand that
these policies be implemented, or you will
vote them out of office, Nader told
students.

The activists in the 1960s and 70s
accomplished a lot by approaching those
in power, and making them accountable
for their actions, Nader said. He said the
result was the passing of monumental

Teru Kuyawama UPS

Nadar speaking at NYPIRG conferance this past Saturday.

legislation that attempted to create a better
society.

Those laws that were passed to preserve
the environment, eliminate discrimination
and to protect consumers has been beaten
down by an army of lawyers that work for
the multi-national corporations, Nader
said.

Those lawyers were able to achieve the
dismantling of those laws because people
became cynical, and felt they could not
make a difference.

“People do make a difference,” Nader
said, “just look at the demonstrators

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Racism, financial aid top concerns at USSA conference

by Raffi Varoujian
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Washington, D.C.
The United States Student Association (USSA) held its
21st annual legislative conference here this weekend.
Participation from collegues and universities
natoinwide discussed a wide range of issues affecting
students from across the country.

More coverage of USSAconference
see page 7

Among the topics discussed were trends and
innovations in education, racism, student activism in the
*90’s, and the role of the federal government in insuring
access to higher education.

The conference also offered a variety of workshops
and interest sessions designed to provide delegates with
the information and skils necessary to effectively
organize and advocate for student concerns on all levels
of government.

The main focus of conference, and of the entire week
in general, was the re-authorization of the Higher
Education Act (HEA), a law which authorizes federal
student aid and other federal higher educational plans.

Aid affected by the act includes Pell Grants, Perkins
loans, Stafford loans, and programs such as graduate
assistance and college work study.

According to Janet Lieberman, USSA legislative
director, “Students have a unique opportunity to improve
access and retention in higher education by becoming
involved in the re-authorization process.”

The act, passed in 1965, must be re-authorized every
five years, and is due to expire on Sept. 30,1991.

If congress fails to complete re-authorization, student
aid and programs that provide access to higher education
for millions of students will no longer be available.

According to a printed statement, the USSA has played
a pivotal role in past re-authorization of the HEA, and is
mounting a national campaign to expand educational
aceess during the upcoming re-authorization.

The conference, held from Mar. 2-4, also focused on
the issue of racism on campus.

Tawana Thomas, the chair of USSA’s National People
of Colored Students Coalition, said,"Racism is not a
problem that I have, it is a problem that Europeans have,
and should be dealt with by Europeans...Racism is not
the problem, white supremacy is the problem.”

On a panel held Saturday afternoon, Ahmad Abdulah,

by P.J. Marcus
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

in several ways.
evidenced by the fact that the

president of Associated Students at San Francisco State
University, defined racism as “the systematic repression
of a people because of their racial, ethnic, or cultural
background.”

He described three types of racism prevalent in today’s
society: individual racism, “manifested in attitudes and
actions of an individual toward a particular group”;
institutional racism, “manifested in policies and practices
of an institution that prevents of prohibits the
participation of certain ethnic or cultural groups”; and
cultural racism, “a belief held by a group of people that
their history and cuture is superior to other people’s.”

“Most people in America don’t realize that they’re
racist, but they are because they live in a racist society, in
which that is a norm, and they don’t realize that they are
being racist,” Abdulah said.

John Bonsarbi, the student body president of UCLA,
explained the recruitment and retention programs for
minority students, curricular reform, and faculty
diversity programs intitiated by the student government.

“Racism is not just some overt action...it goes deeper,”
Bonsarbi said, stressing that institutional racism is the
type that students can most readily address on their own
campuses.

NYPIRG lobbies for better waste control

burning and a shift toward
ambitious reduction and

This is

Teru Kuwayama UPS

Under heavy security, Students for Choice
advocates, numbering about 45, rallied
outside Albany's Planned parenthood
Saturday. The group was met by about 35
Operation Rescue members who were also

making their voices heard.

The New York Public Interest
Research Group (NYPIRG)
released a report criticizing Gov.
Mario Cuomo, his
environmental officials, and the
State Legislature for allowing
New York’s garbage crisis to
reach new heights.

The release of the report
coincided with a press
conference on this issue, and a
day of lobbying state lawmakers
to support recycling of solid
waste as an alternative to landfill
dumping and incineration.

According to the NYPIRG
report, despite claims by
lawmakers that they are
concerned with the environment,
the garbage crisis has heightened

amount of garbage requiring
disposal has increased from 18.2
million tons per year to more
than 21 million tons per year
since 1987. In addition, while
only two million tons were
recycled, almost four million
tons were incinerated and over
17 million tons were landfilled.
“State officials have so far
been either unwilling or unable
to address New York’s massive
solid waste crisis,” Steven
Romalewski, staff researcher for
NYPIRG’s Toxics Project and
co-author of the report, said.
“As we approach the 20th
anniversary of Earth Day, during
an election year, citizens who are
demanding an end to garbage

recycling efforts will not be
fooled by rhetorical support for
recycling that serves to mask
efforts to promote incineration.”

The report also pointed out
that “state-of-the-art” garbage

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Kohl disputes border

West Berlin, West Germany
(AP) Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West
Germany is embroiled in controversy over
his refusal to categorically accept the
Polish-German border set at the end of
World War II.

It has become a political issue;
recognition of the boundary could cost
Kohl votes in the December West German
election. But his failure to renounce any
future attempt to regain former territories
lost in the war could delay any future
German reunification.

Kohl has come under attack from
Poland, from the World War II Allies and
from the opposition in West Germany and
even in his own Cabinet for failing to give
an unequivocal promise on the border.

There have been demonstrations in
Poland in support of Polish demands to
take part in talks on reunification.

But the chancellor faces considerable
political risk if he declares the current
border inviolable.

Soldier dies

Panama City, Panama
(AP) An American soldier has died of
injuries suffered in a grenade attack on a
discotheque, and 13 U.S. servicemen
remained hospitalized Sunday, the U.S.
military said.

A statement from the U.S. Southern
Command said Army Spec. Anthony B.
Ward, 21, of Houston, died at 5:15 p.m.

. Saturday of injuries to the chest and
abdomen. He died at the U.S. military’s
Gorgas Hospital in Panama City.

Ward was among 16 American
servicemen and 12 Panamanians injured
late Friday in the attack on the disco My
Place, which was known to be frequented
by Americans,

Witnesses said two men yelling “Long
live Noriega!” threw a grenade through a
glass wall of the disco at about 11:30 p.m.,
then sped away in a car. There was no
immediate claim of rgsponsibility. It was
the first such attack on U.S. soldiers in
Panama since the Dec. 20 invasion that
ousted dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.

The Nation

Eastern strikers rally
Miami, Florida
(AP) Hundreds of Machinists union

-PREVIEW OF EVENTS

members, their relatives and other
supporters chanted “one day longer”
Sunday outside Eastern Airlines
headquarters as they marked the first
anniversary of their strike.

“The enthusiasm and determination and
spirit of the real Eastern employees has not
wavered one bit,” Charles E. Bryan,
president of Machinists District 100, told
the rally. “It’s become a cause for justice.”

Hundreds more strikers and supporters
rallied at LaGuardia Airport in New York
and other cities with large Eastern union
memberships. Strikers rallied Saturday in
Atlanta.

Most in the Miami crowd, estimated by
police at from 500 to more than 2.000
strong, wore bright red union T-shirts in the
rally next to the union local hall, across the
street from Eastern’s corporate
headquarters. Police guarded the company
buildings, some splattered red and yellow
by paint bombs and some with broken
windows.

New enemies named

Washington, D.C.
(AP) The Pentagon is wasting no time
offering answers to one of the most
compelling questions raised by the demise
of the Cold War: Who is the enemy now?

It’s drug runners, terrorists, Third World
despots and even oil spills, the Pentagon
brass say.

At the same time, they haven’t dismissed

The result of studying too hard...

entirely the threat of Soviet attack on the
West, even as Moscow begins pulling its
troops out of Eastern Europe.

The world has entered an “era of violent
peace,” says Adm. Carlisle Trost, the
Navy’s top officer. It is a time of reduced
odds that the superpowers will lob nuclear
missiles at each others’ cities, but of more
frequent and more lethal conflict among
tival Third World nations, he told
Congress recently.

The State all

Trial set to start

New York
(AP) Six months after a mob of young
whites surrounded and killed a black
teenager who ventured into their Brooklyn
neighborhood to look at a used car, jury
selection is set to begin in the case against
the accused murderers.

But whether or not the Bensonhurst
racial-attack trial would start Monday as
scheduled remained in doubt.

In announcing last week that one of
their main witnesses had vanished,
prosecutors said if the witness wasn’t
found over the weekend they would ask
Justice Thaddeus Owens of Brooklyn state
Supreme Court for a one-month delay.

A second blow tot he case came when it
was revealed several days ago that another

key witness, a woman who has been
under police protection since the attack,
has entered a drug rehabilitation center.

Agent suspended

New York
(AP) The FBI has suspended a 15-year
veteran amid allegations that he spied for
Cuba, but colleagues say the agency is
retaliating against the Hispanic agent for
a discrimination lawsuit, it was reported.

The New York Times reported in
Monday editions that Fernando E. Mata,
48, who is based in Miami, also lost his
security clearance as a result of the three-
year investigation.

FBI spokesman Robert Davenport in
Washington would confirm that Mata had
been placed on administrative leave, but
refused to say why.

An FBI official who spoke on condition
of anonymity told The Times, “no matter
what you think of the FBI, it’s ridiculous
to think” the agency would retaliate by
making such a serious allegation.

CORRECTIONS

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packages of any 10, any 15
and any 20 meals.

We regret the error.

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Free listings

TUESDAY, March 6
Chess Club meets every
Tuesday in CC 373 at 7pm.
For info call Jeff at 462-1633.
Art Exhibition "Expression of
Human Form at Fine Arts
Gallery 313, now through
March 8. *

Chi Alpha College Ministries
meets at 7:30pm in ED 126.
For info. call 438-3841.

Judo Club meets Tuesdays
from 7-9 pm. All levels,
everyone welcome.

Gay and Lesbian Alliance
|(GALA) meets Tuesdays at

8:30 pm in CC 375. For info
call 442-5672.

NYS Writers Institute
presents a reading by
surgeon and writer Richard
Selzer at 8 pm in the
Orientation Threatre of the
NYS Museum. Free and
open to the public.
University-Community
Chorale holds rehersals
Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 4:15-5:35 pm in PAC B-
78 for performances of Verdi's
Requiem in April. All are
welcome. For info call 442-
3995.

Class Council of 1992 meets

Tuesdays at 7:30 pm in.cc
370. For info call 442-6235.
Link Interest Meeting at 7:15
in LC 19 for those interested
in helping new students feel
at home.
Irish Club General Interest
Meeting at 7:30 pm in HU
132 to discuss March 17 trip
to NYC for the parade.
The University-Community
Symphonic Band and the
University Jazz Ensemble
will appear in a free public
concert at 8 pm in the CC
Ballroom.

WEDNESDAY, March 7
German Club meets

Wednesdays at 7 pm in HU
354.

KSA meets Wednesdays at 9
pm in HU 123.
Hillel'sWorld Jewry Club
meets 7pm in CC320.

The Mohawk-Hudson
Region of the Sports Car
Club of America meets at
the Western Ave. Ramada
Inn at 7:30.

The Albany State Outing
Club meets at 8pm in SS
256.

Student Activities wil hold a
lecture on hazing and its
effects at 7:30 in CC
Ballroom.

THURSDAY, March 8

Philosophy Forum meets at
8 pmin HU 209. Topics vary.
Students for Choice meets
at 7 pm in the CC SA
Lounge.

Multicultural Awareness
Preogram presents Spring

Fashion show at 7pm atPage
Hall.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Meetings of Alcoholic
Anonymous are currently
being held on campus. For
further info on rooms and
times call 442-5777.

—— Enns
TUESDAY, MARCH 6 1990 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS. 3

Activists rally at capitol, Governor's mansion

By Eric Coppolino
N.Y.S. STUDENT LEADER
Albany

About 300 students and citizens from across the state
held a rally, march and picket at the state capital and the
Governor’s mansion Sunday, demanding statewide
recycling and cancellation of the proposed Brooklyn
Navy Yard incinerator project.

The action was organized by the New York Public
Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and was part of the
organization’s spring conference, held at SUNYA over
the weekend.

The crowd, which gathered at the steps of the state
capital, listened to numerous activists from across the
state talk about the dangers of trash burning as the
ANSWERS Incineration Plant billowed smoke into the
winter sky.

Trash incinerators like the ANSWERS Plant release
tons of ash, carbon monoxide and several different highly
toxic dioxins into the air. Halting the Navy Shipyard
project is a top priority of NYPIRG, a student-directed
environmental action group.

NYPIRG chapters from across the state displayed
huge, colorful banners, many of which expressed the
message, “Don’t Burn New York.”

Paul Connett, a national leader on solid waste issues,
urged citizens to demand reform of the “Department of
Environmental Catastrophe” and to create a state agency
specifically intended to facilitate recycling.

Other speakers addressed the issues of the DEC’s
failure to respond to environmental issues, criticized the
incestuous involvement of DEC officials with the mob-
controlled solid waste industry, and attacked Governor
Cuomo’s record on environmental issues.

They warned that Cuomo, who is up for reelection in
the Fall, is attempting to package himself as
environmentalist, but was compared by one speaker to
George Bush.

Musician John Hall, who is now a member of the
Ulster county legislature, performed several unreleased
environmental protest songs, and urged demonstrators to
take personal action on environmental issues.

the crowd, which included about six busloads of SUNY
students, then marched through Empire State Plaza and to
the Governor’s mansion, picketing in a block-long,
single-file line there for more than an hour in freezing
temperatures,

At one point Cuomo, apparently out for an early-
afternoon jog, entered the crowd to speak with protestors.

According to witnesses, he reportedly told people that,

Continued on page 17

Controversy surrounds wording on Price Chopper bags

By Catherine Hoey
STAFF WRITER

In November of 1989, the Albany Peace and Energy
Council (APEC) charged Price Chopper with deceiving
the public on the grounds that Price Chopper claimed, on
their plastic bags, that the bags were bio-degradable.

In January 1990, Price Chopper responded to The
APEC’s accusation by changing the wording on their
plastic bags.

The APEC, not content with the change, is calling on
Price Chopper to get rid of the bags entirely.

According to Tom Nattell, a spokesperson for The .

APEC, Price Chopper was quoted in the Troy Record as
saying they have no intention of stopping usage of the
plastic bags.

The bags still read, “Engineered For Our
Environment”. “This is a clear deception of the public,”
Nattell said.

Nattell explained that studies of landfills have shown
that plastic may still be found in its original state after 20
years.

“The bags also function as a cocooning process.”
Nattell said. “People put things inside of bags that
otherwise would break down.”

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Area organizations
announce programs
to help the homeless

By Raina Wilson

Last Thursday, several area organizations announced
a plan to raise funds for the homeless.

The announcement came at a press conference at the
Capital City Rescue Mission, and was sponsored by
the Mohawk-Hudson Community Foundation.

The Foundation will be working with the Albany
County Board of Realtors, the Albany-Colonie
Regional Chamber of Commerce, Key Bank N.A.,
Home and City Savings Bank, the Albany Area
Builders Association, and local attorneys to devise and
implement a grant program for homeless organizations
in the Albany area.

The program is co-chaired by James M. Stewart,
president of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of
Commerce, and John J. Healy, owner of John J. Healy
Realty, inc.

They have helped to design anew incentive program,
the sole purpose of which is to encourage home buyers
and sellers to donate to the program. This fund will
hopefully provide long and short term soluctions to the
growing problem of homelessness.

The plan calls for realtors, when they go to sell
homes to prospective buyers, to ask the buyer to
possibly donate money to the Mohawk-Hudson
Community foundation for the homeless, if they close
the deal.

There is no minimum or maximum donation, and it
is not mandatory.

Not only are buyers asked to donatemoney, but
banks and realtors are asked to do so as well.

This program is considered innovative because it
will solicit money from a previously untapped source.
The directors of this program said they feel that people
who purchase a house will be so happy with their new
home they will gladly give to those who are less
fortunate than themselves.

“The reason Price Chopper is using the bags is
primarily because of profit,” Nattell said.

Neil Golub, president of Price Chopper, stated in a
letter on Jan, 30, 1990 to Nattell, “<Meanwhile> we still
need an inexpensive sack to carry home groceries. At this
time plastic is still the lowest cost and most efficient
method.”

Nattell said that while paper is more expensive, it can
be composted, and thus causes less of a threat to the
environment.

“The City of Albany has been working on composting
more of our waste,” Nattell said.

In a letter to Price Chopper on Feb. 12, 1990, the
APEC reported: in 1988 over 280 million Ibs. of high-
molecular weight, high density polyethylene (HMW-
HDPE) were discharged into the environment in the form
of plastic grocery bags.

In his Jan. 30 letter, Golub stated, “The tonnage of
plastic bagging material at the check stand is a small
percentage of the plastic problem in the environment. The
real tonnage problems are in waxed paper milk
containers, plastic jugs, soda bottles, liquid detergent
bottles... just to name a few.”

Golub also stated in the same letter, “We are the only
retailers in this area to totally recycle plastic beverage
containers.”

“The amount is irrelevent, every bit matters,” Nattell
said. “The fact is they are a local company and they are
distributing these into our environment,” Nattell said.

At present, Great American Grocery chain no longer
uses plastic bags. Shop and Save offers the option of
recyclable plastic bags or paper. There is a bin at each
Shop and Save to recycle the plastic bags, and they have
announcements urging people to re-use bags.

The APEC has called on the public to “pass up the
plastic”. They urge people to re-use paper bags, or
purchase cotton string reusable bags to carry groceries in.

“<Plastic bags> put one more layer on everything
before you leave the store,” Nattell commented. “What
people need to realize is they can control this final
packaging.”

No one at Price Chopper could be reached for comment.

Adam Pratomo UPS
The wording on this bag may be misleading

Interviewing skills taught at workshop

By Lori Hament
NEWS EDITOR

Different techniques are offered to
educate SUNYA students in job
interviewing, a task that many
seniors would rather not think of
tight now.

The Career Development Center
has developed different ways in
which to aid studetns in preparing for
job interviews, including individual
group workshops and video tapes in
its career library, Director of the
Career Development Center, Victor
DeSantis said.

An early tip, “to relax and be
yourselves,” is obviously the most
important thing to remember when
interviewing, DeSantis said.
“Interviewing is a skill; the more
practice, the better prepared you are.
It is kind of like tennis in that
respect.”

In addition to interview
workshops, books and video tapes,
the center also conducts mock
interviews. The staff assists the
students with a critique of this
interview, focusing in on the studetns
strenghths and weaknesses, DeSantis
said.

The average college student

doesn’t realize the importance of
interviewing, even though it is the
deciding factor above grades.
Conduct and how the student comes
across in the interview matters most,
according to Ed Sullivan, the author
of The Job Interview, an
audiocassette and workbook program
that presents interviewing
techniques.

“I'd say less than five percent (of
students) are well prepared for an
interview. If someone listened to the
tape and prepared for it, they’d
probably be in the top ten percent,”
Sullivan said.

Many studetns believe, Sullivan
said, that the interview is a nice
conversation and their credentials
will follow through, but preparation
is necessary. The students have
bought a conservative suit, polished
and gathered references, but few
have taken the time to anticipate the
important questions that will land
that important first job, Sullivan said.

“Most important for studetns to
think about is what they have to offer
a company, not their family life;
which most companies are not
interested in. Most students aren’t

aware of this,” Sullivan said.

Most seniors who are or should be,
thinking of upcoming job interviews
are slow in their preparation or not
taking the idea seriously. However,
those who are thinking of their future
as graduates said only minimal
preparation is necessary and are not
seeking outside help, although it is
available to them.

Senior Virginia Hyatt said she has
not “done anything as far as job
service here.” She said she is relying
on her past experience with college
and summer job interviews.

“I bought an Armani double-
breasted suit, printed my resume and
got a short hair cut,” Senior Scott
Greif said. “I’m a self confindent
person and my dominating
aggressive personality will show
through to companies who want
young, cut-throat people like
myself.”

Senior Craig Gatewood said he
will start interviewing when he gets
an adequate resume, which is coming
“together very slowly.” Preparations
and guides offered in the Career
Development Center seem too much
like a psychological evaluation and
are “things I can do myself,” he said.

4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 6 1990

Pollsters wrong in predicting Sandinista victory

By Jack Kurtz ,
Managua, Nicaragua

In the months leading up to last week’s
stunning upset of Nicaragua’s Sandinistas
party, the conventional wisdom was that
the Sandinistas would roll over the
ee like a runaway News

In fact, a variety of Analysis
U.S. pollsters gave the
Sandinistas a 15 percent to 20 percent lead
over the fractious coalition led by
President-elect Violetta Barrios de
Chamorro.

The results of the election — the United
National Opposition alliance (UNO)
received 55 percent, the Sandinista
National Liberation Front (FSLN) 41
percent — left Nicaragua’s leaders
reeling.

One big reason: Pollsters made errors in
how they conducted their surveys and
observers overlooked just how miserable
life had become in Nicaragua in the 10
years since the Sandinistas overthrew the
Somoza dynasty.

The pollsters hired many of the same
interviewers used by the Sandinista
government for their own polls. That led
to confusion about whether the
independent pollsters were working with
the Sandinistas. That may have helped
taint responses from Nicaraguans, who
answered the way they thought the
Sandinistas wanted.

Despite the pro-Sandinista responses, a
plurality of Nicaraguans told the pollsters
that “any change” in government would
be an improvement, an indication of the
depth of anti-Sandinista sentiment.

Furthermore, a majority of respondents
said UNO would do a better job of
handling Nicaragua’s relations with the

U.S., ending the Contra war and the U.S.
economic embargo of Nicaragua that have
crippled the Nicaraguan economy.

And both polltakers and observers
overlooked Nicaragua’s problems when
they made their predictions of an easy
Sandinista win.

In 1988, inflation was 38,000 percent.
Unemployment is currently running at 30
percent. And 15 percent of Nicaragua’s
citizens are living outside of the country,
many as refugees. Many more are living

as refugees inside the country.

Despite significant advances in health
care, education and land reform under the
Sandinistas, living conditions in
Nicaragua have suffered significantly
since the Sandinista victory in July 1979.

Observers predicting an easy Sandinista
victory pointed to the festive turnout at the
Sandinista rallies and the slick political
campaign that featured candidates like
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
kissing babies and handing out

autographed baseballs. UNO’s rallies
were sparsely attended by comparison and
the campaign at times seemed non-
existent.

But these observers overlooked other
telltale signs. Anti-U.S. sentiment after
the Panama invasion never took hold as
an issue in the election.

The Sandinistas routinely used
government trucks to haul participants to
rallies. The Sandinista party and

Continued on page 15

After the Sandinista fall: ls Cuba next?

By John E. Peterson
Washington, D.C.:

The posters and bumper
stickers began appearing in
Miami’s Cuban community
only a few hours after
Nicaraguan President Daniel
Ortega’s stunning election
defeat last week.

“Noriega yesterday, Ortega
today, Castro tomorrow,”
proclaimed one. “In Havana
by Christmas,” boomed
another.

Tomorrow? Christmas?

Specialists say those
timetables are overly
optimistic for any major
change in President Fidel
Castro’s rule. But they agree
the Cuban leader faces one of
his most threatening
challenges since he overthrew
dictator Fulgencio Batista on
New Year’s Day, 1959.

“Fidel is swimming against
the tide, and you can only do
that for a short period,” said

Otto Reich, a former State
Department official and
former U.S. ambassador to
Venezuela.

At 63, the charismatic Castro
appears hardy — still playing
an occasional game of his
beloved _ baseball and
delivering his trademark eight-
hour speeches. He is
enormously popular at home,
where he is lovingly referred
to as “Fidelito.”

But the president who still
favors military fatigues has
become increasingly isolated,
and is now the sole leader
promoting Marxism-Leninism
in the Western Hemisphere.

He stands alone as dramatic
democratic changes sweep
Eastern Europe, Panama and
Nicaragua. And he stands atop
a crumbling economy that is
further threatened by signals
from Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev of cuts in huge
subsidies that help prop up his

Tegime.

“I would give him two,
three, possibly at the very
outside, five years,” said
Michael Wilson, a Latin
America specialist at the
Heritage Foundation. “All of
his closest allies are falling by
the side. And the Cuban
people, as they see what has
happened in Nicaragua, are
going to be demanding that
some kind of change occur.”

A senior Bush administration
official agreed. “There’s a
certain contagion to this,” said
the official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity. “But
whether that’s months or years
from now, the internal
processes kind of have to
work their own timetable.”

Except for Albania, all of
Eastern Europe’s neo-Stalinist
tulers have fallen — either
bloodlessly as in Poland, East
Germany, Bulgaria and
Czechoslovakia, or through

violence as in Romania. If
Ortega goes ahead with the
scheduled April 25 power
transfer to President-elect
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro,
Cuba will be the hemisphere’s
only Marxist dictatorship.

“Today’s world is quite
perilous for Stalinists, and all
indicators point to eventual
upheaval in Cuba,” said
Jacqueline Tillman, the
National Security Council’s
Latin America expert in the
Reagan administration.

“Fidel is alone, isolated and
discredited. He is the huge
loser in Nicaragua,” echoed
Richard Millett, a Latin
American historian at
Souther Illinois University.

Cuba for years has survived
on the largesse of the Soviet
bloc, which provides huge
amounts of military supplies
and pays five times the world
Price for sugar to help prop up

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in E. Europe, Nicaragua, and S. Africa ?

"T do not think that there are any
great reforms. If there were, we
would not be having all the
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SUNYA professor surprised by
Sandinista election loss

by Ben Sofer
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‘The triumph of opposition in last week's Nicaraguan election was the first step in|
what will prove to be a long road towards a firm democracy, said Carlos Santiago,
chairman of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies department at SUNYA.

‘The victory of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, leader of a 14-party oppositon
coalition, surprised many after the votes were tallied on Feb. 25, including himself,
Santiago said. The change in power is a result of the people's need for economic
change, rather than due to the policies of the Reagan Administration, he said.

“The previous policies were not good,” Santiago said. “Economic sanctions were
not good, Things began to loosen up [politically] when neighboring countries got
involved.” : —o
Chamorro, whose husband’s assassination in 1978 sparked the Sandinista}
revolution, defeated in a landslide election victory the current Sandinista president,
Daniel Ortega. Although Ortega has promised a peaceful transition, Santiago said he
is skeptical of whether the change in government will be done without violence.

“They [Nicaragua] have the best military in Central America that won't relinquish
power easily,” he said.

‘America’s part should include disbanding the Contra rebels and relaxing trade
embargos, Santiago said. Over the years, the Reagan Administration levied economic!
sanctions on Nicaragua as its economy went into a tailspin, accusing the Latin
American nation of arming Marxist rebels in El Salvador, he said.

‘The change in Nicaragua’s government would not have an immediate effect on the
El Salvador rebels, Santiago said, because of the depth of their strength. The impact
on the Nicaragua-Cuba connection would not be great either, since relations between
the two nations had already been strained, he said. Cuba is now the last remaining
Marxist regime in the hemisphere, :

“Violence is a possibility [now!,” because a lot of different groups and factions|
have arms, he said. Santiago said civil war could break out, especially since there is|
fear that the Somoaza dictatorship that was over-thrown in 1978 could return. :

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Students to protest Red
Cross literature at rally

By Sandie Weitzman
MANAGING EDITOR

Concerned SUNYA students, including
members of the Student Association of
the State University of New York
(SASU), Pan-Caribbean Association,
Students for Choice and other University
groups, will be staging a demonstration at
the small fountain Thursday to protest the
literature published and distributed by the
Red Cross on campus .

These students are claiming that the
Red Cross blood donation policies are
culturally and racially biased, according
to SASU intern Erika Pine Weinman.
Weinman said Thursday was chosen
because the Red Cross will be on campus
for a blood drive.

The controversy comes over a
statement in a flyer given out by the Red
Cross to all who wish to donate blood.
The statement claims that one is at risk,
and therefore not allowed to donate if;
“You are a native of Haiti, sub-Saharan
Africa, or any island close to Sub-
Saharan Africa and came to the United
States after 1977.” The risk being
referred to is of contracting Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
through the use of specific blood.

This deferment from the blood pool not
only includes anyone of descent of these
countries, but those who have had
intercourse with any person fitting these
criteria, or have visited these areas, even
for as little a day, a press release from the
SASU stated.

According Weinman, the American Red
Cross takes its guidelines from the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA). In turn,
the FDA normally takes its own
guidelines from the Center for Disease
Control (CDC) classifications. Weinman
said that in the early 1980s, the CDC
singled out Haitians as a “high risk group
for HIV related diseases.”

The Haitian Coalition on Aids,
however, formed to counter this
statement, feeling that decisions were
made “on unsound governmental
research,” the press release said. The
CDC, according to Weinman, recognized
the validity of these claims and lifted the
“culturally biased designations” in 1985.

The press release stated, however, that
the FDA continues to ban members of
these communities from donating blood.

Carol Archer, a member of Pan-
Caribbean said, “There are only two
countries mentioned (on the flyer), There
are other countries with higher incidences
of AIDS, such as Switzerland, Rumania
and the United States."

“70 percent of all reported AIDS cases
are in the United States,” Weinman said.

“As a Caribbean person, this helps to
reinforce the misinformation we have
been receiving (about AIDS),” Archer
said. “The literature makes a designation
based on FDA recommendations. The
Red Cross should change its literature
immediately and not perpetrate bias on
campus.”

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A panel will address the topic of "Nations, Nationalism and Regional Cooperation
in Eastem Europe on March 6 at 7pm in the recital hall of the performing arts center
(PAC).

Members of the panel will include Geza Jeszenszky, Dean of the Karl Marx
University of Economic sciences in Budapest, Hungary; Gavro altman, Fromer
ambassador of Yugoslavia and Professor of Political Science at the University of
Ljubljana, Belgrade; and Joseph Zacek, Professor of History at SUNYA. Abdo
Gaaklini, Professor of Public Administration and Policy at SUNYA will serve as
moderator.

This event is part of a series of campus forums on "The Changing Face of
Socialism." This semester's series will focus on the changes in Eastern Europe.

The future of Eastern Europe will be discussed on March 13 at 7pm in the recital
hall of the PAC. On March 21 at 7pm in the Campus Center Assembly Hall, the
future of Poland will be addressed.

The reorganization of Europe between East and West will be the topic on March 28
at 7pm in the Campus Center Assembly Hall.

All forums are free and open to the public. The forums are jointly sponsored by the
Division of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs and the Student Association.

Berry to speak on issues of education

Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Education will
address issues in education on March 7 at SUNYA.

Berry will speak on "Creating a Just Academic Community in the 1990's" as part
of the Campus Forum Series sponsored by the Coalition for a Just Community from
12:15 to 1:30 pm in the Campus Center Ballroom.

From 3:30 to 5:00 pm in the Campus Center ballroom, Berry will be the gruest
speaker at the Women's Concerns Committee's Annual Reception for Women. Berry
will address "Opportunities and Advancements for Women in Higher Education."

Berry is currently a Professor of History and American Social Thought at the
University of Pennsylvania and Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.

She served as Assistant Secretary for Education on the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration. She is also one of the
founders of the Free South Africa movement.

Both events are free and open to the public. Co-sponsors include the office of
Affirmative Action, University Committee for Affirmative Action, Academic Affairs,
Student Affairs and the Student Association.

—Compiled by Patti Martino

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Senators assail Bush's
education budget proposal

By Raffi Varoujian
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Students from across the nation rallied
for more education funding on the west
steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.,
Monday as part of National Student
Lobby Day.

Congress members, activists, and
national and intemational student leaders
addressed the crowd on a wide range of
issues ranging from re-authorization of
the Higher Education Act and
international student unity and relations.

Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ)
said,”We really have a crisis in this
country, and the crisis is about priorities.”

“We have a president who ran for office
as the education president. We have as
$24 million education budget, a $303
billion military budget...we need to have
different priorities. What we need is
decent education for everyone.”

Payne stressed the importance of the
student vote and called for voter
registration drives on campuses
nationwide.

“If you don’t have the power to be able
to elect a person, or take them out of
office, your talking to people who may
not listen to everything you have to say.”

Representative Silvio Conte (R-MA)
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increases in many educational programs
did not request any increases in student
aid.

“Education is a high priority for the
President, but student aid is not on that
priority list,” Conte said.

Representative James Scheur (D-NY),
in his address, said that education is the
greatest investment that the government
could make.

“For every dollar invested in a student,
there is a return of $7 to $12. That is an
investment that we cannot afford not to
make.”

“Student aid programs are facing a
crisis in this country,” said
Representative Louis Stokes (D-Ohio).
“If the budget stands as it does now,
14,000 students will lose eligibility for
Pell Grants, 1.3 million students will
have their aid awards reduced by amount
averaging $50.”

Stokes commented that unless a
supplemental request for education funds
is passed, student aid will suffer
drastically. “At this moment, there
haven’t been any supplemental requests
from the Bush Administration.”

“Despite wanting to be known as the
Education President, Mr. Bush is
proposing an increase of only two percent

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By John Jackson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Albany students, aspiring to be
officers in the U.S. Army, got to
practice their leadership skills in a
wooded region of South Troy over the
weekend.

The Reserve Officers Training Corps
(ROTC) unit took to field training
exercises to put the lessons they learned
in class room situations to use. Combat
patrolling was the subject of this past
Saturday’s exercises.

Students divided into two separate
squads to act out actual combat
situations, such as reaction to sniper
fire, field artillery, and bunker assault.
An individual’s recognition of a
situation and subsequent reaction to it
was evaluated by Senior Cadets
William Galbraith and Nick Hawtin.

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A highlight of the day was a ravine
crossing by rope line. Cadets made a
“swiss seat” harness around their hips,
and then clipped the harness to the rope.
Suspended upside down, cadets pulled
themselves across the rope to safety on
the opposite side of the ravine.

“It was a good team building
exercise,” said Captain William Adams
of the ROTC office here at SUNY
Albany. Captain Adams is part of the
professional Army staff that works with
students in officer training.

About 20 cadets, both men and
women, took part in Saturday’s
exercises. “Numbers have been small,
but that is not unusual at the
Northeastern schools,” said Adams.
“There are many opportunities open,
especially for students in the hard
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By Joseph A.H. McGovern
NYS STUDENT LEADER

County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.

week for Rivera.

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Two students charged in

New Paltz college rape

Two students at the College at New Paltz have been charged
with the rape of female student Feb. 16.

The students, Mark Jefferson, 22, and Francisco Rivera, 21,
have been charged with first degree rape and first degree unlawful
imprisonment. The two were arrested by Public Safety after the
incident was reported at 5:42 a.m. that Friday.

Jefferson is free on $5,000 bail while Rivera remains in Ulster

While the case against Jefferson is being brought directly to a
grand jury for indictment, a preliminary hearing was held last

At Rivera’s hearing, the alleged victim testified that the two
men raped her in their room while’a third person, known only to

By Eric Coppolino
NYS STUDENT LEADER

SUNY Chancellor Bruce
Johnstone reportedly told New
Paltz Student Association
Senator Jason Margolas that
SUNY students can afford a
tuition hike.

Johnstone supported hiking
tuition last year and seems to be
remaining consistent in that
position.

Most observers believe a
tuition hike for the next school
year is all but an inevitability.

“He said we’re mostly upper-
middle-class and can afford to
pay additional tuition,” Margolas
told senators in New Paltz last
week, who passed a resolution
opposing a tuition increase and

New Paltz

sending criticizing _ the
chancellor’s opinion,
Johnstone’s reported

comments were made during
SASU’s “Lobby Day,” held
Monday in Albany.

Johnstone was apparently
referring to recent statistics that
indicate that half of SUNY
students come from families
earning more than $60,000 a
year. However, Margolas noted
that figure does not account for
other burdens on the family, such
as other students in the family,
the number of total dependants
and the amount of financial aid
received by those students.

Margolas noted that many
students are not even supported
by their families.

Chancellor: students take a "hike"

Of a tuition hike, Johnstone
mentioned in an interview last
week that, “It would be difficlut
to forego this very ready source
of revenue,” given the fiscal
crises faced by the state and the
SUNY system.

Assemblyman Ed Sullivan, A
Manhattan Democrat, blasted the
idea of a tuition increase as “a
tax and and a bad tax.”

Sullivan added, “Tuition itself
is a tax. It does not go to the
University, it goes to the state
general fund. The amount of
money in the SUNY budget will
not change because of a tuition
increase. SUNY gets what the
legislature gives it” regardless of
tax cuts or tuition icreases,
Sullivan said.

Asked to identify her assailants by Assistant District Attorney
John Simpson, the woman pointed to Rivera, who held a quiet,
definat pose sitting handcuffed and shackled.

She then went on to describe how she had gone to a male
friend’s room to watch a video after coming home from a bar in
the early moming hours Friday. 5

Her friend left her in what she assumed was his room. However,
Jefferson and Rivera, whose room it apparently was, together with
the third man, came in and locked the door.

She said at this point the attack occurred.

The woman described to the court how she struggled, hitting her

Doctor wants the 'smoke' out ef sports

By Judith Egerton

A physicians’ group noted for
its guerrilla tactics in the anti-
smoking war will ask the
Justice Department next week
to move against TV broadcasts
of tobacco-sponsored sports

the advertising buck, said Dr.
Alan Blum, a Houston physician
who founded the non-profit
organization with 5,000 doctor
members. In some cases, he
said, sports sponsorships get
tobacco companies four to six

harrassed cigarette companies in
the past by wearing
“Emphysema Slims” T-shirts to
the Virginia Slims Tennis
Tournament and by holding an
“Emphysema Slims”
tournament.

events. hours of television exposure at Blum is particularly angry

head against the wall in a futile attempt to get Jefferson to stop. The group, Doctors Ought to _ one time. over Marlboro’s association with
The woman was cross-examined by Rivera’s attomey, John Care, argues that the Philip Morris USA, maker of soccer events because soccer is
Tobin, a local public defender. Tobin concentrated on trying to sponsorships circumvent federal Marlboro, the No. 1 U.S. brand, the fastest-growing youth sport
establish her state of sobriety. ; laws banning cigarette doesn’t apologize for in the United States. Philip
She said that she had been out to a local bar that night and had | 4 yertising on television. sponsoring sports events. Morris’ spokesman denies it

two beers. Tobin also asked her if she said something to the effect

: : Justice Department officials
that she was not interested in white men (Jefferson is African-

had no comment on the

“Twenty years ago, women’s
tennis desperately needed a

uses soccer arenas to gain young
smokers.

American and Rivera is Hispanic), which she denied.

proposal because the doctors

have not made the request.
With sports sponsorships,
tobacco firms get more bang for

sponsor and asked Virginia
Slims to sponsor the
tournament,” said Andrew
White, a Philip Morris
spokesman. “Women’s tennis
would not exist at this level
without us. We feel good about
it, regardless of what the self-
appointed social shepherds
would have us do.”

Marlboro sponsors soccer
tournaments involving adult
male players and teams. Many
of the games are televised, and
Marlboro signs ring the field,
said Blum, who plans to send a
tape of a recent Marlboro Cup
soccer event to the Justice
Department.

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EDITORIAL
Changing the
world on 24 hrs
a day...

In his speech last Saturday, noted
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader spoke
of the pending social crisis facing
American society that will totally transform
our society into cultural waste land.

He cited continued enviromental decay,
which would make the planet less and
less habitual for life -including humans,
and of the complete rule of Multi-national
Conglomerates that sell unhealthy food
products, and unsafe products to the
unsuspecting population,all the while
reaping huge profits for only a small
portion of the population.

These same companies merge and
takeover each other awash with paper
money by leveraging huge debt. At the
same time, the Federal government keeps
spending irresponsibility,putting pressure
the international money markets causing
interest rates to be so high that the
American dream -owning a new home - is
becoming out of the question,

No way! It can’t happen... this is
America we've always come out on top. Is
just a few-reactions from skeptics to
doomsayers who speak of the pending
apocalypse.

Okay. Maybe, the four horses of doom
are not charging out of the stable of hell.
\But stop and look around the problems
‘dre there as plain as day.
°! Thé° worst problem, however, is not the
problem itself, but the lack of activism
around to rid the society of the problem.

If you look at all the great societies in
the past that have collapsed
internally,there are many reasons why
each society decayed, but there always
one constant factor in their demise - too
many people didn’t believe it could
happen. F;

As Nader gave his speech about 500
hundred concerned students listened,
cheered,and hissed at the words that
forbode a dark future. But it can only
happen people sit by and let it happen.

Unfortunately on this campus there is
only a minority of activists who get
involved in what ever the cause. Many
students have to work several hours a
week to make ends meet, and pay for
college. Others are only concerned with
their G.P.A’s, Resume’s and, getting their
first jobs. We all have constraints on our
time:

But think about it.. To loosely borrow
from Nadar, there were approximately 200
hours last week. What were done with
them...What could have been done?

Each person needs to make a
contribution towards the kind’ of world in
which they wish to live. Pick an activity on
campus, or in the community and make
the most of it.

No one is asking that each choose to
become the next Mother Theresa, just to
take some concern about the world in
general.

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Fifty years later, Nazi hatred not dead

As an American student studying in London for
the spring semester, I have been doing my best to
adjust and fit into this culture. I have also been
trying to cram in all the sights as well. Up until
now, I have been enjoying my stay very much and
have been developing a greater understanding of

Sharyn Rootenberg

Britain and its citizenry as a whole. However, I
recently experienced an encounter which,
unfortunately, could have happened anywhere in the
world, which is why I feel compelled to retell my
tale now.

I was browsing through Portobello Market (an
out-door flea market type area) when suddenly,
without warning, I was dealt a severe blow to the
head and and overwhelming punch to the stomach.
My initial reaction was one of shock and horror,
however, as tears glazed over my eyes, those
feelings quickly dissipated and I was left standing
on the street comer in sheer pain. Perhaps my agony
could have been appeased, had witnesses to this
terrible act helped capture the perpetrator of the
crime. Unfortunately, this case did not allow for
such a perfect ending.

The crime to which I am making reference to was
not one of physical battery; it was far more hurtful
than that. The cause of my pain came directly from
the proud display of swistika armbands in one of the
stalls. It would seem that this insensitive act could
only be caused by ignorance, since I simply do not
understand how anyone in good conscience would
be able to sell, or buy for that matter, the infamous
symbol of Nazi Germany. The swistika was s
symbol associated with the barbaric slaughter of
over six million Jewish, as well as non Jewish, men
» women , and children during World War Two.

Perhaps a bit of history must be recalled at this
point, for the Holocaust must never be forgotten.
When Adolf Hitler made himself dictator of

Germany in March 1933, his narrowly nationalistic
slogans, such as the injustices of the Versailles
Treaty of W.W. I, the need for strong leadership, the
ineffectiveness of democracy, and most of all the
“{nequity” of the Jews, appealed to the vast majority
of the population living in the midst of widespread
economic discontent. Hitler’s notion of a superior
tace, a perfect, highly intellectual, blond haired, blue
eyed, Aryan race, was quickly absorbed and
accepted hysterically and without much debate.

Hitler rebuilt pride and nationalism throughout the
country and mended the egos of his German
comrades. Next he went to work on national
reunification as well as the destruction of the
scapegoats that he had effectively developed- the
Jewish race. As German troops marched through
Europe, Jews were rounded up and put into ghettos
and concentration camps by the Nazis.

It was in these camps, of which adjectives to
describe the horrors encountered do not exist, that
Jews were tortured and eventually killed. People
were dissected while still alive. Lives were
sacrificed during “scientific” experiments. Human
skin was peeled off and manufactured into
lampshades. Human beings were forced to dig their
own graves, Some were buried alive. Lucky ones
simply died of hunger, overwork, Or over-exposure.
Families were separated, most were destroyed.
Those that miraculously survived, suffer from their
memories of the past to this day.

Can it be possible that such unjustified hatred is
still being perpetuated? The very notion that there is
a market for swastika is a painfully sharp indication
that prejudices are somehow being kept alive. The
children of the world must not be exposed to this
criminal disregard for humanity. This era of change
has brought about a deep rooted desire for
democracy. The campaign for freedom has become a
world wide effort. It is in this spirit that we must
unite and put an end to prejudices once and for all.

The writer is a staff member of the Albany Student Press
spending the semester overseas.

March 6, 1990

Lewis Out-Stand-ing in My Left Foot

When Christy Brown was born in
1932, the doctors told his parents that
he had cerebral palsy and would
never lead a normal life. Both Christy
and his parents refused to believe
them.

Clarence Eckerson

Daniel Day-Lewis stars in My Left
Foot, the heart-warming story of one
of Dublin's most gifted artists and his
determination to overcome the
physical limitations of his crippled
body. The film is up for five Academy
Awards, including Lewis who is a
shoe-in for best actor. His
performance reverberates the work of
fellow actor, Dustin Hoffman in Rain
Man except that Lewis is on a higher
level. So high in fact, he almost
dwarfs Hoffman.

The featured highlight of the
production is its unheard of high
esteem in dealing with such a
tragedy. The problem is
demphasized; Christy is always an
equal part of the family. He is given
no special treatment (except, of
course, the obvious essentials) and
because of this, My Left Foot doesn't
cramp up by getting involved in
emotional mush and heartache.

Instead, its focus is on the positive
and what Christy can do with his
ability to exhibit some control over his
left leg, which brings to the surface
the hidden intelligence disguised by
his handicap. Not only can he paint,

communicate, and move about with
some difficulty, he also manages to
participate (in an odd way) on his
brothers’ street soccer team. He can
do more with his leg than most kids
his age can do with both arms, a fact
his mother reminds him of when he
shamlessly feels sorry for himself.

My Left Foot is drama at its best,
but it also delves into perodic bits of
comedy as well; a nice touch by first
time director, Jim Sheridan, and
writers, Shane Connaughton and
Sheridan. The laughter is an effective
release, allowing the tone to break
away from the seriousness of
Christy's disfunctions. And the
dialogue is logical and real; the actors
don't seem to speak lines, they speak
feelings.

Lewis’ spectacular performance

shadows that of his fellow
extraordinary actors, Brenda Fricker
and Ray McAnally, whom play his
parents. The chemistry between the
two brings to mind an Irish version of
Fred and Wilma: through all their
bickering and bantering, you know
they love each other. They give you
the feeling that they love their
impovershed existence and that they
are proud of all thirteen of their
children.

The only time | found myself being
drawn outside the films’ reality came
with the unexpected death of Mr.
Brown. Sheridan’s choice to skim over
this fact is brutal, especially
considering his essential importence
to the family. And to celebrate his
death with the implausible exercise of
a bar room brawl, was more in step

Failsafe Guide to the Battle of the

The Line That's Picked Up a
Thousand Babes

That’s the title of the one-line, fail-
safe book which Benny (William
Braine) carries in his pocket when he
goes to a bar. It's a ‘time-tested’
manual for picking up girls, the
secrets of which he’s generous to
share with his friend Alan (Chris Ries).
Alan, however, is unimpressed—
What about honesty? What about
respect? Is spinning a line any way to
form a meaningful relationship?

Rachel Waugh

Thus Eric Berlin sets up the
dialouge which is continued by
various characters throughout his
play, The Line That's Picked Up a
Thousand Babes (And How it Can
Work For You). The pragmatic

predators (would-be Don Juan
Benny and super-bitch Ellen) are
opposed to the idealists Fran and
Alan(neither of whom wanted to go
to the bar in the first place). Benny
and Ellen are out to kill; Alan wants a
quiet drink; Fran just wants to leave.
The play consists of short
scenes, the first three of which
introduce a pair of characters. First
come the “guys,” then the “girls,”
then two loners, Charlie (Stephan
Guirgis) and Diane (Sonia Zizilas).

This is a frank analysis of the bar
scene which had me laughing
constantly(when | wasn't squirming
with embarassment) at its all too
recognizable situations.

At first the theme seems
straightfoward — of course we all
condemn those tacky shallow
relationships which start with a line,
are greased along by some

superficial conversation and plenty of
alcohol, and end with a ride home.
That's what bars are all about, aren't
they?

Of course, it’s more complicated
than that. Why does Diane.stay at
the bar even though her friend
doesn’t show up? Why does Fran
refuse to leave with Ellen? And how
is it that Alan ends up using the very
line he had so much contempt for?
Maybe everyone wants the same
things after all...

There’s something deeper going
on here than just an indictment of the
bar scene. Charlie knows hundreds
of people, but can’t remember a
single name. He lives on a block full
of the “friendliest strangers.” The
question is, does modern living leave
room for some real risks with
anyone? Charlie, who like a
Shakespearean fool proves that

with a film like Cocktail. It was the
only scene highly out of place in this
otherwise magnificent high-caliber
work.

The only true obstacle that Christy
faces is the fact that he is easily
smitten by women who are close to
him. Although his first persuits of love
end in dead-ends, he’s undaunted, a
triumph to his human spirit.

I'll remind you as you watch My
Left Foot, that you are watching the
real-life tale of Christy Brown. Feel
free to cheer for him, laugh with him or
at him, and defend him. But don't pity
him...Christy Brown wouldn't have
wanted it that way.

there’s “many a true word spoken in
jest,” seems to come up with some
drunken answers. As he explains to

Fran, even the most honest
relationships have to start with a little
superficial banter — and if people
don't go to bars, where can they meet
each other?

Altogether the play is well-
structured, economical, and witty. It
presents a balanced view (from both
the male and female perspectives) of
the heterosexual bar scene (if you
happened to be gay, it might not have
much to say to you). So let’s drink to
Eric Berlin, who hates bars, and never
goes to them.

Laugh with ASPects
every Tuesday and
Friday... Doug does.

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happen to all people, but one change is constant. On our twenty-first birthday,
each and every one of us suddenly “realizes” something that is unknown te
everyone from the crib to the age of 20 years, !! months, 29 days: how to bea
responsible drinker.

Last month, hours before my 2! st, | was standing on line at the Albany
watering hole famous for being the one where you “do not pass go, do not
collect $200” until you were actually of age (or had key 1D). My friend Max,
doing his best impression of @ roving reporter, was polling the crowd about
what they knew that | was going to “learn” when the clock struck midnight. He
was doing this with his tongue deep in his cheek, because, while (he claims) |
am no more mature than he is, he still commits a misdemeanor every time he
whips out his expertly changed license.

| disagree.

1 have to believe that | have changed. | actually feel

different when | hand the bouncer something valid. | guess that after five
semesters of giving them licenses that rightfully belonged to others, along
with dopey grins and and comments that have all the intelligence of “Gee,
pretty crowded tonight, huh?”, | gained confidence — the ultimate weapon

Because this is where the battle is won or lost. The whole bar-hopping
ritual that occurs every night in Albany is full of fronies. We students are not
fooling the bouncers. They are not checking licences to see if prospective
patrons are actually 21, but if they have ID that is adequate to pass that
particular night's inspection.

All of the borderline cases are resting upon the attitude of the person
who is about to get a drink or grab a cab. A guy I'll call Jeff once was
rejected while using ah older friend’s expired license. When the bouncer asked
him if he had something that was more recent, Jeff, with the nerve of James
Bond, replied, “| got into a drunk driving accident a couple of years ago and
killed my best friend. My license was revoked, and besides, | don't drink, just
socialize.” He got in.

Another friend, “lan”, actually is 21. When the bouncer turned him
down, lan gave him a@ killer look and said, “Screw you.” He got in.

An entire suite of girls | know just flirt with the bouncer so he thinks
he’s working out a deal: he lets them in now, they let him in later. They
always getin.

Unfortunately for minors everywhere, this confidence is an acquired
trait that few have. It takes a load of practice to finally master the facial
expression that says, ”!’m of age, and there is nothing you can do about it.”

Until then, they need an edge. Because the strictness of each bar and
bouncer can change from day-to-day or even hour-to-hour, it would be helpful
to minors if they had a barometer to judge if their 1D will make the grade
without even leaving their dorm or apartment.

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changed and out of state licences, but draws the line at college !D with a
temp. Peabody's is cleaning up the remains of a small scuffle, and the police
are reportedly on their way, so exercise extreme caution over there. Over on
Madison, Michael's has got live music and cheap wings, but they got raided
last night, so use your best judgement. We'll be back in 30 with another
downtown bar report, which as always is brought to you by the gang at
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Life's Still Sweet For The Sugarcubes

“A day called zero Is the day we'll
all relax, mountains will tumble with
a long and heavy thump, dust
spreads on the sky so the sun will
grow pale, oll tanks tear open and
the city llvens up. A day called
zero.” — "A Day Called Zero,” the
Sugarcubes

If you thought the Sugarcubes had gone
earthy on us, joined the green-painted
bandwagon with such pointedly sarcastic
lyrics like these, you’re wrong. Dead
wrong. Their sarcasm is on the opposite
side of the spectrum, taking a swipe at
those very same trendies.

Raymond Rogers

“4990 Is a good year,” Bjork
emphasizes in her soft-spoken charm.
“Since the year zero people have been
saying the world’s gonna end, always
complaining, and making people unhappy.”

“With the first album, we went away
from Iceland for the first time and saw all of
these incredible things. We realized
something: 1989, 1990, it isn't evil. People
always say ‘Oh, plastic is evil, cars are
destroying and ugly’. It’s such a
contradiction, you use these things, you're
a part of them. Iceland invented the car,
and I'm very proud of that. You have to sit
down and think ‘Am | a part of this?’ | don’t
think very many people would like to live in
the countryside. It's nice to go and visit for
a week now and then, but who wants to
live there.

“Of course there are problems,
everything has its bad side, but it isn’t evil.
It's been a year since we recorded the
album and I've just realized that that’s what
it's about.

“Us naive Icelanders, for instance, we
were always sort of taught to hate the
States, ‘it’s the most corrupt place around’ -
which it is - but it's a nice surprise to go
there and see it’s human.”

It’s ten thirty AM, Minneapolis time, and
Bjork is looking out her hotel room window,
marveling about the surroundings. “The
skyscrapers are ever so charming. I'm on
the twelfth floor looking out at all of these
skyscrapers, they're all around me. At night
it's just unbelievable, all the lights on them,
they’re just so beautiful. | mean, the
biggest one we have in Iceland is only
twelve stories high.”

I'm finding it just a tad difficult to take
her seriously — how often is it that people
tell you huge skyscrapers in overcrowded
cities are “beautiful” or “charming”. But, still,
she sounds so sincere and excited that it’s
hard to doubt her.

“The differences are so many, between
Iceland and here. When we play in Iceland
you know personally half the people, it's
like playing for friends. Actually, we got the
biggest shock from our first tour. It
happened to be in England, it could have
been anywhere, but it happened to be
there. Everybody’s looking at you like
you're a star, not a star, at least not a
normal thing. It’s very different from what
we're used to. They make a creature out of
you like Donald Duck. It’s kind of flattering.”

“In the States it's different. After a gig,
people will come up to you and tell you
exactly what they thought. In Iceland,
people don’t say what they’re thinking
unless they're drunk.

“Our first trip to New York, it was about
100 degrees Fahrenheit, and it was a total
culture shock. Like being on LSD for five
days, | imagine. It’s totally unreal, like the
people seem like creatures or something
when you're not brought up here.

“Even the food is outrageous. If you ask
for a small salad you get a huge plate of
food for ten people. You lose your appetite,
because it’s so overwhelming. All of us had
this.

“It's too industrialized to live here, you
almost feel sorry for the people who do
have to live here.

"Going to Disneyland was just like an
extension of being in the states. It’s like
being in a movie. Constantly. It gets tiring. |
think the best and worst thing about people
here is that they want to do everything right
away. If they want something, they just go
ahead and do it. If one day they think they
are too fat, they go on a diet. It’s so
exaggerated, | wish | could explain it better.

“They just come at you and eat you.
Just say no to drugs. It’s like this stop
smoking thing you have here. It's
ridiculous. We were in an airport once, and
our flight was delayed for about two hours
and we had to wait. Every five minutes
there would be an announcement over the
loudspeaker, ‘smoking is prohibited,
smoking is limited to designated areas.
Smoking is limited to designated areas...”

After rumors abounded about Einar and

Bragi being gay, the two decided instead of
reacting like insecure homo-phobes, to get

always go to our shows. The rest of
Iceland, | think they think we’re too weird.
In Iceland there is what you would call here
‘small town’ mentality. | don’t mean that in a
negative way, either. It’s just a very isolated
place. There's only about 250,000 people
who live there, so a band can only play like
four times a year at the most. It's the same
sort of people always going to our gigs.
You're either normal or weirdos. It sounds
so tacky when you put it like that, but 1
don’t know how else to put it. We've sort of
done our things in our corner.”

Explaining the title of their new record,
Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week, Bjork
says that it has to do with stubbornness.
“We were very lucky to be brought up in
Iceland. Very early on people didn't really
like what we were doing. Family is such a
big thing there. | mean, you start working
every summer when you're twelve. If you
don’t have a flat and a car when you're

"You are just as important as a galaxy. One sperm is just
as important as Jupiter. It's like standing somewhere --
maybe Iceland -- and realizing you're part of it." - Bjork

married in Holland, and all “just to get into
The National Enquirer,” Bjork says. “The
only thing we asked our press girl to do is
get us into the National Enquirer, that’s our
biggest goal in America, but she wasn't
able to do it. | guess we're not famous
enough here yet.”

“After touring we realized that Iceland is
very European. It’s a cliche you've heard
500 million times, but Iceland has history,
it's been around for two to three thousand
years. Normal people's daily routine is
done calmly. This nation is like kids - you
tush at things. People want to be pop stars
in five days, or expert scientists in a week.”

It took the Sugarcubes a bit longer.
Bjork had been a singer and musician
since childhood, when she recorded her fist
solo LP at age eleven. Bragi and Thor had
been writing for years, and were
considered the most promising writers in all
of Iceland. Einar had been in several punk
bands, as well. The band members started
a company six years ago called “Bad
Taste,” where they promote work in music,
painting, drawing, and translating works to
and from their native language and others.

“From the very beginning we've had a
very loyal following in Iceland. There's
about two to three hundred people who

twenty, you're a loser. Everyone has kids
and a car by the time they're twenty-three.
Girls have babies when they're sixteen. I'm
divorced - and there it's common to be
divorced at my age.

“By the time you're fifteen or sixteen
you're going to do what you're going to do.
it doesn’t matter what your friends say or
anyone else. The critics in Iceland tore us
down eight years ago. We knew better for
ourselves. It doesn’t affect us that much
what critics say; we know what to do.

“I imagine it would be tougher to be
brought up in New York where everything is
allowed. We were just stubborn. Now that
we've started to get money, our family and
friends are starting to realize ‘Oh, maybe
they weren't that stupid after all.”

The band’s sky-rocketing career,
undeniable charm, and success took the
world by storm, and also caught the
Sugarcubes off guard, especially coming
from this sort of environment. “It took us
fifteen months to record Life’s Too Good,
we pushed all the buttons ourselves, used
an eight track studio. We had no clue
where it was going to take us. It was on our
first journey abroad that we were treated
like heroes. It was like a happy accident.
We were the most surprised of all.”

Their sophomore LP was heavily

influenced by their extensive touring. “The
things we've seen, we could each write
books for the rest of our lives. We've been
to the USSR, Lithuania, Texas, Disneyland,
Portugal. We've met quite a lot of strange
characters; our address books are
overflowing. We write five or so postcards a
day.”

Their new single, the gorgeously
dreamy “Planet,” has a lot to do with the
travels the band’s had away from their
isolated homeland. “t's just about realizing
you're part of the world. You are just as
important as a galaxy. One sperm is just as
important as Jupiter. It's about realizing the
function of the world and your place in it; if
you wouldn’t exist, the whole world
wouldn't exist. That sounds so tacky. It's
like standing somewhere — maybe in
Iceland — and realizing you're part of it.

"When it comes to recording, we never
make any plans, things just happen. We're
like six friends - nobody tells each other
what to do. When we recorded the first
record we didn’t know what we were doing,
we'd never toured before. Since we've
been on the road, we created more
together, there were more even parts of
what was going on,” she says explaining
Einar’s expanded role this time around.

As for the critics who've panned Einar,
Bjork says “that’s just their problem. It’s just
a question of taste. People are
conservative. People are always saying
‘anybody can do what Einar’s doing’, well
that’s not the point first of all. And | think it's
much easier to do what we're doing than
what he’s doing. Einar’s a very spontan
[spontaneous] guy — if he can’t do them
spontan, he won't do it.”

Einar is not the only one she gets
questioned about. Her splendid, primal
wafting, so unlike any other style you've
ever heard, has gotten people asking her
about it constantly on tour. “All these
foreigners suddenly tell me | sing
differently. | guess | unconsciously created
a style, it wasn't like | was trying to be
unique or anything, I'm just trying to enjoy
singing. People always say ‘Why do you go
so high and then so low?’ I'm just trying to
not get bored with it.”

“We used to hear Siouxsie and the
Cure, and B-52’s when we were about
fourteen or fifteen at parties. | never had an
album of theirs though. When I'm at home |
listen to Ella Fitzgerald or classical music.
The only rock or pop | listen to is old music,
like John Coltrane. | only got up to date
when rap music came out. It’s the only
music that interests me. | think that ninety
percent of rap is crap, but there are
geniuses in between. Public Enemy is the
best music today — it’s original, creative,
and challenging. | don’t know if | get the
lyrics. There really is no racism in Iceland, |
think because there is only one race. | think
if other races started coming to Iceland, we
would be the most racist place anywhere.
So | don’t get the point to it, but musically
they are the best.”

As for the B-52's, Bjork says although
they used to hear them at parties, they
were not really an influence on them, as
many people are suggesting these days.
“Nothing against them, but | don't think it's
the right comparison. The only thing we
have in common is that we're both
experimental, and both have a fuck-it
attitude.”

As for the similarities between Einar’s
annoying ranting and the B’s camp lead
agitator Fred Schneider, Bjork still
disagrees. “Einar was in the only punk
band in Iceland back in 1980, they were
very original, it was like theater. He goes
on stage, he’s not a musician. He can't
sing. He makes his music up, like raps, it
never stays the same.”

“We used to be in these bands where it
was like cutting your chest open, tearing
your heart out and screaming. We were in
bands you would call ‘art-y’. We decided for
this one we're gonna have fun. We're just
partying. To hell with politics. We just
wanna have fun. Life's too good, ya know.
Life is too good.”

March 6, 1990

News beat

by Stef McDonald

Jesus Christ Superstar

In an effort ot upgrade attendance, the Richard Brown
Memorial United Methodist Church in Ohio is airing two
‘elevision commercials that will, at the very least, turn a few
heads. The commercials star none other than Jesus -- or at
least a Jesus look-a-like. Pastor Craig A. Hunter conceived of
he idea to star a Jesus Christ look-a-like, actor John Galgosi
n two 30 second t.v. spots for the inner-city church. In one,
he long-haired 37-year old Galgosi with a halo over his head
eplaces the image of a a sole sleepy congregation member,
and in the other, Galgosi walks into the church at the hand of
a young girl and smiles.

Absentee Ballot

Following the death of business tycoon Malcolm Forbes at
: the age of seventy, the office of Senator Rudy Boschwitz
} recieved a pre-dated letter from him. In the letter written by
i Forbes before his death, received by the Senator two days
after his death, Forbes wrote to excuse his absence from a
fund-raiser for the Senator. Alone that might have shocked
the Senator, but Forbes, known for his fun-loving nature, also
joked in the letter about the vote fraud practice of voting on
the behalf of dead persons.

"I'm certainly supportive," he wrote, " and if you can locate
; a tombstone or two for me to vote from, I'll be happy to."

Reach Out

It's a fairly common practice to propose marraige on the
telephone, but to actually marry on the phone? In what is
reportedly a first, University of Texas student Leah Townsend
in Texas and U.S. Air Force member Randy Conner in Japan
-} tied the proverbial knot via telephone connection. Reach out
} and touch somebody has never meant so much. Conner,

) $ whose brother stood in for him in the Texas ceremony, sent

: notarized documents to the county clerk's office, meeting the
: standards of Texas State Law regarding proxy weddings. No
: news yet of a honeymoon.

Information courtesy of AP.

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“Music brings discord

To The Editor:

We lived in a country where justice is supposed to be
served. Democracy in law should mean innocent until
proven guilty without a doubt. Our courts protect us with
laws to treat each individual equally. Are these ideals
applied in a private setting such as this university?

An individual living on Colonial Quad has had
charges brought up against him of racial remarks during
a confrontation of two neighbors regarding the noise
level of music during courtesy hours (9pm on a Friday
night). The identification of this individual by his
accuser was unclear until days after the incident. The
accused had several witnesses to his actual remarks,
while the accuser had not one. On the evening of the
incident, the accuser made unclear accusations when
confronted by the accused. Yet, after more than two
weeks time at a judicial hearing the accuser was certain
not only what remarks were made, but which individual
made them.

Prior to a judicial hearing the accused was forced to
move out of his residence due to the unwarranted
suggestion of threats. This action may be construed as a
condemnation preceding any legal review. Being a New
York state university one should be assured his or her
state and federal legal rights.

At the judicial hearing members of Colonial’s
residence staff were biased and judgmental in the
incident of one person’s uncertain word against several
others. One residential director, who had befriended the
accuser, seemed particularly vocal in his character
inferences against the accused. The bottom line

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assumption this director made was based on prior
charges of loud music which does not condone any
representation whatsoever of bigotry. Therefore he had
no justification to his opinions.

It seems unfair to us that these judgments be made by
any individual without direct and absolute proof. It is
necessary that some distinction be made between what is
thought to be heard and what is actually said. The points
to made here are that each person should have the right
to be innocent until proven guilty, and that whether or
not an incident occurs in a secular bureaucracy the
inherent rights in our society should be upheld. This is
not about racism but about each individual’s rights in this
university.

Sheri Zradi

Denise M. Dilworth
Antoinette M. Cassara
Dianna L. Pauta
Nancy E. Meyer
Bonnie A. Keilty

Student input needed

To The Editor:

Last Thursday, February 22, the University Council
(the policy making body of SUNYA) met and allowed
student representatives ten minutes to submit a proposal
concerning the process of appointing President
O’Leary’s successor. Fermin Espinosa, SA President and
Nadya Lawson, Chair of Central Council spoke on
behalf of our student body. The proposal stressed the
need to allow more student representation in this process.
It is crucial that the next president of our university
understands and reflects upon the “diverse and multi-
polar nature” of our university.

We feel that student input in this matter is of the
utmost importance. Policy as presently stated allows
student leaders a very limited hand in the overall
procedure. Selected student leaders are presently
permitted to attend one brief luncheon with the
presidential candidates. Our goal, however, is to
facilitate a direct encounter with the candidates in which
student representatives are urged to ask questions and
share views in order to enhance mutual understanding.
The next president of the university must represent us,
hear what we have to say and be prepared to work with
us while working for us. Students have needs which must
be met by the administration for, without us, SUNY at
Albany would not exist.

Judie Zuckerman

Off Campus Rep. to the Central Council
Michael Brodack

State Quad Rep. to the Central Council

Calling all brains

To The Editor:

COLLEGE BOWL, the “Varsity Sport of the Mind,”
will be played again this spring starting march 15.
COLLEGE BOWL. is a game of broad knowledge and
quick recall. It is becoming a popular recreational and
academic tradition on America’s campuses.

The game, features two teams of four, each competing
to score points to Toss-up and Bonus questions. The
questions cover any conceivable topic from literature,
science, history, current events, to music, drama,
rock’n’roll, sports, and movies.

Students may sign up at Campus Center tables March
5 - 8, or in Campus Life, Room 130, until March 9. A $5
registration fee is required.

There will be over $300 in prizes fort he top three
teams and certificates for all. If interested in becoming a
part of SUNY Albany’s newest tradition, then come out
and put together a team today! We are also recruiting
faculty and staff to assist in the Campus Tournament. For
more information contact: Nancy Graham, Campus Life,
#5566; Janet Puccio, Interquad, #6249; or Cindy Cogdill,
State Quad Office, #5920.

Watch for times and locations to be announced. Even
if you don’t have a team, be sure to come out and cheer
on your friends!

Janet Puccio, Interquad

Enforce smoking rules

To The Editor:

Iam completely fed up with the University’s lack of
enforcement of the non-smoking policy and’state law.
People are constantly smoking in clearly designated non-
smoking areas, in the Campus Center, particularly the
main lounge, the cafeteria, and the former Rat, oblivious
to the needs and comfort of others. Attempts to point out
that these are non-smoking areas are met with blank
stares.

It shouldn’t be the job of the students to enforce
University policy and state law. No one should have to
police the policy, since posted signs should make people
refrain from smoking. But since this has not worked, it is
time for the University to send someone out to make all
of those rude people put out their cigarettes and pay the

state fines.
Beth Klohck

Circus no fun to bears

To The Editor:

When I bought my tickets for the Moscow Circus, I
knew they used animals in many of their acts. I was able
to justify the use of animals because I thought it was an
important part of their culture; now I realize that cruelty
is a part of no one’s culture.

The Moscow Circus bears were met in the ring by a
trainer wielding a whip and a stick used as a prod. Tears
came to my eyes as I watched the creatures muzzled and
clad in shorts and capes, walking upright about the ring;
their front paws lifeless and drooping. It was hard to be
convinced of the happiness of the bears, despite the
attempts of their trainers. It was futile; even from a
distance the audience was aware of the lowered heads
and downtrodden eyes.

The majestic dress and beauty of the horses were
over-ridden by the use of riding crops and bull whips. As
the animals sped around the circular path it appeared
their spirits had been broken for there was no vitality or
life in their steps. When during the final act one of the
horses fell, the rider: quickly mounte@the: animal again :
with little concern for any injuries that may have, been- :
sustained.

The tigers were not the intrepid creatures we would
have all expected instead sad and fearful. More than once
they met with the brunt of the trainers’ frustrations, a
crack of the whip or a jab of the stick.

Now, after having experienced this brutality for
myself, I believe the stories of the trainers burning
animals’ paws and beating them into submissiveness. It
is obvious that we can no longer tolerate animals being
used for this kind of entertainment and greedy profit
spectacles. If you love animals; you won’t support or
endorse this kind of slavery and torture.

Lisa R. Austin

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CUBA

Continued from page 4
the Cuban economy. Last year,
the Soviet Union gave Cuba
$6.2 billion in military and
economic aid.

Cuba receives crucial
shipments of flour, oil, machine
tools and trucks in return for its
overpriced sugar, coffee, fruits
and nickel.

But that lopsided barter
arrangement is about to change:
Eastern European
countries, embracing pere-
stroika, now want hard currency.
Just recently, for example,
Poland refused to ship goods
between the Soviet Union and
Cuba on Polish vessels because
neither would pay in U.S.
dollars.

But hard currency is scarce in
Cuba. Castro reportedly has a
minuscule $85 million left in
foreign reserves, and owes non-
communist countries $7 billion

a bill he suspended payment on
in 1986.

The Cuban peso is worth
virtually nothing on world
exchanges and very little at
home, where goods are so scarce
that chicken, fresh fruit and
other staples are sometimes
available only on the black
market at prices up to five times
the state-controlled price.

Carmelo Mesalago, a
specialist at the University of
Pittsburgh, said Cuba’s economy
has been backsliding since 1986
when Castro cracked down on
an experiment allowing limited,
small private enterprise.

“Castro has a double
problem,” Mesalago said. “A
declining economy internally
combined with declining
subsidies and trade from abroad.
There is no
solution to this.”

The Soviet Union, whose own
economy is in trouble, is no
longer meeting its commitments
to Cuba, thereby adding to
Castro’s problems.

“The logical thing for Castro
would be to admit he was wrong
and take the same path toward a
free market economy being
followed by the Eastern
European countries,” Mesalago
said.

“But all indications we have
show Castro is going to continue
to push a state-controlled
economy rather than suffer a
loss of face.”

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around the world who have made
formidable changes in
democracy this year in Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union.
People and action do make a
difference.”

The people struggling for
freedom in the rest of the world
have fought so hard for a fraction
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of the 500 students gathered at
his speech.

Waste

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Sandinistas

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government gave workers time
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The Sandinista campaign,
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Ortega agreed to the election in
return for the Contras being
demobilized and their bases in
Honduras dismantled.

When the opposition was
fractured and leaderless, the U.S.
Embassy brokered UNO into
existence, getting 14 parties from
ultra-rightists to ultra-leftists to
run under one banner and
persuading Violetta Chamorro,
publisher of the anti-Sandinista
newspaper La Prensa, to lead the
coalition.

When UNO was broke, the
Sandinistas allowed the United
States to funnel more than a
million dollars into UNO coffers.

Confident of an easy victory,
the Sandinistas never backed
away from their commitment to
the election. The Contras were
never demobilized, UNO
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USSA speakers

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aid would be reduced by five
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Mr. Bush is proposing a 7
percent increase for the defense
budget...don’t you think
education is more important than
preparing for war and
destruction?” Stokes said.

Also speaking at the rally
were Peter Mathern, one of the
student leaders of the Prague
uprising in Czechoslovakia, and
Neri (Bong) Colemares of the
Student Christian Movement in
the Philippines.

Both recounted their
experiences and told of the
hardships and difficulties they
suffered in an attempt to achieve
their goals.

National Student Lobby Day
was held in conjunction with the
United States Student
Association 21st Annual
Legislative Conference.

After the rally, the students
split into groups to lobby their
members of congress on the
issues that most affected their
individual campuses.

According to Julianne Marley,
USSA president, “We've got an
education president whose
budget eliminates two key
financial aid programs and
underfunds most others. It is up
to the students to defend
education rights.”

NYPIRG march

Continued from page 3
“You have the issue all wrong.”

But when he was approached
by NYPIRG leadership, he
quickly left the crowd and went
back inside the mansion,
assisted by his special detail of
the New York State Police.

The crowd remained picketed
outside the mansion for some
time after, and eventually
returned by bus to the SUNYA
campus.

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the public’s health,” said Arthur
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Philadelphia 36 22 621. 15 4. Union 58-60L. A Micheal Shene(16) 18. Potsdam 55-56L A Dennis Walker(16) Islanders 28 31 8 64
Boston 34 23 596 3 5. Oneonta 7349W A Dennis Walker(14) 19, Ithaca 79-65W A Dennis Walker(21) Washington 29 34 4 62
Washington 23 36 .390 15 6. Bingham. 90-75W H Fams, Mulderry(15) 20. S.Brook 85-75 W A Stephen Mulderry(22) NewJersey 27 31 8 62
New Jersey 14 43 .246 23 7. Halmiton 88-67W —-H Michael Shene(23) 21. E.Conn. 7462W A Michael Shene(19) Philadelphia 26 «32:9 61
Miami 12 47 .203 26 8. St. Lawer. 89-75W A Michael Shene(16) 22. Hartwick 70-66 W H Dennis Walker(17)
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Goodemote sparkles against Potsdam

By Joshua Rogowsky
STAFF WRITER
Potsdam, N.Y.

On Saturday night, after one half of
basketball it appeared that the Great
Danes’ season was in jeopardy of ending.
Albany trailed arch-rival Potsdam
College 36-31 at the break, and was
shooting only 44% from the floor. Things
changed drastically when senior guard
Andy Goodemote stepped forward.

Goodemote, who has suffered through
a shooting slump during the second half
of the season, dropped in all of his team-
high 15 points after the intermission and
sparked the Danes to their first NCAA
playoff win since the 1984-85 season.

The score was tied at 49 when
Goodemote tossed in eight points during
a 20-4 spurt to put the Bears away. “I felt
good shooting the ball,” Goodemote said.
“J didn’t hesitate. I just let it go.”

Goodemote went five for six from the
floor in the second half, including a
perfect three for three from three-point
land. “I talked to Andy at halftime,”
Albany head coach Dick Sauers said. “I
told him we needed him to look for his
shot to loosen up the defense, and he
finally relaxed.”

Goodemote, who played in just eight
games during the previous two seasons is
now physically sound, and his deft touch
from the outside is one of the Great
Danes’ top assets.

“Goodie is our best outside shooter,”
said forward Dennis Walker, who shoots
three-pointers at a 46 percent clip. “We
need him to play well offensively.”

When a player has shooting woes it
sometimes affects the other aspects of his
game. This isn’t so with Goodemote. “I

think I’ve played well on defense the
entire season,” Goodemote said. “It (the
slump) has made me slow down a little,
but I never lost confidence in my shot.”
Next up for the Danes is North Adams
State College. The Mohawks have
compiled a 22-4 record thus far this
season and will provide a formidable
opponent. “We can beat any team in the

Gigi Cohen UPS
Andy Goodemote had a team high 15 points to help the Danes advance to the Sectionals.

tournament,” Goodemote said. “We just
have to take it one at a time and play our
game.”

The Danes victory over Potsdam
secured them in a spot in the sectionals
of the tournament, which will be held in
University Gym, “Playing at home is a
great feeling,” Sauers added. “A big
crowd is always a plus.”

Anderson qualifies for Nationals in shot put

By Mike Pacheco
STAFF WRITER

Albany Senior Erica Anderson
highlighted the ECAC (Eastern Collegiate
Athletic Conference) women’s track meet
at Bates College in Lewingston, Maine on
March 3rd and 4th with a third place
finish in the shot put, qualifing her for the
Nationals.

Anderson, ranked third in the nation,
went up against a field that had the top
two competitors in the nation. She threw a
40°5” which placed her in third.

“Erica will always come on strong
when needed,” Albany coach Ron White

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The 4x800 relay team ran a 10:01.4, its
personal best time, and just missed
placing.

“The runners, junior Tricia Shultes
(2:27.4), freshman Amy Schroeder
(2:31.9),senior Denise Buneo (2:30.6)
and junior Samone McDade (2:31.7) did
an outstanding job this season,” White
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Shultes’ relay split of 2:27.4 was a
personal best. Buneo’s run ended with a
turned ankle which put her out of the
1000 yd.

Two other notable performances

included Shultes, once again, and
sophomore Carolyn Schmitz. Shultes ran
a personal best 4:58.7 in the 1500 meter
while Schmitz ran a 9.77 in the SSM
hurdles. However, neither were able to
place due to the fierce competition.

“We had a respectable season that was
slowed down due to injuries,” White said.
“We lost a high jumper and middle
distance runners at the start of the season
and it really hurt when sophomore
Nichole Hargraves was injured two weeks
ago. Our potential was better at the start
of the season than it was at the finish.”

Gathers death

Men's Track

Continued from back page
23.2.

The 400m saw Westbrook clock 50.6
for a strong second place. While Jose
Maymi, who was under the weather,
finished six.

The Danes placed two runners in the
top five in the 500m. Wilfredo
Rodriguez ran a personal record 66.2 for
second, while Cecil Kelly took fifth in
67.4.

Howie Sellers hit the halfway mark of
the 800m run in a crisp 54 seconds, just a
step off the lead. Sellers finishing 3rd
with a 1:56.

McNamara made a bold move to the
lead with 300m left in the 1000m. He
eventually faded to fourth, but still
clocked a personal record 2:34.

In the 3000m, Joe Ahern and Chuck
Tanner took fifth and sixth respectively.
Arturo Ocassio captured sixth in the
5000m.

Pole vaulter Tom Mead successfully
defended his state title, vaulting 14’ 6
1/4”. His mark set both a meet and

fieldhouse record.

In the shot put, Matt Kieley took first
with a heave of 16.06m, while Ed Hantho
placed fifth with a toss of 14.41m. Kieley
hurled the 35 pound wieght 13.58m,
good for 5th place.

Dave Francis took Sth in the triple
jump, with a bound of 14.01m. Brett
Dixon leaped 6’ 1 1/2” in the high jump,
placing fourth. In the pentathalon,
Rodriguez placed fourth.

For many of the Danes, this was the
final venue of the indoor campaign.
However, for a select few, the road
continues to Northhampton, Ma., where
the national championships will be held
next week,

NCAA Div. Ill Tournament
East/Northeast Sectional
University Gym
Friday, March 9th
Rochester vs. SE Mass.
Albany vs. N. Adams State

Tickets on sale now in
Physical Education 307

leaves sports
world in shock

(AP) Hank Gathers, one of only two}
Division I players to lead the nation in
scoring and rebounding in the same|
season, died Sunday night after]
collapsing during Loyola Marymount’s|
West Coast Conference tournament
game against Portland. He was 23.

Gathers, a senior, was pronounced|
dead at Daniel Freeman Marina
Hospital, where he was taken by,
ambulance after collapsing with 13:34
left in the first half. He died at 6:55 p.m.
PST, a school spokesman said.

The death was announced at a news|
conference at the hospital that Gathers
had been given cardiac resuscitation, but
efforts to revive him failed. Gathers died|
one hour and 41 minutes after|
collapsing. Cardiologist Mason Weiss|
said cause of death was unknown and an|
autopsy would be performed.

“We tried sedating him for over an
hour and we were unable to generate!
any activity,” Weiss said.

“Hank Gathers sustained a syncopal|
event tonight while playing basketball at|
LMU. Cardiac resuscitation was
performed by the physician in|
attendance and he was transported to}
Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital where
resuscitation was continued,” Weiss|
said.

“Mr. Gathers had a previous syncopal
episode in December of 1989 which had
been determined to be caused by a heart
arrythmia, which was treated medically,
and released to participate in all athletic
events. We have no further information
concerning his death at this time.”

“It’s a tremendous loss for our|
university,” Loyola Marymount athletic}
director Brian Quinn said. “He was an
outstanding young man and athlete as
well as a human being. We’re going to}
miss him, He’s done so many good
things for all of us and we’re all grateful
to have been a friend of his.”

Quinn said that three physicians were|
working on Gathers while he was placed
into the ambulance which took him to]
the hospital, which is located less than|
five miles from Gersten Pavilion.

As a junior last season, Gathers
averaged 32.7 points and 13.7 rebounds,
joining Xavier McDaniels of Wichita
State in 1984-85 as the only NCAAI
player to lead the nation in both
categories.

A 6-foot-7, 210-pound center from
Philadelphia, Gathers. was forecast as a|
first-round selection in this year’s NBA|
draft. He passed up the draft following)
his junior season.

It was the second time this season that
Gathers has collapsed on his home court
during a game.

On Dec.9 against UC Santa Barbara,
Gathers went to the foul line with 13:56}
left in the second half, missed his first}
free throw, stepped away from the foul
line and went down. He underwent
several days of. tests in a local hospital
and returned after missing two games.

Gathers passed those tests and began]
taking medication to regulate his
heartbeat. Doctor’s suspected that an
accelerated heartbeat may have led to)
the fainting spell on that occasion.

Gathers convinced the doctors to cut}
back on his medication, after which he
felt his body strength improving. He
turned the corner in the first week in
February when he scored 44 points|
against St. Mary’s.

Sports

Tuesday

Tournament ticket info. - see p.19

Sectional preview issue - Friday

Goodemote regains touch - see p.19

Great Danes shoot down Bears

Second half explosion keys victory over Potsdam; will host Sectionals

By Wayne Stock
SPORTS EDITOR
Potsdam, N.Y.

Senior guard Andrew Goodemote
pumped in 15 points, all in the second
half, to lead Albany to a 85-75 upset
victory over Potsdam in the second round
of the NCAA Division III Tournament.

The victory Saturday night in Maxcy
Hall avenged the Danes’ January 27th
56-55 loss to Potsdam and advanced
them into the sectional round. They will
host North Adams State (22-4) on Friday.

Albany (20-7),seeded third in the East
region, shot a scorching 70.8 percent
from the floor in the second half and 56.8
percent for the game.

“We just tried to play our game,”
Albany head coach Dick Sauers said.
“We were very tight in the first half.”

Potsdam (23-5), the second seed, was
without the services of their starting
point guard, sophomore Corey Dace.
Dace, the Bears’ leader in assists with
125, was sidelined due to an ankle injury
he suffered in the finals of the SUNYAC
Tournament against Buffalo.

Trailing 36-31 at halftime, Albany
opened up the second half with a 9-1 run
ending on a three-point conversion off a
baseline hook by forward Alex McClearn
at 15:37. The Danes had tied it at 37
when guard Stephen Mulderry fed
Michael Shene on an alley-oop pass at
16:52.

The Bears jumped back in front, 46-45,
following a tip by forward Anthony
Johnson off his own miss. Albany’s
Dennis Cutts answered back with a 15
foot jumper at 13:59 to put the Danes
back in front.

Potsdam guard Alex Perryman hit one
of two from the charity stripe to tie it at
49 with 12:15 to go.

Within the next four and a half
minutes, Albany erased all memories of
their regular season finale loss to R.P.I.
and their earlier loss to Potsdam. Within
the next four and a half minutes
Goodemote would forget about his first
half 0 for 4 shooting performance from
the floor. Within the next four and a half
minutes, Albany outscored Potsdam 20-
4, including eight by Goodemote, to
silence the better part of the 3,000 in
attendance.

Goodemote started the run by nailing a
three-pointer from the left corner at
11:48. Following an exchange of baskets,
Goodemote sent home another trifecta
from the left side for a six point lead at
10:31, Sophomore guard Ed Feller ended
the run with two consecutive three-
pointers, the latter coming at 7:18 for a
69-53 lead.

“Last time I came here I had a terrible
tun, “ Feller said. “I just happened to get
the two open jumpers.”

“I felt good,” Goodemote said. “I
started letting go.”

The Bears closed the lead to 73-64 at
3:57 when Perryman drove the baseline
for a lay-up. Shene answered back for
Albany with a 19 foot jumper and
Mulderry followed with a lay-up to seal
the victory,

“They out played us, it was quite
obvious,” Potsdam head coach Jerry
Walsh said. “We didn’t execute our
offense real well...they were more
aggressive.”

The Danes were successfully able to
deny junior guard and Albany native Eric
Gardner. Gardner, the Bears’ leading
scorer averaging 17 points a game, went
3 for 13 from the field with eight points.

“Our defense was geared on Gardner
to try and contain him to a reasonable
number,”Sauers said,

The Danes 56.8 field goal percentage
was a season high as their perimeter
game exploded.

“We doubled down on the post and we
shouldn’t of,” Welsh said. “They’re
much more of a threat from the outside
than from the inside.”

Albany did have success: with
McClearn down low, as the 6-3, 230
pound forward went 6 for 8 from the
floor with 13 points and pulled down
nine boards before fouling out with 1:47
remaining in the second half.

“I was getting good position,”
McClearn said. “I was happy with the
way I played underneath. I used more
moves this time.”

Shene, who struggled in the first half,
came on for 11 second half points and 13
total. Senior forward Dennis Cutts added
12 points in only 17 minutes off the
bench.

“J was very disappointed with the way

Raquel Moller UPS

Albany's Stephen Mulderry gets hammered underneath during victory over Potsdam.

I played against RPI. ,” Cutts said. “We
needed the game...it was do or die.”

Mulderry, who was in foul trouble the
better part of the second half , finished
with 11 points. Feller added eight.

Perryman was the Bears’ high scorer
with 15, going 5 for 10 from the floor.
Senior forward Michael Brown had 13
and Johnson added 12.

Scott Burgess led the Bears in
rebounding with seven and also chipped
in 11 points.

The Danes will host the sectionals this
weekend as the highest seed in the East
region still remaining. Rochester (4th

seeded) knocked off top-seeded Buffalo
on Saturday. North Adams State and SE
Massachusetts are the two remaining
teams in the Northeast region which
combines with the East for the sectionals.

Rochester will play SE Mass at 6:30
and Albany will take on North Adams at
8:30. The winners face off on Saturday at
8:30 with the winner advancing to the
Final Four in Wittenberg, Ohio.

“We said we were starting a new season
and were 1 and 0,” Sauers said.

“Well that was our dream (to beat
Potsdam) and it definitely came true,”
senior Stephen Sauers said.

Men's track finishes second in State Collegiate meet

by Brian Hickey

The Albnay men’s track team placed second in | the
New York State Collegiate Track and Field Association
Championship behind Colgate University, a Division I
school. The finish was the Danes’ highest ever in this
meet.

“This serves notice that Albany is the team of the
future,” Albany coach Roberto Vives said.

The 4 x 400m relay was the performance of the meet,
as the Danes clocked a state, meet, and track record of
3:19.91. In addition to winning the meet, the time
qualified them for nationals. The foursome was
composed of Lance Richardson, Wilfredo Rodriguez,
Derek Westbrook and Howie Sellers, all underclassmen.

As the race started, Richardson, a freshman, ran tough
in traffic and blasted the final 75m in route to 50.7

split. Rodriguez, receiving the baton in first, proceded to
blaze a 49.6, increasing the lead substantially. Westbrook
tan his split in 50.7, while Sellers finished with a
scorching 48.9 to secure the victory.

In other relay action, Albany also won the 4 x 800
meter. Cecil Kelly ran a strong last 200m as he clocked a
2:01 lead off split. Mike King, running his last in
Tace as a Dane, showed his senior savy by walking down
the leaders in the last 50m on his way to a 2:01 split.
Scott McNamara blew the race open as he jetted to a
1:58.

“I wanted to make the competition hurt,” McNamara
said.

He did just that opening up an insurmountable lead.
Gregorio Luciano secured the victory with a run of 1:59.

The final relay of note was the distance medley which

placed third in 10:43. Ed Knott ran the 800 leg in 2:03,
Chris Tumer handled the 400 in 52.4, Pat Prophile took
care of the 1200 in 3:16, and Chris Kranick anchored
with a 4:31 in the 1600.

Led by Jeff Yorks 7.68, Albany swept places 1-4 in
the 55h. Juan Sanchez (7.93) grabbed second.
Rodriguez (7.95) third and Dave Francis (8.03) fourth. It
was the first time in state meet history that such a sweep
has occurred,

In the 55m dash, Richardson set the state, meet and
track records in the trials, but was slow out of the blocks
and placed fifth in the finals with a 6.67.

Richardson continued his strong showing capturing
second in the 200m with a brisk 22.5. Also placing in
the 200m was Steve Rocamboli who grabbed fifth in

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LIVING OFF-CAMPUS {5

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PARTIES OFF-CAMPUS AND YOU!

As a student, your behavior while living off-
campus greatly impacts your neighbors’ image of
all University students. If you are a member of a
fraternity or sorority, your behavior also impacts
your neighbors’ image of Greeks. This is par-
ticularly true when it involves a party you are
sponsoring at your apartment. As a student who
has chosen to reside off-campus, you have rights
and responsibilities as a community resident.

I would strongly encourage you to consider the
following suggestions if you chose to host a party
at your apartment.

e Talk to your neighbors before the party. Let
them know you’re having a party and when it
will start and end. Leave them your name and
phone number. Encourage them to call you if
there is a problem during the party so you can
correct it before someone calls the police.

e During the party, let your guests know you are
the contact person. If a neighbor calls, they'll
know to take a message or to find you.

e Periodically during the night, walk outside to
check the noise level and adjust it accordingly.

e Avoid overcrowding which might: (1) block
apartment exits in case of an emergency;

(2) result in your porch or entire apartment
collapsing; (3) result in cars blocking your
street in case fire, police or medical units need
to respond, and/or (4) force your guests to
inappropriately use “outdoor bathroom
facilities”.

e It is your responsibility to stay in control of
yourself and your guests.

e Know and observe New York State Law in
terms of your providing alcoholic beverages to
persons under 21 years of age and the “Open
Container Law” in the City of Albany.

e After the party, clean up the area around your
apartment as well as your neighbors’ if
needed. Contact your neighbors the next day
and thank them for their cooperation.

If you ie a problem at your party and need
assistance, you may contact the Off-Campus
Housing Office at 442-5875.

Submitted by Thomas L. Gebhardt
Director of Off-Campus Housing

GROUPER LAW UPDATE

As you may be aware, the substantial demand
for off-campus student housing has contributed
to a strong rental market in certain residential
areas in the City of Albany. In some cases, this
has led to the illegal conversion of existing dwell-
ings to multiple housing units and over- occupan-
cy of existing rental units. Over- occupancy
refers to a dwelling unit which is occupied by
more than three students or unrelated in-
dividuals.

Various City officials, many private citizens
and civic groups have become concerned that
the rental market affected by students has led to
an increase in illegal conversions, over- occupan-
cy, investor/landlord speculation, property
deterioration and neighborhood decline within
certain residential areas of Albany. Consequent-
ly, you should be aware that the City of Albany
vigorously enforces its existing housing code and
zoning ordinances. To the greatest extent practi-
cal based on staff resources, City officials will be
identifying illegal or over-occupied units and
pursuing enforcement proceedings.

In order to avoid the possibility of housing
problems or eviction during the school year, you
should avoid entering into a rental arrangement
which involves more that three students or unre-
lated individuals in one unit. It may also be ad-
visable to avoid any rental which appears
seriously sub-standard or hazardous in any way.

If you have any questions about the legality of a
unit or related matters, feel free to contact the
Bureau of Code Enforcement at 434-5178.

HAVE FURNITURE TO SELL?

NEED FURNITURE TO BUY?

The Off-Campus Housing Office’s Swap Shop
Bulletin Board is now entering its second year of
service. The Swap Shop provides information
about individuals who are interested in buying or
selling furniture and other household items.

Tf you don’t know how you are going to furnish
that new unfurnished apartment you just rented
or if you have a house full of furniture that you
no longer need, we can help you. Our bulletin
board is located in front of the Off-Campus
Housing Office. If you are selling, come to our
office and fill out a form explaining what you
have to offer and the price at which the items
are to be sold. If you are buying, you can look at
the listings posted on the Swap Shop Bulletin
Board. It’s as easy as that!

GOING ON A TRIP? SAFETY TIPS
With Spring Recess lying ahead in the
semester, many students will be leaving the area.

Anytime you leave your apartment for several

days or more, use this checklist:

e Lock all doors.

Close and lock all windows.

Stop all deliveries (i.e., newspapers) and ask a
neighbor to pick up mail and advertising
circulars that may pile up at your entry.

Notify neighbors and police that you'll be
gone.

e Use automatic timers to turn indoor lights on
and off to make it appear that you are home.

e Use Operation I.D. to have your property
engraved. In Albany, call the Albany Police
Department at 462-8033 for the free LD.
service or call the University Police
Department at 442-3131.

ARE YOU SAFE ON YOUR PORCH?

During a party three summers ago at 69 Ryck-
man Avenue, the second floor porch collapsed
while 13-14 people were standing on it. As a
result, ten people were injured and had to be
taken to the hospital. Excessive weight rather
than a structural problem appeared to have been
the cause. Generally, porches like the one at this
address are designed to accommodate the
weight of only a few people.

As a precaution, if you are living in an apart-
ment with a second floor porch, you should:

e Avoid overcrowding on your porch during
gatherings at your apartment.

e Check the porch periodically for obvious signs
of deterioration.

e Either you or your landlord should contact a
contractor or the city building department if
you are still unsure about the condition of
your porch.

ALCOHOL |
Just Short of 21

DO YOU KNOW THE NEW
ALCOHOL LAW?

It is imperative that you are aware of the fol-
lowing recent changes in the Alcohol Beverage
Control Law of New York State.

In July, the Governor signed legislation which
transformed the Alcohol Beverage Control Law
from a purchase law to a possession law effective
January, 1990.

Specifically, the amendments to Section 65-b
and 65-c of the Alcohol Beverage Control Law
provide:

1. Effective January 1, 1990, persons under the
age of 21 are prohibited from possessing any al-

coholic beverage with intent to consume the
beverage. Exceptions are provided for consump-
tion in an instructional setting and in cases
where the alcoholic beverage is provided by a
parent or guardian.

2. Violators are subject to a fine of up to $50
per offense, but are not subject to arrest. Al-
coholic beverages involved in alleged violations
of this law may be seized by authorized law en-
forcement officials, including campus public
safety officers on campus property. Disposal and
destruction of the seized alcoholic beverages are
also authorized but cannot be carried out until
three days after the initial appearance date, un-
less otherwise ordered by a court.

3. Effective November 1, 1989, persons under
the age of 21 who present falsified or fraudulent-
ly altered proof of age for the purpose of pur-
chasing or attempting to purchase alcoholic
beverages are guilty of a violation, punishable by
a fine of up to $100 and a community service re-
quirement of up to thirty (30) hours. Previously,
violations of this section were punishable only by
the imposition of a one-year probationary period
and a fine.

4. Effective October 19, 1989, a person under
the age of 21 who presents an altered New York
State driver’s license for the purpose of illegally
purchasing an alcoholic beverage may be subject
to a suspension of that driver’s license for up to
ninety (90) days and may also be required to
apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a
restricted use of driver’s license following the
suspension.

The implementation of this Law should be
quite clear. Off-campus parties, the annual
“Party in the Park”, and other off-campus events
will all be impacted. If you have questions, con-
tact Thomas L. Gebhardt, the Director of Off-
Campus Housing, at 442-5830 or John Murphy,
the Director of Judicial Affairs, at 442-5500.

SUBLETTING YOUR APARTMENT?

Most students do not spend the summer in Al-
bany and, therefore, have a need to sublet their
apartments. Very few students are able to get
the same amount of rent from their subletter(s)
during the summer because of the vast number
of apartments available to be subletted.

Here are some helpful hints on subletting:

e Protect yourself.

e Know who you are subletting to and get a
security deposit from them.

e Let your landlord know who will be living in
your apartment during the subletting period.

e Get an agreement down in writing, specifying
the amount of rent they will be paying and for
what period of time.

e If the phone is to be in service during the
summer months, have the phone bill put in
their name —not yours!

e Spell out in the written agreement who is
responsible for the utility bills.

e Stop in a couple of times during the summer
to check on the condition of the apartment.
Remember, you are going to be living there
next year.

Our first Summer Sublets Listing will be
printed April 6. If you want to list your apart-
ment as a summer sublet you can come to the
Off-Campus Housing Office the week prior to
this date or call us at 442-5875.

DO’S AND DON’TS OF TRASH

@ APPLICABILITY
Curbside collection is provided to buildings
containing no more than four (4) residential
dwelling units. Buildings which contain more
than four (4) apartments must arrange for their
own private refuse removal.
@ PREPARATION
All refuse must be placed at Curbside, no ear-
lier than 7 PM the evening prior to the desig-
nated collection day, nor later than 4 AM on the
collection day. All garbage must be container-
ized in heavy-duty plastic bags or metal/plastic
containers with tight fitting lids (containers
should be no larger than 32 gallons).
@ HOLIDAY COLLECTION POLICY
The city of Albany removes refuse Monday
through Friday. To find out when your regularly
scheduled collection day is, call the Bureau of
Sanitation at 438-1484 or stop by the Off-Cam-
pus Housing Office for a free brochure detailing
the collection schedule. If your regularly
scheduled collection day falls on a holiday listed
below, your refuse will be collected on the next
work day following the holiday.
@ APPLICABLE HOLIDAYS
New Years Day Labor Day
Lincoln’s Birthday Columbus Day
Washington’s Birthday  Veteran’s Day
Memorial Day Thanksgiving
Christmas Day Election Day
Independence Day (July 4)
@ LARGE ITEMS AND BULKY RUBBISH
The Bureau of Sanitation will remove large
items if placed at curbside, in compliance with
the Curbside Collection Program’s rules and
regulations. Please note that special care must
be taken to prevent potentially hazardous situa-
tions for young children, i.e., remove any doors,
sharp items, ete.
@ LAWN AND YARD DEBRIS
Albany City law requires grass, leaves, and yard
debris to be placed in heavy-duty plastic bags for
efficient removal. Tree trimmings and like

materials must be tied in bundles not to exceed
four (4) feet in length. Please keep lawn and
yard debris separate from household refuse.
i RECYCLING

The City of Albany maintains an ongoing recy-
cling program in an effort to reduce the city’s
waste stream and conserve resources.

For additional information, contact the Bureau
of Sanitation at 438-1484 or the Department of
Public Works at 432-1144.

THE OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING
OFFICE CAN HELP YOU
Located in the basement of Eastman Tower,

State Quad, open Monday through Friday, from

9AM-5PM (Summer hours are 8AM-4PM).
Services include:

e Basic Guide to Living Off-Campus

e Furnished/Unfurnished Apartments for Rent
Listings

e Roommates Wanted Listings

e Matchmaker Listings (rooms for rent in
private houses)

e Information on Housing Accommodations for
Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students

e Listings of Apartment Complexes

e Listings of Area Hotels/Motels

e Listings of Furniture Rental Stores

e “Grouper Law” Information Update

e Sample Lease

e Sample Sublet Agreement

e Crime Prevention Information

e Snow Emergency Information

ey ee

Living Off-campus is published by the
University-as-a-Neighbor Advisory Committee
and the Off-Campus Housing Office

Division of Student Affairs

State University of New York at Albany